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Powers

Tanit - Power of the Crooked Ways

• Regal of the Crooked Ways, Scholar-Soldier of the Order of the Judas Tree
• Her design contains [Crown Imperial] and [Mandrake], the flowers of Power and Honor.
• Arrived in a hoverlimo
• Affiliated with Hell
• Temporal Control Board head
• Met with History
• Serves Semiaza, along with Adornment and Astrology

"Ange Seraphim" - Power of Assassination

• Viscount of Assassination
• His design contains the [Foxglove] and the [Tube-rose], the flowers of Insincerity and Dangerous Pleasures.
• Badly Poncy or Raffish & Charming
• Unaffiliated, unknown personal code
• Met with Stories

Itzpapalotl - Power of Perversions

• Mother of Perversions, the Obsidian Butterfly
• Her design consists of [Spanish Jasmine] and [Wild Rue], the flowers of Sensuality and Manners.
• Surrounded by obsidian butterflies, wears a skirt of living serpents
• Affiliated with The Dark
• Met with Twilight
• Her Sisters are Butterflies and Lies (who also commands Sex)

Lysander Hawkins - Power of Profit

• Marquis of Profit
• His design contains [Wheat] and [Lunaria], the flowers of Wealth and Honesty.
• Businessman in a standard limo
• Affiliated with Heaven
• Met with History

Sen Ti-lung - Power of Calligraphy

• Marquis of Calligraphy
• His design is the [Wild-rose] and the [Acanthus], the flowers of Heaven and of Art.
• Dressed as a Chinese mandarin, arrived in a palanquin born by paper servants covered in mystic words
• Affiliated with The Light, serving a fanatical Imperator of Heaven
• Met with Stories
• Imperator: Zanaphiel

Dr. Wilhelmina Harvey - Power of Vivisection

• Duchess of Vivisection
• Her design contains [White Violet] and [Cypress], the flowers of Calmness and of Death.
• Arrived in a whale-torso carriage with horse legs, drawn by chimerae
• Unknown Affiliation
• Met with Logic

Samuel Goldstein - Power of Crime

• Viscount of Crime
• His design holds the [Hoarhound] and [Almond], the flowers of Fire and Indiscretion.
• Colorful Victorian garb, surrounded by a pack of kids
• Affiliated with The Wild
• Met with Potential
• Wanted criminal in own Chancel
• Imperator: Dr. Mirabilis / Kaldath

Tike Yard - Power of Rats

• Citizen Rat
• His design contains [Water-willow] and [Grandiflora Magnolia], the flowers of Freedom and Peerlessness.
• Mid-20s black man, casual modern wear, "Fear the Rat" T-Shirt
• Affiliated with The Wild
• Met with Twilight
• Sent some ratty spies to live in our walls

[Sketch]

Korrin-786 - Power of Progress

• Baroness of Progress
• Her design contains [Goat's-rue] and [Nightshade], the flowers of Reason and Sorcery.
• Middle-black woman in a utilitarian jumpsuit with a nametag; half her head is porcelain and her eyes are silver metal
• Affiliated with The Dark
• Met with Logic

God of Concrete

(Frederick R.C. Clarke and Richard Granville Jones) (from The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada (1971 edition))

God of concrete, God of steel,

God of piston and of wheel,

God of pylon, God of steam,

God of girder and of beam,

God of atom, God of mine:

all the world of power is thine.

Lord of cable, Lord of rail,

Lord of freeway and of mail,

Lord of rocket and of flight,

Lord of soaring satellite,

Lord of lightning?s flashing line:

all the world of speed is thine.

Philippe Vilmorin - Power of Fate

• Viscount of Fate
• His design contains [Marigold] and [Canary Grass], which symbolize Despair and Determination.
• French Nobleman
• Affiliated with The Wild
• Temporal Control Board member
• Met with Potential
• Currently radioactive deceased

Margaret - Power of Spectacle

• Imperator: Dr. Mirabilis / Kaldath

Keisha - Power of Genius

• Imperator: Dr. Mirabilis / Kaldath

Albert Morceuf - Power of The Romantic Age

• Imperator: The Angel Marciel

Power of Jewels

• Imperator: The Angel Marciel

Power of Zan Shin

• Imperator: The Angel Marciel
• Samauri movie shit

Other Supernatural Beings

SARASWATI

SARASWATI is an analytical engine created by Prasinos to ensure the proper operation of the chancel. Named after the Hindu goddess of learning, she is the AI who handles the day-to-day administration of the chancel.

• Analytical Engine: SARASWATI can performs countless computations every second, can integrate data from all over the chancel, and can faultlessly remember everything she has learned.
• Leader: All of the chancelfolk of the Viridian Labyrinth rely on her judgement.
• Rational: She is not prone to emotional over-reaction, and can rationally consider bizarre possibilities.
• Immobile: SARASWATI is two cubic kilometers of mechanical switches and relays. She's not going to be running any races.

Anaxamander Edge, Excrucian-shard

Anaxamander Edge is an Excrucian-shard that Wallace first met trying to get to the ruins of the lost city of Ubar in the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. Apparently there are Nephilim still there, who still grow fruits from the seeds gathered from the Garden of Eden. Edge and Wallace are racing to get to the city first, each to prevent the other from turning the Nephilim against him. Edge is an inhumanly beautiful androgyne -- every flaw, blemish and imperfection that would be found on an ordinary body is missing from him.

Modern day humans [think that Ubar is actually the city of Shisur], but they are mistaken. The name Anaxamander comes from the Greek philosopher Anaxamader of Miletus, who wrote that "The beginning of all things was the Apeiron [the unlimited, unbounded, undefined] ... from which coming-to-be was for all things, and their destruction was of necessity into the same. For they suffer punishment and make reparation to each other for injustice according to the order of time."

The Dane

The Dane is a centuries-old paladin and protector of Denmark. Norway being part of Denmark, he must stop the Powers' plan to install Hector as king of Norway.

[The Dane's Thought Record]

The Amber Sisters

Five miraculous beings sprung forth from the sap of the World Ash.

• Conversation
• Abstraction
• Morality
• Sacrifice
• Decision, The one whose name was bought with the telling of tales...

One of Lord Entropy's Ogres

A hulking brute in a business suit who really, really, doesn't want to make the boss mad.

Mortals

Yamada Tasuda

A Shinto priest at a temple in Kyoto. He has been tasked by Kasey to find out a way to make her NOT EVIL.

• Shinto magic: He knows all sorts of weird ritual magic.
• Traditional: He knows the way things used to be, and frankly likes them better.
• Judo master: He has practiced judo (and other martial arts) pretty much his whole life.
• Old: Mr. Yamada is an old man, and not as spry as he used to be.

Northwest Smith

A tough rogue and adventurer from the old 1920s, the years that existed before the Nameless betrayed five centuries of Earth's history to the Excrucians. He was accounted the most dangerous criminal in the Solar System, but that didn't seem to be true of the version that the PCs met. In fact, he seemed to be a rather heroic figure.

Northwest Smith has been Anchored by the [Power of History].

• Time-traveller: He has a license from the Temporal Control Board to make up to class C changes to history. He also has a working knowledge of a pretty good chunk of history.
• Nerves of steel: Northwest is a cool operator willing and able to take desperate risks few people will dare.
• Idealist: He claims to be a tough loner, but has a heart of gold that can be touched at all the wrong moments.

Robert Owen

[Robert Owen] was one of the most important British capitalists and socialists of the early nineteenth century. In LowerThanAngels, he is also an Anchor of [Lysander Hawkins].

• Industrialist: Robert Owen is a rich and influential industrialist.
• Generous: Owen feels substantial compassion to those less well-off than himself.
• Reformer: As a famous reformer and child welfare activist, he is a very well-respected man.
• Utopian: Owen is given to wild flights of fancy, and can be led down impractical or unworkable paths by his reckless optimism.

Hector Rodriguez Ornelas

Hector looks like he stepped off of an ad for a Wall Street recruiting firm: he's a young, handsome Latin man in perfect physical condition, and dressed in Armani suits and a cold look in his eye that could frighten great white sharks. He showed up at the Chancel, claiming to be the Camorran agent assigned the Prasinos contract (and he apparently fought and won a knife-fight in an alligator pit to get to that point). He's got an office in the Peacock Room.

• Camorran: He's got lawyers, guns, and money.
• Buff: Hector works out, and he's in great physical condition.
• Unfazeable: He's seen a lot of truly weird things, and very little bothers him anymore.
• Survivor: Thanks to a miracle Marchessa Koh Li-leng performed, the potential for his death has been mostly removed from Hector's future.
• Multipresent: Hector is able to be in two places at once, thanks to a miracle by Koh Li-leng.
• Cynical: Hector automatically assumes everyone is motivated by ruthless self-interest, and can be blindsided by people acting out of genuine altruism.

[Hector's Thought Record]

Señor Hector Rodrigo del Orno y las Alas

Hector's heroic ancestor, a crusading knight of Spain.