Novalis, Archangel of Plants
Belonging to the House of Fortitude
Philosophy
The world is at peace. This peace is occasionally broken by the loud and
strident voices of the savage and the cruel -- the servants of Novalis are
charged with calming the minds of humanity, without causing further destruction.
Dissonance
Sworn to the cause of peace, angels who serve Novalis may not kill humans
for any reason. Damaging is okay, pruning is okay, killing is not. Killing
a human is not merely dissonant, but severely punishable by the slow-to-anger
Novalis herself.
Attunements
Seraphim
You can feel an undeniable aura of peace emanating from the Seraphim of
Novalis. To take a violent action, a person must make a Will roll minus
the angel's total Forces, +1 for every yard away from the Seraph the aggressor
is.
Cherubim
The Cherubim of Novalis, peaceful angels of great devotion, can take the
corporeal damage of those they touch onto themselves.
Ofanim
Ofanim serving Novalis may collapse the pattern of their being into an energy
capable of traversing the finely woven web of plant life which encircles
the Earth. Once a day (or after completing one of Novalis' Rites) they may
move, instantly and invisibly, through the root system of plant life to
anywhere within their line of sight that a plant exists.
Elohim
Novalis' Elohim have a peculiar attunement to plant life. They have access
to the strange feelings of plants, and by looking at them can understand
the basic gist of what's happened around them in the past 24 hours.
Malakim
Malakim serving Novalis can control plants, a little bit. Foliage parts
for their passage, and can entangle their enemies if the angel is within
a number of yards equal to his Corporeal Forces.
Kyriotates
The Kyriotates who serve the Word of Plants can make powerful vessels from
plants, without having to make a resonance roll. These angels are charged
with frightening those whom they observe being cruel to plant life. They're
the only of Novalis' servants who don't generate dissonance when they kill
humans, but only if they kill with their plant vessels.
Mercurians
When in their Celestial forms, Novalis' Mercurians fill observant humans
with joy. If a human makes his Perception roll to see an celestially-manifest
Mercurian, then the next roll he makes for a non-violent action will be
modified by the check digit of the successful roll!
Manner and Appearance
Novalis is a Cherub, a peaceful happy protector of Earth's plantlife. Her
human vessel looks like a debutant "hippy chick," flamboyant and
introspective at different turns. She is light and quick, both in body and
spirit.
Her servants may be as precise as a freshly bonsai-ed tree, or as wild and
flowing as a valley of kudzu. None of her angels would feel out of place
at a Grateful Dead concert.
Relations
Novalis and her servants get along with all the Archangels. It's not that
they're neutral so much as they're so damn friendly, you can't help but
like them. And since Novalis has no other political agendas besides supporting
her Glade (see p. 00), it doesn't cost the other Archangels anything to
care.
However, she won't like her servants helping out in overtly violent situations,
unless there's a reasonable chance that her servants' help may prevent a
job from turning bloody. Too many violent outbursts, even if no deaths are
involved, and she may ask that angel to look elsewhere for support from
the Heavens.
Missions
Nothing But Flowers. In central Arkansas, a small-town sheriff's
race ends with one of the candidates being lynched in the night by white-hooded
yokels. When they set his house on fire, servants of Belial got it to spread
away from the whole town, scorching more than 15,000 acres. Novalis wants
to swamp the city with fast growing poison ivy, until she discovers some
servants of Gabriel are planning to take out the whole town in a retaliatory
strike against Belial. Join with a servant of Dominic and take out Novalis'
revenge on the breakers of the peace (and the destroyers of plants) with
as little violence as possible.
Rites
- Sleep alone in a garden, from sunset to sunrise.
- Dance to live music for four hours.
Chance of Invocation: 4
Invocation Modifiers
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