Monster Super League Primo Summoning Festival
Scheherazade in Monster Super League first appeared in Primo Summoning Festival on 20 January 2021.
he was the debut Astromon for Primo Summoning and 8 months later, she is back on rotation. Unlike Hero Festival Astromons, Primo Astromons are not exclusive and can be obtained any day of the week regardless whether there is a festival going on or not.
Story
Fire Scheherazade
An Astromon with a calling to see the future. Appropriately, she is also well-versed in astrology. On nights in which stars fill the sky, Scheherazade is said to resonate with even greater astral power that enables her to see fragments of the future. However, these fragments are not definite; they merely display parts of innumerous possible futures. Scheherazade assembles these fragments to form her plans for the present, allowing her to avoid the worst futures while progressing toward a better one. It is no coincidence, then, that she is also known as “Scheherazade the Guide.”
Some say Scheherazade’s foresight is “incomplete,” but that assumes an entirely predetermined and unchangeable future can even exist. If that were true, and if you could see everything that would ever happen, then what motivation would one have to continue living in the present?
Scheherazade may have the power to see the future, but she is not consumed by what is to come; she chooses the path she will take by living in the present. In that way, her partial prescience is a great blessing. Cross hints about the future with someone as bright as her, and you get a true force to be reckoned with.
One of her other gifts is her extraordinary ability to weave stories, which no doubt stems from the countless futures she sees each starry night. These fragments of the future have amassed in her mind to the point where she has enough material to tell stories for 1000 days in a row.
However, there is one troubling rumor about Scheherazade, which is that she used this 1000-day story of hers to destroy a nation before resuming her journey, now with a human master as her traveling partner…
– One Master’s Record
Water Scheherazade
There once was a kingdom led by a young king wise beyond his years. He loved the queen, and together they ruled the nation in peace.
One day, the king returned from a military expedition earlier than expected. Excited to surprise his queen, he sent away his soldiers and ventured quietly into the palace alone with a bouquet of flowers in hand… That’s when he saw them: a pair of shoes he didn’t recognize in the queen’s bedroom.
Blood rushed to the king’s head as he drew his sword. He took no time to confirm whether it was a simple misunderstanding or the unspeakable thing that he feared. It was only after the bouquet he brought had been dyed red as it lay on the ground that the king realized the wife he loved so dear was gone forever, never to stand by his side again.
The king had to believe the queen had been unfaithful, for it was the only way his anger and subsequent actions could be justified. He chose to believe in her betrayal, and decided to let his anger continue unchecked.
Not long after, the king became reckless and began to bring women back at random with him to the palace, marry them, and then the next day cause them to meet the same fate as his wife. The king did this over and over, despite pleas from his servants and vassals to stop. He believed only in his anger, and it in turn sustained him.
Had the queen really been unfaithful? Or had there simply been a misunderstanding? In either case, there was no one left who could prove what happened. The king was stuck on a truth he couldn’t prove. He could not help but be angry, for the ground he stained in blood could never again become clean. He was right to be sad, for his life had become a tragedy.
One day as the carnage continued, an oracle visited the kingdom, a woman by the name of Scheherazade. After hearing what was happening from the people, she promised she would put an end to the king’s tyranny. The people of the village tried to stop her, saying she need not throw her life away and that the king’s next wife had already been decided. They urged her to quickly leave the country before the following day, to which she responded boldly. “So, you’re saying that if I go to the palace tonight, I can save the next victim.”
Thus did Scheherazade set off to meet the king, despite the people’s efforts to dissuade her.
Wood Scheherazade
“What? I thought you said the king was wise. What happened with that? And why’s he taking out his anger on innocent people?” “That’s a good point. I don’t really know.” Was the queen really unfaithful, or was it all a misunderstanding?” “I wish I knew, but that all happened before I arrived there.”
“Ughhh. You can see the future, Scheherazade, but you can’t see the past?”
That is correct. You are well-informed. If you want insight into fragments of the past, you must ask someone else.”
“…But does that mean that you went to the palace knowing how dangerous it was? All so you could turn a tyrannical king back into a benevolent ruler?” “Don’t get me wrong; I don’t like people who wrap themselves in a shroud of self-pity. Dreary men who try to justify their anger aren’t my type. I like people who are more… endearing.”
“So… someone like me?” “Oh, sorry. I already have a wonderfully endearing master.”
Everyone was sure that the oracle who had headed to the palace with such boldness wouldn’t make it through the night. That evening was unusually cloudy, but eventually night gave way to dawn and the sun finally began to come up.
The time for the king to wake up had come and gone. One hour, two hours, three hours… His servants waited and waited, but there were no signs of life coming from his room. They were overcome with worry that something had happened to the king. Risking a breach of etiquette, they opened the door a crack to look into the king’s room. The smell of unfamiliar incense immediately entered their nostrils, and they saw the king sprawled out on the floor, deep asleep in the clothes he had been wearing the day previous. Miraculously, Scheherazade was also alive, looking bored while sitting a way off from the king.
The king called it an “invaluable experience,” saying that he was enveloped by a strange fragrance the moment he saw Scheherazade, after which he was overcome with sleep. While asleep, a fascinating story that seemed almost real unfolded in his mind. He wanted to experience it again, and lamented that his dream ended just as the story was reaching its climax, at the moment the servants came into the room.
For the king, whose life was previously entirely ruled by anger, Scheherazade was like a lifeline. He spared her life, and in return he experienced new and intricate stories in his dreams every night. The feelings these stories inspired calmed his anger and awoke a love in him that he had forgotten.
However, technically speaking, Scheherazade never told him a story directly; she simply presented fragments of the future in story form to his consciousness while he was asleep.
Regardless, it was thanks to Scheherazade that the new queen, previously scheduled to die a day after her wedding, was spared—the same endearing queen who had black, lustrous hair and big, kind eyes.
Light Scheherazade
One day, the king asked Scheherazade to read his fortune, particularly about when his kingdom would fall. Scheherazade gazed at the stars in the sky for sometime before speaking. “As long as Your Majesty is alive, this nation will never fall.” The king looked satisfied. He then asked a follow-up question.
“So, when will I die?”
“A king and his country are one and the same. The day Your Majesty dies is the day this nation falls.”
The king looked confused before laughing loudly. He would learn the true meaning of those words not long thereafter.
While he may not have become an entirely benevolent ruler, the king had at least become able to rule normally again, and he no longer tried to take the lives of the innocent.
The king now wanted to always be by Scheherazade’s side, so much so that he seemed to have completely forgotten he had a wife—the endearing woman who would’ve lost her life if not for Scheherazade’s visit. Today, too, she could be found in the corner of the garden, her black hair as beautiful as ever. After barely surviving, the king’s wife had spent her days alone in the palace, perhaps in the vain hope that she could completely hide herself
Meanwhile, the king was busy admiring Scheherazade, seemingly oblivious to the fact that her attention was entirely elsewhere. He watched her with the look of someone in love.
The oracle would sometimes describe love as when “the stars shine clearly in two people’s hearts, and a galaxy forms between them that connects their eyes.” The looks she would give the king, however, did not have even a trace of astral activity; her eyes, usually so full of life, would become clouded with an faintly murky light whenever she looked at him.
Unusually bright stars dotted the sky that night. The king was on another expedition, leaving Scheherazade to enjoy her freedom out on the balcony. Next to her was the queen, her beautiful black hair gently waving in the wind.
The oracle hadn’t exactly called for the queen, but she wasn’t about to turn away a welcome guest who had come knocking, either. Perhaps it was the unusually bright starlight playing tricks on her, but when Scheherazade looked into the queen’s wide eyes, it was as if they contained all the stars in the sky.
“I wanted to thank you,” the queen said as she began to talk about everything that had happened in the palace in detail—how she had been captured and forced to marry the king, how the servants had treated the wedding like an execution with different clothes, and how, after the sun had set that day and she had resigned herself to die the next, it was in that moment that Scheherazade came and saved her.
As the night deepened, the two women conversed without stopping, elated by the feeling that their souls were bonding. So entrenched in their conversation were they that they failed to notice that someone was approaching. The king had returned from his expedition, once again holding white flowers as on that fateful day long ago…
Dark Scheherazade
After that day, Scheherazade continued to occasionally meet with the queen. She couldn’t help but smile whenever they ate snacks together and chatted. It was a bright smile, one the king had never seen.
It is worth noting here that the queen who sat in with Scheherazade was a queen in name only; in reality, she was treated like a common woman. Her marriage was nothing more than a formality, a ceremony for which she was chosen to be a sacrifice to fulfill the king’s cruel tyranny. After Scheherazade’s arrival to the kingdom, the queen came to be thought of as a ghost that didn’t exist. She had no authority and no way to protect herself.
There had been a string of nights, one after another, in which no stars could be seen. Naturally, Scheherazade’s ability to see the future weakened on such nights. Anxiety started to fill a corner of her heart. Then, on that night, she saw the servants busily trying to move something suspicious, something about the size of a human body.
After that night, the queen was nowhere to be found, as though she had disappeared, or never existed in the first place. Scheherazade asked the king where she was, and why she wasn’t around anymore.
The king rolled his eyes as he responded. The queen has been locked in the 16th annex for committing acts of insolence.”
However, the palace didn’t have a 16th annex. Scheherazade remembered what she saw the night before, realizing it might have been the queen… After all, the only people you can lock in a place that doesn’t exist are people who no longer exist.
Scheherazade’s vision suddenly became blurry, breaking into a thousand pieces as she blacked out.
When she awoke, she was covered in cold sweat. The queen was sitting next to her, her eyes full of worry. Scheherazade had seen a fragment of the future in which the king murdered the queen, a future she knew would come to pass if she did nothing.
She got ahold of herself and quickly started preparing something. Scheherazade’s calling is one of foresight; she assembles fragments of the future from the stars’ light to form her plans for the present, allowing her to avoid the worst futures while progressing toward a better one. Her visions began to change, until an image flashed in her mind of the king meeting a pitiful demise at the hands of his people. It was a definite future. The stars that night shone blindingly bright.
“My master is calling me now. This is where our story ends, but you can imagine the rest.”
“W-wait. So the king ends up getting killed by his people? Because of his tyranny from before? Why did you even stay so long at the palace, then? You could’ve just killed the king a lot earlier.”
“You seem to he misunderstanding me. I am selfish. The reason I went to the palace in the first place was that I had a premonition that I would meet a soulmate to accompany me throughout my life.”
“Hm? But you made sure the king died…”
“As I said before, men like him aren’t my type. I knew the minute I met him that he wasn’t the one in my premonition. Now, I really have to go. Perhaps we will meet again someday
With that, Scheherazade stood up, and moments later a woman who appeared to be her master came over and the two hooked arms. The woman had beautiful, lustrous black hair. She looked just like the queen that Scheherazade had described. Perhaps the two had fled the kingdom as it fell, and their journey had brought them all the way here, a journey in which they traveled the world together, guiding each other in turn…
– Except from a traveler’s record, written in the form of a novel
Which Element Scheherazade Is Worth it?
Simple answer: All are great in their own rights
Each element for Scheherazade has something to offer in their own right, whether it’s Clan Titan Fights or PVP leagues, or simply as a DPS.
Scheherazade Tier List
Fayiette’s tier list for Scheherazade would be the following from S to D
- S = Must have
- A = Good to have
- B = Decent to have
- C = Whatever to have
- D = Useless to have
Scheherazade | Fire | Water | Wood | Light | Dark |
Story Farming | D | D | D | C | D |
Golem Farming | D | D | D | A | D |
Ancient Colossus | D | B | C | A | A |
Dragon Tower | D | D | D | A | A |
Dimensional Rift | D | D | D | A | D |
Tower of Chaos | D | D | D | B | D |
Tower of Chaos Elements | D | D | D | S | B |
League Attack | D | D | D | B | B |
League Defense | D | B | D | D | A |
Clan Titans | S | D | A | D | D |
Is It Worth Summoning for Scheherazade?
It depends what other Astromons do you have. Do you need another Fire Element for Clan Titan, if so, Fire is a great Astromon for it. Or do you need a light DPS shocker. It would depend on the focus of your gameplay, if it was up to me, I would get a Light and a Dark simply for Tower of Chaos Elements and League PVP.
Will Fayie Build For Scheherazade?
Not at this stage, if I get it during normal summons, I will put it to good use, however, to pull for Primo Festival, I won’t. I only pulled the last Primo Festival simply due to it was Gilgamesh. Obtaining a Dark Gilgamesh is worth skipping a month or 2 or even 3 worth of Hero Festival, however, no Elements of Scheherazade will be worth that currently.