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Originally Posted by Wan Dering'cul Tivator

Servant Lancer:

Appearance:

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True Name: Phineas P. Gage
Alignment: True Neutral
Alternate Class: None (only Lancer)
Origin: The United States (North America & Central America)
Armament: Spear (Tamping Iron)
Summoning Catalysts: A tamping iron with

This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept 14, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury & deposited this bar in the Museum of the Medical College of Harvard University. •   Phinehas P. Gage •   Lebanon Grafton Cy N–H •   Jan 6 1850

inscribed upon it.

Parameters:
Strength: D
Agility: D
Endurance: E+
Mana: D
Luck: E+
NP: C+

Lore

Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. On September 13, 1848, Gage was directing a work gang blasting rock.

As Gage was doing this around 4:30 p.m., his attention was attracted by his men working behind him. Looking over his right shoulder, and inadvertently bringing his head into line with the blast hole and tamping iron, Gage opened his mouth to speak; in that same instant the tamping iron sparked against the rock and (possibly because the sand had been omitted) the powder exploded. Rocketed from the hole, the tamping iron entered the left side of Gage's face in an upward direction. Continuing upward outside the upper jaw it passed behind the left eye, through the left side of the brain, then completely out the top of the skull.​​

Thankfully through the tireless efforts of Dr. John Martyn Harlow, Mr. Gage was able to survive the head injury and recover a semblance of normal life.

Normally Phineas Gage's life even with such a miraculous recovery would be unworthy of being noticed by the throne of heroes; however, humanity has collectively acknowledged Gage's survival and recovery (he didn't die until 12 years after the accident) to be a marvel of modern medicine and all further miraculous surgeries were compared against Dr. Harlow's accomplishment and Gage's fortitude (which often found these other miracles wanting in comparison).

Skills

Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: E+
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. As per Medical Marvel Mr. Gage is immune to any mental-based mage craft and has great resistances to piercing magic solely targeting his head.

Personal Skills:
Medical Marvel: A
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. Thanks to the miraculous efforts of Doctor John Martyn Harlow, Mr. Gage was able to not only successfully recover from his massive head trauma but become resistant to future head trauma. While rather frail in his post injury condition, his head is capable of recovering from head injuries. Mr. Gage's Endurance and Luck could be considered A rank when it comes to surviving and healing from head wounds

American Crowbar Case: B
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. Unfortunately, regardless of how miraculous Mr. Gage's survival, he still suffered massive brain damage. Thus Mr. Gage is extremely limited in his independent actions and he requires 1.25 times more mana for his Master to support him than an equivalent Servant otherwise would. A silver lining to this skill is that Mr. Gage can reenact the incident, with a foe as the target, as long as he is wielding the Tamping Iron, The Constant Companion and Narrating his story.

Noble Phantasm

Tamping Iron, The Constant Companion
Rank: C+
Type: Anti-Unit
This is the tamping iron that passed through Phineas Gage's skull. It bears the following inscription

This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept 14, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury & deposited this bar in the Museum of the Medical College of Harvard University. •   Phinehas P. Gage •   Lebanon Grafton Cy N–H •   Jan 6 1850

. This tamping iron is extremely sharp and when targeting the head of a foe it is capable of piercing any skull regardless of magical or physical barriers. However, it is relatively unwieldy for a human to use and the head wounds it inflicts are surprisingly a lot less lethal then one would expect.

The rank of Tamping Iron, The Constant Companion is boosted when Phineas Gage both Narrates his first encounter with it and utilizes his American Crowbar Case skill. The three combine to manifest a copy of the noble phantasm with a primed blasting charge underneath the target (as long as Gage can see the target and the target can hear Gage's Narration). This copy of the Noble Phantasm is obscured from the target's perception and is blasted from the ground towards their skull when the target opens their mouth (thus reenacting the story as narrated). This use of Noble Phantasm is best for use on stationary grounded targets (as a sufficiently speedy target could exit the effective range of the blast charge before triggering its detonation). This is a rather exhausting use and repeated activations in a short time period becoming harder and harder (think of him as having 5 charges and he regains charges at a rate of ((his current number of charges)+1)/5 per hour).

Meta Explanation

I was trying to create a Servant who was primarily American, primarily a Lancer, who was in the public domain, and hadn't already been used. Phineas Gage was the first to fit all of these criteria.

I think Mr. Gage is a rather low tier servant, but has the potential to hard counter a Caster with purely mental offensive spells or an Assassin/Archer which specializes in head-shots. I was trying to accurately depict a normal human who was strong enough to survive the partial destruction of their head yet is still recovering from said injury.