Glaive, Seraph of Her Own Name

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Discord, Grandiloquent Word of the Day, In Nomine, Janus, Jean, Lawrence, Michael, NPC, Uriel, Vapula, Wordbound

Glaive is an old soldier in Heaven’s Army. Although she serves Lawrence now, she came up through Michael’s ranks, not Uriel’s. Her tactics are a bit antiquated, but still sound. Much like her original Superior, Glaive favors individual acts of heroism over regimented formations.

She knows her duty and she will execute it, but she has a soft spot for loose canons (read PCs) especially if they can get results.

Although she was once held significantly greater Distinction, Glaive has been gracious and understanding (if a bit bitter) about being demoted in favor of angels who have been better able to adapt with the times.

Note: while “glaive” can be used to refer to a sword, it more frequently applies to a spear with a sword-like head.

Glaive, Seraph of the Sword (nee of War)

Corporeal Forces: 4 [Str: 9, Agi: 7]
Ethereal Forces: 4 [Int: 7, Pre: 9]
Celestial Forces: 3 [Will: 6, Per: 6]
Word Forces (Glaives): 2

Vessel: Human/1, Charisma/1 (Natural Leader)
Role: Social Worker 3/4

Songs: Battle (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/3), Direction (Ethereal/4), Might (Corporeal/2, Celestial/2), Motion (Corporeal/2), Nemesis (Etheral/2, Celestial/4), Numinous Corpus (Wings/3), Sight (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/2, Celestial/2)
Skills: Bureaucracy/2, Detect Lies/4, Dodge/3, Engineering/2, Fighting/1, Large Weapon: Great Swords/2, Large Weapon: Spears/4, Ride Horse/3, Tactics/3

Attunements

• Seraph of the Sword
• Seraph of War

Resources

• Fiery Sword*/2

Due to Glaive’s Word, she can change a fiery sword to a flaming spear while wielding it. The spear has -3 accuracy instead of -2 but also has reach.

Distinctions

• Vassal of Swords
• Vassal of War
• Friends of the Lord’s Might

Discords

• Anachronistic/1

Special Rite

• Glaive regains 2 Essence if she kills a demon with a glaive [teachable]

New Discord: Anachronistic

This character has a hard time keeping up with how the Corporeal realm has changed. Subtract the level of this skill from the TN of all roles involving modern technology (how modern is up to the GM).

Servitors of Janus, Jean, and Vapula also apply this penalty to their Dissonance rolls when they have violated their Superior’s dissonance condition.

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Adventure Hook: Technologic

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Blandine, In Nomine, Jean, Vapula

Vapula is at it again. A number of dreamers, especially those working with computers and AI have been having dreams of demonic computers acting independently to create a dystopian technofuture.

Given the target and recurring nature of the dreams, angels of Blandine and Jean are particularly likely to take note, though others may have an interest as well.

Common Oaths for Jean’s Malakim

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In Nomine, Jean, Malakite, Vapula, Vow

Jean is the Archangel of Lightning, while he encourages responsible scientific advancement, he is ardently opposed to what he views as a reckless pursuit of newer, more controlling and more dangerous technologies (which are typically favored by the Demon Prince Vapula).

• I will never take shelter from the storm.
• I will not strike the same place twice.
• I will spend at least 4 hours each day engaged in research.
• I will remove all uncleared celestial technology from the mortal realm.
• I will never allow my tools to fall into mortal hands.
• I will encourage researchers to proceed ethically and responsibly.
• I will sabotage all unholy research.
• I will flawlessly execute any order given by Jean.
• I will not be controlled by mankind.

Bitigedilu, Angel of

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In Nomine, Jean, Lawrence, Mercurian, NPC, Playable Character, Purity Crusades, Wordbound, Yves

Mercurian Wordbound of a Missing Word

Bitigedilu is the Angel of …. Just one problem, he doesn’t know what … means – and neither does anyone else. Bitigedilu received confirmation from both Jean and Yves that he is indeed Wordbound, but neither of them is sure what his Word is or what it means either.

Numinous Corpus: Elementum

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Alaemon, Beelzebub, Beleth, In Nomine, Janus, Jean, Kobal, Makatiel, Mammon, Marc, Numinous Corpus, Oannes, Songs, Vapula, Vephar

Theosophie & Alchemie

The songs that follow are powerful. If In Nomine were a more balanced system, I would probably want to conduct play testing before proposing them. Instead these can be though of as draft ideas, please feel free to modify them as you see fit.

Elemental Numinous Corpus don’t just change one aspect of the body, they transform the entire body, bringing multiple advantages and disadvantages. Liber Canticorum includes two versions of this type of song; Numinous Corpus (Flame) and Numinous Corpus (Stone). Both were Secret Songs.

With this in mind, I have decided that all Elemental Numinous Corpus will be Secret or Forgotten, depending on which Superior(s) know it.

Anti-Fascist Strategies (by Archangel)

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Anti-Fascist, Antifa, Blandine, Christopher, David, Dominic, Eli, Gabriel, GM Tools, In Nomine, Janus, Jean, Jordi, Khalid, Lawrence, Lithroy, Marc, Michael, Novalis, Real World

In light of the recent string of fascist rallies and counter demonstrations that have been taking place in the USA, this seems like a good time to take a break from my “no politics” rule. Sometimes not saying anything at all is itself an act of evil.

However, since this is still an In Nomine blog, I have decided to put together a list of possible anti-fascist actions someone could get involved and the Superior who I think would embrace that approach. If you just want to use this list in game, that’s fine – but I would rather you look through it and pick out a strategy or two that you are willing to use to combat fascism directly in the real world.

More than usual, I should mention that this post is my personal creation. This is not official In Nomine material and has not been endorsed by Steve Jackson Games.

Vapula Ascendant

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Asmodeus, Baal, Beleth, Belial, Calabite, Cyberpunk, Dante Alighieri, In Nomine, Jean, Kronos, Nybbas, Shedite, Vapula, William Gibson

The Vapula Ascendant setting is based upon “The Machine” variation proposed for Vapula in Superiors 4.

Hell may once have existed as Dante imagined it, but no longer. With the rise of the machine and power of the internet revealed, hell is fast becoming a nightmare ripped from the mind of William Gibson.

Numinous Corpus: Apparatus

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Alaemon, Baal, Beleth, In Nomine, Jean, Michael, Numinous Corpus, Nybbas, Songs, Vapula

Prosthetic Left Hand from the London Science Museum

Themes linking the mechanical and the divine go back to at least the Greek classics.

Givens how Vapula pursues his word, and the increasing progress that humans have made towards integrating the mechanical into themselves and their world, the Prince of Technology would almost certainly be researching ways for his demons to do the same.

Of course, just because Vapula has been the one to push this research doesn’t mean that he’s the only one to use these songs.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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Adam, Human, Jean, Memes, Vapula

Songs for Jean

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In Nomine, Jean, Playlist

Within the world of In Nomine Jean is the Archangel of Lightning, but his provenance extends to science, innovation, and research. You’ll find a healthy helping of electronic music in this playlist, but also a sampling of songs dealing with space, science, and the future.

Some of my favorite science songs didn’t make the cut but I’m still quite happy with the end result. I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think.