“...Sorry, Makiri, but I'll be the one to finish what we started.”
Name: Demon Castle NAGATO
Keywords: Nagato Tohsaka, Golem, Joint Operation, Jewel Sword Zelretch
Combat, Shapeshift, Thought Acceleration, Memory Partition, Shielding
01 - Nagato Tohsaka
Head of the Tohsaka Family in the year 1800, and the representative of the Tohsaka family in the creation of the Fuyuki Holy Grail System.
...actually, as a magus, Nagato could only be called mediocre. His personal talent was nothing special, especially when compared to true “monsters” such as Makiri Zolgen and Justeaze von Einzbern. Even his daughter, a prodigy compared to him, could not be called “excellent”. However, he became the third partner in the Holy Grail’s design nonetheless thanks to serving as the Second Owner of the magical backwater known as Fuyuki. As a golem, then, he can be considered to have reached a state that would have been impossible for him as a human to step into.
He is a man who initially attempted to reach Akasha through the practice of martial arts. Furthermore, he is an oddity for being an apprentice of the True Magician Zelretch who was not turned into a wreck by that very apprenticeship; in truth though, this is simply because he was never an apprentice so much as a drinking friend of the Magician.
Shortly after the first Holy Grail War, both he and his family went missing in a single night, vanishing into thin air. This fact has nagged on both the Matou and Einzbern families for two hundred years.
His body has served as the core of this golem, the basis for its appearance, and the foundation of its artificial intelligence. It is no exaggeration to say that this golem is Nagato Tohsaka, merely in a new body.
02 - Golem
A magical construct that originates in Kabbalah, namely in the creations of Solomon ibn Gabriol, also known as Avicebron. A golem is created via using jewels as organs, parchment as skin, and mercury as binding. Other materials such as a magus for the core, a covering of stone, and the like are also considerations.
They are doll-type familiars, similar in atmosphere to puppets but more machine-like in their nature. In another world in which sixteen Servants fought over a Holy Grail, a bounty hunter once speculated that, given the size of the world, there could be a magus capable of creating golems equal to a Servant.
This was speaking to the Dead Apostle known as Van Fem. NAGATO is one of his creations, on par with the six remaining Demon Castles.
03 - Joint Operation
A unique form of artificial intelligence installation to this golem. Rather than being a single golem with a single mind, it is better to say that each of NAGATO’s limbs operates independently and can be considered its “own golem”, with the core serving as the terminal and the existence of Memory Partition serving to coordinate its efforts. However, it does not possess multiple "egos", but rather multiple lines of thought under the name NAGATO.
The Magic Circuits installed into each limb make each one the equivalent of a first-rate magus. As each one operates independently, fighting NAGATO is not unlike fighting four magi at the same time.
04 - Jewel Sword Zelretch
The Mystic Code of the Second Magic’s user. A form of "alien" technology created through the wisdom of one who has reached the Root. A fragment of the True Magic known as the Operation of Parallel Worlds.
It is an item which can only be used by those of the Magician’s lineage, ergo the Tohsaka family to whom a blueprint of it was entrusted to. While this model is notably inferior to the sword that the Magician himself wields, it is a “success” nonetheless. As NAGATO was created from the body of Nagato Tohsaka, utilization of the Jewel Sword is wholly possible.
The sword creates an opening which allows one to access the environmental magical energy of a parallel world. Thus, it can be said to provide the user with a functionally infinite supply of magical energy, only constrained by the environment itself and the user’s capability as a Magic Circuit. The Magic Circuits installed into NAGATO are beyond first-rate, allowing its sword to enter the realm of an A rank Noble Phantasm at maximum output.
Truly, a capability that is deserving of being called a boss-class threat.
Head of the Tohsaka Family in the year 1800, and the representative of the Tohsaka family in the creation of the Fuyuki Holy Grail System.
...actually, as a magus, Nagato could only be called mediocre. His personal talent was nothing special, especially when compared to true “monsters” such as Makiri Zolgen and Justeaze von Einzbern. Even his daughter, a prodigy compared to him, could not be called “excellent”. However, he became the third partner in the Holy Grail’s design nonetheless thanks to serving as the Second Owner of the magical backwater known as Fuyuki. As a golem, then, he can be considered to have reached a state that would have been impossible for him as a human to step into.
He is a man who initially attempted to reach Akasha through the practice of martial arts. Furthermore, he is an oddity for being an apprentice of the True Magician Zelretch who was not turned into a wreck by that very apprenticeship; in truth though, this is simply because he was never an apprentice so much as a drinking friend of the Magician.
Shortly after the first Holy Grail War, both he and his family went missing in a single night, vanishing into thin air. This fact has nagged on both the Matou and Einzbern families for two hundred years.
His body has served as the core of this golem, the basis for its appearance, and the foundation of its artificial intelligence. It is no exaggeration to say that this golem is Nagato Tohsaka, merely in a new body.
02 - Golem
A magical construct that originates in Kabbalah, namely in the creations of Solomon ibn Gabriol, also known as Avicebron. A golem is created via using jewels as organs, parchment as skin, and mercury as binding. Other materials such as a magus for the core, a covering of stone, and the like are also considerations.
They are doll-type familiars, similar in atmosphere to puppets but more machine-like in their nature. In another world in which sixteen Servants fought over a Holy Grail, a bounty hunter once speculated that, given the size of the world, there could be a magus capable of creating golems equal to a Servant.
This was speaking to the Dead Apostle known as Van Fem. NAGATO is one of his creations, on par with the six remaining Demon Castles.
03 - Joint Operation
A unique form of artificial intelligence installation to this golem. Rather than being a single golem with a single mind, it is better to say that each of NAGATO’s limbs operates independently and can be considered its “own golem”, with the core serving as the terminal and the existence of Memory Partition serving to coordinate its efforts. However, it does not possess multiple "egos", but rather multiple lines of thought under the name NAGATO.
The Magic Circuits installed into each limb make each one the equivalent of a first-rate magus. As each one operates independently, fighting NAGATO is not unlike fighting four magi at the same time.
04 - Jewel Sword Zelretch
The Mystic Code of the Second Magic’s user. A form of "alien" technology created through the wisdom of one who has reached the Root. A fragment of the True Magic known as the Operation of Parallel Worlds.
It is an item which can only be used by those of the Magician’s lineage, ergo the Tohsaka family to whom a blueprint of it was entrusted to. While this model is notably inferior to the sword that the Magician himself wields, it is a “success” nonetheless. As NAGATO was created from the body of Nagato Tohsaka, utilization of the Jewel Sword is wholly possible.
The sword creates an opening which allows one to access the environmental magical energy of a parallel world. Thus, it can be said to provide the user with a functionally infinite supply of magical energy, only constrained by the environment itself and the user’s capability as a Magic Circuit. The Magic Circuits installed into NAGATO are beyond first-rate, allowing its sword to enter the realm of an A rank Noble Phantasm at maximum output.
Truly, a capability that is deserving of being called a boss-class threat.
01 - Combat
As a golem designed to be on par with the Demon Castles, its power can be called excellent; however, it was fundamentally a “rush job”, so there are some flaws with its movements and it lacks the coordination it could have possessed with a few more decades of polishing. Nonetheless, it can easily be called a combatant equal to a Servant simply at base.
Perhaps due to the individual who it was based on, it utilizes martial arts in combat based around “ignoring the shell to strike the interior”. A ridiculous close-quarters fighter.
02 - Shapeshift
Alteration of form. In its form as a castle, it is used for the purpose of manipulating its towers like limbs. Its true usage thought is in the capability to change from its structure as a Demon Castle into a compact human form; in this case, it bears the visage of Nagato Tohsaka.
03 - Thought Acceleration
Overclocking of thought processes in order to achieve high-speed information processing and planning capacity. Similar in theory to that which is used by alchemists of Atlas, and equivalent in function.
04 - Memory Partition
Division of the mind into multiple separate partitions that work synergistically towards a single goal. Similar in theory to that which is used by alchemists of Atlas, but based more in independence than Atlas’s practice. This has been utilized in order to allow for the Joint Operation of the golem’s limbs.
05 - Shielding
The outermost layer of stone that covers the golem. In terms of physical resistance its capacity is at the quality that one would expect, but more damning is the fact that it possesses potent anti-spirit qualities. A precaution taken in order to outfit it for optimal performance against Servants.
As a golem designed to be on par with the Demon Castles, its power can be called excellent; however, it was fundamentally a “rush job”, so there are some flaws with its movements and it lacks the coordination it could have possessed with a few more decades of polishing. Nonetheless, it can easily be called a combatant equal to a Servant simply at base.
Perhaps due to the individual who it was based on, it utilizes martial arts in combat based around “ignoring the shell to strike the interior”. A ridiculous close-quarters fighter.
02 - Shapeshift
Alteration of form. In its form as a castle, it is used for the purpose of manipulating its towers like limbs. Its true usage thought is in the capability to change from its structure as a Demon Castle into a compact human form; in this case, it bears the visage of Nagato Tohsaka.
03 - Thought Acceleration
Overclocking of thought processes in order to achieve high-speed information processing and planning capacity. Similar in theory to that which is used by alchemists of Atlas, and equivalent in function.
04 - Memory Partition
Division of the mind into multiple separate partitions that work synergistically towards a single goal. Similar in theory to that which is used by alchemists of Atlas, but based more in independence than Atlas’s practice. This has been utilized in order to allow for the Joint Operation of the golem’s limbs.
05 - Shielding
The outermost layer of stone that covers the golem. In terms of physical resistance its capacity is at the quality that one would expect, but more damning is the fact that it possesses potent anti-spirit qualities. A precaution taken in order to outfit it for optimal performance against Servants.
01 - A Man and his Vampire
The man who in another world would be called Dead Apostle Ancestor Fourteen, Valery Fernand Vandelstam puppeteer extraordinaire, owns seven golems which are called Demon Castles. One who in another world would be named Apostle Ancestor Eight Fina-blood Svelten destroyed the 5th Castle, Motley, with his Reality Marble, Ghost Fleet Parade. So now Valery, or Van-Fem, merely possesses six Demon Castles.
Roughly two hundred years ago, Van-Fem was commissioned by a family that had disappeared to create a golem. How they managed to persuade him to do so is unknown. The base instructions Van-Fem was provided with were as follows: create something that is anathema to spirits, create something that can cast multiple spells simultaneously, and create the golem with the purpose of "being the family head, Nagato Tohsaka".
During the phase of blueprint design and planning, Van-Fem actually got to know the magus he would be using as an ingredient rather well, the two bonding over drink as much as an inhuman monster and an incompetent martial artist could. The process of designing a golem with Nagato's mind thus went seamlessly, and indeed while Nagato Tohsaka is deceased, in memory and mentality one can consider NAGATO to be Nagato who had simply taken a new body, which is precisely what Nagato himself had requested.
The deadline for completion was the new millennium. Shortly following completion, NAGATO installed a suppression protocol on its own mind for day-to-day operations, for the purpose of minimizing distortions that could result from its mental calculation abilities. Before engaging a group of multiple Servants, it deemed it necessary to lift this suppression protocol.
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02 - He Who Lacked Fortune
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The man who in another world would be called Dead Apostle Ancestor Fourteen, Valery Fernand Vandelstam puppeteer extraordinaire, owns seven golems which are called Demon Castles. One who in another world would be named Apostle Ancestor Eight Fina-blood Svelten destroyed the 5th Castle, Motley, with his Reality Marble, Ghost Fleet Parade. So now Valery, or Van-Fem, merely possesses six Demon Castles.
Roughly two hundred years ago, Van-Fem was commissioned by a family that had disappeared to create a golem. How they managed to persuade him to do so is unknown. The base instructions Van-Fem was provided with were as follows: create something that is anathema to spirits, create something that can cast multiple spells simultaneously, and create the golem with the purpose of "being the family head, Nagato Tohsaka".
During the phase of blueprint design and planning, Van-Fem actually got to know the magus he would be using as an ingredient rather well, the two bonding over drink as much as an inhuman monster and an incompetent martial artist could. The process of designing a golem with Nagato's mind thus went seamlessly, and indeed while Nagato Tohsaka is deceased, in memory and mentality one can consider NAGATO to be Nagato who had simply taken a new body, which is precisely what Nagato himself had requested.
The deadline for completion was the new millennium. Shortly following completion, NAGATO installed a suppression protocol on its own mind for day-to-day operations, for the purpose of minimizing distortions that could result from its mental calculation abilities. Before engaging a group of multiple Servants, it deemed it necessary to lift this suppression protocol.
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02 - He Who Lacked Fortune
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