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Class: Saber

Team: Blue Team

True Name: Okinaga-Tarashi, Empress Jingū

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Sex: Female

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Attribute: Heaven

History: Originally born under the name Okinaga-Tarashi, her story is told throughout the texts known as the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. Descendant to a legendary korean prince, she married Emperor Chūai. During his reign she was possessed by an unknown divine spirit, which told of a land of amazing wealth to the west across the ocean, and bequeathed it upon him. He was skeptical, and believed the deity was lying to him. For his transgression, he died where he sat, playing his lute.

The queen then learned that the gods possessing her were the three great deities of the ocean surface, middle, and bottom. They instructed her to pay tribute to every deity of the heavens, earth, mountains, and water if she were to seek the promised land of wealth, as well as several other miscellaneous tasks. Completing all these tasks, she was granted the favor of the three ocean deities in the form of Kanju & Manju. A pair of divine gems that controlled the tides themselves. She raised an army and set sail across the ocean, conjuring a wave to carry the boats swiftly across the ocean. With her came the August Spirit, floating above her ships to protect them and embodying her feats of arms.

They reached the land of Shiragi and the wave continued, rolling over the land and carrying them deep into the middle of the country. Awed and intimidated by the show of force, he bent the knee without struggle, promising the kingdom’s riches in support of her, and presented her with a great treasure. The Seven Branched Sword, a blade with seven points that was forged from 100 hundred times hardened steel that’s use would route a hundred warriors. Accepting his surrender, she knocked against the gate, and dismissed the August Spirit to fly home. Beginning the journey home herself, she gave birth to Chūai’s child during the journey, and named him Ōjin.

Returning from her journey to Japan, she quickly and viciously dealt with a rebellion led by her half brothers. One was consumed by a giant boar sent by the August Spirit, and the other chose to drown himself after his armies were defeated. Retiring to reign as regent and raise her son until such a time she died, she lived to one hundred years of age before dying. Her son would have a prosperous reign after her, eventually being named a Kami, and far in the future, being deified as the war god Hachiman.

Personality: If one were to describe Jingu at a glance, the best words would simply be serious and stoic. A woman on a mission, she seems to constantly have a goal and is seeking to reach it. Frivolities are just distractions from said goal, and is something she does not put up with. As for what the goal actually is, more often than not it's simply appeasing the Kami. Of course, a lot of the time she doesn't exactly know what the Kami want, so she has to make an educated guess. The only frivolity she allows herself, is fishing.

Parameters
Strength: C
Agility: A
Endurance: C
Mana: B+
Luck: B

Class Skills

Magic Resistance A: Cancel spells of A-Rank or below, no matter what High-Thaumaturgy it is. In practice, the Servant is untouchable to modern magi, so it would not be an exaggeration to title the Servant a "Magus Killer".

Jingu lived in an age and a region where magic was still heavy in the air, as shown by how the very gods themselves spoke and interacted with her. She directly interacted with, and called upon, such magics. With her in the Saber class, it only makes sense for her to have a good rank of resistance to such things.

Riding C+: Most vehicles and animals can be handled with above average skill. However, cannot ride the likes of Phantasmal Species such as Monstrous Beasts. Jingu however gets a rank up when handling boats, on account of her naval accounts and the Blessing of Watatsumi skill.

Personal Skills

Blessing of Watatsumi A: The favor of the Dragon God of the Sea, this skill grants its owner a few perks. The ability to walk across a water's surface as if it were solid ground, without having to expend mana. When inside water itself, the owner gains increased agility and mobility. Finally, it grants the owner an innate understanding of how water acts. How it flows, how it pools, things of that nature.

In life, Jingu served as the vessel for three water deities, which all would eventually fuse into the singular Watatsumi. Even after they left her body, they granted her their favor and helped her by granting her Kanju & Manju. As a devoted worshipper of them, Jingu is freely given their blessing.

Shinto Rites C+: This skill marks the user as a practitioner of the Shinto religion, and a form of magecraft associated with it. Normally, this form of magecraft relies on using rituals and prayer to contact spirits to ask for blessings or assistance. However, as heroic spirits are spirits in of themselves, this function is no longer viable. This leaves the other aspect of the magecraft, the banishing of spirits. A very effective technique to use against other servants, it is capable of putting pressure on their very existence, or force them out of their physical form.

Jingu was a fervent practitioner of the earliest forms of Shinto while she was alive, and was deeply devout in her worship of the Kami. As such, she has been taught the various rites required to contact them and banish oni. In the form of a Saber, this skill has been heavily reduced. If she were summoned as a caster, she could potentially call upon divine spirits, or wipe a servant out of existence easily if they had no magic resistance.


Charisma B: Having B Rank in this Skill is sufficient to lead a nation as its King/Queen. The morale of military forces he or she commands is extremely high. It also allows the user to negate the Emergency Prerogative skill of enemies.

Empress Jingu took over after her husband's death and successfully led an invasion of another country. Though the victory is definitely attributed to her noble phantasm, it stands to reason she needed the charisma to even start such a monumental task. After returning, she managed to subdue a rebellion and then rule for several decades in relative peace.

Divinity B: is the measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. At high levels, one is treated as a mixed race of a Divine Spirit, and the level declines when the Heroic Spirit's own rank as a Monster or Demonic Beast rises. It can also decrease due to one's dislike for the gods. It also has an effect which reduces special defensive values called "purge defense" in proportion to the Divinity's Rank. It can break through Skills such as Protection of the Faith and Enlightenment of the Sacred Fig

Jingu in life served as the vessel for the three deities that would later fuse to become Watatsumi, even if only for a short period of time. After the death of herself and her son, he would eventually be posthumuously said to be the War God Hachiman. With his worship, his mother also became an object of worship, as a shrine to Hachiman commonly includes a shrine to her.



Noble Phantasms:

Name: [b][i]Shichishitō[/i][/b]
Title: The Seven-Branched Sword
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Army
Range: 1-20
Targets:100

[i]“This blade is a trophy of my victory. The greatest weapon of Shiragi, they gave it without bloodshed. If they had no hope, what hope do you have before Shichishitō?”[/i]

Description: Shichishisto is a strange blade made of extremely high quality steel. At a length of eighty centimeters in total, the blade is made of a single central blade with separate blades sprouting out from the sides, alternating as they went. Each one ends in a sharp point, and the whole formation resembles a small tree. Two messages are engraved into the blade, one for each side, speaking of the blade's origins and the reason it was gifted away.

A mystic code forged from steel hardened one hundred times, it stands as one of the few noble phantasms that do not require invoking its true name for it to come into effect. Simply put, it is a vessel. Shinto Rites requires the user to be able to draw the spirit into the body to make full use of it. As a spirit, Jingu cannot do this. The seven branched sword however, is a blade of ceremony of which no one knows for certain. Regalia with no purpose. The perfect tool to serve as the home of the spirits she may call upon.


Name: [b][i]Kanju & Manju[/i][/b]
Title: The Tide-Ebbing Stone & The Tide-Flowing Stone
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Fortress
Range: 1-99
Targets: N/A

[i]“Tides Ebb, Tides Flow. The ocean is vast, and oh so deep. Watatsumi, allow me to show them your beautiful domain! Crush them with the sea, Kanju and Manju!”[/i]

Description: Two pearls of pale blue material, they glow with an internal shifting light. The sound of breaking waves can be faintly heard if one listens closely to them, and upon closer inspection one can faintly make out the sight of churning water inside them. Set into rings of silver inscribed with the kanji for wind and wave, they’re the only jewelry she wears, one on each ring finger.

These two jewels are a legendary pair from Japanese mythology, used by the deities that would later condense into the singular Watatsumi, Dragon God of the Sea. Kanju would cause the tides to rece, and Manju would cause the tides to flow forth again. Together, they were meant to control the ocean’s tides completely. They were granted to Jingu for her devotion, and they serve as her greatest trump card.

They grant a limited control of water even without invoking their true name, allowing her to cause geyers of water and small waves to form from nothing with but a simple wave of her hand or flick of the wrist. Something she uses to great effect when combined with her Blessing of Watatsumi skill.

To use the jewels to their greatest effect requires a great deal of mana, and both her hands free. Invoking the true name of the gems allows her to take full control of the tides at a conceptual level for a time. With their true power, she carried an entire fleet deep inland to the middle of a country. Such power could wash an army away with ease in a vicious flood, or even grind a fortress to dust beneath a tsunami before sending the water used flowing back to the ocean. Leaving nothing behind.

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