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 | [PTabbedContent=Samson Berserker][PTab=Status] Parameters
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[PTab=Profile] Character Details 1 Height/Weight: 255 cm || 312 kg Source: Biblical Mythology Home Region: Middle East Alignment: Chaotic Mad (Due to Mad Enhancement) Gender: Male Armament: Wristcuffs, remnants from his imprisonment. Servant Classes: Caster: When summoned as a Caster, he would display his legitimate worth as a 'Judge of Israel' that was selected by God. Gaining access to additional Thaumaturgy and Noble Phantasms that it would yield, it would his most technical and versatile Class despite being his weakest. Saber: When summoned as a Saber, he would be able to showcase his amazing ability in physical combat similar to his Berserker Class, though he would retain his sanity and obtain his most renowned Noble Phantasm, The Jawbone of the Donkey, with which he used to slay an army of a thousand Philistines. In truth, this would be his best Class. The Child Divinely Conceived The Birth of Samson is one involving Divine Intervention, as his coming was foretold by God himself, who had personally taken the form of an Angel to bestow his followers with the blessing of a receiving a child. This occurred by the insistence of the prayers that his mother, Hazelelponi, offered to the Almighty. She had been infertile, unable to have children, and the Lord answered them with intentions of his own. Appearing before the pious woman, he announced that she and her husband Manoah, would not only be granted a child of their own, but that he would be the one to that would begin to deliver the Israelites from the Philistines. Following this proclamation, the Lord set forth a number of stipulations that would require the child to be a Narazite from the moment of birth. Hazelelponi believed the Lord, but prayed that he return so that her husband, who was not present, would also learn of this. However, when the Angel of the Lord returned, Manoah asked for it's name, seeking the give praise to it. The Angel responded, questioning why he wished to know for his name was incomprehensible to Mortals. Manoah prostrated himself before it, thinking he had erred, and offered sacrifice to it. The Angel declined, saying that it should only be given to God. Upon touching the sacrifice, the Angel caused it to burst into flame and rise into the heavens. This action revealed that it was, in fact, the Lord himself. Manoah, fearing for his own life after this realization, believing that he was going to die, as none had been allowed to see God and live. However, Hazelelponi comforted her husband by saying that, if God had planned to slay them, then he would never have revealed such things to them in the first place. This eased her husband, and in due time, following the Lord's dictations, their son Samson was born, and he was raised according to the provisions. The Marriage to the Philistines When Samson was young, he departed the hillside settlements of his Tribe and went in search of the Philistine cities. It was during these trips that he came to know a a beautiful young woman by the name of Timnah, and fell in love with her from first sight. Deciding to marry the woman, he ignored the objections of his parents who disapproved of his breaking of tradition, as marriage to a gentile was forbidden. Despite this, it was allowed because the intended marriage was, in reality, a part of God's plan to strike at the Philistines. Along his way to ask for Timnah's hand in marriage, he was suddenly beset upon by a large, ferocious lion. Unperturbed, Samsom simply reached out, grabbed it, and ripped it apart in his hands. Even though this was considered a miracle, he did not mention it to his parents, and instead continued on his way to the home of his future wife, where they became betrothed to one another. He then went to his home, awaiting to marriage ceremony, but on his return to Timnah's for the wedding he had noticed that bees had nested within the carcass of the lion he slew not long before. Feeling hungry, he devoured a handful and gave the rest to his parents, who were accompanying him, before continuing onward. When at the wedding, Samson participated in a contest with his thirty groomsmen, which were all Philistines. He told them that if they could solve the riddle that he would recite for them, then he would give them thirty pieces of fine linen and garments, but if they could not solve it then they would give him those very same items. The Philistines were utterly infuriated by his riddle because, displaying his own shrewdness, it was a veiled account of two encounters he had with the lion, at which only he was present, therefore making it impossible to solve. The groomsmen approached Samson's newly wedded wife, threatening to burn the household of herself and her father if she did not discover the answer to the riddle and tell it to them. She became distraught, and the urgently and tearfully implored her husband to tell them the secret. He did, answering his own riddle when they posed it to him. Afterwards, Samson traveled to Ashkelon, a city that was roughly thirty miles away, where he slew thirty Philistines for their garments; he then returned and gave those garments to his thirty groomsmen in accordance with the deal. Now enraged, he set forth to return to his father's house, and without his knowledge the family of his new bridge instead gave Timnah to one of the groomsmen as a wife instead. When Samson returned to visit his wife some time later, unaware of what had happened, he was confronted with opposition from Timnah's father, who refused to allow Samson to see her, and instead offered to give Samson a younger sister instead. This enraged Samson once again, who marched into the wilderness. When he returned, he had captured three-hundred foxes, having already tied them together in pairs by their tails. Afterwards, he gathered and attached a burning torch to each pair of the foxes' tails and unleashed them into the grain fields and olive groves of the Philistines. The massive flame consumed and destroyed the crops, leaving only barren land. The Philistines soon learned the reason for Samson burning their crops and, enraged at his actions, saw it fitting to burn Samson's wife and father-in-law to death in retribution, using flames as he had used. Finally surrendering himself to his rage, Samson slaughtered many Philistines in revenge for what they had done, stating that it was simply a retribution of his own. When he had finished slaying an untold amount, he sought refuge in the Rock of Etam to grieve and simmer his rage. When inside, an army of Philistines approached the Tribe of Judah with the demand that three-thousand Men of Judah deliver them Samson for his misdeeds. They confronted him within Etnam, and with permission from Samson himself they restrained him with newly formed ropes and presented him to the Philistines. However, before they could apprehend him, Samson effortlessly escaped the ropes, breaking them as if they were burnt cloth. There, he retrieved the Jawbone of a Donkey, which had yet to become brittle and soft, and proceeded to slaughter one-thousand Philistines with it. Woman of Temptation A few years later, after the massacre, Samson travels to Gaza. Upon arriving, he notices a prostitute and decides to stay with her for the night. He has not yet escaped his enemies, though, and they awaited for him at the Gaza Gate within the guard posts on either side, hoping to surround him when he emerged. Instead, Samson awakens in the middle of the night and proceeds outside, where he simply uplifts the gate from its very hinges and framework and carries it to a hill in front of Hebron, guards still trapped inside the rooms in which they had locked themselves. Upon leaving Gaza after the incident, he journeyed into the Valley of Sorek and came to discover a woman by the name of Delilah who had lived within the valley. He immediately fell in love with her, and decided to stay with her in her home. However, while Samson slept the Philistines approached Delilah, driven by their grudges against him, and enticed her with one-thousand, one-hundred silver pieces to discover the source of Samson's strength so that they could get rid of it and finally subdue him. During his time staying with Delilah, she asks him many times about the secret to his strength and each time he refuses to reveal the answer, and instead teases her with falsehoods. The first time, he says that he will lose his strength should he be bound with fresh bowstrings. She believes him, binding him with fresh bowstrings while he sleeps, but when he awakens he simply snaps the strings. She continues to persists, so he tells her that he can be bound with newly crafted ropes. She ties him up with new ropes while he sleeps and he snaps them too, upon awakening. She asks yet again, refusing to relent, and he says that he can be bound if his locks are woven into a weaver's loom. She weaves them into a loom as he sleeps, but again, it fails as he simply destroys the entire loom and carries it off when he awakens. Eventually, the nagging of Delilah begins to infuriate him, so he decides to tell the truth; stating that he can be bound and will lose his strength with the loss of his hair. Upon being wooed to slumber in her lap, Delilah calls for a servant to shave the seven locks in which his hair had been styled. This breaks the last tenant of his Nazarite Oath, and God leaves Samson to be captured by the Philistines as they invade the room. They blind him, gouging out his eyes as punishment for 'following them too often' and is taken back to Gaza, where he is put to work grinding grain by turning a large millstone. The Revenge of a Judge Eventually, the Philistine leaders would come to assemble in a Temple of Dagon, one of their most important deities, to preform a religious sacrifice for delivering Samson into their hands. They summon Samson from his newly appointed duties as a Slave, calling him into the temple so that he can preform for them. It was said that the temple became so crowded that some even began to climb to the rooftop, totaling three-thousand citizens that had gathered. Upon being taken inside, the blinded Samson request that he be allowed to lean on one of the pillars, so that he may momentarily rest. The slavemaster agreed, and allowed him to position himself how he wished. After doing so, Samson grasps two of the pillars with all of his might and called out to his God, shouting: "O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes! Doing so, let me die with the Philistines!” He heaved with everything he had in that moment, an exhausted man that had supposedly lost all of his strength, and the two pillars miraculously collapsed. Toppling the entire Temple of Dagon, the three thousand spectators perished during the collapse. God had also taken Samson's life in that moment, for the Temple had fallen backwards so as to not crush and bury him, allowing his family to retrieve his body from the rubble. He was taken, prepared, and laid in the tomb of his Father. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
