From a young age, Lovello was a devout Follower of Romulus. He was recruited through his Father and was given his first bone dagger and sent to the wild, returning with a grey wolf pelt and the pelvis bone of the creature and a few vertebrae from it's spine. He survived his week in the frozen hills surrounding Roma during the tyrannical reign of Ceasere (Chez-er-ay) Borgia and his family. Within a few days, he had forged his very own bone dagger, wrapped in the cured flesh of a Catholic from the Pantheon who had strayed too far from home. He still has this dagger today. The Followers were controlled by a series of Borgia supporting Catholics who were using the cult as a terrorist organisation to keep the public supporting the Borgia, not that Lovello knew.
Before long, he had immersed himself so devoutly to Romulus and his teachings that he openly referred to himself as Lupo. He served for 20 long years before the Borgia were overthrown by the public, and without Ceasere's manipulation, the Followers began to split. Lupo took hold of the remaining Followers and kept the group alive for three generations underground within and around Roma. The third generation formed a splinter cell known as the Sect of Remus. Young wolves more concerned with money than faith, and before long, true to the background of the brothers, betrayed the Followers and stole many young and higher class members. Left with an infirm pack, Lupo had no choice but to abandon Roma and look for fresh hunting territory. For the following 100-200 years, he travelled to Britain and roamed the highlands with a wolf pack in Scotland.
After the war, when the wolves went extinct, Lupo was left to his own devices for quite some time, surviving on the lands. The Alliance approached him and offered him the chance to defend Romulus' honour against the new threat to the realm, and he lunged at the chance. He was a behind enemy lines sabotage unit, operating solo in various fields disrupting the AOR battle lines and surviving on what he could. He has food Ang-dropped to various Den's in his operating theatre after contacting them by radio. He regularly patrols his theatre as a wolf until he is moved on. It is not rare for him to have very little idea where he is. He awaits the chance to find a Sect of Remus so that he can enact revenge on the pack that stole his brothers from him.
Ray
Ray is a former Greater Seraphim now Exile formerly know as Al'Rahel, living on Earth mostly fighting undead predators, particularly the lineage of a powerful Vampyre he once made an enemy of. During the times of the Elder Kingdoms Al'Rahel was a powerful Seraphim who watched as humanity was almost destroyed. When Lucifer was discovered to have lied and the Celestial War broke out Al'Rahel watched along with twelve others, they became known as the Abstainers.
Al'Rahel exiled himself to Earth and entered a deep trance where he was mummified and protected by an early tribe of surviving humans who later thought of him as nothing more than a temple statue with an unusual presence around it.Centuries passed and Al'Rahel was eventually awakened by explosions caused by the building of the first railway through the western United States where he chose to rest so long ago.
Quickly coming to grips with the new world around him, 'Ray' passed himself off as a cowboy bounty hunter with a speciality in dealing with the supernatural. It wasn't long before Ray made his first real enemy, a powerful Vampyre with many of his bloodline at his command.
Ray travelled much of America until war broke out in Europe and he joined the Armed Forces to aid in the Second World War. Feeling the need for more warfare he signed up again for duty in Vietnam serving for quite some time there. Since then he has drifted mostly, fighting the undead and looking out for Vampyres who may be after him.
Al'Rahel exiled himself to Earth and entered a deep trance where he was mummified and protected by an early tribe of surviving humans who later thought of him as nothing more than a temple statue with an unusual presence around it.Centuries passed and Al'Rahel was eventually awakened by explosions caused by the building of the first railway through the western United States where he chose to rest so long ago.
Quickly coming to grips with the new world around him, 'Ray' passed himself off as a cowboy bounty hunter with a speciality in dealing with the supernatural. It wasn't long before Ray made his first real enemy, a powerful Vampyre with many of his bloodline at his command.
Ray travelled much of America until war broke out in Europe and he joined the Armed Forces to aid in the Second World War. Feeling the need for more warfare he signed up again for duty in Vietnam serving for quite some time there. Since then he has drifted mostly, fighting the undead and looking out for Vampyres who may be after him.
Malachy
Malachy is a Relentless Dead who has pursued his quarry for almost two centuries. Born in the 19th century to a normal Irish/Scottish family Malachy grew up to work in a factory run by a cruel man named George Manning. While working in the factory he met the love of his life and soon married her. The two of them lived in the tenement apartments near the factory and were settling down to begin a family when Manning decided to expand his business. Using a local gang of hoodlums, Manning began the forced eviction of the surrounding apartments and when Malachy and his wife refused to leave they were killed as an example to the other residents.
His spirit unable to rest, Malachy awoke in a daze unaware of what he was or what had happened to him, he began wandering eventually settling in a graveyard where his memories of the Threshold returned. With a hatred for those responsible burning within him, Malachy set about hunting down and torturing each of the gang members that attacked him and his wife. Eventually he found out that they were working for Manning and where he could be found. He attacked Manning instantly and believed he had killed him later to find out he had somehow survived.
Malachy tracked him for years, fighting the gangs Manning would hire to do his dirty work never getting close to Manning again, until now.
His spirit unable to rest, Malachy awoke in a daze unaware of what he was or what had happened to him, he began wandering eventually settling in a graveyard where his memories of the Threshold returned. With a hatred for those responsible burning within him, Malachy set about hunting down and torturing each of the gang members that attacked him and his wife. Eventually he found out that they were working for Manning and where he could be found. He attacked Manning instantly and believed he had killed him later to find out he had somehow survived.
Malachy tracked him for years, fighting the gangs Manning would hire to do his dirty work never getting close to Manning again, until now.
The Characters - Gabriel
So I ran a game of Armageddon a few years ago with a True Immortal character that was mostly solo play and being someone who enjoys running high-power games she was built using the Legendary Character Type point spread. With the possibility of playing with the character again I decided to build the new characters on the same points in the interest of game balance and it allowed for the high cost character types like Seraphim. Speaking of which....
Gabriel
A Seraphim of the Heavenly Host with quite an extensive background, so much so that he has almost 'gone native' on Earth, living there under the assumed identity, Gabriel Blythe and known in Binah as Malkuth. Under Lucifer's command he helped in the destruction of the Elder Kingdoms but when it was discovered that Lucifer lied about hearing the Metatron he betrayed Lucifer and the other renegade Seraphim. He fought on the side of Michelle and the loyal Archangels during the war, sometimes resorting to killing a renegade Seraphim, creating animosity between him and what would later become the Infernal Seraphim.
After the war and during the Diaspora he spent most of his time on Earth helping to rebuild the surviving human nations as a way of repenting for his mistakes during the destruction of the Elder Kingdoms. He spent his time in Ancient Egypt mostly aiding both the Jewish slaves and the Egyptian rulers in fighting the Mad God cults that sprouted up in the absence of the Heavenly Host. He had some contact with the Gods of Khem and was one of the few Seraphim to get along with them, both remaining mostly neutral towards each other for the time being. This is when he also met the Watchers for the first time, making contact with them but disagreeing with their policy of no involvement.After the return of the Host and the formation of the Council of Four, Raphael, admiring Gabriel's actions while they were absent, accepted him as one of their Seraphim and named him Malkuth, after the Earth for which he is so fond of.
Returning to Egypt, this time not until the 1950s, he met Lyra, a Human Mage and worshipper of the Gods of Khem. They fell in love and unknown to the Host they had a child named Ezekiel who stayed with Lyra, raised as one of her Acolytes. Being forced to return to Elysium and meet his obligations to the Host caused him to be absent for much of Ezekiel's upbringing and his later life.
Raphael, concerned with the increasing Gifted and Supernatural births occurring during the 1980s sent numerous Seraphim to Earth to monitor the situation. Malkuth was sent to Edinburgh where he took on the identity of Gabriel Blythe, an archaeologist living in a single bedroomed apartment who works abroad for months at a time.
Gabriel
A Seraphim of the Heavenly Host with quite an extensive background, so much so that he has almost 'gone native' on Earth, living there under the assumed identity, Gabriel Blythe and known in Binah as Malkuth. Under Lucifer's command he helped in the destruction of the Elder Kingdoms but when it was discovered that Lucifer lied about hearing the Metatron he betrayed Lucifer and the other renegade Seraphim. He fought on the side of Michelle and the loyal Archangels during the war, sometimes resorting to killing a renegade Seraphim, creating animosity between him and what would later become the Infernal Seraphim.
After the war and during the Diaspora he spent most of his time on Earth helping to rebuild the surviving human nations as a way of repenting for his mistakes during the destruction of the Elder Kingdoms. He spent his time in Ancient Egypt mostly aiding both the Jewish slaves and the Egyptian rulers in fighting the Mad God cults that sprouted up in the absence of the Heavenly Host. He had some contact with the Gods of Khem and was one of the few Seraphim to get along with them, both remaining mostly neutral towards each other for the time being. This is when he also met the Watchers for the first time, making contact with them but disagreeing with their policy of no involvement.After the return of the Host and the formation of the Council of Four, Raphael, admiring Gabriel's actions while they were absent, accepted him as one of their Seraphim and named him Malkuth, after the Earth for which he is so fond of.
Returning to Egypt, this time not until the 1950s, he met Lyra, a Human Mage and worshipper of the Gods of Khem. They fell in love and unknown to the Host they had a child named Ezekiel who stayed with Lyra, raised as one of her Acolytes. Being forced to return to Elysium and meet his obligations to the Host caused him to be absent for much of Ezekiel's upbringing and his later life.
Raphael, concerned with the increasing Gifted and Supernatural births occurring during the 1980s sent numerous Seraphim to Earth to monitor the situation. Malkuth was sent to Edinburgh where he took on the identity of Gabriel Blythe, an archaeologist living in a single bedroomed apartment who works abroad for months at a time.
Ahoy-hoy :)
I always feel the first post of a new blog should say something about what it's for so for now this will be a place for me to post summaries of the recent RP games we have played. A couple of weeks ago we started an Armageddon: The End Times game, a game I have had for a while but never managed to get a regular group for. The game went extremely well considering there was no planning involved and the characters were created that night, sometimes the best games come from 'winging it'. Turns out all the players enjoyed the game immensely instantly asking to play again, so we did, then again and again. After playing a game on practically every night of the week, two weeks in a row I thought it best I should write down what's been happening.
So, now I have to work out how much info I post up here and whether or not my players should see it. While it would be good to have somewhere to post my thoughts about plot and character development it would also be cool to have a place for players to comment on games after they look back and go - 'What was I thinking?'
So, now I have to work out how much info I post up here and whether or not my players should see it. While it would be good to have somewhere to post my thoughts about plot and character development it would also be cool to have a place for players to comment on games after they look back and go - 'What was I thinking?'
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