Editing Kingdoms: The Hell Legion (section)

=The Shadow Actors of the Court=
==QUEEN: Persephone/Angelica, the Ghost==

''"You seem troubled. Let me help you."''

Those seven words were what saved Angelica from the same fate as every other damned soul. Those seven words she spoke when faced with the shifting and insanity-inducing form of the Black King, when he addressed her and told her that she was in Hell, as he has told every damned soul since time immemoriam.

Angelica recalls that she was a London-born nurse in WW2, who died when a field hospital in France was attacked with artillery. She is sure that she is not from the dreaming at all, but rather from the real world... an idea that most other denizens of Arcadia find laughable and impossible. She is not sure how she sinned in life to be sent to hell, but the horrors of war had prepared her for the horrors of hell. When faced by madness and chaos in the Black King's form, she did not flinch, but instead showed compassion. In that moment the secrets of healing magic were realised to her, and she immediately used that gift to alleviate his mental suffering a little.

The Black King was reminded of humanity, and realised that he had found his queen.

Since coming to Hell, Angelica has tried to persuade its demonic denizens that they must take a single form rather than being endlessly changeable - a human form. In some cases she has succeeded - the Shadow Court of Hell all wear human forms, and to Angelica's credit her theory that human forms encourage human behaviour seems to have worked, to a degree. Her other project is to have the demons take names - a pointless conceit from the demonic point of view, but an essentially anchor for sanity from the human viewpoint.

In the King, she has so far convinced him to wear human form when around her (the form he has picked, frighteningly and strangely, has been that of her still living fiancee, an English soldier), though he still reverts to chaos when she is not there. She calls him Lord Hades, and though he does not think it his name, he still responds. She asks him to call her Persephone - her own little joke, born of her classical education.

Queen Persephone still uses her healing magics when she can, and though she does not approve of Hell, she still finds herself using her skills to aid Hell's victory. Perhaps Hell is changing her as well...

* '''Suggested Boons:''' Innocence; Pillar of Strength;
* '''Suggested Drawbacks:''' Helpless; Untrained in War;
* '''Suggested Traits:''' Sorcery Style (Healing Magic);
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==KNIGHT: Tomas, The Manyfaced Duke==

Once one war-demon amongst many, the Duke was one of the first that Persephone convinced to take a name. Though he wears vaguely human form (a knight in a suit of black platemail) he has yet to find a face. Instead, each time he kills an enemy he steals their face, and wears it for a while.

The secret truth is that Tomas is madly in love with Persephone, but he doesn't really have the sort of mind that can express such things. He hopes that one day he will find a face that she will fall in love with...

* '''Suggested Boons:''' None;
* '''Suggested Drawbacks:''' None;
* '''Suggested Traits:''' None;
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==BISHOP: Andre, The Smiling Child==

Persephone connvinced a psi-demon to take a form and a name, and eager to please his Queen he searched in her mind to see what form she would feel closest to. He found the image of a young French boy, who Angelica once tended in his dying days. He recreated that image, complete with beatific smile and crippled legs. Andre still can't understand why the Queen shudders to see him...

* '''Suggested Boons:''' None;
* '''Suggested Drawbacks:''' None;
* '''Suggested Traits:''' None;
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==ROOK: The Hellkeep Castellan==

The dog-demon-beast at the gates of hell took a human form as the Queen demanded, but admittedly is still a demon inside. He is no less effective as a guardian in his new form (indeed, his human form seems to have given him a greater appreciation for defensive tactics), but he still feeds on the flesh of his enemies, still is palpably insane and still cannot grasp the idea of taking a name.

* '''Suggested Boons:''' Castellan;
* '''Suggested Drawbacks:''' Guileless;
* '''Suggested Traits:''' None;
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