Stats

Aspect: 1 (with 5 AMP)

Domain: 0 (with 5 DMP)

Realm: 0 (with 5 RMP)

Spirit: 3 (with 5 SMP)

Gifts

Immortal: You can only die in four ways - if your Imperator is slain, if you are struck with certain extremely rare Excrucian weapons, *possibly* if you commit suicide, or possibly if something completely unexpected comes from beyond the known Realms with unknown powers. You are both Eternal (you don't age; hunger, thirst, and the like are optional) and Durant (Difficult to injure and heal quickly) as well.

Limited Shapeshifting: (Any form of cutting implement.)

Possession: (By touch of a willing mortal.)

Glorious: Your physical appearance, in some ways, stirs strong emotion in all mortals and (to a lesser extent) Powers. The emotion could be lust, fear, respect, a desire to cause you no harm, etc.

Handicaps

Affiliation - Heaven: Beauty is the highest principle. Justice is a form of beauty. Lesser beings should respect their betters.

Confusion: (Regarding what is *his* will, and what is Azrael's.)

Inanimate: Um, self-explanatory. This is a limit.

Foci: (Excalibur. This focus has a Miracle Point and adds one Aspect to the bearer.)

All Heroes Are Tragic: (It must be true!)

Trust: Completely trusts any family member.

Dependent Pets: (Family flaw) Bonsai.

Untalented Imperator: (Family flaw) Must take the appropriate challenge; cannot resist an appropriate martial challenge.

Background

This noble has never been human, or even living. Created during the Revolt in heaven as a weapon to be used against the Fallen, he (and he _is_ a he) takes pride in his long service and distinguished service to Heaven. In his true form, he appears as a flaming blade of radiant beauty. He can, however, be found just as often as not in the form of some mundane cutting instrument-- scalpel, chainsaw, scissors, etc. Reflecting his original purpose, he is somewhat ill-suited to life on Earth: on that plane, he is an inanimate object. When on Earth, he must by physically borne and manipulated by a living being. Similarly, all of his anchors are blades, also. Whether this is by choice or necessity is a matter for debate; when asked, he simply replies that he understands what it is to be a blade much more than he understands what it is to be a human or elephant or dragon.

To his Heroes, those who he allows to carry him or his anchors, he is both a blessing and a curse. While they actively serve him, they are capable of feats beyond all but the greatest humans, and he generally allows them to use this power to pursue their own causes (so long as he approves). However, power inevitably corrupts. For so long as the Hero wields the blade in the war against corruption, his or her own corruption spreads within them like cancer. The moment they put hand to the blade, one of their vices becomes the tragic flaw that will eventually prove their undoing. When they are not actively serving him, this process is arrested-- arrested but not reversed. Again, whether the Blade himself could stop or reverse this process is open to debate; when asked, he simply replies that the supply of potential Heroes is endless, while his energies are limited. What is another human life compared to the fate of all Creation?

Lastly, the Blade has existed since almost the beginning of time and was created when things were... much simpler. Although he has kept up with the changing universe quite well (a few decades behind the times when it comes to technology, but that's to be expected) and his mind is still sharp, nothing can exist that long without consequences (except the Angels, of course.) Those of his family who have observed him for more than a decade (or who listen to the rumors) have concluded that the Blade is afflicted with an odd but deep eccentricity: he cannot truly tell the difference between himself... and Azrael.