Class: Rider
Other Classes: Avenger
True Name: Atahualpa
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Place of Origin: South America (16th century)
Parameters:
STR: C
END: C
AGI: C
MGI: B
LCK: D
NP: A
Height: 170cm
Weight: 140lbs
Likes: Incan empire, wealth, Blood Sacrifices
Dislikes: Conquistadors
Talent: Summoning llaamas
Natural Enemy: Christopher Columbus
Attribute: Man
Traits: Male, Weak to Enuma Elish, Humanoid
Armament: A golden spear
Catalyst: An incan relic stolen by Pizarro
Class Skills:
Riding B: As the Incan Emperor, he has a fairly high rank and is capable of riding many steeds. This is also how he can ride Paititi.
Magic Resistance B: In life he was surrounded by magic and in an area with more residual magic, as well as being a descendant of a god, granting him this rank despite him never actually seeing any magic from the age of Gods.
Personal Skills:
Imperial Privilege A-: As the last emperor of the Incas, he gains a fairly high rank in it. However, it is decreased by his rule causing the fall of the entire empire.
Divinity B: He was a descendant of the sun god and was worshipped in his own right. This gives him a high rank of Divinity.
Golden Rule A: He had immensely vast wealth in life, and so now will never have money ever be an issue.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Inkarri
And I Shall Be Reborn
Type: Support
Rank: C
Range: 100 M
Max Targets: self
This noble phantasm allows him to have his body piece back together itself slowly. In addition, if he dies, he can resurrect once and gain a rank-up to Strength and Endurance. This is the sublimation of the legend of Inkarri.
Paititi
The Lost City Of Gold
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: A
Range: 200 meters
Max targets: 200
This noble phantasm is the sublimation of the lost city of Paititi. When it is invoked, a titanic golden llama forms in front of him. This llama has very high endurance and agility. As it runs, it leaves behind a trail of molten gold which gravitate towards other Servants, burning their spiritual core.
Lore: Atahualpa was the last Incan Emperor. He defeated his cousin Huascar after he declared war on him for fear Atahualpa was going to rebel. He wasn't until Huascar attacked. Pizarro captured him and used him to capture the empire. They then killed him.
Personality:
Atahualpa is a warrior. He is quite ruthless to anyone who he believes to be an enemy, but people who he doesn't are kindly welcomed. His wish for the Grail, as shown in Singularity 1: Inca Empire, The Red Sun Rises, is to prevent the fall of the empire.
Relationships:
Christopher Columbus: "You! How dare you? I challenge you to a trial by combat. If you lose, I will sacrifice you to Inti."
Marie Antoinette/Cleopatra: "I sympathise with you. You did everything for your people and they loved you, but you fell to challengers who were far worse then you could have ever been."
Nitocris: "Revenge? I was impressed when I heard of your revenge plan. Would you mind me borrowing the idea?"
Creator Notes:
Last edited by jishara; April 4th, 2022 at 08:44 PM.
haha imagine the dude who has to compile all of this
haha cant be me, oh wait...
time to catch up, keep it coming newcomers.
Archer is well done and I approve of Rider. A composer with Andersen-vibes by utilizing his creations is a simple but fun idea. Atahualpa is fine
Hey reploid! I noticed that there were some inspirations taken from my pre-rachmaninoff era but I approve! It looks good and is different enough from other creators' styles.
I always loved this story and it is nice to see a servant made out of it. It may be out of season but fits with the current times. Good work and neat to see more Germans here. Cant leave all the glory to the Brazilian section here!
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Another newcomer enters the fray. Welcome. The Christmas Truce duo is very wholesome, and you really managed to convey that story well through this sheet. Great work for your first sheet, and looking forward to more.
Class: Ruler
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: Isabel I of Castile
Alignment: Lawful Good
Place of Origin: Spain (15th Century)
Parameters:
STR: D
END: C
AGI: C
MGI: D
LCK: C
NP: B
Height: 172cm
Weight: 151lb
Likes: Policemen, Lawful people
Dislikes: Sinners
Talent: Bringing freedom
Natural Enemy: Christopher Columbus
Attribute: Man
Traits: Female, Humanoid, weak to enuma elish
Armament: La Santa Hernadad
Catalyst: One of the paintings of her
Class Skills:
True Name Discernment C: Provided by her class, she has a fairly high chance of discerning the true name of servants she sees.
God's Command A: She gains this due to her assorted decrees. Allows her to use up to three command seals on each other Servant.
Personal Skills:
Idealist Of The Stars A: The skill granted to people who assist the Pioneers of the Stars. In her case, this is due to her sending Columbus to discover the new world. This allows her to grant the equivalent of Pioneer of the Stars D to anyone who she chooses too.
Sanctity A: The sublimation of her extreme faith and christianity, as well as her status as a Servant Of God. This grants her protection of the mind and body. However, unlike normal cases of this which would be sublimated into Protection of the Faith, due to her personality and other decrees, she instead gets this, which does not warp her personality.
The Just A: The sublimation of her severe war on crime. This allows her to more easily detect the crimes of someone. Note that this is different from sins.
Noble Phantasm(s):
La Santa Hernadad
The Crown's Right Arm
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: C
Range: 1 meter
Max Targets: 1
This noble phantasm is the sublimation of the police force she started, La Santa Hernadad. It has become sublimed into her right arm, which's strength is rank B. Against Evil enemies, her strength acts as if it is Rank A. In addition, strikes made with the arm sap a small amount of mana from their targets.
Call of Freedom
And Thee Who Are Controlled Shall Be Set Free
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: B
Range: 100 meters
Max Targets: 1000 targets
This noble phantasm is the sublimation of her very strong policy against slavery, as well as her sending many people to find the New World. When it is invoked, a large white orb of mana flies forward. It transmits information back to Isabel about what it sees, but its most powerful property is the breaking of bonds. The most applicable in a grail war is the Master-Servant bond.
Lore: Queen Isabella I of Castile was Queen of Spain. She is most known for financing Columbus's voyage to the new world, though she is also known for the Spanish Inquisition happening under her. She is known as a Catholic Monarch by the church.
Personality:
A truly kind woman, but extremely severe on crime and sinners. She abhors her bad decisions in life, such as sending Christopher Columbus to find the New World. She also abhors her husband for his bad actions in life. Her wish for the grail would be to revoke what she sees as her husband's worst action, the Alhambra Decree.
Relationships:
Christopher Columbus: "You! How dare you! How dare you enter my realm? Out. Now!"
Jeanne/Georgios/Martha: "A saint? Oh my. A pleasure to meet you."
Criminal servants: "Master, did you know you have a few criminals here? Keep them under control."
Marie: "True, true, a queen is for her people."
Creator Notes: updated!
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Class: Archer True Name: Nasshut Alignment: True Neutral Source: Finnish myth, The Kalevala Attribute: Sky Natural Enemy: Ahti Armament: Crossbow bolts / Poisoned arrows / Snakes Catalyst: A shepherd's crook, river water, and a swan's feathers
ParametresSTR: C
END: C
AGI: B
MGI: B
LCK: D++
NP: C
Class SkillsMagic Resistance | C
Cancels most spells with a chant below two verses, but can't defend against greater magecraft and Greater Rituals.
Nasshut lived shortly before the end of the Finnish Age of the Gods, marked by the destruction of the Sampo, but was not himself experienced in succesfully fighting off rune-singers, and he could've been easily killed by Ahti's runo, had he not been spared.
Independent Action | B
It's possible for Archer to stay in the world for two days at most without a Master. This threshold can be achieved only by avoiding battle and Noble Phantasm usage while at the same time maximally conserving mana.
Archer was shunned by some before Ahti came along, but, more importantly, the deeds that created his legend were accomplished by him on his lonesome after the demise of the rest of his village, that had left him as the sole survivor. His loneliness after those deaths was largely not the result of his own actions, and that would normally manifest as a lower Rank. However, aspects of his legend also represented by his Unwavering Patience Skill have raised his Rank in Independent Action as well.
Personal SkillsMana Burst (Necrotic/Water) | B
Archer is able to convert Magical Energy into the black waters of Tuonela, the nameless underworld river in the realm of the dead, opposite to life, and use them to enhance the projectiles from his Noble Phantasm or any other weapons he may come to wield.
Swan of Tuonela | A--
As an entity that has become joined with the Swan of Tuonela, Archer has an increased resistance to water and necrotic damage, as well as a massively increased resistance to instant death effects. His attribute is also changed from Earth to Sky. He is, however, wholly unable to sing the death-runes of the Swan, unlike other Heroic Spirits who also possess this Skill but have higher compatibility with that aspect of the Swan.
Nasshut's physical features have been overwritten by people's perception of what a swan's human form may look like. In fact, since that perception shifts, his appearance may vary with each summoning depending on the outlooks of those involved in the Holy Grail War / Singularity / Lostbelt etc.. He gets surly like it when people discuss his looks, though he gets surly when people discuss him at all, too, so there's no real noticeable difference there. His original aged and gnarled body would normally translate in a set of physical weaknesses that might've carried over to him even as a Heroic Spirit due to them being aspects of his legend, but this Skill makes it so that his new physical features typically overwrite those weaknesses entirely and therefore make it easier for him to move and fight. He begrudgingly appreciates them in that extent, but doesn't care for them otherwise.
His personality, on the other hand?... On the surface, it's been barely affected. He's still ill-tempered as ever, and is the only one who can hear the thoughts of the Swan, which he describes as both 'uncaring' and 'unbearably carefree'. Yet the impact of this influence has been huge. The Swan's nearly complete disregard of the hero that came to kill it has made it so that Nasshut's desire for revenge against Ahti won't be twisted into an all-consuming obsession when recorded into his Saint Graph, with all the implications on his personality that follow.
It's noteworthy that, as long as Nasshut possesses this Skill, it can't coexist with the Oblivion Correction Skill, nor with the Avenger Skill, nor with Avenger Class; the Mad Enhancement Skill and the Berserker Class as well are also incompatible with Nasshut as long as he has this Skill.
Unwavering Patience | B
This Skil could've become Oblivion Correction, but didn't. Representing not the desire for vengeance against Ahti itself, but the long wait for the hero on the shore of Tuonela, spent watchfully monitoring every single sound and smell, through countless days and nights that repeated over and over, uneventfully unchanging. His sight was already long gone by then, but the state of extreme focus he managed to achieve back then meant that his blindness was no hindrance to his task. Nasshut knew Ahti would pass through there. But that knowledge was based only on his gut feeling that the path of one known as a hero would take Ahti through such a place. It had no actual basis beyond that. Yet Nasshut stubbornly stuck to it nonetheless.
Noble Phantasm(s)
Käärmemäinen
The Swan Remains Out Of Reach
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: C
Range: 3~40
Targets: 1 foe (True Name Release originates from 1 foe but may catch more as a collateral)
The weapon wielded by Archer as a Noble Phantasm, which can be manifested as if out of thin air at a moment's notice. Much like in the legend, each of the projectiles it fires can be described at once as a crossbow bolt, a poisoned arrow, and one of the snakes that swam in hosts in the river of Tuonela. The venom is potent. The snake gnaws and burrows its way through the flesh of its targets. By invoking the weapon's True Name, a massive whirlpool, much like the one in which Archer once pushed Ahti, opens at the feet of a target that's been just 'bitten' by the weapon's projectiles. The whirlpool stays constant in width, but is somehow constantly expanding downwards in depth, with no regard for the actual maximum amount of physical space it should logically be able to occupy. It's filled with the black waters of the river of Tuonela, as well as the snakes that inhabit it, that have the same properties as the ones fired by the weapon as projectiles. A considerable amount of strength or outside help would be necessarily to escape it.
LoreNasshut was always an ill-tempered man.
Though he lived as a shepherd, he never had a talent for growing and harvesting, nor for raising and handling cattle, to the point that he ruined all prior efforts of any who entrusted those masions to him. He was argumentative and disrespectful and rebellious towards anyone he knew throughout his entire life. In time, being associated with him in any way became a mark of shame in the eyes of many, one that his relatives couldn't escape. So legendarily awful was his temper that tales of it already reached even the heroes of the Kalevala down south when he was still an ordinary shepherd with no feats of any sort to his name.
Still, he got by. He lived a long life, he gradually grew old and gnarled as the years passed by, and persisted, as an integral part of the community, if not an outwardly beloved one. He was much happier with being acknowledged by those around him than his constant complaining and arguing and quarreling might've made one think.
All that ended on the occasion of one of Ahti's visits to Pohjola.
Ahti, one of the heroes of the Kalevala, barged in on a joyful, if not grand, feast, in which nearly the whole settlement was involved. He claimed he'd come because Kylikki, his wife and daughter of Louhi, hostess of Pohjola, had snuck out and returned there to take part in an earlier feast, breaking a promise between them. Still, even though Kylikki had already long come back to Ahti, things quickly got out of hand. Rather, they were already out of hand by the time he'd reached Pohjola, as he'd come donned in full war gear. And he sang them all to oblivion. Everyone who took part in the feast, no matter how old or how young, whether wizard or warrior or neither, they were all forever banished by Ahti's songs. But not Nasshut.
Amidst his overwhelming grief that made it apparent how much he'd truly loved those people beneath it all, he asked why he'd been spared. Ahti reminded him of every aspect of his physical weakness and frailty, then proceeded to list each and every one of what he perceived as Nasshut's failiures throughout all of the shepherd's long life, and gave all that as the justification as to why he'd been spared.
Nasshut had always been an ill-tempered man. But in that moment, he was lit with rage uncomparable in extent to any anger he'd felt in his whole life before. And he didn't argue. He didn't complain. Though he internally cursed Ahti, he didn't spit any words of hatred at the hero of the Kalevala. Wordlessly, he got up, and limped away. And he continued to limp all the way to the shore of Tuonela, to the nameless river of the land of the dead. And there, he waited. And waited. And waited. Restlessly. Constantly straining to stay aware of everything in his surroundings. For he knew the path of a hero of the Kalevala would take him to that place eventually.
And come Ahti did, as Louhi sent him to kill the Swan of Tuonela as one of many trials that he'd have to go through before she'd agree to give her blessing to his marriage with her daughter. And when Ahti did come, Nasshut's visage lit up, and he expressed all the gratitude he could, and lavished him with praise, and lied excellently over and over, and offered to take him to the swan.
The hero, confident in his armaments and enchantments and worthiness of love, accepted him as a guide without a second thought to what Ahti's true intentions may be. And so, when the crossbow dart or poisoned arrow or serpent bit him as Nasshut wished, he was taken completely by surprise. And Nasshut pushed him overboard, into a deep, deep whirlpool filled with snakes, and then Tuoni's son below chopped Ahti to bits and dispersed his body parts in the infested waters, letting them be scrambled by the currents and carried away each separately.
Nasshut felt joy, and serenity for a moment. But it didn't last. He knew that this vengeance could never bring the dead back. Any relief he felt was short-lived, and he kept going on bitterly on a much deeper and visceral level than he ever had before Ahti'd entered his life.
Then Ahti came back.
His scattered body parts had been recovered by his mother with the help of a bee, and the hero had achieved the miracle of resurrection. Something that could never belong to those he'd killed on that day. They were not heroes, and Nasshut was not a hero, and that made all the difference.
He never even seeked out Ahti to meet a third time.
DescriptionLikes: "Can't you tell I'm a people person!? I just thrive on being surrounded by complete and utter idiots. Damn, you're thick in the head, you are."
Dislikes: "I'll save my breath and spare you the list since we don't have enough free days for it, but that just moved you closer to the top."
Wish for the Grail: "...I want them back. And I don't care what you think about that."
As ill-tempered as ever. Bitter and argumentative, unbelievably stubborn, with a tendency to quarrel. Nonetheless, if his heart's in it, he's able to achieve nearly unrivaled and unshakeable focus for periods of time that can be extremely long. He's also an excellent liar, which may come as a surprise to those only familiar with the surface of his behaviour. That said, he won't bother hiding any dislike of his Master in most occasions. Ultimately, he likes being acknowledged and supported, but is awful at communicating and reciprocating something like this, and doesn't outwardly respond well to that sort of behaviour in most cases.
To him, heroes are those who accomplish legendary feats and move the world in ways that the common people can never influence. He resents this, but thinks of it as the natural order of things that existed during his lifetime, an order that could not be changed by him or any of the people to whom he was close, and could never truly bring himself to act against it. In that sense, he dislikes having become a Heroic Spirit, something that, in his eyes, he never could've been. At the same time, he is willing to tolerate this due to the opportunity that getting the wish provides. Now that he's one of those damn heroes somehow, maybe he'll get something good to stick for a change.
NotesI got this idea sometime in late December but I started actually working on it on the 20th of March, did most of the work on that day and on the 21st, then finished the rest in smaller increments up to today.
Not fully satisfied with how I wrote the Description section and with the general lack of quotes - including a total lack of a Relationships section thus far (couldn't find enough good candidates to justify one for now) - so among the various aspect those are the most likely to change eventually.
Strictly speaking, not all those that participated to the feast other than Nasshut were killed, just many of them, with the rest being magically banished without possibility of ever returning, and at least some specifically condemned to eternal torment.
Based on some cursory research, some other characters that in some of their versions could possibly have the Swan of Tuonela Skill could the actual ferrywoman of the river of Tuonela (a maid of Tuoni), the divinities Tuoni and Tuonetar that reside there and oversee the dead, the composer Jean Sibelius, and almost certainly more.
Many thanks to Bugs and their great Louhi Secret Santa sheet for further inspiration! Now I'll go and try my best to catch up on the many pages of sheets that have been recently posted lol
"Servant Archer, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. It appears even beyond death I've been called on to serve my country. Now then, how many heads will I need to shoot?"
You motherfucker, you absolute motherfucker. She's been in my WIP sheets for ages but didn't post or finish, since as the person who is the Russian-ban instigator, I'm not sure that writing up a loyalist Soviet Union soldier at a time like this is a good idea. You do you though.
Anyway, she's very different to my version who is a lot more...compact and more generic skills. Still an Archer but mine is more based around her later PTSD and depression mixing with her nature as the Lady Death who basically waited for days and days until the person made a mistake out of fear.
I'm actually surprised that multiple people had trouble coming up with an NP for her though. I got an idea relatively quick based on that.
Maybe in a few years when all this is blown over and it isn't uncomfortably tactless, I'll drop her in.
Hi Anju, what do you think of Isabel/Atahualpa... do you think my writing style has improved a little?
Well, you've been a bit more better in adding character to your sheets but your skill descriptions need some work. At the moment, a fair few of them don't actually seem to do anything like Idealist of the Stars or Atahualpa's IP. Kudos for actually trying to improve though.
Well, you've been a bit more better in adding character to your sheets but your skill descriptions need some work. At the moment, a fair few of them don't actually seem to do anything like Idealist of the Stars or Atahualpa's IP. Kudos for actually trying to improve though.
Thank you for the comments. I am fixing those right now.
Class: Assassin
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: La Malinche
Alignment: True Neutral
Place of Origin: Mexico (16th century)
Parameters:
STR: C
END: C
AGI: B
MGI: D
LCK: C
NP: C
Height: 170cm
Weight: 60kg
Likes: Her Master, people who accept change
Dislikes: People who resist change
Talent: Convincing people she's helping them
Natural Enemy: Geronimo
Attribute: Man
Traits: Weak to Enuma Elish, Humanoid, Female
Armament: An Alatl, or Spear-Thrower
Catalyst: An ancient and worn refined Aztec robe.
Class Skills:
Presence Concealment E: She is not very good at disguising herself or hiding. At this rank, she is still completely noticeable.
Personal Skills:
Espionage A: The capability to convince anyone that you are an innocuous person. Malinche has this at a high rank due to her working with Cortez.
Polylinguistic B: A skill evolved from her status as a translator. She is capable of speaking all human languages fairly fluently. If she attempts to, she may even be able to speak nonhuman languages such as Divine Words. If she manages to do that, that grants her a temporary High-Speed Divine Words at rank D, allowing her to pretend to be an Age Of The Gods magus for a while.
Military Tactics B: Evolved from the attacks that her and Cortez lead. She is capable of bringing out the power of those fighting under her.
Sainthood (False) C: She is syncretized with Our Lady Of Guadalupe. This allows her to gain Automatic HP Recovery.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Dona Maria
And Never The Two Shall Falter
Type: Support
Rank: C
Range: Self and Master
Max Targets: 2
This noble phantasm is the sublimation of her title Dona Maria and her connection with Cortez. Whenever she is summoned, this is immediately activated, binding her and her master with a powerful ability. If either member gets hit by an effect, part of it dissipates through this. In addition, both of them are able to sense when the other is in trouble.
Malinche
Betrayer
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: C
Range: 200 meters
Max Targets: 1
This noble phantasm is the sublimation of her flip-side. The view of her betrayal of Mexico appears in this form. A technique used through Dona Maria, when it is invoked she laces her words with a sweetness, applying a weak mental interference attack persuading whomever she speaks to to follow her master's will. Then, a set of prismatic blades spring out of the person.
Lore: La Malinche was an Aztec woman sold into slavery and gifted to Hernan Cortez. When Cortez realised she could speak both Mayan, which his translator spoke, and Aztec, which the empire he wished to defeat spoke, he freed her and took her on as a translator. She helped Cortez gain his alliances and told him of plots against him. They had a child, Martin. She is now seen in two lights, as the kind mother, Dona Maria, and as the traitor, Malinche.
Personality: A genuinely kind person to her allies. To her enemies, she is seemingly kind but setting up to betray them with Malinche. Her wish for the grail would be to have a happy family.
Relationships:
Columbus: "Oh, you act like Cortez, but you aren't him. You pretend to be a worthy person, but you simply aren't. But anyway, how would you like to make~ a~ deal~?" (Ritsuka had to pull Malinche away before she used her noble phantasm on him)
Quetzalcoatl: "Oh you may seem to be a kind goddess, but remember those sacrifices you used to do? Master, I wouldn't trust her if I were you."
Geronimo: "I don't get you, I simply don't get you. You understand that your culture is obsolete, you don't actively fight against it, but you don't accept it?"
Creator Notes: Update!
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Out of the corner of your eye you see a shadow, roughly the height and shape of a man. It blends into the surrounding darkness as soon as you notice it.
You call out to the shadow, ask if anybody is there. You get no response, but you hear something. The sound of... footprints? Somebody walking away, from the direction of the shadow.
You follow. Despite the pit in your gut, you follow.
You round the corner to track down the source of the noise, but it's a dead end. Literally, the hall just ends, with only a dozen or so feet between you and the far wall. There are no doors, no windows, nothing that the source of the footsteps could have escaped through.
A slight current of air brushes against your neck, almost feeling like an exhale. You whip around as fast as your body can manage, but still the intruder eludes you. For a brief instant, however, there's something. You could barely see it through the dark, but it was... a face. A human face. You couldn't tell how old it was or what gender it was, but the fact that it was unmistakably human stood strong in your mind.
You could swear you heard somebody say your name.
You fumble for your phone and quickly turn on the flashlight, pointing it in the direction of the face. You can see now. You can see furniture, paintings hanging on the wall, unlit lighting fixtures. But no person. No face. Not even something you could have seen and thought was a face.
Faker does not exist. That is to say, no Servant has been summoned. Supposedly. Others will disagree with that assessment, but the fact of the matter is that no concrete evidence of a Servant's presence can be found. All of the supposed actions taken by Faker-- or rather by 'Assassin' or by 'the unknown Servant' as people call it-- can be explained as products of circumstance, complete coincidences without intelligence behind them. This is, unfortunately, simply fuel to the fire that is Faker's supposed existence. After all, what are the odds of so many coincidences happening all at once, and all furthering the façade of a Servant's existence?
When asked what Faker supposedly looks like, people will give varying answers, with the only consistent thing being that they appear inconsistently. Faker's 'voice' is misheard ambience and incidental noises. Faker's actions are nothing but your mind playing tricks on you.
Faker is nothing. Faker is not a Servant, Faker is a lie you told yourself.
Skills
Class Skills Camouflage - Rank A
At A Rank, it is possible to fool an opponent into believing one is another Class or has different parameters, and even that one has a different appearance or location than in reality. Due to a tendency to subconsciously sort individuals into categories, especially preestablished ones like the Servant classification system, most people will intuitively interpret Faker as an Assassin class Servant, despite no actual evidence supporting this beyond "we can't see them, so they must have Presence Concealment", or something similar. The truth is, there's nothing to see because it isn't there.
Independent Action - Rank EX
The incredible rank is simply due to Faker's lack of mana expenditure. Faker can 'survive' until those who would know about it let it 'die', with or without its Master's continued support. Without a Master, however, this process of forgetting Faker's supposed existence seems to happen naturally over time.
Personal Skills Pareidolia - Rank A
The quality of being perceived where one does not exist. Shadows become silhouettes, flashes of movement start to appear in the corners of eyes, and paranoia begins to set in. At Rank A, it is nearly impossible to not fall victim to this at least initially, thus creating the idea that Faker really exists in the minds of most people. After all, they can't just be seeing things, can they? Some may even fool themselves into detecting physical, non-visual qualities that point to Faker's existence, such as sounds and scents, or even mana. These are simply delusions, however. Nothing is there.
Eventually one might even start to think they're interacting with Faker in real time. This is likely simple hallucination, or perhaps a complex optical-audible-physical illusion brought on by a combination of environmental conditions and improbably timed synchrony. There is after all no Faker to interact with.
The extent of the Skill Pareidolia is such that the one who believes they've summoned Faker, Faker's 'Master', will even begin to perceive changes to their own self that do not exist, such as the presence of command seals.
Apophenia - Rank A
The tendency of others to attribute deeper meaning to random occurrences and unconnected events. At Rank A, the Luck stat of others is significantly altered as they continue to believe in Faker's existence, leading to them experiencing increasingly improbable coincidences that further cultivate the fictional existence of a Servant. This can work in both directions, tending towards negative events for those who would be Faker's 'enemies', and positive for the one who is believed to be Faker's 'Master'.
Just remember, it's all in your head.
Noble Phantasm
Die Sinnesdelierien
The Rorschach Servant that is Assuredly There
Type: Anti-Perception Range: — Rank: ?
Faker doesn't exist. Faker is not a Servant. Nothing was summoned, and all of its actions and appearances are easily explained away. However, inexplicably, the delusion that is 'Faker' persists regardless of that truth, as if the act of "summoning a Servant" is so deeply conflated with the result of "a Servant being summoned" that certain individuals aren't able to comprehend anything less. Thus, their mind fills in the blanks, inserting a Servant where there is none. It could be said, if one where to characterize the nonsummoned nonexistence as a Servant and give it a Servant's profile for some reason, that said nothing's 'Noble Phantasm' would be the very existence of that nothing in the first place. A self-correcting empty that imposes the interpretation of 'Servant' onto various unrelated stimuli, through the eyes of humans. The Master's delusion of a Servant is so strong that it convinces others, and the misconception becomes self-fulfilling through a combination of confirmation bias and paranoia.
This paranoid conception of a phantom Servant will invariably lead to the downfall of all individuals incapable of reasoning out the truth of Faker's nonpersonage. They will be gripped by the constant sense that Faker is nearby, or just out of view, and be driven mad by this. They will self-destruct, unable to cope with an opponent that they know is there but they cannot do anything to affect.
Inexplicably, those at the apex of the madness created by Faker have a tendency to vanish once they're out of sight, never seen again. Assuredly another coincidence, but certainly a troubling one...
One can, of course, come to the conclusion through careful observation and logical deduction that Faker is nothing more than a series of coincidences and misidentifications that form the false presence of a Servant. This conclusion of reality acts as a sort of inoculation against Faker, allowing one to function normally and not be at all fooled by the non-Servant. Simply being told that Faker isn't real is scarcely enough, however-- after all, people still believe in things like ghosts, don't they? People like to believe in things without evidence, even to the point of inventing evidence. Some of them are lost causes, in that way.
Surely, that is the explanation. Faker does not exist, so that's the only way to make sense of its continued existence.
Pareidolia is the human mind's tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something it can recognize. The supposed face on Mars, the shape of a rabbit on the moon, even constellations are famous examples of this phenomenon, but it isn't always so grand. Seeing objects in clouds, hearing messages in static, or even perceiving a familiar face imprinted into an ancient shroud, these are also pareidolia. We aren't sure why it happens, but some say it's the mind's attempt to cope with unfamiliarity or nonuniformity, or even a way to stay ever vigilant for danger. It's theorized to be the reason people claim to have seen ghosts, or to have had religious experiences.
As stated, Pareidolia as a Servant does not exist. That's why it is in the Faker class: its very nature is a misconception, the illusion of something where there is nothing. There is no secret to it, no trick, no hidden twist where it's revealed to actually be something else-- Pareidolia is a shared delusion amongst humans who expect there to be a Servant where none exists, their minds' attempt at coping with a vacuum. An empty space in the shape of a Servant, a misunderstanding perpetuated by happenstance and a flaw in the human brain.
Some would say that's even better than a real servant, though. The idea that you do have some invisible, untouchable entity that can be anywhere at any time, one that is a complete wildcard with unknown abilities and strengths. The idea of such a foe would drive most people to terror, because the unknown is the most primal fear of all at the end of the day. And in that terror lies the moment to strike. Or, let nature take its course and allow them to bring about their own downfall from their unstable perception of reality.
Just be careful not to fall for it yourself. Pareidolia can be a very convincing delusion, after all. You may hear things, see things, feel like you're being watched. Things may not be where you remember leaving them, you may start noticing shapes just around the corner. It's all just your mind playing tricks on you though.
After all, Nothing is there, and Nothing is going to get you.
But only if you let it.
Author Notes
Wrote this in like 30 minutes so it probably sucks but whatcha gonna do. Part two in a trilogy (?) of weird Servant ideas that I've retroactively decided Jerusalem Syndrome is the first installment of.
kiwi I wish you'd post another weird Servant like Jerusalem Syndrome because it'd be so interesting. I'd love your writing. I'd also talk about how it's the best take on the class because it is so weird.
Too bad you didn't write anything.
also what the heck this is my 100th post!!! weird!!!!
anyway!
Eukleides, or Euclid, was a Greek mathematician whose foundational work Elements has served for over two thousand years as the fundamental work in the field of mathematics. It stands alongside the Bible as one of the most widespread and published books in human history. It is without a doubt the most important textbook ever written, and served as the basis upon which nearly all fields of modern logic, mathematics, and science have been built. Yet, despite being the author of what is virtually the most influential piece of academic literature ever, very little is know about the man himself. We aren't sure when he was born, when he died, how he died, or even necessarily where he lived or what he was like.
So peculiar is this lack of knowledge regarding his life that some have even proposed that 'Euclid' was actually the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, publishing their compiled work under a constructed identity for one reason or another. This theory, however, is considered highly unlikely. There was only one man, a single mathematician who imposed rules on the world via his knowledge, and that man's name was Euclid, accept no subsitutes.
After all, the Servant before you is assuredly Euclid, no matter how you look at him.
Despite his relative personal obscurity (especially compared to others in the field like Pythagoras or Archimedes), Euclid is assuredly one of the all time greats. Thus, his immortalization on the Throne of Heroes is nothing unusual, and his summoning as a Servant is likewise par for the course. That is except for his Class, which is the uncommon, somewhat atypical Alter Ego Class. The reason for this is simplly that this is not just Euclid. Or rather, it is just Euclid, but "Euclid" is not who or what we think he is.
The man known as Euclid is an artificial being that arrived in Alexandria in the 4th century BC, created by and containing a fragment of the
blind egomaniac
divine creator
of this World. The lack of information on his life is entirely purposeful on his part, a strategy of appearing from seemingly nowhere and then disappearing as strangely, executed as a means to cultivate Mystery.
He is an existence not dissimilar to the Anti-Cells produced by the Harvest Star (the creator of Euclid denies getting any inspiration for the idea from them), a construction of logic and information in the shape of a human. He serves much the opposite function of the Velber's Anti-Cells, to reinforce and maintain the status quo of the Human Order and prevent the spread of 'chaotic elements' in the World. For you see, mankind is foolish and unguided, unnecessarily striving into danger and bringing upon themselves threats outside their control and ability to handle. They should have stayed in the Garden, not strayed from the creator's divine Darkness. But, they are beings of light trapped in bodies of clay, so it isn't their fault they fell prey to temptation-- no, it's simply that they don't know any better.
Thus, the creator has to guide them. And it has done so, in various forms, with Euclid being just one of the seven Archons seen throughout history.
By creating a material human body from the blueprint of the ○○○○ ○○○○○○, a vessel was created into which the creator could place a fragment of its self. This fragment was Astaphaios, and would guide the humans in the ways of logic, of taming the world which had grown wild and wrong. Though Astaphaios took several guises over his life, Euclid is the most known and most accomplished. He took the name Eukleides due to its meaning, glorious or renowned.
Thus, Euclid is how he manifests when appearing as a Servant.
He is a cold and calculating individual with no qualms about doing whatever he deems necessary. He works with humans out of a mutual benefit, not out of any love for the species. Despite being part of his creator, he is very much his own individual. Currently, he is unsettled by the intrusion of Foreign gods in the World, both in the form of Servants with extradimensional patronage and in the more direct approach some aliens have chosen to take. This will not stand. The World, a lump of clay and darkness molded around the Root by the creator, is not the plaything for some deities that had no part in its creation. He will impose the will of law on them, and all others who follows the ways of chaos, by any means necessary. That may or may not include mages, but who's to say?
He describes such foes as "dreadfully non-Euclidean".
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Independent Manifestation - Rank C+
A skill normally restricted to those of the Beast Class, signifying a confirmed existence without the need of being summoned by a Master. Euclid's possession of this skill goes unexplained, and he claims to not know the reason himself. This is a lie, and quite obviously so, but clearly he thinks it's not any of your business.
Allows him to resist Instant Death effects and manipulation via temporal means.
Territory Creation - B
Despite not technically being a Magus, Euclid can functionally emulate this Skill through a series of mathematical proofs, allowing him to create a moderate-sized Forum in which he is empowered.
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Divine Core of the Demiurge - A
Information withheld upon request.
Sacred Geometry - A
The ability to understand mathematics on a fundamental, cosmic level, allowing one to calculate on the level of a supercomputer, especially in the field of geometry. Complex equations can be resolved in an instant, with any need for assistance from a calculator or abacus, though a compass may be required.
Natural Body - C
A Skill denoting having a perfect body since birth, though in Euclid's case 'Birth' is something of a misnomer. No matter how little he works out, his body will not deteriorate, and furthermore his proportions are said to be a perfect match with the Golden Ratio, though this is unconfirmed. Grants a bonus to his STR when performing mathematics, though one wonders how that's any help...
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Type: Anti-World Rank: ★
Euclid's sole Noble Phantasm as Alter Ego is the Elements, something akin to a Reality Marble that overwrites the surrounding environment entirely to follow 'Euclidean' rules.
Essentially, the Noble Phantasm takes the form of a mathematical formula that Euclid physically writes out, which imposes itself on the reality of the area, forcing it to comply with its rules. In practice, this allows Euclid to enforce rules through proofs only he truly understands, such as a raw limit on how fast others can move in a given area, or 'proving' that Mana does not flow as it should. No matter how factually false the conditions set are, if Euclid can theoretically propose and 'prove' it, his Noble Phantasm will force it to become reality. This is because Euclid's original conception of geometry has been proven to be less than entirely accurate, but still 'functional' on a non-macrocosmic scale. Therefore, "it does not matter if Euclid is correct, the world follows his rules anyway".
The formulas need to be physically written, and thus, if they are erased or moved, the effects they create are erased or moved as well. The range of each equation's effect varies depending on a variety of factors.
Due to the nature of this Noble Phantasm as a simple mathematic operation, it requires next to no mana to execute.
Euclid is cool, if not a bit OP, which is still somewhat justified considering the specific field he worked in. I like your take on the lore, but at the same time, I feel like I'm missing... something? Idk, I keep tapping for a hidden collapse tag, maybe a Faker/Pretender reveal or something like that, but haven't found anything yet. Is there something I missed..?
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