Kyriotate Friend of the Gardeners

Angel of Manure

Corporeal Forces: 5 Strength: 10 Agility: 10

Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 9 Precision: 7

Celestial Forces: 5 Will: 12 Perception: 8

Word-Forces: 14

Skills: Chemistry/2, Dodge/3, Fighting/2, Knowledge/4 (Ecology), Medicine/3, Throwing/1

Songs: Affinity (Corporeal/1), Charm (Corporeal/3), Empathy (Celestial/2), Fire (Corporeal/1, Celestial/2), Forbidding (Ethereal/4), Fruition (Corporeal/1), Harmony (Ethereal/3), Healing (All/2), Ice (Ethereal/2), Light (Celestial/1), Shields (All/3), Succor (Corporeal/1, Ethereal/1)

Attunements: Kyriotate of Flowers, Seraphim of Flowers, Nothing But Flowers, Smell the Roses…*, Friend of the Gardeners, Angel of Manure

*Smell the Roses…

Anyone within ten feet of someone with this Attunement receives a +3 to any roll to calm down, snap out of the Angry or Berserk Discords, or generally relax. By spending 4 Essence, the angel may require a person to do the same, whether they want to or not, for ten minutes. Demons get a Will Roll at -4 to resist.

Angel of Manure

1): Quentin, being a Kyriotate, may craft a temporary vessel out of manure. Quentin needs 30lb of manure handy for each Force that it chooses to tie up: hits and Strength are based on Quentin's own statistics, but are limited by how many Forces it has invested in the vessel (thus, if it only invests 2 Forces in the vessel, it does damage and has hits equal to an average entity with 2 Corporeal Forces). Quentin usually invests 5 Forces. The vessel, being made out of (usually) soft and homogenous material, is highly resistant to physical attacks: all corporeal damage done is divided in half. Quentin does not suffer from dissonance if the vessel is 'destroyed', and may possess it for as long as his colleagues will tolerate it. Quentin has been known to provide this as a Servitor Attunement.

2): Quentin can heal most bacteriological-based diseases, or purify up to 50 lb. of organic fertilizer with a touch (and 2 Essence).

Special Rites:

: Compost.

: Be the compost for four hours (+2 Essence).

Sure, go ahead and laugh. Do you have any idea how bad the world's crop yields would be if it weren't for soil enrichment?

Quentin has had an adventurous life. It started out as a Shedite of Death, patiently killing off humanity one rotting corpse at a time, back when a demon could casually wander the earth and spread various infectious diseases hither and yon. Alas, Saminga doesn't particularly reward the thoughtful, and Quentin was thoughtful. Shedim of Death are fairly odd, anyway: they don't have to corrupt their favored vessels (not that you could, anyway), so they're not under quite the same pressures as their Band-mates. Most act nasty anyway, but the occasional one can end up fairly tolerable.

Quentin was such a one. It noticed that it didn't have to actually do anything to promote Death: if it stuck around in one place long enough, people just dropped like the flies that followed it everywhere. Being fairly curious, Quentin set out to discover why … and independently discovered about germs long before humanity ever did. Germs were fascinating: they did all sorts of interesting things, and the little buggers were everywhere. Eventually it worked out that manure was a bacterium's paradise, and that's when it really started to get in trouble.

Manure was fascinating stuff, not only for the kinds of bacteria it hosted, but also for what it did. A simple by-product of corporeal digestive products had been turned by a busy Nature into a tool for redistributing absolutely vital nutrients back into the ecosystem. And bacteria were so important for doing this: in fact, the process of decay was what kept the whole system going. One of Death's most potent symbols was really a subtle agent for Life.

Really, when Quentin had gotten this revelation through its head, what choice was there but to Redeem? Life had already beaten Saminga, and the idiot didn't have a clue. If Quentin didn't want to violate Death's dissonance conditions, it would have to stay off the corporeal plane… and they didn't have manure in Hell. Not the good stuff, at any rate.

Novalis listened to all of this with not a little bemusement, of course, but Quentin was serious about Redeeming. It survived the process, and the new Kyriotate immediately started working to improve crop yields. It liked manure even more now, seeing as it could root for bacteria without fear of dissonance. Eventually, Quentin got to the point where a Word was in order, and naturally asked for Manure. It was surprisingly easy to get; even Michael supported the petition, once he stopped laughing.

Quentin, these days, does a lot of work in rural regions (naturally). Its major task is to try to keep the natural cycle of decay and growth running smoothly. Quentin is quietly proud of the fact that areas under its direct supervision are clean, disease free, and produce bumper crops. It doesn't like combat at all, and has grown quite adept in alternative methods of conflict resolution. The Angel of Manure is fairly well liked by other Servitors of Flowers, although they find its habit of animating dunghills fairly bizarre … not to mention quite smelly. Note that Quentin also possesses other things, as well: it's helpful in getting a really good handle on ecological processes.

But it always goes back to the manure. The manure is the key.

The Manure is the Life.