Tony Morgan
| Vital Information | |
|---|---|
 Celestial Chorus |
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| Vitals | |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Caucasian |
| Location | Chicago |
| Status | Deceased |
| Character stuff | |
| Nature | Caregiver |
| Demeanor | Conformist |
| Essence | Questing |
| Chantry | War and Wisdom |
| Cabal | Hades Knights |
| OOC | |
| Player | Mike W. |
Description
Tony Morgan stood about 5'8, and wieghed about 185 pounds. Tony was clean shaven, with short, brown hair and dark brown eyes. Tony was quite proud to have been born and raised in Chicago. He often wore Chicago Cubs attire, showing his support for his favorite baseball team. At one point, Tony Morgan had a talisman tattoo of an Angel on his back. When activated, wings would manifest on Tony's back, a ray of holy light would engulf Tony, and a sword would appear in his hand, leading to the nick name of 'Angel Boy' by some of his fellow cabal mates. Tony would no longer require this talisman sword when he began to wield Fidelaccius. This talisman tattoo would later be destroyed during a fight with a Nephandi, but would be reconstructed after Tony became a Prime Adept. Towards the end of Tony's life, after a major tragedy befell the Chorester, Tony used his Prime magic to destroy this talisman as a sign of his loss of faith, and the pain of the loss of his friend, Jonathan Swak. Along with the tattoo, Tony also had an upside down cross burned into his chest from his encounter with the Demon. In adddition to that scar, he also had a Spade that was burned into the center of his chest, with 'sacrafice' inscribed underneath the brand, which occured in a paradox realm. Tony's avatar expressed itself to him as an Angel.
Background
Tony Morgan grew up in a strong, Catholic family. He attended mass regularly at St. Michael's Cathedral, and attended Catholic school from kindergarten all the way through High School. At the age of 16, while he was receiving the sacrament of Confirmation in St. Michael's Cathedral, Tony awakened. Father Gabriel Summers became Tony's first mentor, and guided him into the tradition of the Celestial Chorus. Tony went on to a local college, and became an accountant. He would later own his own accounting firm.
Other Side of Hades
Eventually, Father Summers asked Tony to work with another local chantry in town that ran a night club, called the Other Side of Hades. He would soon become a cabal member of the Other Side of Hades, while still working closely with St. Michael's Cathedral. Tony used his background as an accountant to make sure that financially, everything ran smoothly for the night club. Ownership of the club, at least on paper, was eventually changed over to Tony Morgan for him to oversee.
It was during that time when working with the Other Side of Hades that Tony Morgan met a man named Michael Carpenter. Michael Carpenter, another member of the Celestial Chorus, would become a Knight of the Cross, and would wield one of three holy swords, his being Amoracchius. Tony Morgan would later become a second Knight of the Cross, wielding the holy sword known as Fidelaccius following a raid on a Nephandi caul, to rescue the orginal Knight of the Cross who had wielded Fidelaccius. Unforunately, by the time the cabal reached the Knight, he had already been evisorated by the Nephandi, and the sword had been captured. When the Chantry caught up with the Nephandi responsible and defeated him, the sword chose Tony as the new Knight of the Cross. Tony Morgan and Michael Carpenter would become close friends while serving as Knights of the Cross.
War and Wisdom
Tony acted as the accountant for the Other Side of Hades night club, and would then later become the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) for the War and Wisdom hotel/chantry. Although there were many somber and difficult times for not only Tony and War and Wisdom, there were also some pleasant experiences for the Chorester. Tony, on a few occaisons, hooked up with Mariana of Balador, the Seat of Time. Tony was one of the few, if only, member of the Celestial Chorus to visit Balador.
As a Knight of the Cross, Tony's mentor changed from Father Summers to Father Anthony Forthill. During Tony's life, the Vatican would be overrun by the Nephandi and the Black Church. Tony opposed the Nephandi as best as he could, even leading his chantry, War and Wisdom, to the Vatican to prevent the Nephandi from appointing one of their own as the new pope, and to also help rescue his good friend Michael Carpenter who had been captured by the Nephandi. Unfortunately, Tony Morgan's efforts proved less than effective, as the Vatican still fell to the Nephandi and is still currently under the Nephandi control, along with countless former Chorus chantries.
For a time, when Tony Morgan thought that the Black Church threat had been foiled, he worked with the new pope, Pope Peter VII, serving as his emissary in Chicago, and was put in charge of the members of the Chorus who were present in Chicago. It was only when the Vatican asked Tony to take out allegedly dangerous Choresters and during the course of the investigation, the allegations made by the Vatican were proved to be false, that Tony began to suspect the Vatican may still be corrupt. In order to resolve the questions surrounding the Black Church, Tony prayed a novena for clarity, and to know who was behind the Black Church. It was at this time that it was revealed to Tony that the new Pope was in fact a Nephandi orchestrating this deception. Tony Morgan would soon establish an alliance with those other Choresters that the Vatican had declared to be heretics and blasphemers; those belonging to the Lord's Church, a very contemporary church. Tony Morgan never suspected until it was too late that the talisman given to him by Pope Peter VII was in fact a reforged demon coin. When he accepted the lapel pin, it transferred to him a shadow of a demonic entity, a shadow of a particularly dangerous demonic entity. Unfortunately, the shadow did not immediately make its presence known to Tony Morgan. Instead, it hid itself, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Tony Morgan would experience a life shattering confrontation against the Nephandi known as Monsignor O'Donnell in his accounting firm that he owned and operated. Tony Morgan asked his associate and friend, Jonathan Swak to help him confront and capture the Nephandi, unaware that they were in fact being led into a well orchastrated trap. As a result of the brutal attack, Tony Morgan was left with a shadow of a demon in his mind; was forced to witness the murder of his friend, Jonathan at the hand of the Nephandi, and was forced to endure a hellish version of stigmata, as well as living through the demon's memories of hell. As a result of the attack, Tony lost the will to fight the Nephandi, and lost Fidelaccious to them. Although he was slowly making progress after this assault, Tony never fully recovered from the psychological wounds. Left without his primary weapon, Tony worked on constructing a katana talisman, a katana that had an Aim Good/Dodge Good rote built into it, as well as a Rip the Man Body rote. Tony began to work on this when War and Wisdom held a Council of Nine meeting in its basement. At that time, Tony met with the Seat of Prime, who, to his dismay, told him that the traditions essentially had to ignore the Black Church in favor of fighting the Technocracy.
Shortly after his encounter with the Seat of Prime, Tony would go with his Chantry to try to recover Byte and Persephone, the former Deacon of the Other Side of Hades chantry. It was during this battle that a corrupted, Nephandic being obliterated Tony Morgan. Tony's cabal mates after the incident saw the archangel Michael rescuing Tony's soul from the corrupted creature as it was destroyed.
