Class: Archer
Other Class: Caster
True Name: Samuel Colt
Titles: King of RevolversColts’ Merchant of Death
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Region of Origin: USA
Parameters:
Strength: C
Endurance: C
Agility: C
Mana: B
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: EX
Height: 6’
Weight: 87kg
Gender: Male
Birthday: July 19
Likes: Travel, Shooting, Pyrotechnics
Dislikes: Insufficient profit
Talents: Firearm Design, Advertisement
Armaments: Two Colt guns
Appearance:
Samuel is a fairly tall man, especially for his time. Despite the fact the most recognisable image of the man has him in a suit and with a beard, he manifests clean shaven and dressed much like a stereotypical cowboy, barring the red colouration of his clothes and white Stetson. He usually wears a long red overcoat over the rest of his ensemble, mostly serving to cover the twin holsters that he carries his noble phantasm within. His own skin tone is fairly tanned from his time travelling and his white hair is usually left uncombed and messy.
Skills:Class Skills:Magic Resistance: D
Magic Resistance grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether. At D rank it cancels Single-Action spells. Magic Resistance of the same degree of an amulet that rejects magical energy
Despite the relative youth of Colt as a heroic spirit and relative lack of connection with mystery, he has a surprising level of this skill.The ancient nature of the Merchant of Death wraith has made it so that the accumulated mystery has raised his level of this skill.
Independent Action: A
Independent Action is the ability to remain independent even when rejecting the Magical Energy supply from one's Master; the ability that allows for action even in the absence of the Master.
Colt was extremally independent in life, relying little on others to help him in his pursuit of his goals. He also kept himself unconnected to sides or countries, as he equally supplied both sides of the American Civil War, so he has a high level of this skill.Merchants of Death are an existence unbound to any form of loyalty or favours. They are removed from the sense of morality or duty that controls others to make decisions that would cause the benefits they reap from a situation to be lessened. This transfers into a high level of this skill.
Personal Skills:Ledger of Blood: EX
Honestly, it’s not fully understood why Colt holds this skill. It is understood that this skill is necessary to the complete utilisation of one of his Noble Phantasms’ and the activation of the other.A skill uniquely possessed by those who fall under the classification of a Merchant of Death, it is a representation of all those who have suffered due to their deals. In the case of Colt, it is a record of all those who have been shot with a Colt and died. Despite the wording of the statement, it is not a statement saying it records only those dead due to Colt guns and ammunition, but those dead having been shot by Colt guns and ammunition.
It must be noted that if this skill where to be sealed, both of Colts’ Noble Phantasm would be rendered useless or severely weakened
Marksmanship: B
Marksmanship is a Skill representing all-round shooting techniques. Colt was a fairly good shot in life, being proficient with most of the firearms he had produced.Marksmanship is a Skill representing all-round shooting techniques. Despite being spirits being more closely related to business and greed, they are still an existence that is connected to warfare. This connection grants Colt with a large amount of skill in the wielding of firearms, although not at the level of a certain genius.
Subversive Activities: C(A)
Subversive Activities is the talent to reduce the enemy forces in the preliminary stages before going into battle. An expert of traps. However, the higher the ranking of this Skill, the more one's spiritual status as a hero declines.
Due to Samuels large amount of experience with explosives and pyrotechnics, as well as explosive traps such as land mines. Due to all his traps being of an explosive nature, his level of this skill varies depending on the enemy force and terrain.
The larger the enemy force, the lower it becomes as the enemy is more spread out and so the blast radius of the explosives becomes less useful. Inversely the smaller the terrain, the higher the level as the blast radius becomes more useful.This skill is one of the only remnants of Samuels Saint Graph that has surfaced, alongside his personality and appearance.
The larger the enemy force, the lower it becomes as the enemy is more spread out and so the blast radius of the explosives becomes less useful. Inversely the smaller the terrain, the higher the level as the blast radius becomes more useful.
Noble Phantasm:Colt: God Made Man, Colt Made Them Equal
Anti-Unit: E- ~A++
Max number of targets: 1 person
Range: 1-100
Colt, more commonly referred to as The Colt by Samuel, manifests as a pair of ornate revolver handguns. These guns are capable of changing their shape to any firearm produced by the Colt company up to the point of his summoning. The form of these guns has no effect on the strength of the phantasm, but do change the range. No matter the form, the words ‘God Made Man, Colt Made Them Equal’ are inscribed on the barrel.
Proper utilisation of this phantasm requires access to the skill, ledger of blood. The victims in the ledger are utilised as a sacrifice to be utilised as ammunition for these guns, with a single victim being used to create a shot of E- rank strength, and the more used in a single attack increasing the strength. When summoned in the modern day(2000 onwards) there is enough victims in the ledger of blood for 13 shots of A++ rank strength.
Normal ammunition can be used in place to preserve the amount in the ledger. However, these attacks are always E- rank and are less efficient as more magical energy must be provided to activate the conceptual ability.
While Colt does not have the ability to utilise the individual conceptual abilities of each firearm form as an archer, he does have one concept that he can only access using this noble phantasm. The true strength of this noble phantasm is the concept that is inscribed onto all Colt guns, making man equal. This transfers into the ability for all attacks to bypass the endurance of any human servant, inflicting wounds that, whilst dependent on level of attack, will affect an opposing servant the same way it will a normal human.
However, there are a number of restrictions to this, being that servants who are not ‘human’ are not affected by this, as well as the fact that armour acts normally against these bullets. Furthermore, simply dodging the attack is still a viable tactic.
Due to the fact these guns are a personification of the Colt firearms, but not Colt firearms, enemies killed using this Noble Phantasm do not get added to the ledger. Note this caveat is not in effect if regular ammunition is the ammunition responsible for the death. Also, no matter how powerful the shot, of if a normal bullet is used, all attacks have the odd effect of immediately disappearing after piercing a single target.
Memento Mori: A Contract of Death, Paid in Blood
Anti-Unit: EX
Max number of targets: 1 person
Range: 1-100
Memento Mori is, much like the wicker man, not a noble phantasm unique to one heroic spirit, but is belonging to a class of heroic spirits. In this case, it is those who count as Merchants of Death. Unlike said phantasm of the Druids, it’s manifestations look is not uniform, but its requirements are. To actualise this phantasm, the skill ledger of blood will be irreversible sealed. This makes this noble phantasm only usable once per summoning.
In the case of Colt, Memento Mori manifests as a single bullet that, no matter what, if it pierces something and that target knows death, will die. Note, it is still possible to dodge this attack, or for it to miss.
Details:
Lore:Samuel was born to Christopher and Sarah Colt in 1814 and had six siblings, three sisters and three brothers. One of said sisters would later die due to tuberculosis and two of his siblings would tragically take their own lives.
He was introduced to the book that contained wait would become his lifelong motivator at age 11 by the farmer who he was indentured too. The Compendium of Knowledge became his own bible to an extent. While his main motivator would be the article about Robert Fulton and gunpowder, the book as a whole inspired Colt to devise something to perform a feat described as impossible. Upon later hearing some soldiers talking about how a gun firing 5 or 6 bullets without reloading would be impossible, Colt decided he would create the, ‘impossible gun’.
At 15, while working at his fathers’ textile plant, Samuels’ love for invention and pyrotechnics revealed itself as he built a galvanic cell, which he attempted to blow up a raft with as a fourth of July event. Despite the impressive explosion created, he did not succeed in destroying the raft. Once he was sent to boarding school, he continued to practice with pyrotechnics and using them to amuse his classmates.
After accidently starting a fire that ended his schooling, he was sent to sea to learn the trade. During his time on the ship he came across inspiration for his later revolver designs, and managed to convince his father to finance two guns. Whilst the pistol that was produced exploded after a single shot, the rifle performed well. However, the result of the tests did not inspire enough confidence in Christopher Colt to finance more guns.
Requiring money to finance his firearms production, Samuel began to hone his advertising skills while travelling and providing demonstrations of nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas. His advertising became far more elaborate and eccentric when he noticed interest began to decline, realising people cared less about the information and more about the show. He was so successful; he both convinced many far and wide he was a Dr. Coult and that his product could cure anything.
Once he had enough money, he left his time as a ‘medicine man’ and became what he truly wanted, an inventor and designer of firearms. Despite early problems, he finally managed to start up his first company. However, after that fell bankrupt, he spent time on other fields of development, such as waterproof wiring he used to assist the progress of the telegraph, and in a return to his pyrotechnic ventures with aquatic mines for the US military.
Eventually, Samuel returned to firearms development and started up Colt’s Patent Manufactory Company, which still survives today as Colt’s Manufacturing Company. His first sale with the new company was with the US military, specifically Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers, producing the Colt Walker.
This lead to a successful era for Colt, with many more patents being acquired, factories built, contracts made and even becoming a lieutenant colonel so as to speak with foreign officials. Whilst he created many slogans and inscriptions, such as "Compliments of Col. Colt" or "From the Inventor", his most successful one would become synonymous with his company.
“God made man; Colt made them equal.”
Samuel Colt died on January 10, 1862, leaving his estate to his wife and son, his professional responsibilities given to his brother in law. The only other person mentioned in his will was his brother’s son, who in truth was his own illegitimate child from his time with his brothers’ wife before they were married.The true nature of Archer is as a Merchant of Death, a spirit who can be called comparable in nature to the famous red rider of the Abrahamic apocalypse and to the fundamental sin of Christianity who desires all. While the concept of Merchants of Death is as old as war itself, it has become far more ubiquitous and widely applied with the rise of corporate entities geared to warfare.
This Merchant of Death has, much like a certain other heroic spirit and wraith, combined with Samuel Colt to allow him to be summoned into the Archer class and becoming Colts’ Merchant of Death. While the personality of the servant is definitively that of Colt, the Saint Graph is purely that of the Merchant of Death, affected somewhat by Colts’ own Saint Graph.
As Colts’ Merchant of Death, it can be described better as the personification of the Colt company, as well as its dealing and the effects of its deals.
Personality:Samuel Colt is an extremely over the top man, often making large shows of skill and absurd technique out of fights that he is involved in. This is more so due to him utilising his devil-may-care tendencies as a psychological warfare tactic and not an actual disregard for such a serious situation, as demonstrated when these tendencies disappear in fights that Colt considers to important or dangerous, such as those where an A++ use of the Colt, or outright use of Memento Mori is considered.
In a non-combat setting, Samuel well act friendly with everyone, even acting overly close with others at times. This relates explicitly with how he treats his master, as he will usually try to become friends with them, although he will recognise their authority on matters concerning combat, much like how a soldier treats a higher ranked commander. However, Samuel is not beyond insubordination, using his Independent Action liberally if he thinks his master is not taking the right approach.
It is quite clear that some of the information that is given by the grail has caused some of his opinions to change. For example, if asked the question of whom he would of sold firearms too if he could only sell to one side in the civil war, his response would be, “Back then? The confederates, no questions asked. Now...”
So, there is my first sheet in a while, Archer Samuel Colt. Honestly, I'll admit this idea came after binging the Kripke Era of Supernatural and seeing The Colt again. That started the inspiration for some of this sheet, and then a later idea of what a Merchant of Death Heroic spirit would be like formed the rest.