Segef

Malakite of Lightning

 

Corporeal Forces: 3  Strength: 6                 Agility: 6

Ethereal Forces: 3     Intelligence: 6           Precision: 6

Celestial Forces: 3    Will: 6                        Perception: 6

 

Vessel: male/1

Vessel: Christmas-lights outdoor angel/1

 

Skills: Chemistry/1, Electronics/1, Engineering/1, Dodge/3, Driving/1, Fighting/4, Knowledge (American Angelic Tethers/1, Lutheran Theology/1), Move Silently/1, Ranged Weapon/1 (pistol)

 

Songs: Might (corporeal/1), Healing (Corporeal/1), Shields (Corporeal/3)

 

Attunements: Malakite of Lightning, Generator

 

Oaths:

"Never suffer an evil to live, if it's my choice."

"Never surrender or be captured by the forces of Lucifer."

"Always rate the mission above my own personal survival."

"Cleave to the practices of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church."

 

No, it's not a punishment.  Segef requested the second vessel.

 

The Malakite's reasoning is fairly sound; while having a vessel made out of Christmas tree lights arranged in a three-dimensional pattern vaguely shaped like an angel may be a touch... outré, for one month out of the year it doesn't look out of place anywhere in the United States.  The lobby of a building, the reception area of a top-secret facility, seemingly-abandoned and dumped out in the woods; nobody is going to pay all that much attention to one, except to make sure that it's plugged in.  Perfect cover, in other words; a searcher may look over Segef for bugs, but is highly unlikely to conclude that the display actually is the bug.

 

Plus, Segef can unravel his shape and attack miscreants.  That's fun, too, for given Malakite values of 'fun'.

 

The Malakite is fairly new to corporeal duty; he only fledged about twenty years or so ago, and this is his second tour of duty on Earth.  For eleven months out of the year, he acts as a general handyman and foot soldier for various American Tethers (mostly Lightning's, but not exclusively so); the twelfth, he sits, listens and generally waits for whatever specific event that he's supposed to be waiting for that season.  Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn't.  Sometimes something else simply too good to pass up happens instead.

 

The major item of interest about Segef is that he's an angel that identifies strongly with a religion - in this case, one of the major Lutheran sects of Christianity (due to a particular blessed soul's interaction during the Malakite's time as a reliever).  This has confused his superiors to no end; when asked about the reconciliation of his adopted faith's beliefs with objective reality, Segef has calmly pointed out that no human religion has a monopoly on Truth, that atheism is not precisely a viable theological position for any angel to take and that he was personally comfortable with his choice.  This did not exactly answer the question, but then, it was a bit of an impertinent question to begin with, so the matter was dropped.  Still, Segef does try to act like a good Missouri Synod Lutheran.

 

 

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