Fixed it. Thanks. It was the darned Font coding. It was because I wanted the 1st quote on top to be a specific font, and the rest to be Arial. I probably tangled it because of that.
Fixed it. Thanks. It was the darned Font coding. It was because I wanted the 1st quote on top to be a specific font, and the rest to be Arial. I probably tangled it because of that.
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Notice the Stilicho faceclaim kinda looks like Lancelot, which if intentional is actually a fitting touch. Never knew about that one campaign of his. First NP feels very Shielder-y too
Anyway, kinda funny how my new sheet ended up a fair bit like a cross between Gilles and Dumas, despite living nowhere near France. I'm also concerned his first NP may be a bit redundant what with his Skills:
Foreigner of Divided Unity
(by Pixiv ID 39045788)
"Best you hand your history over to me. Do not worry, it will be in the best of hands."
True Name: Luo Guanzhong
Alternate Class: Caster
Aliases: Luo Ben, Huhai Sanren (Leisure Man of Lakes and Seas)
Source: History
Region: China
Catalyst: A Sichuan peach.
Armament: Brush, paper scrolls
Character: "The united are destined to divide, yet the divided to unite. And how better to unite than through a foundation of myth?"
Luo Guanzhong is the attributed writer of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editor and finisher of The Water Margin (or even its author too, depending on who you ask), two of China’s Four Great Classic Novels (Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber being the other two). Beyond that, little is known of his life.
Though he worked mainly with existing material, the additions made and gaps filled in by him became just as essential to his subjects’ legends as anything else about them. He had difficulty staying true to history, if that was even a concern, believing that inaccuracy was a risk worth taking for narrative flow, reader identification, and a sense of resolution. However, said inaccuracy could often be due to his or his era’s own biases, two main examples being the glorification of the Shu Kingdom and vilification of Wei, but he would tell you that readers want clear heroes and villains, and they’d still view his characters in black-and-white terms anyway even if he tried to add nuance.
What he wouldn’t say, at least not out loud, was that if he didn’t put his inaccurate touches on either work, he’d simply be remembered as a historian or compiler, not as an Author. Infusing his personality onto stories people already recognised was his only way of ensuring that the name ‘Luo Guanzhong’ would be as remembered as any hero or event he wrote about.
But being behind Two of the Four Classics, Guanzhong then flew too close to the sun when he tried to add his authorial touch on another book: a Chinese translation of the Necronomicon, never finished due to the original translator naturally going mad. Hence, the more Guanzhong tried to add his own personality to the Necronomicon, the more the opposite happened: the Gods of the Necronomicon started writing him. Guanzhong’s personality was warped to become completely obsessed with filling in any narrative gaps, to insert his control over any legend he came across, and to be unable to tell his own additions from actual history.
The Necronomicon’s Gods do seem to have an odd respect for him, or find him amusing at least, given him being one of very few people to treat the Necronomicon as an actual book and not a tool for power.
Attribute: Beast
Alignment: Lawful Mad
Likes: Shu, clear heroes and villains, his own touches
Dislikes: Wei, loose ends, ambiguity
Relationships:
- Sun Shang Xiang: “What could you ever have against me? I elevated your story for mere politics to grand romance. So what if I wrote that you committed suicide? You should be grateful I wrote an actual end for you at all.”
- Kafka: “You were right to be ashamed of your writing, your stories are nothing but loose ends and non-explanations.”
- Black Dahlia: “Ask and ye shall receive. I’ll write in a grander killer than you likely actually had.”
- Omegarus: “Those who are told your legend die? Hah, is that a challenge I hear?”
- Estella: “Between your two endings, better certainty than ambiguity.”
- Baudelaire: “Time is a circle, not an arrow. What you call modernity I call a passing phase.”
- Carlos Gardel: “If you don’t hurry up and decide your homeland, I will.”
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern: “Respect your creator’s wishes, he would’ve written you with more importance if you deserved it.”
Master: It’s likely any summoner of his, given his catalyst, would’ve been expecting Liu Bei, Guan Yu, or at least Zhang Fei. His own ideas of Unity and Division do bear similarities to Kiritsugu’s Twin Origins of Severing and Binding though.
Natural Enemy: Cao Cao
Wish: The tying of all narrative and historical loose ends.
Rarity: 3/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** E
- Endurance: ***** D
- Agility: ***** D
- Magic: ***** B
- Luck: ***** E
- Noble Phantasm: ***** B
Class Skills
Existence Outside the Domain
Denotes a being from the world beyond, and the pact therewith.
- Rank A: Foreigner’s hubris led to him being attempting to do with the Necronomicon what he did with the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. Trying to write the Outer gods like he would Shu, Wei, Wu, or the 108 Stars unsurprisingly backfired, with the book and its horrors instead ‘writing’ him.
Item Construction (Revision)
Skill to alter and rework items.
- Rank E-A: Dependent on the potential of the item in question. Among Foreigners Enchantments include turning peaches into symbols of eternal brotherhood, infusing the Factor of the Dragon into weapons, and given horses blinding speed.
Personal Skills
Era Observation
The ability to observe the flow of eras, a technique linked with writers of history.
- Rank A: That which long divided must unite, and long united must divide. Foreigner is closely acquainted with Chinese history a thousand years before his time and is particularly attuned to the cycles of war and peace. Allows him to clearly sense potential allies and social instability.
Hero Creation (Revision)
The techniques and arts to birth and raise the likes of Kings. In this case, applied retroactively through influential writing.
- Rank A: Having written and edited two of the greatest Chinese novels, both of which populated with numerous larger-than-life characters, Foreigner can enchant Heroic Spirits to become even greater than they were, whether making them far nobler than they were (the originally questionable Liu Bei) or, drawing on the older meaning of the term ‘hero’, amplifying their villainy till they become synonymous with evil (e.g., Cao Cao, written as much less caring towards his allies than he was). Looked at another way, this Skill could also be called ‘Nuance Erasure’.
Information Erasure
The removal of any info gained on this Servant by opposing forces.
- Rank B: Very little can be certain about Foreigner’s life, with even basic facts about him like if he even wrote Romance of the Three Kingdoms or existed at all under question. Any memory of Foreigner’s name, abilities, and appearance will vanish from onlookers, but physical evidence of them having been in the area remains.
Skilful Star (Fake)
Denotes the 108 Stars of Destiny, the reincarnated heroes of The Water Margin.
- Rank A: Foreigner gains this Skill due to his crucial involvement in The Water Margin’s completion, not for having been one of the Stars himself. Acts as an extension of his Hero Creation skill where he can designate people as a reincarnation of a Heavenly or Demonic Spirit… exception due to the Necronomicon, the truth of this skill is it makes into vessels for Outer Gods, Foreigner no longer able to tell them apart.
Noble Phantasms
Story of the Blanks
Romance into Records
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
"The people want closure, they want certainty. Those who legends act coy invite my intervention."
Through the possession of the Necronomicon, which can be read either way, Luo Guanzhong is granted Authority as an Author over any Mystery left unsolved in his Target’s Legend. An undocumented childhood or later years, whether the target may have been a murderer, or how someone with an ambiguous death died (especially effective against other Foreigners, damaging their ties with the Eldritch), which contradictory interpretation was true, the answer Foreigner writes to any of these will be considered definitive, ‘canonical’ even, changing his target’s memory and identity. The remaining Mystery is then offered up to the Necronomicon in exchange.
This Phantasm is limited by Foreigner needing to know what the Servant’s Legend even is in the first place, before he can identify what’s been left unconfirmed about it. Therefore, it works better against Servants, usually further back in time, whose legends are more shrouded in myth, and likewise is much less effective on Servants whose lives are better documented.
Many unsolved mysteries about the Three Kingdoms Era, such as how Liu Bei met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, how Sun Shang Xiang died, whether Zhuge Liang really was a mage, and many others, were given ‘definitive’ answers by Guanzhong that became legendary in themselves. In essence, this Phantasm is Foreigner’s ability to make any Legend he can his own.
Strange Aeons: Unity & Division
Time is a Flat Circle
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Era
"No great Legends ever transcend the cycle of ages. In fact, they are more bound to its whims than anyone else..."
The opening line of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the statement by which Luo Guanzhong is most known, that which long divided must unite, and long united must divide. That the ages are cycle where the broken is repaired only for the repaired to be broken. Of course, the Necronomicon has a very… ‘unique’ idea of what constitutes unity and division.
The effect of this Noble Phantasm changes depending on whether the scenario Foreigner has been summoned in and be considered ‘united’, such as a Grand Order or 7 vs 7 Great Grail War, or ‘divided’, such as a standard Grail War of seven against each other. Using the Necronomicon, Foreigner can declare either a Divided Age ‘United’ or a United Age ‘Divided’.
The former induces a mass loss of willpower that gradually spreads over the whole vicinity of the Grail War, forcing the populace and any Servants of insufficient mental fortitude or divine protection to lose their wills to the Outer Gods, becoming a mass of devoted followers. The latter gradually spreads a reason-defying madness over the Grail War akin to the madness induced from reading the Necronomicon, where the populace and vulnerable Servants are driven to paranoia and seeing everything as an enemy. Either effect is not the true nature of this Noble Phantasm, but rather the shift between the two states.
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Gilles de Rais Caster called and asks why Luo is a Foreigner.
"Let's see the color of your coin, my friend."
Behold my vault of Heroes.
Where the Heavens and the Abyss breath the Music of Humanity.
The King's duty is to provide. And provide, I shall.
University of Formatting | Gallery of Potential | Memorandum of the Extra Class Kings
Our Kingdom will grow. And we shall know each citizen.
Create-a-Servant 4 soon.
In-universe, we know how and where Gilles died, but not Guanzhong. Out-of-universe, eh, Foreigner Class wasn't thought up yet in Fate/Zero
This has been a long time coming. Bn. I have finally decided to fulfill the prophecy.
Also, I missed your really good Faker, and I'm sorry. Rintaro is great.
Reports reached the king’s ears of a monster residing on Anglesey that killed any who approached the island, and various settlements across the Menai Strait were calling for the king to act.
And so, the Beast of Gaia faced off against the king, Merlin watching on as they battled. Hours passed as they fought, the king finding the monster far beyond anything she had expected.
With the weight of her people on her shoulders, and a firm resolve etched into her very soul, she fought with every ounce of strength her inhuman body could afford her, the Sword of Promised Victory leading her forward.
And then she died.
[South of Heaven - The story of "Le Motre Darthur"]Creator Notes
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Do you likejazzshort stories? Do you want something to distract from making Servants? Do you wish the idea of Shirou Kotomine didn't immediately bring edgelords to mind? Well, I can't promise it's good, but some would disagree with me.
Fate/Without Justice
0/10 for using shitty photoshop fc instead of my artistic masterpiece.
EDIT: LOL NVM, DIDN'T CLICK THE ASCENSIONS 100/10 sheet for sure
But seriously, the legend is here at last. Even if not by my own hands, I'm glad someone actually managed to bring that blursed idea to life. Especially our local Arthurian expert. Kudos to you, man.
Now there is a second part to this idea which hasn't gone anywhere in my head. An alternative Lostbelt 6 called...
Wait for it...
where the joke went even further and our LB King Arfouria Pendragon single-handedly solved every problem in Camelot and the Round Table, but that will be a story for another time.Faux Round Table DomainAvalon le Fou
Feel free to hit me up if Morg or anyone else wants to develop that idea further tho
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Okay, this is incredibly good. This is the kind of meme Servant I'm here for. 10/10, actually laughed
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night, dawn, and the birth of stars
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what sort of [REDACTED] did Fou do to keep guienevere faithful i wonder............................................ ...............................Originally Posted by BnEl15
Now there is a second part to this idea which hasn't gone anywhere in my head. An alternative Lostbelt 6 called...
Wait for it...
where the joke went even further and our LB King Arfouria Pendragon single-handedly solved every problem in Camelot and the Round Table, but that will be a story for another time.Faux Round Table DomainAvalon le Fou
Feel free to hit me up if Morg or anyone else wants to develop that idea further tho
Huh, haven't had a Bolivar sheet since the first CaS thread (unless there was one I missed)
So, unlike my previous genderbent Servants where there was some basis in their life (or in Kafka's case, the lack of an explanation is the explanation), I don't really have much of a reason with Bolivar, other than his costume looking very Takarazuka-like, and for one big Utena reference of course. I guess you could say it's due to the five female-presenting angels having fused with their Saint Graph.
Also, Knight of Owner has been a Personal Skill before, and weapon improvisation certainly isn't unique to Lancelot when it comes to legendary figures. However, I can replace it with Incitement or Independent Action if anyone thinks it's too much:
Rider of Liberation
“All kings, your chance at the Grail is now forfeit! You face history’s greatest liberator, she who brings the world revolution!”
(by Yayata)
True Name: Simone Bolivar
Aliases: El/La Libertador
Alt. Classes: Saber, Berserker, Assassin
Source: History
Region: Venezuela and most of South America
Catalyst: Her (repeatedly) exhumed bones.
Armament: Liberator’s Sword (would count as a Noble Phantasm if summoned as Saber)
Character: The Liberator of the Americas, one who freed six whole countries, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and her native Venezuela, from Spanish rule, holding the record for most countries liberated. All despite having no prior military training, and often fighting with outdated weaponry and on unforgiving terrain.
Harsh and unrelenting in war, their glory days did not transition over into peacetime. Believing an iron grip was needed to rule a land as vast as the then-nation of Gran Colombia, they became the very thing they claimed to despise most: a king-like dictator. This got them banished from their own homeland of Venezuela and forced to leave for Europe, only to die from tuberculosis at the northern reach of Colombia.
One might expect a quite severe personality from Rider, and one then be surprised to find she’s quite the personable type. She’s a massive reader, having studied Enlightenment philosophy and past revolutions like the French and American obsessively. Yet she’s just as adept in social situations like speaking, dancing, and even flirting, still carrying a gentlemanly charm and swagger while appearing as a woman. Her quick temper though gives her little patience for the tomfoolery of others, and she can flip her switch to strict and authoritative whenever things have been disturbed.
That scarier side of her emerges fully in battle, with her ruthless in her refusal to spare enemies and take prisoners, executing the defeated instead. She sees non-allied Masters as her enemy like any other and will not hesitate to target them as much as their Servants. She says she’s aware how harsh she may seem but will insist that the revolution would have never been won had she been any more merciful. However, it is dawning on her that while she won the war, that same ruthless mindset only made her a much less of a peacetime ruler, and she must acknowledge that a Grail War can be a different case entirely to the Wars of Independence (smaller numbers for one). She can still find some sympathy for a Servant mistreated by their Master.
Attribute: Star
Alignment: Lawful Neutral in peace, Chaotic in war
Likes: Past revolutions, reading, dancing, flirting, ‘Liberator’s Liberator’ Manuela Saenz
Dislikes: Kings, mercy, her later life, former allies, mazes
Relationships:
- Arturia: “How dare you suggest we are anything alike, I won’t let any royal compare themselves to me!”
- Goethe: “Good to see a fellow follower of the Enlightenment. Although… you do seem much prouder of your latter years.”
- Michael Collins: “Spain had to sail across oceans to reach me, yet you beat your tyrants on their doorstep, I’m impressed. Ah, so you’re not mad about me using British mercs then?”
- Egdon Heath: “I unite my people through inspiration and leadership. You… whatever you are, you unite them through swallowing their souls!”
- Kafka, Heinlein, & Berlioz: “History still shackles us to male identities, huh? Though even as I am, my masculinity still exceeds quite a few male specimens!”
- Christina: “I assure you, you are more than beautiful in mind, regardless of your… body. Also, I can respect an abdicant royal.”
- Marie Curie: “Interested in progress and romance, I see?”
- Alfonso X: “Sadly, you weren’t the only Spanish king to play games with their subjects…”
- Ataturk: “We fought for the same ideals, yet both our homelands floundered without us.”
- Sun Shang Xiang: “A beautiful yet fiery lady, striving for freedom against the odds? My my, we seem to make quite a pair, don’t we?”
- Carlos Gardel: “A draft dodger become a more famous Argentine than San Martin? Hmhm, you’re prettier than him at least.”
- Margaret Garner: “My… apologies. You would’ve made a fine soldier in my army, since you, er, certainly understand the meaning of ‘no quarter’.”
Master: Obviously no royals, or anyone who carries a royal-like aura. Much more sympathetic to anyone trying to escape confinement.
Natural Enemy: Ferdinand VII, Daedalus
Wish: That her winning streak did not end after wartime.
Rarity: 3/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** B
- Endurance: ***** B
- Agility: ***** B
- Mana: ***** E
- Luck: ***** D
- Noble Phantasm: ***** A
Class Skills
Magic Resistance
Built-up immunity to magic.
- Rank E: Rider fought mostly against other human armies. Magic isn’t nullified but is somewhat diminished.
“I’m from the Era of Enlightenment after all, why should I have had to deal with the occult? I’d bet my fictional self is likely to have encountered magic than I have.”
Riding
Handling of animals and vehicles.
- Rank A+: Mounts up to Divine and Phantasmal Beasts can be ridden. Rider’s Noble Phantasm Cinque Angeles is what particularly qualifies here for this Rank, but they were a more than accomplished rider in history, spending most of the revolutionary wars in the saddle and vast distances and terrain.
“Most of my campaign was spent on horseback, but you’ll find I’m no less fierce in a duel on foot!”
Personal Skills
Disengage
Ability to withdraw from battle.
- Rank B: Bonus effect of reverting conditions to the beginning of the battle, without this Skill degrading. Rider was forced to flee multiple times in life only to dramatically rise again.
“It is a foolish warrior who does not know the value of strategic withdrawal, you see.”
Knight of Owner
The ability to conceive of anything as a weapon, turning anything into a Noble Phantasm at A Rank.
- Rank D: Rider was famed as a master improviser who led her armies to victory despite being supplied with much worse weapons than their enemies. Non-weapons cannot be wielded as weapons, let alone become Phantasms, but poor-quality weapons can be wielded with the same power and efficiency as high-quality ones.
“It’s the warrior who makes the weapon, something that flew over Spanish heads.”
Spark of Rebellion
The ability of a rebel leader, able to wield Charisma oneself and negate it in others.
- Rank A: Rider’s name is all but synonymous with rebel leadership, holding the record for countries liberated at six. Her army encompassed numerous peoples and nations, both within and beyond South America.
“Rise up, people of South America! I shall cut your chains personally.”
Strategy
The ability to employ wider-ranging means beyond tactics to conduct decisive battles, as if they’re over before the fighting’s begun.
- Rank B: The Battles of Boyacá and Carabobo were two of Rider’s greatest victories, which saw dramatically lower losses on her side compared to the enemy forces.
“Certain victory I can’t completely guarantee, but certain liberation I can!”
Noble Phantasms
Palomo & Nevado
White Winds of the Mountains
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Army
The two animals that were inseparably side by side with Rider at the height of her campaigns, her white steed Palomo beneath her and hound Nevado running alongside. Palomo was told in legend as being destined for Rider, dying upon being given to another warrior, while Nevado earned Rider’s respect through his own bravery that he was brought on campaign. Both are acclimated to dashing through the mountainous terrain of the Andes and Coastal Ranges.
Charging forth atop Palomo, the icy winds of the Andes begin to swirl around Rider’s steed and hound, gaining in intensity with Palomo’s charge picking up speed and cold with Nevado’s. Approaching the enemy, Rider barrels right into them with the shock of the mountain gale, while Nevado leaps to tackle any enemy dodging to the side.
This Noble Phantasm is exclusive to Bolivar in the Rider class. Summoned as Saber, her sword World Revolution would rise from armament to full Noble Phantasm status, where it’d be able to disappear and reappear in her hands. As Berserker, she’d have the Decree of War to the Death as a Noble Phantasm.
Cinca Angeles
Principalities of the Liberation
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Army
At the site of one of Rider’s greatest victories, the Puente de Boyacá, stands a monument with them surrounded by five angels, each representative of the Bolivarian countries of South America: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Each of them would be a Principality, the third tier in the Angelic Hierarchy tasked with watching over nations.
In this Noble Phantasm’s partially activated form, a set of wings appear on her temples (Venezuela), two sets for four wings behind her shoulders (Colombia and Ecuador), and a set each around her ankles (Peru and Bolivia), with Panama represented by a halo. This makes her capable of flight and instils a Holy element into each of her attacks. By expending extra mana, she can also materialise four of these wings on Palomo around each hoof, and the last set around Nevado.
The fully activated Noble Phantasm sees that halo expand into a full Bounded Field, four of the Angels at the directional edges, the fifth (Venezuela) flying above, and with Rider in the centre. Each angel wields power over a force of nature found in their nation, Venezuela over lightning (Lake Maracaibo), Colombia over liquid gold (El Dorado), Ecuador over lava, Peru over solid rock, and Bolivia over sunlight (Isla del Sol), with them specialising in creating minions or ‘soldiers’ and mounts out of these elements with Bolivar in the Rider class. Close combat with Rider also gets exceptionally risky, as stepping into the Bounded Field lets the angels quickly encircle the opponent.
For Comparison: Schattenbach's, Amaranth's, and Duncan Idaho's Sabers, Kaiza's Rider (second profile)
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Obviously he !REDACTED, DO NOT CLICK IF YOU'RE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE!
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I own the rights to the first ascension and the word "Fou-nd Table". I hereby give morg a cease and desist order.
else i reveal information about you
the pic is actually much older. my imgur said its 9 months old now. So we had this talk even earlier.
"Let's see the color of your coin, my friend."
Behold my vault of Heroes.
Where the Heavens and the Abyss breath the Music of Humanity.
The King's duty is to provide. And provide, I shall.
University of Formatting | Gallery of Potential | Memorandum of the Extra Class Kings
Our Kingdom will grow. And we shall know each citizen.
Create-a-Servant 4 soon.
Disgusting. All of you.
This is something I will be unable to fulfill. I still need to get back to my Avestan LB. However, I did immediately get a scenario off the top of my head for how it would go...
Also, Mordred would definitely still be as she is. Cath Palug happens late enough in the timeline it wouldn't make a ton of sense for her to be Fou'dThe King does not understand the hearts of Fou
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Now das some good shit right there
Is this the controversy? Fou Pendragon? I haven't even released my magnum opus of guaranteed controversy.
Do you likejazzshort stories? Do you want something to distract from making Servants? Do you wish the idea of Shirou Kotomine didn't immediately bring edgelords to mind? Well, I can't promise it's good, but some would disagree with me.
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Don't.
Everyone, say it with me.
Don't.
"Let's see the color of your coin, my friend."
Behold my vault of Heroes.
Where the Heavens and the Abyss breath the Music of Humanity.
The King's duty is to provide. And provide, I shall.
University of Formatting | Gallery of Potential | Memorandum of the Extra Class Kings
Our Kingdom will grow. And we shall know each citizen.
Create-a-Servant 4 soon.
This kind of shitpost destroys my integrity of a TM fan. Your Magnum Opus would obliterate the rest of it. At worst, I could end up liking Fate Zero.
What has the world gone to and what have we done to deserve this... This... GLORIOUS piece of art?! 100/10, would definitely buy it.
I am merely a vessel for God's light. All you needed to do to deserve it is exist.
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Fate/Without Justice
...I have no words. Well, I have one.
Fou.
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