Jordi

Ignore the lie that is “civilization,” the shared hallucination which humans call society. Heaven has erred grievously in allowing humanity to keep its artificial trappings ~ mankind must regain its wild nature or die.
Jordi is a kuriotes. With a strong aversion to most of man’s works, he spends most of his time wandering across the world’s countrysides in animal form. Lucifer did his best to play on Jordi’s disdain for mankind, but Jordi was never tempted. He remains completely loyal to the Divine, whatever he may think of the current state of the world. And he accepts as allies those humans who share his love for the animal kingdom.
Angels who don’t work for him consider Jordi to be completely insane. Mad or not, he’s exceptionally intelligent and wildly perceptive, and always willing to give a bit of leeway to supplicants who show consideration of his eccentricities. His servants may be wild and untameable, but they’re not cruel ~ they act as they must, with passion but without hatred.
Jordi prefers to grant audiences in the country, and will appear in a city for only the most dire emergencies.
== Subsidiary Words ==
Birds, Doves, Horses, Pets, Tame Beasts
== Dissonance ==
Jordi’s angels cannot allow themselves to be swayed by the concerns of human society, its rules or its expectations of behavior.
They gain dissonance if they value human life above animal life. When they kill, it must be cleanly and without pain, as is the custom of Jordi.
== Choir Attunements ==
Servitors of Jordi are well-versed in the language and culture of animals . Each choir is attuned to one or more particular types of animal, noted below, and can communicate basic concepts to those creatures through sound and gesture.
Jordi’s servants, except kuriotates, must purchase at least one animal vessel. Nothing they do in their animal vessels, except the performance of Songs and other expenditures of Essence, will disturb the Symphony!
=== Seraph ===
Jordi’s seraphim are attuned to amphibious and marine life, broadly speaking. The Book of Genesis describes the tanninim ~ “sea monsters” such as whales and crocodiles ~ as having been created on the Fifth Day; these are among the animals to which seraphim of Jordi are connected. They prefer to work in the relative peace of the underwater realm, rooting out those diabolicals who live secretly in watery darkness.
=== Cherub ===
Jordi’s cherubim are attuned to cats and to the Fifth Day's behemah (livestock and large herbivores). They are the servitors of Jordi most likely to be assigned to urban settings, to watch over the residents’ pets and punish those who torment them. Sometimes, they are assigned to watch over humanity's agricultural ways, taking vessels as cattle, pigs, sheep, and the like. They remember the sheer numbers of buffalo North America once held and can also take the big cats as vessels . . .
=== Ofan ===
Jordi’s ofanim are attuned to oph, to birds and other large winged or flying animals, such as birds and bats. It is their duty to exact revenge upon those who mistreat the creatures of the air, or destroy them for any reason except food. They still mourn the passing of the pterosaurs.
=== Eloah (partially restricted) ===
Jordi’s elohim are attuned to the remes of the Fifth Day, which are things which creep (mostly rodents, lizards, worms and snakes), as well as to reptiles of all types more broadly. Many are creatures of the desert, dusty angels of open spaces. The range of their resonance extends without difficulty as far as they can see in any direction.
=== Malak ===
Jordi’s malakim are attuned to chayyah (the beasts of the earth) and especially to dogs, wolves and other pack creatures. In the mortal world, they are eco-terrorists supreme, protecting nature from humanity’s works.
=== Kuriotes (partially restricted) ===
These are Jordi’s eyes and ears across the globe, able to enter many corporeal hosts at once. A kuriotes of Jordi can control animal hosts whose total Forces are equal to his total number of Forces times his Corporeal Forces! They are particularly attuned to sheretzim, which literally means things that swarm, but generally means fish and flying insects; each insect swarm or school of fish counts as one Corporeal Force for purposes of control, so a powerful kuriotes can manifest as dozens of schools/swarms at once.
=== Mercurians ===
Jordi’s mercurians are especially attuned to apes. They’re charged with studying all animals in their natural habitats, and helping humans to see the similarities between themselves and the cousins they so carelessly dispossess and enslave.
=== Grigori ===
Jordi considered humans to be merely talking animals, and so his grigori were the angels most closely attuned to this most vexing species. A grigori of Animals in a human vessel created no disturbance in the Symphony, except with Essence expenditures or Songs. Jordi's Watchers could also communicate basic concepts to any human with gestures and simple words ~ though the angel might not speak the human's language, the human would always comprehend what the angel was trying to communicate.
The grigori of Jordi oppose Andrealphus (natural vs salacious). As such, they can additionally make a Perception roll to determine if any given animal was born free or in captivity, with higher check digits giving them more information.
=== Ohr ===
Jordi’s ohrot can mask the tracks of any animal hiding within its light.
=== Chezeq ===
Chezeqim of Animals can triple their effective strength for moving living bodies.
=== Sasquatch ===
The vessels of sasquatches, like that of all servitors of Animals, do not cause disturbance except through Essence use. Also, they automatically know the location of every human within 200 yards of them.
== Servitor Attunements ==
=== Animal Magnetism ===
For 1 Essence, the angel may charm any single animal within eyesight which isn’t already celestially influenced. This is limited to animals whose total Forces are less than or equal to his Corporeal Forces.
=== Call of the Wild ===
For 2 Essence, the angel may summon a small group of local animals. The player may choose what sort of creatures arrive, as long as no one of them has more total Forces than the angel’s Celestial Forces. Roll a number of dice equal to the summoner’s Corporeal Forces to determine how many appear ~ they’ll arrive in 2 minutes. They aren’t at his control, but neither will they harm him.
=== Smell the Breeze ===
The angel has an olfactory sense comparable to that of a bloodhound: this can be very useful, in a great number of ways. When dealing with humans, this attunement provides a +4 to the Tracking and Detect Lies (the angel can smell fear) skills: also, with a Perception roll the angel may determine a human's basic emotional state at that moment.
Celestials don't usually have a personal smell (no sweat glands, no secretions), but usually their clothes or skin pick up enough distinct smells to justify a +2 to Tracking rolls.
=== Soul of the Wild ===
Jordi normally reserves this attunement for angels who have gained either a Word or a distinction. This angel may split their forces like a kuriotes to possess multiple hosts or vessels so long as every host or vessel is of their choirs’ associated species.
== Distinctions ==
=== Vassal of Animals ===
Jordi’s vassals always know the intentions (attack, flight, etc.) of any animal they see.
=== Friend of Beasts ===
The angel will never be attacked by wild beasts ~ although trained or charmed animals may still harm him.
=== Master of the Creature Within ===
The angel knows, at a glance, how much a given human likes animals and how he tends to treat them.
== Relations ==
Jordi cares little for celestial politics but doesn’t ignore it. This gives him clout as a swing vote, and different sides try to influence him ~ through his servants, if necessary. If sufficiently motivated, he will appear, cast his vote, and leave. Rarely will he bother speaking.
He cares nothing for the political arena because he feels the other archangels care nothing about him and his goals. He’s basically right; they think he’s mad. He gets along with Novalis, who sometimes carries his proxy in a formal vote, but he’ll shun other archangels before giving them a chance to shun him first.
Allied: Novalis
Associated: Eli, Yves
Hostile: Jean, Marc, Michael
== Rites ==
* Spend eight hours with no trace of civilization in sight.
* Live in a city for one full day as an animal, without spending Essence.
* Rescue an animal endangered by man’s works or man’s carelessness.
== Invocation ==
Chance of Invocation: 2
Add 2 to the chance of invocation, and 2 to the check digit of the summoning roll, if no human buildings, roads or vehicles are in sight.
+1 A street mutt or alley cat
+2 A work of man, created out of sincere love for animals
+3 An egg of an endangered species
+4 Twenty cats, living in the same dwelling
+5 A mountain gorilla
+6 A panda
== Tethers ==
* The Farallon Islands, in the San Francisco Bay Area
== Servitors ==
=== Masters of the Creature Within ===
==== 13 Forces ====
* Rzhani, mercurian angel of Horses
=== Unknown Rank ===
* Alphun, the angel of Doves
* Ariel, the ofan angel of Birds (often confused for a kuriotes)
* Fluttershy, eloah
* Hariel and Behemiel, the angels over Tame Beasts.
* Nethinims, mercurian angel of Pets
== Why is Jordi a Kyriotate? ==
Look to which animals Jordi delegated to his own choir. The implication is that Jordi associates “animals” with “tiny things that swarm.” And in all fairness, compared to an archangel, the creatures of the earth probably are tiny things that swarm, but it does betray a rather condescending outlook.
With this as a starting point, it’s rather clear why Jordi took exception to Man being placed above angels (they’re only creatures). In fact, the real question is why Jordi didn’t join the Rebellion. Jordi is amoral. As far as Jordi is concerned, wrong only means out of synch with his understanding of the Symphony, it does not mean that something must be righted.
Jordi isn’t anti-human, he just can’t comprehend them and doesn’t want to.
== Demons and Animals ==
It has been demonstrated that some animals take pleasure from cruelty (the dolphin springs to mind) and others will ostracize members their community who do not adhere to social norms and courtesies. As such, the occasional animal does go to Hell instead of Heaven. However, there is no separate demon of Beasts. The determining factor is how an animal behaves relative to its own species and ecosystem, not whether or not it is a hazard to humanity.
Category:Archangels
Category:Animals (Word)
Category:Kuriotates
Category:Wordbound