Name/Title: High Reverend Billy Jameson
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Personality: A red-blooded American man with a love of God and guns. He is charismatic and full of infectious passion when standing behind a podium. He is a born leader, inspiring others with both his words and actions. He wants nothing more than to see his father's dream come to fruition, though he'd also like to build a family of his own someday.
Appearance:
i.imgur.com/TTWsDwf.jpgCult History: Jimmy Jameson, an all-American priest of the Church, was a pious, charismatic man. Once an orphan taken in by a mage conman, the Church saved him, raising him to spread the grace of God. That changed when he was invited to join the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament. He believed that through the Assembly the Church was attempting to steal away God's light from the world. After receiving his first mission, he cut all ties with the Church and began gathering an uprising in the American wilds.
The uprising took form as the Church of the Lord's Light. Americans became radicalized by Jimmy's charismatic sermons (and maybe more than a little magecraft learned from his adoptive father to help things along), and soon an empire of megachurches sprung up across America, with a cult of extremists at its heart. This cult sought to interfere with the tasks carried out by the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament in any way possible, tapping into magecraft and torturing any Assembly members captured for information (though normally coming up with only weak leads).
The growth of the Church of the Lord's Light was halted entirely when the Church delivered a devastating blow: A Templar assassin killed Jimmy Jameson, leaving the Church of the Lord's Light leaderless. However, it was not long before the Church of the Lord's Light instated Jimmy Jameson's son Billy as their High Reverend, allowing business to continue as normal. The Church of the Lord's Light noted a greatly slowed rate of growth, though whether that is due to Billy's lesser skills or due to the Church's efforts has never been confirmed.
One year before the Holy Grail War, the cult caught what they believed to be a big lead from a torture subject: an event that the Church played a large role in would occur in the next year in a distant land. The cult pried more and more into the matter, pulling every contact and torturing all they could to prepare for the event. The Church saw an opportunity to cut the cult once and for all through the minor event and fed it false information, outlining a ritual requiring mass suicide and hinting that champions were heading to Fuyuki to gain a chance for a wish. The already radicalized cult made the decision obvious to their irrational minds: declare a champion, then devise and perform the ritual.
It was only natural that the cult would declare their High Reverend, Billy Jameson, as their champion, much to the Church's pleasure - the head of the cult would be placing himself in danger, and likely without an actual Servant, as the ritual they'd fed was false. However, the Church didn't expect the cult to manage to devise a proper ritual, much less to create a chant that allowed devotees to send small amounts of prana to a Mystic Code so Billy could maintain his Servant. Three months before the Holy Grail War, one of the companies heavily affiliated with the Church of the Lord's Light purchased a cruiseline company that was financially unstable and began running cruises that stopped near Fuyuki, allowing the devotees to be near enough to make a difference.
With the greatly weakened cult behind him, Billy Jameson set off to do his father proud and win this wish thing, whatever it was, to shine God's light upon all people.
Biography: While running the Church of the Lord's Light, Jimmy Jameson raised his son, Billy Jameson, to be his successor, passing on his knowledge, faith, and desire to stop the Church and bring the light of God to all people. On that last part, however, he might not have been completely thorough, as leading an insular life in rural America can leave one with certain preconceptions.
Billy almost literally grew up in a barn, living the first 20 years of his life on a farm and traveling only to act as a publicity tool to recruit to his father's church. His education, when not given by his father, was carried out by members of his father's church. Among them was an underachiever from the Mage's Association, who imparted the very basics of general magecraft (less than an actual class would provide) to the youth.
The rest is history - Cult History, that is. See above.
Origin: Spirit
Elemental Affinity: Ether
Number of Magic Circuits: D
Quality of Magic Circuits: B-
Od: C
Magecraft:
Basic Miracles: Billy's basic magical education allows him to use General Magecraft spells except Familiar Creation, Threads of Consciousness, Floating, Transfer of Consciousness, and Mystic Pass.
Radical Miracle: An empowered form of suggestion that infuses the user's words with prana. The less likely a person is to perform a suggestion, the more suggestion is needed. It's impossible to make a person do something they wouldn't, though it is possible to change their ideals over time. The Jameson family's specialty.
Equipment:
The Lord's Link: Amplifier Mystic Code. Provides prana from the Church of the Lord's Light's prayers to ease the burden of Billy's Servant.
The Lord's Love: A flask of liquor.
The Lord's Fire: A .44 Magnum revolver. Ammunition is carried in speed loaders.
The Lord's Fury: A Beretta 92FS. Grip decorated with crosses.
The Lord's Providence: A hunting rifle.
The Lord's Tithe: Funding from the Church of the Lord's Light tithes. Provides funding for an American diet in Japan, plus living expenses and ammunition.
The Lord's Lid: Billy's favorite hat.
Skills: Leadership, grilling, farming, driving machinery, horse riding, gunplay, and everything required to go camping.
