User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-24762556-20140701050516

Time for a serious profile once in a while.

Name : Hydarnes

Class : Lancer

Weapon : Gold-tipped silver spear, Shield, Scale armor

Alignment : Chaotic Neutral

Identity: Hydarnes is not a single hero, or rather "was" not a single hero. Hydarnes is the personification of the concept of "Persian Immortal", the mighty army of 10,000 that have originated since before 500 BC and lasted in name until 1453 AD. Hydarnes is the crystallization of the best 10,000 Immortals throughout its 900 years of service put into a single being.

A pinnacle of warrior made of 10,000 chosen elites from the legendary army, Hydarnes takes his name from its most famous commander who once served under King Darius but eventually abandoned the army when he cannot bear to serve the foolish Xerxes after the battle of Thermopylae. Exactly because of his service under Xerxes at Thermopylae, Hydarnes's name is tarnished that even as the commander of the 10,000, he does not qualify as an Eirei by himself alone.

Personality: As a condensation of 10,000 souls into a single being, it is hard to define whether Hydarnes lacks personality or has far too much personalities that he is chaotic. In battle, Hydarnes has absolutely no personality, acting more like a machine than a human as all his 10,000 voices of the chosen elite soldiers synchronized into one single perfect warrior mentality.

But outside of battle, Hydarnes can actually be a good conversational partner to almost literally anyone due to having basic personality traits of 10,000 men means he can be an agreeing person to almost any opinion conceivable. In sleep or whenever he does not have full control of his mind however, Hydarnes can suffer critical headaches as the personalities run free and conflicts with each other. This makes Hydarnes highly vulnerable to most types of mental interference effects.

Parameters:

STR: B // END: A // AGI: C // MAG: E // LUK: C // NP: B

NPs:

Athanatoi, Ten Thousands Without Death

死無きその一万〔アサナトイ〕

Rank : EX // Self-targetting Anti-Unit

Athanatoi is the conceptual manifestation of the name "10,000 Immortals", it will allow Hydarnes to respawn in the same location that he died up to 10,000 times, reflecting the concept of the Immortals where individual soldiers are not literally unkillable, but rather that once anyone in the army becomes incapable of combat either due to sickness, age, or death, there will always be a new soldier ready to immediately replace him, thus keeping the number of the 10,000 constant at all time and making the army itself "immortal".

As the concept of Athanatoi is respawning, damages resulting in physical death will only kill Hydarnes 1 time regardless of its strength, but if the enemy has any means that can kill souls directly instead of merely killing his physical body, then it is possible to kill multiple of Hydarnes's souls in one hit. Multiple consecutive hits(ie. machinegun, arrow rain) that deals multiple fatal damages at once or AOE damages that last over time(ie. drowning, continuous explosions, burning), may also prove to be an effective way to kill multiple of Hydarnes's souls in a shorter amount of time.

While he may have the parameters on par to that of a true Eirei, Hydarnes ultimately is born from the memories of otherwise nameless commoners who does not have any glory to themselves, meaning that their actual martial skill may be subpar in comparison to a true Eirei. This means that Hydarnes may have to sacrifice up to 50 lives to take down even one enemy Servant in a direct combat.

Zhayedan Anusiya, Companions of No Glory

栄光無しその共々〔ザエダン・アニュシヤ〕

Rank: A // Self-targetting Anti Army

Zhayedan Anusiya loosens the spiritual constraint that binds the 10,000 souls of Hydarnes together, summoning them into the physical world as their own original personality with the same equipments as Hydarnes himself. This NP pulls out the souls from Athanatoi, eating away the amount of remaining lives from Athanatoi to create an additional fighter to help Hydarnes fight.

To create 1 physical soldier, Hydarnes must spend at least 20 souls from Athanatoi, with the limit being 20 soldiers at once. As souls loosen from Hydarnes's own body, a single soldier will fade away after 5 minutes of being summoned.

The limit cap of 20 can be broken only if Hydarnes decides to spend all of his remaining souls from Athanatoi in a single release, summoning as many soldiers as possible from the remaining amount of souls into the physical soul to create the full glory of the Immortals. If Hydarnes uses this release however, Hydarnes himself too will fade away after 5 minutes along with all of his remaining soldiers on the field.