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[PTab=Profile] Character Details Blood type: AB Gender: Male Height: 192 cm / 6' 2'' Weight: 81 Kg Home Region: Britain / France Source: Arthurian Legends Place of Origin: Soissons, Ancient France Alignment: Lawful Neutral. Birthday: 6th October Bloodline: Benoic Royalty Natural enemy: Morgan le Fay. Servant classes: Berserker, Lancer, Rider, Saber Armament: Sword, Armour. Likes: Arthur, Etiquette, His Fellow Knights, Tradition. Dislikes: His own failings, Traitors, Uncouth Behaviour. Talents: Chivalry, Horseback Riding, Martial Arts, Monster-slaying, Standing as an example. 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
