Hecate
Lesser
Ethereal Goddess
Corporeal Forces: 2 Strength:
4 Agility:
4
Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence:
12 Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 5 Will:
12 Perception: 8
Vessel/6, +2 Charisma
Elements: Life (Beasts); Information (Knowledge)
Affinities: Animals (primal), Divination (primal),
Books (moderate)
Skills: Area Knowledge (Home area/3, Marches/5), Detect
Lies/3, Dodge/6, Dream-Shaping/6, Emote/6, Knowledge (Animals/5, Divination/3,
Herbalism/2, Occultism/4, Plants/5, Teaching/6, True History/6), Languages/1
(lots), Lying/6, Medicine/4, Move Silently/3, Ranged Weapon/3 (pistol), Small
Weapon/6 (knife), Survival (Forest/2, Marches/6, Mountains/3, Urban/3)
Songs: Beasts (All/5), Essence/1 (Corporeal), Healing
(All/4), Light (Corporeal/3), Motion (Ethereal/6, Celestial/5), Numinous Corpus
(Fangs/3, Wings/2), Sensation/1 (Corporeal), Shields (All/5), Sight
(Corporeal/3), Thunder/6, Tongues (Ethereal/3), Truth (Corporeal/4, Ethereal/3)
Role: Jane Smith (High School Teacher/6, Status/3)
Attunements: Songmaster,
can boon Ethereal Connection, Symphonic Awareness
Dread: Closing off a gateway/5
Why a teacher?
Because she's hiding, of course. She's been hiding since the Eighth Century
AD, in fact, and by now she's quite good at it.
She's hiding from the Host that overturned the Greek gods' applecart;
she's hiding from the Tsayadim holdouts that would like to add her scalp to
their collection - and most of all she's hiding from both Kronos and
Hatiphas. Those last two consider her to
be a potentially troublesome competitor.
If Hecate was less intelligent, she would be a competitor. While the ethereal has no actual Sorcerous
abilities (ironically), she can and does make an excellent teacher in both
occultism and Song use. A deal made with
her can provide a potential recruit
with all sorts of esoteric powers... without the risk of automatic
damnation. Needless to say, she is very
careful when engaging in such activities; there are too many chances of it
going badly for her.
Unfortunately, it is not entirely her decision to
make. Hecate's level of power had
dropped significantly after the Purity Crusade (one reason for her care in
avoiding notice); it has been only recently that resurgent belief has given her
the ability to make contact with her former fellow-gods. What she discovered shocked her. The Olympians were barely holding on, at
best; slowly starving to death, at worst.
Their need for worshippers and servants was dire... and their need for
an established agent on the corporeal plane was even direr.
It was impossible for Hecate to refuse. She is, after all, thematically suited for
the role of gatekeeper, and twelve hundred years on the corporeal plane (or,
possibly, recent mortal shifts in the perception of her) have made the goddess
less self-centered than the average Greek deity. Hecate has thus begun - very carefully - to
recruit potential Pagan Soldiers for the Olympians. She does not particularly prefer to recruit
women, but the areas in which she operates self-selects for females.