Corporeal Forces: 3 Strength: 4 Agility: 8

Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 8

Celestial Forces: 5 Will: 12 Perception: 8

Vessel: middle aged human male/3 Charisma +2

Skills: Artistry/1 (criticism), Detect Lies/2, Dodge/4, Emote/2, Fast-Talk/1, Fighting/2, Knowledge (Art World/3), Languages (French/1, Spanish/1), Ranged Weapon/6 (Revolver), Running/1, Savoir-Faire/3, Seduction/1

Role: "C. R. Bradley", philanthropist/6, Status 5

Songs: Attraction (Celestial/2), Charm (Ethereal/2, Celestial/2), Harmony (Ethereal/2), Healing (Corporeal/2, Celestial/3), Motion (Corporeal/3), Shields (All/2)

Attunements: Balseraph of Fate (Cherubim resonance), Fated Future, Humanity, Knight of the Winged Chariot, Soundtrack

Kronos, obviously, usually serves his Word by encouraging humans to embrace their Fates. There are times, unfortunately, when this just isn't possible. Some targets are too well protected by the enemy, and there's always a Malakite or two around who's ready to attack open demonic assaults.

Still, if you can't damn a particular human, there's no reason why you can't at least keep him from Heaven, especially if all it takes is a little cash…

Clarence is one of Kronos' more subtle agents. He uses his Role as the director of a major philanthropic foundation to provide generous financial and career support to individuals. This would seem innocuous, but his list almost completely consists of those whose Destiny involves surmounting adversity in order to make a major achievement, as well as many Soldiers of God that Clarence thinks he can get away with. The remainder is either carefully vetted candidates who are deemed unlikely to be affected by the money one way or the other, or secret Hellsworn (who are presumed damned, anyway).

This can have devilish effects on the target. Most of the best art requires strong emotions or experiences: by giving an artist a comfortable, bland lifestyle, Clarence can blunt his or her creative talent just enough. Financial assistance can also allow a person to change careers (just before she comes up with a critical insight that will change the industry forever), residence (a week before he would have saved three children in a fire), or location (where the person of his dreams will never, ever visit). Soldiers are particularly vulnerable to this tactic, as they often are in financial straits themselves, and a Soldier who's in the middle of a move is not an efficient Soldier.

Sometimes the aid will even cause someone to meet his Fate. Kronos loves that, as much as he loves anything: it happens often enough for Clarence to not get in too much trouble when the occasional individual achieves her Destiny instead.

Clarence has an odd attitude towards his 'charges': he's taken on one or two of the attitudes associated with the Cherubim resonance (he would have really preferred to emulate the Grigori, but Kronos deemed it too dangerous to give it out). In an odd way, he's fonder of humans than most of his Band, and doesn't actually try to damn anyone. Just forcing them to try again in the next incarnation is all that's being asked of him, and Clarence is wary of blowing his cover by doing anything more actively corrupting. As it stands, his Role and Attunements protects him from casual scanning by the Host, and he very much prefers it that way. Clarence has also gotten into the bad habit of actually using his synthetic Cherubic attunement from time to time, which has caused him to flirt with dissonance one or two times.

Kronos knows about Clarence's attitude (except for the attuning. At least, Clarence fervently hopes that Kronos doesn't know about the attuning), but hasn't cracked down on him. It isn't affecting the job, and having a Balseraph that doesn't have delude himself into showing sympathy towards humans is useful. Clarence is also on good terms with Nybbas and Asmodeus, who have both used his foundation for their own ends.

On the other hand, Eli will definitely wish to have a word or two with him, just as soon as he figures out why the art scene seems so bland lately…