Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 7 Agility: 9

Ethereal Forces: 6 Intelligence: 12 Precision: 12

Celestial Forces: 5 Will: 10 Perception: 10

Suggested Word Forces: 5

Vessel: elderly human male/3, Charisma +1

Skills: Chemistry/3, Computer Operation/2, Driving/1, Emote/1, Enchant/6, Electronics/2, Engineering/4, Fighting/2, Knowledge/2 (history of Science), Language (German/3, English/1, Latin/1), Large Weapon/1 (sword), Piloting/1, Ranged Weapon/1 (rifle), Throwing/1

Songs: Artifacts (Corporeal/4, Ethereal/6, Celestial/4), Attraction (Corporeal/1), Essence (Celestial/1), Form (Corporeal/1), Healing (Corporeal/1), Lighting (Corporeal/2, Ethereal/1, Celestial/1), Ice (Corporeal/1), Light (Celestial/1), Machines (all/3), Motion (Corporeal/1), Shields (all/2)

Role: "Herr Doktor Wolfgang von Bayern" (Austrian professor)/4, Status 4

Relics: He's got a Fiery Sword/3, a couple of Reliquary/3s, and just about anything that your twisted heart desires in the lab somewhere. Have fun.

Attunements: Malakite of Lightning, Remote Control, Friend of the Illuminated

Angel of Retro-Technology: Wolfgang can look at an engineering or mechanical problem and automatically determine if it can be fixed with the materials he has on hand. If he makes his Perception Roll, he'll get an idea how to go about doing it.

Special Rite:

Create a genuinely useful device out of discarded junk.

Oaths:

"Suffer not an evil to live, if it is my choice."

"Never surrender, or allow myself to be captured by the forces of Lucifer."

"Always encourage others to use technology as a servant, not a master."

"Always attempt to foster a sense of informed wonder about Science."

Well… how to explain this one?

Jean didn't precisely expect this angel to go off on such a tangent. What he was looking for was a Servitor who would discourage technogreed: after all, there are times when you should be upgrading what you have, rather than junking the whole thing so that you can buy the latest toy. Many 'obsolete' methods and technologies still work, after all: people have just been conditioned to equate 'new' with 'more efficient', even if the 'obsolete' method can be maintained locally and the 'cutting edge' one can't.

Well, that's what the Archangel of Lightning wanted. What he got was a Servitor who has become addicted to the idea of STEAM! Not to mention vacuum tubes, the POWER OF THE ATOM!, diathermy machines, Tesla coils (Wolfgang is really fond of Nikola Tesla: if you understand the implications of this, you won't need to read any further), orinthopters, zeppelins, flying wings, Babbage Machines, clockwork automata and the Art Deco artistic movement. There's more, but Wolfgang will tell you about it himself if you give him the chance. Believe me, he will.

The Angel of Retro-Technology justifies all of this by pointing out that current human attitudes towards gadgetry owe a lot to the propaganda issued by Nybbas. He's made technology hip and sexy, but he's also made it impersonal. Clean, cold, not for the uninitiated: if the Prince of the Media has his way, humanity will end up literally worshipping their computers and televisions as sterile gods, superstitiously propitiating their cold unblinking eyes.

If you want to combat this, you need… warm technology. Stuff that's neat. Stuff you can build yourself, in your garage, and show off to your envious neighbors, who will then go off and come up with their own bizarrely delightful inventions. Wolfgang wants to make science and engineering fun and universal again, and encouraging the creation of intricate and unusual gadgets that anyone can build seems to be the best way to get to that happy state of affairs.

Oddly enough, Jean isn’t exactly receptive to this attitude. Must be an Elohite thing, or something. However, until Eli (the usual dumping ground for Lightning's Lunatics) comes back from his extended vacation, the Archangel doesn't have many options. Wolfgang is loyal enough: he's just been saddled (in Jean's eyes) with a Word that didn't pan out. It would be needlessly cruel to strip it from him. Best to let him stay on the corporeal plane, out of the way.

Wolfgang maintains a Role as Herr Doktor Wolfgang von Bayern, a professor of engineering in a minor Austrian university who has a talent for creating odd mechanical contrivances. He's considered eccentric, but in that good way people reserve for teachers that they remember quite fondly. His miniature clockwork automata are well known locally, as is his habit of suggesting wacky alternate solutions to every engineering and mechanical problem that comes up. On occasion, people have actually tried them… to find that not only does the suggested method work just fine, but people will actually come from quite far away to look at them (and incidentally buy souvenirs). He's well liked, really.

It's probably just as well that they don't know about Wolfgang's Laboratory. He owns a modest country house with a decent amount of land… which hides a fairly large underground bunker, filled with all the really good stuff. Wolfgang's hobby is recreating all those unusual gadgets that the Renaissance, Victorians and Golden Age science fiction authors delighted in: his enchantment abilities (and knowledge of scientific principles that the Halls of Progress haven't released yet) allows all this stuff to actually work. Wolfgang might give out a neat thing or two to somebody who helps him out.

Personally, Wolfgang is an odd, yet pleasant, mix of eccentric mad scientist and driven Malakite. He likes humans a lot better than most Servitors of Lightning (or Malakim, for that matter): when properly primed, mortals can really get into his Word. That always pleases a Word-bound, especially one who's out of favor with his Superior. Of course, Wolfgang has to dispatch the occasional dishonorable human, but he's got a bit of latitude there (Jean has specifically told him to at least try to keep a low profile). He'll often try to salvage them first: after all, what's an ethical mad scientist without diamonds-in-the-rough, reformed henchmen?

His relationship with Servitors of Technology is, alas, less friendly. Sparky, Vapula's 'keeper', hates and fears the Angel of Retro-Technology more than any other member of the Host. Not because he thinks that Wolfgang is a threat: he's afraid what will happen if Vapula ever gets a good look at this angel. Sparky knows how his Prince thinks, and if Vapula ever really focuses on Wolfgang, eventually every other Prince will be lining up to pound the demon into the floor.

You see, the Prince of Technology wants an adversary so badly that he can taste it: a proper adversary, one who understands, one who won't flub his lines, one who can look upon Vapula's creations and see the malignant beauty, even as he strives to defeat the Prince. Vapula wants the excuse to cackle madly, wear a cape, have an undersea lair, create baroque weapons of mass destruction, and sneer: he wants to be a Mastermind, dammit, but what's the point when nobody else wants to play? Thus, Wolfgang will seem to be a gift sent by God. Vapula may have to encourage the inflation of the Word of Retro-Technology a little, in order to get a proper adversary, but that's a small price to pay for finally getting to break out the Devolvo-Ray.

Sparky needs to shut this angel down now, before his Prince awakes to all the possibilities (and ignores the rest of the War): of course, doing this without tipping off Vapula is a whole different problem.

Special Conversion Note: those of you who might actually be using the Heretic Vapula (Archangel of SCIENCE!) have probably already decided to adapt Wolfgang. That's cool: the only thing faster than his decision to petition to switch Servitors will be Jean's permission to do so. Keep the Malakite of Lightning Attunement, dump Remote Control, and add Malakite of SCIENCE!, Mad Genius, Synthesis and Mentor. Vapula will also be doing his best to boost the Word of Retro-Science to a higher level, too. The Archangel of SCIENCE! will be very, very fond of Wolfgang…