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Essential Material: Tyranny of the Queen
🕑 Added 2018-12-29 21:00:02 +0000 UTCTyranny of the Queen [Noble Phantasm]
Loyalty of the Enthralled
Khepri’s ultimate trump card. A reflection not of her nature nor of her tendencies in battle, but of the singular feat for which she is undoubtedly most famous: bringing together many others to fight for a common cause, by force.
This is the Noble Phantasm reflecting not her ultimate victory over the Entity Zion, but the method she contrived of to do so. It is the Noble Phantasm embodying the army she gathered to fight beside her, a Noble Phantasm which summons her soldiers, her thralls, to appear from across time and space and fight by her side once more.
It is also her most costly Noble Phantasm, requiring prohibitive amounts of magical energy in order to activate and maintain. After all, it is the sequential summoning of numerous Heroic Spirits, or else the remnants of those who may have become one after death, and it does not have the mitigating factors of a “shared world” or an overlapped space wherein the rules of Heroic Spirit summoning are altered or relaxed. Khepri herself bears the full burden.
Furthermore, each of those summoned to her side is akin to a Masterless Servant, wielding Noble Phantasms and high class skills. In order to support such activity, the cost must naturally rise as well. It would not be inaccurate to compare Khepri’s upkeep and mana drain to that of a Rank A Berserker Servant with high level Madness Enhancement.
However, instead of performing a full summoning by invoking the True Name, it is also possible to temporarily make use of any Noble Phantasm possessed by any Heroic Spirit associated with this Noble Phantasm. In that case, the cost is drastically reduced, and Khepri may conserve energy in this manner.
Truly, this is Khepri’s ultimate trump card.
As a side note, under most circumstances, Khepri: Queen of Administration must also be active in order to properly wield this Noble Phantasm. This is owed to the fact that most of Khepri’s army did not serve willingly, and would not serve willingly in this case, either.
