Alamascan Seraphs

The Fifth Pentacles

The New Order of Alamascan Seraphs as Created by the Demigod of Harmony, Alamas, to serve in Haman recently renamed as Auros.

Note: Among these beings most in the Order of Swords have no souls or wills of their own where once all Alamascan were soulless.

Most but not all of the higher orders are 'ensouled' and have minds and wills of their own.

The Morning Star's proxy Malachai hunted the Alamascan down one by one and at times in small groups to bring to each Alamascan their soul. After ensouling the first two without their consent, and seeing the dire repercussions of doing so, the rest he convinced through his counsel to permit him to join them with the souls, emotions, and wills they had been deprived of through their making. Only a few within the higher order (√) and the entire Order of Swords refused this chance to feel, think and act for themselves, having the soldier mentality they had no wish to attain the ability to defy the divine commands of their superiors. Indeed they believed it to be dangerous to return the higher orders their souls.

Stats:

Start and Random Levels: 5-40. (d40 or 4 d10)

☆ Alamascan Blades: Every Alamascan has one of these heritage swords. If lost their weapon set will find its way back to its owner.
☆ These weapons vary in style and type, from swords, shurikans, or pole-arms to bows and arrows.
☆ Soul Splinters of Alamas: +10% dmg per day. At 0% the soul and its energies are captured by the weapon the splinter originated from. Double damage to shadow, undead, or abyss types.
☆ A captured soul is still linked to the now mortal being it belongs to. The soul can otherwise, depending on alignment, be plunged into either Acheron or Raised into Haman whereby the mortal husk either perishes or becomes a zombie. If the weapon holding a soul is destroyed the being is restored. Splinters are god level hard to detect or remove.
☆ These weapons all have one thing in common, tiny pieces of metal shed from their blades into the flesh of anyone they pierce. The shards are highly resistant to detection and removal. Divine by nature but insidious to immortal beings not of Alamas. Within each splinter is a void of pure light which drinks energies of all spectrums... arcane, elemental, essence, soul, and most hungrily consumes forces of the shadow and abyss. Void eating void. The immortal becomes completely mortal when the process completes. Only one shard is shed into each target.
☆ Channeling: harnessed powers can be channeled through these swords with greater effect (+3 d6).

Paths: Choose four inborn paths from any spell book as limited paths, 1 spell from each stamina level. Choose three full paths from any spell book. Paths not allowed are; Abyss, Dead Realms, Blood Sorcery, Mind Walking, and Acheron.
∆  Virtues add +1 paths.
∆  Second Hierarchy Seraphs add + 2 paths.
∆  Thrones add +3 paths.
∆  Cherubim add +4 paths.
∆  Seraphim add +5 paths.
∆  First Order Seraphim, unlimited paths.

Traits: Take traits, Disadvantages, and WoD from Tsetar Powers page but DO NOT take innate power or paths of power.

First Hierarchy
Order of Seraphim
Order of Cherubim
Order of Thrones

Second Hierarchy
Order of Dominations
Order of Principalities
Order of Powers

Third Hierarchy
Order of Virtues
Order of Arch-Seraphs
Order of Swords

Alamascan Logic:

     Alamascan that are not ensouled think with a very straight sense of logic, and act only on what they are commanded to do and on the best way to attain their goal. They do not think for themselves, are creatures of logic not emotion, for they have no souls.
     Those which are ensouled can break away from the will of their god or superiors, but even though they can manage to attain their own free will, most are still creatures of logic, duty and loyalty bent on controlling their emotions, despite the passions which stir now in their souls. The exceptions? There was no telling where their questions and curiosity would take them.

Passages from the 'Book of Apostals'

Wrote Gehennor in the sacred Book of Apostals, a fortnight before he was cast down. "Yajmha's pious ally Alamas hath corrupted his goodly soul to steal the Morning Star's secrets of Malkarian genesis from the gateways of the past, hence to bring forth from the light a New Order of Seraphs. All that the Morning Star created before his fall shall be cast down from Haman, and those on the earths of his creation shall be banished into the halls and dark places of Acheron. Malkeom and Abraxas grow strong with the influences and corruption of darkness, and their 'Coming into Power' as the TRUE Destroyers of Faith, and shall not be stopped whither they are no longer within grasp of divine ascension. The new order of celestials cometh to battle those who would bring about the beginning of the end of Haman and Acheron as the soveriegn Kingdoms in the Universe. It was written, that to prevent this fall in the Celestial order, the key figures fallen must be brought into Divine Ascension or be destroyed. It woes me, for as the light forsakes Malkeom and Abraxaus that their return to grace have failed, heretofore they must be hunted and destroyed. How hath it come to this, that my eyes must suffer my soul to see all my brothers fall into darkness and slavery? We who embrace the light still are forsaken by it for who fathered us out of the light all those ages ago. This war, as all wars, is folly. Power corrupts all, even my Father in Haman. Peace is the only path to the light, so perhaps we all are forsaken, but for those few...those dear few, who know only peace in their hearts. Rhannor.. Avery... Marcania... Amhenru.. I pray for them, for their pure, untouched souls never to be poisoned by hate and avarice, by greed and bitterness, by crushed hopes and despair. Faith protect us all. My faith shall rest forever more in the TRUE creator, the light which is mercy, TRUE forgiveness, and peace. God have mercy on us if the Anduain should fall."

Oh what secrets Gehennor guarded which could not be written in the sacred book, or so much as breathed as a thought in Haman. Yes...Alamas had harnessed the knowledge to create a New Order of Seraphs, but he had not not given them souls, nor did he split the light which they had been created from, to filter out the dark energy which was a rudiment within all powers of creation ... Undectable. He had not cloven that mighty source of life to create the antithesis of each Alamascan spawned out of the eternal light of creation. The Morning Star had been most secretive about how he had engendered the Alpha Demons out of the Alpha celestials. Always darkness was more dominating than the light, and yet it was the light which gave life to all things, which was were true strength lie.

The New Order of Seraphs was flawed from the beginning, inasmuch as they were not creatures pure of the light, their spiritual and holistic integrity was corrupted by small degrees which could become immense depending on circumstances. They were emotionless, and logic driven, had no will of their own, no souls, whereas the Tsetar of the Morning Star's creation were creatures of emotion, compassion, passions, of will, and empathy, and were ever so good until they were corrupted, and forsaken by the light, and even then, their goodness was hard to corrupt. Indeed the New Order had no TRUE souls, no free will, their only will the Word of Yajmha. One might too easily call them divine zombies.

Gehennor: "I have lived now to see the day that all my brethren were cast down from Haman to the last. I know not to what hemispheres they have fallen, or were reborn on as mortal children, their power and immortality sleeping deep within them, waiting for death to return them to themselves. Those who fall and are not reborn shall wake to find themselves confused, afraid, naked and ignorant of the world they had found themselves on. For the first time, they shall feel physical pain, hunger, the heat and the cold in their mortal embodiments. Worst of all, if the Alamascen hunt them, they are poorly equipped in their early days, months or years to defend themselves. I fear many shall seek their dark father for protection, for the Morning Star guards his own jealously. Is it time we all gave ourselves to the Morning Star's embrace, to Acheron? I wish ... I knew what to do." -He wrote in the 'Book of Apostals' which he was the keeper of, and had carried with him from Haman to Morashtar in his own fall.

A new era had dawned in Haman. The seemingly impossible had happened, only few in Haman had even realized it. Gehennor knew, but he wasn't writing it down. Lucifer had risen and reclaimed the half of himself from which he'd been cast out so many millennia ago. The Morning Star had reclaimed Haman, Yajmha, Gaiah, Nuni, Aegores, Leviathan wholly, at last. He had fused with them, then replaced Yajmha with his own proxy Auros, for whom Haman was renamed after as Aurundor, that no one would be the wiser. In time the truth would out but not right away.
A few were aware. Gehennor because Lucifer reinstated him. Plunked him right down in Auros Prime and explained a few thousand things. Mostly how Auros was going to be different than Haman. Those Tsetar who wished to return could achieve doing so for one. They had to earn their way back if they'd fallen too far but the opportunity was theirs to seize. The rest had only to choose to return. Auros would send word to them.
The oracles also knew. They weren't telling either for they had seen what should happen if they did. The Alamascan, the swords in particular, would rally to kill Lucifer in an attempt to free Leviathan and restore Haman. It didn't work that way but try telling an army of Alamascan soulless soldiers that. An all out war between the people of Haman and Acheron would ensue were the Alamas to declare war on Lucifer. No. The oracles didn't wish to see that possibility come to light. Neither did Gehennor, keeper of the Book of Apostles.