Renaud de Montauban

Post by Renaud de Montauban on Mar 16, 2016 23:01:18 GMT

[PTabbedContent=Renaud Rider][PTab=Status] Parameters STR C END C AGI B+ MNA C LCK A NP B+ Personal Skills Skill 01 Evaporation of Sanity: E+ Reasoning is disappearing, making it impossible to keep any secrets. Carelessly chatters about own team's weaknesses and True Names, forgetful of important things, etc. A kind of extreme curse. Renaud's susceptibility to this skill is doubled when interacting with those he loves or hates. Skill 02 Inversion of Affection: C A skill tied to one of Renaud's more notable legends, where he drank from several enchanted fountains that caused him to love the beautiful Angelica, and for her to hate him. Eventually he was cured and his affections restored, but it left him with a curious response to similar mental interference effects. Effects that would normally cause positive feelings, such as for one to feel love, empathy, or compassion for something instead cause him to feel disgust and distance from the subject. Similarly, effects usually made to cause hate, fear or disgust with an object, he is attracted to. It makes for some awkward encounters. Skill 03 Protection of the Faeries: A+ A blessing acquired from his faerie cousin, Maugris. Causes Renaud to gain an incredible boost to luck in disadvantageous circumstances. The more at risk he is, the further his luck rises.  Class Skills Skill 01 Magic Resistance: C Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against Magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals. Skill 02 Riding: A- The ability to ride mounts. Rider-class Servants will typically possess a high rank, and A-rank can allow for Phantasmal Beasts and Divine Beasts to be mounted. Renaud suffers a penalty to this skill if Bayard is ever slain. Noble Phantasm Bayard: The Phantom War Horse Rank: A Type: Support Pictured above with it's other notable rider, Saint George, Bayard is a magical steed whom is probably better referred to as a Phantasmal Beast than an ordinary horse. Once whisking Renaud and his brothers away from the harm that imperiled them, Renaud has an incredible fondness for the horse; So much so that he actually sold his dumb ass to the Counter Force just to make sure the horse didn't drown when Charlemagne tried to have it killed. It is said whomever rides upon Bayard is impervious to harm. Simply by sitting upon the white steed, one is protected from most attacks and harmful effects that do not surpass the rank of Bayard. In addition, in the event Renaud should suffer a lethal attack while Bayard still lives, the horse will give it's life in exchange for Renaud's, nullifying the attack and restoring him to health.  Has a max capacity of four riders at once, so long as Renaud is one of them. Otherwise he'll only carry one person at a time. Froberge: The Sword of Maybe Possible Clutch or Kick Victory Rank: C+ Type: Anti-Whateverhejustcameupwith Stuff The enchanted blade given to him by his cousin Maugris, alongside the magical steed Bayard. Not much is known about the blade, so it's actual rank is fairly low due to it's obscurity. It is a Holy Sword and, you know what that means, it shoots magical prana beamus. And that's about it. It's fairly underwhelming. ...Or looks that way at first glance, at least. In actuality, Froberge is a weapon forged by the Faeries themselves, given by the Fariry Oriande to Maugris, and from Maugris to Renaud. In that respect is just as holy and powerful an artifact as Excalibur. The problem is it was never used properly, never garnered much fame or glory, and was ultimately just a footnote in legend compared to it's more famous cousin weapons. So it's power as a Noble Phantasm has been notably limited to a fraction of anything it should have achieved, to the point of being little more than another obscure Holy Blade. However, in dire situations where Renaud's Protection of the Faeries skill activates, the power and output of the blade rise exponentially. The sword's power increases equal to the desperation of Renaud's current situation. In a situation where there is no possibility or hope of victory for Renaud, it's power could rival that of even legendary Holy Blades like Excalibur; In proper circumstances. Due to it's much lower standard output and cost than most holy swords, it is more apt to call it's usual function more like shooting "lances" or "waves" of light than actual large scale beam attacks. These such things are only possible when Renaud is in extremely dire circumstances, where the odds of his victory are incredibly low. [/PTab] [PTab=Profile] Character Details 1 Height / Weight : 6'0/165 lbs Source : The Four Sons of Aymon Home Region : France Alignment : Chaotic Good Gender : Male The Flight from Charlemagne Renaud was born as one of four sons to the  man Aymon de Dordone, some french git that's honestly not terribly important to the story. He also had a sister named Bradamante whom was actually very important but, not in this instance, so we'll ignore her too. Their childhood was mostly boring, but mostly what was important was his acquiring of the sword Froberge and the steed Bayard from his cousin, Maugris. Well, less acquiring in the case of Bayard, as he still had to go wrestle the damn horse to the ground to break an enchantment on it, but it was Maugris who had enchanted Bayard and pointed him in the direction so it still technically counts. Fast forwarding a bit, Renaud was a member of Charlemagne's court, and things were going pretty smoothly. Until he got drunk and killed one of the King's nephews in an idiotic fist fight. In fairness, the bloke had it coming, or so Renaud insists, but that still doesn't change the fact he straight up iced a dude over some drunken brawl. So he and his brothers hopped on his magic horse and Hussein Bolted outta town, with Charlemagne and his paladins hot on their tails. After a long, exhausting struggle including many epic chase scenes, long drawn out sieges of perilous castles, and many chivalrous tasks later, the other Paladins eventually convinced Charlemagne that it was once teency accident and that the whole grudge against Renaud thing had gotten a bit out of hand. So they made peace. My life for a horse! One condition of the peace between Charlemagne and Renaud, was that he offered up his magical horse Bayard to the King as a gift. While he hated to part with his beloved steed, he figured Charlemagne would take good care of such a magical and devoted horse. So Charlemagne decided to chuck it in a river and drown it. Aghast, Renaud prayed to God above that he would save his noble steeds life, vowing he would give his life rather than watch a trusted companion die due to his betrayl. And while it wasn't in the way he thought, his prayer was answered. Bayard was chucked into the river bound with stones, but burst free and ran off into the woods. Renaud would never see the magic horse again, but he would be alive, and that thought brought him comfort. The other condition for the king's forgiveness was that he had to go fight in the Crusades. So that was another fun few years. While some noteworthy things happened there, it isn't much anything that's relevant here, so we'll breeze over it. Fountain of Bullshit Something Renaud had some other adventures in his time as a Paladin besides just being chased down by a vengeful king. In one of his more infamous instances, he drank from a fountain that made him fall madly in love with a pagan princess named Angelica. And she drank from a fountain that made her hate his guts, so needless to say, it was a complicated situation. Made more so by his cousin Roland, the foremost of Charlemagne's paladins, also being in love with Angelica, so they had to duel once or twice or twelve times. It gets confusing with all the angry screaming and poetic insults. Eventually he drank from another fountain that cured him of his unnatural love, and continued on a few more adventures before deciding to retire at a young age. He returned home, and decides to become a simple mason, working towards building a stature of Saint Peter. Some other workers however get somewhat upset with him due to his flamboyant personality and the fact he was kind of being a dick and murder him, chucking his body in a river. However, his body emerges from the river unscathed but still very dead, and returns to his brothers for a proper burial. Counter What Now? Remember when I said he prayed to God to save his horse? Well God didn't save anything. Desperate as he was, Renaud willingly entered a pact with some unknown force, which he assumed was God and probably still does, to save his mighty steed in exchange for whatever it wanted. What it wanted was to draft him into the army of mindless drones known as the Counter Guardians. So he's been kind of busy doing that ever since. Unlike some other worry warts, Renaud never has much problem with his duties as an agent of the Counter Force. As someone who put his faith in God and a higher power, he trusts whatever force commands him to be using him for the Greater Good, so looks on his actions as a mindless, killing Robot as basically just a more literal version of his actions during the Crusades. Bad things to good people for a good reason, he hopes.  [/PTab][/PTabbedContent={width:430px;tab-alignment=center;}]