Caster (Fate/Crossover - Micaiah)

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

"*If that’s what it takes to be just, then I want nothing to do with justice. I’d rather be hated and feared like Mad King Ashnard. I’d rather the dark god take my soul. I’m going to save my people, Sothe. If the rest of the world paints me as a beast to be reviled and hated, so be it.*" — Micaiah, to Sothe in Radiant Dawn

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Micaiah**, also known as the Silver-Haired Maiden, is a playable character, primary protagonist of the first part of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and one of the two main protagonists in the overall story. She is a wielder of Light magic and the de facto leader of the Dawn Brigade.

### Personality

Micaiah is a very caring and empathetic individual, but tends to be somewhat bitter at times, a result of both her treatment as a Branded prior to the story and the abuse of Daein and its citizens by the Begnion Occupational Army. She cares deeply for the people of Daein, and refuses to stand idly by while they suffer under their control. She pays little mind to her own needs or even her health, always putting the people and her country first; indeed, her Sacrifice skill is effectively her self-sacrificing nature manifesting as a magical power.

While she used to live reclusively, her experiences in the Mad King's War changed her and led her to be devoted to caring for others. Micaiah has little interest in or taste for finery, and as a result in the days before the Laguz Alliance war, she eschewed using her lavish quarters in Daein Keep in favor of living among the people while assisting in the reconstruction of Nevassa.

Throughout her life she has been guided by her visions, and although she often wished she didn't have them and felt as if they were a burden, she nonetheless trusted in them to keep her life on the right path- when her foresight abilities weakened during the Laguz Alliance war, she felt lost without them.

Micaiah is extremely loyal to Daein and Pelleas, in whom she has absolute faith to a fault, to the point of fighting the Laguz Alliance even when she sees no reason to do so, and refusing to give up when faced by the Greil Mercenaries. Even as Pelleas refused to back down or allow surrender in the Laguz Alliance war, and even as she did not want to fight or to indulge her subordinates' racist bloodlust, she was dedicated to continuing to serve him without hesitation, believing him to be Daein's future. Upon learning of the truth of the blood pact, even as Pelleas felt doomed, she encouraged him not to give up and to find a way out, even going so far as volunteering to continue waging the war to buy Pelleas time despite her dislike of the conflict.

Initially, Micaiah held an extreme dislike of Ike as a result of his military actions being responsible for Daein's suffering under Begnion; this was compounded by Sothe's frequent references to his time serving under Ike and the role Ike had played in helping him mature, which greatly frustrated her. After meeting Ike herself while fighting for Begnion, his insistence on finding a way to peacefully resolve whatever problem compelled Daein to fight led her to understand why Sothe held him in such high regard, and so warmed significantly to him even while the two remained enemies.

## Abilities

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Item Creation (A Rank): Can create various wondrous items with a variety of effects. Caster is most favored with crafting healing items but can accomplish other items such as staves which can produce status effects, teleport, or offensive tomes which can unleash powerful incantations of holy magic before needing to be recharged.

* Territory Creation (B Rank): While not particularly skilled at it Caster can create a workshop to aid her in her spellcasting and is particularly skilled at making one that is difficult for others to find, owed to her time as a freedom fighter fighting against an occupying force constantly seeking her.

* Magic Resistance (A Rank): While unusual and a non standard class skill Caster is unusually resistant to magic from others owing either to her unique heritage as a branded or due to her blessing from Yune. She can resist magecraft A rank and below effectively rendering her immune to modern mages.

#### Personal Skills

* Charisma (C+ Rank): Hailed as a savior and a freedom fighter Caster was beloved by those she fought for and with. Despite this she struggles to inspire large masses of individuals and is not suited to ruling a country, being much more suitable for team level inspiration and camaraderie.

* High Speed Divine Words (A- Rank): Caster is capable of wondrous magic both offensive, healing and others but she relies on magical items to channel and power her spells. Without them or if they run out of their limited power supply she will be unable to use any but the most basic of spells.

* Silver Haired Savior (A Rank): Caster due to her background is capable of the miraculous feat of healing others. She can heal effectively any wound or condition another individual is suffering from without the use of tomes, staves or even the expenditure of prana. However, this technique is only so efficient because Caster herself has to take the full force of the injury or condition to remove it from the afflicted. Functioning less as a healing effect and more as a transfer of injuries. Thankfully due to her blessing from Yune and her various mystic codes she freely recovers from wounds and conditions over time.

* Revelation (B Rank): Caster was the unknown heir to a bloodline which received whispers from a powerful divine spirit. While normally this rank would be A it is ranked down due to Caster participating in defeating that divine spirit. Normally this would simply void the skill but she is accompanied by the other half of that spirit who aids her resulting in the skill becoming functional again though at a lower rank.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Ashera Staff: "The Staff of the Goddess"**

This staff symbolizing the goddess Ashera is the most powerful healing item in Caster’s world. Upon activation it heals all allies nearby removing all wounds and status effects. Powered directly from the divine spirit from which it draws its name it has no prana cost to activate. However it can only be activated a total of three times before the staff is destroyed and rendered useless.

#### **Yune: "Goddess of Chaos"**

Caster was blessed and heir to a divine birthright allowing her to commune with a goddess. During her adventures she encountered a divine spirit in the form of a bird who followed her around on her travels and eventually ended up aiding her once it was released from it's trapped form. The divine spirit which follows Caster around Yune manifests alongside Caster abit in a dramatically weakened state. Yune follows caster around as a small harmless looking bird which is actually nigh indestructible. Yune can’t really do much other than offer guidance and inspiration to Caster until she activates this noble phantasm fully. Upon doing so Yune possesses caster and is able to use a large quantity of her own power granting miracles, casting incredibly powerful magics and similar blessings. Essentially functioning as a divine spirit level wishcraft.

The prana cost for this noble phantasm is massive and even high quality masters would buckle under the strain of extended use. A versatile if expensive noble phantasm limited only by Yune and the Master’s imagination.

## References

https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Micaiah

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Micaiah

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/summon-a-servant-mark-vi-the-dark-six-f-sn-crossover-servants.370875/page-129#post-38132760