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Oddman's Servant Series | Entry #2: Assassin

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Assassin

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Class: Assassin
Gender: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Stats:
Strength: D (C+)
Endurance: B
Agility: B
Mana: C
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: B

Class Skills:

Presence Concealment: A+
Able to become one with the night, this skill makes it possible to disappear completely and become almost impossible to be detected, although efficacy will decrease once preparations to attack are taken. Only active at night.

Personal Skills:

Information Erasure: B+
Due to her myth being largely excluded from major Mythological texts, she has the effect of "fading away" from the memories of other's. The effect is subconscious giving her little if any control over it. This effect is enforced even within digital recordings by a closed-circuit camera in broad daylight. However, evidence of the engagement is not removed from the scene, and by way of logical deduction, the Servant's identity may be revealed, but even then, knowledge of previous battles with them will be forgotten.

Monstrous Strength: B (A++)
After centuries of fornicating with and bearing the young of primordial demons and phantasmal beasts, she naturally developed traits of said "beasts", namely, their awesome physical strength. The true nature of the ability would allow her to take on a more demonic form, and give her strength which would rival that of a certain Greek hero, however, being summoned as an assassin the only way it manifests itself is a rank up in strength.

Familiar Creation: C
Having given birth to thousands of lilim, she retains the ability to call upon them at will. While none of the lilim that she birthed directly still exist in the present era, the spawn of their spawn's spawn still linger the Earth, offering themselves to Magi as Familiars, in exchange for certain "services". She can call forth any living lilim, and have it to do her bidding. Though effective useless in combat against a Heroic Spirit, they do have their uses, namely espionage, assassination and energy gathering.

Poisonous Aura: A
The term "a bundle of hatred" would apply to her quite well. All of the hatred and negativity that she bore worked it's toll on her subconscious, and eventually changed her on a cellular level, mostly affecting her Magic Circuits. As a result, her Prana is literally toxic. As a result, her mere presence can cause subtle changes to the area around her. For example, if she were to remain remain materialized in an area for too long, her poisonous Prana would cause vegetation to rot, water to be polluted, and without proper protection from the flowing Prana, eventually humans would become ill.
The effect is passive, but she can utilize it in a few ways. Infusing weapons with it, for example, or gathering up a large amount then unleashing it as a wave, similar to Prana Burst, to create a toxic smokescreen if needed for an escape. Servants with little or no Magic Resistance are highly susceptible to the poisonous Prana, as are Masters who do not actively protect themselves from the oncoming wave of negativity.

Noble Phantams:

Lilim's Hunt
Delight of the Sacrilegious Daughter

Rank: C
Type: Anti-Army
This can be used either one of two ways:
1) Using her Familiar Creation skill, she can call upon the lilim to go about the city to seduce humans. Seeing as the lilim are shapeshifters, they can assume either a male of female form. If they chose to merely mate, then the sexual energy stored up through coitus is converted into Prana, and offered to their Mother. If they chose to kill, they will bring the corpse back to their Mother as a sacrifice. Seeing as the latter method is more effective in gaining Prana, that is generally the one used. Assassin can use this to stockpile massive amounts of Prana, which she can either use herself, or transfer over to her Master.
2) A particularly old, intelligent, and powerful lilim can be called upon, given a specific task to target an opposing master. They will then take on the form of the Magi's ideal lover, and then seek to seduce them, only to kill them as soon as their guard is down.
They posses enough physical strength to overpower an average human, and some weaker Magi, but even in large numbers, they would be little more than a nuisance to a Heroic Spirit.

Primordial Sediment
That Which Degrades The Perseverance of Life

Rank: B
Type: Anti-World
By condensing and refining her poisonous Prana, she is able to recreate amounts of primordial sediment, which still scarcely existed in the Earth's beginning, before it was all overwritten by Gaia's Reality Marble. This substance is highly corrosive to anything it touches- from human flesh to reality itself. It's very presence constantly eats away at the Reality Marble imposed by Gaia, showing Earth's true form. She can control and manipulate the muck like a flow of water, directing it where she wishes. Anything that comes into contact with the muck will inevitably rot away and decay into nothingness. Servants with a Magic Resistance of less than B would have whatever part of their body that came into contact with the muck completely dissolved, irreparably destroyed. Seeing as it is not a simple "wound", but the death of the affected area itself, even the highest tier spells of the restoration school could not heal the would, or replace the dissolved part. Naturally, the same goes for Noble Phantasms. If a human comes into contact with it, they are absorbed by it, returning back to the dirt from which they came, be they an experienced Magus, or regular human. If the sediment touches the ground, the area will be left degraded for an extensive period of time, until Gaia can detect and correct the disturbance.

Real Identity:
Shortly after Gaia's actualization as an existence, God created the first human, Adam out of the dust of the ground and then breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, causing him to become a living soul. God then placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, placing him above all other creatures. When they passed before him in pairs, male and female, Adam-being already like a twenty-year-old man felt jealous of their loves, and though he tried coupling with each female in turn, found no satisfaction in the act. He therefore cried: 'Every creature but I has a proper mate!', and prayed God would remedy this injustice.

God then formed Lilith, the first woman, just as He had formed Adam, except that He used filth and sediment instead of pure dust.

Adam and Lilith never found peace together; for when he wished to lie with her, she took offence at the recumbent posture he demanded. 'Why must I lie beneath you?' she asked. 'I also was made from dust, and am therefore your equal.' Because Adam tried to compel her obedience by force, Lilith, in a rage, uttered the magic name of God, rose into the air and left him.

Adam complained to God, who at once sent three Angels to fetch Lilith back. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore children at the rate of more than one hundred a day. 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' Lilith asked: `How can I return to Adam and live like an honest housewife, after my stay beside the Red Sea?', 'It will be death to refuse!' they answered. `How can I die,' Lilith asked again, `when God has ordered me to take charge of all newborn children: boys up to the eighth day of life, girls up to the twentieth day. None the less, if ever I see your three names or likenesses displayed in an amulet above a newborn child, I promise to spare it.' To this they agreed; but God punished Lilith by making one hundred of her demon children perish daily; and if she could not destroy a human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she would spitefully turn against her own.

Thus she lived, and escaped the curse of death which overtook Adam, since they had parted long before the Fall. For centuries, she wondered the Earth, and her legend spread, strangling infants and seducing dreaming men, any one of whom, sleeping alone, may became her victim. She was eventually killed by a European Magus in the 12th century.

An improper Heroic Spirit, only admitted into the Throne of Heroes due to the unintentional side-effect of her mass infanticide over the centuries. A few of the infants she is responsible for killing would have eventually grown up and commit acts which would threaten the balance of the world, and she was responsible for stopping them. Ironically, if you were to add up all the instances in which, by killing a certain child, she saved the world and prevented the counter force from acting, they would likely equate to many more "heroic deeds" than a lot of proper Heroic Spirits.

Updated December 24th, 2012 at 09:47 PM by Matsu

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  1. The Geek's Avatar
    We have a thread for this you know.
  2. Matsu's Avatar
    Yes, and I post them there, but I also use this to store them so I don't have to search back to look back in admiration at something I actually accomplished.

    Also, there's always the off-chance that someone will read one of them and offer some kind words or constructive criticism- and that alone is enough to make my day happy.