Create-a-Servant

[terraablaze]

Ninjas are Rogues with different proficiencies and a ki pool. /Pathfinder joke.

[mAc Chaos]

Kojiro already paves the way for not-Assassin Assassins.

For Haku vs Bang, it was an ending where Hakumen is about to kill Arakune, Litchi tries to defend him, Haku is like "all right bitch guess you die too" and then Bang shows up to save them both. I also remember some sort of disaster that was about to occur unless Bang didn't defeat him in time. It ends with Bang apparently having defeated Hakumen somehow but having died in the process.

In CS he runs into Hazama, and Hazama had destroyed everybody in their respective ends. Bang was the only one to tangle with him and be smart enough to FRKZ to escape with Carl and Platinum.

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Ragna ~> Saber
Hakumen ~> Saber
Jin ~> Saber

sabers, sabers everywhere

Noel ~> Archer that fights in melee (or maybe a Berserker since the guns take over her mind during battle?)
Bang ~> Assassin that doesn't hide
Arakune ~> Caster
Litchi ~> uh
Carl ~> Assassin maybe, or Archer.

Archer, Berserker and Assassin are the most flexible classes really if you aren't sticking with strict NO KOJIRO, HASSAN ONLY, FINAL DESTINATION rules.

[Siriel]

Platinum is an Archer because fuck it, we gotta round off this Six Heroes thing, so Jubei is Lancer and Plat is Archer.

Well, Platinum being Archer actually makes sense since her power is apparently to throw random crap at you.

[TypeWannabe]

Yeah, but it's Terumi. Bang didn't stand a chance, he was just smart enough to GOTTAGOFAST

[Siriel]

Noel ~> Archer that fights in melee (or maybe a Berserker since the guns take over her mind during battle?)

Given that Noel can actually use her guns as...guns in-story, she can be Archer. With Berserker as another compatible class.

Litchi ~> uh

Lancer because a staff is close enough, maybe?

Carl ~> Assassin maybe, or Archer.

Caster, I'd say. Nirvana could count as a familiar.

[Sherrinford]

René François Ghislain Magritte, The Painter with the Bowler Hat and Pipe
Caster
Alignment: True Neutral.
Talents: painting.
Natural Enemy: those who don’t understand Art.
Image Color: black/dark-blue.

STR: E	MGI: A
END: E	LCK: A
AGI: E	NP: EX

Background:

Spoiler:

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well...”

René Magritte (1898 – 1967) was a Belgian artist who became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of Surrealism. His work challenges the observer's preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style. Later on, he would be influenced by Futurism and by Jean Metzinger’s Cubism. In 1925 he would discover Giorgio De Chirico’s painting, who deeply influenced the Belgian’s following works (by representing subjects taken from daily life and putting them in unusual contests).
In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting, The Lost Jockey (Le Jockey Perdu) and held his first exhibition in Brussels in 1927. Critics heaped abuse on the exhibition. Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton, and became involved in the surrealist group. Later on, during his three years stay in the French capital city, he became a leading member of this movement.

In 1946, renouncing the violence and pessimism of his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifesto Surrealism in Full Sunlight. During 1947–1948, Magritte's "Vache Period", he painted in a provocative and crude Fauve style. During this time, Magritte supported himself through the production of fake Picassos, Braques and De Chiricos—a fraudulent repertoire he was later to expand into the printing of forged banknotes during the lean postwar period. This venture was undertaken alongside his brother Paul Magritte and fellow Surrealist and 'surrogate son' Marcel Mariën. At the end of 1948, he returned to the style and themes of his pre-war surrealistic art.

Magritte's work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things.
His stile would eventually distance himself from the more oniric-paranoid works of Dalì or the erotical ones of Delvaux. René Magritte – also called le saboteur tranquille due to his ability to insinuate doubts about reality through the representation of reality itself – doesn’t want to interpret or portray life and reality, but just to show the inherent, unknowable mystery behind them, alluding and suggesting to this mystery instead of defining it.

The illusionistic, conceptual quality is characteristic of Magritte's version of Surrealism: a shoe become toes, a landscape is simultaneously nocturnal in the lower half and in bright daylight in the upper half. The purpose of this technique was to cause a “visual short circuit” in the observer through the use of unnatural, incongruous images.

Just like the metaphysical painter De Chirico, Magritte used to paint fantastic and mysterious universes populated by usually incomprehensible and enigmatic contents. Contrary to other Surrealistic painters, who used this style to interpret the human drives or the subconcious (the Surrealistic movement was deeply influenced by the work of Freud's psychoanalytic method), Magritte’s goal was to just bring to the surface the mystery within the universe, to make the spectator “hear the silence of the world”.
Magritte's constant play with reality and illusion has been attributed to the early death of his mother: psychoanalysts who have examined bereaved children have said that Magritte's back and forth play with reality and illusion reflects his "constant shifting back and forth from what he wishes—'mother is alive'—to what he knows—'mother is dead' "

Class and Personal Skills:


Item Construction: C

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

The ability to make various items with magic. Although he isn’t even a proper Heroic Spirit, Magritte can effectively create canvasses that work like magical items. These items are what mediate the power of his Noble Phantasm.

Territory Creation: D
It’s the skill to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a magus. However, it should be noted that Magritte’s summoning as a Caster is not a very proper one.
At this level, it’s possible to prepare what can be considered as an “Atelier”, which facilitates the work of the artist.

High-Speed Canvas: C
A skill which increases the speed at which one completes his canvasses. At this level, it grants the user enough time to finish the current painting, after inspiration for it has struck. Since there’s a direct correlation between painting speed and imagination, it also measure how much the painter is motivated in creating his own conception of Art.

Lucid Dreamer: A
A skill inherently possessed by successful artists. The rare ability to bring to the surface, to show to the world and the people the fantastic images that would normally dwell in the subconscious imagination, without a chance to be developed or brought to light.


Noble Phantasm:


Le Saboteur Tranquille
A Vivid Dream That Unfolds Before Open Eyes
Rank: EX
Type: Anti-World

“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”

According to Australia’s Aboriginal mythology, once existed a time called the Dreamtime. It was a spiritual era, an archetypal world of potentiality where everything – from humans to plants – could have been said to already exist, but not yet “born” in the physical state we are now; the primordial cauldron of possibilities that can (and does) shape the actual world; an eternal time/place that existed before the life of the individuals begins, and will continue to exist when the life of the individuals will end. Traditional Australian indigenous peoples embrace all phenomena and life as part of a vast and complex system-network whose relationships are mediated by the Dreamtime, both before and after.
In other words, it is the ultimate origin, the fundamental Truth of the World, from where everything comes into being and to where everything returns. It is from this plenipotentiary state of existence that the world was created, or better, it was created by the gods who shaped the Dreamtime into the landscape through their actions: for example, in Perth, the Noongar people believe that the Darling Scarp is the body of the Wagyl – a serpent being that meandered over the land creating rivers, waterways and lakes; it is taught that the Wagyl created the Swan River. In another example, the Gagudju people of Arnhemland, for which Kakadu National Park is named, believe that the sandstone escarpment that dominates the park's landscape was created in the Dreamtime when Ginga (the crocodile-man) was badly burned during a ceremony and jumped into the water to save himself. He turned to stone and became the escarpment. The common theme in these examples and similar ones is that topographical features are either the physical embodiments of creator beings or are the results of their activity.

“Our secret desire is for a change in the order of things.”

However the Dreamtime, in its extension as “Dreaming”, is also regarded as what establishes the structures of society, rules for social behavior, the ceremonies performed to ensure continuity of life and land, the very spirituality and set of beliefs of an individual or group. The Dreaming governs the laws of community, cultural lore and how people are required to behave in their communities. The Dreaming is met when people live according to law, and live the lore. In other words, in the broader spectrum of the “Dreaming of the World”, the Dreaming can be considered as what defines the rules of the world.

Thanks to his talent and the peculiar properties of the Caster class, Magritte managed to tap into the Dreaming – which is called Akasha by proper Magi; he gains the ability to evoke the fundamental mystery which lies at the base of reality, to reach the land and time of Imagination that contains everything, the metaphysical place that envelops everything that can be thought and realized, the embryonic creative power of the Spiral of Origin. Thanks to his summoning, he accomplished the very true goal of magecraft users worldwide.

Strictly speaking, through the “hacking” into the Dreaming, his Noble Phantasm allows him to rewrite the rules of physics and of the world in order for them to suit his own visions. However, it shouldn’t be confused with a Reality Marble: Caster doesn’t project his own inner worlds onto reality, but manages to “fool” Gaia into accepting Caster’s conceptual ideas as its own. Not by forcefully imposing his surreal view, but by softly revisioning and realigning the rules of reality according to his own intentions, subtly changing the parameters with great results (hence the name of the Noble Phantasm). Since it’s technically Gaia the one doing all the work, this Noble Phantasm requires little to none Mana in order to activate, making it an extremely efficient, almost omnipotent Noble Phantasm. After being invoked, the duration of his effect varies depending on how much surreal the imposed worldview is (the less removed from actual reality, the longer the effect).
However, due to Caster possessing no actual will to fight or to injure others, it’s also useless in battle. Magritte uses it to achieve the highest form of Art, a level that would be otherwise impossible to reach, the level in which your own visionary Art becomes true reality (this is a wish shared by every artist, but for artists like Magritte is something even more important).

Suddenly, the boundary between the art painted on the canvas and reality fade away… litterally. Exploring the relationship between the false reality represented on the canvas and the true world was a fundamental theme in Magritte’s works: it’s enough to remember the famous The Treachery of Images or The Human Condition.

And in a certain way, Painting can be considered the first, primordial magic system: prehistoric men used to paint animals on the walls of caves in order to facilitate the hunt; by catching the image and (metaphorically) the soul of the animal on the painting, that animal would have been easier to kill. In this case painting was supposed to influence reality. It was thus the first way of entering in contact with the spiritual world, the simplest form of magic: magic by association, in which an action conducted by the shamans can affect the material world in a similar fashion.

“Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.”

Long story short, the Noble Phantasm allows the user to unleash the power of Imagination, a power that it’s famously defined as to be “unlimited”.

If writers can be Casters, why can’t painters?
Note: all quotes are actually from Magritte himself.
His NP is basically playing the shell game with Gaia, until Gaia realizes it’s a scam and the fun his over… until the next painting.

[Master of Chaos]

That alternative (male) version of Nero motivated me into preparing a profile of her that is more in accordance with the rules of Fuyuki's Grail War.

Class: Saber (Avenger, Ruler)
True Name: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Gender: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Good

STR: ＊＊＊＊＊ D
END: ＊＊＊＊＊ D
AGI: ＊＊＊＊＊ A
MGI: ＊＊＊＊＊ B
LCK: ＊＊＊＊＊ A
NP: ＊＊＊＊＊ B

Keywords

KEYWORDS

Gender Orientation

According to her, the gender of the body and the gender of the soul - the mind - are different. Naturally, she is female physically. Mentally, it is approximately fifty-fifty. Though also because she made an effort so that her preferences were not biased in accordance to gender be in view of this standpoint, the source is the thought of wanting to stay a maiden and her liking for beautiful things. In concern to the soul, as in the orientation that exists on the root of existence, she can go either way. Because she loves people themselves without any concern of gender, she devotes herself to those she is pleased with regardless of being man or woman. She likes handsome boys, and likes beautiful girls even more.

Great Fire of Rome

July 19, 64 AD.
A large conflagration occurred to the extent of reducing Rome to ashes. Victims were contained to a bare minimum thanks to Nero's swift and adequate response as an administrator, and she earned immense popularity with the citizens by thoroughly carrying out her subsequent pledges. Her coping with the fire is highly praised as effective policies that exhausted the limits of human intellect even by the many historians who criticize her. Her characteristic anecdote is that she was an administrator for the citizens.

CLASS SKILLS

Magic Resistance: C
The capacity to negate or abate the effects of Magecraft. Negates Magecraft with an aria of two verses or less. Cannot defend against large-scale Magecraft such as High-Thaumaturgy or Greater Rituals. Because she does not own any resistance inherent to herself, Nero holds a level of Magic Resistance that is unbecoming for the Saber-Class.

Riding: C
The technical skill to mount on vehicles. It also displays its effects on mechanized vehicles. As far as machines go, modern conveyances can also be handled. However, this does not apply to vehicles built with state-of-the-art technology… but it is possible to temporarily Rank Up this Skill with the support of Imperial Privilege.

If a Ruler or Avenger...

Territory Creation (Revised): A+
The technical skill to build up an advantageous encampment to oneself as a military man. Thanks to this Skill that allows to create in the shortest time a Fortress that displays the very best effectiveness on any kind of terrain condition, Ruler boasts the greatest advantage in regards to defensive fights among all Servants. At the highest rank, the effects will be displayed not only within the encampment but also on its immediate surroundings.

PERSONAL SKILLS

Eye for Art: C (A+)
Attachment towards artworks, products of fine arts. In case a Noble Phantasm that possesses anecdotes in the public entertainment aspect is seen, it might possible to see through its true name. Chances of success depends on the rank of "Eye for Art". Originally, the success rate should be 100%, but its performance was greatly compromised by her headaches.

Golden Rule: B
Not the golden ratio of one's body, but rather the predestination of how much cash follows around in one's life. At B Rank, it is possible to amass a treasury suitable for someone of noble birth.

Headache Sufferer: B
A curse inherited from one's birthplace while alive. Due having chronic headaches, the success rate of mental Skills declines considerably. This Minus Skill cannot be unequipped. Even her long-awaited talents for fine arts are hard to be perfectly displayed due to this Skill.

It has been said that this has her habitual use of a silver cup as a cause or even that it is chronic hysteria, but actually this comes from the fact that she had been repeatedly served with poison and antidote by her mother Agrippina since infancy so she would not defy her. With Agrippina's death, the location of the antidote was lost.

Imperial Privilege: EX
Through the claims of the person herself, it is possible to also acquire Skills that she originally does not possess for only a short time. Corresponding Skills are Riding, swordsmanship, fine arts, Charisma, Military Tactics and others. In case the rank is A or above, even the physical burden (such as Divinity) is acquired.

Weapons

Aestus Estus (Original Fire)
Bellows of Meteoric Iron. The scarlet long sword that Nero possesses. A handmade weapon that she brings in when summoned as a Saber. A magic sword with a strong affinity with the element fire. Other than the normal damage based on STR, it also causes an additional, fire-based damage that is calculated from the user's MGI value.

Has the inscription regnum caelorum et gehenna (heavens' kingdom and hell) carved on it.

NOBLE PHANTASM

Aestus Domus Aurea – The Invitingly Captivating Golden Theater
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Army
Nero's Noble Phantasm. The theater she constructed in Rome during her lifetime, molded and reproduced by means of prana. The theater that she herself designed was named Domus Aurea.

A High-Thaumaturgy falsely similar to a Reality Marble that only she - who believed without a doubt that, before being an emperor, she was "an artist comparable to the God of Arts Apollo" and a "chariot driver comparable to the Sun God Sol" - can perform. An absolute imperial sphere that allows one to achieve her own aspirations.

It imprisons the enemies in a dazzling golden theater during 3 turns and weakens them. With the exception of Nero, anyone caught within it will suffer a Rank Down on all parameters and the performance of their defensive abilities and equipment will be lessened. However, due the imbalance between Nero's magical capacity and this Noble Phantasm's prana consumption, activation is fundamentally limited to only once per battle.

Incidentally, when this theater that she constructed in her lifetime opened, many spectators left midway through during the first time. It has been said that she, who felt indignation towards that, had all the exits and entrances blockaded at the time of the second performance and did not allow anybody to get out until the end of the performance.

Background

BACKGROUND

The Fifth Emperor of the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Born from Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus - cousin of the Fourth Emperor Claudius - and Julia Augusta Agrippina - younger sister of the despot Caligula. Considering those origins, she wasn't even supposed to desire the throne of emperor, but due the evil designs of her mother Agrippina - such as remarrying with the previous Emperor and the assassination of Fourth Emperor Claudius in 54 AD - Nero became the Fifth Emperor at the age of 17 in the form of succeeding her stepfather Claudius.

That being said, Nero had already been displaying her talents even before becoming an emperor, and was adored as an extremely capable judge. Stories goes that, because of her fairness and excellence, she brought in many important lawsuits in spite of been prohibited of doing so by her stepfather Claudius under the pretext of young age.

Maybe due her descent not being legitimate, but Nero loved strangers more than her relatives, the masses more than the aristocrats. At the occasion of her enthronement, she presented each and every citizen in gold as congratulatory gift for the enthronement of the emperor.

She has much confidence in her administration, to the point of bragging that the citizens who lived under her lavish rule had fun enough for three lifetimes. Nero also attended to diplomacy and the popularity in Britannia regarding Rome during later years has her political measures as cause. In a sense, she is the person who created the chance for the birth of the Arthurian Legends. In addition, Nero was highly praised in abundance at Persia and even after her death there was great consideration that Persia "was the country of Nero".

However, there are 2 or 3 political measures that she herself recognizes as failures. Nero utters how she is a soldier of fine arts before being an emperor, but that degree of popularity is to the amount that makes the person herself flustered and she recognizes that it was a bad reputation to her friends. She loves athletic meets, to the point of participating herself if she is not busy with work. There was a time when she strangled a lion to death nude on the Colosseum, in an imitation of Heracles' exploits. But then, this didn't get to the point of breaking the neck of the lion and stopped at Nero making it faint by strangling its neck with her right arm. For the citizens, that was a disgrace.

In addition, in the year of 59 AD or 60 AD, she founded an athletic fashioned after the Greece’s Olympics - the Quinquennial Neronia (“Nero Festival”). It included the three categories of music, gymnastics and horse-riding and she participated in a few of them.

Nero dresses as a man simply because she likes doing so; it does not mean that she is dressing as a man out of necessity since she is an emperor like that King of Knights. But then again, no matter how you look at them, it is hard to refer to her garments as dressing as a man. She is also mindful about her short build.

Talks in the first person in an oratory fashion. This is her introducing herself as a monarch, for she was only allowed to introduce herself as an individual until her childhood. Even if there is a time when Nero can call herself an individual, this would mean the defeat of half her lifetime. She had a wife called Octavia, who she was forced to marry by her mother Agrippina.

Affirms to like kind individuals, however that does not mean those that are kind towards others, but rather that she likes those that are kind towards Nero herself. She has a strong obsession regarding fine arts and stresses a sense of beauty in everything. A self-styled a flower swordsman that admires roses viewed as an artist that loves poetry.

What she hates are frugality, ruin and treason. Practice astrology to some extent, but does not enjoy it for it is puzzling. Weak against heat and coldness of weather.

She serves her Master as a Servant despite being an emperor, but this comes from the thinking that, since she is already subordinate to beauty, there is no problem in her serving someone else on top of that. While an emperor, she also appreciates chivalry and reveals anger in regards to a chivalry of completely renouncing oneself. Her chivalry is one of correcting her lord if he is mistaken while still recognizing him. Meanwhile, her principles of royalty are to make the people prosper magnificently.

Nero, the Tyrant

Nero was called a tyrant because of how she oppressed the Roman Senate and all religious forces - in the age of Rome for her oppression of the Senate, while afterwards for her oppression of Christians.

One theory is that the Book of Revelation was written as a reaction against said oppression. She was regarded in the same light as the devil, as the assumed Hebrew pronunciation of her as a emperor (Caesar) - NRVN QSR - equates with the "Number of the Beast". Incidentally, this "Number of the Beast" (and by extension the "Beast of Babylon") refers to Rome itself and it is not an alias given to her as an individual.

Nero directly confronted the Senate - which sought privileges for their selfish desires even with the decaying political situation - by carrying out reforms such as abolishing all indirect taxes. However, starting from the time of the political measures to unify the Senate's provinces and the Emperor's provinces and integrate the national treasure, the confrontation with the Senate got serious and the problem of Agrippina interfering in political measures out of self-interest also became greater. At that point, Nero decided to remove Agrippina before the showdown with the Senate, but the assassination failed altogether and - in the year of 59 AD - Agrippina made public that Nero tried to slay her through poisoning. From this, the reputation of tyrant became steadfast.

Afterwards, her wife Octavia committed suicide, she had to murder her younger stepbrother in order to secure her influence, and even drove the sole mentor she relied on from the bottom of her heart and was also like a substitute father to her - the philosopher Seneca - to suicide. This was not only a result of Nero behaving the way she did, but also because the emperor that boasted tremendous popularity with the citizens was a demon that brought about death and terror as far as her relatives were concerned. In Seneca's case, Nero said that she forgave him, but he didn't believe in those words and ended up taking his life.

She certainly welcomed her fate as a tyrant in the way that was written down on history, but she believes that there is nothing to feel ashamed in regards to how she lived as herself to the end. This is to the point of asserting that even her emptying of Rome's national caused the prodigal Rome to end at her reign. The same goes for her life. It was full of conflict and anguish, betrayed without being understood by anyone, but she looks back at it as a good life with its highs and lows. However, she describes the way she hesitated many times on the occasion of her suicide as indecent and feels ashamed.

She does not resent the fact that the citizens did not saved her. That is because Nero understands that the shape of love she had was different from that of the citizens. Nero's love was one that, in exchange of giving just about everything, won't be satisfied unless she robs just about everything; the love that the citizens searched for was something more tender. She noticed that during her lifetime, but was not able to understand it after all.

[Sherrinford]

En garde, my foe!

[Dozer095]

Fate/Extra Prototype?

[I3uster]

stop using ruler

[Petrikow]

stop using avenger

[Asdfghl]

Didn't read the whole post, but I took a guess at Magritte's Noble Phantasm.

Treachery of Images ~ not a noble phantasm

Rank: B+
Classification: Anti-Something Noble Phantasm
Targets: Viewers
Normal form: n/a
Activates on invocation.

Magritte paints a picture of something/someone, then announces it is not truly that something. All who behold it become confused, until they work out that the picture is only a picture. They then proceed to applaud the painter's cleverness, leaving him plenty of time to take them out of the picture (pun fully intended). If the picture was of them and they were removed, they are restored to the Throne of Heroes until they figure out that he could not move them back there.

Eye for Art is its natural counter. However, attempts at using a perceptive skill, such as Clairvoyance, on the painting only lead to a headache.

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Just finished. Whoa.

[Five_X]

stop using ruler

metrestick is better

[Dozer095]

I think I’m stretching it with the Rider-Class, but I really wanted to create both a Rider Class servant with something unique for a mount, and I wanted to make Brer Rabbit as a servant. It was then I decided; why not make Brer Rabbit into a servant. I thought Assassin would be a good class for her as well, and as for the Lancer, that was a last minute thing when I realize the stake Brer Rabbit used to kill the Giant Flint could be used as a spear (a stretch I know, but I thought it would be cool). Her overall appearance is inspired by Caster from Fate/Extra.

True Name: Brer Rabbit, The Icon of the Oppressed
Class: Rider (Can also be Lancer or Assassin)
Gender: Female (Gender bender, should really be called Sister Rabbit)
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Strength: D
Endurance: D-
Agility: A++
Mana: C
Luck: Ex

Noble Phantasm: B

Servant Skills:
Riding: B: Most vehicles can be handled with above average skill. Normally, she wouldn’t be able to control her own mounts, but her Noble Phantasm allows easier control of them. (If Summoned as a Rider)
Presence Concealment: C: (If Summoned as an Assassin) the capacity to hide one's presence as a Servant.
Magical Resistance: C: (If summoned as a Lancer)Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against Magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.

Personal Skills
Eye of the Mind (True): B: Capable of calm analysis of battle conditions even when in danger and deduce an appropriate course of action after considering all possibilities to escape from a predicament. So long there is even a 1% chance of a comeback, this ability greatly improves the chances of winning.
Instinct: B: The power to "feel" the most favorable developments for oneself during battle.
Trickster: A: Brer Rabbit’s most valuable personal skill. Since she’s not very strong, she must rely on her own cleverness to out wit a foe. While she herself is a prolific trickster, she is not perfect, as a foe that is equally, or cleverer then she is.


Personal Weapons
· Briar Whips: A couple of thorny plant like whips, representing the Biar patch. It gets even stronger when her primary Noble Phantasm is used. Her more common weapon, as Rider prefers to keep as much distance from her and her opponent as possible. This is her primary weapon if summoned as either Rider or Assassin.
· Stake of Flint: A long spear like stake which becomes her primary weapon if she’s summoned as a Lancer. The stakes used to kill the rock giant Flint. They are strong enough to smash stone into flint as the story goes. Brer Rabbit, in one of her more heroic deeds killed the murderous giant Flint as he slept while driving a stake through his center, smashing him to rocky pieces.

Noble Phantasm: Since Rider’s Nobel Phantasms are weak; she does not fully depend on them unless its through trickery, or a quick retreat, relying on her wit to overcome her enemies.

• Name: Humiliated Mount: Shame of the Deceived
• Type: Anti-Unit
• Rank: C
• Description: The personification of Rider’s enemies in the Uncle Ramus stories. In one story depicts Brer Fox, often considered the archenemy of Brer Rabbit, being tricked into being a “Riding Horse.” The Nobel Phantasm represents not only Brer Fox’s humiliation at the hands of Brer Rabbit, but various others, such as Brer Bear, Brer Wolf, and others. As such, its form is that of a beast that can take the form of a beast that is mostly fox like, but has aspects of other animals, though binded with thorny plants all over its body, a representation of Brer Rabbit’s control over her enemies, or as Rider describes it “This poor fool’s not my Riding Horse, he’s my bitch.” The thorny plants wrapped around him are a representation of Rider’s main Noble Phantasms, Briar Patch. The Noble Phantasm itself s not very powerful, but capable of increasing Rider’s Speed, and fighting battles for her

• Name: Tar Dummy: The Sticky Situation
• Type: Anti-Unit
• Rank: E~B
• Description: A Nonlethal Noble Phantasm. It represents the story in which Brer Fox succeeds in tricking Brer Rabbit by creating the Tar Baby, a dummy made of pine tar. Rider uses this Noble Phantasm in ways of deceiving foes. It can take any form Rider wishes, though its base form s this. If an opponent touches it, they will be stuck It could take the form of a person one moment, then become a black substance the next. The more one struggles, the more ensnared they become, though a powerful Noble Phantasm, or skill can break it.

• Name: Briar Patch: From whence the Rabbit was Born and Bred
• Type: Anti-Army
• Target: 10-20
• Rank: D~B
• Description: The representation of the Briar Patch which Brer Rabbit used to escape Brer Fox during the Tar Baby incident. It can be used as a simple whip, or grow from the ground and walls becoming living thorny tentacles. While not strong on its own, it can do enough damage when used appropriately, and with Rider’s mind, she is perfectly capable of using anything in her disposal to the fullest. This Noble Phantasm also allows control of her mounts, wrapping around them, and use as a bridle.

Appearance: Her appearance is similar to a black playboy bunny tuxedo, complete with lack boots and white gloves. She sometimes wears a white tuxedo jacket and top hat, but tends to throw them away I battle. She looks like a young, well-endowed human girl (in her late teens) with the exception of white rabbit ears where human ears should be as well as a small cotton-like tail on her lower back. She has short silver hair, red eyes, and dark skin due to Rider’s combination of African and Cherokee Native American origins. She also wears jewelry and other accessories representing her heritage.

Personality: Overall, she is a snarker and prankster. At her best, she’s playful jokester. At her worst, she’s sadistic and malicious to the point of sociopathic. She’s a regular gadfly who enjoys nothing more then trolling others, especially her own master. Her overall personality depends on who summons her. If her master is good, she will be playing and teasing. The worst her master’s personality is, the more vicious she can be. She admits to enjoy getting masters who are arrogant and loud because she loves putting them down. The kind of master she does not like to receive is one that is super serious ones with no sense of humor. While she is not above mockery, she’s pretty cowardly, and prefers not to fight a foe directly.

History: A trickster by nature, she used her wits to trick various stronger and more dangerous predators. Her trickery made her a hero to the oppressed, especially African slaves and Native Americans. Her stories have been retold for generations though many of her tales have changed throughout the years to the point she was believed to be male, thus being called Brer Rabbit instead of Sister Rabbit, and to the point it is unknown which culture she belonged to.

In her time in life, she managed to trick her Archenemy Brer Fox multiple times. Eventually, he would in turn deceive her through the use of a dummy made of pine tar. By leaving the dummy on the side of the road, Brer Rabbit greeted it, and when it did not respond, she became so offended she punched it, only to get stuck as she struggle to get free. As Brer Fox readied himself to finish her, she begged him not to throw her into a briar patch, which he did, only for the witty fox to reveal it was where she was “born and bred.” She would later go on to trick him into becoming a “riding horse” and escape another of his traps by tricking Brer Bear into thinking she was making a dollar a minute.

Brer rabbit’s greatest feats included killing the fierce Brer Wolf, the witch Old Mammy Witch Wise, and eventually the mountain giant Flint, a feat that established herself among the most powerful animals. While she was a crafty however, her arrogance usually got the better of her, being tricked by the equally crafty Brer Turtle, who with the help of family members, won a race which earned begrudging respect from Brer Rabbit.

As time went on, she evolved from a lovable jokester, into a malicious sadist, her pranks becoming crueler and spiteful. Her downfall however would come when she angered the Deer King. After being disqualified from a race with the Deer King for cheating, Brer Rabbit tricks the victor into filing down his teeth. Angered, Deer King tricked Brer Rabbit into a jumping contest, then used magicraft, to banish her to the other side of the River Styx, where she remained alone for the rest of her days.

[Sherrinford]

Tantalus, The Most Impious Man of Ancient Greece
Caster
Alignment: Chaotic Good (more precisely Chaotic Neutral/Neutral Evil)
Likes: inquiring.
Dislikes: secrets, mysteries.
Natural Enemy: mostly Lawful Neutral characters.
Image Color: blood-stained black robe.

STR: C	MGI: B
END: D	LCK: D
AGI: D	NP: B

Background:

"Knowledge, at any cost."

Keyword 01: King at the Dawn

Spoiler:

A king who ruled in the ancient time of humanity’s dawn.

This was a time when deities were used to walk the earth, when gods used to frequently visit the banquets of the noblest and most renowned kings, and sometimes even these kings and simple mortals were allowed to take part in the feasts of the gods and in some cases even invited to live with them.

Tantalus was a demi-god son of Zeus and Plouto, and the first king of Lydia; sometimes he was also regarded as a primordial ruler of Phrygia (these were neighboring countries situated in Anatolia, Asia Minor).

Keyword 02: The Unholy Banquet

Spoiler:

“Have you ever wondered what the gods think of us mortals?... I surely have spent a lot of time thinking about them.
Gods.
Here they stand before me in all their divine glory, all lined up waiting for the courses to come. I can almost see my image reflected in their eyes as they look at me, and talk to me…
Gods. They send us famines, and yet they seem to have absolutely no qualms in visiting our banquets, or inviting some of us to theirs.
Elusive beings. After all my researching and inquiring, I’m still far to have grasped the true extent of their powers.
But enough musings. There, the main dish is finally coming. If everything goes as planned, I will finally know…

Wishing to investigate the gods’ omniscience, Tantalus prepared a macabre test for them: he summoned his son Pelops, and then proceeded to slaughter him. After cutting his son’s corpse into many pieces, he next added the boy's limbs to the stew prepared for the gods and served it to them.

Zeus and the other gods immediately noticed that something was wrong and, recognised the deception, refused to eat the stew, recoiling in disgust and horror; only Demeter, distraught by the loss of her daughter Persephone, absentmindedly ate part of the boy's shoulder and apparently took quite a few bites before the other Olympians hastened to stop her.

Clotho, one of the three Fates, ordered by Zeus, brought the boy back to life by collecting the body parts and boiling them in a sacred cauldron; since the shoulder was consumed by the goddess, it was substituted by one made of ivory forged by Hephaestus and presented by Demeter. The revived Pelops grew to be an extraordinarily handsome youth, and became the lover of Poseidon: because of this the god took him to Mount Olympus as his cupbearer, taught him how to drive a chariot and gave him swift, winged horses.

Keyword 03: Twisted Prometheus

Spoiler:

But that was only the beginning of Tantalus’ plan to uncover the gods’ secrets; he predicted the outcome and used his reborn son, now living on Mount Olympus, as an “insider” spy with the goal to directly steal the gods’ secrets. It was at this time that Tantalus became the author of even more offenses in regards to the gods, consisting in violating the rules of xenia, the concept of hospitality.

It happened during one of the divine banquets at which Tantalus was invited. He betrayed the hosts’ confidence and committed the crime of stealing some of the gods’ secrets, including a sample of ambrosia, the divine nectar that purifies the soul and whose consumption is usually reserved for divine beings, the immortal Olympians. He then proceeded to share the stolen food and reveal to his mortal friends these divine secrets that the gods freely revealed to strictly him while chatting.

In another occasion he was the instigator behind the theft of the Golden Hound. According to the legend, this was the golden dog set by Rhea to guard the infant god Zeus and his nurse, the she-goat Amaltheia. The thief, Pandareus, was said to have stolen this golden dog made by Hephaestus from the temple of Zeus in Crete, and to have carried it to his friend Tantalus. When Zeus sent Hermes to Tantalus to claim the dog back, Tantalus lied by declaring that he had neither seen nor heard of a golden dog. The god, however, took the animal by force.

… and in the end, Tantalus’s gruesome and despicable deeds would prove to be too much even for a beloved son of Zeus, and at last he got what he deserved: first his kingdom was destroyed by the gods and then he was struck dead by Zeus on Mount Sipylus, while the King of the Gods kicked Pelops out of Olympus. Tantalus was thus sentenced to reside forever in the Underworld, and the punishment for his evil ways would eventually became a a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction (“to tantalize”): he was condemned to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he could get any.

Interestingly enough, Tantalus’ story shares similitudes with another legendary figure: Lycaon of Arkadia, a king who lived in the time before the Great Deluge (and thus a member of the Third, Bronze Race of Men destroyed by Zeus because of its impiety and corruption), who similarly offered the human flesh of his own son to test the gods, and for this he was destroyed along with his kingdom.

Class and Personal Skills:


Item Construction: A
It’s the skill to manufacture magical items. Although in possession of divine secrets and a sample of ambrosia, Tantalus couldn’t fully recreate the immortality-granting food… especially after his stolen knowledge was sealed by the gods as punishment. However, he is able to prepare an elixir that grants limited immortality and that represents a valid, almost perfect substitute for the divine nectar.

Territory Creation: A
It’s the skill to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a magus. At this level, creation of a "Temple", which is superior to a "Workshop", becomes possible.

Presence Concealment: E
The capacity to hide one's presence as a Servant. It is a common skill of the Assassin class. Although eligible for the Assassin class due to his gruesome and murderous deeds, his summoning as a member of this class would still be an improper one. At this level, it is suitable to conduct covert operations, in most of the cases succesfully. Tantalus mainly uses this skill of his to succesfully accomplish the kidnappings of human test subjects needed for his bloody rituals, without leaving behind traces.

Mental Pollution: A
This skill makes it highly possible to shut out any mental interference Thaumaturgy, due to possessing a distorted mentality. However, at the same time it becomes impossible to come to a true understanding with individuals that do not possess an equivalent rank of mental pollution.

Divinity: D (B)
Tantalus was a demi-god, son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto. In his time he was a very renowned and rich king (as the Lydian kingdom was notoriously wealthy), hence the most probable reason for the Greeks to insert Plouto (whose name translated into Greek means “Wealth”) into the royal geneology.

As it turned out, his descendants also inherited at least part of his insolence towards social rules and gods: his son Pelops would later on gain the reign of Oenomaus’ ancient kingdom of Pisa – in the Western Peloponnese – through bribery, treachery and murder; Niobe, his daughter, would be the downfall of her family (due to her carelessly belittling Leto and her divine twins Apollo and Artemis); Broteas was a great hunter, but despite this he didn’t pay the due honors to Artemis, and for this reason the goddess struck him with madness… thinking to be invulnerable, he threw himself into a pyre (however, according to another legend, his suicide was caused by his ugliness). Pelops will later be the founder of the famous House of Atreus (which include Agamemnon and Menelaus), and is also the ancestor of Herakles and Theseus.

Although Tantalus is the offspring of the king of the gods and a nymph, thus born with a high rank of Divinity, due to his impious deeds his rank was greatly reduced.

Cursed Knowledge: A
The sum of all the forbidden secrets that Tantalus stole from the Olympian gods. This knowledge would eventually be sealed by Zeus as punishment (a fate symbolized by Tantalus in the Underworld not being able to reach out to what he desires, and thus unable to communicate what he learned).
However, after being summoned in the Holy Grail War, he has managed to retrieve most of it thanks to perfectioning and experimenting with live subjects.

Tantalus’ magic talent allows him to understand, assimilate and integrate rituals only by seeing them, and sometimes only though reports. Among the most notable of his current abilities there’s the skill of creating familiars made of metal and the partial resuscitation of his victims, which now slightly resemble Frankenstein’s Monsters.

The curse of the gods has acted more deeply than how it might look, though. It has forever changed and corrupted the very way Tantalus can exercise his skills in learning and developing magic. To use a metaphor, it would be like being allowed to discover what’s inside an egg only by “breaking it” instead of “making it translucent". He can now use his magic and execute the secrets he has learned in a corrupted way, turning his magic into what can be described as “blood magic”.

Tantalus’ sin was so horrifying that some mythographers tried to rationalize it under a different light: in this version of the myth, Tantalus served his own son out of religious zeal since at the time of the banquet his kingdom was suffering from a famine and his stock of food wasn't sufficient for the invited guests.

Tantalus is in the end definitely evil, but… if fate is decided by the gods, and heroes are those that go against their fate and therefore gods’ will, is it possible to consider Tantalus at least an "anti-hero"… ?


Noble Phantasm:


Blood Pelops
Ritual of Sacrifice
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit

“Blood is the currency of the soul, and of the oldest magic there is.”

Tantalus’ greatest sin, for which this Magus of Sacrifice became sadly famous. It crystalizes Tantalus’ legend of dissecting the person closest to him in order to gain or, in this specific case, to retrieve his sealed knowledge, albeit for a brief time.

However, in the Holy Grail War, separated by centuries from his descendants, there’s only one person in all the world that can be considered close enough to him to activate this Noble Phantasm.

His Master.

The material form of this Noble Phantasm takes the shape of a plain-looking kitchen knife, the same used to prepare the spell-infused human meat served to the deities. More in general, it can be considered a Noble Phantasm prepared/manufactured from the flesh of his Master, a Noble Phantasm that allows Tantalus to unleash his greatest magic.

Tantalus’ story seems to affirm that certain bloody practices were considered taboo in Greek culture, while at the same time it suggests that this kind of religious practices were indeed performed in archaic times, especially to Demeter. In ancient past, in fact, births were usually a cause of death; considering also the fact that in very primitive cultures menstrual blood discharge was a largely misunderstood phenomenon, it shouldn’t surprise that more ancient rituals of fertility and (especially related to cults of certain goddesses of fertility such as the Great Goddess) were quite bloody in nature, sometimes consisting in human sacrifice and ritual killings.
In this case, Tantalus represents the shaman, and Pelops' dismemberment and successive resurrection can be seen as an archetypal shamanic initiation (consisting in ritual, symbolic death and spiritual, mystical rebirth).


A more traditional Caster than my previous one for you, ladies and gentlemen. I thought I had a clear idea for his background, but it actually turned out quite difficult to write. Also, what kind of NP is that? It really lacks imagination… but I just wanted to (at last!) post this profile I’ve been working on for some time.
And you thought Gilles was evil/insane? Tantalus would have cut his beloved Jeanne into pieces to prove the fact that God doesn’t exist. In fact, he’s more of a evil scientist than a mad one.
Thanks to Seika for the consultation as a anglophone.

[Strife ❤️]

My first create-a-servant:

Name: John Dee
Class: Caster



An occultist in the service of Queen Elizabeth I who communicated with angels through his elaborate rituals and learned from them the system of Enochian magic.

STR: D
MGI: A
END: D
LCK: B
AGI: C

Noble Phantasm: B+

Class Skills:

Territory Creation: B
The skill to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a magus. At this level creation of a "Workshop" becomes possible.

Item Construction: A
The skill to manufacture magical items.

Personal Skills:

Enochian, The Celestial Speech: A
The original language. The speech of the Angels used until the fall of Babel, it resonates with Akasha causing all hearers to obey the speaker. Knowledge of the language allows resistance against the effect. Revealed to Dee over time by Angels in several visions.

Noble Phantasms:

Liber Logaeth ~Sextus et Sanctus, Book of the Speech of God~ Rank: B+

Written in the Enochian alphabet, it is 'The Mysterie of our Creation, The Age of many years, and the conclusion of the World.' Containing the 49 angelic keys of Heaven, it allows the bearer to cast spells on the level of High Thaumaturgy instantly by calling the name of the spell. When its true name is called, all spells cast for the next three turns are able to bypass Magic Resistance of Rank B+ or lower.

Seal of God ~Sigillum Dei, Symbol of the Living God~ Rank: B

An amulet that passively allows the bearer to take control over all phantasmal species and other beasts, except archangels. When activated, it forms a powerful barrier that prevents any spiritual being from entering or leaving a radius within 50 meters. The effect works by strong mental interference, meaning those with extremely strong presence of mind or mental clarity may try to resist its influence. However, divine beings or servants with divinity are absolutely bound by the effect and may not traverse the barrier.

[Sherrinford]

Enochian, The Celestial Speech: EX

Although I don't doubt the concept behind it, I'd tone it down to, let's say, A-rank (because what is being (should be) measured here is Dee's proficiency with the language, which may not be on par with angels themselves, rather than the power of the Enochian language itself).

Even more if you consider that the NP that uses this language is only B+... something doesn't add up.

An amulet that passively allows the bearer to take control over all phantasmal species and other beasts, except archangels.

What about spirits in general? Because they would be the first I'd think about speaking of magical seals (although I admit I don't know if there's a reason for you to leave them out of the equation and include only phantasmal beasts).

[Strife ❤️]

because what is being (should be) measured here is Dee's proficiency with the language

Good point, forgot about that.

What about spirits in general?

I thought they were encompassed under Phantasmal Species. If not then yeah, it should definitely affect spirits (but not servants)

[Seika]

Amus Cach Amuis

Zerg Rush Kekekekeke

The Noble Phantasm owned by Queen Medb of Connacht, activated by a twisting of the royal brooch of her dynasty on her clothes. She is unable to summon her full army unless side-by-side with her husband, since they held joint rulership over that contingent: alone, she can merely call her bodyguard. Even so, she will refuse to bring them forth unless severely provoked or in the case that another Servant summons their own soldiers. Medb is a strong believer in the worthiness of single combat as the proof of a hero: an army may fight wars, but numbers have no place when the champions are ready to duel.

Medb is justifiably confident that her displeasure will stick and the enemy will regret moving the battle to one of quantity over quality. Her bodyguard numbers some 40-and-a-half billion Irish warriors from the Age of the Gods. If the enemy Servant and their troops are not immediately crushed when Connacht's soldiers materialise, then they get to reap what they have sown and carry on the fight. She's fairly confident they're not going to have much luck.

Rank: Lots of those funny stars the Sakuras have for their stats in CCC
Type: Anti-Army-Summoning
Range: Very Big
Maximum Targets: 40.5 billion people



Partly because lolIreland (the real number she boasts of comes to 40,478,703,000 fighters), mostly because screw everyone around the net who can't come up with anything more original than army-summoning NPs. Now you can go away and try again.

[aldeayeah]

Warning: never use it in a closed space