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Vital Information
Celestial Chorus
Vitals
Gender	Male
Race	Caucasian
Location	Balador
Status	Alive
Character stuff
Nature	Traditionalist
Demeanor	Survivor
Essence	Questing
Chantry	Temporal Chaos
Cabal	Temporal Chaos
OOC
Player	Mike W.
Character Sheet	Here

Description

Father Eric Simmons is a Catholic Priest in the Jesuit Order, and a member of the Celestial Chorus. He is about 5'7" and 175 pounds with brown hair that is slowly greying. Eric's full name is Eric Paul Augustine Simmons. Eric has a full brown and grey beard. He is currently 39 years old, and is currently the oldest of the magi that he lives with in San Francisco. He has a werewolf glyph (Ahroun) symbol on his left shoulder indicating his place in the pack. Eric's avatar manifests to him as one of the three Boondock Saints characters (Il Duce, Connor or Murphy).

Recently, Eric went through a seeking with his avatar. Eric's seeking was to choose between going off with the Chorus and the Euthanatos and battling the Black Church at the Vatican, or staying in San Francisco and supporting those that he cared about against the Technocracy. In the end, he chose to stay with his flock and to live up to his responsibilities to them as his family and friends.

Background

For 3 years, Eric Simmons was a priest and a member of the Risen Savior Chantry in Miami. During this time, his mentor and friend, Bishop Brian Moore, was summoned to the Vatican. While there, Bishop Moore met with Pope Benedict XVI, who informed Bishop Moore that it had been revealed to him in his prayers that his impending death was not being caused by natural means, and that the Vatican would soon fall into darkness for perhaps a very long time. At the request of the dying Pope Benedict to protect various items in the Vatican from being desecrated and being used for evil, Bishop Moore constructed a talisman from a wooden chest (hereafter referred to as the Vatican Chest) and worked on placing various sacred and important items from the Vatican into the chest for their protection. Bishop Moore saved what he could and managed to smuggle the chest out of the Vatican weeks before the Vatican finally fell to the Nephandi.

Upon his return, Bishop Moore met with Eric and told him about the Vatican Chest. He did not say what was in the chest specifically, other than the fact that it needed to be protected from the Black Church at all costs, as well as the fact that when the time was right, that the chest would open. Bishop Moore insisted that Father Simmons take an oath to protect the chest from the Nephandi at all costs, including sacrificing his own life to protect it if necessary. Eric, realizing the serious nature of what the Chorus would be facing, gave his word as a mage. Shortly after, Bishop Moore made arrangements for Eric to train with a Euthanatos, ensuring that Eric knew how to survive, fight, and to fight well to defend the chest. He also had Eric study Nephandi, to understand and know the enemy.

Shortly after Bishop Moore gave the chest to Eric, Bishop Moore disappeared. Not long after that, the Risen Savior Chantry was attacked by a Nephandi party led by Monsignor O'Donnell. Divine Providence was looking after Eric Simmons that night, as he was not at the chantry at the time for the attack, but was out giving the last rites to a parishioner who lived nearly a half an hour away from the parish. By the time Eric Simmons returned to the chantry, the church was in flames. Eric tried reaching his cabal mates by telephone, but was unable to reach anyone. He headed for a motel so that he could figure out what happened. Once he looked back in time and witnessed what Monsignor O'Donnell had done to his chantry, Eric left for a safe house in South Carolina.

Meeting War and Wisdom and Hope and Faith

After spending time at the Safe House, Eric was directed toward Chicago. In Chicago, Eric arrived at St. Michael's Cathedral where he met Father Forthill and Michael Carpenter. Eric was soon introduced to other mages who had recently moved into town as well. These magi would soon constitute the majority of Salvation Cabal. Eric met with Sian Ashburn and through her, other members of War and Wisdom. It was at this point that he also met Master William Dossier from the Euthanatos tradition. Master Dossier provided to Eric detailed information in regards to the Black Church. Shortly after arriving in Chicago, Eric and his fellow mages were assigned to head to Montana, where a Verbena chantry was protecting a very special child, Jacob, from the Technocrats. The resulting conflict between the Technocrats and the Verbena lead to a Paradox storm, which the Technocrats blamed on terrorists and resulted in martial law for the United States. Sian, trying to ensure the safety of Jacob, sent Eric, along with Charlie, Danny, David and Matt to Canada to help protect and live with a pack of Garou.

Canada

While living in Canada, the loose association of magi that Master Ashburn sent to live with the Garou soon came together to begin working more like a cabal. In Canada, Eric and the other mages helped the werewolves with their problems with Pentex. It was during this time that Eric, frozen in place from Time paradox, was determined to be the leader of the cabal. It was also during this time that Jacob's true nature was discovered. Also during this time, Eric and the other magi in the community went through a series of rites to prove that they could work together as a cohesive group. After successfully coming through this rite, Eric and his fellow magi were accepted fully into the pack. Eric was branded with a werewolf glyph for Aroun, the werewolf's symbol for a warrior. After about a year of living in Canada, the werewolves asked Eric and the other magi to move to Salvation, Idaho, where they would be responsible for looking after the kinfolk in that area.

Salvation, Idaho

For about six months, Eric and his cabal lived in Salvation, Idaho. In Salvation, the cabal met up with another mage, an Euthanatos named Llesenia. Also during this time, the cabal made acquaintances with Xander and Marley Colton, a hunter and his wife. Eric Simmons developed a working relationship with the priest in the local parish named Father Delgado in St. Jude's church. While living in Salvation, Eric's Cabal fought off a group of werewolf bikers that were intent on becoming violent in the local diner. Eric and his cabal also met a young teenager named Caleb, who was running from a demon. This particular demon tracked Caleb to St. Jude's, where Eric was working. The cabal faced down this demon and his hellhounds and took Caleb to the chantry. Unfortunately, Caleb had become an oath breaker and had given tremendous power over himself to the demon. Eric and his cabal mate, Danny, were unable to save Caleb. They made sure that the demon working with the Black Church did not take Caleb back to the Vatican where he would become the new face of the Black Church. Shortly after these incidents, Eric attempted to build a relationship with Xander Colton. However, conflict arose between the chantry and the hunter and soon, the Salvation cabal was forced to flee Salvation, Idaho.

San Francisco

Fleeing from Salvation, Idaho, Eric Simmons and the Salvation cabal headed for San Francisco. Originally, San Francisco was the next location that the cabal would have sought out chantries to spread the news about the technocratic virus that was being used as an excuse to quarantine Chicago, and to warn other chantries and the traditions of an impending civil war. The cabal chose to head to San Francisco and make the city a permanent home. When the cabal arrived in San Francisco, they met up with a mage named Bear. He brought Eric and his cabal back to his chantry, Chaos Theories. Eric is currently residing with Chaos Theories as a part of its chantry.

In one of Eric's most recent adventures with Chaos Theories, Eric traveled back in time with the chantry to the year 1420. During this time, he was given a key, an 8-10 inch metal key, with the Knights Templar symbol. The key seems to be linked to the other gifts that his other chantry mates received. During this time, Eric Simmons also inadvertently met the founder of the Black Church, Friar Giovanni Rosa. It was then that Eric decided that he would do something to try to change the future, or at the very least, try to impede the development of the Black Church to try to save innocent souls from the Nephandi and to give the traditions in the future a fighting chance. Eric passed on knowledge of the Black Church and Friar Giovanni Rosa to the The DeMedici Family, with the expressed wish that no harm come to Giovanni Rosa. The original plan, to subtly interfere with the Black Church seemed not to work, so Eric authorized the DeMedici Family to expose the Black Church and its teachings. As a result, Friar Rosa was killed by magi that took matters into their own hands.

And due to a time jump from 1420 to the 1700's, it was revealed that many of Eric's actions to alter the future has lead to a dramatic rise of power with The DeMedici Family. Eric's actions also impacted the spread of the black plague, prolonging it, and resulting in the deaths of many millions of more people. Other developments have either been pushed back, or have developed before they had previously in the earlier time line. Currently, Eric Simmons and his chantry are trying to recover a chest that is more likely than not the same chest that he carries in the future. In the chest of the current time, it currently holds the remains of Archangel Michael. The Knights Templar have let Eric Simmons and his cabal mates know that he must open the chest.

Once the chest was open, half of the essence of Archangel Michael was released. Each member of the cabal seemed to have received a gift from Michael, but for Eric, he was loaned Michael's sword. When Eric returned to the present, he considered taking a temporary leave of absence to go fight on the front lines with the sword. However, Michael came to Eric in a dream, and informed him that his place was with the chantry. So he will be with the Chantry through the crisis that will be developing around the Red Star.

Paradigm

Eric believes that all gifts are from God and the One. He created the world, he gave people life, and gave them the talents that they possess that enrich that life. Just as acting, writing, drawing, singing, and all other mundane gifts come from the One, so does the gift of magic. Father Simmons uses items that are sacred or blessed by the Divine to work his magic.

Relevant/Interesting Bluebook entries

• Hunted
• Letting Go
• And Shepherds We Shall Be
• Choices