Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence: 4 Precision: 8

Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12

Word Forces: 5

Vessel: human female/5

Skills: Dodge/6, Driving/3, Fighting/3, Lying/3, Medicine/3, Move Silently/3, Running/6

Songs: Healing (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/6, Celestial/3), Motion (Celestial/3), Shields (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/3, Celestial/6)

Discord: Vulnerability/3 (pollen), Fear/3 (Angels), Selfless/1

Attunements: Djinn of Fate, Demon of Flowers

Demon of Flowers: Maktiel has the equivalent of Novalis' Nothing but Flowers Attunement, except that she may use it multiple times per day, at a cost of 5 Essence per use after the first.

Rites:

: Eat a flower.

When you're the Prince of Fate, you don't need a reason.

Actually, Kronos knows what he's doing. He's researching Word-friction by taking demons and having them be given Words held by Archangels, then sitting back to watch the results. The results have been ... interesting. The subjects never last long (for example, every Demon of War ever created has exploded within a minute), but their death throes have usually yielded up valuable data. Maktiel is merely the latest test subject, and really one of the most successful ones. That is to say, she's lasted enough in the laboratory to justify seeing how badly she'll react to the corporeal plane.

This may prove most interesting: by now, Maktiel is well on her way to becoming a puddle of Discord. She hasn't been told yet that she's allergic to her Word - it would interfere with the experiment - but it won't surprise Maktiel in the slightest. She does know that she's terrified of angels (a justifiable reaction, really), but she's still marginally more terrified of her Superior.

Needless to say, Maktiel won't be permitted to just wander around loose, completely unattended. There'll be a Djinn or two of Fate keeping track of her at all times. Other than that, though, the Prince of Fate is curious to see what Maktiel will do when faced with the new stimulus.

And this is where things will get complicated. Maktiel's personality is currently defined by pain: Word-friction has ripped large gashes into her soul, and they haven't even stopped bleeding yet, let alone scarred over. She's teetering on the edge of insanity as it is, what with all the alien impulses and behavior patterns gibbering through her brain: once she hits the corporeal plane, that'll be the end of her. Of course, the definition of 'insanity' depends on one's point of view. Maktiel will be able to maintain - barely - until the first time that her Selfless Discord kicks in (it won't appear until she appears on Earth). Once it does, the temporary relief of the pain will be like a thunderbolt. The demon will do anything - anything - to make the pain stop. Betray her very nature and her Prince? Ha! Ask her a hard one.

Assuming that she survives the attentions of the Host (incidentally, any Servitor of Flowers that encounters this demon will be rather flexibly interpreting the concept of 'unnecessary violence'), Maktiel's first goal will be to somehow break her Heart and ditch her keepers. If that won't be possible, she'll just keep gritting her teeth until she can find a very well defended angelic Tether. Once there, she figures that they'll either soul-kill or Redeem her. As long as the pain stops, either is fine.

Of course, she probably won't get that far. Kronos must know that she's likely to come to this conclusion - and while the fact that a demon will decide to Redeem rather than deal with the pain from ultimate Word-friction is valuable data to have, allowing the implementation of that decision is inadvisable. A Redemption squad will find that they've got their hands full with salvaging Maktiel.