Saint Howard Philips Lovecraft

St. Howard has been in Heaven for quite some time for a Cadre member. His allegiance to Flowers makes sense: when you've spent your life single-handedly redefining the horror genre, you want some peace in your soul afterwards. However, St. Howard's knowledge of esoteric matters has taken a sharp curve upwards since he died, thanks to the opportunity to read the really forbidden tomes. His Cadre missions usually involve sorcery and/or the undead, as he's the Cadre's recognized expert on both.
Interestingly enough, St. Howard has a bit of an issue with Saminga. Apparently, the arrogant poseur was the one responsible for him dying of cancer (the fact that St. Howard could create fictional characters that were scarier than Saminga could ever hope to be apparently rankled). St. Howard would like to return the favor. After all, it's certainly a strange enough aeon these days: who knows? Maybe Death can die . . .
== GURPS, 3rd edition, statistics ==
ST 9 [-10] DX 11 [10] IQ 13 [30] HT 8 [-10]*
Divine Favor (Novalis) [25]; Doesn't Eat or Drink [10]; Immunity to Disease [10]; Essence Control +7 [22]; one level of Power Investiture in each realm [30]; Reputation +2 (among writers/readers of weird and speculative fiction) [3]; Slow Regeneration [10]; Status 1 [5]; Symphonic Awareness [15]; Temperature Tolerance +10 [10]; and Unaging [15].
Code of Honour (gentleman's) [-10]; Duty (Novalis, 15-) [-15]; Intolerance (racist and sometime antisemite) [-5]; Skinny [-5]; Sterile [-3]
Likes cats; Loves sweets, ice cream, and Italian food, hates fish; Prolific letter-writer; Snobbish to strangers; Writes with archaic spellings. [-5]
Anthropology () [½]-10, Archaeology () [1]-11. Area Knowledge (New England) () [6]-16, Area Knowledge (Providence) () [2]-14, Artist () [½]-10, Astronomy () [2]-12, Bicycling () [½]-10, Botany () [½]-10, Calligraphy () [4]-12, Chemistry () [½]-10, Geology () [½]-10, History () [10]-16, Linguistics () [4]-12, Literature () [10]-16, Lucid Dreaming () IQ [1], Mathematics () [1]-11, Psychology () [½]-10, Research () [4]-14, Teaching () [1]-12, Theology () [4]-13, Writing () [8]-18 (Note: Lovecraft's skills are generally at TL6, but with some oddities and archaisms.)
Classical Greek () [½]-12, English (native) () [5]-19, French () [1]-13, Latin () [1]-13, Sanskrit () [½]-12
Attributes 20 + Advantages 155 - Disadvantages 38 - Quirks 5 + Skills 61½ + Languages 8 = 201½
* The cost here is affected by the Saint template from GURPS In Nomine
Stats here are for him as a 33-year-old ~ he lived another 14 years, which might give him a few more points. Add maybe around 20 points for his time in Heaven, prolly increasing Lucid Dreaming, at minimum, if not gaining Attunements/Songs/Rites/PI from Novalis
Category:Humans
Category:Saints
Category:Flowers (Word)
Category:The Cadre