Antonio Salieri

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!

My purpose for being is to kill you.

Your honor, your music, your legacy...I shall kill it all. Should you manifest upon this land, I will be sure to kill you with my own hands this time.

Gottlieb...a man who was loved by God.

Height/Weight: 181cm, 65kg

Origin: The Man in Grey, Mozart assassination legends, and others

Region: Europe

Alignment: Chaotic-Evil

Sub-Attribute: Earth

Gender: Male

Frequently talks to himself. Seems to think he gets along well with Jeanne Alter and the Count of Monte Cristo.

Does not get along with Phantom.

Meek as a lamb when he's around Marie Antoinette.

A most excellent Servant who will, whenever ordered by his master, brutally attack and destroy all assigned targets. Never once does his own humanity interfere.

Though typically calm and collected, his mental state is compromised as a result of becoming an Innocent Monster. His fusion with the Man in Grey, a being of myth not unlike the Grim Reaper, has only exacerbated the problem. The instant he sees Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he will ignore his Master's orders and become nothing more than a harbinger of death.

Innocent Monster: EX

Salieri never killed anyone during his lifetime. However, rumors of his assassination of Mozart eventually spread around the world, so he had little choice but to become an Innocent Monster. This skill is combined with Self-Denial, normally a stand-alone skill, to become a kind of compound skill.

Lamenting Exterior: A

Salieri puts forward the face of an Anti-Hero. This is because his ability stems from his synchronizing with another being, the Man in Grey, who is famously depicted as appearing before Mozart and commissioning him to write his Requiem in July of 1791. In battle, Salieri automatically dons this facade and behaves like an agent of slaughter.

Wildfire: B

As with any rumor, the legends of Mozart's assassination spread like wildfire. Avenger Salieri is perhaps the embodiment of all mankind's malice, slander, rumor, demagoguery, and horrible whispers, all of which serve to give him his power as well.

This skill not only instantly weakens the minds of his targets, but also functions as an intense mental attack. Unless his target has defenses on par with magecraft, he may drive them to suicide.

『Dio Santissimo Misericordia de Mi』

Rank: C

NP Type: Anti-Army

Range: 1 - 20

Maximum Targets: 50

Our Lord in Heaven, Have Pity on Me!

Derived from a monstrous, murderous rage that none could ever hope to suppress. Salieri compresses, solidifies, and then combines this fury with magical energy to play a tune of destruction that shreds the body and mind of his target. This musical Noble Phantasm is something that Antonio Salieri could never have possessed while living. It is a special ability that only Salieri the Avenger-class Servant, the Innocent Monster, may wield.

...In a cruel twist of fate, the Avenger Salieri will never be able to hear the music he plays—considered to be equal to Amadeus's own work—as sound.

Antonio Salieri was Amadeus Mozart's friend.

Normally, he would not have been recorded on the Throne as an Anti-Hero. Though he lost his position at court, he was still a respected musician who took many other musicians and their children as disciples. His group of pupils included Süssmayr (Mozart's best disciple), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (Mozart's son), and even Beethoven.

However, around 1820, a rumor took hold around the world that Salieri had murdered Mozart. Though there was no truth to the rumor, people began envisioning a tragic story of a genius beloved by God and a talented prodigy jealous enough to kill. Even when an aged Salieri once told his pupil Moscheles that such rumors were "malicious slander and nothing else," this was taken to be a confession of his crime. There were even rumors that Salieri, overcome with regret in his old age, went on to slash his own throat.

And so, after some time, Salieri's existence becomes twisted by the baseless assassination legend, and fuses with the Man in Grey, who appears in legends describing the end of Mozart's life. Ultimately, he manifests as a Servant, as an Anti-Hero who brings terrible harm to humans.

A sad being.

An angry being.

A murderer of all things beloved by God.

An Innocent Monster.

In consequence of this, Salieri becomes an aggressive, difficult-to-control Servant. Handle with care.

(It is believed that his sanity was somewhat intact during his manifestation in the Lostbelt.)