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Old 02-03-2023, 05:02 PM   #4
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Default Re: Vojaltri, Kyriotate of Creation

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Originally Posted by thorr-kan View Post
And perhaps an angel headed for a Fall, as it's abusing humans even if not harming its own hosts.
Perhaps! Depends a lot on 1) the campaign's dark/bright and contrast settings, and 2) exactly how choosy the GM decides to make Vojaltri about targets.

In a bright, high-contrast game where Vojaltri is knocking out a lot of innocent dupes of Hell, well, they're treating humans a lot like a Shedite would, even if they're not directly possessing to do the corrupting. If the tones are darker, the contrast is lower, and/or Vojaltri is careful that the targets are actively bad (maybe even only actual Hellsworn), well, the approach is not inherently worse than angels of Fire punishing human cruelty.

Lots of implicit knobs on this one for GMs to twiddle as they like for their campaigns, a potential adventure seed whichever side the PCs are on and whatever their Words served. Also reasonably easy to adapt to the canonical Los Angeles, or any other demon-dominated city (Bogota is the other one named in Fall of the Malakim).

The anti-human approach also adapts to a Kyrio of Animals that's decided to take the fight against animal cruelty into a city. For the same starting-Celestial-plus-20 CP balance, delete Kyrio of Creation & Kyrio of Trade, and add a Celestial Force, pushing the character's Will up so it can reliably grab hosts without the Trade attunement. Then probably move the points in Knowledge and Throwing elsewhere, possibly Climbing and/or Tracking.

By the way, for the curious, "vojaltri" is an archaic form of "voialtri", an Italian word which Wiktionary defines as "you (everyone except me or us, "you lot")". Vojaltri's Los Angeles- or Bogota-centered alternate version might accordingly be named "Vosotros" (the Spanish equivalent).
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