This probably should got to the Ideas thread, but speaking of AoE II, I'm thinking of doing the other campaign protagonists as Servants: Kotyan Khan, Ivaylo, Bayinnaung, Gajah Mada, Philip the Good, Algirdas-Kestutis, Robert Guiscard, Yodit, Sundjata, Babur, Privthiraj, Devapala, Rajendra Chola, etc
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Blindfold your eyes, so that the approaching night may strike no fear in you.
Let it not burden your soul, nor numb your strides.
Neat new project.
Must be nice to have remakes
#AgeofMythologyRemakeWaitingRoomGang
"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.
Make Babur an awkward bisexual warlord who acts tough on the outside but gets flustered and embarrassed around his crush easily Based on his behavior around baburi andijani and how it’s described in the baburnama.
Would be a dream to repost on reddit, huh?
"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.
Shut the fuck up.
I'll give you a few minutes to rethink this post.Originally Posted by NINE-lives
Don't bait him.
Sorry.
Average Afghani warlord thing
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Blindfold your eyes, so that the approaching night may strike no fear in you.
Let it not burden your soul, nor numb your strides.
You know that one joke about Pakistani men going for Pashtun boys when they want a lover? That shit dates back to Babur.
Ruler of Pandemonium
Last edited by Ismail2002; November 11th, 2022 at 04:51 PM.
Source: Iamtabbychan
Class: Voyager
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: Kamaladevi Chattophadyay
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Place of Origin: India (20th Century)
Stars: 2/5
Parameters:
STR: D
END: B
AGI: C
MGI: C
LCK: C
NP: C
Height: 181cm
Weight: 110lbs
Likes: Tradition, peace, culture, equality
Dislikes: Misogyny, modernization
Talent: Preserving culture and tradition
Natural Enemy: Robert Goddard
Attribute: Man
Traits: Female, Humanoid, Weak to Enuma Elish
Armament: N/A
Catalyst: Salt from Dandi
Class Skills:
Independent Navigation B: She went on a relatively famous World Tour, which grants her this Class Skill allowing her mana to constantly surge as she continues towards her goal.
Personal Skills:
Freedom Salt B: The sublimation of her both being one of the Seven Member Lead Team of the Salt March, and also selling "Freedom Salt", salt made at the waterfront, to a magistrate. This allows her to manifest huge amounts of salt according to her will, which she utilizes as her primary weapon. This salt can also be used to lift curses, burning Evil, or to bring prosperity and Wealth.
World Tour B: The sublimation of the world tour she went on to drum up support for Indian independence. This grants her a chunk of fame bonus in most countries, all those that she went through in life. In addition, it helps her be able to temporarily pump her independent Navigation even when not traveling or journeying, thanks to several incidents.
AIWC B: The All Indian Woman's Conference, an organization she was one of the founders of, and which inspired her to run for office in the Madras council. Although she lost, this inspired many women following to run and win, including famous figures such as Indira Gandhi. This allows her to build Inspiration, constantly allowing people's goals to feel more "achievable".
Noble Phantasm(s):
Sangraheet Paramparaen
The Traditions Of India
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: C
Range: 100 meters
Max Targets: 100 Targets
Her most lasting contribution has been her many, many influences on preserving ancient Indian handicraft, theater, and handlooms, founding many organizations, including the National School for Drama, the All Indian Handicrafts Board, and Sangeet Nana Akademi. This enables her to manifest traditional handicrafts and items from Indian culture, appearing to emerge out of a vault behind her, as well as traditions to alter people's behavior. In addition, as she looks, she can collect more "traditions" which she can pull out as she wishes.
Lore: Kamaladevi Chattophadyay (1903-1988) was an indian freedom activist noted for her being one of the selected heads of the Salt Marsh, and her actions there, as well as her world tour to drum up support. However, her most lasting and famous contribution has been her influences on preserving Indian traditiona nd culture.
Personality: A calm person, she loves seeing the traditions of all cultures, and watching their differences and similarities. She hates to see those traditions fade, and will do whatever she can to try to keep them alive. Her wish for the Grail is merely to preserve all tradition, even at the cost of all modernization if necessary.
Relationships:
Robert Goddard: "Rockets? Now why? Why on earth?"
Pachacuti: "Hmm, intriguing traditions, though I do wonder about your earth-shaping."
Eva Peron: "We both did tours for similar reasons, didn't we? How wonderful."
Ono no Imoko: "You bridged the gap between two powerful nations, and you even collected and studied tradition while you were at it? How amazing!"
Elizabeth Bisland: "Your race was impressive. Your eye for culture, even more."
Avenger of the Branded
(by PFLS6\. Source)
“Servant Avenger. Oh don’t be discouraged Master, you’ve made quite an excellent choice. Hmm, my identity? Hah, which one would you like to hear?”
True Name: Milady de Winter
Aliases: Clarick, Anne de Breuil, Comtesse de la Fere, Lady Laurence, Countess of Carlisle
Alt. Classes: Assassin, Faker, Rider, Berserker
Source: Fiction, The Three Musketeers her most famous but not her first appearance
Region: France, Britain
Catalyst: Stolen diamond studs.
Armament: Her words, the coercion of other people, poisons, set of Black Keys
Character: “If ‘those people’ haven’t been summoned, good, my work will then proceed uninterrupted. If they have… well, let’s just say they won’t be walking away ‘heroes’.”
Due to her nature, it’s tricky to state what Avenger’s backstory even is, which country she’s from or whether she was ever real. However, the commonly accepted version of her backstory states she was a poor orphan raised to be a nun. But given how confining that life was, she decided to run away with the church’s goblet relic, given to her courtesy of a seduced priest (a priest who was somehow seduced even though she was only sixteen at the time…) They were caught almost immediately, but Milady de Winter (long before she was even called that) escaped again through seducing her jailer.
When the priest was branded by his own brother though, that brother took off, found her and branded her likewise with the fleur-de-lis. She was then found by the lord of the land, the Comte de la Fere, who exercised his right to force her to marry him (and patted himself on the back for at least not assaulting her), even though she was then already married. Only then did the Comte see her brand by accident and find out she was a criminal, at which he immediately hanged her to protect his own honour.
Except, through either her own resilience, the hanging being a rushed job, or both, she survived. Starting anew, she eventually worked her way up to serving under a very different Church official, no less than France’s Cardinal de Richelieu, having been hired as a spy and assassin. She simultaneously also married into British nobility, truly becoming the ‘Lady of Winter’.
Working under Richelieu led her into conflict with the King’s Musketeers, including one named Athos, who was in secret the Comte de la Fere, and the would-be musketeer d’Artagnan… who used Milady’s attraction to another noble to sexually assault her under disguise as him. When Richelieu then assigned Milady to assassinate the Duke of Buckingham, whose relationship with France’s queen risked an international incident, the musketeers hounded her all the way, till they eventually cornered her and executed her in the town of Lille. And Cardinal Richelieu… cared little, even pardoning d’Artagnan for not revealing anything that would implicate him.
Though she may never have been any beacon of purity, Milady de Winter was abused and assaulted her entire life, with the only man who treated her well caring not when she died. As unvirtuous as she was, were her actions any worse than the bullying Musketeers who were somehow remembered as heroes?
Avenger adapts to the modern world like she’s always adapted to different situations, professionally and opportunistically. She does seem to genuinely like the modern world better than her own time, but is disheartened to learn that abusers in power getting away with it hasn’t stopped. One thing though she genuinely despises about the modern world is how it’s largely remembered the Musketeers as heroes, despite all their own crimes. What also stings is how fellow Dumas Avenger, Edmond Dantes, has been remembered as a ‘complicated’ anti-hero, while she’s considered a villain despite being no worse.
“Read the actual book, why don’t you? Might get you to reconsider things…”
Attribute: Human
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Likes: Amorousness, others doing as they’re told, jewellery
Dislikes: Swashbuckling heroes, male entitlement, imprisonment
Relationships
- Baudelaire: “Oh, don’t point out how sinful I am, as if I don’t know. Though if you come after me, I might just do the same in return.”
- Cathy Morland: “Oh, you say you may have figured out my backstory? Hmhm, good, I wouldn’t mind hearing it…”
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern: “Hah, no wonder such incompetent spies as yourself didn’t rise to any starring roles.”
- Zaroff: “I may be biased towards… certain targets, but I’ll own up to a penchant for hunting humans too.”
- Christina: “So, that Great War finally ended, thanks in part to a little girl. To think not even Richelieu lived to see it through.”
- Berlioz: “Look at that, another French Avenger constantly rewriting their own history. Oh, except I can actually convince people of course.”
- Yoshitsugu: “You intentionally had yourself beheaded? Maybe I’m too good a little Christian girl to even conceive why anyone would want that.”
- Celtchar: “That’s the problem with us contract killers keeping pets, we can’t risk forming any attachments.”
- Dorothy: “How odd for us to be so similar, contract killers both. Though you started even younger than me, and well, I wasn’t assigned to take out any witches, I’m no mindless inquisitor."
- Jafar: “You were genuinely shocked to be executed? Hah, my whole time in court, I always acted like my head was on the line.”
- Maid Marian: “I’d take caution, young lady, mingling with any swashbuckling rogue types. They tend to hold women like us in low regard…”
- Margaret Cavendish: “Wait, don’t we know each other? I believe we both waited under Henrietta Maria of England. Well, according to some accounts…”
- Carmen Miranda: "How tame your own 'international missions' were, never even asked to kill a single person. Still, hearing of one who became so hated by her own people, I... I can relate."
Master: Someone who’s okay not knowing their Servant’s true identity, for starters. And doesn’t in any way remind her of the Musketeers.
Natural Enemy: Athos, d’Artagnan, Dantes
Wish: For her as Countess to share the fate of a certain Count, being able to have her revenge then get away with it all. If that’s too much, then for nobody to ever remember the Musketeers as heroes.
Rarity: 2/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** D
- Endurance: ***** B
- Agility: ***** B
- Mana: ***** E
- Luck: ***** C
- Noble Phantasm: ***** B
Class Skills
Avenger
Capacity to generate resentment in oneself and others, allowing for Mana recovery while attacking and being attacked.
- Rank A+: Immediately turns her and others’ negative emotions into strength. A power boost is granted should anyone discover her brand.
Oblivion Correction
Ability of an Avenger to never forget and never forgive. Critical hits are strengthened.
- Rank B: Enables the ease of critical strikes the more the Target reminds her of any Musketeer. An especially powerful counterattack can be launched against those who discover her True name.
Self-Replenishment (Mana)
Replenishes mana while one’s revenge remains unfulfilled.
- Rank D: Regenerates mana for as long as she is unable to personally take revenge on Athos, d’Artagnan, and anyone who sees her brand. While all her Class Skills gain in power upon her brand being uncovered, Avenger is loath to use this to give herself an automatic boost due to the brand revealing her True identity, and her own personal history.
Personal Skills
Aliases and Alibis
Ability to obscure one’s true name through taking on numerous different names, identities, and backgrounds, that one’s original name becomes utterly lost, and one’s identity becomes hard to remember. Works similarly to Information Erasure, but with too much and too contradictory info rather than too little.
- Rank B-: Avenger’s rapid-fire creation of new identities makes it highly difficult for anyone to consistently recognise and retain information on her. Immediately gets a minus Rank should anyone uncover her brand, though as shown with Athos, it is possible for Avenger to restore her anonymity again a while after her brand being found.
Femme Fatale (True)
Ability to appear naturally in the target’s vicinity. Combines abilities such as analysis, intellect, pheromones, disguise, and covert behaviour.
- Rank A: Avenger was and is perhaps seen as the premiere Femme Fatale in literature, with not one character embodying the archetype as much as her until the Noir genre. Can easily get others to steal or even carry out murder for her. She is particularly known for being able to seduce those seen as ‘beyond seduction’.
Thoughts and Prayers
An advanced form of Espionage. The ability to register as unhostile through those in authority constantly looking away and refusing to commit to dealing with the situation.
- Rank B: Can go unnoticed by authority figures with a Luck check. The favour of Cardinal Richelieu and her ability to acquaint herself with officials basically forced the Musketeers to pursue her themselves.
(A/N: 'Thoughts and Prayers' might need a more fitting retitle with Milady. Also thought to give her my Skill 'Unknown Homeland' but that might be redundant with her NP)
Noble Phantasms
All Against One
One Against All
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit
“You don’t take issue with my actions, you only take issue with me being the one acting on them.”
In her Legend, she frequently used other to carry out her goals, be that a seduced priest who helped her escape and stole Church relics for her, or John Felton who she got to assassinate the Duke or Buckingham. At the same time, the assumed heroes that were the Musketeers committed many vile acts in reaction to and pursuit of her, including attempted murder on merely seeing her brand, or assault through deception.
This is Avenger’s power to corrupt, or worsen the corruption of, anyone who feels strong emotions for her, be they positive like love or negative like hate, which as a femme fatale Avenger aren’t at all hard for her to instil. To make anyone as bad as they think she is and seduce or madden them enough to where they commit essentially the same crimes. To close any divide between hero and villain.
This corruption is manifest by a fleur-de-lis brand identical to Avenger’s that slowly starts to appear on the Target’s where they can’t easily see it and figure out who they’ve been bewitched by. For Servants, the Class of those affected will gradually be overwritten as Avenger, removing their original Class Skills and even their Noble Phantasms if they cannot fit the Avenger class.
The physical manifestation of this Phantasm comes in the form of a grail-like church goblet, which she began her criminal career with by corrupting a priest into stealing for her. Rather familiarly, it starts overflowing with a dark and contaminated aura the more emotions are directed towards her. The best defence against this Phantasm would be to somehow not form any emotions towards Avenger at all, good or bad.
No True Name
All Are One, One Is All
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
“That’s what I have over every Servant. I have no true identity!”
The crystallisation of her multitude of possible inspirations, the rewrites and multiple identities authors like de Sandras, de Brienne, and La Rochefoucauld gave her character even before Dumas, and her in-story own feat of never having her True Name discovered, even as the rest of her identity was.
Taking her Aliases and Alibis Skill and enhancing it, this Noble Phantasm Avenger to rewrite her own backstory with each new identity she takes. As a result of her backstory being in flux yet under her control, she can alter it to justify having whichever Skill she chooses, sub-qualifying for whatever Class she chooses, and potentially the creation of new Noble Phantasms.
However, her desire for revenge and a reason behind it must always be included despite whatever background she gives herself, it’s possible she wouldn’t even be able to stabilise herself as a Servant otherwise. Further, the fleur-de-lis brand stays regardless of her given backstory, and once having been seen, immediately nullifies what is otherwise an always active Phantasm, at least until that person has been killed.
For Comparison: asterism42's Assassin
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Archer of Lukomorye
Greetings my master. Servant Archer, unusual for a writer, huh? Oh, if you knew how many duels I've been to
Class: Archer
True Name: Alexander Pushkin
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Place of Origin: Russian Empire
Armament: cane, flintlock pistols
Natural enemy: Georges-Charles Dantes, tsar Nikolai I
STRENGE — D
ENDURANCE — D
AGILITY — D
MANA — B(A with NP)
LUCK — C
NP — EX
Class skills:
Independent action(C, EX with NP)
The ability to remain independent even when refusing to supply Magical Energy from one's Master; the ability to act even in the absence of the Master. Without the Master, Archer can be in the world for 24 hours. When using a Noble Phantasm, the skill rank is increased to EX, Archer gains the ability to stay in the world until his death.
Magic Resistance (D, A with NP)
Provides protection from magical effects. Unlike the resistance effect, which simply rejects magical energy, this ability completely cancels spells. Archer has a low magic resistance rank. When using a Noble Phantasm, the rank increases to A, which turns Archer into a mage slayer
Personal skills:
Eye for Art(B)
Archer can reveal the servant's true name if the servant is associated with European folklore or is an early 19th century writer
How amazing is our world. It is unlikely that anyone could even imagine that there is an opportunity to see the great people of past centuries for yourself. Philosophers, poets, artists, warriors, traitors and even villains. And I'm not talking about those personalities that were already after me. If I don't write a poem about the Holy Grail War, then I'm worthless as a poet.
Familiar(Golden Cockerel)(C)
Golden Cockerel, a low-ranking ghost beast that is Archer's familiar. In attack, the cockerel is weak, except that it can strongly peck the enemy in the head or in the eye, but it is not designed for combat. This bird is a kind of alarm - if an enemy appears on the territory of Archer or his master, then the cockerel will give Archer and the master a mental signal in the form of a short rhyme
"cock-a-doodle-doo!
Reign without much to do!"
This familiar is useful against Assassin class servants, as Cockerel ignores any form of Conceal Presence and Spying.
Petya-petya-petushok, zolotoy grebeshok
Maslyana golovushka
Shelkova borodushka
Excuse me Master, got carried away
Duelist’s Luck
A special skill that gives the wearer the ability to survive a one-on-one duel. During his short life, Archer had about 30 pistol duels. Most of them were canceled, the other enemy either missed or refused to shoot. This skill increases Archer's luck when he fights one-on-one with an opponent. However, this is an insidious skill - at some point, Archer's luck will sharply become low, which can be fatal for him.
[I] You will call it stupidity. I'll call it a matter of honor, Master.[/]
Poems of praise(B)
Archer is able to write a poem praising this or that person. If the praised person reads this verse, he will gain the Courage (D) skill, if the skill is already there, then his rank will increase.
Writing poetry is as natural to me as breathing. And now that so many great people have returned... it's a pity that I can't rhyme so easily in Latin. Will the Caesar understand the French poetic style?
Noble Phantasm:
Дуб Лукоморья
Collection of stories of all peoples
Ex, Targets: ???
A powerful Noble Phantasm that requires a lot of mana to summon, but capable of self-sustaining due to the fact that he himself is a source of mana. Archer's trump card, allowing this not very strong servant to pose a serious danger.
Archer is summoned with a small acorn in his coat pocket. This acorn should be planted in a ley line, preferably near the sea and forest. Three days later, from this acorn will grow a mighty oak, wrapped in a golden chain. From now on, the oak tree will feed Archer with mana, increasing the rank of Independent Action to EX. The tree itself has a connection to the era when the Mystery still existed, which also raises the rank of Magic Resistance to A.
However, this phantasm is also Archer's weakness. If this oak is destroyed, then Archer himself will immediately die. This is not so easy to do - the oak itself is actively defending itself, calling on various creatures, which can be rusalki, leshii, sea bogatyrs with a voivode, it can even be the phantoms of Baba Yaga and Koshchei the Immortal. The most dangerous creature is Kot Bayun. Guardian of the Oak, this Ghost Beast is the size of a small leopard, armed with sharp claws and teeth, in addition, he can speak, his voice has a hypnotic effect, plunging the victim into a trance.
In addition to improving Archer's class skills, the oak also begins to collect stories from all over the Holy Grail War region. Whether it's urban legends, fairy tales or unusual stories from the lives of individuals - it's all collected by oak roots. By touching the tree trunk, Archer can view all of these stories. However, it is not only the collection of information.
Once the oak tree is fully grown, Archer can immediately take several bullets from it. These bullets are weak, some are not capable of doing any damage at all. But they carry no less dangerous effect. These bullets are Archer's stories and tales that he wrote during his lifetime. If such a bullet hits a person or a servant, it will impose on him the concept of stories:
Маленькие трагедии
Stories that don't end happily
Four bullets embodying Archer's four tragedies. Each bullet has the following effects.
Miserly knight - this bullet imposes on the target the desire to possess material wealth. In addition, the victim of the bullet will begin to suffer from gradually increasing paranoia. An obsessive fear that the people around you, including friends and relatives, will want to take over your entire fortune, sooner or later will drive the target crazy, turning into a miserable madman, ready to starve to death, just not to lose the wealth he has accumulated
Mozart and Salieri — This bullet is not capable of inflicting any damage, moreover, the target receiving the bullet will receive improvements. The servant will have an increase in ranks in all respects, a person will be able to become a pseudo-servant at all. However, the cost of such an increase is high. A person in the target's inner circle, whether it be a friend, relative, or Master of Servant, will begin to feel a strong sense of envy for the victim of the bullet. Moreover - only this envious person will be able to kill the target marked by a bullet. Murder cannot be prevented, the World itself will help to accomplish this action. NEVER USE THIS BULLET ON MOZART OR SALIERI!
The Stone Guest — this bullet does not impose any concepts and feelings on the target. Instead, the bullet marks the victim by summoning into the world a statue of a commander chasing the one marked by the bullet. The purpose of the statue is to grab the target and fall into the ground with it, which guarantees death. The statue can be destroyed, but it requires a Noble Phantasm rank at least A. DON’T USE ON DON JUAN!
A Feast during the Plague — this bullet is one of the most dangerous in Archer's arsenal, he himself will use it only in the most extreme case, when the situation is completely hopeless. This bullet carries the disease of the plague of inactivity. When applied to the target, infection will begin. A person or other living being will begin to rot alive, but the infected will not pay any attention to it. The disease is contagious, in less than a week it will take over a city the size of Fuyuki, eventually the city will be filled with people rotting alive, who will continue their daily lives. Moreover, they will stop noticing any atrocity. They can be cut, beaten, tortured, but none of them will pay attention to it.
Медный всадник
The formidable tsar is chasing you
Archer's poem about the flood in St. Petersburg and how little the lives and desires of ordinary people mean to sovereigns. Is a copper bullet. On hit, the target's luck will drop to a critical level. Moreover, the bullet carries a mental curse - the target will always feel as if someone powerful and formidable is chasing it, from which there is no escape. This bullet does not work against rulers such as a certain King of Heroes from Babylon, an Egyptian pharaoh, and one Russian tsar associated with this poem.
Сказка о царе Додоне
The story's false; but in it lies
Some truth, seen but by inward eyes
Set of two bullets associated with two characters from Archer's tale.
Tsar Dodon - this bullet marks the target, setting the Golden Cockerel on it. The familiar ceases to watch, it now pursues the marked one to peck on its head. For the now marked by a bullet, a blow with a beak from a golden cockerel is fatal, no matter what END rank he has
Shamakhanskaya Tsaritsa - the effect of this bullet is similar to the bullet of the Miserly Knight. However, instead of paranoid stinginess, the bullet will impose paranoid love on the target. On hit, the target will see an image of their ideal love. From now on, the target becomes obsessed with this image, to the point that it begins to seem to them that others want to steal their love.
Actually, Archer is able to convert all his stories written during his lifetime into bullets, and several bullets can appear from some stories. Each bullet can only be used once, creating a new one with the same effect will not work. However, Lukomorye Oak can create bullets from new stories he has collected.
Description:
Likes: gambling, shooting gallery, writing poetry and stories, beautiful young ladies, interesting stories, cinema
Dislikes: bores and scoundrels
Archer's true name is Alexander Pushkin, a Russian poet and writer of the early 19th century, nicknamed the sun of Russian poetry.
Pushkin is very curious, he is very interested in the modern world. He is especially interested in modern entertainment. He is passionate about TV, movies, skateboards, motorcycles and the internet. Once in another country, Alexander will actively study its culture, it should be remembered that Pushkin sometimes looks at the world through the stereotypes of his century, with which one must be more careful.
Despite his love of entertainment, Pushkin will still notice the problems of the 21st century and the country where he is summoned. He understands that at all times humanity will have difficulties, but this is not a reason to sit back.
By the way, Pushkin is kind to his works, as well as to his honor. It is easy to piss him off by starting to criticize his poetry. At such moments, he is very sorry that dueling has been abolished by now. For some reason, even that fatal duel with Dantes did not convince him
Archer is extremely careful when using his Noble Phantasm bullets. He knows how dangerous his powers are, which is why he rarely uses them.
His desire is to replay the duel with Dantes. This time he will die from a French officer's bullet.
Relations:
Antonio Salieri — I'm sorry, maestro. My play made you out to be a villain and a murderer. If I knew how it really was ... hold on (holds out a sheet of poetry to Avenger). This verse is dedicated to your hard fate
Mikhail Gorshenev — Do you want me to write songs for your music? Hmm, I have never had to be a songwriter, especially in the rock and roll genre, although I like it. I won't mind
Edmond Dantes — Dantes?! Oh, I beg your pardon, Count of Monte Cristo. I just don't have the best memories of that last name
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I just noticed the Art you made for gorshenev. Nice work. It looks great.
Do Kotyan Khan, he is cool. Totally not biased.
I personally see big awkward sad husbando potential in Babur.
Nice Pushkin sheet. Love the story-bullet concept. I considered making Pushkin a Pretender class servant based on a theory that he faked his death and later resurfarced as Alexander Dumas.
the final page before the comp
Nails, did you continue your own compilation?
either way, would be helpful to get the code to save some time and effort
"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.
Caster of Genetics
True Name: Gregor Johann Mendel
Titles: Father of Modern Genetics, King of Geneticists
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Place of Origins: Austrian Empire/Czech Republic
Gender: Male
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 64 kg
Other Qualifable Classes: No others... Normally
Wish: Getting the recognition that his work and talent deserved earlier
Likes: Learning, getting his deserved recognition, bees
Dislikes: Having his efforts ignored, doubts about his character, taxation laws
Talents: Experimenting and learning about life
Armaments: His Laws and hybrids
Parameters:
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: E
Mana: C
Luck: B*
Noble Phantasm: B
*Due to Mendelian Paradox
Class Skill(s)
Personal Skills
Noble Phantasm(s)
Lore & Background
Personality
Relationships
Author's Notes
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Rider of Adulthood
(by radiant-grey. Source. This being his 'default' appearance of course)
“You’ve had the fine taste to summon one of my pedigree as Servant Rider. But I run a tight ship, you hear, where any bad form will have you keelhauled.”
True Name: Captain James Hook
Aliases: Blackbeard’s bo’sun, ‘George Darling’, -your father’s name here-
Alt. Classes: Avenger
Source: Fiction, Peter Pan
Region: Britain, Neverland
Catalyst: Hook prop worn by his original actor, Gerald du Maurier.
Armament: Rapier, pistol, hook-hand, cannons
Character: “As the sailors of old colonised the world, so shall I colonise the minds of unruly little children!”
The villain of the children’s classic Peter Pan, Hook’s existence act as like a crystallisation of two concepts: a child’s idea of what a pirate is, and a child’s anxieties about what adulthood is, particularly as reflected through one of the first examples of adulthood a child has: their fathers.
Only a few details are known about Hook’s past. He will insistently remind people he was educated at Oxford and especially Eton, and that while still on Earth he worked as Blackbeard’s boatswain and was the only man ‘Long John Silver’ was ever afraid of. He was somehow able to get to Neverland, where he became instant archenemies with Peter Pan, a boy he saw as all but personifying ‘bad form’ and everything he couldn’t stand about children.
Really, Hook has more in common with Peter than he’d ever admit, as both could be called ‘dead ends’ as human beings. For Peter, this is his inability, if not refusal, to grow up, whereas with Hook it was that he grew up wrong, as everything a child fears adults are like, and became set in his ways. That may be why he ended up in Neverland, as the island saw him as fulfilling the role of the collective fears a child may have of their father.
But Hook has his own fears too. Ever since Peter fed his hand to a nearby crocodile, Hook has been relentlessly pursued by that crocodile ever attracted to the scent of his blood, with only a pocket watch it also swallowed warning him of its presence. As Hook embodies a child’s fears, so does the crocodile embody an adult’s fears, of aging and death.
While he has his own potential wishes though, Hook naturally sees the Grail as an ultimate treasure befitting an ultimate pirate. He’s also especially relieved to be out of Neverland, though knowing that the crocodile will still find and follow him anyway brings little reassurance.
Attribute: Earth
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Likes: ‘Good Form’, academia, obedience, cigars (ironically, given his first actor sponsored cigars but didn’t smoke)
Dislikes: ‘Bad Form’, children, the sight of his own blood, his own mortality
Relationships
- Kafka (as Hermann Kafka): “Couldn’t even make it as a man, now could you?”
- Christina (as Gustavus Adolphus): “Some new Golden Age for Sweden this is, for the country to immediately fall into incompetent hands.”
- Sun Shang Xiang (as Sun Jian): “Of course you couldn’t just get married to that Liu Bei like a good girl. Now you’ve handed China to those Wei scallywags on a silver platter!”
- Grainne (as Cormac): “I don’t need any magic cup to tell that every word you say can’t be trusted, deserter.”
- Ginchiyo (as Dousetsu): “Hah, just look at your inelegant handling of the Raikiri! You’re a disgrace to our clan.”
- Ozma (as Pastorius): “So, the daughter I never knew… and rightly so it seems. What kind of loathsome landlubber insists on solving issues without violence?”
- Elizabeth II (as George VI): “Is this what has become of dear old England, an empire in decline?!”
- Jafar (as Yahya): “Perhaps if you simply did what you were told and didn’t ask questions, our whole family wouldn’t have sunk along with you!”
- Ludwig II (as Maximilien): “On the outside you look like a proper grown-up, but inside you’re still a fairy-obsessed child!”
Master: Hopefully not a child, or anyone who has issues with their father.
Natural Enemy: Peter Pan, the ‘Neverland Ammit’, Oedipus
Wish: For the complete obedience of children. Also, losing that crocodile would be nice.
Keywords: Pirate, Father, Good Form, Floreat Etona
Rarity: 2/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** B
- Endurance: ***** C
- Agility: ***** B+
- Mana: ***** D
- Luck: ***** E
- Noble Phantasm: ***** B
Class Skills
Magic Resistance
Built-up immunity to magic.
- Rank C: While this Skill would otherwise be low with Rider being a modern Servant, that much of his time was spent in the highly magical Neverland has given him an increased immunity.
Riding
Handling of mounts and vehicles
- Rank A-: Much more associated with vehicles like ships than horseback and other animal mounts, receiving a minus when riding them. With ships though, there is nearly no limit to what can be ridden, including enchanted airborne or even starborne ships.
Personal Skills
Dread Visage → Frighten the Fearless
An advanced form of intimidation, able to strike fear into the otherwise fearless.
- Rank C: Rider was noted for being the only one to strike fear into no less than the infamous Long John Silver. Striking fear into otherwise fearless powerful rulers or more ancient heroes may still be beyond him.
Honour of Pirates → Floreat Etona
The personal code of laws and virtues held by pirates, further combined with an upper-class academic sense of pride and image to uphold. Reinforces both physical and intellectual rigidity.
- Rank A: Allows Rider to possess when needed any Skill that allows him to uphold ‘good form’, be it following the pirate code or academic Eton etiquette.
Shapeshift (Fatherhood)
An oddly specific variant of Shapeshifting, in which one can assume the appearance and even abilities of their Target’s father (or ‘father figure’, in the case of foster parents).
- Rank A: Ever since the Peter Pan play’s original staging, Rider has almost always shared an actor with the Darlings’ father. Who sees him will see their apparent father staring back.
Voyager of the Storm
Ability to command a ship, combining the Skills Charisma and Military Tactics whenever aboard.
- Rank B: Rider is commonly presented as the most fearsome pirate of fiction, or at least children’s fiction, with the ability to somehow make a ship reach the otherworldly and abstract Neverland.
Noble Phantasms
Jolly Roger Etona
A Grand Pirate Galleon Conceived by Children
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Fortress
“You honestly insist mere children could’ve conceptualised such a glorious vessel?!”
As Captain Hook is a child’s idea of what a pirate is, so his Jolly Roger becomes a child’s idea of what a pirate ship is (ironically, given Rider’s distaste for children), cannons, plank, skull-and-crossbones and all. Most notably the ship was somehow able to reach Neverland, despite Rider being definitely an adult by that time and with the extreme ambiguity of Neverland’s own location.
As Neverland has been described as near the Milky Way, with later adaptations expanding on this idea, the Jolly Roger possess the ability fly in the air, especially helpful for escaping a certain crocodile, so high in the air in fact that it can perform a swooping divebomb attack from up near space, at least when Rider considers doing so ‘good form’.
However, the most accepted explanation for Neverland is that it acts as a collective Reality Marble, originally of J.M. Barrie and the Llewelyn-Davies boys but later opened to all children, with it even customising itself for each child who enters. This additionally gives this Phantasm the ability to enter and exit Reality Marbles and Bounded Fields.
But perhaps the most vital concept that governs this Phantasm is not where it sails to, but from what it sails from. Its ability to enter children’s dreamworlds and sails up through the skies is representative of its true purpose: outrunning and delaying death, the inability to adults to look death in the face. Hence it mainly being used to escape from…
Grim Reptile Countdown
Neverland Smiles at a Crocodile
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit
“Bah! I and any sensible man would say that not dying is an even greater adventure!”
Death, aging, mortality. Things which a child, if fortunate, is blissfully unaware of, or at least doesn’t truly comprehend, but which your average adult is all too afraid of.
When Hook’s hand was cut off by Peter Pan, it was thrown to a crocodile who immediately developed a taste for Hook’s flesh and has been pursuing him ever since. A crocodile which, in the context of Neverland, crystallises the inevitable approach of death, with a ticking clock the crocodile also swallowed at least acting as a warning of its presence.
Larger than any normal crocodile, like the image of the Grim Reaper it is entirely skeletal, with both the stopwatch and Hook’s lost hand visible, and shrouded in a dark aura. It is a Beast Hook can only delay and temporarily outrun, but never truly escape. That said, the crocodile does act as somewhat of an advantage for him in a Grail War, as it’ll happily stop to attack any other Servant or Master that gets in its way.
There are ways to get rid of this crocodile though, the first being that it’ll disappear once Hook is eliminated from the Grail War. The second, more immediate way to ward it off is for one to somehow possess no fear of death at all, which may be what attracts far more than simply the taste of blood and flesh.
Notes: I originally had it in mind to make his default faceclaim a skeletal pirate, to represent him trying to 'outrun' death
For Comparison: Alexcoene's Avenger
Last edited by NailsInYourFeet; October 24th, 2022 at 10:52 PM. Reason: Servant links
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