Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 6 Agility: 10

Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 12

Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 8 Perception: 8

Word Forces: 12

Vessel: human male/3

Skills: Detect Lies/2, Dodge/3, Driving/6, Engineering/3, Fighting/4, Large Weapon (sword/5, lance/2), Mechanic/5 (automobiles), Running/6, Tactics/2

Note: even if a particular campaign normally requires that Driving be specialized, it is recommended that this restriction not apply to Sizouse. Also, 'Driving' in this case includes animals.

Songs: Healing (Corporeal/1), Light (Celestial/4), Motion (Corporeal/6, Ethereal/3, Celestial/6), Shields (Corporeal/4, Ethereal/3, Celestial/3)

Role: "Sid Parsons" (stock car mechanic/5, Status/4)

Attunements: Ofanite of the Sword, Mercurian of the Sword, Ofanite of the Wind, Scabbard, Passage, Angel of Racing

Angel of Racing: Sizouse will automatically know the rules - both official and unofficial - to any race that he perceives or participates in. Other racers, or racing fans, will also automatically react to him at +3. Finally, he can detect whether or not a race has been fixed if he makes a Perception roll: he won't know who is doing the cheating, but he'll get a general idea of how badly.

Well, the thing that you have to remember about Laurence is that he's a Malakite: that Choir likes the entire concept of honorable combat, even when it's nonviolent honorable combat. Malakim can see quite clearly the Honor involved in testing one's self against one's peers, and racing of various types has always been a good way of doing that. Skill, nerve, discipline - these are virtues that the Virtues have always thought good things to encourage among humanity. The fact that the practice can also bleed off excess energy that might otherwise be used to raise unnecessary Hell is merely an added benefit.

Then again, maybe it's just the fact that even an Archangel can appreciate the fun involved in taking a souped-up automobile and making it go at an appreciable fraction of Mach 1.

Anyway, now you know why the Angel of Racing officially works for the Sword. He's had the Word for about a hundred and fifty years, and been assigned over to the Wind for most of them: Sizouse might have switched Superiors (he and Janus get along just fine) if it weren't for the Wind's dissonance requirements. So it goes: Laurence isn't a bad absentee boss to work for, anyway. If you kill demons when you see them, do whatever assignments he gives you without fuss, send over a Soldier for recruitment now and then and generally keep your nose clean, Laurence won't micromanage.

What Sizouse does for a living, oddly enough, is not join every corporeal race that he sees. It would hardly be fair, really: there simply isn't a human driver that could consistently beat him in a fair race (Sizouse treasures the memories of the rare times that he's ever lost). What the Ofanite does instead is to keep the races fair. His usual Role (one of the better freelance mechanics on the auto racing circuit) allows him to keep a close eye on mundane and supernatural corruption in that particular sport.

There's a good deal of money to be made in stock car racing: Sizouse isn't fond of spectator gambling, but he helps out those Servitors of Trade that watchdog that pastime anyway. It's necessary work, as Servitors of Greed have been trying to regain lost territory. The Traders can use every hand that they can get. The Ofanite isn't fond of demons, either, so it all works out. In fact, Sizouse plans to use the goodwill that he's been building up with Trade to eventually do something about the corruption involved in horse racing. That, however, is going to be an epic job, so Sizouse needs to get his ducks all in a row first. The day is, however, young.

Sizouse loves racing: in fact, it's just this shade of an obsession for him (even by Word-bound standards). His only real regret is that he almost never gets to participate himself against a worthy companion. PCs with Driving/6 that encounter him might as well accept the fact that eventually they'll have to demonstrate just how good they really are. Aside from that, he's got that patented Ofanite energy and cheerfulness going for him. People like him ... but it's the rare person that will drive with him twice. Surprisingly for a Servitor of the Sword, Sizouse treats traffic laws as something that happens to other people. He's never gotten into an accident, after all, so obviously he knows what he's doing...