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From Left to Right:The Architect, Black Nathaniel,
                                          Blind Serpents, and Clockwork Servitor

                 and a pair of thick, horn-rimmed glasses. Its fingertips are   Initiative: 12
                 stained with ink, and it leaves black fingerprints on whatever   Armor: None
                 it touches. These prints fade from nonliving surfaces in sec-  Numina: Left-Handed Spanner, Seek, Telekinesis
                 onds, but on flesh, they linger for weeks.
                    Methods: The Architect is capable of violence, but it   Manifestation: Discorporate, Materialize,
                 would rather everyone agrees. It attempts to reason with the   Twilight Form
                 characters first, as described in the Tale on p. 197. If the   Max Essence: 15
                 characters take violent action, it defends the boiler room to   Ban: Cannot leave the boiler room.
                 the best of its ability. The Architect retains his knowledge   Bane: A “missing persons” flier from one of the
                 of buildings, is curious to see how the world has progressed   victims of the 300 block.
                 (and what has been done to the buildings it designed), and
                 is an affable enough conversationalist if approached respect-
                 fully. Every now and then, though, it makes casual, almost   BLACK NATHANIEL
                 businesslike, references to human sacrifice.

                   Virtue: Amiable                                Ghost Machine — p. 207
                   Vice: Cold                                        Mission: Black Nathaniel was created to oversee the
                   Rank: 2                                        God-Machine’s directive to capture ghosts and bind them
                   Attributes: Power 4, Finesse 7, Resistance 5   to machines. It has Reapers and Sowers assisting it in this
                                                                  mission (no traits are provided for these lesser angels, as they
                   Influence: Boiler Room 2                       Discorporate at any sign of hostility — they’re here to work,
                   Corpus: 10                                     not to fight). Black Nathaniel is an immensely powerful an-
                   Willpower: 12                                  gel, but acts in a managerial role. It finds pockets of ghostly
                                                                  activity and summons its minion angels. It also deals with
                   Size: 5                                        anyone making trouble for the mission. Unlike some angels,
                   Speed: 16                                      Black Nathaniel is utterly loyal to the God-Machine, and not
                   Defense: 4                                     above trying to make some extra ghosts if people interfere.
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