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ikesenhell · 7 years ago

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Summoning Circle XVI

This is a continuation of Summoning Circle. You can find all other IkeSen works of mine here. NOTE: Tagging @katriniac at her request.

They shoved back the furniture in the living room and prepared another circle. Sasuke prepped instruments she didn’t even know the names of around the room. Some whirred, some beeped, some made scrawling measurements like a seismograph. He monitored them all ceaselessly for a week before clapping his hands together.

“Good news. We might not even need a machine.”

“How do you figure that?” She asked, propping herself up between two of them on the couch.

“Well, the problem is from the other side. Ergo, we’d need to get through to the other side to block the holes. And I think--” He paused, contemplating his words. “I think it’s a matter of reverse engineering the doorway you made in the first place to place a barrier.”

She narrowed her eyes at him, her brain nigh on meltdown mode. “English please.”

“Remember your sigil you drew to summon them in the first place?” Sasuke flipped the book open, teasing his fingers between the pages. “It’s like an algebra problem.”

“Fuck, Sasuke. The whole reason we’re in this mess is because I’m shit at math.”

He half-smiled, shoving his glasses back up his nose. “Alright. A better analogy. Think of each place in the universe was a door. Naturally, to get in a door, you need a key.”

“Yeah. Sure.”

“So, for instance, to ‘assemble’ the key to our having space travel, we had to map out the lock. The components involved velocity, calculating orbits, etcetera, but in the end it was a key nonetheless.” He tapped the pages to the book. “And this book details keys to other doors.”

She paused. “So basically what you’re saying is the circle is the door, we just have to figure out the components to get us in there. Like a password.”

“Exactly like a password.”

“And once we’re in there...” The details laid bare out before her like the mythical yellow brick road. “Then we block the route back?”

“It’ll take a little doing. But that’s the idea. It’s just a matter of assembling the component to create the block. And in the meantime, we’d have the assistance of Mitsuhide and Mitsunari on the other side.”

It wasn’t a perfect idea, but it was an idea, and it was better than any she had to boot. Besides. Sasuke had never, ever let her down before. Suddenly overwhelmed by the grace of him, she leapt to his side and crushed him in a hug.

“Sasuke, you’re the very best friend in the whole goddamn universe.”

He pet her back gently. “This is as much a fun scientific adventure for me as it is helping you... but you’re welcome.”

Mitsunari stood in the eye of the circling storm.

A thousand dreams swirled around him. He extended a finger and watched them ripple around him, fragments of unconscious thoughts flowing through his mind. Oh, he was so, so hungry for them, so tempted to delve in and devour them whole for their knowledge. But he was hunting first and foremost. That stayed him. Faster and faster the tide turned around him. He shut his purple eyes and focused to the full stretch of his will, feeling the ravenous desire in him fight for control.

But not today.

He felt the dream and latched on, pulling it out of the slipping current and laying it bare before him. There. She dreamed, and his heart screamed and pulled from his chest, threatening mutiny.

She dreamed of them.

There they were--himself and Mitsuhide, standing in her kitchen, fumbling over sandwiches. The contents made no sense, and neither did the fact that all the furniture was floating--but nevermind that. Dream logic had a way of creeping in. He absorbed himself in the details of her.

He watched her hands reaching for them, the way she always fell just out of reach. The kitchen drifted farther and farther away until it was only a lonely blip, the infinite hallway extending before her. Mitsunari wanted so badly for Dream-Him to reach out, take her, grab her! But no. He could only stand arrested as at last, the whole apartment slipped into blackness, the shattering of a mirror sprinkling through her mind.

“There you are.”

Mitsunari shut his eyes and tried not to feel angry at Mitsuhide. “Did we do the right thing?”

The silver-haired demon stepped to his side and stared down at the dream. It turned to a horror so easily. Now she dreamed of blood sprinkled over the vanity, fragments of a vampire skull scattered over her feet.

“Yes,” Mitsuhide murmured, his voice shaking. “We did.”

“It doesn’t feel like the right thing.”

“The right thing often doesn’t.”

Mitsunari sighed. “I suppose coming from you, that means something. You’re the king of doing the right thing in the worst ways.”

The ghost of an amused smile played over Mitsuhide’s lips, but he said nothing. Instead he extended his hand toward his partner. “You can’t stand here in the stream forever.”

“I’m not.”

“You’re starved. You never made the trade I made. You can’t be away from your books this long.”

“I know,” Mitsunari answered miserably. “I know. But I keep coming back here.”

Nothing other than the rush of swirling dreams around them answered. At last, Mitsuhide sighed. “Whatever you’re looking for, I can stand guard for now. She wouldn’t want you to do this to yourself.”

A bitter laugh escaped him. “She wouldn’t want a lot of things that have happened.”

“No. You’re right. She wouldn’t have.”

She took her cat to stay with another friend for a while. After all, whenever they broke through to Purgatory, Theodora couldn’t go without food and water. Kissing her pet a thousand times on the head, she finally resolved herself to the unknown.

Both she and Sasuke threw themselves into working long hours every week, extending their paychecks as far as they could manage to accommodate an unknown length of time away from their respective bills and responsibilities. Each night, they dragged themselves back to the apartment and slaved over the books late into the night. Sasuke pinned an intricate system of notes onto her wall. One night she pointed out it looked like a meme and he struck the same pose, sending them into a several-minute long fit of giggles.

And at last--at last!--they had something.

“Holy shit.” Sasuke announced one midnight. “I think I got it.”

She pried herself from her notes to stare blearily at him. “What?”

“I’ve got it.” And he scrambled for chalk, etching the runes into the floor one at a time. Each of them pulsed and warped in tandem, shimmering a bright red through the apartment until a faint light pooled in the center. Sasuke inhaled deeply. “I haven’t set the last symbol, but when we do...”

“Oh my god.” She slammed the book shut, scrabbling over to him. “Okay. Okay okay. Okay!”

“We need to get supplies.” He nodded resolutely, and suddenly the two of them were scrabbling around the room. “Like a can of beans!”

A moment. She stopped and stared at him. “A... can of beans? Like, a singular can?”

Sasuke, astrophysicist and genius, stopped dead in his tracks, eyes glazed. “I... yes. We probably need more than one.”

“Sleep deprivation getting you there?”

“I’d be absolutely thrilled if we could just chalk it up to that.”

They crashed that night in the living room, and by the next morning, they both sent off emails to their respective employers about an unplanned, long-term absence from work. Shuffling their backpacks together, they checked it for the millionth time.

“A compass won’t be any use there,” Sasuke mumbled. “Do you know how to orient us once we’re in?”

“Not a single fucking clue, if I’m honest. I might be able to get us to the hot springs... if it dumps us out in the correct place.”

“Not likely, then.” But he smiled anyway, cranking one of his ten wind-up cameras he’d somehow procured. “This will be very exciting.”

“And scary. We need to be on our guard.”

“Of course. But the scientific opportunity here is limitless.”

Count on Sasuke to make it fun. Shaking out her nerves, she nodded at him. “Okay.”

“Okay?”

“Yeah. Let’s do this. Beam me up, Scotty.”

He gave her the usual muted smile and scrawled out the appropriate signs. Just as before, the whole living room began to swim with ruby light. Affixing the last piece, they stepped back as a massive gate appeared before them--and just beyond, a thick, purple haze.

She exhaled hard and took Sasuke’s hand. “Alright.”

He squeezed it reassuringly. Together, they stepped through, and the gate closed behind them.

“My friend?”

The demon frowned from his place atop a cushioned chair, but answered anyway. “Yes, Shingen?”

Smirking, the redheaded demon flopped into a matching one across from him, adjusting his red and gold robes. “I don’t suppose you’re in a mood for a patrol?”

Those mismatched eyes flicked open with interest. “Is it a vampire incursion? Perhaps some of those hungering spirits again?”

“No, no no, Kenshin, my friend. Nothing that we need to attack, exactly.”

“Oh.” Kenshin’s face soured immediately. “Then I’m not interested.”

“Come now! It’ll be fascinating.” Shingen chuckled, leaning in. “I heard the most interesting report. We have some interlopers out here.”

“If I can’t kill them, then I don’t know what you want from me.”

“I’m certain you’ll find them of interest.” The demon grinned broad, his horns like an ibex shimmering into view. “Because, my friend, they’re humans.”

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church-history · 4 years ago

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Our Lady of Fatima

May 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three shepherd children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917. She appeared six times to Lucia, 9, and her cousins Francisco, 8, and his sister Jacinta, 6, between May 13, 1917 and October 13, 1917.

The story of Fatima begins in 1916, when, against the backdrop of the First World War which had introduced Europe to the most horrific and powerful forms of warfare yet seen, and a year before the Communist revolution would plunge Russia and later Eastern Europe into six decades of oppression under militant atheistic governments, a resplendent figure appeared to the three children who were in the field tending the family sheep. “I am the Angel of Peace,” said the figure, who appeared to them two more times that year exhorting them to accept the sufferings that the Lord allowed them to undergo as an act of reparation for the sins which offend Him, and to pray constantly for the conversion of sinners.

Then, on the 13th day of the month of Our Lady, May 1917, an apparition of ‘a woman all in white, more brilliant than the sun’ presented itself to the three children saying “Please don’t be afraid of me, I’m not going to harm you.” Lucia asked her where she came from and she responded, “I come from Heaven.” The woman wore a white mantle edged with gold and held a rosary in her hand. The woman asked them to pray and devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to “say the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war.”

She also revealed that the children would suffer, especially from the unbelief of their friends and families, and that the two younger children, Francisco and Jacinta would be taken to Heaven very soon but Lucia would live longer in order to spread her message and devotion to the Immaculate Heart.

In the last apparition the woman revealed her name in response to Lucia’s question: “I am the Lady of the Rosary.”

That same day, 70,000 people had turned out to witness the apparition, following a promise by the woman that she would show the people that the apparitions were true. They saw the sun make three circles and move around the sky in an incredible zigzag movement in a manner which left no doubt in their minds about the veracity of the apparitions. By 1930 the Bishop had approved of the apparitions and they have been approved by the Church as authentic.

The messages Our Lady imparted during the apparitions to the children concerned the violent trials that would afflict the world by means of war, starvation, and the persecution of the Church and the Holy Father in the twentieth century if the world did not make reparation for sins. She exhorted the Church to pray and offer sacrifices to God in order that peace may come upon the world, and that the trials may be averted.

Our Lady of Fatima revealed three prophetic “secrets,” the first two of which were revealed earlier and refer to the vision of hell and the souls languishing there, the request for an ardent devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the prediction of the Second World War, and finally the prediction of the immense damage that Russia would do to humanity by abandoning the Christian faith and embracing Communist totalitarianism. The third “secret” was not revealed until the year 2000, and referred to the persecutions that humanity would undergo in the last century: “The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated'”. The suffering of the popes of the 20th century has been interpreted to include the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981, which took place on May 13, the 64th anniversary of the apparitions. The Holy Father attributed his escape from certain death to the intervention of Our Lady: “... it was a mother's hand that guided the bullet's path and in his throes the Pope halted at the threshold of death.”

What is the central meaning of the message of Fatima? Nothing different from what the Church has always taught: it is, as Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict the XVI, has put it, “the exhortation to prayer as the path of “salvation for souls” and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.”

Perhaps the most well known utterance of the apparition of Our Lady at Fatima was her confident decalaration that “My Immaculate Heart will triumph”. Cardinal Ratzinger has interpreted this utterance as follows: “The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind. The fiat of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Saviour into the world—because, thanks to her Yes, God could become man in our world and remains so for all time. The Evil One has power in this world, as we see and experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away from God. But since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good, the freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this: “In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world” (Jn 16:33). The message of Fatima invites us to trust in this promise.

#catholic #christian #catholic history #mary #fatima #our lady of fatima

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helshades · 5 years ago

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what's the history behind that photo

I largely answered in the post right before this one, which I saw only afterwards, sorry, but I can add this for summary: our very liberal President, who doesn't really believe in democracy, has been working very hard to bring about the total privatisation of French economy, and in a very thatcherian move, considering there's 'no alternative', isn't letting his own people getting in the way of his feverish dreams of a free global market and zero public expenses.

90% of French press is owned by a dozen of oligarchs (including Bernard Arnault, richest man in the world, and his tech billionaire son-in-law Xavier Niel), most of whom supported President Macron's 2017 campaign, so the mainstream media aren't 'only' reluctant to give a platform to the opposition, they're plainly obfuscating the truth, when they're not downright lying about the social movement, the state of the strike and, glaringly, the unjustifiable violence of the French government against the nation.

So, yes, usually the police charges randomly into the crowd during peaceful protests, they inundate everyone in tear gas that lasts for hours (in fact, days; French police use exceptionally strong gases with high-level toxicity, and occasionally throw a canister or two down the stairs to a tube station) and go up into buildings' ventilation systems so even non-protesters may enjoy, and they often arrest people to confiscate protection such as surgical masks, bike helmets, or saline solution for irritated eyes... People have been fined for wearing a high-visibility vest or because policemen suspected they intended to join a protest; as a matter of fact, if they can prove that a person intended to 'knowingly join a group planning for degradations, violences or destructions' (so if someone is arrested during a demonstration where some damage was done), one may be thrown in jail for a year with €15000 to pay (which is over a year of salary for people working full-time at a minimum wage...).

Police perform random acts of cruelty, such as, recently, an infamous (it did circulate in mainstream circles for once) trip to a young woman in Toulouse, who was walking with her hands raised in fear and fell hard on her face. They club down unarmed people and then beat up the people who try to help them up. The other day a college student had to receive his summons to court as the medics were taking him away on a gurney to tend to his head trauma.

Two weeks ago, they murdered Cédric Chouviat. He was a delivery man in Paris who got arrested on his scooter for telephoning. It is claimed he was rude to the policemen: they manhandled him off his vehicle, threw him onto the pavement, sat on his back immobilising him until he turned blue and passed out, his larynx mysteriously broken. He died 48 hours later in the hospital, as his five children waited at home for their mother Doria to return with news. The authorities immediately declared that Cédric died of a heart attack, but for once the autopsy report didn't have time to disappear and his family soon had confirmation of how he died. He wasn't the first one, but it particularly stings to see how calm and brave his 19-year-old daughter has to be when she asks that history would not be repeated.

One of these days the population might not be so compliant anymore. Already, people are pushing through the fear more and more, trying their best to defend one another. One of these days, the would-be king of France might try to protect his head by doing more than sending his attack dogs onto the crowds. Then again, one of the slogans recently heard in the protests went, Louis XVI! Louis XVI! We beheaded him! Macron! Macron! We may do it again! One of these days...

#the thatchering #the government that held only by its police #answers #nonnies

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karvatovski · 6 years ago

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I do not understand sleep, but I will someday soon: an anthology of lovers

II.

I had asked you to listen to a song with me.

You found me on my bed, nestled like a lamb nursling

and

You held me in both arms, letting me cry, your body

bracing my uneven breathing like a splint to a fractured arm.

Your kisses were always a tourniquet.

Sometimes I wanted to bleed.

Love is a cruel ghost.

She murmurs in the corner, never lets you forget how you once

felt whole oceans pulling your bones like the tide towards this woman, this

human

who had more burn than seven thousand suns in

planetary systems that matter not in all their gravity because

She is Here and You are Here and that is Enough, my God, that is God and that

so much.

III.

And she holds you and you no longer want to be held. And she croons to you

but you

feel stifled, like a child, you

need to leave and she needs to love and you are rowing in opposite time and

turning circles and my god you

Capsize just to show yourself you can swim.

- 1.

But tonight, it is perhaps a year back, and she is holding you, letting you cry.

She is listening to this song in the dark beside you, because you asked.

-2.

And before then, a girl rolled cherry tobacco into vanilla papers and smoked it on

your porch steps which were

Church steps because you lived above the Presbyterians

that flew a pride flag beside the crucifix.

She smelled like your ex and had a voice of dark silk.

You fell in love in one night. She wrote you poems, sent you tea-stained letters.

You painted her voice.

-3.

And before that, you fell so far in love your hands and feet switched places such

that you held her with every step you took because she was the earth itself below

you.

How you broke through her eggshell self without puncturing the yolk.

She hung all your love letters like lavender drying on the peeling walls of your first

apartment.

IV.

And now you dream of someone,

I mean I dream of someone, and

There is no poetry in wondering if my wondering is somehow driving you away,

like how water only boils once I’ve left the room, like how

I only get what I want when I forget I’ve wanted it.

I remember saying I do not want love now.

Carnivorous by nature

I am forever red,

I need my bones to show.

I am like a snake, this jaw dislocates to swallow.

It’s rather gruesome.

VI.

I remember saying, she is better than you anyways.

VII.

She is better than you anyways.

VIII.

But she has never once been the

companion summoned by my subconscious in dream.

She is not who has made me flip my skin inside out just to

feel closer to your heat.

She has not been written about before.

She hasn’t made me feel sick with delight.

IX.

Maybe you haven’t either.

Maybe I only love you for your voice.

XI.

I think I mostly love you for your voice.

XII.

I don’t love you.

XIII.

There can only be something better, then.

XIV.

What is better than?

XV.

Me, having enough sleep and eating properly and learning how to be alone.

People are fleeting, I am all I can know I will have now and forever.

XVI.

I do not understand sleep, but I will someday soon.

#queer #lgbtq art #writing #probably dull yknow #inamorata #sleep #queer art #wlw

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schwermetallisch · 5 years ago

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Artist: Circle Of Witches Title: Natural Born Sinners Genre: Heavy Metal / Doom Release Date: 21st May 2019 Label: Sliptrick Records The second record from Italy in a row! This time with CIRCLE OF WITCHES from Salerno, Campania. The record I am going to dissect now is named ‘Natural Born Sinners’ and I have the joy to do so because I made the acquaintance with Mario over Facebook (nice bloke btw). So, let the press text make the start while I summon the gods of review: “NATURAL BORN SINNER is the third full length from the Italian Heavy Metal doom band CIRCLE OF WITCHES published in May 2019 on Sliptrick Records. The eleven tracks on the album follow the path of Heavy Metal and Doom with influences of JUDAS PRIEST, GRAND MAGUS and CANDLEMASS. All lyrics were inspired by the theme of riot and some characters like Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, Lucifer, the fallen angel, the witches, warders of ancient wisdom, Giordano Bruno, Italian XVI century philosopher and mage burnt alive by the Roman Church and Spartacus, the slave who rebelled against Rome. The album was written in a couple of months during the 2015 cold winter and was already played during a pre-release European Tour during the 2018 in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Malta, Italy.” After giving this a few spins I can attest these guys a great talent for hooks and gripping melodies. Bove is a charismatic vocalist that fits flawlessly into the overall concept and the doomy often occult feeling songs. Coppola’s drumming is impellent and always on point, the guitar-work is groovy (the GRAND MAGUS influence is audible and very welcome) and the bass-work of Farabella is beefing the already big guitar sound even more. After a short time with the record I can already can point out three hits that will do nicely in live sets: ‘Giordano Bruno’ catchy, Classic Metal with groove and a feel of impending doom, ‘The Oracle’ a hymn with a little vocal part at the start that feels like a mini intro, this song is a melodic beast. Also check out "You belong to Witches ". #schwermetallisch #reviews #picoftheday #nwothm #nwobhm #heavymetal #metal #rock #metalhead #hardrock #thrashmetal #metalguy #metalmusic #doom (hier: Neumühl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_J-knbojk9/?igshid=1spe9crzis4dj

#schwermetallisch #reviews #picoftheday #nwothm #nwobhm #heavymetal #metal #rock #metalhead #hardrock #thrashmetal #metalguy #metalmusic #doom

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recordkeeperelizabeth · 7 years ago

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DISCLAIMER!!

VERY LONG POST AND ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

The following contains every Soul Break that Elizabeth’s Hero Records own and use. New Soul Breaks and Legend Materia will be added when I, her Mun, has new ones. List up to date as of January 2nd, 2018.

Soul Breaks that are NOT Default!! And each Hero's Level to add. Also, Legend Materia information.

(mun's note: The Soul Breaks and Legend Materia I own = the things Elizabeth owns. This is a digital format of everything I own so that I can get help with trickier dungeons.)

>Core Classes (YES, I understand that most of them sucks!)

-ELIZABETH (mun's note: On the display screen every Keeper looks like the Village's mascot, Tyro.) (mun note II: holy moley there are a lot of things missing for her X'D)

Level 99

Stormlance Grimoire [Deal four physical lightning attacks to one target.]

Last Judgment Grimoire [Deal three physical earth attacks to all targets.]

Fantasy Unbound [Deal seventeen physical attacks to on target, raise the Attack, Magic, Defence, Resistance, and Mind of all allies a small amount, and grant them Haste.]

-White Mage

Level 51

Light Divine [Restore a moderate amount of HP to all allies.]

Divine Signet [Temporarily raise the user's Mind a large amount.]

-Black Mage

Level 26

Magic Signet [Temporarily raise the user's Magic a large amount.]

-Summoner

Level 52

Call II [Call a random summon to your aid.]

-Ranger

Level 52

Steady Shot II [Fire an unnerving shot.]

-Bard

Level 52

Valour Minuet II [Temporarily raise the Party's Attack a large amount.]

-Knight

Level 26

Knight's Shield II [Temporarily raise the user's Defence a large amount.]

-Red Mage

Level 51

Doublecast Thunder [Cast Thunder twice in a row.]

>Final Fantasy I (Liz's note: And -alternative- FFI, AKA Mobius Final Fantasy.)-

GarlandLevel 50Chaos Cyclone [Deal three ranged physical dark attacks to all targets, and temporarily lower their resistance to dark.]-MatoyaLevel 38Witch's Brew [Temporarily raise the attack and Magic of all allies a moderate amount, and grant them major Regen.]>Final Fantasy II (So far the ONLY realm whose heroes are at least level 80!)-EMPEROR MATEUS (Almost complete for now as of January 1st, 2018. His second Legend Materia is not unlocked yet.)Level 99Prison of Sorrow [Deal eight magic dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, and grant all allies a barrier that reflects damage.]Winds of War [Deal six magic wind and dark attacks to all targets, temporarily infuse the user with the power of wind, and grant Haste and Bursts Mode to the user.](Binding Gale - Deal four magic wind and dark attacks to one target, with a moderate chance to interrupt its actions. [Black Magic])(Leeching Winds - Deal magic wind and dark damage to one target, healing the user for a portion of the damage dealt. [Black Magic])Dire Apocalypse [Deal eight magic earth and wind attacks to all targets, temporarily lower their earth resistance, and lower their Attack, Magic, and Resistance a large amount.]Otherworldly Power [Increase black magic damage a small amount.]Soul of Rebirth [When low on HP, restore HP to the user and temporarily reduce delay of their actions. Can only trigger once per battle.]-FirionLevel 99Shining Blade [Deal six physical holy attacks to all targets, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of holy light.]Weaponsmaster [deal four instant ranged physical holy and non-elemental attacks to all targets, grants Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and enable each ally to avoid one magic attack. Effective against most spells.](Chain Strike - Deal up to eight ranged physical holy and non-elemental attacks to one target. The number of attacks increases the more this ability is used. [Combat])(Chain Launch - Deal four physical holy and non-elemental attacks to one target, and remove delay from the user's actions. [Combat])-Maria [mun's note: I swear... her Soul Breaks are... weird.]Level 80Thunder XVI [Deal four magic lightning attacks to all targets, and temporarily raise the party's Magic a small amount.]-GuyLevel 80Gaia Drum [Deal four physical earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets, and temporarily lower their earth resistance.]-LeonLevel 80Hand of the Emperor [Temporarily raise the party's Attack a moderate amount, and Defence a small amount.]Dark Bloom [Small chance for darkness abilities to trigger twice.]-MinwuLevel 99Will of the White Mage [Instantly restore a large amount of HP to the party.]Seal of Heaven [Deal four white magic holy attacks to all targets, grant Haste and major Regen to all allies, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Cure X - Instantly restore a very large amount of HP to one ally. [White Magic])(Spell Sap XVI - Deal two white magic holy attacks to all targets, and lower their Magic and Mind a small amount. [White Magic])-LeilaLevel 99Pirate's Knives [Deal six physical water attacks to one target, temporarily lower its Attack and Resistance a large amount, raise the user's Attack a moderate amount, and Resistance a small amount.]Poison Cloud XVI [Deal eight physical poison and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily infuse the user with the power of poison, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Poison Sting - Deal four physical poison and non-elemental attacks to one target. Reduced delay before hitting.[Thief])(Pirate's Venom - Deal two physical poison and non-elemental attacks to on target, lower its Attack and Mind a small amount, and raise the user's Attack and Mind a small amount. [Thief])-RicardLevel 80Highwind Secrets [Deal six jump wind attacks to random targets, and infuse the user with the power of wind. Damage dealt increases for each hero in the party that can use dragoon abilities (up to 5).]> Final Fantasy III-LunethLevel 37Heavenly Gust [Deal a massive wind and non-elemental jump attack to one target. Deals more damage for each wind attack the user has made. Can break the damage cap.]-ArcLevel 31Word of Kindness [instantly restore a large amount of HP to all allies, and enable them to avoid one physical attack.]-IngusLevel 40Attested Strength [Activate an earth chain to raise the earth damage of all allies a small amount, deal eleven earth attacks to one target, and grant Last Stand to all allies.]-DeschLevel 52Ancient Lightning [Deal five lightning and no-elemental attacks to all targets, grant Haste and Burst Mod to the user and temporarily infuse them with the power of lightning.](Heavenly Drum - Deal four magic lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, and reduce the user's offensive magic casting time for one turn. [Black Magic])(Become the Lightning - Deal two magic lightning and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily lower the user's Defence a moderate amount, and raise their Magic a moderate amount. [Black Magic])-Onion KnightLevel 99Sword and Spell [Deal massive physical or magic non-elemental damage to one target. Can break the damage cap. Attack type depends on the stats of the user.]-Cloud of DarknessLevel 53Fusillade Particle Beam [Deal eight magic dark and holy attacks to random targets, temporarily grant all allies a barrier that reflects damage, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Aura Ball of Confounding - Deal four magic dark and holy attack to one target, with a small chance to Silence and Blind them. [Black Magic])(Aura Ball of Bonding - Deal four magic dark and holy attacks to one target, with a small chance to Paralyze and Stop them. [Black Magic])>Final Fantasy IV-Cecil (Paladin)Level 99Paladin Force [Deal five ranged physical holy attacks to all targets, grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse the user wither the power of holy light.](Blessed Weapon - Deal physical holy damage to one enemy, and restore a moderate amount of HP to the user. [Combat])(Scared Circle - Deal two physical holy attacks to all targets. [Combat])Arc of Light [Deal massive physical holy and non-elemental damage to one target. Can break the damage cap.]-KainLevel 68Dragoon's Pride [Deal four jump lightning and non-elemental attacks to all targets, grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of lightning.](Stormblood Dragoon - Deal two ranged physical lightning attacks to one target, and cause the user's jump attacks to land instantly for two turns. [Dragoon])(Triumphant Lancet - Deal two ranged physical lightning attacks to one target, and restore one ability use to the ability with the fewest remaining uses. [Dragoon])-RydiaLevel 67Summon Eidolon II [Deal summoning magic ice damage to all targets.]Mournful Cry [Deal five summon magic earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets, grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth.](Gaia's Strike - Deal four summoning magic earth and non-elemental attacks to one target.[Summoning])(Gaia's Fury - Deal two summoning magic earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets. [Summoning])-RosaLevel 37Divine Heal [Restore a large amount of HP to all allies, and enable each to avoid one magic attack. Effective against most spells.]-GolbezLevel 50Black Fang [Deal four non-elemental magic attacks to one target.]Cosmic Ray [Deal eight dark attacks to one target, and temporarily raise the user's Magic a moderate amount.]>Final Fantasy V-BartzLevel 57Choco Romp [Deal five ranges physical wind attacks to all targets, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of wind.]-GalufLevel 67Sweet Sorrow [Deal six physical fire and earth attacks to one target, temporarily lower its resistance to fire, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Leeching Blow - Deal four physical fire and earth attacks to one target, and restore a small amount of HP to one ally. Amount healed is proportional to the target's max HP. [Monk])(Feast of Souls - Deal two physical fire and earth attacks to all targets, and restore a small amount of HP to one ally. Amount healed is proportional to the target's max HP. [Monk])-FarisLevel 99Sea Lord's Broadside [Deal four ranged physical attacks to all targets, and temporarily lower their Attack and Magic a large amount.]Beryl Serpent [Deal five ranged physical attacks to one target, temporarily lower its Attack, Magic, Defence, and Resistance a large amount, and grant Hast and Burst Mode to the user.](Deluge - Deal ranged physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount. [Support])(Rough Tides - Deal ranged physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Attack a large amount. [Support])-ExdeathLevel 52Power of the Void [Deal six magic dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, and temporarily raise the magic of all allies a moderate amount and their Resistance a small amount.]-DorgannLevel 53Winds of Home [Deal six physical wind attacks to random targets, temporarily lower the user's Defence a moderate amount, and raise the Attack and Magic of all allies a moderate amount.]Uncharted Lands [Temporarily lower the earth resistance of all targets, raise the Attack of all allies and moderate amount and Defence a small amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Protector's Vow - Deal four physical earth and wind attacks to one target, and increase the damage of the user's knight abilities a small amount for the amount of two turns. [Knight])(Blades of Sand - Deal three physical earth and wind attacks to one target, temporarily raise the user's Attack a moderate amount, a Resistance a small amount. [Knight])>Final Fantasy VI-TerraLevel 80Blood of Espers [Deal five magic non-elemental attacks to all targets, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Chaos Fira - Deal four magic fire and non-elemental attacks to one enemy. [Black Magic])(Chaos Watera - Deal four magic water and non-elemental attacks to one enemy. [Black Magic])-CelesLevel 80Indomitable Blade [Deal five physical attacks to one target and absorb enemy black and white magic to restore one ability use each time.]Maria's Song [Temporarily raise the Attack and magic of all allies a moderate amount, grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of holy light.](Ardent Blade - Deal four physical holy and fire attacks to one target. [Spellblade])(Fridgid Blade - Deal four physical holy and ice attacks to one target. [Spellblade])-MogLevel 52Earth Blues [Deal six white magic earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets, and temporarily lower their Attack and Defence a large amount.]-ShadowLevel 53Abandoned Past [Instantly deal ten physical dark and non-elemental attacks to random targets, and temporarily causes the user's dark attacks to reduce delay of the user's next action. If the user has Mirror Image, ninja abilities will also trigger Vanishing Blade, dealing up to two physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target. Number of attacks depends on the number of Mirror Image stacks on the user.]-SetzerLevel 52Prismatic Flash [Deal three ranged physical attacks to all targets, and temporarily lower their Attack and Magic a large amount.]-StragoLevel 67Mighty Guard (VI) [Grant Protect and Shell to all allies, and temporarily raise their Resistance a large amount.]-KefkaLevel 55Magic Infusion [Grant Haste to all allies, and temporarily raise their Magic a small amount.]Forsaken Null [Deal seven magic non-elemental attacks to random targets, and reduce the offensive magic casting time of all allies for three hours.]>Final Fantasy VII-SEPHIROTH (I'll STOP pulling for FFVII relics as soon as I get his Darkcoat, Chirijiraden, and for the giggles, his Masamune. Yes... I have a lot of FFVII stuff because of Sephiroth. X'D)Level 99Nibelheim Nightmare [Deal four ranged physical fire attacks to all targets, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of fire.]Shadow Flare [Deal damage to all targets, with a moderate chance to Blind them.]Transience [Deal ten physical dark attacks to one target, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of the dark.]Black Materia [Deal four ranged physical attacks to one target, with a moderate chance to Sap it.]Reunion [Deal four physical attacks to all targets, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Despair - Deal two physical attacks to on target, ignoring its Defence. [Combat])(Perdition's Flame - Deal four physical fire and non-elemental attacks to one target. [Combat])Octaslash [Deal eight physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, grant Shield to the user, which enables them to avoid two physical or magic attacks, infuse the user with the power of the dark, and grant them Haste and Burst Mode.](Black Wing - Deal three to five physical dark and non-elemental attacks to on target. The number of attacks depends on the user's Attack. [Darkness])(Fallen Angel - Deal two physical dark and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily lower the user's Defence a moderate amount, and raise the user's Attack a moderate amount.[Darkness])Heartless Angel [Deal fifteen dark attacks to one target, temporarily infuse the user with the power of the dark, grant the user Empowered Darkness, lower the user's Defence and Resistance a small amount, and raise the user's Attack a large amount.]Fallen Hero [Deal slightly more physical damage when a katana is equipped.]-CloudLevel 99Climhazzard [Deal seven physical wind attacks to one target, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of wind.]Cloud Cycle [Deal eight physical wind and non-elemental attacks to one target, temporarily infuse the user with the power of the wind, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Sonic Rush - Deal four physical wind and non-elemental attacks to one target. Deals more damage based on the user's Attack. [Combat])(Slashing Blow - Deal two physical wind and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily lower the user's Defence, and raise the user's Attack a moderate amount. [Combat])Fenrir Overdrive [Deal eight physical attacks to random targets, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Whirl Slash - Deal two physical attacks to all targets. [Combat])(Quad Cut - Deal four physical attacks to one target. [Combat])-AerithLevel 99Fury Brand [Temporarily raise the critical hit chance of all allies a large amount, and enable each ally to avoid one magic attack. Effective against most spells.]Pulse of Life [Grant Reraise and restore a moderate amount of HP to all allies. Allies raised with moderate HP.]White Materia [Deal five white magic attacks to all targets, restore a large amount of HP to all allies, and grant Haste Burst Mode to the user.](Wonders of the Cetra - Restore a very large amount of HP to one ally, and temporarily raise their Mind a moderate amount. [White Magic])(Paean to Gaia - Restore a small amount of HP to all allies. [White Magic])-BarretLevel 81Hammerblow [Deal three ranged physical attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Defence and Resistance a moderate amount, with a moderate chance to instantly KO it.]Ungarmax [Deal ranged physical damage to ten random targets, and temporarily lower their Attack and Defence a large amount.]Hyper Grenade Bomb [Deal ten ranges physical fire and non-elemental attacks to random targets, and temporarily lower their Attack, Magic, Defence, Resistance, and Mind a moderate amount.]Massive Hammerblow [Deal six ranged physical attacks to all targets, temporarily lower their Attack, Magic, Defence, and Resistance a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Breakdown Bomb - Deal two ranged physical attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Attack a large amount. [Support])(Breakdown Launcher - Deal two ranged physical attacks to one target, and temporaily lower its Magic a large amount. [Support])-TifaLevel 99Dolphin Blow [Deal four physical attacks, to one target, and temporarily raise the user's Attack a large amount.]Meteor Crusher [Deal eight physical earth attacks to one target, grant haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of the earth.](Falcon's Dive - Deal two physical earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets. [Monk])(Elbow Smash - Deal four physical earth and non-elemental attacks to one target. [Monk])-Red XIIILevel 99Protector's Roar [Temporarily raise the Attack and Mind of all allies a moderate amount, and their Defence a small amount.]Cosmo Canyon [Raise the Attack and Magic of all allies a moderate amount, grant them major Regen, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Steelbreak Howl - Deal physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower is Defence a large amount. Reduced delay before hitting. [Support])(Stone Fang - Deal physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower is Resistance a large amount. Reduced delay before hitting. [Support])Mighty Warrior [Grant Haste to all allies, temporarily raise their Attack a moderate amount and Defence and Resistance a small amount, and grant them a barrier that enables them to avoid one debuff.]Hero's Son [Increase the duration of stat debuffs generated by the user and their related effects a small amount. Applies to most stat debuffs and their effects.]-YuffieLevel 49Gauntlet [Instantly deal three ranged physical attacks to all targets, and enable each ally to avoid one physical attack.]-Cait SithLevel 80Moogle Dance [Temporarily lower the Attack, Magic, Defence, and Resistance to all enemies a large amount, and grant major Regen to all allies.]-ZackLevel 70Air Strike [Deal three ranged physical attacks to all targets, with a high chance to interrupt their actions.]Apocalypse [Deal four ranged physical attacks to all targets, and grant Haste to all allies.]Meteor Shots [Deal eight ranged physical wind and earth attacks to random targets, lower their resistance to wind, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Eye of the Tornado - Deal four physical wind and non-elemental attacks to one target. Reduced delay before hitting. [Celerity])(Blast Rush - Deal two physical wind and non-elemental attacks to all targets. Reduced delay before hitting. [Celerity])Lucky Stars [Activate a wind chain to raise the wind damage to all allies a small amount, temporarily increase the Attack of all allies a large amount, and increase the damage of their critical hits.]-CidLevel 39Dragon [Deal four ranged physical wind attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its wind resistance.]Pilot's Steel [Temporarily raise the party's Attack a large amount, and grant them Haste.]-RenoLevel 67Turk Bombshell [Deal three magic non-elemental attacks to all targets, with a high chance to Silence and Sleep them.]Turk Triad [Deal six ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily infuse the user with the power of lightning, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Trine Combo - Deal between one and eight ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target. The number of attacks dealt increases the more times the ability is used. [Combat])(Stun Rod - Deal four ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target, with a moderate chance to interrupt its pending actions. [Combat])-RufusLevel 39Mako Barrage [Deal six ranged physical dark and non-elemental attacks to all targets, and temporarily lower their resistance to dark. Damage dealt increases when facing fewer enemies.]-ShelkeLevel 31Countertek [Cast Dispel on all targets, cast Esuna on all allies, and grant them major Regen.]Synaptic Net Dive [Instantly deal physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to ten random targets, temporarily lower their Attack, Magic, Defence, Resistance, and Mind a moderate amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Magemash Pierce - Deal physical lightning and non-elemental damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount. Reduced delay before hitting. [Support])(Debilitating Stab - Deal physical lightning and non-elemental damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Mind a large amount. Reduced delay before hitting. [Support])>Final Fantasy VIII-SquallLevel 80Lion's Roar [Deal four ranged physical attacks to all targets, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Renzokuken Flame - Deal four physical fire and non-elemental attacks to one target. [Combat])(Renzokuken Wind - Deal four physical wind and non-elemental attacks to one target. [Combat])Sub-Zero Blast [Deal massive physical ice and non-elemental damage to one target. Can break the damage cap.]-RinoaLevel 69Angelo Strike [Deal five magic earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth.]Angel Wings Ice Shards [Deal eight magic ice and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily infuse the user with the power of ice, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Realm of Ice - Deal four magic ice and non-elemental attacks to one target. Deals more damage the higher the user's Magic is. [Black Magic])(Betrayal of Magic - Temporarily lower the Magic of one target a large amount, and raise the user's Magic a moderate amount. [Witch])Shiva - Activate an ice chain to raise the ice damage of all allies a small amount, and deal eleven summon magic ice attacks to one target, and reduce the delay of all allies' actions for two turns.-QuistisLevel 64Maser Eye [Deal magic non-elemental damage to all targets.]Cerberus [Grant Haste to all allies, and reduce their offensive magic casting time for three turns.]-ZellLevel 54Different Beat [Deal eight physical attacks to one target, and temporarily raise the user's critical hit chance a moderate amount.]-SephieLevel 33Dreamstage [Restore a large amount of HP to all allies and enable each to avoid one magic attack. Effective against most spells.]-IrvineLevel 37Flame Shot [Deal five ranged physical fire and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defence a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Blade Snipe - Deal ranged physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Attack and Resistance a small amount. [Support])(Mage Snipe - Deal ranged physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic and Defence a small amount. [Support])-SeiferLevel 51Demon Slice [Deal physical damage to all targets, with a moderate chance to Paralyze them.]-EdeaLevel 62Inaugural Parade [Temporarily raise the party's Magic a small amount, and grant them Haste.]Overwhelming Power [Moderate chance to reduce delay of the user's actions for one turn when using ice abilities.]>Final Fantasy IX-ZidaneLevel 57Stellar Circle 5 [Deal six ranged physical wind attacks to all targets, temporarily lower their wind resistance, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Mug Power - Deal physical damage to one target, temporarily lowering its Attack a large amount, and temporarily raise the user's Attack a large amount. [Thief])(Mug Defence - Deal physical damage to one target, temporarily lowering its Defense a large amount, and temporarily raise the user's Defence a moderate amount. [Thief])-ViviLevel 65Magic Fury [Deal six magic fire, lightning, and ice attacks to all targets, temporarily raise the Magic of all allies a moderate amount and Resistance a small amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Glimmering Hope - Deal four magic fire, lightning, and ice attacks to one target. [Black Magic])(Shining Spirit - Deal two magic fire and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily lower the user's Defence, and raise the user's Magic a moderate amount. [Black Magic])-FreyaLevel 52Dragon's Crest [Deal eight jump wind and non-elemental attacks to random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defense a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user](Petal Storm - Deal two ranged physical wind and non-elemental attacks to one target, and cause the user's jump attacks to land instantly for two turns. [Dragoon])(Dragon Leech - Deal two ranged physical wind and non-elemental attacks to one target, and one ability use is restored to the user, for ability with the fewest remaining uses. [Dragoon])-BeatrixLevel 67Sword of the Clear Mind [Deal six physical holy and non-elemental attacks to all targets, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of holy light.]-KujaLevel 80Darkflare Star [Deal eight magic dark attacks to one target, and temporarily raise the party's Magic a small amount.]>Final Fantasy X-RikkuLevel 53Machinations [Deal ranged physical water damage to ten random targets, temporarily lower their water resistance, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Shockstorm - Deal two ranged physical water and lightning attacks to all targets, with a small chance to interrupt their pending actions. [Machinist])(Anti-Power/Armour Shell - Deal two ranged physical attacks to one target, temporarily lower its Attack and Defence a small amount, and temporarily raise the user's Attack and Defence a small amount [Machinist])-AuronLevel 52Tornado [Deal six physical fire and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily infuse the user with the power of fire, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Incandesce - Deal four physical fire and non-elemental attacks to one target. [Samurai])(Crimson Lotus - Deal two physical fire and non-elemental attacks to one target, temporarily lower the user's Defence a moderate amount, and raise their Attack a moderate amount.[Samurai])-JechtLevel 81Final Transformation [Deal eight physical dark attacks to random targets, grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse the user with the power of the dark.](Jecht Stream - Deal four ranged physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target. [Monk])(Jecht Bomber - Deal two ranged physical dark and non-elemental attacks to all targets. [Monk])Ultimate Jecht Rush [Deal ten ranged physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, reduce delay of the user's actions for one turn, temporarily raise the user's critical hit chance a very large amount, Attack a moderate amount, and Defence a small amount, and temporarily reduce delay of the user's actions for one turn when using a dark attack.]-BraskaLevel 52Summoner's Dream [Reduce the offensive magic casting time of all allies for three turns, temporarily raise their Magic a moderate amount, and grant them major Regen.]>Final Fantasy XI>Final Fantasy XII-VaanLevel 99Ark Blast [Deal five instant ranged physical attacks to one target, temporarily lower its Magic and Defence a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Addle - Deal physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Magic a large amount. Has a reduced delay before the attack triggers. [Support])(Expose - Deal physical damage to one target, and temporarily lower its Defence a large amount. Has a reduced delay before the attack triggers. [Support])Blood-Red Spiral [Deal massive ranged physical damage to one target. Deals more damage for each debuffed stat of the target (Attack, Defense, Magic, Resistance, and Mind), and can break the damage cap.]Cruelest Azure [Instantly deal ten physical attacks to random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Resistance a large amount, temporarily raise the user's Attack a moderate amount and Resistance a small amount, and enter Sky Pirate EX Mode. Sky Pirate EX Mode increases their thief ability damage a moderate amount, and removes delay from their thief abilities]-FranLevel 37Pinpoint [Deal eight ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to random targets, and temporarily lower their lightning resistance.]-AsheLevel 39Thunder's Echo [Deal massive magic lightning and non-elemental damage to one target. Can break the damage cap.]-GabranthLevel 82Fulminating Oblivion [Deal four ranged physical dark attacks to all targets, with a high chance to interrupt their pending actions.]Innocence [Deal eight ranged physical dark and non-elemental attacks to random targets, temporarily lower their resistance to dark, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Judge's Rondo - Deal four physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target. Reduced delay before hitting. [Combat])(Blood Trial - Deal physical dark and non-elemental damage to one target, healing the user for a portion of the damage dealt. [Darkness])Ruin Unflinching [Deal ten physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, reduce delay of the user's actions for one turn, temporarily infuse the user with the power of the dark, raise the user's Attack a moderate amount, Defense a small amount, and cause dark attacks to reduce delay of the user's next action.]-VayneLevel 36Force of Will [Deal eight ranged physical or magic dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, infuse the user with the power of the dark, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Attack type depends on the stats of the user.](Hand of Empire - Deal four physical dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, and restore a small amount of HP to the user based on their max HP. [Monk])(Culling of Darkness - Deal four magic dark and non-elemental attacks to one target, and restore a small amount of HP to the user based on their max HP. [Black Magic])Bathed in Blood [Begin battle temporarily infused with the power of the dark.] >Final Fantasy XIII-LightningLevel 99Focus Bolts [Deal eight ranged physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to random targets, temporarily lower their resistance to lightning, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Azure Lightning - Deal four physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to one target. Reduced delay before hitting. [Combat])(Thunderclap - Deal two physical lightning and non-elemental attacks to all targets. Reduced delay before hitting.[Combat])Thunderfall [Deal massive physical lightning and non-elemental damage to one target. Deals more damage with additional uses (stacking up to four times, if used within the time limit), and can break the damage cap.]-SnowLevel 53A Hero Rides [Grant Haste to all allies, temporarily raise their Attack and Magic a moderate amount, and grant Burst Mode to the user.](Frost Drive - Deal four physical ice attacks to one target. Deals five attacks if target has a Slight Weakness or is Vulnerable to ice. [Monk])(Spinning Diamond - Deal two physical ice and non-elemental attacks to all targets, and temporarily raise the user's Defense a moderate amount. [Monk])-VanilleLevel 54Miracle Prayer [Restore a large amount of HP and one ability use to all allies.]-SazhLevel 48Godsend [Grant Protect and major Regen to all allies and temporarily raise their Magic a small amount.]-Cid RainesLevel 99Metamorphose [Deal six magic dark and holy attacks to one target, raise the Magic of all allies a moderate amount and Defense a small amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user. Deals more damage if the user is afflicted with Doom.](Shining Moment - Deal four magic dark and holy attacks to one target, and remove delay from the user's magic attacks for one turn. [Black Magic])(Lingering Spirit - Deal two magic dark and holy attacks to all targets, temporarily lower the user's Resistance a moderate amount, and raise the user's Magic a moderate amount. [Black Magic])>Final Fantasy XIV-Y'shtolaLevel 99Asylum [Restore a large amount of HP to all allies, grant them a barrier that negates attack damage up to 30% of their max HP, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Teragrammaton - Instantly restore a very large amount of HP to one ally. [White Magic])(Medica - Restore a small amount of HP to all allies. [White Magic])-YdaLevel 50Twin Snake Dragon Kick [Deal six physical attacks to one target, temporarily lower its Defense by a large amount, and raise the party's Attack a moderate amount.]>Final Fantasy XV-GladiolusLevel 35Tempest [Deal six physical earth and non-elemental attacks to all targets, temporarily infuse the user with the power of earth, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Shield Slam - Deal one to five physical earth and non-elemental attacks to one target. The number of attacks dealt depends on the user's Defense. [Knight])(Royal Guard - Deal two physical earth and non-elemental attacks to one target, raise the user's Defense a very large amount, and temporarily divert all single-target physical and black magic attacks to them. [Knight])-IrisLevel 66Kupo Cure [Restore a moderate amount of HP to all allies, grant them a barrier that negates attack damage up to 30% of their max HP, grant them a temporary barrier that enables them to avoid one debuff, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Pocket Elixir - Instantly restore a very large amount of HP to one ally. [White Magic])(Pocket Potion - Restore a small amount of HP to all allies. [White Magic])>Final Fantasy Tactics-AgriasLevel 99Divine Ruination [Deal four ranged physical holy attacks to all targets, temporarily lower their holy resistance, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Devotion's Blade - Deal two physical holy attacks to one target, raise the user's Defense a very large amount, and temporarily redirect single-target physical and black magic attacks to the user. [Knight])(Faith's Blade - Deal two physical holy attacks to one target, and temporarily raise the user's Resistance a moderate amount. [Knight])-DelitaLevel 52Crush Armour [Deal five ranged physical attacks to random targets, and temporarily lower their Defence and Resistance a large amount.]-OveliaLevel 52Princess's Prayer [Restore a large amount of HP to all allies, and enable each ally to avoid one magic attack. Effective against most spells.]-MeliadoulLevel 53Crush Helm [Deal seven physical earth and holy attacks to random targets, temporarily lower their Attack and Defence a large amount, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.](Divine Break - Deal two physical earth and holy attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Attack a large amount. [Support])(Divine Crush - Deal two physical earth and holy attacks to one target, and temporarily lower its Attack and Magic a small amount. [Support])>Final Fantasy Type-0>BEYOND [currently World of Final Fantasy]-ReynnLevel 66Channel Element: Ice [Deal six summon magic ice and non-elemental attacks to all targets, grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user, and temporarily infuse them with the power of ice.](Glacial Arrow - Deal four magic ice and non-elemental attacks to one target. Deals more damage to targets Vulnerable or with a Slight Weakness to ice. [Black Magic])(Big Freeze - Deal two magic ice and non-elemental attacks to one target, and restore a small amount of HP to the user based on their max HP. [Black Magic])-LannLevel 66Mega Mirage Zantetsuken [Deal a massive physical attack with a high chance to instantly KO to one target. Deals more damage if Reynn is in the party. Can break the damage cap.]([])([])

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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (better known as Mirabeau) was a French statesman and author, as well as a leader of the French Revolution during its early stages. He was also the Mentor of the Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins, who sought to establish peace with the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order and its Grand Master, François de la Serre in the early days of the revolution.

In 1776, Mirabeau became involved with various occult societies and joined the Assassin Order around this time. He became a trusted acquaintance of fellow Assassin, Charles Dorian. He eventually became the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood based in Paris, and headed the Assassin Council. He also established connections with the French royal court, and became a close confidant of the Templar Grand Master François de la Serre. Together, Mirabeau and de la Serre strived for peace between the Assassins and Templars, as both leaders recognized that they held common ground when it came to the future of France.

As the assembly opened on May 5th, 1789, Mirabeau met with Grand Master de la Serre. While discussing the future of the nation, the two arranged a truce between the Assassin Brotherhood and Templar Order. Later that day, de la Serre was murdered at the Palace of Versailles, as part of a coup within the Templar Order. Despite this, Mirabeau remained convinced that the Templars would uphold the truce. Eventually, though, he was forced to give up on the truce when it became clear that de la Serre’s former subordinates were not going to uphold the plans.

In October of that same year, Mirabeau began negotiating with King Louis and Marie Antoinette. In return for receiving funds to pay off his debts, Mirabeau advised the king on how to manage the revolution and remain on the throne, as the count personally wanted to ensure that the revolution remained peaceful. Still wishing the king to be under the power of the Constituent Assembly, Mirabeau sent Arno Dorian (whom Mirabeau had inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood) and a team of Assassins to protect the Women's March on Versailles, which compelled Louis to return to Paris.

It wasn’t until the Grand Master's daughter, Élise de la Serre, offered to work with the Assassins in 1791 that Mirabeau began to hope of a truce between the Assassins and the Templars. Unlike most of the Assassin Council, he was eager to accept this offer. Regarding Mirabeau as a traitor to the Brotherhood, council member Pierre Bellec poisoned him.

After his death, Mirabeau's dealings with the king were discovered, and public opinion turned against him, leading to his remains being moved away from the Panthéon. Viewed as a complex man who is not easily understood, historians disagree on whether he was a great leader who might have prevented the Reign of Terror, an opportunistic demagogue or a traitor to the revolution.

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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was born on March 9th, 1749 at Le Bignon, near Nemours, France, to economist Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and his wife Marie-Geneviève de Vassan. He was said to have been disfigured by smallpox at a very young age and resembled his maternal ancestors, both of which contributed to his father’s strong dislike of him. At the age of fifteen, he was sent by his father to a boarding school by the name of "Abbé Choquard." At age eighteen, he entered the military school in Paris in the regiment of Berri-Cavaleria at Saints.

Mirabeau’s father had hoped that the military discipline would “curb” him, although the army proved to be a bad place for the young man. It was discovered that he had had an affair with his colonel's wife. Mirabeau's love affairs are well-known, owing to the celebrity of the letters to Marie Thérèse de Monnier, his "Sophie". In spite of his disfigurement (or perhaps because of it), he won her heart. Mirabeau’s father obtained a lettre de cachet and had him imprisoned on the Île de Ré, a common type of punishment at the time.

He eventually escaped to Switzerland, where Sophie joined him; the couple then made their way to Holland, where Mirabeau was arrested in 1777. The tribunal at Pontarlier had meanwhile sentenced him to death for seduction and abduction, but Mirabeau escaped execution through his father’s lettre de cachet.

In the château of Vincennes he composed the Lettres à Sophie, some erotic works, and his essay Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d’état (“Of Lettres de Cachet and of State Prisons”). Released in December 1780, he finally had to surrender himself to arrest at Pontarlier in order to have the death sentence revoked, but by August 1782 he was entirely free.

In 1783, Mirabeau became involved in a lawsuit against his wife, who wanted a judicial separation. Pleading on his own behalf, he gained the sympathy of the public but lost his case. Rejected by his wife and by his father, he had to renounce the aristocratic society into which he had been born.

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After his divorce, he went to the Dutch Republic, although he traveled to Great Britain sometimes, where his paper on the lettres de cachet had proven popular. He befriended several Whig politicians and became acquainted with the American revolutionaries Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. An anglophile of sorts, he came to be inspired by the British constitutional monarchy and would later propose a similar system for France.

His life changed when he met a group of exiled Genevese revolutionaries, including the financier Étienne Clavière, in Neuchâtel. The exiles became vital to the foundation of Mirabeau's group and political reasoning, writing several texts in his name. After he began working as a pamphleteer for hire to pay off his massive debts, Mirabeau attacked all sorts of issues in his writings.

For his criticism of the French finance minister Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Mirabeau was issued another lettre de cachet and exiled to Prussia. He became convinced that "the middle classes shall only be freed by joining forces with the lower classes". Several circles looked down on Mirabeau for his frequent imprisonment, numerous scandals and famously poor relationship with a father who had seen to his imprisonment several times. Despite this, the general public grew to admire him. He showed what appears to have been genuine kindness and consideration for the lower classes. After having moved to Paris, he personally invited the family butler to work for him there. He treated the butler kindly, paying him twice the going wage. Mirabeau also paid for medicine when the butler's daughter became ill.

In 1789, King Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General to solve the economic problems faced by France. Already popular within politics, Mirabeau attempted to assist in the elections of the nobility, the Second Estate. Rejected, he instead ran successfully for election as a representative for the Third Estate.

After the storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789, Mirabeau warned the Assembly of the futility of passing fine-sounding decrees and urged the necessity of action. Although the cause of liberty had triumphed, Mirabeau foresaw that the intervention of armed mobs would only drive the path of Revolution further and further along a destructive path of violence.

In August 1789, he helped draft the constitution, which was named the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Defending the King's power of veto against the Assembly, he argued that the continued protests should end. He also advocated the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in the New World. He also rose to become president of the Jacobin Club, which later became known for its radical views, and took note of one of its prominent members, Maximilien de Robespierre.

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In October 1789, Mirabeau began negotiating with King Louis and Marie Antoinette. In return for receiving funds to pay off his debts, Mirabeau advised the king on how to manage the revolution and remain on the throne, as the count personally wanted to ensure that the revolution remained peaceful.

Mirabeau's health had been damaged by the excesses of his youth and his strenuous work in politics, and in 1791, he contracted pericarditis. With the continuous medical attention paid to him by his friend and physician Pierre Jean George Cabanis, Mirabeau survived to perform his duties as president of the National Assembly until his death on April 2nd, 1791 in Paris. Even close to the end, he directed debates with an eloquence that further increased his popularity. The people of Paris cherished him as one of the fathers of the Revolution. During the Trial of Louis XVI in 1792, Mirabeau’s dealings with the royal court were brought to light, and he was largely discredited by the public after it became known that he had secretly acted as an intermediary between the monarchy and the revolutionaries and had taken payment for it.

He received a grand burial, and it was for him that the Panthéon in Paris was created as a burial place for great Frenchmen. The street where he died (rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin) was renamed rue Mirabeau. In 1792, his secret dealings with the king were uncovered, and in 1794 his remains were removed from the Panthéon and were replaced with those of Jean-Paul Marat. His remains were then buried anonymously in the graveyard of Clamart. In spite of searches performed in 1889, they were not found.

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http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Honor%C3%A9_Gabriel_Riqueti_comte_de_Mirabeau/133343

https://www.herodote.net/Mirabeau_1749_1791_-synthese-374.php

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Honore-Gabriel-Riqueti-comte-de-Mirabeau

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21 February - Blessed Memorial of St Peter Damian (c 1007-1072/73) Bishop, Confessor, Benedictine Mon, Cardinal, Theologian, Writer, Teacher, Preacher, Poet and Doctor of the Church. Petrus Damianus; Italian: Pietro or Pier Damiani

Peter was born in Ravenna, Italy, around 1007, the youngest of a large noble but poor family. Orphaned early, he was at first adopted by an elder brother, who ill-treated and under-fed him while employing him as a swineherd. After some years, another brother, Damianus, who was archpriest at Ravenna, had pity on him and took him away to be educated. Adding his brother’s name to his own, Peter made such rapid progress in his studies of theology and canon law, first at Ravenna, then at Faenza and finally at the University of Parma, that when about twenty-five years old he was already a famous teacher at Parma and Ravenna. As well as a good grounding in the field of law, he acquired a refined expertise in the art of writing the ars scribendi and, thanks to his knowledge of the great Latin classics, became “one of the most accomplished Latinists of his time, one of the greatest writers of medieval Latin” (J. Leclercq, Pierre Damien, ermite et homme d’Église, Rome, 1960, p. 172).

Image above - Saint Peter Damian, depicted with Saints Augustine, Anne, and Elizabeth

About 1035, however, he gave up his secular calling and, avoiding the compromised luxury of Cluniac monasteries, entered the isolated hermitage of Fonte Avellana, near Gubbio. Both as novice and as monk, his fervour was remarkable but led him to such extremes of self-mortification in penance that his health was affected, and he developed severe insomnia. On his recovery, he was appointed to lecture to his fellow monks. Then, at the request of Guy of Pomposa (Guido d’Arezzo) and other heads of neighboring monasteries, for two or three years he lectured to their brethren also and (about 1042) wrote the life of St. Romuald for the monks of Pietrapertosa. Soon after his return to Fonte Avellana he was appointed economus (manager or housekeeper) of the house by the prior, who designated him as his successor. In 1043 he became prior of Fonte Avellana, and remained so until his death in February 1072.

Subject-hermitages were founded at San Severino, Gamogna, Acerreta, Murciana, San Salvatore, Sitria and Ocri. A zealot for monastic and clerical reform, he introduced a more-severe discipline, including the practice of flagellation (“the disciplina”), into the house, which, under his rule, quickly attained celebrity and became a model for other foundations, even the great abbey of Monte Cassino. There was much opposition outside his own circle to such extreme forms of penitence, but Peter’s persistent advocacy ensured its acceptance, to such an extent that he was obliged later to moderate the imprudent zeal of some of his own hermits. Another innovation was that of the daily siesta, to make up for the fatigue of the night office. During his tenure of the priorate a cloister was built, silver chalices and a silver processional cross were purchased, and many books were added to the library.

Reformer Although living in the seclusion of the cloister, Peter Damian closely watched the fortunes of the Church and like his friend Hildebrand, the future Pope Gregory VII, he strove for reforms in a deplorable time. When Benedict IX resigned the pontificate into the hands of the archpriest John Gratian (Gregory VI) in 1045, Peter hailed the change with joy and wrote to the new pope, urging him to deal with the scandals of the church in Italy, singling out the wicked bishops of Pesaro, of Città di Castello and of Fano. Extending the area of his activities, he entered into communication with the Emperor Henry III. He was present in Rome when Clement II crowned Henry III and his consort Agnes and he also attended a synod held at the Lateran in the first days of 1047, in which decrees were passed against simony. After this he returned to his hermitage.

Pope Benedict XVI described him as “one of the most significant figures of the 11th century … a lover of solitude and at the same time a fearless man of the Church, committed personally to the task of reform.”

Philosophy Peter often condemned philosophy. He claimed that the first grammarian was the Devil, who taught Adam to decline deus in the plural. He argued that monks should not have to study philosophy, because Jesus did not choose philosophers as disciples and so philosophy is not necessary for salvation. But the idea (later attributed to Thomas Aquinas) that philosophy should serve theology as a servant serves her mistress originated with him.

Papal envoy and Cardinal During his illness the pope died, and Frédéric, abbot of Monte Cassino, was elected pope as Stephen IX. In the autumn of 1057, Stephen IX determined to make Damian a cardinal. For a long time Damian resisted the offer, for he was more at ease as an itinerant hermit-preacher than a reformer from within the Curia but was finally forced to accept and was consecrated Cardinal Bishop of Ostia on 30 November 1057. In addition he was appointed administrator of the Diocese of Gubbio. The new cardinal was impressed with the great responsibilities of his office and wrote a stirring letter to his brother-cardinals, exhorting them to shine by their example before all. Four months later Pope Stephen died at Florence and the Church was once more distracted by schism. Peter was vigorous in his opposition to the antipope Benedict X but force was on the side of the intruder and Damian retired temporarily to Fonte Avallana.

Milan About the end of the year 1059 Peter was sent as legate to Milan by Pope Nicholas II. So bad was the state of things at Milan, that benefices (a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services) were openly bought and sold and the clergy publicly married the women with whom they lived. The resistance of the clergy of Milan to the reform of Ariald the Deacon and Anselm, Bishop of Lucca rendered a contest so bitter that an appeal was made to the Holy See. Nicholas II sent Damian and the Bishop of Lucca as his legates. The party of the irregular clerics took alarm and raised the cry that Rome had no authority over Milan. Peter boldly confronted the rioters in the cathedral, he proved to them the authority of the Holy See with such effect that all parties submitted to his decision. He exacted first a solemn oath from the archbishop and all his clergy that for the future no preferment should be paid for; then, imposing a penance on all who had been guilty, he reinstated in their benefices all who undertook to live in celibacy. This prudent decision was attacked by some of the rigorists at Rome but was not reversed. Meanwhile, Peter was pleading in vain to be released from the cares of his office. Neither Nicholas II nor Hildebrand would consent to spare him.

Later career He rendered valuable assistance to Pope Alexander II in his struggle with the antipope, Honorius II. In July 1061 the pope died and once more a schism ensued. Peter Damian used all his powers to persuade the antipope Cadalous to withdraw but to no purpose. Finally Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne and acting regent in Germany, summoned a council at Augsburg at which a long argument by Peter Damian was read and greatly contributed to the decision in favour of Alexander II.

In 1063 the pope held a synod at Rome, at which Peter Damian was appointed legate to settle the dispute between the Abbey of Cluny and the Bishop of Mâcon. He proceeded to France, summoned a council at Chalon-sur-Saône, proved the justice of the contentions of Cluny, settled other questions at issue in the Church of France and returned in the autumn to Fonte Avellana. Having served the papacy as legate to France and to Florence, he was allowed to resign his bishopric in 1067. Early in 1072 or 1073 he was sent to Ravenna to reconcile its inhabitants to the Holy See, they having been excommunicated for supporting their archbishop in his adhesion to the schism of Cadalous. On his return thence he was seized with fever near Faenza. He lay ill for a week at the monastery of Santa Maria degl’Angeli, now Santa Maria Vecchia. On the night preceding the feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch, he ordered the office of the feast to be recited and at the end of the Lauds he died. He was at once buried in the monastery church, lest others should claim his relics.

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Today we have the release blitz of Ribbons of Scarlet! Check out the gorgeous new release and grab your copy today! Title: Ribbons of Scarlet Authors: Laura Kamoie * Kate Quinn * Stephanie Dray * Sophie Perinot * Heather Webb * E. Knight Genre: Historical Fiction About Ribbons of Scarlet: Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise—upending a world order that has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself--but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. 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