Lorne

Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan, also known as Lorne and The Host, is a major character in the Buffyverse TV series Angel appearing as a major character from season two all the way until season five.
He was a peace-loving Deathwok demon native to Pylea, the owner and founder of the demon karaoke bar Caritas, and later a member of Angel Investigations and the head of Wolfram & Hart's Los Angeles Branch Entertainment Division.
He was portrayed by the late .
== Biography ==
=== Pylea ===
Lorne was born as Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan in the demonic dimension of Pylea. He has two brothers, one that was at some point devoured by their parents, and Numfar. Lorne, as he preferred to be called, wasn't like his fellow Deathwok demons,
 bloodthirsty "champions" constantly undertaking quests against evil. He
 was a gentle soul who did not share his kin's prejudice against humans 
(or "cows" as they were called in his world). Lorne would rather flirt 
with the females and enjoy life than train to be a fighter, claiming 
that he had little inclination to train how to fight because he saw both
 sides of the argument, reasoning that he didn't have it in him to fight
 a man when he partially agreed with his opponent's point of view. He 
also enjoyed beauty, art, and even music, which was difficult 
considering his world had no music. Lorne refused to train his innate 
mystical senses to learn to hunt beasts and was considered the shame of 
his clan.
=== Caritas ===
In 1996, Lorne happened upon a dimensional portal and was sucked through it, unknowingly trading places with his future friend Winifred Burkle in the process. He landed in Los Angeles,
 and discovered music and culture like he never imagined. Lorne learned 
to hone his mystical senses to read people's auras, but found it easiest
 to do so when they sang, baring their souls. He decided to open up a 
karaoke bar on the same spot that he arrived on Earth, an old abandoned building. Lorne contracted the Transuding Furies to cast a sanctuary spell on the spot, which stopped any demon violence from occurring on it. He named the bar "Caritas," the Latin word for "mercy."
Caritas became a success in the morally ambiguous Los Angeles 
underground scene, with many beings visiting to sing for Lorne to be 
told their futures. To most who visited the bar, Lorne was simply called
 "The Host." He later stated that he didn't use the name "Lorne" in this
 dimension, because his striking green skin prompted people to make Lorne Greene
 jokes. Firmly believing that anyone, whether good, evil, or "morally 
ambiguous", could turn their lives around if given sufficient guidance, 
Lorne opened his bar to humans and demons alike, even Baby-killer demons; the only time he ever banned someone from Caritas was an incident involving Orpheus dealers.
Lorne was always reluctant to help Angel
 and his friends, preferring to maintain a neutral stance and simply 
provide a peaceful place for all demons, but his essential goodness 
usually won out over his reticence. He started off by giving the 
characters advice and encouragement, but as time went on, he became more
 directly involved in the cases of Angel Investigations - even asking for Angel's help to avert the end of the world when Angel had severed ties with the rest of the group after Darla's
 resurrection - and his many contacts in Los Angeles' magical underworld
 prove useful. Lorne somewhat reluctantly joined the team in their 
mission to Pylea to rescue Cordelia Chase,
 discovering that he could incapacitate the natives by singing songs and
 causing them to cower from "the strange noise." Upon leaving, he 
decided that returning to Pylea had been good for him as it had 
reaffirmed that he did not belong there and was right to stay away.
=== Angel Investigations ===
Caritas was raided by Charles Gunn's old gang and was temporarily put out of action, finally being completely destroyed by Daniel Holtz. After that, Lorne decided to move into the Hyperion Hotel
 with the Angel Investigations team; his skills in diplomacy and aura 
reading were of great use to them, and he also often looked after the 
infant Connor while Angel was on business. Eventually, he left to start a singing career in Las Vegas, but left after a crime lord
 forced him to use his empathic abilities to locate audience members 
with promising futures so he could steal them. During the ensuing fight,
 Lorne himself smashed the item holding everyone's destinies and 
returned them to their rightful owners. Back in L.A. after being rescued
 by Angel, Gunn and Fred, Lorne helped restore Cordelia's lost memories 
and was part of the fight against the resulting Jasmine crisis.
=== Wolfram & Hart ===
When Angel took over Wolfram & Hart, Lorne found himself the new 
head of their Entertainment Division, at first fitting into the job with
 relative ease and making various business deals in the film industry, 
as well as organizing the Wolfram & Hart Halloween party (although 
this event was nearly disrupted due to Lorne's subconscious
 manifesting as a dangerous monster after he had his ability to sleep 
extracted to cope with the demands on his time). As time went on, his 
kindness was slowly replaced by a growing cynicism and self-loathing of 
his position of "cheerleader" for Angel and his friends, particularly 
when Gunn was abandoned in a Hell dimension to recover Lindsey McDonald because Lindsey could possess information they needed; Lorne had always assumed that they didn't leave anyone behind.
When his close friend Fred was murdered and her body usurped by the Old One known as Illyria,
 Lorne became filled with despair which he kept secret from the rest of 
his equally heartbroken friends. He finally announced that he planned to
 leave Los Angeles after carrying out his part in Angel's plan to 
destroy the Circle of the Black Thorn.
 When Lorne learned what his part was to be, he told Angel that he would
 do so for him and for their friendship, but afterwards, he would not be
 joining in the resulting battle against Wolfram & Hart's demon army, and Angel and the others would most likely never see him again.
After assisting Lindsey in destroying the Sahrvin Clan, Lorne, coldly remarking that he had already heard Lindsey sing and that he would never be part of "the solution",
 shot Lindsey dead with a silence pistol; in his last words, Lindsey 
muttered the unfairness of having been killed by a "flunky" rather than 
his longtime rival Angel. Disgusted and broken, Lorne dropped the gun 
and walked off into the night.
=== Lord of Silver Lake ===
Lorne, depressed after killing Lindsey, wandered the streets of L.A. when the entire city was banished to hell by the Senior Partners in retaliation for the deaths of Marcus Hamilton
 and the Black Thorn. He simply fled in a demonic taxicab instead of 
assisting against the resulting demonic invasion. However, the cab was 
destroyed, and Lorne found himself watching civilians in "Silver Lake" 
fighting back. Inspired, he assisted them with his vocal powers. Though 
they were soon joined by a sorceress, many Silver Lake residents die 
before a permanent demon-free area is established. The people elect 
Lorne as their leader, and Lorne went to great lengths to make his 
territory a Heaven in Hell.
Lorne tried to remain neutral as Angel battled the various Demon 
Lords that had overtaken the rest of Los Angeles. However, he soon 
changed his mind and threw in fully with his old friends, reforming the 
Angel Investigations team when Angel faced the other Demon Lords' 
champions. The Demon Lords were slain and Lorne became the chosen ruler 
of all of L.A (although he admitted that he had only been given the job 
because Angel felt that he wouldn't be good at it, despite even Lorne 
considering Angel the better candidate).
Eventually, Angel tricked the now-vampiric Gunn into killing him, forcing the Senior Partners to create a temporal fold
 and undo the Fall, returning Los Angeles to Earth. Nonetheless, 
everyone retained their memories of the Fall, and Lorne, along with the 
rest of Angel Investigations, quickly became a city-wide celebrity and 
hero. In the aftermath, Lorne began the process of putting his life back
 together.
=== Sacrifice ===
A short time later, Lorne learned he had developed cancer, something 
unheard of with his kind, possibly due to his long time presence on 
Earth or doing something "that was completely and utterly against [his] 
nature" — murdering Lindsey. As he sought Angel, Lorne became embroiled 
in a conflict with three entities—Discord, Disharmony, and Cacophony—who attempted to destroy all dimensions by shattering the "Music of the Spheres",
 which kept all realities in order, taking advantage of the recent 
disruption caused by the Senior Partners undoing the Fall of Los 
Angeles. Angel, Illyria, the Groosalugg and Lorne, with the aid of Cordelia the dragon
 faced the trio, who released three notes which would destroy the 
universe, by causing its "center" to unbalance. As reality became 
fractured, Angel prepared to sacrifice himself, only to be told by Lorne
 that he would be unable to do so because of his lack of singing talent.
 Singing, Lorne jumped into the portal, thus becoming the new center for
 the Music of the Spheres, and saving reality.
Afterward, Angel and Groosalugg told the rest of the Angel 
Investigations staff of Lorne's sacrifice, which had also instilled some
 level of harmony within reality itself, as if "all the sorrows had been
 wiped away", according to Angel. Angel remarked that Lorne was one with
 the universe now, though he preferred to believe that Lorne could still
 hear them and that he knew how much they missed him. Indeed, Lorne, 
from his new residence, could hear them and replied, "Oh, I can hear 
you, Angelcakes, and it's music to my ears."
After the Twilight crisis and the end of magic,
 Gunn told Angel of what the other members of A.I. had been up to since 
he last saw them, with Gunn remarking that he didn't need to tell Angel 
what happened to Lorne because he already knew.
== Powers and abilities ==
Lorne was capable of reading people's auras, as well as their futures, while they were singing, humming or whistling. He used this power to set them on their path in life. Lourne could also read their thoughts and emotions when he did this, although he had an 
ability to read basic details about auras even without the need for 
singing and could read detailed information about people who were in 
extreme emotional distress without them singing. His powers did not 
require conscious effort, as he was capable of sensing Holtz's plans to 
blow up Caritas just by hearing him whistle, as well as Wesley's plans to kidnap Connor by hearing him hum a lullaby. Regardless, his ability was not infallible, and could be fooled by magic and substances such as calendula.
Lorne had excellent hearing, and could hear outside the normal human 
range, going as far as to tune into transmission frequencies. He could 
also generate vocal tones in frequencies harmful to human ears and 
adjust it to different effects, from shattering glass and damaging light
 bulbs to destroying demons. Like the rest of his species, Lorne was 
immune to the intoxicating effects of normal alcohol, but could be 
affected by certain magical brews. Nonetheless, Lorne regularly consumed
 alcohol to the point of being an alcoholic, favoring Sea Breeze 
cocktails.
Like the rest of his people, Lorne had the ability to survive the 
complete removal of his limbs and even beheading, unless his body is 
mutilated after the dismemberment.
For unknown reasons Lorne is also capable of tolerating music, which 
to the rest of his species would cause agonizing pain. He has also 
claimed to be able to hold a note indefinitely.
When Lorne's ability to sleep was removed, his powers were 
altered; instead of sensing destinies, he began to write them, granting 
him a sort of suggestion power. He inadvertently altered Spike's
 cynic personality into optimistic and super-positive, made Wesley and 
Fred act drunk despite having had very little alcohol, made Gunn 
literally "stake out his territory" by urinating all over the Wolfram 
& Hart building, and influenced Angel and Eve
 to have sex with each other. As well as this, his subconscious, unable 
to cope with the conflicts Lorne usually handled in his sleep, then 
manifested as a physical projection which possessed superhuman physical 
attributes, the manifestation attacking those that caused Lorne's anger,
 including himself. These powers were lost when Lorne's ability to sleep
 was returned to him.
Also if one of his horns were damaged or removed it could grow back in a matter of days.
== Personality and traits ==
In direct contrast to his Deathwok brethren, Lorne was a peaceful 
being and preferred to simply relax and enjoy life rather than fight. 
Above all else, he believed in the inherent goodness of all 
beings and believed that anyone could turn their lives around if given 
enough guidance, as shown in his willingness to even let baby-eating 
demons come to Caritas.
Nonetheless, Lorne did have a vicious side rarely shown; when 
Fred was dying from her infection with Illyria's essence, while he, 
Angel, and Spike were investigating Lindsey's home for any evidence 
connecting him to the incident and found Eve, Lorne punched her in the 
face and warned her that he would kill her himself if he found out that 
she had any involvement.
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