Originally Posted by
firloz
This is the one I need some help with, I am going to apologize in advance for the absurd length of this post. Do note that many verses were stuck entirely as they were unintelligible, and that a lot of them had some artistic liberties taken with them. Additionally they are no longer in order. (Notes will be in yellow)
Caster
True Name: Ziudsura
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 6' 2" 98kg
Alignment: Lawful Good
Bio: Ziudsura was the last king of Sumer before the great deluge. He lived in the epoch that preceded the Age of Gods, and ruled for over a thousand years in his kingdom. He is primarily known by another name, Utnapishtim, as the Immortal Man who gave Gilgamesh knowledge of the plant that grants eternal youth. He is also one of the heroes of the flood, being the Mesopotamian equivalent of the Bible's Noah.
Str E* (see NP for details)
End E* (see NP for details)
Agi E* (see NP for details)
Mag E* (see NP for details)
Luk E* (see NP for details)
Np: Ex
Class skills and Personal Skills: N/A
Caster forgoes all personal and class skills in order to utilize his Noble Phantasm.
Noble Phantasm:
Instructions of Shuruppak: EX
A set of clay tablets that are regarded as the among the oldest writings in human history. They read as follows: (The first section is contains verses that act like Irish Geas, so long as they are followed boons are granted to Caster text in red denotes the boon, and if necessary clarifies the rule to be followed, yes some of them are rather silly but hey Cu Chulain got massive boosts for not eating dog, and this takes place thousands of years before even that.If nothing is written in red under the quote it is because I have no idea what the boon should be suggestions are most welcome)
"in those days, in those far remote days, in those nights, in those faraway nights, in those years, in those far remote years, at that time the wise one who knew how to speak in elaborate words lived in the Land; Curuppag, the wise one, who knew how to speak with elaborate words lived in the Land. Curuppag gave instructions to his son; Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura: My son, let me give you instructions: you should pay attention! Zi-ud-sura, let me speak a word to you: you should pay attention! Do not neglect my instructions! Do not transgress the words I speak! The instructions of an old man are precious; you should comply with them! "
This verse grants Caster the blessing that each law that is followed will grant him a blessing, however should he fail to heed these teaching he will be unable to receive that blessing any further. (the verse will explain what the rule is, the text under it entails the blessing recieved so long as it is followed). If a blessing confers Rank Up to a skill he does not possess he gains it at rank E, if a blessing would increase a skill or parameter above A rank, reduce it by two ranks and add a plus (then increase until the base value is again at A).
(This verse is again referenced in the aria)
You should not buy a donkey which brays; it will split your midriff.
Rank up to End
Conditions: No buying a donkey that brays.
You should not locate a field on a road; You should not plough a field at a path. You should not make a well in your field: people will cause damage on it for you. You should not place your house next to a public square: there is always a crowd there."
Geis: No creating Bounded Fields on roads. Ability to destroy Bounded Fields on Roads gained.
Geis: Wells (Leylines, Natural sources of Mana) cannot be drained. Ability to destroy Wells gained.
Geis: No bounded fields may be constructed in places with many people. Ability to draw people to set locations gained.
You should not vouch for someone: that man will have a hold on you; and you yourself, you should not let somebody vouch for you that man will despise you.
Geis: No vouching for others, no letting them vouch for you.
Rank up Agi
You should not make an inspection on a man: the flood will give it back to you.
Geis: No Male Human can be inspected.
Rank up Protection from Water
You should not loiter about where there is a quarrel; you should not let the quarrel make you a witness. You should not let yourself in a quarrel. You should not cause a quarrel; Stand aside from a quarrel.
You should not steal anything. You should not break into a house; you should not wish for the money chest. A thief is a lion, but after he has been caught, he will be a slave. My son, you should not commit robbery; you should not cut yourself with an axe.
Geis: No stealing ANYTHING.
Rank up Golden Rule
You should not play around with a married young woman: the slander could be serious. My son, you should not sit alone in a chamber with a married woman.
Geis: Being alone with any married woman forces Ziudsura to gain one rank in Innocent Monster.
You should not pick a quarrel; you should not disgrace yourself. You should not speak lies;You should not boast; then your words will be trusted. You should not deliberate for too long; you cannot bear sideways glances.
Geis: No quarreling, lying, boasting, or taking too long choosing things.
Rank up Charisma
You should not eat stolen food with a thief. You should not sink your hand into blood. After you have apportioned the bones, you will be made to restore the ox, you will be made to restore the sheep.
Geis: If Ziudsura causes any property damage, he must repair it and repay the owners. If he does nt do so, he loses all bonuses he has gained.
You should not speak improperly; later it will lay a trap for you.
Geis: Ziudsura must always use proper grammar.
Rank up Luk
You should not scatter your sheep into unknown pastures.
You should not travel during the night: it can hide both good and evil.
Rank up Clairvoyence, specifially in the form of seeing through illusions and invisibility. The grail wars take place at night; this one will get broken quickly.
You should not buy an onager: it lasts only until the end of the day.
You should not have sex with your slave girl: she will chew you up.
No sex with Familiars
Rank up End
You should not curse strongly: it rebounds on you.
Geis: no cussing
Rank up Luk
You should not draw up water which you cannot reach: it will make you weak.
Geis: Ziudsura may only draw a limited amount of Prana from natural sources.
Rank up Str
You should not drive away a debtor: he will be hostile towards you.
You should not establish a home with an arrogant man: he will make your life like that of a slave girl. You will not be able to travel through any human dwelling without be being shouted at: "There you go! There you go!"
Depending on the master, this one might never take effect.
You should not undo the bindings of the garden's reed fence; "Restore it! Restore it!" they will say to you.
Any property damage must be restored; repetition of another Geis
You should not provide a stranger with food; you should not wipe out a quarrel.
My son, you should not use violence;You should not commit rape on someone's daughter; the courtyard will learn of it.
Rape causes loss of all bonuses.
You should not drive away a powerful man; you should not destroy the outer wall. You should not drive away a young man; you should not make him turn against the city.
Rank up to Instinct
The eyes of the slanderer always move around as shiftily as a spindle. You should never remain in his presence; his intentions should not be allowed to have an effect on you.
You should not boast in beer halls like a deceitful man: then your words will be trusted.
Having reached the field of manhood, you should not jump with your hand. The warrior is unique, he alone is the equal of many; Utu is unique, he alone is the equal of many. With your life you should always be on the side of the warrior; with your life you should always be on the side of Utu.
Rank up Eye of the Mind (True)
You should not pass judgment when you drink beer.
You should not worry unduly about what leaves the house.
You should not beat a farmer's son: he has constructed your embankments and ditches.
You should not buy a prostitute: she is a mouth that bites. You should not buy a house-born slave: he is a herb that makes the stomach sick. You should not buy a free man: he will always lean against the wall. You should not buy a palace slave girl: she will always be the bottom of the barrel. You should rather bring down a foreign slave from the mountains, or you should bring somebody from a place where he is an alien; my son, then he will pour water for you where the sun rises and he will walk before you. He does not belong to any family, so he does not want to go to his family; he does not belong to any city, so he does not want to go to his city.
Treat all mental enchantment magic as rank up for overcoming Magic Resistance.
My son, you should not travel alone eastwards. Your acquaintance should not do so either.
You should not pile up a mountain on another one.
To have authority, to have possessions and to be steadfast are princely divine powers. You should submit to the respected; you should be humble before the powerful. My son, you will then survive against the wicked.
Rank up End
You should not choose a wife during a festival. Her inside is illusory; her outside is illusory. The silver on her is borrowed; the lapis lazuli on her is borrowed. The dress on her is borrowed; the linen garment on her is borrowed.
Rank up Presence Detection
You should not buy a mean bull. You should not buy a vicious bull; they put a hole in the cattle-pen.
You should not buy a donkey at the time of harvest. A donkey which eats fresh crop will mate with another donkey.
Do not marry one whose heart hates; My son.
You should not waste grain.
You should not abuse a ewe; otherwise you will give birth to a daughter.You should not throw a lump of earth into the money chest; otherwise you will give birth to a son.
You should not abduct a wife; you should not make her cry.
You should not kill a man; you should not bind him.
You should not speak arrogantly to your mother; that causes hatred for you. You should not question the words of your mother and your personal god. The mother, like Utu, gives birth to the man; the father, like a god, makes him bright. The father is like a god: his words are reliable. The instructions of the father should be complied with.
--- (From here are Aria verses that enact mysteries, the verse is the aria to activate it, and in red is the mystery that is granted. Each verse is a single line aria, except the first one which is a ten-count aria)
"in those days, in those far remote days, in those nights, in those faraway nights, in those years, in those far remote years, at that time the wise one who knew how to speak in elaborate words lived in the Land; Curuppag, the wise one, who knew how to speak with elaborate words lived in the Land. Curuppag gave instructions to his son; Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura: My son, let me give you instructions: you should pay attention! Zi-ud-sura, let me speak a word to you: you should pay attention! Do not neglect my instructions! Do not transgress the words I speak! The instructions of an old man are precious; you should comply with them!
Curuppag gave these instructions to his son. Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu, gave these instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura.
A second time,Curuppag gave instructions to his son. Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura: My son, let me give you instructions: you should pay attention! Zi-ud-sura, let me speak a word to you: you should pay attention! Do not neglect my instructions! Do not transgress the words I speak! The instructions of an old man are precious; you should comply with them!
A third time, Curuppag gave instructions to his son. Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura: My son, let me give you instructions: you should pay attention! Zi-ud-sura, let me speak a word to you: you should pay attention! Do not neglect my instructions! Do not transgress the words I speak! The instructions of an old man are precious; you should comply with them!
These are the instructions given by Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu. Praise be to the lady who completed the great tablets, the maiden Nisaba, that Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave his instructions!"
Utilizing this aria will allow caster to utilize High Speed Divine Words on the remaining verses for the duration of one battle/encounter, but doing so will cause anyone who hears him speak it to be able to easily discern his true identity.
Your own man will not repay it for you. The reed-beds are dangerous they can hide slander.
This verse can be added to the beginning of any other verse to cause the enactment of its mystery to be delayed to a later time, only one such verse may be saved in this manner at a time, and activating the stored mystery is a single action activation. (Yes, this is most likely used on the previous verse in order to activate it where noone can hear him speak the aria, and then acitvate it later with a single action so that he can hide his identity.)
The palace is like a mighty river: its middle is goring bulls; what flows in is never enough to fill it, and what flows out can never be stopped.
Single target blessing that makes the recipient's attacks unable to be blocked, but in exchange they lose the ability to block attacks. (They can still dodge.)
When it is about someone's else bread, it is easy to say "I will give it to you", but the time of actual giving can be as far away as the sky. If you go after the man who said "I will give it to you", he will say "I cannot give it to you -- the bread has just been finished up".
Property is something to be expanded; but nothing can equal my little ones.
Invocation of this verse reforms the surrounding area into a workshop, or if inside his workshop increases its boundaries.
The artistic mouth recites words; the harsh mouth brings litigation documents; the sweet mouth gathers sweet herbs.
The garrulous fills his bread bag; the haughty one brings an empty bag and can fill his empty mouth only with boasting.
Who works with leather will eventually work with his own leather.
The strong one can escape from anyone's hand.
Single target blessing, forces the target to replace the rank of their Agi parameter with the rank of their Str parameter. (On targets with higher strength than agi this is great, on targets whose str is lower than their agi this is really bad for them)
The fool loses something. When sleeping, the fool loses something. "Do not tie me up!" he pleads; "Let me live!" he pleads.
The imprudent decrees fates; the shameless one piles up things in another's lap: "I am such that I deserve admiration".
A weak wife is always seized by fate.
Single target curse, if the target is a woman with a Str rank D or lower they receive rank down to Luk.
If you hire a worker, he will share the bread bag with you; he eats with you from the same bag, and finishes up the bag with you. Then he will quit working with you and, saying "I have to live on something", he will serve at the palace.
You tell your son to come to your home; you tell your daughter to go to her women's quarters.
When invoked will teleport a single target other than Caster to his workshop.
Heaven is far, earth is most precious, but it is with heaven that you multiply your goods, and all foreign lands breathe under it.
Invoked to utilize any low ranked earth or wind based magecraft.
At harvest time, at the most priceless time, collect like a slave girl, eat like a queen; my son, to collect like a slave girl, to eat like a queen, this is how it should be.
Who insults can hurt only the skin; greedy eyes, however, can kill. The liar, shouting, tears up his garments. Insults bring advice to the wicked. To speak arrogantly is like an abscess: a herb that makes the stomach sick.
My words of prayer bring abundance. Prayer is cool water that cools the heart. Only insults and stupid speaking receive the attention of the Land.
Fate is a wet bank; it can make one slip.
Target makes a luk check, if it fails they will lose their footing and fall over
The elder brother is indeed like a father; the elder sister is indeed like a mother. Listen therefore to your elder brother, and you should be obedient to your elder sister as if she were your mother.
Single target enchantment, it turns the recipient into a thrall.
You should not work using only your eyes; you will not multiply your possessions using only your mouth.
The negligent one ruins his family.
The need for food makes some people ascend the mountains; it also brings traitors and foreigners, since the need for food brings down other people from the mountains.
A small city provides its king with a calf; a huge city digs a house plot.
The poor man inflicts all kinds of illnesses on the rich man. The married man is well equipped; the unmarried makes his bed in a haystack. He who wishes to destroy a house will go ahead and destroy the house; he who wishes to raise up will go ahead and raise up.
Enacts a mystery that is the ancient Sumerian equivalent of Gandr.
By grasping the neck of a huge ox, you can cross the river. By moving along at the side of the mighty men of your city, my son, you will certainly ascend.
When spoken allows caster to alter his rank in Str and Agi to equal that of his foe, lasts for only a short period.
When you bring a slave girl from the hills, she brings both good and evil with her. The good is in the hands; the evil is in the heart. The heart does not let go of the good; but the heart cannot let go of the evil either. As if it were a watery place, the heart does not abandon the good. Evil is a store-room.
May the boat with the evil sink in the river! May his waterskin split in the desert!
When spoken it will transmute the surface that any evil entities in the area are standing on into water, which will grasp out trying to drag them in.
A loving heart maintains a family; a hateful heart destroys a family.
One appoints a reliable woman for a good household.
Summons forth a female human familiar who will guard Caster's workshop.
A vicious donkey hangs its neck.
Imposes penalties on target based on their level of Mad Enhancement (The higher the rank the greater the penalty, it ultimately just negates mad enhancement's bonuses, as it scales up at the same rate. It does not restore sanity)
A woman with her own property ruins the house.
A drunkard will drown the harvest.
Be wary! For a female burglar uses a ladder; she flies into the houses like a fly. A she-donkey on the street. A sow suckles its child on the street. A woman who pricked herself begins to cry and holds the spindle which pricked her in her hand. She enters every house; she peers into all streets. she keeps saying "Get out!" She looks around from all parapets. She pants where there is a quarrel.
Negates presence concealment of those in the area.
One should have a heart which overflows with joy.
Nothing at all is to be valued, but life should be sweet. You should not serve things; things should serve you. My son.
Aria used to activate Hypnotism spells.
Let us not run in circles, saying: "Oh, my foot, oh, my neck!". Let us with united forces make the mighty bow!
Single target curse. If the recipient is/was a king or ruler, or has the skill imperial privilege, they suffer rank down to Str.
The wet-nurses in the women's quarters determine the fate of their lord.
Without suburbs a city has no centre either.
My son, a field situated at the bottom of the embankments, be it wet or dry, is nevertheless a source of income.
To get lost is bad for a dog; but terrible for a man. On the unfamiliar way at the edge of the mountains, the gods of the mountains are man-eaters. They do not build houses there as men do; they do not build cities there as men do.
Invocation to activate scrying based magic.
For the shepherd, he stopped searching, he stopped bringing back the sheep. For the farmer, he stopped ploughing the field.
This gift of words is something which soothes the mind; when it enters the palace, it soothes the mind. The gift of many words are rich like the stars.
So yeah... his noble phantasm has infinite words... and needs more! Any suggestions for abilities granted from the verses I have not found stuff for is greatly appreciated. Also comments on the ones I do have is perfectly fine.
Hey asdfgh you should do your awesome orange-y thingy to this one!
