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Here is a little something for the season, a Supporting Cast Member for Armageddon...

Saint Nicholas of Myra
Christmas Kerubim
Greater Supernatural Wanderer of the Heavenly Host
Nicholas appears as a thin Middle Eastern man in his late twenties with black hair and beard. He certainly doesn't look like a fat man with a long white beard and a fur-trimmed red suit, yet Nicholas is one of the sources of the legend of Santa Claus. Nicholas is one of the Kerubim, humans who appear in the angelic realm of Elysium after their death to serve the Heavenly Host as one of their Lesser Angels. They are the intercessory saints who work to help humanity, though most of them have never been formerly canonized (and many led lives that would never qualify them for official sainthood in the first place, becoming one of the Kerubim is their way of seeking redemption). Nicholas of Myra isn't that kind of Kerubim, he's the famous actual canonized saint kind of Kerubim who has had over a thousand churches dedicated to his name. Nicholas is considered the Patron Saint of Apulia, Freibourg, Greece, Lorraine, Moscow, Russia, and Sicily. He is also the Patron Saint of children, bankers, captives, pawnbrokers, and sailors, brides, unmarried women, perfumers, of travelers, pilgrims, and safe journeys, maritime pilots, boatmen, fishermen, sailors, dock workers, stevedores, brewers, coopers, bootblacks, the unjustly judged, and poets. All that, and he's Santa Claus as well.
Nicholas was born to a fairly wealthy family in the year 270 in the town of Pateria in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor. He made a pilgrimage to Egypt at a young age and even managed to study at the Great Library in Alexandria (which wouldn't get completely burned to the ground until about four decades after his death). When he returned to Asia Minor, he became one of the youngest bishops ever appointed (he was appointed because someone had a vision that said Nicholas should be appointed). The diocese he oversaw was a then rundown one based in the city of Myra, though he was soon known for his faith and compassion. Legend places him at the Council of Nicea, though his name is not on the historical list of bishops said to have attended. He died around the year 350, on December 6. With legends claiming that he performed at least twenty-one different miracles, he was easily canonized as one of the Saints.
One of the more famous stories about him concerns a man of his home town who had lost his fortune and so couldn't afford to put up a dowry for his three daughters. Nicholas heard about the man's misfortune, and decided to provide the dowry himself. He threw three bags of gold through the man's open window each night, one bag for each daughter. The three bags are thought to be the origin of the pawnshop symbol of three golden balls. According to legend, the last bag of gold was thrown into a sock that was hanging by the fireplace to dry, and this was the origin of hanging stockings for Christmas.
The legends of the generosity of Saint Nicholas became mixed with Nordic traditions of a magical gift-giver to develop into the legend of Santa Claus (Santa Claus being a strange linguistic corruption of Saint Nicholas). In the Old World, Saint Nicholas was thought of as an old man dressed in bishop robes who traveled around on a white horse, sometimes accompanied by a creature known as Knecht Ruprecht or Black Peter. In the New World he was thought of as a plump old man dressed in red furs with a hearty laugh and a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Neither one is really accurate.
When Nicholas died, he found himself in the angelic realm of Elysium. he was a Kerubim, one of the formerly human Lesser Angels of the Heavenly Host. He was vaguely aware of his veneration, in the way that all in Elysium are vaguely aware of the passage in history, but for centuries he really didn't think that much about. He just came to Earth as often as he could (the Seraphim are wary of letting any of the Host stay on Earth for too long because of humanity's "corrupting influence"). Once the veneration of a bishop who saved a bunch of sailors became an annual winter festival, Nicholas began to spend every Yule Season on Earth. For the past five hundred years, Nicholas has followed the same pattern . He comes to Earth on Saint Nicholas day, the commemoration of his death on December 6. He stays on Earth until Epiphany, which is one month later on January 6 (and is also sometimes referred to as the Twelfth Day of Christmas). During this time he mostly does the kind of things that he was known for in legends, help the poor and the suffering innocents. He has been known to grant a few Christmas wishes for children (with the help of his Theophanies and the power of Divine Providence that all Kerubim share). He is Santa Claus after all.
STR 7 INT 6
DEX 6 PER 6
CON 7 WIL 6
Life Points: 100
Endurance Points: 130
Speed: 26
Essence: 199
Qualities: Attractive 2 , Charisma 4, Photographic Memory, Situational Awareness, Status +10 (famous Saint and the real Santa Claus)
Drawbacks: Adversary (Infernal Legion) 6, Clown , Honorable 3, Obsession (Helping the Poor and Innocent), Reckless
Skills: Bureaucracy 3, Climbing 3, First Aid 4, Haggling 4, Humanities (Orthodox Theology) 5, Instruction 4, Language (Greek, native) 5, Language (Arabic) 2, Language (Dutch) 4, Language (English) 4, Language (French) 4, Language (German) 4, Language (Italian) 4, Language (Latin) 4, Language (Russian) 4, Language (Turkish) 3, Occult Knowledge (Seraphim) 4, Piloting (Sailboat) 3, Research/Investigation 3, Riding (Horse) 3, Riding (Cart) 3, Rituals (Orthodox) 5, Singing 3, Stealth 4, Storytelling 5, Streetwise 2, Surveillance 3, Swimming 3, Writing (Academic) 3
Metaphysics: Age (6 Levels) , Good Luck (6 Levels) , Increased Essence Pool +75 , Kerubim, Concealer , Dreamer, Healer , Revealer, Theophany 7
Possessions: Not much, but then a dead bishop doesn't need that much. He usually just travels with the clothes on his back. In the seventeenth century, Nicholas managed to aquire the service of a PĂșca (a squat hairy creature of the Faerie Lands who are known for their shape-shifting abilities, this one would turn into a goat). Because of an incident that neither one will talk about, the PĂșca is in the Kerubim's debt and will sometimes accompany Nicholas on his travels (though it usually just stays in the Sephiroth of Yesod).
Merry Christmas,
Thom
Here is a little something for the season, a Supporting Cast Member for Armageddon...

Saint Nicholas of Myra
Christmas Kerubim
Greater Supernatural Wanderer of the Heavenly Host
Nicholas appears as a thin Middle Eastern man in his late twenties with black hair and beard. He certainly doesn't look like a fat man with a long white beard and a fur-trimmed red suit, yet Nicholas is one of the sources of the legend of Santa Claus. Nicholas is one of the Kerubim, humans who appear in the angelic realm of Elysium after their death to serve the Heavenly Host as one of their Lesser Angels. They are the intercessory saints who work to help humanity, though most of them have never been formerly canonized (and many led lives that would never qualify them for official sainthood in the first place, becoming one of the Kerubim is their way of seeking redemption). Nicholas of Myra isn't that kind of Kerubim, he's the famous actual canonized saint kind of Kerubim who has had over a thousand churches dedicated to his name. Nicholas is considered the Patron Saint of Apulia, Freibourg, Greece, Lorraine, Moscow, Russia, and Sicily. He is also the Patron Saint of children, bankers, captives, pawnbrokers, and sailors, brides, unmarried women, perfumers, of travelers, pilgrims, and safe journeys, maritime pilots, boatmen, fishermen, sailors, dock workers, stevedores, brewers, coopers, bootblacks, the unjustly judged, and poets. All that, and he's Santa Claus as well.
Nicholas was born to a fairly wealthy family in the year 270 in the town of Pateria in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor. He made a pilgrimage to Egypt at a young age and even managed to study at the Great Library in Alexandria (which wouldn't get completely burned to the ground until about four decades after his death). When he returned to Asia Minor, he became one of the youngest bishops ever appointed (he was appointed because someone had a vision that said Nicholas should be appointed). The diocese he oversaw was a then rundown one based in the city of Myra, though he was soon known for his faith and compassion. Legend places him at the Council of Nicea, though his name is not on the historical list of bishops said to have attended. He died around the year 350, on December 6. With legends claiming that he performed at least twenty-one different miracles, he was easily canonized as one of the Saints.
One of the more famous stories about him concerns a man of his home town who had lost his fortune and so couldn't afford to put up a dowry for his three daughters. Nicholas heard about the man's misfortune, and decided to provide the dowry himself. He threw three bags of gold through the man's open window each night, one bag for each daughter. The three bags are thought to be the origin of the pawnshop symbol of three golden balls. According to legend, the last bag of gold was thrown into a sock that was hanging by the fireplace to dry, and this was the origin of hanging stockings for Christmas.
The legends of the generosity of Saint Nicholas became mixed with Nordic traditions of a magical gift-giver to develop into the legend of Santa Claus (Santa Claus being a strange linguistic corruption of Saint Nicholas). In the Old World, Saint Nicholas was thought of as an old man dressed in bishop robes who traveled around on a white horse, sometimes accompanied by a creature known as Knecht Ruprecht or Black Peter. In the New World he was thought of as a plump old man dressed in red furs with a hearty laugh and a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Neither one is really accurate.
When Nicholas died, he found himself in the angelic realm of Elysium. he was a Kerubim, one of the formerly human Lesser Angels of the Heavenly Host. He was vaguely aware of his veneration, in the way that all in Elysium are vaguely aware of the passage in history, but for centuries he really didn't think that much about. He just came to Earth as often as he could (the Seraphim are wary of letting any of the Host stay on Earth for too long because of humanity's "corrupting influence"). Once the veneration of a bishop who saved a bunch of sailors became an annual winter festival, Nicholas began to spend every Yule Season on Earth. For the past five hundred years, Nicholas has followed the same pattern . He comes to Earth on Saint Nicholas day, the commemoration of his death on December 6. He stays on Earth until Epiphany, which is one month later on January 6 (and is also sometimes referred to as the Twelfth Day of Christmas). During this time he mostly does the kind of things that he was known for in legends, help the poor and the suffering innocents. He has been known to grant a few Christmas wishes for children (with the help of his Theophanies and the power of Divine Providence that all Kerubim share). He is Santa Claus after all.
STR 7 INT 6
DEX 6 PER 6
CON 7 WIL 6
Life Points: 100
Endurance Points: 130
Speed: 26
Essence: 199
Qualities: Attractive 2 , Charisma 4, Photographic Memory, Situational Awareness, Status +10 (famous Saint and the real Santa Claus)
Drawbacks: Adversary (Infernal Legion) 6, Clown , Honorable 3, Obsession (Helping the Poor and Innocent), Reckless
Skills: Bureaucracy 3, Climbing 3, First Aid 4, Haggling 4, Humanities (Orthodox Theology) 5, Instruction 4, Language (Greek, native) 5, Language (Arabic) 2, Language (Dutch) 4, Language (English) 4, Language (French) 4, Language (German) 4, Language (Italian) 4, Language (Latin) 4, Language (Russian) 4, Language (Turkish) 3, Occult Knowledge (Seraphim) 4, Piloting (Sailboat) 3, Research/Investigation 3, Riding (Horse) 3, Riding (Cart) 3, Rituals (Orthodox) 5, Singing 3, Stealth 4, Storytelling 5, Streetwise 2, Surveillance 3, Swimming 3, Writing (Academic) 3
Metaphysics: Age (6 Levels) , Good Luck (6 Levels) , Increased Essence Pool +75 , Kerubim, Concealer , Dreamer, Healer , Revealer, Theophany 7
Possessions: Not much, but then a dead bishop doesn't need that much. He usually just travels with the clothes on his back. In the seventeenth century, Nicholas managed to aquire the service of a PĂșca (a squat hairy creature of the Faerie Lands who are known for their shape-shifting abilities, this one would turn into a goat). Because of an incident that neither one will talk about, the PĂșca is in the Kerubim's debt and will sometimes accompany Nicholas on his travels (though it usually just stays in the Sephiroth of Yesod).
Merry Christmas,
Thom
