IN> May 30, 2001 (First draft)

[Moe Lane]

Hecate
Lesser Ethereal Goddess

Corporeal Forces: 2	Strength: 4	Agility: 4
Ethereal Forces: 5	Intelligence: 12	Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 5	Will: 12		Perception: 8
Vessel/6, +2 Charisma

Elements: Life (Beasts); Information (Knowledge)

Affinities: Animals (primal), Divination (primal), Books (moderate)

Skills: Area Knowledge (Home area/3, Marches/5), Detect Lies/3,
Dodge/6, Dream-Shaping/6, Emote/6, Knowledge (Animals/5, Divination/3,
Herbalism/2, Occultism/4, Plants/5, Teaching/6, True History/6),
Languages/1 (lots), Lying/6, Medicine/4, Move Silently/3, Ranged
Weapon/3 (pistol), Small Weapon/6 (knife), Survival (Forest/2,
Marches/6, Mountains/3, Urban/3)

Songs: Beasts (All/5), Essence/1 (Corporeal), Healing (All/4), Light
(Corporeal/3), Motion (Ethereal/6, Celestial/5), Numinous Corpus
(Fangs/3, Wings/2), Sensation/1 (Corporeal), Shields (All/5), Sight
(Corporeal/3), Thunder/6, Tongues (Ethereal/3), Truth (Corporeal/4,
Ethereal/3)

Role: Jane Smith (High School Teacher/6, Status/3)

Attunements: Songmaster, can boon Ethereal Connection, Symphonic Awareness

Dread: Closing off a gateway/5

Why a teacher?

Because she's hiding, of course.  She's been hiding since the Eighth
Century AD, in fact, and by now she's quite good at it.  She's hiding
from the Host that overturned the Greek gods' applecart, she's hiding
from the Tsayadim holdouts that would like to add her scalp to their
collection - and most of all she's hiding from both Kronos and
Hatiphas.  Those last two consider her to be a potentially troublesome
competitor.

If Hecate was less intelligent, she would be a competitor.  While the
ethereal has no actual Sorcerous abilities (ironically), she can and
does make an excellent teacher in both occultism and Song use.  A deal
made with her can provide a potential recruit with all sorts of
esoteric powers... without the risk of automatic damnation.  Needless
to say, she is very careful when engaging in such activities; there
are too many chances of it going badly for her.

Unfortunately, it is not entirely her decision to make.  Hecate's
level of power had dropped significantly after the Purity Crusade (one
reason for her care in avoiding notice); it has been only recently
that resurgent belief has given her the ability to make contact with
her former fellow-gods.  What she discovered shocked her.  The
Olympians were barely holding on, at best; slowly starving to death,
at worst.  Their need for worshippers and servants was dire... and
their need for an established agent on the corporeal plane was even
direr.

It was impossible for Hecate to refuse.  She is, after all,
thematically suited for the role of gatekeeper, and twelve hundred
years on the corporeal plane (or, possibly, recent mortal shifts in
the perception of her) have made the goddess less self-centered than
the average Greek deity.  Hecate has thus begun - very carefully - to
recruit potential Pagan Soldiers for the Olympians.  She does not
particularly prefer to recruit women, but the areas in which she
operates self-selects for females.


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