Thread: Throne of Heroes

True Name: Tohsaka, Setsuko
alias “Archerko"
遠坂 切幸
Class: Archer
Gender: Female
Approximate Age: 17
Time Period: 2000-2100
Height & Weight: 4'10"
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Direct Combat Ratings:
Strength: C
Endurance:C
Agility:A
Mana:C
Luck:D

Indirect Combat Ratings
Magic Resistance:D
Independent Action: C
Mana Burst: C
Sorcery: C-
Clairvoyance: B

Other
Measurements: B 87 W 54 H 83
Image Color: Red
Talents: Competition archery, cooking
Likes: rubies, well cooked meals
Dislikes: “boring” things, her below average height
Natural Enemy(s): The Matou family, "boring" people
Seiyuu: Chihara, Minori
Image Theme: Unmei no Ito (Thread of Fate) by JAM Project

History and Ascension to the Throne of Heroes:
Throughout the many different paths revealed by kaleidoscope, there are many different worlds, one for each outcome, and thousands of heroes that are called by the throne to battle for the Holy Grail in just as many worlds. It is this way that one Emiya Shiro was called into the world of another’s, and it is in this way that Setsuko Tohsaka, child of one world’s Shiro Emiya and Rin Tohsaka, was called to this war.

Setsuko, named after Shiro’s adoptive father Kiritsugu (note kanji), actually lived a relatively peaceful early life. A light hearted and carefree girl (lord knows where she got it, considering her parents), she actually gained a bit of fame for her skill in archery (though it never went any farther than the local level). Her godmother Taiga coined her the nickname "Archerko" (written "little archer") at her first competition, and the name stuck with her the rest of her life.

As peaceful as it was, there was one thing that kept Archerko from leading a normal life… sets of special "night classes" her mother insisted on her taking ("Why? Because the great Tohsaka family magus line has to continue!… oh, and the Emiya line too, I guess."). Excepting practice and the classes themselves, Archerko never had to actually use any of these spells… until…

When Archerko was 15, her parents received a message from the Mages Association, concerning rumors that Zouken Matou and the Einzbern family were conspiring to create another Grail War, one rigged so that only one or the other would be able to win. Memories of the last war fresh in their mind, both Shiro and Rin decided they would leave to prevent this horror. Passing the Phantom Canceller and The Robes of Vaiga onto Archerko to ensure her safety while they were gone, they departed with Rin’s sister Sakura on a plane to the rumored site of this new war… and never made it there. Zouken magically possessed Sakura, awakened her "dark" side that has lain dormant all these years, and used her great magical power to slay everyone on the plane before they could interfere.

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Two years later, Archerko, after a failed attempt to win the sixth Grail War, made a pact with the power of the world itself, agreeing to temporarily leave her timeline serve as an Epic Spirit in the Throne of Heroes until she eventually won a battle for the grail. Her intended wish: to alter her timeline so that her parents were never killed. Two Grail Wars later (well technically three, but one doesn’t really count, she is summoned once more… perhaps this time her wish shall be granted…


Noble Phantasms
Phantom Canceller: Frozen Fantasy
Rank: C ~ EX
Type: Anti-personal ~ Anti-fortress Noble Phantasm
Legend: A weapon created by Rin Tohsaka and Shiro Emiya using a modified version of the Tohsaka family magic circuit, the Crimson Blood jewel, and the false philosopher’s stone used to power the kalideostick (on a side note, Rin didn’t seem to have any problems destroying said entity in order to procure said stone…). It was passed on to Archerko shortly before her parent’s untimely demise.
Effect: In it’s initially released form (dubbed "level one" by Archerko), the Tohsaka magic circuit takes the form of a hand bow mounted Archerko’s left arm. This weapon is capable of using both mana-based bolts and relatively lightweight traced blades as ammunition for ranged attacks.

It’s true power, however (dubbed as "level two" by Archerko), works in a much more complicated fashion. It channels an extremely large range of magical energies normally inaccessible to humans that is stored ahead of time within the false philosopher’s stone, and then focuses it into a miniaturized Avalon traced within the Crimson Blood jewel. Then, the normally defensive-use energies released by Avalon are focused and shot through the Phantom Canceller in a beam form. This beam (normally kept between 10~30cm in diameter in order to reduce the possibility of civilian and preserve mana) is able to pierce through and dispel every known magical attack and summoned magical weapon (thus earning it’s name), and furthermore, can literally destroy an opponent to a point where the only trace is left of his or her existence is on the atomic level. A devastating attack, it put great physical and mental stress on its user. Archerko can only fire it up to two times before needing to enter her reality marble to replenish her mana stores, as a third shot would drain both her mana and her master’s, down to such a level that she would not have even the minimum amount of mana required for her to exist as a servant in the grail war. (Note: when not in use, it still appears as a tattoo on Archerko’s left hand)




Reality Marble – Endless Jeweled Legacy: The Reflected Blade
Rank: E ~ A++
Type: Support.
Legend: A Reality Marble, also known as Innate Bounded Field, is a high-class type of sorcery that creates an enclosed separate reality that is a physical representation of a user's soul where the users may bypass the laws of nature themselves. Though technically not a noble phantasm, this spell is treated as if it is one. Archerko learned how to perform this technique from her father.
Effect: Archerko’s Reality Marble, known as "Endless Jeweled Legacy" takes the form of a somewhat large, gothic cathedral. The hundreds of windows that cover the cathedral are made of shards of stained glass, each window depicting a Noble Phantasm that Archerko knows how to trace. The largest window, set behind the altar, is shattered… However, if the shards were collected and reassembled, one would be able to see that it depicts the Jeweled sword Zeltrech…

When Archerko traces a Noble Phantasm within this realm, it is realized as a "jeweled" version of itself, covered in jewels that are filled to the brim with enough magical power to raise its value by ½ a rank (i.e. C- -> C, C-> C+, C+ -> B-, etc). Archerko can use this mana both offensively against any enemy she may have brought into her Reality Marble, and as a source of power to store within the false philosopher’s stone used for the construction of the Phantom Canceller.


Kanshō and Bakuya ~Sword Dancer Form~: Gan Jiang and Mo Ye
Rank: C-
Type: Anti-Unit
Legend: A pair of swords that were used by Shiro during the earlier Grail War, it was one of the first phantasms he taught Archerko to summon.
Effect: An alternate form of the original Kansho and Bakuya, the sword dancer blades are lighter and possess longer, thinner blades. While lacking the “boomerang” effect of the original form, these blades still retain the “homing” effect, and provide the equivalent of a B- ranked magic resistance, so long as the spell hits the blade before the user.


The Vorpal Blades: Unparalleled Edge
Rank: C-
Type: Anti-Personal
Legend: During King Arturia’s reign, she commissioned elite groups of mages and alchemists to work together in order to produce magical blades that could somewhat match the strength of the Excalibur, to be given as symbols of power and rank to the Knights of the Round Table. A large variety of blades (with just as large a variety of powers) were created, but none of the ones brought before the king made the cut (no pun intended). Apart of the last of the batches created were weapons created based on the three elemental swords of ice, fire, and wind. This batch, widely considered the most powerful of the ones commissioned blades, they never received the chance to be presented before the King, as Arturia fell shortly after their forging. Upon hearing the news (and learning of their loss of financial backing) fighting broke out amongst factions of the mages and alchemists for control of some their more powerful creations.

In particular, the weapons that were based on the Vorpal Sword of ice, dubbed the "Vorpal Blades", were among the more contested of weapons. The principle forgers of the blades fell in the resulting conflicts, and the majority of the blades were either destroyed or lost. It is said that the lost blades were later found on the black market, but with the large amount of false enchanted weapons that could be found at the time, none of these reports could be confirmed. The only confirmed report of a person using an actual Vorpal Blade was that of a low-ranking knight who (ironically enough) used it to a dragonic creature known as the "Jabberwocky".

Effect: The Vorpal Blade is used in broken phantasm form by Archerko, both as a thrown weapon and as ammunition for the first level of the phantom canceller bow. When fired, it will fly as true as an ordinary arrow rather than a somewhat short broadsword, until the one who summoned the blade says the password programmed into the blade during its summoning. Once activated, the outer layers of the blade chill to a liquid nitrogen format, and mana stored within the hilt automatically moves the blade almost at the speed of light to slash the closest solid or semi-solid object. The outer layers of the blade allow the blade to instantly freeze said solid or semi-solid object, followed by the blade itself shattering said object. Simply put, the slash can literally cut through any solid object without fail. Unfortunately, the slash is automatic once started so it cannot be redirected to another target, and in its broken state, the sword only carries enough mana for a single slash. Furthermore, some types of higher-level magic are able to block or cancel out the magic chills the blade. *note: Archerko is only able to summon up to six at a time.

((Note: Archerko can and will use other phantasms, whose specs will be edited in at the time they are used))