Post by Semiramis on Sept 16, 2012 12:45:56 GMT -5
Assassin
“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.. "
“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.. "
OTHER ALIAS[/color]: // Goddess of Beauty, Wise Queen, Whore of Babylon.
CURRENT AGE[/color]: //
YEAR OF BIRTH[/color]: // Around 830 BC.
GENDER[/color]: // Female
ALIGNMENT[/color]: // Lawful Evil
OCCUPATION[/color]: // Courtesan, Queen.
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Beautiful garb.
Activating Hanging Garden
HEIGHT[/color]: // 1,78 m.
WEIGHT[/color]: // 56 Kgs.
EYE COLOR[/color]: // Black.
HAIR COLOR[/color]: // Purplish black.
PIERCINGS[/color]: // Two onyx earrings.
TATTOOS[/color]: //
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES[/color]: // Slightly pointy ears.
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- Flirtatious
- As a woman whose various loves are as fleeting as the wind, her fame as a devourer of men was not completely unfounded, as she took many lovers as her own during her reign, having them meet swift ends after their usefulness was over, the luckiest among them becoming no more than pathetic eunuchs guarding her abode.
- As a woman whose various loves are as fleeting as the wind, her fame as a devourer of men was not completely unfounded, as she took many lovers as her own during her reign, having them meet swift ends after their usefulness was over, the luckiest among them becoming no more than pathetic eunuchs guarding her abode.
- Vain
- The legendary beauty of a demigoddess does wonders to one’s ego, and being worshipped by every man he met did not attenuate such tendencies. She gives much care to appearance, using various cosmetic products and expensive clothes to make herself as dazzling as possible.
- Strong-willed
- Climbing her way into dominance of a country, invading another one for the sake of a man she loved… No matter how dark the path, no matter how many difficulties there were in the way, Semiramis seldom flinched before an objective, and never stopped before making sure she had that objective in her hands.
- Regretful
- Despite a strong façade and claims to the contrary, she had many regrets on her mortal life, such as neglecting her children, the death of Ara and the fact that despite the many conquers and achievements she had in life, the situation of her fellow women continued to be a subservient one.
- Responsible
- While she considered her power as a tool to improve her own standing, Semiramis knew that making her people happy and satisfied was an important power of her rule. That's what let an usurper like her to have a long and prosperous reign during her lifetime.
LIKES[/color]: // Handsome men, smart women, ambition, earthly pleasures.
DISLIKES[/color]: // Submissive women, ugliness, being ordered what to do.
STRENGTHS[/color]: // A cunning seductress and shrewd administrator, she can carefully maneuver around any threats to her rule and neutralize them quickly. Few men can resist her unearthly beauty and voice, and even fewer can hope to survive a meeting with her. An incredibly sharp woman, she has a vast knowledge of magecraft, medicine and alchemy.
WEAKNESSES[/color]: // While she led the Assyrian armies into battle, her physical strength is terrible compared to enemy Servants. Unlike most Assassins, her presence concealment is weaker and works differently, as she relies mostly on subterfuge and lies than stealth. Her offensive Noble Phantasm also loses some of its effectiveness when used against stronger servants.
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MY LEGEND: //[/color]
Wikipedia rundown of her legend.
Detailed account on her life and legend.
Another version.
Her story with the Armenian king Ara.
Her probable historic counterpart
MY HISTORY[/color]: //
Now, where to begin this story? There was once a shepherd who wandered in the forest looking for a stray sheep. His name was Simmas and he was in charge of the royal shepherds, and what he found was most unusual indeed. To his surprise, he found a babe no older than a few days old, being fed by doves under the shadow of a tree near the Euphrates’ bank. Unknowingly to the shepherd, she was born of a river goddess, Decerto, who abandoned the baby near the Euphrates, where she was taken care of by Doves who lived in a nearby tree.
Simmas took the young child, naming her Semiramis raising her as his own daughter, who grew under the tutorage of some of the best minds in the Assyrian Empire. And as her wisdom and intelligence grew, so did her beauty, until she was known to all as the most beautiful woman alive, which attracted the attention of a high-ranked Assyrian general. While old and ugly, he was a remarkably good husband to his young wife, who assisted him with wise advice on his military campaigns. Unfortunately her beauty and tactical prowess attracted the attention of King Ninus, who ordered the general to kill himself and then married his widow.
Semiramis quickly adapted herself to her new life at the capital Nineveh, hiding the resentment to the man who took her despite her wishes and often mistreated her. After birthing Ninus’ children, she slowly began to gain favor with the military commanders and other lords, either with her body or her cunning. After sensing the time to act was right, she asked Ninus to play a game with her. She would be a temporary ruler to the Empire for one day and then return the scepter to her king. The foolish Ninus accepted that, and Semiramis’ first command as a ruler was to send him to a prison, where he was silently poisoned in order to never threaten her again.
After that she became Queen Regent, ruling instead of the young and weak heir Ninyas. Her first order was to create a large mausoleum to the deceased king, most likely in order to silence any criticism to the suspicious way he died while in prison. She then started various works to further the glory of Assyria, such as creating magnificent and sturdy walls to the semi-ruined city of Babylon, which became her new capital. Lands like Ethiopia and Egypt were defeated and conquered by her armies, sometimes with Semiramis herself leading from the frontlines disguised as Ninyas. However, during that time she also became known for her uncontrollable lust, as many young men and women were taken to her as pleasure toys, some of them being castrated or killed when their novelty expired.
It was during that time that tales of Ara the Handsome, the king of the nearby country of Armenia, reached the Queen’s ears. Lusting for the man who was said to be the most beautiful in the whole world, she declared war against Armenia in order to capture him, executing anyone who criticized that foolish plan, even some of her sons. After defeating the Armenian army in combat, she came to a horrifying realization that Ara was killed in battle. She then took his body to Ishtar’s temple and prayed to the Goddess and every single other God for the resurrection of the Armenian king, only to fall on deaf ears. In order to placate the enraged Armenians, she ordered one of her soldiers to disguise himself as the deceased king and masquerade as him in order to prove that her prayers worked.
That however, weakened the Queen’s spirit, and during the last years of her rule she tried to drown her own regrets in a debased lifestyle until the son she manipulated his whole life, Ninyas, overthrew and killed her with the help of some royal eunuchs. The forty-two years long reign of Semiramis was over.
MY GOALS[/color]: //
“All men will obey my will. Be my children, be my lovers, they will learn not to disobey my words!”
NOBLE PHANTASM[/color]: //
Talon of the Sirrush
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1
Max Targets: 1
The first poison ever made by humans that coats the Assassin’s nails, this mystical neurotoxin was created by Semiramis to murder King Ninus and it’s one of the most effective poisonous substances ever created, a mixture of the toxins found in the Sirrush dragon, scorpion venom and mystical plant extracts.
With a single scratch, normal humans and Magi die in a matter of seconds by having their lungs and brain completely paralyzed, Servants with Endurance D or lower have their muscles completely shut down, alive but helpless, and those with Endurance ranks C or B have their movements numbed and dulled for a certain amount of time [Four Turns], slowly sapping their speed and movement capability [Strength and Agility parameter ranks are decreased by one] as well as their strength, and repeated applications of the poison [Three for servants with Endurance C, Five for Endurance B] will eventually prove paralytic and fatal for them. Servants with endurance ranks higher than B are completely immune to the effects of this Noble Phantasm.
With a single scratch, normal humans and Magi die in a matter of seconds by having their lungs and brain completely paralyzed, Servants with Endurance D or lower have their muscles completely shut down, alive but helpless, and those with Endurance ranks C or B have their movements numbed and dulled for a certain amount of time [Four Turns], slowly sapping their speed and movement capability [Strength and Agility parameter ranks are decreased by one] as well as their strength, and repeated applications of the poison [Three for servants with Endurance C, Five for Endurance B] will eventually prove paralytic and fatal for them. Servants with endurance ranks higher than B are completely immune to the effects of this Noble Phantasm.
Hanging Gardens - Botanical Menagerie
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1-10
Max Targets: 1
The Hanging Gardens were a legendary Wonder whose creation was attributed to Semiramis on some myths. A vast collection of gardens where it was said that all sorts of trees and plants were cultivated in, it took years for such a collection of flora to be built alongside the marvelous irrigation system that let it flourish on the notably arid lands of Babylon, with thousands of liters of water being used every day to feed the flora kept on that place.
This Noble Phantasm gives Semiramis access to the myriad of plants and trees kept on the Gardens for her own use. While this could be a fully fledged Reality Marble with unlimited access to every single herb and flower at once were she summoned as a Caster, this weakened version only lets her pick an individual plant from the Gardens at a time. The sort of plants that can be 'summoned' by this can range from all mundane sorts of flora, be it edible, decorative, poisonous or medicinal that existed on the eight century before Christ to many extinct and mystical herbs and trees that lived during that time like the extinct medicinal Sylphium, the halluciongen Lotus Tree of the Lotophagi Island and the mysterious Mandrake flowers.
The method which this Noble Phantasm is used consists on Assassin creating a seed from her own Prana and letting it fall on her own shadow, who turns into dark small patch of black flowers. Inside the shadow patch, the seed quickly matures and grows to a mature plant on a matter of seconds, ready for any use that is needed of it.
This Noble Phantasm gives Semiramis access to the myriad of plants and trees kept on the Gardens for her own use. While this could be a fully fledged Reality Marble with unlimited access to every single herb and flower at once were she summoned as a Caster, this weakened version only lets her pick an individual plant from the Gardens at a time. The sort of plants that can be 'summoned' by this can range from all mundane sorts of flora, be it edible, decorative, poisonous or medicinal that existed on the eight century before Christ to many extinct and mystical herbs and trees that lived during that time like the extinct medicinal Sylphium, the halluciongen Lotus Tree of the Lotophagi Island and the mysterious Mandrake flowers.
The method which this Noble Phantasm is used consists on Assassin creating a seed from her own Prana and letting it fall on her own shadow, who turns into dark small patch of black flowers. Inside the shadow patch, the seed quickly matures and grows to a mature plant on a matter of seconds, ready for any use that is needed of it.
CLASS ABILITIES[/color]: //
Presence Concealment
Rank: C
Description: The ability to masquerade herself as someone else. While not known to be a stealthy heroine, Semiramis was known to disguise herself as her son Ninyas to lead armies in his stead, which makes her more effective disguising her presence as someone else’s than to conceal it at all. This skill cannot be used at the same time as Mystic Face, and is negated when her face isn't concealed by masks, clothes and such.
SKILLS[/color]: //
Divinity
Rank: B
Description: The daughter of the water goddess Atargatis Decerto, Semiramis was worshipped as a goddess herself by the Assyrians after her death. This gives her a demi-goddess status within the Holy Grail, with all the advantages it provides.
Mystic Face
Rank: D
Description: The most beautiful woman in her time, she was known to enrapture the hearts of men. This skill is not a curse, but rather an extension of her own natural magnetism, working only on those attracted with women. Effect is similar to similarly ranked Charm-type Mystic Eyes. This skill cannot be used at the same time as Presence Concealment, negating it while Assassin's face is not concealed by masks, clothes and such.
Expert of many Specializations
Rank: C
Description: Be it alchemy, music, dance, beautification, medicine, botany, administration, tactics and politics, this Servant has studied it during her whole lifetime. This also includes a certain set of skills that she used to captivate the heart of King Ninus and brought various men to their heels…
Magecraft
Rank: C
Description: Knowledge of ancient Magecraft comparable to some of the most powerful modern Magi, yet measly before most Caster-class servants. Mind-altering spells, the creation of magical disguises, potions and poisons beyond the scope of mere human alchemy are her main specialties, as well as the creation of obedient Homunculi to replace those killed by her deadly toxins. Due to Semiramis' reputation as a sorceress, this skill would be much stronger and complemented by High Speed Divine Words were she summoned as a Caster.
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STRENGTH
ENDURANCE[/color]: // D
AGILITY[/color]: // C
MANA[/color]: // B
LUCK[/color]: // A
NOBLE PHANTASM[/color]: // B
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FACE CLAIM[/color]: // Semiramis (Fate/Apocrypha)
OTHER CHARACTERS[/color]: // Pedro (Primus)
MISC. INFORMATION[/color]: // Auuugh I know someone tried this one already on Secundus buuuut I might take any advice I can to make this one work!
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