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AND MY FAVOURITE SUPERIOR IS

Gabriel - From Lyta Alexander to Willow Rosenberg to Jean Grey/Pheonix, I just have a thing for women who are horrendously powerful, strong yet vulnerable at the same time, redheads, and mentally unstable.

Who else told Dominic to sod off, and stropped out of Heaven while still actually on trial (the charges were only dropped after she went)? Even Michael accepted his trial, but not Gabriel.

I particularly love the quote in her expanded write-up:

"constantly on the run from herself - that being the only celestial who can truly threaten her (except perhaps for Micheal)"

Gabriel is also my all-time favourite wild card. so far I've had her turn up on an intervention roll, and throw in her archangel vote (via Soldekai's unexpected arrival) at a critical moment when all seemed lost. Like Eli, she is unpredictable, but unlike Eli she still acts (via Soldekai) in celestial politics.


As for my favourite demon prince, I have to tie between Lilith and Kobal.

LILITH
You would not believe how many PCs get themselves geased, sometimes intentionally. Everyone has a weakness, often this weakness is a Need, and a lilim can go straight to it. That goes double for Lilith, and she can fulfil all sorts of needs her daughters have trouble with.

I like the fact Lilith is the only surviving major Demon Prince to be primarily female (of course, as a human, she is the only superior with true gender). This allows me to play her as the sort of ultimate stereotype female manipulator, wrapping you around her little finger when in a good mood, and
playing the most vicious forms of mind games if you defy her.

She is also the most human of the princes, and has the least evil word. However, she is still a *Demon* Princess, and woe betide anyone who gets on the wrong side of her.

TANGENT
I recently had great fun when a geased malakite (long story) defied Lilith by rerfusing to carry out her invoked Geas. His thinking was he would only take dissonance per time period unfulfilled (a month), and within two of those he would have completed his rescue of his true love (said geases being for the info to do this) and handed himself over to the Heavenly Inquisition to be annihilated. Poor poor deluded angel. Never defy Lilith.

[she merely gave him the 'you don't think you have anything to lose, but you haven't thought it through' speech from Batman Begins, complete with explanations of just how she could destroy everyone he cared about (including said true love) and how she would do so, not out of spite, but because she could not have anyone defy her sucessfully, or lose her power base. 'Nothing personal, you understand'.]

KOBAL

Kobal looks like a comedy superior, until you start looking at little details (mostly in the expanded superiors book).

Hang on, he has the greatest essence flow in hell.
He has a demon prince ally who isn't looking to betray him, and has eaten two demon princes already.
He sends groups to 'play pranks on' his renegades, and these rengades often *willingly* hand themselves over to Asmodeus (!!!) in order to escape this.
He managed to almost start Armageddon, and survived those events with his life, his position and his allies (Haagenti *and* Malphas). There is also a distinct implication that nearly starting Armageddon was *not* the ultimate joke. (since his expanded write-up mentions the final trumpet as having happened, and also mentions the joke taking shape in his mind in the present tense). If that wasn't it, what the Hell can he do to top it?!

But Gabriel is my favourite Superior overall.