Cast List: The Player Characters

A varied bunch of player characters who none the less seem to have become a pretty terrifying team. Make of them what you will.

Atoziel, Ofanite of Destiny

Some Wheels like to travel huge distances, never happier than when they are hopping from continent to continent. Not Atoziel; in his role as a motorcycle dispatch rider, he confines himself to London. Although he would argue that he is hardly confined with such a rich tapestry of streets and alleys, museums and parks, hidden underground stations and forgotten waterways,…

At this point most celestials realise that Atoziel has managed to change the subject again, and give up hope of getting a straight answer.

Yves seems to be well pleased with the young Ofanite. He has after all granted him his Seraph and Malakite attunements, a Library Card and a whole slew of songs, making Atoziel one of the more fearsome celestial information-gathering experts around. His supernaturally high Intelligence helps. Sadly, this doesn't seem to translate into practical terms; one day, his friends hope, Atoziel will come up with a coherent, logical and practical plan that doesn't leave him in the middle of deadly danger.

Played by Phil Nanson

Blakely, Mercurian of the Sword

Sometimes Laurence puts his angels in support roles, rather than somewhere that they can do direct smiting of evil. Dr Joseph Blakely is one such. As a forensic pathologist (and damn good doctor) for the Metropolitan Police based in one of West London's larger stations, he is well placed to spot unusual goings-on and direct celestial investigations. He has even devised a number of tests to identify dead vessels, which have raised some interesting investigations at times.

Blakely has acquired a slight reputation with the corporeal courts. While he's no Bernard Spillsbury, lawyers do know that he won't commit to anything that he doesn't have solid evidence for. That the evidence might have been very carefully cooked, all the better for impeding demons with, never crosses their minds. After all, none of his superiors have ordered him not to do that.

Blakely is also without doubt the most organised angel in the area. When things are going on, Blakely is the one who will be making lists of what needs doing and dishing out assignments. It usually takes a while for the others to realise that they have just been bossed around by a Mercurian, by which time they're on the job anyway.

Played by John Dallman

Boriel, Malakite of Lightning

In many ways, Boriel is a typical servitor of Jean. He has an established role in the west of London as a TV repair man, allowing him to be easily available to the local angels for any repair or electronic support work they need. He has, without raising undue suspicion, large amounts of electronic junk around his workshop that just happens to contain all the useful bits and pieces one might need for putting together bugging devices and the like. He is less combat-oriented than most Malakim, but his supernaturally high Precision still makes him a crack shot. All in all, Jean can be quite pleased with having set a useful resource down without attracting undue attention.

There are however a few things that cause an entirely objective frown to cross the face of the Archangel of Lightning when considering Boriel. He does tend to get a little… obsessive at times. When Jean allowed him to take the role name of Barry John, for example, he was unaware that he was allowing Boriel to indulge his passion for sport and honour one of the greatest rugby players of all time. Nor is Jean entirely convinced that Boriel's oath-enshrined decisions to abstain from the eating of meat and to obey all the laws and codes about use of the roads have not stemmed from other obsessions that may not be entirely appropriate to a servant of Heaven. His obsessiveness about the destruction of any demon he comes across, while entirely praiseworthy for a Virtue, does occasionally have unfortunate consequences when said demon attempts to leave the area. All in all, Jean considers it objectively good that Boriel is only slightly more likely to notice a passing demon than the average mortal.

Played by Dafydd Wyn Evans

Excel, Seraph of Lightning

Excel was created by Jean for a quite specific task. His job was to spread understanding of the wonders of modern science through a medium that had to have been designed by Kobal — the technical helpline. Every now and then it would be arranged that a tech support person would be off sick, and there would be "Call me Bob" ready to temp, making sure that those who had problems not only had them solved but also came away with a greater insight into why they had problems. Sometimes they even went away with a little more respect for people from India — or was it Pakistan? — as Excel's vessel appears to be.

Not, perhaps, an ideal job for a Seraph, particularly one as humorless as most Elohim. None the less Excel vindicated Jean's decisions to assign him to the task, and acquired all the ancillary skills necessary to infiltrate a helpdesk when it was inconvenient to engineer an absence.

Unfortunately Excel's current job is less well suited. He is keeping an eye on a rather-too-promising researcher, trying to find any demonic influence to explain the man's output of ideas that the Archangel of Lightning had not intended humanity to explore for several decades. This requires him to dance around the truth more than most Seraphim, and to place himself in more immediate danger than he is used to. Still, Excel never has been one to view himself as a hammer, and this problem definitely isn't a nail.

Played (briefly) by Susan Foord

Helophel, Seraph of War

Everybody needs backup that's available quickly. For the angels of west London, that backup comes in the form of a small asiatic cleaning lady who answers to many names but admits to none. Helophel has been providing this sort of service, in different vessels and at different times, since the first world war, when she was active in the trenches. Though she was he at the time, of course — much easier to get involved in the fighting if you wore a male vessel. These days a female vessel garners less notice, and is no less powerful for it.

In fact from Helophel's point of view the War was getting quite straightforward. Other people saw problems and pointed her at them, and she spat acid or simply beat them up until they went away. More than one demon assumed that the unarmed combatant in front of them was a Servitor of Stone, and suffered for it. This has been changing of late, and regretably not for the better.

It's not that the demons are getting smarter. No, they still haven't got their intelligence straight (though Michael is beginning to get annoyed with the frequency with which he has to adjust her vessel). It's the Servitors of Destiny and Creation around her. They're trying to get her to think.

Played by John Cox

Magariel, Cherub of Creation in service to the Wind

Magariel is a very busy boy these days. Or girl, it varies. Ralph Garry, roadie extraordinaire, is between jobs at the moment; Janus doesn't need him to nurture any promising counter-culture bands for now. Maggie Ryan, on the other hand, has acquired several teenage friends, has joined the youth wings of several political parties, and has just finished some "work experience" with a forensic pathologist. Magariel just has to be the seeing-eye Cherub for the local Malakite, who seems to be as blind as a bat. This is fine; Magariel has Perception to spare.

It won't last. Sooner or later Janus will change his mind and decide to stir up one of his few Servitors who can hang around and attune to more than one target at a time. Maggie will have to disentagle herself, and Ralph will head off on the road again. And chaos will follow. Magariel is Windy enough to enjoy that bit, but for now… For now, she has attuned, and she is going to protect them.

Played by Michael Abbott

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