Prelati's Spellbook: Textbook of the Sunken Spiral Castle (螺湮城教本, Rain-jō Kyōhon?) is a demonic guidebook and summoning Grimoire with a cover made of glistening and wet human skin.[1][2]
Prelati's Spellbook is also known as the R'lyeh TextWP in reference to H. P. LovecraftWP's Cthulhu MythosWP. It was probably copied from the original book in the Sunken Spiral Castle, translated from the R'lyeh language into Chinese during the Xia DynastyWP, and later translated into Italian by François Prelati;[3] though an alternate telling of the Grimoire's origin describes Prelati sealing a link to the Sunken Spiral Castle into a blank Bible, turning it into a Mystic Code capable of summoning Horrors.[4] Furthermore, the previous original text was described in a language other than that of humanity's languages. The book contains records of a forbidden knowledge relating to an evil god of an ancient time sometime before humanity's origin.[1]
Variations[]
François Prelati[]
The result of Prelati utilizing Magecraft while dispelling their own rationality with drugs they compounded themselves. Against astronomical odds, it ended up linked to a place one must not link to, Prelati inscribing the truth of it in a blank Bible that was a Mystic Code and sealing the link itself. Prelati was therefore incapable of reproducing it, and entrusted the Spellbook that is capable of opening the one and only link to a knight who was their sworn friend. Prelati can never use the Noble Phantasm unless the knight returns it on the spiritual level, but will the day of their reunion ever come?[4]
Gilles de Rais (Caster)[]
Although not a Magus in life, Gilles received the Spellbook through association with Prelati. It allows the summoning of an army of Horrors (海魔, Kaima?), water demons from the depths of the seas of another dimension, as well as Greater Magecraft (大魔術, Dai Majutsu?), Greater Rituals (大儀式, Dai Gishiki?) and Ritual Magecraft (儀礼呪法, Girei Juhō?), regardless of the user's skill in Magecraft in relation to the use of the Grimoire.[2][5]
Rather than simply functioning as a tome of Spells and Curses, the book itself is a "monster" that functions as a Magical Energy Reactor (魔力炉心, Maryoku Roshin?) core possessing its own enormous Magical Energy furnaces completely independent of its wielder's Magical Energy.[6] It can either be read from as a regular tome for minor spells, such as summoning a single demon with "Cthulhu fhtagnWP", or it can be completely commanded by the user, causing the pages to rapidly flip by themselves as the tome provides the necessary incantations and its own independent power to conduct the Summoning Spells with an inexhaustible Magical Energy supply.[6][7]
Depending on the verses used, this allows for the usage of a class of Ritual Magecraft that tens of Magi couldn't accomplish together. Even if the user is not a legitimate Magus and has no groundings in Magecraft like Gilles de Rais himself, this Grimoire, acting as the agent, can exercise Summoning Magecraft to compensate, allowing one to become a specialized summoner with this Noble Phantasm for as long as one possesses it.[5][6] For this reason, Gilles de Rais can summon the sea demons and employ them.[5] The Spellbook itself is constantly giving off Magical Energy, and if it is cut, rather than showing pages, it shows a glowing, unearthly substance. It is capable of regenerating damage caused to it under its own power, and the "wound" closes much like it would on a living creature.
The Sea Demons, without a discernible torso nor appendages, are best described as endless masses of arm-thick tentacles with circular mouth-like openings at the end of each tentacle, marked with curved claws and shark teeth-like blades equal in power to swords.[8] They usually are shorter than a man but can also be summoned several times larger than one. Their appendages are heavily spiked, serrated and covered with either eyes, suction cups, spines, papulae or all of them. Each of tentacle contains an additional mouth which split open to reveal them, and have some form of elasticity to their limbs to allow them to reach and bind their target from a distance. They also possess some regenerative powers to non-lethal wounds, even crippling ones such as lost limbs. Their innards spew a black mist-like gas that would cause lung corrosion in a normal human, and can spit a purple, viscous acid that is also a paralyzing agent.[9][10][11] They are not living beings of nature, but creatures from an entirely different world with different natural laws, containing attributes in accordance with the deep sea system. They are summoned by using the blood and flesh of creatures, living or deceased, as a sacrifice, and they must constantly receive magical energy from the Spellbook. While one sea demon's fighting strength is generally not comparable to a Servant's, the Noble Phantasm's Anti-Army classification is not for show as it makes it possible to summon dozen of bodies in order to further compensate for an individual demon's fighting weakness with overwhelming numbers.[5]
It is able to endlessly call them, revive them, and send them at any enemies as its wielder commands it. They will stay summoned as long as they receive Magical Energy, allowing Caster to leave them as guards to his Magical Workshop while he is away. No matter how many are destroyed in close combat, their numbers will never decrease for it is possible that the flesh of the defeated demons, acting as mediums, will instantly spawn new ones to take their place; because of this, the Noble Phantasm has an excellent ratio of Magical Energy consumption to the amount of summoned demons.[5] Gilles also showed in anger that it is possible to double the amount of monsters summoned per sacrifice.[8] Enough are created that both Saber and Lancer working together are able to kill far over five hundred each without there being a single chance to break through and reach Caster just outside of their battleground, making Saber believe that the monsters could be reborn indefinitely.[9][8] However, it is the "Grimoire that is persistently performing the Summoning Ritual", and the summoning itself is not a "miracle of the Noble Phantasm." The demons summoned through the Grimoire cannot remain present in the current world without a continuous connection to the book's Magical Energy supply. If the connection to the supply is severed for even a moment, they will all instantly dissipate into the blood of the original sacrifices.[5] If Caster is in need of an escape route, he can surge Magical Energy from the Spellbook into the blood that is still receiving the book's Magical Energy due to the summoning ritual in order to cause it to boil and evaporate into a bloody mist.
Gigantic Horror[]
Caster also has the potential ability to become absorbed with the Spellbook into a mass of demons to employ a Gigantic Horror (巨大海魔, Kyodai Kaima?). He needs a good deal of preparation time, and beginning with the chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh wgah'nagl fhtagn", he summons numerous Horrors into the Mion River. They begin to gather under his feet and form a "sandbar", which is made up of an extremely numerous amount of them due to being in the middle of a deep river. There is a strange fog that forms around the area as an aftereffect while he simply stands relaxingly in the middle of the river. The vortex of raging Magical Energy overflowing from the tome begins to distort even the space around it. The Horrors, ever increasing, begin to swallow him with their tentacles, covering his entire body. Swelling in numbers, they begin to entwine and coalesce while rising out of the water as a large lump of meat. It can eventually even be called an "island of meat", but still grows even then.
Upon fully forming, the really enormous Gigantic Horror becomes an aquatic giant befitting the name of a "sea demon", the nightmare that governs the ocean in the realm outside of the world. It can be called the true form of the diabolic underworld, a massive extradimensional evil god that is at least the size of a building when only considering the mass of it not obscured by the river, of which all of the summoned Familiars are bits and pieces of it. It has a disgusting, yet overwhelming majesty, and while Caster is no longer visible, his voice is still able to ring out from it. While Magecraft can be called "the art of flipping through evil", the Gigantic Horror can be called "genuine evil", the incarnation of something which has the craving desire of devouring with thorough greediness. The act of Summoning such a being cannot be called an "art" or anything else. It is not under his control in any way, only invited to eat the city that he neglects, which would only take it a few hours to consume. It was brought forth with the intention of suicide. As it feeds on lives to grow, it will eventually grow too large and die, so it was summoned only for the purpose of destruction.[12]
With a similar structure to an amoeba, it has no bones or organs and it feels no pain, even with a third of its body blown away. It continuously regenerates, no matter how much damage is done, allowing it to survive an assault from Saber, Lancer, Rider's chariot and the force of his entire army in Ionioi Hetairoi, and mountain-shattering weapons fired from Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon all at once without suffering any permanent damage. It has tentacles capable of swatting an F15 Fighter Jet out of the sky with ease, and after it crashes into the demon's body, the F15 is swallowed by it without leaving a trace. In order for it to be destroyed, either Caster's Master must be killed, allowing Caster to potentially fade away naturally after his Magical Energy supply is used up unless the creature starts feeding on humans, or an Anti-Fortress attack, such as Excalibur, must be used in order to eradicate the entirety of its flesh and kill Caster deep inside the heart of the creature. Though from another dimension, it is affected by weapons with an affinity towards slaying monsters.[13]
Appearance[]
Gilles de Rais (Saber)[]
Although Gilles possesses this Noble Phantasm in the Saber class, he cannot use it. If he were to use this Noble Phantasm, he would automatically class-change to Caster, and Saint War Order will be lost.[14]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
[] Fate/Zero - Volume 4: Prelati's Spellbook: Text of the Sunken Spiraled City - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5
[] Fate/Zero material - Servant Status Caster: p.020-021 Class: Caster
Master: Ryuunosuke Uryuu
True Name: Gille de Rais
Gender: Male
Height/Weight: 196cm/70kg
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Strength: D
Endurance: E
Agility: D
Mana: C
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: A+
Class Skills
■ Territory Creation: B
■ Item Construction: -
Personal Skills
■ Mental Pollution: A
■ Eye for Art: E-
Noble Phantasm
■ Prelati's Spellbook: Text of the Sunken Spiraled City
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm
Range: 1~10
Maximum number of targets:100 PeopleCLASS キャスター
マスター：雨生龍之介
真名：ジル・ド・レェ
性別：男性
身長・体重：１９６ｃｍ／７０ｋｇ
属性：混沌・悪
筋力：D
耐力：E
敏捷：D
魔力：C
幸運：D
宝具：A+
クラス別能力
■ 陣地作成：B
魔術師として、自らに有利な陣地を作り上げる。
“工房”を形成する事が可能。
■ 道具作成：－
宝具による召喚能力を得た代償に、道具作成スキルは失われている。
保有スキル
■ 精神汚染：A
精神が錯乱している為、他の精神干渉系魔術を高確率でシャットアウトする。
ただし同ランクの精神汚染がない人物とは意思疎通が成立しない。
■ 芸術審美：E-
芸術作品、美術品への執着心。
芸能面における逸話を持つ宝具を目にした場合、ごく低い確率で真名を看破することができる。
宝具
■ 螺湮城教本
ランク：A+
種別：対軍宝具
レンジ：1～10
最大捕捉：100人
————人間の皮で装填された魔道書。
深海の水魔の類を召喚し使役できる。
この本自体が魔力炉としての機能を持ち、術者の魔力に関係なく大魔術・儀礼呪法レベルの術行使を可能にする。 - ↑
[] Fate/Zero Animation Visual Guide I: The Fourth Holy Grail War Glossary: Prelati's Spellbook [Noble Phantasm] Prelati's Spellbook [Noble Phantasm]
Caster’s Rank A+ anti-army noble phantasm. A spellbook that supplies massive magical energy to its wielder. Can be used to cast High Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals, regardless of its wielder’s capacity for magecraft. Can also be used to summon Horrors [demons] from the depths of the oceans. Made with a cover of human skin, it is said to be a grimoire containing forbidden knowledge of ancient evil gods. The spellbook held by Caster is an Italian translation created by François Prelati. The original is said to have been written in Chinese during the Xia Dynasty.螺湮城教本【宝具】
キャスターが持つランクA+の対軍宝具。所有者に大量の魔力を供給する魔導書であり、術者の魔力に関係なく大魔術・儀礼呪法レベルの魔術を使うことができる。また、深海の怪魔の類を召喚・使役することが可能。人間の皮で装丁されており、太古の邪神にまつわる禁断の知識が記されているという。キャスターが持つのは魔術師フランソワ・プレラーティによって記されたイタリア語の写本で、底本は中国・夏王朝時代の漢文だったと言われている。 - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5
[] Fate/strange Fake - Volume 4 - Servant status: True Caster [T] Class: Caster
Master: Francesca Prelati
True name: Francois Prelati
Gender: Unknown (summoned Saint Graph is male)
Height/Weight: 152cm 38kg
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Strength: E
Endurance: D
Agility: C
Magic: A
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: A
Class Skills
■ Territory Creation: B
■ Tool Creation: B
Personal Skills
■ Illusion: A
A skill that denotes excellence in the art of illusion within the field of magecraft. At this level, it is even possible to go beyond people and deceive the environment.
■ Disciple of Spirits: B
Proof that one has been initiated in magecraft by certain lake spirits. The efficacy of magecraft improves dramatically.
■ Divinity: E-
Prelati shares the blood of a deity, but as that deity is banished his rank is low.
Barely manifested at rank E due to combination with traditions that link Prelati with Beelzebub.
Noble Phantasms
■ Grand Illusion: The Sunken Spiral Castle Does Not Exist, Therefore There is No End to This World's Madness
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Personnel Noble Phantasm
Range: 1~10
Maximum Targets: 10 people
Legends that Prelati revealed the form of Beelzebub to sworn friends or that he (she) was the incarnation of Beelzebub combined with the art of illusion and lineage that Prelati originally possessed and sublimated into a Noble Phantasm. It is a great magecraft that surpasses even environment to deceive the very texture of the world. It is even capable of causing a target to hallucinate that Prelati has imprisoned them in a Reality Marble. It is still an illusion, however, and therefore lacks the power of a Reality Marble.
■ Prelati's Spellbook: Textbook of the Sunken Spiral Castle (unusable)
Rank: EX
Type: Anti- Noble Phantasm
Range: 1~99
Maximum Supplement: 1000 people
The result of Prelati utilizing magecraft while dispelling their own rationality with drugs Prelati compounded themselves. Against astronomical odds, it ended up linked to a place one must not link to, Prelati inscribed the truth of it in a blank bible that was a Mystic Code and sealed the link itself. Prelati was therefore incapable of reproducing it, and entrusted the spellbook capable of opening the one and only link to a knight who was their sworn friend. Prelati can never use the Noble Phantasm unless the knight returns it on the spiritual level, but will the day of their reunion ever come?CLASS 真キャスター
マスター：フランチェスカ・プレラーティ
真名：フランソワ・プレラーティ
性別：不明(呼び出された霊基は男 )
身長・体重：１５２ｃｍ ３８ｋｇ
属性：混沌・悪
筋力：Ｅ
耐力：Ｄ
敏捷：Ｃ
魔力：Ａ
幸運：Ｂ
宝具：Ａ
クラス別能力：
■ 陣地作成：Ｂ
■ 道具作成： Ｂ
固有スキル
■ 幻術：Ａ
魔術の中でも特に幻術に秀でたことを示すスキル。このレベルでは人を超えて環境をも騙す事が可能。
■ 精霊の弟子： Ｂ
とある湖の精霊達に魔術の手ほどきを受けた証。魔術の効率が大幅に上がる。
■ 神性： Ｅ－
とある神の血が混じっているが、追放された神のためかランクが低い。ベルゼブブに纏わる伝承と組み合わさることに寄って、かろうじてＥランクで発現した。
宝具
■ 螺湮城は存在せず、故に世の狂気に果ては無し
ランク：Ａ
種別：対人宝具
レンジ：１〜１０
最大捕捉：１０人
盟友にベルゼブブの姿を見せた、あるいは彼（彼女）自身がベルゼブブの化身であるという伝説が元来持つ幻術や血統と組み合わさり昇華された宝具。環境すら飛び越えて世界のテクスチャそのものを騙す大魔術であり、相手を固有結界の中に閉じ込めたと錯覚させることすらも可能。ただし、あくまで幻術なので固有結界ほどの力はない。
■ 螺湮城教本（※使用不可）
ランク：ＥＸ
種別：対理宝具
レンジ： １〜９９
最大捕捉：１０００人
プレラーティが自ら調合した薬で理性を飛ばしながら魔術を行使した結果、天文学的な確率で「繋がってはならない場所」と繋がってしまった為、魔術礼装であった白紙の経典にその理をイタリア語で記し、「繋がりそのもの」を封印した。故に二度とは再現できず、唯一つながりを開ける魔導書も盟友である例の彼に譲渡してしまった。 - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Fate/Grand Order material I - Gilles de Rais (Caster), p.288-293
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4
[] Fate/Grand Order - Gilles de Rais (Caster) Profile Gilles de Rais - Caster
Illustrator and Voice actor
Illustrator: Azusa
Voice Actor: Tsuruoka Satoshi
Parameters
Strength: D
Endurance: E
Agility: D
Mana: C
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: A+→EX
Personal Skills
Mental Pollution: A
Eye for Art: E-
Class Skills
Territory Creation: B
Noble Phantasm
Prelati's Spellbook: Textbook of the Spiral Sunken Castle
Rank: A+→EX
Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm
Profile
A French noble from the 15th Century. Having repeatedly committed the deed of abducting young boys from the vicinity of his domains and then disgracing・slaughtering them one after the other, things reached the point in which he became known as the model for the later fairytale "Bluebeard".
Level 1 Bond
Height/Weight: 196cm・70kg
Source: Historical fact
Region: France
Alignment: Chaotic Evil Gender: Male
A holy monster that sought for God more than anyone else.
Level 2 Bond
He was once the owner of a highly pious heart, he fell of deep despair and lost sight of God after Jeanne D'arc was executed as a heretic. His cruel deeds were also a means to prove the absence of God (who supposedly punished such vices).
Level 3 Bond
"Textbook of the Spiral Sunken Castle"
Rank: A+ Type: Anti-Army
Prelati's Spellbook.
A grimoire which in itself is equipped with a magic reactor.
It summons monsters from another world in an inexhaustible supply.
Gilles de Rais is not a legitimate magus himself and has no groundings in magecraft, but in exchange this grimoire can exercise magecraft.
Level 4 Bond
At first, Gilles got involved in alchemy along with his friend, the cleric François Prelati, in order to cover up for financial difficulties, but at some point he lost sight of the original purpose and began to concentrate on summoning of demons.
Level 5 Bond
As others began fearing that he would sell over his domains to an enemy nation in order to raise money, as an excuse for the seizure of his territory, Gilles was convicted for his past misdeeds and executed. The censures towards his blasphemy and cruel deeds were all nothing but political pretenses.
Interlude
This man, who couldn't help but hold suspicions against God exactly because he extolled God too much and infatuated himself with scornfully curse God, was finally destroyed without being judged by God. Probably, only a Master who shows understanding towards such zeal and despair can perfectly employ him as a Servant.ジル・ド・レェ - キャスター
イラストレーター・声優
ILLUST：Azusa
CV：鶴岡聡
パラメータ
筋力：Ｄ
耐力：Ｅ
敏捷：Ｄ
魔力：Ｃ
幸運：Ｅ
宝具：Ａ＋→ EX
保有スキル
精神汚染 Ａ
芸術審美 Ｅ－
クラス別能力
陣地作成 Ｂ
宝具
螺湮城教本
ランク：Ａ＋→ EX
種別：対軍宝具
キャラクター詳細
１５世紀フランスの貴族。自らの領地にて近隣の少年を次々と拉致しては凌辱・惨殺するという所行を繰り返し、後の世の童話『青髭』のモデルとして知られるようになる。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを１にすると開放
身長／体重：１９６ｃｍ・７０ｋｇ
出典：忠実
地域：フランス
属性：混沌・悪 性別：男性
誰よりも神を求めた聖なる怪物
アンロック条件：絆レベルを２にすると開放
深い信仰心の持ち主であったが、ジャンヌ・ダルクが異端として処刑されたことで深い絶望を味わい、神を見失う。彼の残虐行為は、（悪徳を罰する筈の）神の不在を証明する手段でもあった。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを３にすると開放
『螺湮城教本』
ランク：Ａ＋ 種別：対軍宝具
プレラーティーズ・スペルブック
それ自体が魔力炉を内蔵した魔導書。
異界の怪物を無尽蔵に召喚する。
ジル・ド・レェ自身は正規の魔術師ではなく魔術の素養も無いのだが、代わりにこの魔導書が魔術を行使している。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを４にすると開放
はじめは彼の友人であり導師であったフランソワ・プレラーディとともに、財政難を賄うための金策として錬金術に手を出したジルだが、いつしか当初の目的を見失い悪魔召喚に傾倒するようになる。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを５にすると開放
金策のために領土を敵国に売り渡す可能性を危惧されたジルは、領地を没収する口実として平素の悪行を断罪され、処刑されることになる。
その残虐行為と涜神への糾弾は、すべて政治上の名目でしかなかった。
アンロック条件：「神への供物」をクリアすると開放
神を讃えすぎたが故に神を疑わざるをえず、神を呪い貶めることに執心した男は、ついに神に裁かれることなく破滅した。
その熱意と失望に理解を示すマスターのみが、彼をサーヴァントとして十全に使役できるであろう。 - ↑ Fate/Zero Anime - Episode 2: "False Start"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Fate/Zero - Act 6:-130:55:11
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fate/Zero - Act 6:-130:32:40
- ↑ Fate/Zero Anime - Episode 7: "The Evil Forest"
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Sea Demon/Fiend enemy.
- ↑ Fate/Zero - Einzbern Consultation Room 4
- ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Noble Phantasms, p.134
Q: If the original Kansho and Bakuya take the stage in the Holy Grail War, as the twin swords reaching the realm of Gods...
Q: If the original Kansho and Bakuya take the stage in the Holy Grail War, as the twin swords reaching the realm of Gods due to the sacrifice of human lives, will they possess powers as Noble Phantasms? Or, since they did not have wielders in the legend, thus cannot become Noble Phantasms?
A: Absolutely without a doubt that they will be true Noble Phantasms. They will be extremely strong anti-monster Noble Phantasms. Rider's ultimate form--Gorgon Lv100, or the extra-dimensional evil god summoned by Gilles, will all be cut down in a single strike.Q：もしオリジナルの干将、莫耶が聖杯戦争に登場していた場合、神域の業物となるために人身御供されて誕生したこの剣は、宝具としての力を宿していたのでしょうか？それとも伝説の上の使い手がいないため、宝具にはならないのでしょうか？
A：立派な宝具です。対怪異専用の強力な宝具として活躍したでしょうライダーの最終神話形態ゴルゴーンLV100も、ジルが召喚した異界の邪神も真っ向からズンバラリン。 - ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Fate/Grand Order material I - Gilles de Rais (Saber), p.082-091, translated by RanonCap at Beast's Lair.