The Architect

**The Architect**, referred to as "Hans Hoffman" in his human mortal form, is an angel created by the God-Machine to watch over the 300 city block and the main antagonist of The Vanishing at 300 Block.

It was killed by Ikarus Stone and Anjel on February 2023 after it resurfaced.

## Appearance

In its mortal disguise, Hans Hoffman is a middle-aged German man with graying brown hair, a slight limp in his left leg, a Masonic ring, and a pair of thick, horn-rimmed glasses. Its fingertips are stained with ink, and it leaves black fingerprints on whatever it touches.

## Personality

The Architect's VIRTUE is amiable, while its VICE is cold. While its mortal disguise was still 'alive', Hoffman was a distinguished and brilliant but easily frustrated gentleman. He was a world-renowned architect and was also known for his generous efforts, one of them planning the entirety of the 300 block. His reputation and charisma were so positive that the landlords and authority figures of the city block didn't contest his unethical decisions as to how to manage the city block moving forward, knowing they would benefit from it as well.

In its angel form, the Architect is almost single-minded in its efforts, resurfacing only when the city block's secrets and especially the underground boiler room and God-Machine itself was under imminent threat of being discovered. The Architect is an imposing, intimidating figure, and prone to fits of violence as shown when it killed one of the landlords who failed it without hesitation. If threatened, however, it will attempt to reason with its attacker, such as when it offered Iks the opportunity to use the God-Machine to fulfill a boon in exchange for the responsibility to maintain it moving forward.

## Story

### Creation

The Architect was created by the God-Machine to design the 300 block, granting it the influence and skills of a world-renowned and humanitarian architect, operating under the moniker "Hans Hoffman". To house the God-Machine and find a way to harvest spiritual energy from sacrifices, it crafted the boiler room under 300 block's public park. It created a deal with many of the city block's landlords and authority figures to keep the city safe and profitable but at the cost of a human sacrifice every six months. Many years later, Hans Hoffman passed away due to natural causes, and The Architect returned to limbo, awaiting the God-Machine's next instructions, resurfacing only when the city block's authorities would summon it out of necessity.

### The Vanishing at 300 Block

The Architect was again summoned by the city block's landlords and authority figures to report that one Ikarus Stone was trying to uncover their plans and threatened to expose them. The Architect angrily commanded them to take care of it, killing an ineffectual henchman in the process. After Iks and Anjel revealed themselves nearby and eliminated the henchmen in the boiler room, The Architect attempted to reason with Iks, offering him the opportunity to use the God-Machine for his own good at the same cost of sacrificing a mortal life to it every six months and reasoning that he's proved himself to be a potentially formidable servant of the God-Machine. Blinded by rage, however, Iks instead immediately killed the angel with Anjel's help, cutting off its head.

## Powers & Abilities

### Stats

* Rank: 2
* Corpus: 10
* Willpower: 12
* Size: 5 (Angel: 6)
* Speed: 16
* Defense: 4
* Initiative Mod: 12
* Max Essence: 15

### Attributes

* Power 4
* Finesse 7
* Resistance 5

### Numina

* Left-Handed Spanner
* Seek
* Telekinesis

### Manifestations

* Discorporate
* Materialize
* Twilight Form

## Limitations & Weaknesses

* The Architect's Ban was that it could not leave the boiler room under any circumstances after its first death and subsequent resurfacing.
* The Architect's Bane were missing persons posters from victims of the 300 block.