Name
Herald of the New World
Role
Master
Additions
Creeping Night (Beneficial)
Appearance
Male
Adult
Tall
Strong
Terrifying
Role
Psychic (Mystic Eyes)
Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Residence
The Streets
Skills
Mythology Expertise
Martial Arts
Athletics
Circuits
Abberant
Quantity E-
Quality EX
Command Spells
1
Right Hand
Red
Chaotic
Potency E-
Stolen Regalia
Elemental Affinity
Fire
Origin
Action (Storytelling)
Foundation
Profane
Unique
Psychic Mutation
Mystic Eyes
Mystic Code
Pyschic Powers
Retrocognition
Assassination Arts
Mystic Eyes
Death Perception
Mystic Code
EX Noble Phantasm - Crown of the Dark Horde
The Crown of the Dark Horde enables creation and control over an infinite amount of beastial creatures that can take any form; of course, they are all roughly around the same size and strength. Also, while self-supplying, the amount that can exist in the world are limited. The limit can not be breached, and instances must be destroyed before they can return. At least the limit seems quite high?
Due to the effects of Calliope's second Noble Phantasm, the Herald's control over the beasts has been decreased. He is unable to prevent them from attacking himself or others; at most, he is now able to attract them to specific locations.
Name
Warped Caster - Calliope
Additions
Creeping Night (Beneficial)
Appearence
Female
Terrifying
Class
Caster/Berserker
Equipment
None
Alignment
True Neutral
Parameters
Strength E-
Durability E-
Agility E-
Magic Power EX
Luck E-
Upkeep
Lethal
Noble Phantasm
EX - Epic: Beginning
The first of Calliope's three Noble Phantasms, and is activated immediately upon being summoned. It simply creates an "inciting incident"; this incident includes turning a person within the radius of the summon into the "author" for her other Noble Phantasms, for which she acts as a muse for. Both Calliope and the author will be warped due to the author's writing and the epic they shall write. The only other effects are turning Calliope herself into a phantom being that can barely interact with the world on her own, and being able to supply her own other Noble Phantasms.
The Herald, being the author, has drastically changed both himself and Calliope. He has granted himself great power, and reduced Calliope to nothing more but an insane wretch.
Noble Phantasm 2
EX - Epic: Trials
The second Noble Phantasm is ultimately subject to the author, but has a few guidelines. The author will be unable to write anything that does not subscribe to these guidelines; said guidelines being that it MUST force trials upon whoever is deemed the "protagonist" of the author's epic, and it must provide room for their growth.
The Herald has left the identity of the protagonist vague; in doing so, any being can take the place of protagonist as long as he lives, including himself.
The trials are simple: all over Oxford, in hidden nooks and crannies, magnificent treasures have appeared. Blades of gold, staves of fire, shields of diamond, and artifacts with unsubtle supernatural abilities are able for all to grab and utilize. As the Noble Phantasm goes on for longer, the artifacts will grow in strength, though not in variance or ability.
An example of an artifact that may be found is a staff that shoots icicles or fireballs, or a poisoned dagger. An artifact that won't be found is a pair of boots that allow the user to walk on water.
The artifacts are suited for nothing but combat.
The Herald has written for the monsters of his Crown to search out and guard artifacts, and even use them themselves for the purpose of battling protagonist candidates.
Noble Phantasm 3
EX - Epic: Climax
As the second Noble Phantasm goes on for longer, this Noble Phantasm gets stronger. All it does is affect whoever ends up being the protagonist: at the end of the author's story, great tragedy or triumph will occur. The author has no direct control over this, and is entirely subject to Calliope's whims.
All that this Noble Phantasm ensures is that whoever becomes the protagonist either suffers immensely, or succeeds in their goal. The longer the trials of the second Noble Phantasm go on, the greater the suffering or success. There is no inbetween, because that would not make for a great epic.
Class Skills
Territory Creation EX
Mad Enhancement A+++
Personal Skills
Clairvoyance A
Divinity A
Eye For Art A++
Innocent Monster A+++
Double Summon A-
Upon summoning Calliope into a homonculi container, the Magus who wanted to take place in the Grail War was very confused by the fact his Servant immediately disappeared.
Calliope, due to her first Noble Phantasm, set out to inspire someone instantly. She's a muse, after all.
The person she inspires is whoever will be the best fit as the author for her Noble Phantasms: whoever will write the most grand epic.
This happened to be a poor, mundane, aspiring writer.
This writer was a down on his luck fellow who had every single book of his rejected by publishers for being terrible. Full of pent up aggression and resentment, when he started hearing whispers of a tale he could weave, he grabbed a pen and immediately began to write.
Calliope gleamed a bit of knowledge of the Grail War. Simply that there were spirits that needed to be defeated, and that upon defeating them, there would be a wish granted.
And with this whispered into his mind, the writer's desires formed. He would wish to change the world; his stories were nothing but action and violence, and he would change the world to eternal action and violence. Neverending heroism and villainy, glory and bloodshed.
The epic was formed. This would be the tale of a quest to gain a wish... and then he lost the plot.
He began writing himself as a warlord with ridiculous abilities and an army of monsters and his whispering (soon to worried protesting) companion as his insane and cryptic familiar because he thought it would be so cool and that that was genuinely what she was. He was unaware of even the true nature of his companion, and believed he was awakening to the powers of his ancient wizard heritage that he absolutely did not have and never previously thought he had. He wrote that the trials the protagonist should face should be trials EVERYONE should face, leaving the protagonist undefined. Not to mention, those trials should be about fighting his army of monsters and getting wondrous treasures of legend.
Calliope was reduced to an insane wretch, barely coherent, and the writer styled himself as the "Herald of the New World", a being of darkness who would have the strength to change the world into his ideal. He soon began his rampage, jumping through his own wall in his own small room he could barely afford and leaping into battle with raging beasts that began to swarm the streets he knew so well, speaking in a tongue of English suited for Shakespeare. Calliope laughed with glee, barely able to comprehend the new situation the writer she inspired had created.
Calliope's former Master scratched his head, because the command seals on his hand mysteriously disappeared.
He would have to complain to someone about this.