The Third Servant

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Class: Berserker

True Name: Houyi

Gender: Male

Height/Weight: 169cm 61kg

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Strength: B+

Magical Energy: C

Endurance: B

Luck: C

Agility: A+

Noble Phantasm: B

-Class Abilities:

Mad Enhancement: C

Rank up for all parameters except Luck and Mana, but in exchange one can no longer think or speak properly.

Magic Resistance: C

Cancels spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against Magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.

-Skills:

Divinity: D (EX)

Born a God of Archery, both his banishment and his somewhat antagonistic nature against the other gods has decreased his original level to his current level of Divinity.

True Mastership of Bows: EX

One skill with both arrow and bow, taken to the extreme. Despite being stripped from godhood, Berserker has retained his archery skills, resulting in his current Personal Skill. At this level it is possible to keep using the skills and Noble Phantasm, provided they are linked to archery, even when the servant does not belong to the Archer Class or when the mind has been altered in some way.

Protection from Arrows: A

A skill giving an increased defense against ranged attack by predicting their trajectory. At this skill one can track ranged weapons even if the attacker is not within his line of sight. This, however, does not apply to super-long range or great area-of-effect ranged attacks.

Protection from Wind: A

Denotes ones protection against the wind. Having subdued a demon of the wind and forced the demon to promise to never use the wind against him. With the current rank, Berserker is immune to any and all wind attack of equal rank and lower than his protection.

-Noble Phantasm:

Archery of Divinity:

A passive Noble Phantasm born both from Houyi's mastery with the bow and his former status as a God of Archery. Always active, this Noble Phantasm allows Houyi to infuse his arrows with her divinity giving it a far greater piercing power. As a result, any arrow fired from his bow can pierce through any defense of B rank and lower or of C rank and lower if these defenses themselves are empowered by divinity, be it through a blessing or a servant with high enough divinity.

Rank: B

Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm

Range: Self

Maximum Target: 1 Person

Zhēnzhèng Shèjiàn de Gōng

Literally Bow of True Archery, this is the bow used by Houyi and is the representation of his skills as a God of Archery, hence the name. It is with his bow that Houyi killed 9 of the 10 suns that used to orbit the world as three-legged Sun-Birds.

A bow used in the killing and slaying of nine Sun Gods, this Noble Phantasm allows Houyi to shoot with unerring accuracy. The arrows fired from this bow will instantly have the ability to 'slay all light' and the ability to 'slay he who is divine'. In short, using this Noble Phantasm in the Holy Grail war, where practically all heroes are in one way or another a divinity, be it from ancestry or due to their legends and myths, this weapon is something of a 'one hit – true death' weapon.

There are however some conditions to the use of this Noble Phantasm. The first is that this Noble Phantasm can only be used if 'Archery of Divinity' is active. The second requirement is that, having been used to kill nine Sun-Birds, it can only be used when the sun is visible and its power depends on the position of the sun. when the sun is at its lowest the arrows are as powerful as a C-ranked NP and when the sun is at it's highest, the arrows are as powerful as a A++ ranked NP. Also, this Noble Phantasm can only fire nine arrows in the entirety of the war. If these arrows miss their target, or if the target is somehow still alive after nine shots, this Noble Phantasm simply becomes a powerful bow.

Rank: C – A++

Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm

Range: 5 – 50

Maximum Target: 1 Person

-Details:

A long time ago there were 10 suns orbiting the planet, represented by the 10 Sun-Birds, children of Dijun the God of the Eastern Heaven. Each day a different bird would orbit the planet and return to their home. One day the birds grew bored of the routine and decided that all of them were to rise at the same time. This brought such an intense heat on the world that crops shriveled, lakes and seas dried up and all living beings sought shelter or died from exhaustion.

When the suffering became too much, the emperor plead for divine intervention. Dijun, hearing and seeing of the suffering agreed and sent for Houyi the God of Archery to teach the Sun-Birds a lesson. Houyi at first wanted to settle this peacefully, but after seeing the suffering of the mortals he became angered by the injustice caused by the birds.

At first he nevertheless tried to frighten the Sun-Birds into obedience, however they laughed at him, believing that he wouldn't dare shoot them out of fear from Dijun. Enraged at their mockery and the suffering caused by them, he shot them down one by one until only one sun was left. The emperor reminded him that the world still needed a sun, and thus the last Sun-Bird was left alive.

While the emperor and the mortal people hailed him as a hero, Dijun was anything but pleased as Houyi killed nine of his children. Houyi was punished for this by banishing him from the heavens and stripping him from his immortality.

Once he was descended to the mortal planes, he went on a crusade to aid the mortal people, believing it as his duty. First he dealt with a Wind Demon, and managed to defeat him. Upon his defeat the demon swore to never let the wind trouble Houyi ever again.

Then he fought a Water God who was terrorizing a nearby village. Using his archery skills, he drove off the god, and the daughter of the water god gained such respect for him, that she became his wife.

While Houyi did not care for his banishment, he still wanted immortality and searched for it. Eventually he travelled to the Queen Mother of the West and acquired two of her elixir of immortality in exchange for building a palace for her. Queen Mother of the West warned Houyi that these two bottles were the last of them in the world, and should be taken at soonest moment possible.

Houyi hastened to his wife, wanting to become immortal together with his wife, however as he arrived he received an urgent summon from the emperor for his skills. He forgot to drink the elixirs and left on his mission. After months without any message Houyi's wife became bored and found the elixirs. At the very moment Houyi returned home, his wife drank from both bottles, maker her ascend to the moon.

Maddened with grief for losing both his wife and his last chance for immortality, his personality completely changed. Once he was a hero hailed and welcomed by everyone, he now became a tyrant to all mortals. Wanting to leave behind some legacy, he taught the mortals his skills of archery. Among his students, the most talented was Feng Meng. He believed his archery to surpass that of his master, and challenged Houyi to a mettle of skills. Houyi won. Enraged at his loss, Feng Meng used a club made of peach tree and clubbed Houyi to dead. At his death, Houyi's spirit ascended to the sun, becoming a Divinity not unlike a Sun God.

Took me a while to find me a good Berserker. I wanted a Berserker who wouldn't suffer from mad enhancement AND wouldn't fit the stereotype of crushing everything with just fists or swords like Herakles and Lancelot. That's when I suddenly remembered Lu Bu, the Berserker of Fate/Extra. His NP is a bow. I, however, didn't want to reuse Lu Bu, nor did I want to 'rewrite' Herakles. After some searching Houyi, the Berserker of Fate/Servant Status is the result. His sheer skill with archery allows him to keep remembering how to use the bow and arrow as if by instinct, even as a Berserker.

Secondly, his slightly lower parameters as a Berserker (compared to the other Berserker featured in Nasuverse) is recompensed with some very useful Personal Skills.

To use his active Noble Phantasm, Berserker will most likely need to be so much trouble (such as fighting against Susano-õ) or his Master will actually have to use one of his Command Sigil. Considering the difficulty of just having a Berserker, I personally consider Berserker not to OP (compared with the other Servants) since either he'll enter a battle ablaze and winning, with a command sigil as a price, or either he'll have to rely on his own instincts.

Last but not least, the Chinese name of his bow…I will admit I translated that using Google Translate. If there's anyone who's good enough with Chinese and can give me a better name in Chinese for 'Bow of True Archery' then feel free, PM me (or better review me).

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Whadaya think guys and girls? Review.

Have fun , Serameth