Corporeal Forces: 5 Strength: 10 Agility: 10

Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 12

Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12

Suggested Word Forces: 17

Vessel: human female/3, Charisma +3

Skills: Artistry (painting/3, writing/3), Fighting/3, Emote/3, Knowledge (erotic arts/6, how to recognize Servitors of Lust on sight/6), Large Weapon/3 (sword), Musical instrument/3 (lute), Savoir-Faire/3, Seduction/6, Ranged Weapon/3 (rifle), Singing/3, Tactics/1

Songs: Charm (Corporeal/3), Ecstasy (Ethereal/3, Celestial/3), Empathy (Celestial/3), Form (Celestial/3), Harmony (Ethereal/1), Light (Celestial/6), Might (Corporeal/3, Celestial/3), Numinous Corpus/3 (Claws), Shields (All/3)

Attunements: Mercurian of War, Malakite of War, Mercurian of SCIENCE!, Vapula Special #1, Vapula Special #2, Vassal of War, Angel of Passions

Vapula Special #1: The Archangel of SCIENCE! seems addicted to giving out unique Servitor Attunements. This one allows Gladys to enter any gathering or party and subtly shift it away from destructive behavior with a Perception Roll.

Vapula Special #2: Here's another one. Gladys may see the one positive thing that a target has always wanted to do, and inspire him or her to do it. The target must make a Will roll (minus Gladys' Ethereal Forces) or immediately attempt to achieve his secret dream. If the secret dream is potentially life threatening, Gladys will only suffer dissonance if the target actually dies while achieving it.

Angel of Passions:

1). Gladys is immune to any attempt to artificially enhance or suppress her emotions. She often gives this out as a Servitor Attunement.

2). Gladys can recognize someone ruled by passion, what type of passion it is, and whether or not it has been artificially imposed. By making a Perception roll, she may aid an attempt to break the latter: the target makes an immediate Will roll to shake off the effects, with a bonus equal to the check digit of Gladys' Perception roll.

Rites:

: Encourage a human to go do something that will expand their mental horizons.

: Help someone master his or her passions.

: Help someone express his or her deepest desire, provided that the desire isn't evil.

Gladys is another one of Vapula's Refugees from his Redemption, and she's a disquieting one at that.

Not that she's nasty or anything. Even for a Mercurian, Gladys is very, very nice (although also very, very emotional). Her Word may have been given with insane speed, but that's par for the course with the suddenly-Redeemed that came along with the Archangel of SCIENCE!: her immediate switch to Michael's service was notably odd, though. Vapula didn't seem to mind, which was odder.

Still, there's nothing about this angel's current activities that's particularly out of the ordinary. Gladys' work with War seems evenly divided between keeping the peace (something she's particularly good at) between various factions of the Host, and seeking out, exposing and excising the worst of Andrealphus' demons. She's very good at that, too: it almost seems like she can recognize them on sight (which is very confusing, considering that they have no idea who the Hell she is). Gladys seems to take especial pleasure in doing the latter: her hatred of the Prince of Lust is frighteningly personal, for reasons that she won’t discuss. Odd behavior, however, is not uncommon among Vapula's Refugees (especially the screaming nightmares, which seem common from the top down). All in all, Gladys isn't really that unusual.

No, the thing that's nerve-wracking about Gladys isn't what she is, but what she was. There's no possible way that she could ever have served Technology: despite her Attunements, Gladys has absolutely no scientific or technical skills at all. What she is good at is inspiring passions… including the physical ones. Unless she deliberately makes an effort, every one of her actions, gestures and mannerisms evokes a powerful sensuality that can make an Elohite flee in prudent haste. If the Host had to make a guess at her origins, they'd pick Lust in a second… except that somebody would have remembered her, surely. Demons of her level of power and expertise simply don't disappear without a trace. It's certain, by the way, that Gladys wasn't her demonic name.

Her interactions these days with her (presumed) former fellow-Servitors are quite complex. She likes to kill them, although at times she'll be inexplicably weeping as she destroys one. Oddly, though, her ability to spot Servitors of Lust is not matched by a similar prowess in sniffing out their Tethers. The Prince of Lust is not amused by this, but for some reason he finds himself reluctant to seek Gladys out and destroy her himself. He did try, once, but the meeting apparently … unnerved him somehow. It's hard to say for sure, seeing as every one of his Servitors that accompanied him on the assault didn’t survive the experience. In fact, Andrealphus has become somewhat obsessed with Gladys of late: he's rumored to have an extensive file on her activities and actions. It's even said that he even gets irritable whenever he gets reports that Gladys is romantically seeing yet another angel (her list of romantic partners is very large, and supposedly even includes an Archangel or two). No doubt that look of worry is due to his fear that she'll be soul-killed before he can seduce her.

Or maybe it's something else. While Gladys' vessels tend to be only moderately attractive, her celestial form is overpoweringly gorgeous - and hauntingly familiar to anyone who remembers the days before the Fall. Andrealphus has noticed this, himself, and it’s said that he's spent quite some time (in deepest privacy) looking at her picture, and wondering why the Hell she looks half like someone else he can't quite make out…