Suggested Word-Forces: 5

Celestial Forces: 5 Strength: 8 Agility: 12

Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 8

Celestial Forces: 5 Will: 12 Perception: 8

Vessel: human male/3, Charisma +2

Role: Generic Type/6, Status 1 (Erich, as mentioned below, tends to go through a lot of Roles)

Skills: Chemistry/1, Climbing/1, Computer Operation/1, Detect Lies/2, Driving/1, Electronics/1, Emote/1, Escape/3, Fast-Talk/2, Fighting/3, Knowledge (Penology/2, Architecture/1), Languages (Chinese/3, English/3, Russian/3), Large Weapon/1 (Club), Lockpicking/1, Lying/1, Move Silently/2, Ranged Weapon/2 (revolver), Running/2, Savoir faire/1, Survival (arctic/1, mountain/1), Swimming/1, Tactics/1, Throwing/1.

Songs: Charm (All/2), Harmony (Corporeal/2), Healing (Corporeal/1), Light (Celestial/2), Motion (Celestial/2), Shields (Corporeal/2).

Angel of Prison Breakouts: Erich gets a +2 on his check digits for any roll that is directly involved with helping an unfairly imprisoned person get free.

Attunements: Malakite of Judgement, Malakite of Creation, Incarnate Law, Divine Destiny, Proficiency (Fighting), Passage

Oaths

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

"Never surrender or allow myself to be captured by the forces of Hell." Note that Erich, because he is voluntarily placing himself in a position to rescue others, and can personally escape at any time, isn't really being 'captured' when he plays prisoner.

"Never let a person suffer from an unjust imprisonment, if it is my choice."

"Always strive to make the punishment fit the crime."

For as long as prisons have existed, people have found themselves undeservedly within them. Sometimes it's because they have unpopular opinions, or belong to the wrong race/culture/religion, or because somebody falsely accused them. Sometimes they should have been there, but received too hard a sentence for their crime. And sometimes, somebody just gets extremely unlucky. Even in the most thorough and fair system of human law, you inevitably end up with those who get punished for things they didn't do.

Dominic absolutely loathes it when that happens.

Erich is one of Judgement's rare independents. He's a celestial troubleshooter, sent to specific situations to break out of confinement the most deserving. His usual methodology is to take over a carefully constructed Role/6, commit a suitably heinous crime (there's almost always a Hellsworn or acceptably nasty criminal out there somewhere who was due to be eviscerated anyway), get caught, and get sent to jail. Dominic's agents on Earth, with their connections to judicial systems, find it simplicity itself to send Erich precisely where he needs to go. Once in the prison, work camp or whatever, Erich locates his target, befriends him or her, and organizes an escape.

Usually, he takes the time to grab anybody else that deserves it: the more, the merrier, is his motto, and Heaven could always use the recruits. His escapes range from the subtle to the spectacular, depending on how repressive the local legal system is. Subtle escapes involve the apparent death of all the escapees: spectacular escapes usually involve press conferences and UN tribunals. It should also be noted that Erich is a Malakite. A friendly enough Malakite, with a lot of sympathy for humanity, but if he comes across someone who isn't being punished enough for his crimes, he'll be more than happy to rectify the matter.

Erich also enjoys a good prisoner of war breakout, especially if one side is noticeably better than the other. He first got his Word for his work in helping Union soldiers escape from Andersonville, and spent most of World War II in one or another Nazi Stalags. Lately, he's been involved in busting loose legitimate political prisoners, but is just as likely to be the one tapped to go get the five Soldiers of God caught stuffing a Calabite's vessel into an incinerator.

There are many, many Archangels that want Erich for their very own. Michael and Janus, in particular, routinely offer him a job working for them. He's so far managed to politely refuse such offers without offending anyone, trying his best to imply that Dominic wouldn't be too thrilled with him switching Superiors. Of course, this is true, but the fact is that Erich likes serving Judgement. If he served anyone else, he might have to save those who didn't really deserve it. As it is, as long as he accepts the occasional cross-Word assignment (and accepts the rewards, although keeping the Choir Attunement from Eli took some fast-talking), everybody's happy enough.