Aristotle, King of Teachers

Aristotle, King of Teachers Mar 27, 2016 22:53:10 GMT

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Post by Aristotle on Mar 27, 2016 22:53:10 GMT

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STR	E	END	D
AGI	C	MNA	A+
LCK	B	NP	A+

Personal Skills

Skill 01

ELEMENTAL :: A+

Elemental is the skill of a mage with elemental magic - Elemental magic is the very basis of magecraft, with each person being able to manipulate at least one of the five major elements; Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, Aether. However, every so often a special mage pops up who is capable of manipulating all five.

Aristotle is famous for being the great teacher, teaching greats like Iskandar and Hermias, but among the magi community he is famous for something else; Aristotle was the first recorded Average one, one of those legendary figures who could control all five elements, which was what triggered his "elemental" philosophy.

Not only is Aristotle fully capable of using spells from all five elements, but he spent most of his life learning as much as he could, mastering in the following magic schools; Spiritual Evocation, Jewel Magecraft, Alchemy, Leyline studies, Divination and Biological Magecraft (Poisons, Antidotes, healing)

Skill 02

REVELATION :: A

Revelation is one of the Prescience skills, along with Instinct and Eye of the Mind. However, unlike those, Revelation is a skill which grants a figure the ability to know what the end result of each path they take will be. However, due to the intangible nature of getting these answers, it's almost impossible to explain to others.

Aristotle was, during his time, a man who made many predictions which would later come to be true. It was for this very reason that Iskandar kept him as his chief advisor after his coronation, and enlisted him as one of his lead Generals. Even today, people are confused just how the man knew what would happen.

The fact of the matter is that Aristotle can physically see the future, a flicker of ghosts moving in the path they are about to take. The more the man concentrates, the further into the future he sees, however doing so makes him incredibly vulnerable. Furthermore, simply because he can see an event happen doesn't mean he can stop it.

Skill 03

HIGH-SPEED DIVINE WORDS :: A

High-Speed Divine Words is a form of magecraft that was used during the Age of the Gods, relying on words almost like prayers. This allowed the bearers to transcend their human limitations, superseding magic circuits and allowing them to become much stronger than modern mages. However, as gods' powers withered away, this art was lost.

Aristotle was a devoted follower of the gods - though not a priest or a princess like many of the others granted with this ability, Aristotle was a close ally to Zeus and Epiphron and was even chosen by Zeus to safeguard and teach his son Iskandar about the state of the world and their place in it. In repayment, he was granted this and the wisdom of the gods.

At this tier, High-Thaumaturgy-level Magecraft can be cast at the speed of Single-Action spells.; in other words, he is capable of casting in a second what a mage might take half a year to produce. Furthermore, Magic Resistance is considered one rank lower against this magecraft, due to it being so ungodly powerful.

Skill 04

GIFT OF PASSING KNOWLEDGE :: B

The Gift of Passing Knowledge is a talent held by those who have gone down in history as people who's teachings and lessons formed the world that came after them. Whether this by being a revolutionary scientist, mathematician or something else entirely, this position is held by those in antiquity that changed the very path of history.

From the day that he became a student of the sciences, it was destined that Aristotle would change the way that humanity saw the world. A prodigious teacher of the greats, Aristotle has been labelled as both the father of magi and the father of reason; to this day, he is praised by the Mage's Association as their progenitor, and by Arabs, Jews and Christians alike for his prophecies affecting their beliefs.

In effect, this skill allows him to impart his wisdom onto masters who he serves under, buffing them to the tier of being weak servants. This buff only remains as long as the master is willing to listen to his directions (or as long as he is capable to give them), returning them to normal the moment he is either disobeyed or muted forcefully.

Skill 05

LYCEUM ARCHIVOS:: B

Lyceum Archivos is a "skill" held by Aristotle that refers to the book in question, the book that he was gifted by Aristotle by Zeus and Epiphron in return for his promise to protect and guide Alexander. By choosing his gods and his duty over his own interests, Aristotle lost his chance to lead the Platonic Academy but instead became one of the first magical scholars.

This book, at its most dilluted form, is a book of all the world's knowledge. It contains, within its pages, every fact known to man and Aristotle is able to summon them up just by thinking about them. However, he cannot find things he doesn't know how to ask about and, as it holds facts rather than opinions, a lot of information is missing. In terms of mechanics, it allows him to learn almost all skills held by other servants.

At this rank, Aristotle is capable of manifesting almost every skill and talent held by the holy grail, at a proficiency of C~B rank, and is able to teach them to other servants - granting them use of said skill during the immediate RP. The only skills that are excepted to this are personal skills bound to a single servant (such as Murderer of the Misty Night) and those that require a special biology, as Aristotle is unable to alter his form well enough to manage such an act.

Class Skills

Skill 01

TERRITORY CREATION :: A

Territory Creation is a skill possessed by magi, focusing on their ability to make a territory or to use a territory's latent mana as their own. This ability can potentially change the landscape of the place they've possessed but mostly seems to simply have the ability of turning its pre-existing assets to the aid of the caster. At this rank, one can create a temple instead of a simple workshop.

Aristotle was, during his life, famed for making multiple great buildings that stood throughout history as halls of learning and importance. This fact is best shown through the guise of the "Lyceum Archives", the largest deposit of magic tomes in the world. This is the hall that many thank for creating magic as a studiable concept rather than something possessed by only a select few individuals. However, this also may make him to blame for the shift away from the age of gods.

At this rank, Aristotle is capable of twisting locations to his uses as long as he is inside them without being in combat for two simultaneous turns. By using said location as a mana source instead of a mana, he is able to physically sever his connection from a potentially bad master and instead act as the anchor for other servants. In these areas, he has theoretically endless amounts of mana.

Skill 02

ITEM CREATION :: B

Item Creation is the second of the two skills possessed by the Caster class - the ability to use their mana to create objects that can be of use to a servant on a mission. Whilst these items will always be below the rank of a true noble phantasm the true power of this skill is its versatility in being able to create anything given the parameters of the servant in question.

In Aristotle's case, he is a man who has become famous for his work in creating many of the fundamental sciences and logic in the world. He is, through Lyceum Archivos, a man who is theoretically capable of knowing everything and so is able to theoretically create at least an imitation of everything. However, due to not specializing in a particular form, every thing that he creates will be vastly inferior to the real thing he's replicating.

Noble Phantasm

	CLASSICAL ELEMENT: EXISTENTIAL QUINTESSENCE
	RANK: A++
	TYPE: Anti-Army/Anti-Fortress / Anti-Country
Among Aristotle's many discoveries and teachings, few things have caught on with such intense prevalence in the modern day as his writings on elements; Aristotle is still lauded by the Mage's Association as the creator of the modern form of elemental magecraft - what has become known as Classical Elements, or the five humours. This being Water, Wind, Fire, Earth and Ether. As a crystallization of this, Classical Element has become his main Noble Phantasm in this form - By laying out an interconnecting latticework of bounded fields, each one drawing a different elemental energy out of the surrounding area, Aristotle is capable of stockpiling a frankly enormous amount of energy in his body before firing said energy as an extremely destructive wave of energy. This wave, flowing from Aristotle as the chain and the epicentre, will bombard everything else inside the field, most likely causing death. As should perhaps be obvious, the amount of fields feeding this Noble Phantasm dictates the amount of power it wields. Three fields running simultaneously is capable of generating a flux of energy classified as "Anti-army", four fields is classified as "Anti-fortress" and all five together is capable of "Anti-Country". However, each additional field requires extra preparation time (+1 turn build up for every bounded field beyond 3).

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Character Details

Blood type: A+
Gender: Male
Height: 181 cm / 5' 9''
Weight: 62 Kg

Home Region: Greece
Source: History.
Place of Origin: Stagira, Ancient Greece

Alignment: Lawful Neutral.
Birthday: 6th October
Bloodline: None
Natural enemy: Darius III, Ptolemy.
Servant classes: Assassin, Caster

Armament: Dagger, Tome
Likes: Alexander, Experiments, Intelligent masters, Learning, Mathematics, Rational Thought.
Dislikes: Atlanteans, Accusations of Murdering his king, Death, Berserkers
Talents: Learning, Science, Mathematics, Magecraft, Teaching, Writing.

Personality

Aristotle is a man who has been a figure of great contention in history - a genius beyond reckoning and a man who stood side by side with his king and friend through their conflicts, Aristotle somehow managed to maintain the appearance of a sage. Seeming to always know what he’s talking about, even if only answering how he knows it by tapping his nose as if it’s a secret, Aristotle was a cheerful, charismatic and enthusiastic man who put learning first before all else… even when that could be considered inappropriate. However, he also contained a large amount of anger at those who would attempt to hurt his “family” as he referred to the generals of Alexander.

His king’s human side keeping him calm and content, he was a loving and fun character to be around, albeit somewhat ignorant of social taboos. He would welcome anyone with open arms, attempting to smile at everyone even though he inwardly feels a lot of resentment at “barbarous practices” like the child sacrifices of the Aztecs. He even made this openly clear, telling Alexander in his youth to “become friends with all who would listen” but to “slaughter all barbarians”. It seemed like their views of barbarians differed greatly, but in the end they still somehow managed to get along. He was the brain to Alexander’s brawn, the two striding across continents almost like a father and a son.

Whilst Aristotle seems to have a generally merciful and compassionate nature, believing everything can be understood through logic, there are some facts so shrouded in mystery that even he cannot grasp them. In these moments he becomes irritable and prone to shouting, overtly disliking anything that even someone as brilliant as he cannot get his head around. This anger also transfers to a sense of righteousness,as if his way of thinking is right simply because it was endorsed by a god of wisdom. He could almost be described as sanctimonious in this regard, acting without hesitation to strike down those who antagonize his allies or attempt to slow their progress.

Aris’ main personality flaw, however, is his ego. A man who has always had anything within his grasp as long as he strove for it, he truly felt like it was his duty to know everything and to judge the universe. He believed he was smarter than anyone else, and that this meant his decisions had to be right. He is also something of a hypocrite, being surprised when others treat him the way he treats them as he seems not to notice it. He is truly socially inept, always relying on Iskandar to be the charmer for him.

Considering this it should perhaps be no shock that he is romantically inept. Emotions are an intangible concept, and thus something that is hard to put into words or hard to understand from words alone. He has strong feelings for other servants and masters with wise personalities, favoring intelligence over physical beauty due to this desire for an intellectual equal, but this search has found few possible partners as few women could claim omniscience as he does.

Ultimately, much like Solomon and other men who tread a path most would reserve for gods, Aristotle had a great respect for humanity and wanted to protect it. However, whilst Solomon seems to only focus on what they could be and how they are falling so much shorter than their potential, Aristotle revels in what humanity is. His people would never have imagined half of the technological marvels the modern world boasts, laughing at the insanity of objects like pop tarts. Whilst he does know the failure of humanity, capable of describing them as both brilliant and stupid in the same sentence, he believes they are like children who just need a stern hand and someone to teach them.

For this reason, it might be unsurprising he dislikes open combat with others. Whilst in his younger days he stood alongside Alexander as his earliest and most powerful general, Aristotle grew more and more resistant to taking the field as the years dragged on. He could easily kill entire armies on his own, and yet he refused to do so, believing it to be a pointless and barbarous waste of human lives, always attempting to solve a situation without violence. He was the man who helped to earn Iskandar most of his alliances, his social ineptness being made up for by his genuine desire to not see anyone upset or damaged. It is his belief that killing is wrong unless there is no other way to reach a solution. For this reason, he despises Berserkers as they are the opposite of this mentality.

Alexander himself once claimed that he was a man without compeer - one of the few men that Alexander seemed to look up to as a better rather than as an equal. It is unknown whether he said this simply because Aristotle was the closest he ever came to having a father figure or whether he truly believed him to be so grand, but other generals agreed with this statement. He was the man who was always there, found talking to civilians from a city they had just conquered and trying to learn from them. A man who would never turn someone away unless he truly believed they were irredeemable. Where Iskandar was the fire, he was the wind.

The Father of Elemental Magic

From the day that he was born, Aristotle was a problematic child. Where other magical families prayed and begged for their child to be gifted with thaumaturgical skill, Aristotle was born with a surplus of it - He was as powerful as most of the city's trained magi by the age of 10.

This fact drew a fair amount of interest as Aristotle was adopted by the advisor to king Amyntas of Macedonia. He trained under him as his student, and became extremely skilled in the arts of court - Intrigue, charm, understanding the inner workings of the world and so forth. However, it was not until the age of 18 that he truly began a proper education>

At the age of 18, now his own man, Aristotle left Macedonia to travel to Athens and enroll at the Plat0nic Academy where he learned many things - physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government.

Aristotle mastered his areas of study extremely quickly, and soon found himself with little more to be taught by the members of the Academy. Thus he finished his education and found himself in need of something to do ; he applied to the staff and became one of the teachers, finding himself being taught magic under Plato himself.

During his days there was a rule of two - Every mage was only able to take a single assistant under him at one time, whether that be their child or someone they felt was worth the time. This seemed incredibly inefficient and risky to Aristotle, but as he was little more than a student under Plato he had little choice in the matter

After almost two decades, becoming a master of magic with no contemporary parallel, Aristotle found himself in a unique position - He had the chance of taking the position of head of the Platonic Academy and turn away from the world of magic, or to take an offer that had come from the most unusual of places.

Slayer of Alien Gods

One late summer's evening, Aristotle was walking alone when he found himself approached by a strange figure who introduced himself as Epiphron. As a good Greek, Aristotle knew the man well - The son of Nyx, and one of the lesser gods; the god of knowledge and wisdom and a servant of King Zeus.

Now, this wasn't entirely strange. During those days of ancient magic and power, many gods took human shape and walked across the globe. It was called the age of gods for a reason, after all. However, Aristotle was confused when the man asked him for assistance - He was a humble teacher, what good could he do the gods?

In essence, Epiphron pleaded with the man to aid him in training one of the many children of Zeus. Zeus was famed for being promiscuous and bringing many children into the world - it was his fault that the Trojan War had happened after all. In a city across the country, Zeus' bastard son Alexander was growing up in the house of a king and he needed to be shown the ways of the world without being influenced by Zeus.

Aristotle agreed humbly, and left the Academy the next day, publicly accepting a request from Philip to teach his young son. This is where Aristotle became a household name, usnig the power and influence this position afforded him to fashion the library at Lyceum, an academy where he would be able to teach magic as an art, shattering the rule of 2 within Macedonia. In this way, he was one of the first inspirations for the modern day Mage's Association.

Possible Classes

Assassin: A class that he only qualifies for through common misconception - Among the populace, it has become an extremely common belief that Aristotle was the one who assassinated his king out of some petty squabble during their stay in Babylon. Whilst the magi know differently, this doesn't stop there being enough belief that he has been warped into this class, similar to Vlad becoming Dracula.

Caster: Aristotle is one of the five fathers of modern magecraft - the man who conceptualized the idea of the elemental system and the concept of magecraft being teachable rather than simply maintained within families. Because of this, this is his strongest and most virile form, allowing him most dominion over his powers.

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Aristotle, King of Teachers

Post by Aristotle on Mar 27, 2016 22:53:10 GMT

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