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Servant Sheet #13: Dayang Sumbi

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Dayang Sumbi
"Whoever who helps me get that spindle, I will make him my husband or her my sister."


Image (c) ChouLeopold @ devart

The daughter of king Sungging Perbangkara, and a master weaver.
Dayang Sumbi is not really the daughter of the king, and that truth is all but plain to see. The ladies-in-waiting of the royal house has long known that king Sungging Perbangkara brought home a newborn baby he named Rarasati from a hunting trip. Some speculated that the king brought home a commoner's daughter whose parents might have succumbed in the middle of the forest; Some whispers that the daughter is divine in origin. However, of her great beauty and skill in weaving, nobody would contest that Dayang Sumbi is indeed fit for a princess. However, one fallen spindle changed it all...

Possible Class: Rider, Caster
Master: ???

Parameters:

* Alignment: Lawful Neutral
* Noble Phantasm: A
* Strength: D
* Endurance: D
* Agility: C
* Mana: A
* Luck: E


Class Skills:

* Riding A+
(Rider-specific class skill)
This skill reflects one's expertise to ride animals and vehicles. At this level, Dayang Sumbi can ride all manners of vehicles and mounts with great skill, including all creatures including those of Phantasmal Beast and Divine Beast-rank.

* Territory Creation B
(Caster-specific class skill)
This skill reflects the ability to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a magus. At this rank, creation of a "Workshop" becomes possible.

* Item Creation C+
(Caster-specific class skill)
This skill reflects the ability to manufacture magical items. At this rank, Dayang Sumbi can make potent items, but only those in the form of clothing or weaving. Her skill in creating other types of items is lower, although still unattainable by modern magi.


Personal Skills:

* Shapeshifting C
This skill refers to both borrowing bodies and appearance change. A method used by the millenary spirits of foxes and badgers of China that are put on par with Tamamo-no-Mae. At this level of skill, Dayang Sumbi can shapeshift into most animals and plants to the maximum of her body volume (i.e. she can shapeshift into a small dog or a rose vine, but she can't shapeshift into a large tree or an elephant) with the help of her magical clothes.

* Divinity A-
This skill is the measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. Dayang Sumbi is a half-divine, however since her mother was only a minor divinity and the circumstances of her birth is a bit problematic (Her mother was cursed into a boar at the time, and she got pregnant due to drinking Sungging Perbangkara's urine[1]), the divinity is diminished.


Noble Phantasms:

* Si Tumang [Divine Penitent Hound]
Anti-Unit
Target: Summoning
Rank: B

Dayang Sumbi's loyal guard hound. It is a male, and can present itself in three forms: the medium-sized domestic dog form, the attack hound form, and human form. The human and domestic dog form is about as strong as a fit specimen of their respective species. The attack hound form is as large as a lion, with strength, endurance, and agility comparable to rank C. Also, all of them are treated as if having rank A in Divinity. It can be slain with a Noble Phantasm of higher rank. It is actually a cursed minor divinity, and he is both Dayang Sumbi's AND Celeng Wayung Hyang's husband. Yes, the dog form. They are both exiled from the heaven for their negligence.[1]

* Celeng Wayung Hyang [Wild Divine Boar]
Anti-Army
Target: Summoning
Rank: A+
Can only be invoked if Dayang Sumbi is summoned as Rider

By focusing all her magical might, Dayang Sumbi summons the representation of her divine lineage. A great white wild boar the size of a truck, Celeng Wayung Hyang is docile only to either Tumang or Dayang Sumbi. Its might is greatly augmented when the three of them goes to battle together, and can turn a block of city to flat land in under two hours. However, its prana requirement is quite large, and Dayang Sumbi cannot maintain its presence for more than an hour bar outside assistance.

* Boreh Rarang Bodas [The White Weave of Illusion]
Support
Target: Area, depends on effort made
Rank: A
Can only be invoked if Dayang Sumbi is summoned as Caster

This Noble Phantasm is said to be Dayang Sumbi's greatest achievement, fooling a band of giants working for her suitor to quit working. The white, seemingly plain cloth can conjure a realistic illusion that can fool even Servants without fail. However, the area that can be affected by the cloth is proportional to its size. To cover a city in illusion, Dayang Sumbi will need two days working on the bolt of cloth needed, and lots of prana.


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[1]: Yes, It's as messed up as Indonesian folktales go. Hence the black text, since it's integral to the text and i can't afford silly spoiler breaks.

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Anyway, more Indonesian Servant ho.

Initially, i have three choices: Syekh Siti Jenar, Nyi Calonarang, and Dayang Sumbi. I chose Dayang Sumbi because she seemed to be the easiest to portray without pressing the wrong buttons (well actually only Syekh Siti Jenar would do that, but eh). Besides, her tale is quite interesting (and one of the most hardcore in Indonesian folktales). You can google it up, there's a wiki article on that but i suspect the English version don't have the full story. Also, Dayang Sumbi's tale is actually geologically accurate; the city of Bandung was indeed a lake that drained some sixteen thousand years ago, and forms a basis of this story.

I might stat Sangkuriang someday, though i don't really have anything really solid as basis for the guy.
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