The Conduit

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"I love red. You have a taste for red too and revenge. I know so much more fun than forgivness."

-The Girl Angel

The Conduit is a character in the TV series Angel. She/he/it is the overseer of Wolfram and Hart's earthly manifestation and a line to the Senior Partners. It is only makes afew appearances in the series but is basicly the root of Wolfram and Hart's vast mystical resources.

Originally Mesektet was an embodyment of the ancient god Ra along with five other such totems knowns as the "Ra'tet". As one of the darker totems of the five Mesektet soon established connections with the Senior Partners and represents them to their mortal agents. When it speaks it uses the term "we" and is assumed to be speaking for the Senior Partners due to some sort of mental link. Wesley states that it's time with the Senior Partners is more a day job or hobby compared to whatever it's true mystical purposes is; Later Manjet, Mesektet's totem brother, confirms this and states that her true fuction along with him and his fellow totems is to maintain the Sun.

Mesektet spoke for the Senior Partners and invested their power for many years. When it encountered the demon races known as the Granok it decided the creatures were far to wild to fit into the Senior Partner's plans and so it changed them, phase shifted them so that they could not affect the real world and only watch it though they seem to have picked up the ability to time travel later. Mesektet states it does not chaos even though it is clearly dedicated to evil as a concept. Eventually the Beast, a creature set loose from some form of hell to act as a harbinger for the fallen god "Jasmine", made it's way to Wolfram and Hart to destroy the Conduit. Angel and his team at first believe this is due to wanting to eliminate the competition in evil but later discover that is secondary to Mesektet it self being killed so the Beast can shut off the Sun. The Beast succeeds and eventully gets to the dimensional nexus within Wolfram and Hart known as "The White Room" where the Conduit resides, sucks out it's essence and kills it. With the last of it's power the Conduit teleports Angel and his friends to safty when they arrive to stop the Beast and tells them that the answer is amoung them, they would not find out until later that this was a reference to "Jasmine" possessing their friend Cordelia Chase at the time. After the Beast and "Jasmine"'s defeat Senior Partners restore the Conduit, or perhaps it just comes back to life when it's essence is freed from the Beast's body, the show never confirms this one way or the other. Whatever the method the Conduit is once again representing the Senior Partner's after "Jasmine"'s plans are foiled. Though the Conduit appeared as a little girl at first it's seccond appearance is that of a Black Panther and it's third is as a double of Charles Gunn, who was selected as the Liaison to the Conduit, later still the Conduit appears as Winifred Burkle, one of Angel's close friends; as the Conduit states to Gunn, the appearance of thr Conduit is dependant on the viewer. It seems to enjoy manipulating people and watching people suffer but does not like random and chaotic acts of violence. It seems more than happy to help good people to lead them down dark paths but has no sympathy for those that are already evil that think it is just there to help them and deeply resents those that think of it as their flunky.

The Conduit in addition to it's shape shiting status is the avatar of the Senior Partners and wields their power for them on earth, this means the virtually endless dark magics the Senior Partners manifest in the physical world is due the Conduit doing so on their behalf. It's inners are made of a dark energy which may be the Conduit it self in true form. It has displayed the ability to teleport others, use telepathy, and use super-human strength. Lillia warns Angel when he first goes to enter the White Room that another employee of Wolfram and Hart once entered the White Room and wound up in an asylum afterwards so the Conduit is also a mindbreaking entity. It can bestow curses the likes of which take ages to accumulate the power and knows the rituals required to break said curses.