Corporeal Forces: 3
Strength: 5
Agility: 7
Ethereal Forces: 4
Intelligence: 8
Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 5
Will: 12
Perception: 8
Vessel: female/2, male/1, both with Charisma +2
Skills: Artistry/6 (Erotic Maneuvers), Dodge/3,
Emote/6, Fighting/2, Lying/4, Knowledge (Sorcery/3,
Poisons/1), Savoir-Faire/6, Seduction/6, Small
Weapon/1 (knife)
Songs: Attraction (Ethereal/2), Calling (Corporeal/2),
Charm (Ethereal/2, Celestial/1), Desire/3, Entropy
(Ethereal/3), Forbidding (Corporeal/2), Form
(Corporeal/1, Celestial/1), Light (Ethereal/1), Might
(Ethereal/2), Nimbus (Ethereal/2), Numinous Corpus/1
(Wings), Opening (Ethereal/3), Self (Celestial/2),
Shields (All/1), Tongues (Ethereal/1)
Attunements: Lilim of Fate, Fated Future, Bad Company,
Infernal Pact, Oathtaking
Discord: Geas/2 (Kronos), Geas/3 (Hatiphas)
Role: When recruiting, Quoriel usually has some
variant of Mysterious Woman/3, Status to taste
The existence and job description of Quoriel
highlights Hell's perennial problem: to wit, that its
most powerful denizens have a real difficulty with
cooperation, even when it's in everyone's best
interest.
Simply put, Hatiphas needs succubi and incubi in
order to do her job properly. Way too many sorcerers
are in it (at least at first) for the chance to summon
up demons that will show them dark and twisted carnal
pleasures beyond mortal ken - and if you think that
she's going to personally oblige the talking monkeys,
well, think again. The sensible thing to do would be
to whistle up a few Servitors of Lust, but political
considerations make that impossible (defining
'political' as 'Kronos and Andrealphus don't like each
other', of course).
Thus, the Demoness of Sorcery has had to develop her
own in-house talent, as it were. Needless to say,
this has led to some interesting situations: Servitors
of Andrealphus tend to laugh nastily at the idea that
anyone under Kronos could be even remotely competent
at this sort of thing. For their part, those demons
serving Fate in this fashion tend to reciprocate the
antipathy: to them, sex is just another tool. You
don't base your life around tools (well, unless you're
a Djinn). This conflict usually simmers under the
surface. Usually.
Quoriel is a fairly good example of one of Hatiphas'
mid-level operatives. She usually deals with
Sorcerers at the very beginning of their careers,
before they learn (those that do) to be careful about
revealing their Needs. She's also not too bad at
recruiting: Hatiphas will sometimes have her set up in
some fringe of the occult scene where the Lilim can
pick out humans with the right qualifications. Once
she finds one, she recruits him and her through fairly
direct methods. It's amazing, really: you can tell
them - Hell, show them - that you're a demon, and
they'll still jump into bed with you. Quoriel
recognizes that human beings aren't too bright, but
surely they must think some things through, right?
As the above might suggest, Quoriel does not have a
stellar opinion of humanity: hardly surprising for a
demon that serves Fate, of course, but nonetheless
notable for it's utter callousness. From the Lilim's
point of view, humans seem to have no better aim in
life than to throw themselves on somebody's sword: it
might as well be hers.
Metaphorically speaking, of course.
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