It was more of a debate. We provided examples to each other and offered perspectives. While we didn't change each others minds, we were able to come to an understanding that both sides had a point.
And a rather pleasant one, I might add.
So rare to see one of those outside of QQ, where they have the advantage of everyone almost always being relaxed for obvious reasons.
Alexander, Nero, Medb, possibly Babbage. All of them have Reality Marbles, and with the possible exception of Medb none of them have a distorted view of reality. On top of that Alexander sucks at magecraft in general, and Nero never needed to bother with how broken Imperial Privledge is.
Nero has already been addressed, and you yourself justified Medb, so let's move on to the others.
Babbage has this:
Single-MindednessEdit
Single-Mindedness (一意専心,
Ichiisenshin?) is the ability to immerse oneself in something, exhibiting a
superhuman degree of focus.
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Thomas Edison
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It was said that Edison slept for an average of only three hours.[96]
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Charles Babbage
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In Babbage's case, it is demonstrated when performing actions like calculations, planning, and building. Also improves his Item Construction Skill.[96]
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He also has had a nigh-obsession with automata and related subjects since an early age, as shown here:
Mechanized ArmorEdit
Mechanized Armor (機関の鎧,
Kikan no Yoroi?) is an armor crafted using steam-engine technology that covers
Charles Babbage's entire body. His outward appearance looks like an enormous steel gentleman. It cannot be removed.
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His STR and END parameters are improved by one rank, and the various steam-powered machinery within allows for an additional temporary boost of two plus modifiers (++) to three parameters. While boosting, his AGI characteristic falls one rank.
Since he was 8 years old, Babbage was deeply attracted to automata. It is said that the first automaton he met was a female-design, which he met in the workshop of an inventor family with the name of Merlin.[96]
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Finally, there's the NP itself:
Dimension of Steam: Gorgeous World of Ashes (絢爛なりし灰燼世界ディメンジョン・オブ・スチーム,
Genran'nari shi Kaijin SekaiDimenjon obu Suchīmu?) is the
Noble Phantasm of
Charles Babbage. The "
Difference Engine" and "
Analytical Engine" that was designed before in his lifetime; had it been truly completed, the brilliant steam engine he had strived for would have finally arrived in the civilized world.
In other words, this Noble Phantasm is the sublimation of Babbage's craving and reverie for his dreamed of future carried in his very heart and the mechanical armor that wraps his body.[1][2]
In short, he is passionate enough about his dreams and ambitions that he learned how to browbeat reality into making them happen. His dream, as it so happens, was to change the whole world through the power of steam.
Next, Broskandar.
Ionioi Hetairoi: Army of the King (王の軍勢アイオニオン・ヘタイロイ,
Ō no GunzeiAionion Hetairoi?)("
Companions" in
Ionian) is the ultimate
Noble Phantasm of
Rider, an EX-rank "
super Noble Phantasm" as described by
Tokiomi Tohsaka that is said to rival
Gilgamesh's.
[4][5] The trump card of the King of Conquerors,
it summons a Reality Marble that embodies Alexander the Great's dreams and philosophies as a king and the bond formed with his subjects, his life sublimated as a Noble Phantasm.[6] Like how
Saber's Excalibur can be called the physical actualization of her ideals as a king, Ionioi Hetairoi is the actualization of Alexander's commanding abilities and his kingship.
It is an irregular Reality Marble compared to those used by others. Normally, only a magus or something beyond normal reality like
Demons are capable of materializing the environment inside their minds, and as Alexander is neither, reproducing it alone is impossible for him.
It comes about through the combined efforts of his personal guard who all shared his dreams and pledged allegiance to him after many victories and defeats, even after death and becoming Heroic Spirits on their own as well. They and their king recreate the land in which they once marched and shared many joys and sorrows, as it is imprinted upon the heart of each soldier, allowing them to bring about a sand-filled expanse roaring with hot and dry desert winds under the scorching sun and cloudless, clear skies without anything to obscure the everlasting horizon. This Noble Phantasm drags the enemies into a terrain that has no obstacles on the desert battlefield. It also maximizes the
Charisma of the King of Conquerors Iskandar.
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Once again, the power of belief and passion about one's dreams and whatnot browbeats reality. Only this time they are ganging up on it.
It is worth noting that Babbage's RM is internal, it never expands beyond the limits of his power armour, at most spitting things out of it. Much like Nrvnqsr Chaos' RM, Lair of the Beast King, this means that Gaia won't get pissy about someone plopping a mini-layer on top of the proper uppermost world layer, since it remains inside the bounds of an individual's person and thus doesn't infringe on Gaia's domain.
His form is owed to his
Reality Marble, the
Lair of the Beast King (獣王の巣,
Jūō no Su?), which allows him to absorb and merge his existence with the lives of other creatures and manipulate them in the form of chaos. It is different from normal Reality Marbles that are superimposed upon the world, as he only deploys it within his own body. The corrective impulses of the world don't see this usage as a contradiction, so the cost of maintaining it is much lower than normal.
This explains why Babbage can do it solo while Iskandar has to do it through the power of friendship.
