Name: Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus
Title(s): Emperor of Rust and Iron
Class: Faker
Gender: Male
Attribute: Man
Alignment: Chaotic Evil Chaotic Good
Personality: A megalomaniac to the nth degree, an absurdity of a manchild who sees the world as his, and a villain who believes he is the hero. A true hero for a moment, flaring up brilliantly.
Objective for the Grail: Incarnation. To save a single person.
Biography: Commodus- WikiWeapon: Nameless bow and arrow.
Parameters
STR: B
END: C
AGI: C
MGI: D
LCK: C
Class Skills
Independent Action: BIt 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 B, it is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for about two days without a Master.
Disguising: B (X)The ability to display fake information to onlookers, pretending to be another.
At this rank, Master's clairvoyance and information-gathering abilities will display Commodus as having the class and parameters of the Archer-class Servant Hercules.
However, an enemy's direct observation and use of logic is unimpeded. For example, if an enemy Master personally witnesses Commodus fail to overpower a Servant with B strength, they will understand that 'Master's clairvoyance must be incorrect'.As the lie of the Faker class has been thrown off, this has been forcibly sealed.
Personal Skills
For He Is Another Hercules (False): EX
The nature of one who attempted to become another. Commodus declared himself as the reincarnation of Hercules and utilized his authority as Emperor to recreate the feats of Hercules during his life. If the Emperor called white black, then it was black. If the Emperor called himself Hercules, then he was Hercules. In that sense, this bears a similar 'weight' to Imperial Privilege.
By temporarily sealing his own unique abilities, it is possible to replicate the abilities of Hercules at a lower rank. However, cost of maintaining one's existence increases manifold as abilities are replicated.For He Is Another Hercules (True): EXThe nature of one who has embraced his own path. The false name of Hercules has been denied, and in doing so, a hero has arisen out of a villain. A subcategory of Saint Graph Readvent, a miracle that allows for one to surpass their legend.
By burning up one's spiritual foundation as fuel, it is possible to freely call upon skills which resemble those of Hercules: that is, his combat instinct, his will to live, his great valor, and his trusted technique. Rather than the true god-given talents of Hercules, though, these are merely 'things that anyone can achieve with effort'.
While weaker than the talents of Hercules himself, and weaker even than the "False" version of this skill, they are a manifestation of human willpower that can be called "Commodus' own". In some regard, then, they carry a beauty that stands on par with the genuine article.
Born in the Purple: B (A)A mutation of the Charisma skill. A status afforded to a subsection of nobility, children born to reigning emperors who are thus afforded privilege and destined for greatness. In other words, a predetermined arrangement to "be a king", a fate forced upon oneself.
In practice, its effects are precisely equivalent to the Charisma skill, but it is more akin to a burden of fate than a talent or ability, and so is present even if the user is driven mad.
It can be said that by becoming Hercules, this fate was overcome.The heart has been embraced. The hero makes his final stand.
Septem (False): AA distorted version of the great Romulus’s skill, gained through the renaming of Rome that Commodus enacted and the distorted replacement of Romulus that he attempted to make himself.
Rather than Romulus's granting of blessings to his "children" (Roman Emperors), this is the thievery of blessings from them, just as he replaced the Colossus of Nero with his own image and reclaimed all things under his name. Blessings bestowed upon Roman Emperors, whether born of their own will or another's, are Commodus's to pilfer and brand in his own image.
However, this is only feasible should the blessing or its effect be a discrete and present existence; in other words, a Roman Emperor must stand before him to be robbed. Naturally, if a Roman Emperor or one who identifies as such is not present, this is useless.
Incitement: C+The acquisition of the words and gestures to lead many of the masses/citizens. While not a man of the Senate, Commodus was undeniably a man of the people, a figure whose bombastic and theatrical nature formed a cult of personality in spite of his failures as a ruler. His words may whip the masses into a frenzy.
When coupled with the fate he has been given, a truly nightmarish world is formed. The gluttony under seven hills bares its fangs in wait.
Rust and IronDescent of Mankind's Once-Dazzling Star
Rank: A (A+)
NP Type: Anti-Unit, Anti-Empire
Range: As large as the empire demands.
Maximum Number of Targets: As large as the empire demands.
Not a true Noble Phantasm, but rather a conceptual bounded barrier that recreates the fall of the Roman Empire, the descent from a kingdom of gold to a kingdom of rust and iron. Commodus is known as the madman whose absurdity is called one of the hallmarks of the empire’s fall from grace. While the historical accuracy and attribution is questionable, the belief which shapes it is not. As a result, his Noble Phantasm cannot be anything other than this feat.
Originally, it should be an ability that can span an “empire” in size, but the Grail System has constrained it to the level of a “city”, as this is the empire thusly designated.
This is a conceptual bounded barrier of “degradation” which exists implicitly as a result of Commodus himself existing. All things within its limits suffer an effect of degradation at the conceptual level; even in the case of alternate conceptual spaces, the effect will still be realized through appending this degradation to that “universe” rather than to the discrete existences themselves.
While the process is obviously far distinct, for analogy’s sake in terms of end effect it is not unlike the reverse of Reinforcement magecraft. The purpose and value of all things is degraded from gold to rust. Blades will become duller, food will become less nutritious, and maids will become less cute.
The process of degradation varies depending on the particular being. For beings at the level of a Servant, a 'rank-down' is incurred with the passage of each day. For beings at a lower level, this is less pronounced, and for beings at a higher level, it is more pronounced. One cannot degrade below zero, of course.
If left unchecked, then, Commodus is a titan of ruin. With his life, all things are decayed to rust. Blades do not cut, food does not satiate, his own Master does not draw breath, and even that almighty wishgranting device which summoned him falls apart. He can only be called a living disaster who shoves even the possibility of his own victory aside, and instead attacks the foundation of the Holy Grail War itself.
By accepting his nature, he has so too accepted this Noble Phantasm. Command of the 'ruin' is possible, both for offensive and defensive purposes.
