Hades

**Hades** (*ᾍδης*) is the king of the Underworld and the dead. He is also a god of wealth. His consort is Persephone. A son of Cronus and Rhea; brother to Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, and Zeus.

## Titanomachy

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## Honore de Plessis

### Description

Honore de Plessis is the Cardinal in residence.

**Honore de Plessis** is the Cardinal in residence. He woke up in the Church, specifically because of the Inquisition. It wasn't the death, explicitly -- it was the fear of death, the fear of the afterlife, that brought him to conciousness.

It made him furious.

How dare this pretender to godhood and his followers taint something that was simple, natural, beautiful?

He spent the next years slowly building up power in the church, specifically to take it over and turn it back to a decent theology. When he was raised to the bishopry he began leaning into the more powerful, more dangerous parts of the church -- working with the inquisition, with the exorcists, with those that catered to the wealthy.

It took very little time for him to make himself wealthy.

Now that he has been raised to Cardinal, he is returning west, this time permanently to France.

## Aldric Simons

### Description

Aldric Simons is an actuary at a life insurance company.

**Aldric Simons** is an actuary at a life insurance company. For as long as anyone at the company can remember, he has been at the company. He has seen the life insurance company grow and change around him. He used to be the only actuary in the place; now, there are dozens, a whole floor of them.

He moved to policy management for a while, but even that was not hands-on enough for him; now he's in accounts payable -- in-house accounting at an insurance firm, two layers deep! -- and it's the most rewarding job he's ever had, sorting out payouts for clients large and small. The trickiest, knottiest accounts always come to him, but he manages to get some ordinary clients in when he can.

He is a Company man, through and through. Of course he takes side jobs -- who in the financial sector doesn't take side jobs -- but he's honest and thorough. He's not interested in cooking the books for anyone.

He just likes jobs that get him in personal contact with the client. Holding the hands of a widow, letting her know she will be taken care of. Reaching out to a family, letting them know they'll keep the house, or helping them move to a smaller place they can afford, showing them how to carefully spend the annuity so they'll never be without.

He himself spends no money to speak of, despite drawing a very comfortable salary. He owns three suits and two pairs of shoes, rents a bachelor's apartment, and spends his free time reading library books in the various parks and gardens. From time to time he goes out to some local watering hole to meet some fine young lady that one of his friends sets him up with.
Facts about Aldric Simons:

1. He has three suits. His everyday is black and nicely tailored but not custom-made. His second-best is dove-grey, also not custom but of extremely nice material and with a few nice but not ostentatious touches. His best suit is as yet undefined but certainly expensive and custom. He also owns a tuxedo that rarely finds its way out of the closet.
2. He rents a room from a middle-aged widow who keeps his room tidy and handles his meals. Most days he has a boiled egg and toast for breakfast, a packed sandwich and tea for lunch, and whatever dinner she provides him at night. He finds the routine pleasant but is always willing to deviate for good reason. He does not believe in snacks. (Correllary: Snacks are acceptable for children. He keeps raisins in his desk for them, along with children's comic books to distract them when they're in his office.)
3. He does not currently have any pets but he does feed the stray dogs that live in the alley behind his landlady's house.
4. He brings his landlady fresh flowers every evening for the dining room table.
5. Though he has never attended a game in person, Hades is a big fan of baseball. He reads the box scores every day and enjoys tracking the numbers in his little notebook.
6. He collects coins (this is also an investment).
7. He collects rocks (this is not an investment, he just likes them).
8. He doesn't have a favorite food. He doesn't have any dislikes or allergies. Food is food.
9. He knows wine and whiskey and has a pallette for both, but he doesn't actually find the expensive stuff any better than the mediocre stuff in general. He drinks it anyway to impress his clients.
10. He keeps a tight schedule for his evenings. Sunday is Roast day so he can't miss that dinner. Monday is errands, Tuesday is The Landlady's Grandkids which is a whole thing, Wednesday is socialize with coworkers day (it's necessary for a productive office!), Thursday is Library Day, Friday is either Hobby Night or Unexpected Events Evening (the worst), and all day Saturday it's Recover From Dealing With People
11. The reason he has a basement apartment: it was carefully selected, with the back wall of the living room backing on to some of the secret tunnels that criss-cross the city. He secretly put a door behind one of the bookcases, and from time to time he likes to cross the city entirely under the earth; it makes it feel like the old days. He has absolutely no interest in the business that the mortals conduct through there, running materials and smuggling, but he's very fond of the underground itself, and the tunnels themselves. Over the last ten years he has improved the tunnels near his home in little ways; improved the lighting, evened the grade, even provided tidy little signs at certain corners. He doesn't sleep much; night has always been his favored time, so he often works at night, making the space nicer.

Aldric has run an ad in the classifieds of the City's finest paper every week for as long as he's been awake.

## Non-Player Characters

### Roaring 20s NPCs

* **Greta Morton** is not *actually* Aldric's secretary at Metropolitan Life, she's a rather nattily dressed and broad-shouldered woman, her ever-so-slightly greying hair clipped short and curled, reading glasses often perched on her nose.
* **Mr. Sterling** is an actuary at Metropolitan Life, working with Aldric and fond of Moira.

* Greta Morton
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## Locations

### Titanomachy Locations

* **Hades' Office** is up high, for the Underworld, cut into a wall that overlooks the majority of the larger underground spaces. One must go up a long staircase cut into the stone to get there. The door is heavy, brass, impossible to move for mortals, though childsplay for any god. They open on to a huge space cut into the stone, full of heavy, dark furniture also almost entirely cut from the granite and polished with use. The art is simple and geometric; all the walls are lined with inset bookcases. Some have doors that can be locked, some curtains that can be pulled to hide what's within, and some allow anyone to peruse what's within. One wall is cut intricately so the sounds and sights of the Underworld below can be examined by any within.
* **The Underworld** is where the soul goes, brought by psychopomps after your death. It is a large place, one of darkness made for the dead, where the soul is judged and accounts are settled.

### Sun Court Locations

* **The Royal Chapel** is technically the fourth chapel constructed at Versailles, and will eventually be replaced with a fifth. The chapel is still ostentatious like the rest of the palace, but one of the quieter places in Versailles—it's not really a vivacious atmosphere, after all. There's a bell set up to ring for a priest (probably the assistant priest) in case anyone needs confession - the booth is open. A couple maids are tidying up the altar area to bring a few things back to the sacristy, and it's relatively peaceful—but stepping inside, under the sunbeams through the stained glass windows, you can't quite help but feel like you're being watched from somewhere. Or like you just heard footsteps.

#### The Cardinal's Apartments

**The Cardinal's Apartments** are exquisitely well-appointed with heavy wood furniture, beautifully dyed silks, religious artifacts, and art lining every bookshelf and mantel, each jewel-encrusted piece shimmering in gold, more expensive than elegant. There are four rooms. The study is as far as most people ever see and contains a desk for himself and another for his secretary. The bedroom is dominated by a four-poster bed on a raised platform in a room with huge, sunny windows. The bathroom has every inch made of marble. Finally, a library where the most expensive artifacts are stored with very few books in sight.

* The Cardinal's apartments at Versailles.
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### Roaring 20s Locations

* **Metropolitan Life** is the location of Aldric Simon's employer - on the 26th floor.

## References

1. ↑ Wikipedia - Hades [1]
2. ↑ Theoi - Hades [2]
3. ↑ Wikipedia - Chapels of Versailles [3]
4. ↑ Chateau de Versailles - Royal Chapel [4]