Othniel

Othniel and its servitors can be used as celestial "Time Lords" to move modern PCs into historical or futuristic settings, or to play tricks on the PCs with temporal effects.
Long ago, Othniel was offered archangel status by the Seraphim Council but declined it. It is enormously old, having been created at the Beginning, shortly after Yves, Michael, Lucifer, and the other primal angels. It got its Word very early, too. It has always been a loyal servitor of Yves, and one reason it declined archangel status was to avoid Word-friction with its boss. Another, deeper, reason was that it knew being an archangel would throw it into much more contact with the Host in general and the Seraphim Council in particular ~ and serving its Word requires a lot of discretion, not to say secrecy.
As archangel of Destiny, Yves knows ALL the POSSIBLE futures. As angel of Time, Othniel knows SOME of the ACTUAL future, and is the patron of time-travel. Othniel has ~ Othniel invented ~ various Songs of Time-Travel. These he teaches to some of his servitors, mostly old and powerful ofanim.
Introduce time-travel and you immediately have decisions to make, chiefly about malleability of history and handling paradoxes. Othniel is designed for a system in which history is rigid and cannot be changed. (Does this mean Othniel is designed for a system without free will? An interesting philosophical question. Othniel would say no.)
If history is rigid, you get what GURPS Time Travel calls, I believe, "Observer Effect" and what Othniel calls "timelock." Timelock is the bad luck that happens to you if you try to do something that would change the past. Try to shoot your own infant self, and your gun will jam, or the Time Patrol will catch you, or you'll off the twin brother you never knew you had, or some such event.
It is part of Othniel's job to protect the Host from timelock. This, plus more conventional security reasons, is why he works secretly so much of the time. Anyone he moves back through time ~ either going on a mission into the past or returning from a mission into the future ~ works in treble secrecy, not only from the mortals and the infernals, as is usual, but from most of the rest of the Host as well. Othniel is the reverse of a public figure, and most of the Host do not know it exists.
Othniel has no single opposite number in the ranks of Kronos, but the demon prince makes occasional use of time-travel. He has developed his own versions of time-travel Songs and seems to project his agents through time himself, rather than teaching any of them these Songs.
Category:Angels
Category:Wordbound
Category:Elohim
Category:Destiny (Word)
Category:Time (Word)