Jezebel
Pagan Soldier
Corporeal Forces: 2 Strength:
4 Agility:
4
Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence:
6 Precision: 6
Celestial Forces: 3 Will:
6 Perception: 6
Charisma +2
Status/6
Skills: Dodge/1, Dreaming/4, Electronics/1, Emote/6,
Fighting/1, Knowledge (Greco-Roman Culture/3, Archaeology/2, Contract Law/6,
Ethereal Lore/2, History of the War/1, Psychology/1), Language (Ancient
Greek/1, Latin/3), Musical Instrument/3 (guitar), Ranged Weapon/1 (Pistol),
Singing/6
Songs: Dreaming (Ethereal/1), Entropy (Corporeal/3),
Healing (Corporeal/1), Shields (Corporeal/1)
Advantages: Ethereal Connection, Symphonically
Aware
As anyone not currently in a coma knows, Jezebel
(born Jennifer Dearborn, of
Like many sad stories about seduction, power and
eldritch energies, Jezebel's started with a student archeological dig (the fact
that she has a Masters in Classical Studies is known, but not well known, and
thoroughly discounted by those who do
know. Accomplishing this took some
effort) in
Now, what had actually happened was merely that the
ethereal goddess Aphrodite was trolling for another worshipper, or possibly a
Soldier. Jezebel's illness had unlocked
her potential, making her a prime recruit for the Olympians. Unfortunately for the ethereal, even then
Jezebel's sense of self-importance and self-worth was impressive; Aphrodite was
trying to project a generic image of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and
her target chose its ideal accordingly.
All of this would be amusing, except that Jezebel walked away from the
encounter Symphonically Aware, able to perform
Ethereal Songs and possessed of the desire to become a goddess.
What made matters worse is that the former Ms.
Dearborn was and is a competent antiquarian.
Both Heaven and Hell find the twin fallacies of atheistic rationalism
and modern occultism very useful for covering up the more egregious anomalies
in the historical record. Most
researchers, upon encountering a medieval narrative of flaming swords and
shrieking demons, will dismiss it as either: allegory; ergot in the wheat; or
alien cattle mutilators. They will not -
unlike, say, Jezebel - simply accept it as potentially being a reasonably
accurate summation of events. And they
will certainly not piece together five wild stories, three contradictory myth
structures, and innumerable scraps of legend and come up with the actual secret
history of mankind.
Fortunately - barely - Jezebel is uninterested in
the wider battle between Heaven and Hell.
She is much more intrigued with the idea of using her knowledge of the
ethereal plane to create a deity in her
Image. She is certainly in a position to
do it, thanks to her musical career. The
process that creates ethereals is not fully understood, but Jezebel does not
have to fully understand it in order to take advantage of it. All she has to do is cultivate the
dream-versions of her persona, setting the best of them against the rest. She can deliberately engage in corporeal
incidents that will benefit her chosen avatars, thus helping them avoid the
usual pitfalls. Once one avatar has
grown acceptably powerful, Jezebel intends to somehow take it over entirely,
Ascend to the ethereal plane, and be beautiful and majestic forever.
Neither Heaven nor Hell are aware of Jezebel's plans
yet - the Media watcher assigned to her is distinctly slothful, and is
cheerfully (and ultimately foolishly) indifferent to why he's lucked out with
such a cushy assignment - but when they do, the former will probably want to
kill her and the latter will want to get her on a proper research regimen. Or, possibly, the other way around: Jezebel
is not actually an evil woman. There are
also, ah, allies of the Host who are
perennially interested in the interface of the corporeal and ethereal planes,
and would be amenable to welcoming a worthy mortal into their ranks...