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Description: Black Nathaniel is an angel, and looks the Methods: The Blind Serpents do not fear death. They
part. It is nearly seven feet tall, lean, and muscular. It wears do not fear at all, in fact. They are near mindless and have
black pants, but doesn’t bother with any other clothes. It very little agency of their own. They are, however, capable
sports enormous black wings, and wears a silver chain orna- of performing basic medical care (again, influence from
mented with a small piece of glass around his neck. its voice Triage), but the only do so for characters that stand a good
is quiet, but carries grave authority. chance of surviving. They are much more effective at kill-
Methods: Unlike many angels, Black Nathaniel has no ing than saving.
time for subtlety. It flies throughout the region searching
for ghosts, and then summons its minions to bind them. Virtue: Obedient
It doesn’t make an effort to hide itself, but because it seeks Vice: Blind
out haunted sites (which tend to be somewhat isolated), it’s
managed to implant a good number of unquiet dead into Mental Attributes: Intelligence 1, Wits 3,
mechanical devices without anyone noticing. It doesn’t have Resolve 4
a problem with investigators, but if someone starts making Physical Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 3,
progress on reversing the process, it intervenes. Stamina 3
Social Attributes: Presence 1, Manipulation 1,
Virtue: Severe Composure 3
Vice: Gentle Mental Skills: Medicine 1
Rank: 5 Physical Skills: Athletics (Sinewy) 3, Brawl 3,
Attributes: Power 13, Finesse 11, Resistance 12 Firearms 3, Weaponry 3
Influence: Death 2, Ghosts 2, Silence 1 Social Skills: Animal Ken 2
Corpus: 18 Merits: Danger Sense, Fast Reflexes 2, [Two dots
of any Style Merit the Storyteller chooses]
Willpower: 23 Health: 8
Size: 6 Willpower: 7
Speed: 34 Size: 5
Defense: 11 Speed: 12
Initiative: 23 Defense: 6
Armor: None Initiative: 8
Numina: Awe, Blast (silver chains), Emotional
Aura, Firestarter, Regenerate, Resurrection, Seek,
Speed CLOCKWORK SERVITORS
Manifestation: Discorporate, Materialize,
Twilight Form The Invisible Citadel — p. 219;
Max Essence: 50 A Glimpse of Mesmerizing Complexity — p. 216
Ban: Black Nathaniel cannot enter graveyards. Mission: These creatures are specifically made as guards
Bane: White marble. who protect locations and devices that are important to the
God-Machine’s plans. Every clockwork servitor exists to pro-
BLIND SERPENTS tect a specific target, and it does so at all costs. If the target
is destroyed or ceases to be useful to the God-Machine, the
clockwork servitor becomes dormant, but Dalga can give it a
What Is It Good For — p. 233 new assignment. Each specific assignment is different. Some
servitors protect their charge from all interference, while
Mission: The Blind Serpents are the near-mindless ser- others allow people who know a particular password to ac-
vants of Triage (p. 264). Their mission is whatever Triage says cess a location or device. A few do nothing unless someone
it is, but it usually involves killing people before they can alter attempts to damage their charge.
history in some grandiose way. Description: Clockwork servitors look human, until
Description: These creatures appear as men, though their one sees them up close. They are created from a mishmash
true forms are man-sized snakes with the heads of lions that of metal parts and organic matter. One might have human
have milky, blind eyes. They take on the roles of background eyes, but set in a wire and glass head. Another might have
characters — other soldiers, corpses littering the battlefield, an organic right hand, but a left hand made of transparent
and so on — until Triage gives them an order. Then they take plastic covering human bones. Clockworks cannot pass for
on their true forms and attack. human for any length of time.

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