Essence ofJDG's Alexander Anderson

The moment you bring this essence vial to your lips it burns cold, as if you are drinking the essence of mint and menthol itself, but the pain will be merely distracting rather than agonizing. Then you'll taste the metallic taste, iron and silver, and traces of gold and platinum, you'll know the taste even if you did not know them before. It will make you think of an ancient cross melted down into liquid form, as if you are drinking it.

• Holy Weapon: The cool burn does not leave, it diminishes and becomes lesser but it stays, it is part of you now. Indeed, you can feel it spreading through your limbs, through your veins, going into your bones and organs, and thrumming with holy power. It is eroding the wrongs in your body, the accumulated damage of everyday life, a scar here, a genetic defect there, and bits of plastic over there, all getting consumed by the holy energy and getting fixed. You are becoming as you should've been, whole, healthy, and combat ready. Once it finishes righting the past harms the energy will move onto improving you, at first deaging you should you be past your prime, and then pushing you towards the peak of human potential. As you serve His will, fighting the denizens of the night, you'll find yourself becoming stronger, past the limits of humanity, becoming more.

• Instrument of Faith: It manifests in your hand, your instrument to carry out His will. Holy, unbreakable, always there when you reach for it and feeling just Right in your grasp. Each stab with it will burn the unholy, each slash will cut through them like grass, and each strike will be guided by His will to strike true at their weakest spots. It needs not be a blade, bayonet, or even a cold weapon, but it will be your tool of choice. As you use it for its intended purpose you find it growing in power and capability with you, perhaps one day it will awaken a will of its own and form an avatar to fight alongside you as you mow through the hordes of evil, or maybe it will become your sanctuary and a voice in your head, helping you heal and cheering you to fight on until the very last drop of blood inside your veins.

• Iron Crown of Thorns: A crown of thorns sits upon your head, it normally doesn't hurt you and removing it feels wrong somehow. If you are in danger it will move by itself to shield you with a wall of unbreakable ridiculously holy thorns, snap any attempt to influence your mind whether through mundane manipulation or magical charm by pricking you, and you can use it to enhance your focus and thinking speed during combat by making its thorns pierce through your brain, while it will be very painful it won't kill you or leave any damage behind on you. The crown is a part of you, and any thief will be compelled to put it on, at which point they will meet a very painful and gruesome end. As you keep wearing it the crown will become more and more reactive to your desires, granting you a very potent anti immortal holy weapon.

• Divine Crusader: You are His crusader against the forces of evil, where you walk with divine will in mind each step you take consecrates the path you thread, people following your lead stand straighter, the road becomes easier, their weapons sharper, and their heart beating in unison. Not only that you seem to be guided towards a purpose, meeting people at the right time and chancing upon events of importance. It is very easy for you to convince good or religious people towards following your lead even if what you say doesn't make sense, the Divine works in mysterious ways and as His Weapon it feels wrong to stand in your way. Doesn't mean every believer will follow you, but a vast majority will, and unless directed otherwise, angels themselves will tend to very highly value your input.

• Necessary Evil: The fact of the matter is, you are God's Monster, and He wouldn't have sent you along if the world did not desperately need you. You are meant to purge the world of evil worse than man, and should you fail to cause a large enough change the world itself will eventually fall. Maybe not today, not tomorrow, but eventually. Your actions are done under the umbrella of faith, of God's Will, so every evil you commit, every horror you act out, it will all in the end work to better the world and undermine the demons that dwell in the shadows. As the Almighty's Weapon you are always in one battleground or another, if you fall to one monster in your mission you'll wake up in another place and time that needs your services. Don't worry though, He is merciful, if what you need is rest then you'll find that on your eternal journey, maybe a small countryside church in a medieval world whose charges will eventually get threatened by evil once they become adults, causing you to grab your Instrument once more. Or maybe you'll reject your nature as a monster and try to be more, saving lost souls with words and open arms, either way your presence will at first bring balance to fallen worlds before saving them and bringing them back into His grace.