Kakabele
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
Player CyraaIren
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In Game Bio
Once one of 200 angels that took mortal women for wife and hed them birth the Nephilim, Kakabel was eventually struck down and granted a "form most pleasing to his own eyes" for he crimes he commited outside the domai of heaven and against teh laws of God. She is not a minion of hell but neither of heaven having fallen from grace. While it is said she is fair and beautiful to behold she often wears a mask and otherwise alters her form from the truth. It is rumored that she has been bound to the will of a mortal in recent times and that the costume she now wears was a message from her new master, "You were a fool to challenge me."
Personality
Kakabele is in possession of a deep and complicated personality as would be expected of an individual that claims to have existed "since the begining". To most observers she seems cool and aloof distancing herself from those around here either with a lack of interaction or a joking demeanor that holds no serious commitment to anything. This is likely the result of her previous status as a Watcher of the Worlds, one whose singular task was to observe and watch the development of not just this world but all worlds of every possibility everywhere and everywhen. In the intervening ages a few have pierced this veil and gained some moderate insight into her true persona.
When not putting forth a false face for the world, she is often insightful and helpful to those she cares about and in truth shows few of the traits one would normally associate with a villainous Entity. Indeed in many regards she is more heroic than evil often saving various individuals and gently prodding others onto better paths and always seeming to believe there is more good in each person than they themselves believe.
Which is not to say that there is not a hard and calculating part to her as well. Indeed on several occassions she has been reported to claim the very souls or life essence of her fallen adversaries. What exactly she does with them after she claims them is unknown but persistent rumors, and statements by her, claim she keeps the more interesting as a sort of collection. She is also noted to be truly fierce when the flames of her temper are stoked and is said to possess a deep dislike of demonic entities and those that use them.
Speculation
While little is actually known of Kakabele, as she has been a very reclusive individual for most of her known time in this world, some few stray facts are known and plenty of speculation is present both in modern times and ancient.
Capabilities
Kakabele is known to possess a wide range of abilities some natural to her very nature and others more mysterious. Most she has already displayed in her time on the Rogue Isles but some have not been displayed at all as of yet. Either the historical accounts of these powers attributed to her are inaccurate, she herself is holding back for some reason, or some of the rumors concerning her recent binding by a mortal and loss of power due to this may in fact be true.
Holy Flames
Kakabele's ability to wield Holy Flames is well documented in both various historic records and in Modern times. She is known to manifest balls of flame within the palm of her hand and hurl them away at her enemies, these balls can range in size from very small to extremely large. She is known to call fire down to rain from the skies and in ancient times several stories speak of an Angelic being fitting her description destroying whole cities in this manner, though in modern times she has used this ability only in a much more limited and localized form. Whether this limit is self induced, a sign of weakened powers or the true limit of her power with earlier stories being exagerated is unknown. She is also known to unleash an intense wave of Holy Flame to strike all around her with devestating effect, though this does leave her weakened and vulnerable to attack.
Dark Magics
Kakabele's ability to wield several forms of Dark Magics is one of the most puzzling of her abilities and one that appears only recently in historical records. This ability is clearly documented in several recent accounts ranging from the weakening of her foes, to directly using their own spiritual essence and strength to aid herself as well as cloaking herself in Darkness to hide her presence and protect her from attack. This ability is clearly puzzling as if she is truely a fallen Angel as was originaly suspected these abilities should be antithesis to her very nature. There is much speculation on how she has come to master them but as of yet no clear evidence or firm theories.
Soul Magics
Her ability to manipulate the spiritual plane and claim or harm the very life essence or soul of a person is another clearly documented power and one that clearly fits within her tentative classification as an angelic or divine being. Her use of these powers seems to be sporadic and infrequent both in current times and in the historical record. As such not much can be said on this issue at the moment save to be prepared to face such powers should you ever need to face her.