San Francisco Bay Area

## Celestial Activity

### Tethers

19 ~ divine Death/Coyote, Dreams, Children, Stone/Miwok spirits/Ohlone spirits, Creation, divine Fire, Lightning, the Sword, Revelation, Trade, Flowers, Protection, infernal Fire, Drugs, Freedom, Cruelty, infernal Death, diwatas, Mazu, Mother Goose, Guan Di, spirits of pulp fiction

The Host doesn't control the entire Bay Area, though they are stronger than the Horde. The East Bay (Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, Fremont, etc.) contains a lot of urban blight and many high crime areas (particularly Oakland). South of San Francisco is Palo Alto, which is divided between the wealthy western half and the gang-ridden East Palo Alto, scene of some of the Bay Area's worst violence.

The South Bay contains San Jose (which is larger than San Francisco, if less glamorous) and Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, Mountain View, Cupertino, and Sunnyvale, which merges indistinguishably into western San Jose in one great corporate-suburban sprawl). The Host is fairly strong here, but there are more diabolical tethers.

## Celestial Politics

### The Host

#### Azrael

The outcast grigori archangel of Death has a shared tether at Point Reyes, in the North Bay, with Coyote.

#### Christopher

The Adventure Playground in Berkeley is one of his tethers.

#### David

He does have a tether in the East Bay, at Mt. Diablo, which he shares with the Miwok and Ohlone spirits.

### Gabriel

The house where the Black Panther Party was founded (809 57th Street in Oakland) serves Gabriel as a tether.

#### Jean

Jean's much more interested in Silicon Valley to the south, though, particularly his tether at Xerox PARC.

#### Laurence

Unusual in not being Catholic, Laurence's Bay Area tether is Sikh ~ the Stockton Gurdwara Sahib.

#### Litheroy

Berkeley holds a tether to Litheroy in the form of KPFA headquarters.

### The Horde

#### Lilith

She has a tether at SRI International in Menlo Park.

#### Magog

Thanks to a rather famous and important ~ and utterly cruel ~ experiment, the basement of the Stanford Psychology Building holds a tether to Magog.

#### Saminga

The Zodiac Killer remains one of the United States' most famous serial killers, winning Saminga a tether on Lake Herman Road in Benicia.

#### Vapula

Vapula has many interests in the software companies of Silicon Valley, though, and desperately wants a tether there.

### Contested Tether

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is a young tether, perhaps shockingly resilient as it has maintained its status as such in the face of a wild scrum between Heaven and Hell to take control of it. Jordi is perhaps the oddest of those struggling to claim it, but. Vapula, of course, is desperate for a tether near Silicon Valley and has moved the most servitors of any of the Superiors involved to try and take control. Naturally, with the laboratory's government connections, Alaemon believes he might have a chance at gaining a tether in the Bay Area, and loves to vaguely hint that some of Vapula's agents are actually his. No one wants either Laurence or Belial to claim the tether, though both have made moves to do so. If either one gained a second tether in the area, the relatively peaceful state Bay Area may quickly become less so.

## Ethereal Politics

### Diwatas

The diwatas are known to have a tether somewhere in Stockton's Little Manila, but no one is quite certain *where*.

### Miwok and Ohlone Spirits

Mt. Diablo serves as a shared tether between the archangel of Stone and the entire pantheon of Miwok and Ohlone spirits.

#### Coyote

In a similar vein of Heavenly and ethereal cooperation, Coyote shares his tether at Point Reyes in the North Bay with the outcast grigori archangel of Death, Azrael.

### Mother Goose

Children's Fairyland in Oakland serves as a tether to Mother Goose.