Caster (Fate/Crossover - Thresh)

**Caster** (キャスター, *Kyasutā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"The mind is a wondrous thing to tear apart."* — Thresh

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Thresh**, a restless spirit who prides himself on tormenting mortals and breaking them with slow, excruciating inventiveness. His victims suffer far beyond the point of death, for Thresh wreaks agony upon their souls, imprisoning them in his lantern to torture for all eternity.

### Personality

Explicitly sadistic, Thresh loves to inflict both physical and psychological pain to any being who is smart enough to understand and feel it. He considers himself an expert at snapping innocent minds, and is not happy enough to do this to the living, but likes to take the pain further by torturing them even in the afterlife, by imprisoning their souls in his trusty Soul Lantern, where they would suffer an eternity of torture that they can't escape. He enjoys tormenting his nemesis Lucian most of all, as he regularly taunted him with his imprisonment of Senna's soul until he was able to free her, but Thresh lets them enjoy their victory so he could toy with them in the future.

Thresh is an egomaniac who considers himself as a god, and so can use his powers against others simply because he can. This ego is driven high enough to not even consider other Shadow Isles' beings as equals, and that he is the only one at the apex of the Ruination. Sarcastic and cruel, Thresh doesn't always need to torture someone to delight in their pain, but likes to mock and take fun on those who already have lost everything, in an attempt to use his words to destroy their spirit with no need to use his chains.

Thresh's destructive personality has gained himself many powerful enemies and contempt from even within the Shadow Isles, like Karthus who finds his idea of torturing souls repulsive, Ledros who has been victim of his sarcastic mockery for centuries, and Yorick who believes him to be a remorseless being without any hope for reform. Whether this scorn is justified or not, Thresh is portrayed as a force of villainy that carries within chains the eternal torture that awaits those who encounter him, and he is determined to continue his path of destruction.

Thresh appeared loyal to the Ruined King, Viego, helping him with his goals and awakening him from his slumber. However, Thresh does not truly look up to Viego as it is mere pragmatism on his part, as he mainly wishes to enjoy the destruction that the Ruined King will unleash across Runeterra, not to mention that he was the one who led Viego to the Waters of Life in the first place just to spite his brethren. Further and in reality, Thresh's loyalty to Viego was nothing more than a façade. In truth, Thresh hated the Ruined King greatly, finding him to be nothing more than an obsessive narcissist, a fool he could easily manipulate for his own ends. He used Viego's crusade to bring back his wife to further his own goals, hoarding the Black Mist's power and the souls it claimed to empower himself and be free from the shackles of the Shadow Isles, allowing him to trek across Runeterra and reap as many souls as he wishes.

## Abilities

A master of physical, mental, emotional, and psychological torture, able to exploit even the slightest vulnerability to maximum efficiency, to the point where he can torment living books, magic mirrors, and sentient spells with casual ease.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Soul Lantern; "Lantern of the Imprisoned and Tormented"**

The Lantern that holds Thresh's most terrible power. It is and what makes him so dangerous, as he is a sadistic and cruel tormenter of numerous souls in his grasp.

This Noble Phantasm has the ability to entrap the souls of others by hooking them with his scythe, and then trapping their souls inside his lantern, were they suffer untold horrors until they become his enslaved thralls.

#### **The Box of Souls; "The Distorted Spectral Wall"**

Thresh summons 5 spectral walls around him. Each wall breaks upon contact with an enemy champion, dealing them magic damage and slowing them. Once a wall is broken, the remaining walls deal no damage and slow.

## References

https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Thresh

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Thresh

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Thresh