Appearance:
Title:
The Weaver
True Name:
Arachne
Possible Classes:
Caster, Archer, Assassin
Current Class:
Assassin
Master:
Gender:
Female
Height:
5' 11"
Weight:
135 lbs.
Weapon:
Needle-shaped Throwing Daggers, Thread
Armor:
Assorted homespun outfits
Summoning Catalyst:
A scrap of the tapestry Arachne used to challenge Athena
Stats:
Strength:E
Mana:A
Endurance:E
Luck:D
Agility:A
Class Abilities:
Presence Concealment A+: Hides Assassin's Servant status and greatly amplifies sneaking capabilities. Because she was forced to hide the monstrous form that Athena cursed her with, Assassin is quite skilled at avoiding detection. Concealment drops a rank and loses its modifier when entering combat.
Personal Skills:
Eye for Art EX:
Because of the Weaver's extraordinary affinity for the artistic, she is capable of discerning the characteristics of a Noble Phantasm upon examining it. (Note: This only applies to physical Noble Phantasms such as weapons or armor) She may be able to guess at its True Name, but will almost certainly be able to glean some details about it from her observation. (Rank, Type, etc.)
Item Creation (Web) A:
As the first spider, Assassin is capable of creating incredibly strong webs using magical energy.
Familiar Creation (Spiders) C:
Assassin can summon forth spider familiars and, through shared consciousness, use them as spies. As a Caster, this skill would possess a much higher rank, allowing her to summon monstrous familiars, however, as an Assassin, it is merely a convenient reconnaissance tool.
Throwing (Needles) C:
Assassin was not a fighter of any sort during her life. However, being classed as an Assassin grants her basic usage of throwing weapons. The familiarity of a needle-shaped weapon further increases this trait, though it maintains only a modest ranking.
Vampirism D:
Not vampirism in the true sense, but rather a consequence of her nature as a spider, this ability allows Assassin to absorb magical energy by drinking blood. Assassin dislikes using this skill and is unikely to use it of her own free will.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Achlys
Venom of the Spurned
Rank: B(+)
Anti-Unit
The venom of the first spider, a crystallization of the bitter resentment held by Assassin toward the goddess Athena. Achlys manifests as a deadly toxin that corrupts and eventually destroys its target. The effect of the poison is gradual, first sapping away the victim's magical energy before eventually dissolving their very form. Because it was born from Arachne's hatred for a goddess, the ability is greatly amplified according to the target's divinity. The venom is applied by biting the victim, and once injected is wholly incurable unless Assassin is killed.
Achlys Miasma
Mist of Death
Rank: C(+)
Anti-Army
An alternate manifestation of Achlys, projected as a poisonous cloud. The mist is incredibly toxic, and gradually melts away at those unfortunate enough to be caught within it. Breathing in the toxic fog is especially dangerous, and causes more rapid deterioration of the target. Because it is in a much more diffused state, this manifestation of Achlys is not as potent. Though its effects will likely be felt long after leaving the fog, Achlys Miasma does not carry the weight of inevitable death so long as one leaves the mist in a timely fashion. Servants with Divinity are effected much more heavily by this skill.
Tapestry of Reprisal
Look Upon Thy Sins and Lament
Rank: A+(+)
Anti-Unit
The manifestation of the Tapestry Assassin created in her competition with Athena. According to legend, the tapestry disgraced the goddess of wisdom on two fronts: Firstly, it was much more beautiful and vivid than her own. Secondly, it depicted, in great detail, all the wrongs the Gods had committed against humanity. As a Noble Phantasm, the Tapestry forces a Heroic Spirit to face their greatest failings, imprisoning them within a Reality Marble of their own design. The target is engulfed in the Reality Marble the moment they look upon the Tapestry. The Reality Marble perfectly recreates instances of the target's greatest failures, and forces them to relive those moments on repeat until they accept and overcome their own shortcomings. Alternate methods of escape include Anti-Reality Noble Phantasms powerful enough to disrupt a Reality Marble, Assassin's death, or the destruction of the tapestry itself, though this would require a Noble Phantasm of equal or greater rank. The Tapestry can only imprison one target at a time, and only becomes usable once Assassin knows their true identity. The Reality Marble itself is self-contained within the Tapestry, and, as with Assassin's other Noble Phantasms, becomes even more effective against Servants with Divinity.
(Note:Heroic Spirits who were faultless in life, or have already come to terms with their own failings will be unaffected by the Tapestry. Conceptual Servants who do not qualify as a 'living thing' in the human sense of understanding are also unaffected.)
Personality:
Arachne is first and foremost an artist. She takes great pride in creating beautiful things, and values the hard work and dedication required to hone ones craft. Though her own skills lie in weaving, she admires a great many things as art, and sees the beauty in every artist's creation. She rejects the idea that any such thing as 'natural talent' truly exists, and that even if it did, it would be incapable of giving a creation beauty. Beauty, as she sees it, requires labor and dedication, and something beautiful can only truly be created by putting ones whole heart and soul into the act of creation. Because of her fascination with creation and beauty, she finds unnecessary destruction distasteful, though she is more than willing to fight to defend what she perceives as beautiful.
Alignment:
Chaotic Good?
Likes:
Art, Dedication, Compliments, Accomplishment, Tea.
Dislikes:
Critics, Insults, Ignorance, Ugliness, Tyranny, Divinity.
Wish:
To be given true human form in the modern world so she may continue to create art.
Legend:
Arachne was the greatest weaver of Ancient Greece, a woman of incredible talent who wove beautiful and wondrous tapestries. She took great pride in the skills she had honed for so long, and made no attempt to hide her talents. She viewed her ability as entirely self-made, the result of years of dedication to her craft. For this reason, she denied that her expertise was some sort of divine blessing, a declaration that was viewed as arrogance before the gods. According to legend, to punish her 'hubris', the goddess Athena challenged her to a weaving competition: A competition that Arachne won. The tapestry Arachne wove was impossibly beautiful, but also portrayed the abuses of the Gods of Olympus upon mankind. This act of defiance enraged Athena, who cursed the weaver, transforming her into a monstrous spider. Arachne was terrified and disgusted by her grisly appearance, and eventually hung herself with her own thread.
