Corporeal Forces: 5
Strength: 11
Agility: 9
Ethereal Forces: 4
Intelligence: 8
Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 6
Will: 12
Perception: 12
Word-Forces: 2
Skills: Dodge/1, Fighting/6, Large Weapon (sword/6),
Ranged Weapon (rifle/6, shotgun/3, pistol/3), Small
Weapon/4 (Knife), Tactics/3
Songs: Blades (Celestial/3), Entropy (Ethereal/3),
Form (Celestial/3), Healing (All/1), Ice
(Corporeal/3), Light (Celestial/6), Motion
(Ethereal/3), Numinous Corpus (Acid/6, Barbs/6,
Claws/6, Fangs/6, Plates/6, Tongue/6) (virtuoso),
Shattering (Corporeal/3), Shields (All/2), Thunder/3
Attunements: Kyriotate of War, Seraph of War, Ofanite
of War, One to One, Proficiency (Fighting), Scabbard,
Vassal of War, Angel of Sock Puppets
Relics: Crocodile Sock Puppet/1, Lamb Sock Puppet/1
Angel of Sock Puppets: Identical to the Kyriotate of
Jean Attunement, except that it only works on sock
puppets. Each sock puppet ties up 2 Forces.
Rites: Make a sock puppet.
Well, actually, Agnellus didn't precisely expect to
actually get this particular Word. It was sort of a
joke, you see?
No, really. The Kyriotate has always had a peculiar
sense of humor - one reason why it switched over from
Laurence's service to Michael's. It's not that the
Archangel of the Sword is humorless, exactly, but
Laurence does have a strong sense of decorum - and
Agnellus doesn't. All in all, the Kyriotate was
giving an excellent impression of a square peg in a
round hole, so everybody concerned decided that War
might be a better career choice than the Sword.
In Agnellus' case, everybody concerned was right. The
Kyriotate fit right in as one of Michael's heavy
hitters, being predisposed towards fairly direct
methods of conflict resolution. Its rise through the
ranks was steady and straightforward: pretty soon, it
was leading assaults, rather than just participating
in them - and leading them well.
That's what caused it all: you see, it went like this.
Agnellus and his squad had stumbled across an
Ethereal Tether aligned with Hell. Literally stumbled
across it: one minute everything was nice and
peaceful, the next the team was surrounded by
honest-to-God hordes of demons and ethereals trying
their level best to soul-kill them all. The squad
broke free (trashing the Tether in the process), and
then spent the next four days in a steadily-increasing
nightmare of sudden attacks, desperate defenses,
crushing fatigue and the more unpleasant parts of the
Marches.
When they finally found themselves in a place of
safety, three of the ten Warriors were in Trauma, two
were mildly dissonant from a too-liberal
interpretation of their dissonance conditions and one
was one good blow away from becoming a Remnant. On
the other hand, they had managed to knock out two
Ethereal Tethers, identify and weaken three Infernal
ones and generally send an impressive number of demons
to their Hearts. All in all, not bad for the home
team ... so when Michael showed up, he was in a
sufficiently good mood to promise to sponsor Agnellus
for a Word. Did the Kyriotate have any suggestions?
Agnellus swears that its response, "How about Sock
Puppets?" was due to equal parts bone crushing
fatigue, lingering aftereffects from barreling its way
through countless Nightmares and sheer giddy relief at
being alive. It was not supposed to be taken as a
serious request - and it was certainly not meant to be
acted upon.
However, after a certain amount of experimentation
Agnellus has found that the situation is actually not
bad. Not bad at all. It's all how one looks at it.
Sure, Sock Puppets are never going to be what one
would call a heavyweight Word - but it has its place
in War. Specifically, ambush; even now, demons have
great difficulty believing that anyone wearing a sock
puppet is going to be dangerous in a fight. Well,
most times they'd be right, but then most times they
aren't facing a sock puppet that is both knowledgeable
in and competent at more than a dozen ways to turn an
opponent into pate. For some reason, they seem to
keep thinking that the danger is the person wearing
the puppet, not the puppet itself: the Kyriotate takes
advantage of this whenever possible. An especially
fun trick for Agnellus is for it to possess a puppet
or puppets, get it/them somehow onto an enemy's
hand(s), then start materializing weapons from nowhere
to shoot up the bad guys. Aside from the aesthetic
issues, it makes avoiding dissonance so much easier...
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