Tragan
The Angel of Car Wrecks
Ofanite Vassal of the Wind, in service to Lightning
Corporeal Forces: 5 (Strength 8 Agility 12) Ethereal Forces: 4 (Intelligence 9 Precision 7) Celestial Forces: 3 (Will 5 Perception 7)Vessels: Human/5
Role: Alan Lu, consulting engineer/4 (Status/3)
Songs: Healing (Corporeal/6), Light (Corporeal/2, Ethereal/3), Motion (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/2, Celestial/4)
Skills: Dodge/2, Driving/6, Electronics/3, Engineering/5, Knowledge (Automobiles/6), Lockpicking/3, Medicine/3
Attunements: Ofanite of the Wind, Passage (Wind), Vassal of the Wind, Malakite of Lightning
Special Rites: Participate in any automobile accident involving more than five vehicles; save the life of somebody involved in an automobile accident
When Tragan was first assigned to Earth this century, like many of his choir he quickly learned to love the practice of recklessly driving automobiles. He didn't understand his true calling, however, until the first time he flipped an automobile and sent it tumbling over an embankment. At the end of that incident, he is reported to have looked over at the battered and shell-shocked Cherub of Lightning sitting in the passenger seat and to have said, "Hey, cool! Let's do that again!"
Charged by his archangel to sew chaos through the world, Tragan had found his means. Blowing up abandoned buildings and inciting friendly riots he left to his fellow servitors of the Wind. Tragan began driving across the countryside causing fender-benders, pileups, and a vast quantity of nervewracking near-misses. Not only would he cause as much automotive mayhem as possible himself, but he would also seek out accidents which had happened of their own accord, to witness, critique, learn, and, to a greater and greater degree as time went by, help out. Tragan could be found at the scenes of huge accidents pulling victims out of cars, helping paramedics with triage, applying splints and other first aid, and, when nobody else was looking, using the Corporeal Song of Healing on those who would not otherwise have survived.
Tragan is one of a rare breed: a Word-bound angel with a distinction who is on loan to another archangel. After Tragan was given his Word, Jean saw in him a good (and perhaps ironic) conduit for tempering the destructive nature of automotive technology on Earth. The information he could gain by observing how cars performed in real accidents could be useful to the next generation of safety features.
This is the end of Tragan's current Role. He is an itinerant and independent safety engineer, on contract to several automobile manufacturers. He travels the countryside watching accidents (and, unknown to them, causing accidents), and returning the performance information about various models of cars, along with suggested improvements, to the car companies. Most of those who work with Alan Lu (the name Tragan uses in his role) consider the consulting engineer to be, at the very least, eccentric. They see Lu as disheveled and manic, although startlingly bright. The wiry Asian man is just the sort to be seen with a large ink stain on the front of his shirt where he failed to replace the cap on a pen stored in his shirt pocket. Though his colleagues think he's odd, they've come to like the hyperactive but amusing engineer who is filled with an amazing joie de vivire. They are just glad that they don't have to do his job, always on the go, never able to settle down in one place, looking for the next major unexpected automotive pileup.
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