Yukitamas

Fate/Novus Apocrypha - An Alternate Greater Grail War (Reboot)!

Lancer of Black

DRIVE THEM FORTH, LAY THEM LOW FOR THE CROWS TO FEAST UPON. Spill blood... yes... blood and terror! See them break, see them run in terror, weak in faith and waylaid from truth.

Break those infidels and leave them impaled!

...Ah... to think such greed and impropriety festered in Wallachia as well.

Oh Lord, where then... may a true honest man lie. Tell me I ask, abandoned and alone...

Vlad III

ꜰᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ

Black

ᴀᴛᴛʀɪʙᴜᴛᴇ

Man

Alignment

Lawful Good

ʟᴇɢᴇɴᴅ

- Depiction in history
Vlad III, ruler of Wallachia who truly existed in the 15th century.
He was the hero that hold on to Wallachia's independence against the imminent threat of the Turks. He is also known as the shield of Christianity.
For the sake of protecting Wallachia to the very end against the Turkish army, he is known for his severe conduct, such as bringing to justice the nobles who had ruined his domain and sentencing to death by impalement the twenty thousand Turkish enemy soldiers. Those are undeniably acts with the intention to protect his country, but due to its excessive brutality, he would later be be made as the model of the novelist Bram Stoker's horror novel "Dracula".
To begin with, Dracula was a title he had appointed for himself, meaning "son of dragon".
His father, Vlad II was a knight of the Order of the Dragon belonging to the Holy ROman Empire, and it is the origin of his self appointed title of Dracul.
Count Vlad believes in the love for the Lord and amends injustice as his duty as a noble demands it. However, the feudal lords wallowing in the wealth of the privileged class dislike his honorable poverty, and so the military man who had protected Christianity fell by the hands of machination.

ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀ

>Bloody
>Lawful
>Crazed
>Vampiric
>Knight of God
>A Lonely Seeker
>A Quest for Godly Love

ᴡɪꜱʜ

Not a large amount of interest. It is a fake after all, and hardly godly. However if he were to claim it and be pressed for a wish...

Indeed, he would love to see something... beautiful.

ᴘᴀʀᴀᴍᴀᴛᴇʀꜱ

STR: B
CON: A
AGI: E
MGI: A
LCK: D
NP: C

ᴄʟᴀꜱꜱ ꜱᴋɪʟʟꜱ

Magic Resistance: C
Invalidate magic with chant 2 verses or less.
Unable to defend against large scale magic such as Great Thaumaturgy and Ritual Spells.

ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀʟ ꜱᴋɪʟʟꜱ

Battle Continuation: A.

Gives one the strength and vitality to escape from even the most dire of situations. It also gives one the ability to successfully retreated to allied territory if defeated.

Protection of Faith: A+++
A skill possessed only by those who have sacrificed themselves to a single religious view.
It is called a protection, but it is not a grace given by a higher being.
What is there is an absoluteness of one's mind and body, born from faith.
...When it is too high, it causes abnormality in one's personality.

Innocent Monster: A
By means of images born from his deed during his live, his past and state of being had been twisted and the title of monster is granted. His abilities and figure ended up transformed.
Incidentally, this skill cannot be removed.

Military Tactics: B

An instinctive ability for utilizing tactical knowledge in battlefields where a large number of people are mobilized. An advantageous modifier is acquired when using one’s own Anti-Army Noble Phantasm or when conversely dealing with an opposing Anti-Army Noble Phantasm.

ɴᴏʙʟᴇ ᴘʜᴀɴᴛᴀꜱᴍ

Kazikli Bey
Stronghold of Impalement

Rank: C
Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm
Range: 0~50
Maximum target: 300 person

From the grounds of the surroundings, a countless number of spears grows and judge the enemy. A demonic torture castle (Drakulya) of iron hammer and curse, unleashed from the demonic spear. Because it targets every hostile enemy soldiers, it is a Noble Phantasm that shows its true value during battles of one-against-many.
Perhaps due to its origin, it possesses the special characteristic of increasing the pain depending on the enemy's sins of depravity and immorality. Increases destructive power against target for purge; enemies who had comitted "desertion", "immorality", and "violence".

At the time Vlad III was alive, punishing commoners with impalement wasn’t unusual in the Balkan Peninsula and Northern Mediterranean Sea areas.

But then, after Vlad III took up the role as Wallachia’s lord and leader for the second time, he became fed up with the extreme corruption and depravity of the nobles in his country.

He decided that the decline of Wallachia was due to these nobles, and took decisive action against unprecedented numbers of them. His primary method of enforcement and punishment was impalement.
In Wallachia, where nobles and commoners had previously been subject to very different treatment and rules, it’s presumed that Vlad’s actions were extremely shocking.

There was surely no one in the land who did not feel the severity and horror of Lord Vlad’s actions.
After routing the nobles, impalement became Vlad’s favorite method of punishment, and in 1459 he even went so far as to impale the emissary of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish Empire) alive, among other deeds.

Fate/Novus Apocrypha - An Alternate Greater Grail War (Reboot)!

Pull my Demon Trigger

ᴺᴬᴹᴱ

Yamadiya Amanigus:

ꜰᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ

I dunno probably Black

ʀᴀɴᴋ

Fes

ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀ

>Observant
>Amused
>Outward
>Curious

ᴡɪꜱʜ

A person born with the sight, and more importantly, the viewpoint that not only came as a result of said sight, but embraced it, of one who would stand between worlds.

In other words, a man born as a magus.

Perhaps his first curiosity was to see if he would challenge the order laid within his own life. His own status as a magus, his own responsibilities and authorities that he would come to inherit.

Perhaps in another world he would have.

But he saw beauty in the way of life, and more importantly.. Fun. To go against what was expected of him was not something that aligned with his desires. So he became the heir of the Amanigus, and rose to become one of their greater heads. Everything came so naturally after all.

Of course he was more aggressive than most of his family in utilizing, and strengthening the claws to the Root. He relished in it even, excessively so.

A man who simply pursues what he desires, while also interested in the goals and desires of others. It’s not a surprise he ended up attracted to the Holy Grail War then.

Outsider that he was, he had no loyalty or ties to the Western Association. It was only natural then that he’d offer his services to the organization that stood separately, that he could enter as a partner.

His wish? To advance his craft and reach the Root of course.

But if he had to pick another one, it would be to challenge all sorts of possibilities...

ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴇᴀʟ

ꜱᴡɪᴛᴄʜ

The feeling of pushing one’s hand out through a bubble without it breaking.

Qᴜᴀɴᴛɪᴛʏ

D

Qᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ

A

ᴀꜰꜰɪɴɪᴛʏ

Air & Fire

ᴍᴀɢᴇᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ

Middle Eastern Curses:

An expert on curses, a given considering his focus and ability as a demon master.

Primarily based on the Zoroastrianism Cultured Sphere. But general Middle Eastern theory and formulas are incorporated as part of his knowledge and ability as well.

The focus and expertise is primarily in Blessings and Curses that enforce a proper course of action and consequence. The layering of a effect that will reward or punish that which strays into the place of the cause.

Bounded Fields:

As an aside, combining the Avesta and his knowledge and eyes, he’s rather good at setting up boundaries. It’s not a surprise is it? To understand the world means one can separate and divide it up into parts.

Seven Reflection. Heavenly Ring

A special eye that sees the future and through realms and boundaries. Originally a simple eye of clairvoyance and observation, it’s power and meaning was enhanced through the placement of six magical mirrors. Rather than something to increase the power of the mystic eye itself it is a placement that increases its coverage and turns its concept into that of the Jam-eJam, the omniscient scrying cup of Jamshid.

Seven rings observe the seven heavens and witness creation.

In other words, it is a form of clairvoyance possessed from birth, further augmented and altered with addition, adjustment and meaning-impartment.

Seeing the future, being able to understand things, and having non-standard eyesight.

Tawrich and Hordad (Demon Limbs)

The two demons and the great works that have been passed down through the Amanigus. In a sense, they are the mystery and means to pass down the status and ability of being the family’s heir. No lesser than any Magic Crest of the western magic world’s doctrine.

Rather than being independent demons given names, they are demons modeled in form and given the status of the Deva and Amesha from Zoroastrianism.

In other words he refers to them, like his family has, via their purpose. The Deva and Amesha representing destruction and wholeness. Their true forms are the ultimate of beasts if released. An angel that grasps for the future and a demonic beast whose claws rend the destined conclusion.

Hordad born from the desire to bring forth the future, and Tawrich born from the desire to defy order. Both are born of their relation to the Avesta (order), being two wishes (curses) in response to order and the future.

Hordad that pulls the future and conclusion of things to the present, bringing an end of what lies among the path. One could say it is a guaranteer and guardian of the future, and carries an attribute of reinforcement that elevates curses.

However it’s true potential lies in synchronization with the Unlimited Rulebook. The records written are treated as facts that have already occurred, only in the future. Bringing forth the result is only easy, it’s simply reminding the world and others of the script after all.

Bringing forth the result even without the process carried out. It is both a sublime curse and the epitome of order.

Tawrich the beast is one that thrashes against the shackles of order. Taking stock of the future recorded and seen, grasping in its claws that which is understood. It crushes order and carves a new path within chaos.

The possibility narrowed from many by eye and record to one is cleaved through. What should be will not, and the curse of the future is overthrown with a curse of chaos.

Tawrich is a demon of ruin that reaps anything in its path, but most of all it is a reaper of order, and absolutes.

In other words it is a demon that could be said to be a counter curse.

It goes without saying that it serves well as a defense from other curses, and serves as a fine counter-curse system.

ᴄʀᴇꜱᴛ

Imagine having a crest.

N/A

ᴍʏꜱᴛɪᴄ cᴏᴅᴇ

Unlimited Rulebook.: The Final (Resulting) Record of Creation

An automatic phenomena recording mystic code. Even more the heart of the family magecraft and path than the demon limbs. It is the scribed down Avesta created by his ancestors long ago transformed.

Synchronized with the world and Yamadiya himself, it records the world through the world’s view and memories, and the eyes that see the world. Of course, this means its records also extend to the future as foreseen by his eyes.

Events that will happen, events that have happened. Of course there is a difference between those two categories, any normal person would tell you that.

But would Yamadiya say so?

It is also the means that his family passes down magical knowledge The records of previous members and their magic present in the book which is transferred by the synchronization with it.

Daena Goggles:

A set of goggles made of three lenses. A means to both hide the Seven Reflections, and also enhance his purview and sight. It is a means to “observe”, with the three lenses made to align with heaven, hell and earth.

The goggles help process information and data of the environment, the flow of leylines and allow for the evaluation of “Daena”. One could say it is similar to a detect alignment spell in a certain game.

One’s Farr(Glory) and Daena (self-judgement and worth) are judged and evaluated, also bringing forth an understanding of one’s Force of Providence.

Useful for understanding if certain countermeasures and purification methods might be useful against a target.

The flow of the planet, the flow of the heavens and mantles.

Do you not see the spinning of the world?

How do you weave your worth in all that?

Agiaries Lamp:

The Blade (Lamp) passed down the family.

While said to be a sword, it’s more like a casing for the fire of purity born from an ember from one of the temples.

Hosting an ages old flame burning as the heart, protected from taint and the outside world by the blade. The steel is warm to the touch, and light radiates through it when activated as a mystic code.

What scorches those who are cut by it is not the flame, but rather the light that radiates from the flames. A spiritual attack that burns with the light of purity. it is in the end a good spooky sword that does spiritual damage along with normal weapon damage, and corrective damage against chaotic (out of order) beings.

Just as one likens Ahura Mazda to the Sun and the glory and goodness that radiates from him as sunlight. So too does the mystery and purity of this blade strike true without any contact with the flame.

Of course it’s a symbolic ritual tool, and an aide for magecraft as well.

Dog-hide Toe-boots:

A simple mystic code that is made from the treated hide of a dog and companion. A beast treated with the same status and respect as owed to a human. In other words, the boots of the dog substitute for the presence of another person. In rituals that require multiple people they can substitute and stand-in for members and lack of numbers.

In this case their purpose is three-fold.

A dexterous pair of boots that aid in agility. A pair of boots that help substitute in formulas for spell casting and ritual casting for a second person, and finally the "substitution" of what Yamadiya lacks in a human sense, his arms.

When his demons are sent forth his feet become his new "hands" so to speak.

Fate/Novus Apocrypha - The Alternate Universe of an Alternate Universe you didn't ask for [Reboot]!

<Snipped quote by Yukitamas>

Not if I make one first!

@Phonic

Oh yeah?

I'll make two, watch me.

Fate/Novus Apocrypha - The Alternate Universe of an Alternate Universe you didn't ask for [Reboot]!

I guess I could make a master.

Tales of Death and Glory (A Fantasy Epic)

Alright, I think I finally have a character concept to build on. I'll work onthat.

Tales of Death and Glory

Hey.

I'm gonna need some time to think of a good idea (I have a few concepts I sort of have in my head currently.) But I'm definitely interested and plan to apply and participate!

Deleted

Aite sure.

Deleted

Worked on this the last few days after seeing the RP. Been juggling a few other things so I didn't finish it immediately. But here it is now.

Gavel

"My name is Tachton."

Sobriquets: Undyed Pontiff. Frame of the Extinguished Pure Light. Prism of Heaven. Nine Life Cradle. Cosmos Direction. Harmonious Gavel. Judge of the Divine. Denier of Gods. Immortal Breaker. No Life King. Heaven Masher. Proselytizer

A skeletal frame, charred black without a spec of flesh. One would be forgiven for confusing Tachton for an arcane being that defiles the dead. Rather than the faith-moved body it is that had abandoned its functions for living, with trust in the divine as sustenance and it’s drive.

Shaped into his current form as he foresaked the ways of life to entrust his existence to his faith, all changed by the ascension of black flame, scorching away his mummified, weakened scraps of flesh. Wicking away his impurities as his Key was revealed to him.

It is this skeletal body, that he declares his mortality. The nothingness to his spirit’s white all, as the opposed concept for divinity. His reminder to himself that he is but a man who has been granted the honor of a holy task.

Dressed in rather formal and somewhat contemporary wear. He comes across as a man, simple and humble. With the appropriate trappings of station, but yet still in the stature of a man. He is an emissary. One who represents, and a civil servant after all.

Yet cradling a grand and yet equally as simple hammer, one is presented with a weight beyond his stature.

A man who exudes solemn respect, and unflinching authority both. Soft and hard.

Within him pulses life, life beyond the flesh. Life brought by an unflinching dedication, and also from the jewel-like replacements for his organs made out of his home world.

Manationis was split into nine orbs from the outside and placed within his body. Both to infuse him with the faith of his world, and also to cradle it, protect it within his body as its ‘God’. He is their steward after all.

His body then is modeled after the system that his faith believes in, in terms of how the world should be structured.

Aspect:Gavel (Color is white to be clear)

The Procession of Order. The announcement and Jugement. To declare law, and decide value. That which is sacred, and that which must not be violated. In other words, what is unforgivable and what is the price?

World (Manationis): What world/universe is your character from? The two terms are basically synonyms in this setting. Just talk about whatever you think is relevant, such as possibly its most defining features, its history, and what state your character may have left it in. Your character's aspect should have some influence on the world they are from.

The world of Manationis is one that has been shaped greatly by the Apothesis of Tachton, both in spirit, and in shape.

Deposited and safeguarded in his body as representations of the colors of reality, the Endless Light’s doctrine and system, and as a stand-in for his organs. It’s a world that is secluded and defended against intrusion by other forces to a degree hard to match by other worlds.

Upon his ascension and witnessing the scattered and disorderly nature of heaven, Tachton split Manationis into 9 connected parts to serve as the first example and blueprint of what he has seen as heaven’s judgement and rightful design.

it has slowly become something akin to a massive city with nine districts. Traveling between them takes time, but is easy enough for most people and the general aesthetic of the world is predominantly Rococo as the new wave on a Gothic foundation.

Society is peaceful, although rigid. The forms of expression are varied, yet set in stone, with people’s lives aligning with the nine colors that they travel through in their lives.

Copies of Tachton, or rather emissaries of his will split off from him manage and direct the nine spheres, and tend to the faith and lives of his people.

Truly, a universe governed by the Gavel.

Race:
Human/Cadafidei Nuntius

Legacy:
The world of Manationis is not one that is overly cruel, nor overly kind. A world that has seen great rises, and great falls. Yet the moment of apothesis came upon a dawn of knowledge revolutionary yet humble.

Magic and Might took its turns dictating the course of Manationis, but the ultimately victory was, apparently, give to convenience and knowledge as an industrial revolution spread across its civilizations. The cultures became global through the means of economic and technological advancement with the combination of the refinement of lower level magic and science to allow for various conveniences that satisfied wants and needs both.

With that came the decline of faith. To deny the existence of a Divine Will and Heaven was foolish, and yet piety, true faith was something beyond mere acknowledgement. It was acceptance, it was relinquishment. To believe in something greater, in something that was, more than anything else in the world, true.

It was in this era that Tachton, the LIXth Undyed Pontiff of the Endless Light, a religion that taught that all of existence flowed from a One True Divinity and Will. One that was existence itself, and that the world was akin to a beam of light broken into a prism so that it could take form separate from the Divine. Various attributes, existences and systems of reality then were colors, dyes upon the original white light that was all.

In a world without true Faith, Tachton decided not to accept the spiritual decline, nor to attempt to sacrifice the material happiness and stability of his people. Instead he worked within their secular means, shaping the direction of society in means that mirrored and used as inspiration, the structure and teachings of the Endless Light in secular means. He worked to uplift, and guide people in all manners of life and worked on remarrying the material and the spiritual to feed into each other.

It was as the Endless Light became more and more a part of common life, as present as warm bread on the table, or the illuminating golden dawn of the sun every morning. That Pontiff Tachton then decided to finally enact his life work and radical show of faith.

The fact that the material was simply fuel for the spiritual, that with the Divine Light known as God one could abandon simple life.

A death-fast, a broadcasted and documented following of his activities as he continued to pray, work for communities, and precede as the Pontiff and a member of parliament over various matters, legal and religious.

He would not sleep, he would not eat, he would not rest nor allow himself what was considered necessary for life.

Yet he did not slow down, he did not become dull nor weak. Even as his body seemed to waste away he worked with a vigor that disturbed some, but captivated all.

His fingers wore away from countless hours of writing texts, and signing bills and papers to chalky white bone.

His eyes themselves shrunk, receding, yet with the glint of light reflected in his pupils intensifying like that of a magnifying lens.

His hair burned away from his in flux magical energy, his skin peeling as dust in the wind.

Still he moved, still he acted. Serene and yet passionate.

For a month the attention of all Manationis was captivated by him and him alone.

It was as he sensed, what he believed to be the final day of his life that he led the world in a prayer, and reflected on his faith.

Unyielding faith in the truth was, as it turned out a unmoving pillar that the cosmos itself was forced to acknowledge and respond to.

Even as his body seemed to shift, his soul and will coming to rest in his body, utilizing it as a puppet and a means to direct his faith where no life should have rested, becoming a creature different from, yet related to the Liches of old, it was his further faith that shook the bindings to his skeleton and this world that continued to shine out into existence like a all-accepting beacon.

Finally at what appeared to be the end he burned.

A revelation filled him.

He would be the Gavel.

What mortal ties he had were sundered, washed away as he was showered in light, as he was elevated and raised with that color, that truth to something more than a man.

He had become White.

Now ascending to join the ranks of the New Gods, he then laid upon law upon Manationis, split it into 9 separate and yet connected “orbs” representing his home universe as Colors of his faith, the seven of the rainbow and the two additional of the White that contained all, and the Black that was the void that married the all.

In other worlds, nine “realms” to journey between, in one’s life as a pilgrimage. To journey from Black, to eventually arrive at White.

Those nine orbs then were something he placed within his body, placing them as a stand in for the organs of his skeletal body to infuse himself with the faith of his universe, and to protect it from the other gods as he looked upon the chaotic cosmos and ruined heavens.

All he saw were pretenders. None of them were gods, not even he.

They were pure dyes, pure strands divided through the prism of reality born from the Pure White.

He was Gavel, he knew. But only did then he truly realize the full meaning of that Aspect.

He would have to lay upon the heavens and reality the cosmic laws that reminded it of its proper shape, to lay law, piety and punishment to the pretender gods and reinstate the system that mimicked the shape of his world.

A system and harmonious existence that cultivated people’s lives, and their spirituality to rise back towards the White.

Might: What was your character's claim to fame originally? Were they a wizard, a warrior, a citizen-soldier, a poet, a scholar? Describe their skills, talents, and abilities here, and how their newfound divinity has exaggerated and influenced this power. Really try to be creative here, since your character is meant to be one of the mightiest champions in the multiverse. You can also describe any armies or other resources under your God's command, as those interested in that sort of thing can amass wealth and levies easily.

A holy man and cleric, but a politician at that too. The strength of Tachton can be said to be the ability to guide people into putting into shape with their own actions, his intentions. Coupled with the power to demonstrate his faith, literally, and more figuratively with divine spellcasting.

The doctrine of Manationis describes the existence of God and Heaven as a boundless light that, split like light into a rainbow, becomes the different colors and shades that become reality.

Magic then is the expression and utilization of various elements, or rather, colors of existence and utilizing the energy and powers associated with that color.

Divine magic then is the attempt to trace back beyond the color, and add a tinting of the original divine light. A mortal is imperfect and can only add and channel divine light into that which they already dye themselves by being part of divided reality.

In the case of Tachton as a holder of a Key of Creation his own color dyes his divine magic to a greater extent than mere mortals.

Beyond all of that, for a man who has set off to bring a system and order to the heavens just as he had to his world. It helps that he is thanks to his work as Pope, representative and the Prism of Heaven. He’s a very good administrator and can blaze through legalities.

He also uh, has a cool hammer.

Path: The desire to bring harmonic order through the instatement of a cosmic system that corresponds with his faith.The illumination to the other gods the true meaning and weight of what divinity means.

Fate/Novus Apocrypha - The Ends justify the Means!

Sheet is now finished with one more mystic code, and the personality section.

Fate/Novus Apocrypha - The Ends justify the Means!

Beast of Black and White

Name: 魔金融 (Mo-jin Lon) Aka Lonnie Goldbear.

Title(s): Blood-Forged Beast
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Team: Black
Rank: Fes
Purpose for the Grail War: To make war, to advance her craft and have a fun time.
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Command Seal:

Personality: A sort of girl that can be called a rambunctious troublemaker. A lady who selfishly pursues her fun and own rules. Really, she’s no Flying General, but she’s not someone who falls into line exactly how others want.

Somewhat inexperienced with both the full scope of modern society and the western world, Lon is nonetheless someone who jumps fully into whatever she thinks is worth her time or fun. To enjoy her time.

She’s someone others may think is simple at first glance, and maybe even a fool. But if you were to ask her she’ll reply that she thinks most people complicate matters way beyond the truth.

Take the make up of a body, the chemicals, nutrients and structure that gives birth to one, or the desires that rule people. To understand things like that are a given, because her craft is one born from using the body, and pursuing ideals and dreams. That is, the craft of war.

The cosmos isn’t that complicated, and even heaven is nicely structured and disciplined. Magic is all about what you’ve seen and what’s happened telling you what can be done, and people can be calculated from their pasts and through the cosmos as well.

But just because humans and the world are simple doesn’t mean they can’t be surprising. Surprise just means that either you’ve been looking it wrong, or someone else started finally looking at themselves properly.

No one expected her to stand at the top refined to the splendor of gold, so she told them she did. It’s as simple as that.

Bio: A family of warriors and beasts. Frightening sages and mystics who developed from a community of alchemists who blended the pursuit of immortality and heaven with internal alchemy with the pursuit for truth. Strangely it is in the pursuit of blood and iron that they became more concerned with what lied beyond immortality, the truth.

Who knows what shifted to truly make them sages pursuing the impossible thankless dream to the point of bloodying their hands? It is said that the one who began the Mo discovered and started upon this path after returning from a journey to the plains of Zhuolu… But perhaps it was a matter of attuning to the flow of the times as the birth of the Mo came at the end of the prosperous Spring and Autumn era of history. Perhaps they were simply becoming scholars attuned to the Warring States.

Battling, studying and refining themselves over centuries. They reached a infamy of being annoying to deal with, but reliable as warriors. In a sense their reputation ended up being something equivalent to the Finnish Hyenas of the west, for the east…

Surviving through various shifts of eras, and the globalization of the world, the Mo made the bold decision of moving with its main family to the west to try and open themselves to progress through involving themselves with other parts of the world. Part of their interest was the various tales of legendary armaments from the west that were focused upon, and a desire to learn about the philosophies of western alchemy.

However moving to new lands is not kind, and the time it took to adapt to the new lands and preserve their foundations, along with being outsiders meant that their sway and standing in the western world was tumultuous. While they had support from their branches that lingered in the east, they were still in a weak position.

Eventually picked up by the Yggdmillennia who, despite the pride of the Mo, were able to convince them to join in by the silvertongue of Darnic Prestone, the Mo were a powerful, albeit distance satellite member that filled the collective’s ranks.

Lon herself was a girl born to one of the branch families that from a young age. Showing a great compatibility and aptitude, besting the candidates of inheritance with an exhibition that stifled opposition, she not only was adopted to the clan of gold from copper, but ended up becoming the new head and representative.

All in all new to the West and Yggdmillennia, she comes in as if she were a tourist. Well, considering the instability that comes with the passing of generations, both in Yggdmillennia and the MO itself, and the fact that the Mo are partially blamed by some members for failing to protect the grail from theft despite their strength means that there’s plenty for her to experience and deal with.

Hm? She just thinks it’ll be a fun time? Besides, it’s not like she was part of the Gold back then. It was time for the to bear witness with her performance in the war the value of copper transmuted to gold. Just like she silenced those of the Mo, she came to the west with the full intent of silencing the Yggdmillennia with herself.

She was the sort who desired the sort of curse that was “May you live in interesting times”

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Magic Circuit Switch: The feeling of the heart pumping liquid steel through the veins, and the rush of breath in response.
Number of Magic Circuits: D
Quality of Magic Circuits: B
Od: Very high (Panda Furnace)

Elemental Affinity: Water & Fire [Wuxing system, not Aristotle/western]

Magic Stuff & techniques

Attribute: Refinement
A magecraft attribute of Refinement. Similar to reinforcement, but it has to do more with removing impurities to strengthen the concept and existence of something rather than adding onto it. For some magic and abilities it might not be much of a difference in terms of effect, but the connotations can build up to very different results.

Beast Magecraft (Panda) 食鐵獸:
Wearing the concept and form of the Iron-Eating Beast. While Beast Magecraft is fundamentally about borrowing the abilities or concept of beasts. Rather than transforming one’s self completely into an animal on a complete physical level, traits are blended and seeded with conceptual fertilization, making one a hybrid, both spiritually and physically from the onset, and layering of magecraft techniques.

One is a mighty iron-eating beast, and drawing forth this already innate bestial nature can allow for a further augmentation of strength and performance. Although rather than reinforcement, this follows the property of the family’s magical attribute of refinement.

Through eating previous heirs and their enemies, one takes in their enlightenment and iron. The fact that Panda and Demon are both called Mo (貘) [panda] and 魔 [demon] is utilized to help blend them.
The devouring of the wisdom of others (refinement) to gain immortality (eternity) and enlightenment (perfection)

Of course, actual metal is also eaten as an odd sort of snack and material to utilize for magecraft, and to bring one closer to the people of the originator of weapons, Chiyou. After all, carrying heads of bronze, and eating iron.. Maybe they were pandas all along?! Regardless, such a regression through associated acts is only beneficial for both martial strength and magecraft...

Yějīn nèidān shù
Elixir Brewing Forge/Internal Foundry:
The Taoist path of internal alchemy that cultivates and processes the body to attempt to form an elixir internally. The normal practices of alchemy are performed instead with one’s self.

The act of alchemy is to trace a path (Dao) backwards through the stream of life that flows from Wu (the root) to Wanwu (the current stage of life).

Even things such as greater strength, healing and shaking off of ailments and foulness, and immortality can be reached if one aligns with the cosmos properly. But most importantly for the Mo it is a matter of internal purity and refinement that they seek most of all. Applying metallurgical concepts as part of their internal alchemy, the path of the Mo is to forge themselves into purity until they reach heaven.

As an aside note, as a purified space for an elixir, and a forgery/crucible that burns away impurities via Qi, by their nature, the Mo are rather sturdy against outside influences, whether it be invasive magical energy, or poisons or even a bacteria-filled meal.

However the nature of fire being the element that coaxes the pure essence of things out from their coil, the body heat of Lon is rather high. Toasty.

Dantian Forge, Cultivation of Violence:

The utilization of one’s heart as the Dantian (focal point of energy) in magecraft is something that while specific to east asia mysticism, is a matter of the expansion of the universal and innate nature of the heart as a center of energy and life.

Utilizing its energy, and its flow of blood as both the energy that reshapes the body, and the flow that reconfigures and transforms the body. This is internal alchemy that shifts the body from a crucible that cultivates the heavens and elixir, to a furnace that transforms and refines the body and self.

Blood is after all iron, and the work of a smith is to reshape iron into a form that is not only different, but stronger than before.

In Taoism the concept of Metallurgy is fundamentally that of transformation, and shifting shape.

Qi (Breath) is processed along with metal through heat and practice to prepare Jing (essence) as a huandan (reverted elixir) that becomes a seed of potential, an internal prima materia that can be transmuted.

Bagua Force: Fourfold Battle Array

Battle as seen through heaven, strife and violence shaped into knowledge. Before she who contains the totality of battle no techniques can stay unhidden.

Or rather, it should be said that she is a foundry where any sort of potential of violence can be forged. A Jidan [Gold Elixir] of violence.

Even the concept of utilizing martial arts with one’s body flows from the knowledge and vision that the founder held.

A magecraft that, in all honesty, is fundamentally closer to martial arts. Rather than a martial arts that pursues perfection, one could say that it is a raw and primordial martial arts that simply traces back and refines battle to primordial violence.

The four eyes see four different shapes. The significance of the four weapons can be compared to the four elements in western thinking that dominates the base of occultism. Rather than dividing up the world into four elements however, it is war itself that is divided into four forms.

Flowing like a stream, four then becomes eighteen, connected to primordial violence and yet expressing it in different, specialized ways. All parts of a whole.

In another language, this would be called a Ryougi.

One divine violence, four eyes that see new paths, eighteen blades that spill blood.

While the Mo may technically be alchemists and smiths in their path, the truth is that they are demons of violence and war that contain all of violence within them. Before her eyes, no violence may go without answer.

Breathing and Walking: I feel like this doesn’t really need to be said, or really is all that important to say but just to be safe I guess??? She breaths really good and walks really good. But she’s probably like better at breathing.

Crest:

The Mo family as an eastern based tradition does not carry a magic crest... instead.

Sarira Inheritance: 2500 years (Although really it's not really as cumulative or straightforward as Crest inheritance so don't let the number spook you that much)

Fundamentally even as they migrated west, the Mo are a family that does not follow western traditions and techniques. Even if they have begun to take in western knowledge, the base of the family remains unchanged.

Upon death former heads and members of the family are cremated in a way to process their cultivated spirituality and abilities into a crystallization of spiritual and mental energies, along with karma. In a sense you could say it is the presentation of a soul and a human rendered into their worth and information.

Devouring that, one inherits the past and tempers the furnace as a new workshop and head.

A new link in the chain is forged.

Inventory/My Cool Stuff!

Mystic Codes:

My Favorite Cheongsam:

A China Dress that has various talismans and patterns weaved into it made out of special ingredients to grant the same level of protection as a intern delving into one of the dungeons of the Clocktower, and an anti-magic amulet. Cancels magic on the level of one step.

Really, it’s not to protect her… even if a normal magus might consider this a very substantial and useful amount of protection.

It’s made so she doesn’t have to keep repairing it or replacing it so often with the kinds of battles she gets into…

Shenni: Embryonic Skin

A mixture of Lead and Mercury that forms a Taiju in mud, Mud of the Earth and Mud of the Heaven. A seal that separates one from the world and preserves life. One could say it is a shell that raises and nurtures the nascent world within a human being and prevent the loss of breath.

An anti-environmental mystic code embedded and incorporated into the body of Lon, and also a building block that can be utilized with her in conjunction with her Dantian Forge. It is akin to the prized treasure of the Istari family that converts and transforms their tool into armor and weapons. The Shenni is however not the full arms of Lon, but rather an unnoticed carapace that fuses with and transforms with her own reshaping and forging to form her weapons.

Often she likes to let them be pre-forged and hang around instead of just completely burying herself in it. Well, the cover is more a conceptual sort of cover than completely physical anyway so it’s ok if she’s showing off her body!

Four Eyes of Strife:

The idea of the common nickname and slur of "Four-eyes" for glasses wearing nerds is utilized in the form of sunglasses, to sum it up.

Sunglasses tinted blood red that usually rest atop her forehead rather than being worn. At their base they are a variant of a normal support mystic code that helps with the processing of information and data so a magus does not get overwhelmed.

In this case they’re specialized for the means of perceiving and analyzing war. The third and fourth eyes of Lon, painted with the concept of the great ancestor of battle and weaponry. The lens are actually made out of a liquid crystal and copper mixture treated with alchemical means and anointed to invoke the god of war.

For a girl whose boy sometimes rushes forward before her mind, it’s a help to let them line up and sync up as one.

Truly a monster (Bear) in human form, perhaps even more than those who were once human and became bloodsuckers.