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[i][color=yellow][b][h2]"Could I never please you, Father...?"[/h2][/b][/color]

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[color=yellow][b]Class:[/b][/color] Archer
[color=yellow][b]True Name:[/b][/color] Esfandiyār
[color=yellow][b]Origin:[/b][/color] Iran/Persia
[color=yellow][b]Alignment:[/b][/color] Neutral Good
[color=yellow][b]Bio:[/b][/color] Esfandiyār was the Crown Prince and a Divine Warrior of ancient Iran (or Persia) who supported the prophet Zartosht (Zarathustra), enabling him to spread the religion of Zoroastrianism. He also fought against many apostates and enemies of Zartosht to do so. In return, Zartosht gave Esfandiyār a chain and armor from Heaven. The armor made him invincible and the chain had the power to bind anyone, even a demon or evil magician, making them unable to escape. Zartosht also gave a Divine blessing to the prince and declared that anyone who would spill the blood of Esfandiyār (killed him) shall suffer a cursed life of bad omens until the day he dies and even after death would be condemned to hell.
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[color=yellow][b]STR:[/b][/color] [color=white]B[/color] | [color=yellow][b]AGI:[/b][/color] [color=white]B[/color] | [color=yellow][b]END:[/b][/color] [color=white]B[/color] | [color=yellow][b]MGI:[/b][/color] [color=white]C[/color] | [color=yellow][b]LCK:[/b][/color] [color=white]C[/color] | [color=yellow][b]NP:[/b][/color] [color=white]A[/color]

[color=yellow][h3][b]Class Skills:[/b][/h3][/color] 
[color=yellow]Magic Resistance C:[/color] [s]Negates Magecraft with an aria of two verses or lower. Cannot defend against large-scale Magecraft such as High-Thaumaturgy or Greater Rituals.[/s] This is sealed/replaced by the Noble Phantasm, Ruyin-tan.

[color=yellow]Independent Action A:[/color] It is possible to take action even without a Master. However, to use Noble Phantasms of great magical energy consumption, backup from the Master is necessary. At Rank A, it is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for about a week without a Master.

[color=yellow][h3][b]Personal Skills:[/b][/h3][/color] 
[color=yellow]Protection of the Faith A:[/color] A skill possessed only by those who have sacrificed themselves for a religious view. Despite being a form of divine protection, it is not a blessing from a higher existence. It is the absoluteness of one’s body and mind that was born from their beliefs. But if it is too high, it causes abnormalities in the personality. In Esfandiyar's case he completely devoted to the beliefs of his people, the faith of Zoroastrianism is his sword and shield, for which he will kill and defend without doubt or turning away. It acts as a form of mental protection for him against mental attacks of equivalent rank.

[color=yellow]Uncrowned King's Charisma B:[/color] Esfandiyar lead the armies of his father into many victorious battles and swayed the people of his land into the faith of Zoroastrianism, while he has the capabilities of a King to lead an entire nation into prosperity, he suffers a rank down to the skill due to never having actually succeeded his father and obtaining the throne. He is a tragic prince who accomplished many grand feats but whose destiny prevented him from achieving kingship. This skill acts as a form of Charisma, with B-rank being the equivalent needed to lead a nation as it's King or Commander. 

[color=yellow]Clairvoyance C:[/color] The visual ability that is also called "Eagle Eye". It is frequently used during scouting. Simply looking from a high location is sufficient to fully survey a town and search for enemies. In addition, Clairvoyance will affect the accuracy of bows. It connotes superior visual perception and dynamic occipital capture, such as to supplement the long-range aiming of projectile weapons.

[color=yellow]Eye of the Mind (True) A:[/color] The heightened capacity for observation, refined through training, discipline and experience. A danger-avoidance ability that utilizes the intelligence collected up to the current time as the basis in order to predict the opponent’s activity and change the current situation. This is not a result of talent, but an overwhelming amount of combat experience. A weapon wielded by none other than a mortal, gained through tenacious training. So long there is even a 1% chance of a comeback, this ability greatly improves the chances of winning. At A Rank, Esfandiyar is capable of calm analysis of the abilities of the opponent as well as the battle conditions even when in danger and deduce an appropriate course of action after considering all possibilities to escape from a predicament.

[color=yellow][h3][b]Noble Phantasms: [/b][/h3][/color] 
[h2][color=fff200]Rûyîn-tan[/color] [/h2][h3]Blessed Body That Cursed Death[/h3]
[b][color=gray]Rank:[/color][/b] B
[color=gray][b]Type:[/b][/color] Anti-Unit (Self)
[color=gray][b]Range:[/b][/color] 0
[color=gray][b]Maximum Number of Targets:[/b][/color] 1 Person
Goštâsp, Esfandiyar's father, asked the prophet Zoroaster for four grand boons, expecting them all for himself but the prophet agreed to grant these boons but only at the cost of giving them to four different people. The result was for Goštâsp to receive the complete knowledge of his place in mînû or the world beyond; Jâmâsp to be rendered cognizant of all past, present, and future events that have been and to come to be; Pašôtan gaining a form of personal immortality; and Esfandiyar to be granted invulnerability, known as Rûyîn-tan or Burzēn-Mihr, the blessing would bestow Esfandiyar the inability to be harmed externally so that "no knife may bring him harm". 

This Noble Phantasm is the sublimation of that boon, though it is weaker when summoned outside of the Rider class. It is a "continuously active-type Noble Phantasm" that allows for his body to cancel physical attacks and magic equivalent to C-rank or lower. He can directly fight those with C-rank strength without taking a scratch, requiring attacks of B-rank and above to harm him, but attacks only register as damage only after the defensive values of an amount equal to C-rank are subtracted from them. All A-rank attacks are effectively reduced to C-rank attacks and B-ranks to D.

When Esfandiyar was blessed by the prophet Zoroaster and bathed in the flames of the Burzen-Mihr, Esfandiyar made the crucial mistake of closing his eyes, rendering them unprotected and the singular point of weakness to it's defenses. Attacks successfully striking his eyes do not gain any defensive values, allowing for even the weakest of servants to harm them. Due to his infamy in Iranian legend, should Esfandiyar's identity be discovered, it is highly likely enemies will focus his eyes with their strikes, making it important to keep his identity as secretive as possible.

Finally, this Noble Phantasm has a second effect that only becomes active the moment that Esfandiyar is killed successfully. Esfandiyar's killer is said to be cursed with a life of ill-fortune and misery, where death itself won't allow for respite, dragging them into the pits of hell. Ruyin-tan target's Esfandiyar's killer upon the moment of death and causes two curses to be placed upon them permanently until the killer suffers death as well. 

- All Stats are reduced by 1 Rank each.
- The noble phantasm, if applicable, used to kill him has it's function (or one of it's functions if multiple) sealed.

[h2][color=fff200]Crystalline Arrowhead[/color][/h2][h3]The Bowman Who Knew No Defense[/h3]
[color=gray][b]Rank:[/b][/color] C
[color=gray][b]Type:[/b][/color] Anti-Unit/Anti-Defense
[color=gray][b]Range:[/b][/color] 10~50
[color=gray][b]Maximum Number of Targets:[/b][/color] 1 person
Alongside the armor which granted Esfandiyar invincibility, he possessed arrows which held heads of diamonds, capable of piercing the defenses of his targets seemingly no matter what they attempt to defend with. Esfandiyar's bow creates arrows with crystalline arrowheads that serves the same purpose. It is an Anti-Defense Noble Phantasm with the trait of it's arrows "punching" or more accurately slipping through any defensive noble phantasms or obstacles they come into contact with, bypassing the defensive measures altogether as though it were not there.

Esfandiyar also can choose to fully draw back his bow to it's near-limit and charge up a singular arrow with a sizable amount of magical energy and release it as a singular shot set to explode upon impact with a force of an A-rank attack. This arrow similarly carries the property of Anti-Defense. Though he may only perform the singular shot attack [u]once per day[/u] as a limitation.[/i]
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[color=ed145b][b]Name:[/b][/color] Cormac Almister
[color=ed145b][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Male
[color=ed145b][b]Age:[/b][/color] 22
[color=ed145b][b]Alignment:[/b][/color] True Neutral
[color=ed145b][b]Rank:[/b][/color] --[/center]

[color=f6989d][u][b]Objective for the Grail:[/b][/u][/color]

	To cleanse the world of it's current pollution by personal methods.

[color=f6989d][u][b]Character Objectives:[/b][/u][/color]

	~PMing to the GM.~

[color=f6989d][u][b]Personality: [/b][/u][/color]

	Cormac is an exhaustive youth, used to the long-night studies that pass through the daily grind being a student brings. His attendance at the Clock Tower is kept by record marks, always passing his classes but sleeping any time he can get the moment to rest. He's seen as bright but unmotivated and this is supported by his outlook on expending energy. Why should he have to do something that he's uninterested in if it won't benefit him down the line?

Cormac retains a cynical outlook on the world currently, men and women, old and young will do what they need to in order to survive above everything else. Though, to Cormac those actions are usually seen as far too small-scale. Time has progressed and new sciences are killing off the mystery of magic, it's distorting the fine line of what it meant to be a Mage in these modern times and he hates it. 

While on the outside, Cormac comes off as a quiet, well-mannered boy - at the same time he is critical of others and quick to judge them. He dislikes those that push their ideals onto others without giving a reason why it's necessary and has had altercations in the past on his records of getting into verbal and sometimes physical fights with said individuals. He's since adapted the mind-set that it's better to hide one's true thoughts and intentions until they can be put into action, rather than voice them just out of concern or hope.

Hope doesn't get results.

[color=f6989d][u][b]Biography: [/b][/u][/color]

	Cormac belongs to the Almister family, a family of mages whom pride themselves on the pedigree of their house's generations through selective marriage between their heirs and other esteemed mage families to help bring about a high likelihood of aptitude to both bloodlines. They have survived through this method for many years and retained their high standing among other english magi as a result.

	Rather than stay with his family and be used as another potential match for another family's heir like his relatives before him, Cormac left to pursue a career at the age of 18 as an established Magus of his own volition in the Clock Tower after passing their requested entrance exams and giving an extensive interview to ascertain his reasons for joining the Mage's Association. He glazed his words to only speak on what would be considered the truth while holding back any prejudices or irritations with those that conducted the interview. He was given a probationary contract under the agreement that he keep his grades above a certain standard for three years.

	He was given his full license as a member of the Clock Tower when he was 21 after keeping to his end of the agreement of the contract. While he still attends the Clock Tower, it's been more recent that Cormac has been going to and from his workshop, more than he used to. It was in preparation for the fight to come that he planned on attending, a once in a lifetime opportunity - The Holy Grail War.

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[color=f6989d][u][b]Magic Circuit Switch: [/b][/u][/color]

	The mental image of being pierced through the head by a beam of light.

[color=f6989d][u][b]Number of Magic Circuits: [/b][/u][/color]

	B

[color=f6989d][u][b]Quality of Magic Circuits: [/b][/u][/color]

	A

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[color=f6989d][u][b]Elemental Affinity: [/b][/u][/color]

	Water & Wind (Origin: Reflection) 

[color=f6989d][u][b]Magecraft: [/b][/u][/color]

	[color=8493ca][b]General Magecraft:[/b][/color]
		Cormac is above average in his studies of general magecraft, while it can be said he understands the acts that go into the fundamentals it's more of a personal choice if he decides to use them, lacking motivation in some cases to practice anything outside of his immediate interests. He's capable of performing the acts to a moderate degree but not spectacular in any regard.

	[color=8493ca][b]Elemental Magecraft (Water & Wind): [/b][/color]
		Cormac's specialty, his personal favorite form of magecraft in which he has learned to manipulate and control liquids through the application of both water and wind elements. He could be considered a potential master of this magecraft if he had more practice with it's usage. It's not due to any lack of power, but rather skill through years of application. He is skilled enough with the elements individually and together to hold up a decent fight against those that have practiced only one element, but would fall short unless he could tip the balance into his favor with quick thinking.
		His uses of water magecraft vary from simple acts of changing the flow of water, redirecting moving liquids toward alternate paths or created temporary constructs out of the liquid. While with air he can create condensed pockets and fire them off as bullets, create gusts to lift himself up or to blow obstacles down. Together though he can finely manipulate forms of liquids into complex maneuvers and shapes. These are just some of the many applications.

	[color=8493ca][b]Familiar Creation (Birds):[/b][/color]
		Cormac spent some time while at the Clock Tower learning the act of creating and manipulating creatures into servants to suit his needs, but he found no better connection with creatures like rats, spiders or dogs like most. He fell in love with the art of flying and how birds could do so freely, thus he limited himself to the sole usage of birds as his familiars, giving them purposes such as information gatherers or the transport of notes of importance. Cormac takes time to not only groom his birds to specific functions but also to create a mental link with them to allow him to see through their eyes and observe the world from the skies, a dream of many but a reality for Cormac. He's left stationary while performing this though, so he often holes himself up somewhere safe while his consciousness is linked.

	[color=8493ca][b]Puppetry:[/b][/color]
		The Magecraft of designing, creating and manipulating self-crafted dolls and other creations to serve various purposes. This form of magecraft came from his family's magic crest and was trained to a refined degree so that Cormac would be able to craft his own puppets and use them as minor familiars or helpers around his workshop. As it was engraved inside of his magic crest it's not hard for him to access and learn techniques from the previous generations to enhance the final products or utilize puppets in a manner that would have normally taken someone else more time, to do such actions though it requires flowing mana into the magic crest. Cormac can be considered adept in understanding the magecraft itself but advanced when it comes to practical usage.

	[color=8493ca][b]Mental Compartmentalization:[/b][/color]
		Rather than a form of magecraft, this is a form of mental skill towards the subconscious psychological defense mechanism of avoiding cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves. It allows for conflicting ideas to co-exist by inhibiting direct or explicit acknowledgement and interaction between separate compartmentalized self-states.
		Cormac has through years of practice, programmed his brain to compartmentalize feelings, thoughts and ideas into different recesses of his mind. This acts as both a method to remember crucial details and obtain them when necessary through associated smells, sights, touches and feelings so as to not forget them but also so that they cannot be readily accessed by others. To Cormac it is a form of mental protection against the invasion of thoughts in his mind and allows him to say and feel one way while also feeling another towards the same thing without betraying either as being considered false. It can be said that Cormac is a magus with many intentions and opinions.

[color=f6989d][u][b]Magic Crest: [/b][/u][/color]
	
	The Almister family has existed for 1200 years but their crest has only existed for 500 with a specialty in puppetry and elemental magecraft.

[color=f6989d][u][b]Equipment:[/b][/u][/color]

	[color=8493ca][b]"Seal of Arawn"[/b][/color] - A long black roll of tattered cloth strip which holds the capability of concealing an object or person wrapped up in them from normal senses of sight by turning the object or person in question invisible it does not seal the object or person's magical presence though. 

	[color=8493ca][b]"Scales of Abandinus"[/b][/color] - A pair of boots that manipulate liquids they come into contact with to allow the act of walking or running across liquid surfaces. When submerged they gain scales and fins at their sides which increases the speed or swimming.

	[color=8493ca][b]"Lock"[/b][/color] - A nine by nine square cube which when activated by saying it's name creates a sixty feet radius bounded field around itself which serves to keep those inside of it from leaving and those outside of it from entering by non-magical methods though capable magi will find it relatively easy to escape through magical means as it's a non-combat oriented mystic code. The cube acts as the core of the magecraft and changes colors based on the "truth" and "false" statements stated by those inside of the bounded field. The method of it's lie detection is by previewing associated memories connected to the statements said within it's presence and giving the truth via it's assessed insight. Once activated by it's user, it floats on it's own and works autonomously until deactivated by the word 'Confirm'. Due to it's functions being simplistic in nature it's mana cost is relatively low but requires a constant flow from it's user to keep active and will shut off prematurely if that flow stops.

	[color=8493ca][b]Cage of Birds[/b][/color] - A bird cage full of specially trained pigeons, doves and crows all under the care of Cormac. They must be fed at least once every day.

	[color=8493ca][b]Bird seed[/b][/color] - Self explanatory, birds have to eat too!

	[color=8493ca][b]Wallet, ID, Credit Card[/b][/color] - The essentials to a good living!

	[color=8493ca][b]Reinforced Backpack with clip strap[/b][/color] - A backpack with belt like straps to allow for easy donning and removal, capable of carrying mixed items of a generous size and weight without difficulty.

[color=f6989d][u][b]Exceptional Benefit: [/b][/u][/color]

	[color=8493ca][b]Superior Mystic Code[/b][/color] - ??? (GM Only)

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