True Name: Tlahuicole
Class: Berserker
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Appearance:
Stats:
Strength: B
Endurance: B
Agility: C
Magical Energy: D
Luck: B
Class Skills:
Mad Enhancement: D
Tlahuicole is allowed some basic forms of lucidity, but his obsession with a glorious death paints his entire personality.
Personal Skills:
Battle Continuation: A
Tlahuicole can do nothing less than fight to the bitter end, no matter the wounds sustained.
Mental Pollution: C
As in life, Tlahuicole seeks honor dying in battle under a banner not his. He cannot be swayed from a battle that presents the possibility of the death he seeks.
Honor of the Battered: C
As Tlahuicole is injured and comes closer to death, the fervor brought from the anticipation of his death grants him greater strength.
Weapon: Macuahuitl; a wooden sword with obsidian blades that were used across Central America in the time of Tlahuicole's life.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Name: Trial by Stone, Glory in Death
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Description: At the end of Tlahuicole's life, he faced the Trial by Stone. The Trial By Stone was a form of ritual combat in Aztec culture that said if a prisoner chained to a stone could injure or kill a large group of enemies set upon them, they would be set free. His final fate dying to the Trial By Stone would end up manifesting as his Noble Phantasm. Upon use, Tlahuicole's Mad Enhancement is the equivalent of A rank as he fully loses himself to the lust for battle and the need for a glorious death. All parameters increase greatly as per the increase in Mad Enhancement rank save Agility. Tlahuicole becomes an unstoppable tank, a whirlwind of death, but is unable to guard or dodge most attacks. Trial By Stone also raises Honor of the Battered rank to A, compensating his slower speed and likelihood of being harmed by granting him growing strength the closer to death he comes. No matter the outcome, at the end of its use the mana behind Tlahuicole's manifestation is exhausted and he finds the glory he sought and perishes. A last ditch Noble Phantasm meant for mutual extermination.
Personality: Thanks to the skill Mad Enhancement, whatever personality Tlahuicole had as a man outside of battle is largely nonexistent. As a living man he was well known for his unflinching ethics and pride, which has manifested under the effects of Mad Enhancement as a mad lust to repeat the actions of his last days alive, craving a warrior's death to battle the shame brought by imprisonment. Better to die in battle than to serve a master not his - in his life as a mortal, it was Montezuma the Second, and as a Heroic Spirit, it is the Throne of Heroes and the Master who summons him.
Legend: The warrior hero of the Tlaxcaltec people who gained infamy in the early 1500's. Despite his successes as a military commander, Tlahuicole was nonetheless taken prisoner in battle and taken to the city of Mexico where he met then ruler Montezuma II. So impressed by Tlahuicole Monetezuma was that he was ready to pardon the warrior and release him to his homeland. Tlahuicole refused - to return home on an enemy monarch's kindness was sure to bring him nothing but shame. He demanded the same treatment as other prisoners of war, but again, Montezuma refused. He made the young man an offer - live, but lead his armies. Tlahuicole accepted, hoping that in doing so he would find glory in death, not the shame he now felt in life as a prisoner of Montezuma.
But he succeeded. Time and time again, Tlahuicole succeeded. Montezuma by this point was desperate to keep the young man in his employ, and pleaded for him to serve officially in his army, or to at least live on as a free man, returning to his country. Tlahuicole again refused. Treason to his country, or to live on in shame. Neither were choices to the man at a all.
Finally, Montezuma acquiesced and gave the man what he wanted, all options exhausted. The stubborn, prideful young warrior was treated as prisoners were. Tied to a stone and armed, he was set upon by Montezuma's most powerful warriors, the strongest knights of the age in the Mexican region, in gladiatorial combat. One by one Tlahuicole fell each one. Legends differ on the number. Some say up to eight, some say Tlahuicole fell thirty seasoned Aztec knights before finally succumbing to his wounds. Some accounts even say he was never actually defeated in combat, his battered and exhausted body taken and opened up by ceremonial blades, his still beating heart cut from his chest by priests offering his warrior soul to the Aztec pantheon. No matter the interpretation, tales of Tlahuicole's integrity and strength would live far beyond his own life span - and well into eternity, as his being became one with the Throne of Heroes.
Summoning Catalyst: A sliver of obsidian from Tlahuicole's personal Macuahuitl.
