Ascended Angels

The Ascended Angels, shortened to the Angels, are an unofficial intelligence agency within Essotori, specialising in recon, subversion, and assasination of designated targets. The Angels were formed in 1898, on a much more reduced spectrum, focused heavily on technological studying of foreign regimes, and espionage. Their mandate evolved, and became more advanced as time went on, becoming the personal arm of the Nozerod on the world stage. Agents of the Angels use secrecy and cover as their greatest weapon. Each Angel operating outside has no knowledge of each other's existance, all coordination is completed via handlers.

## Organisation

### Field Angels

Field Angels are the lowest level of operatives in the field, generally divided into Deep Intergration and Precise Strike Angels. DIs are recruited from childhood, given an advanced education in the target nation, and deployed in their teen years with a manufactured life. Generally, DIs would be sent to serve in the field around the ages of 13-17, and would continue to complete their tasks post education. They would generally be expected to start families, and become members of their communities, to disguise their true purpose. PS Angels are raised from Essotori, and recruited from the Ministry of Endless Silence, the more official intelligence agency in Suntterland. PS Angels have the important task of exterminating enemies of Essotori that have appeared and are of a critical importance, such as gangs, or police forces that have started to unearth Cultist activities, as well as foreign governments.

## Stories behind the veil

### John Witte

"Who are you? What are you doing here!?"

"Thousand Eyes Upon All."

"This Crownslave understands and accepts fate." -John Witte and the Assasin

John Witte was an Angel deployed in Treka, stationed in New Walpole. He was given a false identity, and set up to work at the age of fourteen. He studied engineering, and achieved a high grade in a Trekan University. While studying, John gave regular reports on how university life in Treka operated, providing his handler with a constant stream of information, allowing the Essotori government at home to tailor it's modernisation schemes to best suit the Cult. Here, he met Lois, a native Trekan. The two married, with full approval of his handler, and became fully intergrated parts of the community, with John becoming a member of the local gym, and Lois hosting neighbourhood parties for the family. The two had three children, named Steven and Andrea. The family lived an ideal life, though John would begin his allocated task in earnest after graduating from university. Reporting on the Trekan fleet, and the society at large, how to potentially counter the naval doctrine, and steal any secret data. This, he performed well, until he was 45, when he was tasked with the execution of Essotori expat Andrew Maxwell, who fled the Ascendancy in 2001. In order to disguise his attack, John began a serial killing spree, across New Walpole, with a customised MO. John would kill men and women alternately each fortnight, rob them, and destroy all evidence while fully masked. This would go on for about two months, taunting the police with letters, and making his targets seem as though they were opportune. On November 3rd, 2004, John broke into the home of Andrew Maxwell, and shot him in each leg, then the back of the head, his standard MO, before robbing his apartment. Andrew Maxwell was not very public about his expat status, unlike others like Simon Laire, thus, it seemed random to much of the local community. Meanwhile, John contributed large sums of money to the families of the deceased, and organised fundraising events to catch the Demon of New Walpole. After the success of his mission, he killed twice more, before his handlers commanded him to cease, after several close calls with the police. To cover his tracks, John Witte was executed by another Angel of Essotori, who shot him in the back of the head. This murder was designed to cover the tracks of Witte, making him appear as the victim in another spree. Any suspicion eventually fell on John's Wife Lois.