I’ve wanted to put this one back up for years.
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I… I found the In Nomine hard drive.
I bought the Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD [Support UASP] (EC-DFLT) more or less as a dang lark; I knew that the relevant hard drives were fried, but I wanted to double check before I started pricing just how much I couldn’t afford a drive recovery, you know? But it worked! It worked on the first try, and now I have back all of my In Nomine files, to about 2009 or so. Which pretty much means that I have them all.
I may or may not have celebrated by going into the kitchen and having a shot of tequila.
In Nomine Revisited: Nothing, Ethereal God of Atheists.
One of the entertaining things about In Nomine world-building for me was playing with the way that the core game concept could handily scupper the materialist-scientific worldview. As I would sometimes point out: in that campaign universe the most insightful and accurate theorist in the 20th Century when it came to the origins of the human race was Erich von Daniken. You can get some entertaining campaign seeds that way, particularly when your players are trying to make sure that the laws of physics keep ‘working’ properly around the unaware human researchers.
Continue reading In Nomine Revisited: Nothing, Ethereal God of Atheists.Shackled [Celestial] [In Nomine]
Shackled (Celestial Discord, -3/level)
The Shackled Celestial Discord penalizes celestials (penalty equal to the level of the Discord) for all mundane activities that do not credibly serve their Superior’s Word. This does include Outcasts or Renegades. Shackled does not affect dissonance per se, but the celestial will be very uncomfortable in situations that would normally be Word-dissonant: add -1 to the skill penalty.
Attuned [5pt/level] [In Nomine]
Attuned (5pt/level)
This general, well, Attunement gives +1 per level (max 6) to any mundane action that can be credibly argued to be in the service of the Superior granting Attuned. It does not give a similar bonus to Songs, resonances, or any other supernatural activities. Attuned can be bought after character creation, but mortals may not receive this Attunement unless they have been given a Force from a celestial.
In Nomine Revisited: The US Capitol Rotunda Tether (Random/Wild)
The US Capitol Rotunda
(Random/Wild)
You place your bets, and you take your chances.
The problem is that too many people on the corporeal plane have too many opinions on what the US Capitol in Washington DC is actually symbolic of. Normally, that would just ensure that no actual Tether would form at all, but even a low probability result can come up sometime. In this case, the Symphony’s solution to the problem was to create a Tether that sequentially links to all of the even marginally-likely Superior-level Words: the Tether is not so much Forked as it is fractal. The difficulty is that the locus cycles through the possible endpoints so quickly that its hapless users can and do end up at any number of celestial Principalities. And there is no way to know where you’ll end up before you jump on through.
Makatiel, Habbalite Prince of Disease [In Nomine]
Ah, what could have been. I wrote this a decade ago with an eye to getting it made part of In Nomine canon. It… was not to be. But I feel that this was ultimately not due to the write-up itself.
Makatiel
Habbalite Prince of Disease
The World is sick, and I am its physick.
They all called him mad, of course. Such is the price of genius. And make no mistake, Makatiel was one of the smartest Superiors to ever reach apotheosis: it was one of the two things that made him dangerous. The other thing that made him dangerous was his tendency to obsess, which was noteworthy even among celestials.
Makatiel was from the first generation of demons created (by Beleth, in his case) after Lilith freed Lucifer from Hell. Very few of his contemporaries have survived to the present day, perhaps unsurprisingly. After all, most of them developed oddly, and were prone to suicidal forms of madness in their later years. While still alive, Makatiel’s own inner insanity lurked inside his fascinated loathing of humanity; the Prince of Disease had a name for being aware of the most trivial (to demons) corporeal matters. Very few besides Saminga regretted his passing, and none were foolish enough to display their feelings where Asmodeus could see.
In Nomine Revisited: Contagion.
This was originally going to be a bit of the Makatiel, Demon Prince of Disease writeup that I… well. Water under the bridge. Anyway, here it is.
Contagion
This group spawned after the death of Makatiel (Prince of Disease) in 1348 AD, and has grimly held on ever since. Its members were and are former Servitors of Disease who traded most of their freedom and dignity to Saminga (Prince of Death) in exchange for continued existence, and each and every one of them bitterly resents the trade. Seven mortal centuries have not been enough time to integrate them fully into Saminga’s service; even the Orphaned Word-Bound Servitors of Disease are distinctly considered second-class servants in the hierarchy of Death. So it was inevitable that these quasi-Outcasts would eventually form a society dedicated to recovering their former glory.
It is not entirely clear that Saminga is unaware of this group; or that, even if he did know about them, he would particularly care.
In Nomine Revisited: Vasariah, Angel of Patriotism
I was mildly surprised that this didn’t need a lot more revision, after twenty years or so in the vault. Although I do admit to being surprised at how I made so very sure that Samuel Johnson took it on the chin. Ach, well, I’m sure Past Me had his reasons.
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Seraph Mistress of the Realms of Night
Angel of Patriotism
Corporeal Forces: 3 Strength: 6 Agility: 6
Ethereal Forces: 6 Intelligence: 12 Precision: 12
Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12
Word-Forces: 14
Vessel: middle-aged woman/3, middle-aged man/3
In Nomine Revisited: Sizouse, Angel of Racing.
Sizouse
Ofanite of the Sword IST the Wind
Angel of Racing
Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 6 Agility: 10
Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 12
Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 8 Perception: 8
Word Forces: 12
Vessel: human male/3
Skills: Detect Lies/2, Dodge/3, Driving/6, Engineering/3, Fighting/4, Large Weapon (sword/5, lance/2), Mechanic/5 (automobiles), Running/6, Tactics/2
Note: even if a particular campaign normally requires specialization for Driving, it is recommended that this restriction should not apply to Sizouse. Also, that ‘Driving’ in his specific case should include animals.
Songs: Healing (Corporeal/1), Light (Celestial/4), Motion (Corporeal/6, Ethereal/3, Celestial/6), Shields (Corporeal/4, Ethereal/3, Celestial/3)
Role: “Sid Parsons” (stock car mechanic/5, Status/4)
Attunements: Ofanite of the Sword, Mercurian of the Sword, Ofanite of the Wind, Scabbard, Passage, Angel of Racing