The Messenger

*"The Messenger is flighty. Bird-like. Greatly interested in pleasure and language. You might have heard of the travellers, or of its radio station? Perhaps not"*

## Nature

The Messenger is an ancient and very powerful Leviathan. It is noted to be "flighty" and "bird-like", and have great interest in pleasure and language. It is far more open to using humans than the majority of other leviathans.

It, or it's followers, have some association with the colour yellow.

## Physical Appearance

It is described as birdlike, with hands of glass and wings of feathers and blood. When inhabiting Chad, it forces his bones and skin out of his back in the form of wings, killing him in the process. It is associated with the sound of wingbeats, and as with other Leviathans has it's own song.

## Abilities

### Self

* **Possession:** The Messenger can be invited to use the body of a human being. This changes the shape of the person, killing them in the process
* **Travel:** It is able to travel between The City and Earth, at least under specific circumstances.

### Devotees

* **Doorways:** The Travellers are able to, with the sacrifice of story or fluids, open any doorway into The City. Humming it's associated tune is a component of this. This takes them to The City, where they can only stay a very short time, due to dangers and a risk of becoming stuck. They are able to exit wherever in the world they please, which gives the impression to outsiders of long-distance teleporting.

## Associations

### The Travellers

A collection of Messenger devotees including Beth and Tim who are able to travel to the city and back using doorways. They describe The Messenger as an entity they love and respect, and which in turn loves and takes care of them.

### The Radio Station

A village exists at this station, of Earthen humans who spend their lives in pleasure and bliss and dancing. This seems to be one of the ways it feeds. The Messenger lures people in by a hard-to-find radio broadcast on Earth, which humans including Carl and Kathy Quinn often become overly invested in. The music is described as pleasurable, and people risk becoming lost in it. The Radio Station may formerly have taken the form of a ballroom, filled with dancers performing some strange, complicated dance resembling a waltz, in yellow clothes and masks of an unknown material.

### Melody Pendras

Melody at some point struck up a deal with The Messenger in order to bring Alexa to The City.

### Mark Sollinger

Mark uses a ritual tied to The Messenger in order to gain power and become something new.

### Artifacts

The Messenger appears to have ties with a number of items including:

* **Wing Beats:** A play performed in 1938, a ritual with the intention of turning Mark Sollinger into something more powerful.
* **Object E-QBS825:** Three black feathers resembling those of a Turkey Vulture. They were discovered at the site of the disappearance of Mr. Victor Clayton, an eccentric with a fascination for birds. Some observers report the faint sound of wingbeats.
* **Object E-SKB244:** A wooden music box, roughly 5 x 7 inches, or 12.7 x 17.8 cm. It has an ivory inlay of a Pharaoh with wings. Inadvisable to open it.

## Appearances

* 11 - Body, Recorder

* 12 - Fly, Honeypot

* 13 - Song, Doorway

* 16 - Vines, Contest

* 18 - Collection, Composition

* 19 - Escape, Birth

* 21 - The Golden Age, Part 1

* 22 - The Golden Age, Part 2