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Reim_Seranth | Mar 1, 2012 9:04 PM
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Assassin (アサシン, Asashin?) is one of the seven normal Servant classes summoned for the Holy Grail War. Servants of this class must be skilled at operating covertly, stealthy, and silently. This class is considered to be one of the weaker classes at fighting, as its members possess low attributes due to not having glorious legends as heroes, so it instead specializes in killing Masters rather than Servants. It is an oddity compared to the more formal knight classes that will attack using the most unfair and advantageous conditions, and with these conditions, it is possible for an Assassin to match and defeat other Servants. Deprived of a Master, Servants of the Assassin class generally possess the ability to remain with the world for about forty hours, which is roughly equivalent to a proficiency of B- in Independent Action.
The Assassins' special class ability is Presence Concealment, which allows them to remain undetected when spying or preparing to ambush their targets. It can be said that the use of this ability during battle is the lifeline of Assassin. The greatest skill of each legally summoned Assassin is expressed as their Noble Phantasm, which all share the name Zabaniya -- the name of the 19 spirits that assist the angel Maalik in guarding Hell within Islamic mythology.
The system of the Fuyuki Grail War required originally that the Servants of the Assassin class must be one of the nineteen individuals known as Hassan i Sabbah -- the pseudonym shared by the leaders of the Hashshashin, a medieval Islamic sect. The name of the sect is the etymological root of the word "assassin," and the class name itself thus acts as the catalyst to summon the members of the organization. The requirement noted above was based in the rationale that those who might truly be described as perfect assassins would normally remain anonymous, and consequently fail to become Heroic Spirits. The wraiths (亡霊, bourei?, lit. dead spirits) of the leaders of the Hashshashin -- Heroic Spirit Candidates (英霊候補, Eirei Kouho?) that might have been properly inducted to the Throne of Heroes if not for the loss of their original names[3] -- are thus regarded as qualifying in substitute of truly anonymous killers. With the corruption of the Grail during the 3rd War, the absoluteness of this rule was compromised along with the disallowance of evil Heroic Spirits.
There doesn't seem to be any such rule in the Fate/Extra or Fate/Apocrypha version of the Holy Grail War. The Assassin in Fate/stay night summoned by Caster is an exception, an aberration in the system, as he was summoned by another Servant. It is noted that Heracles has qualifications for all classes besides Caster, so it is unknown how he would fit the role of Assassin.
Unformatted by a Heroic Spirit, the base parameters of the Assassin-class container are: Strength D, Endurance D, Agility B, Mana E, and Luck B. |
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