Warvingon

Balseraph Knight of Influence

Seneschal of the SouthforkRanch

Role: Warren Worthington III, Executive Director of Southfork Ranch

Warvingon is a young Balseraph, created in 1970 and assigned as a lackey to senior Servitors of the Media in Hollywood.

Warvingon had a "talent," but it was for finding the cheesiest, most melodramatic scripts and actors in the industry. He was constantly bringing new "talent" to his bosses, who got fed up with a string of plots that were absurd even by soap opera standards and actresses who had no future except in porn. It was porn studios or exile to Texas. Warvingon was really annoying his superiors, so he got sent to Texas to work on a new nighttime soap opera. It was cheesy and melodramatic, just the sort of thing that they figured the Balseraph would get enthusiastic about, and when it tanked, none of his stink would taint them.

Instead, Dallas was a hit, and became so internationally popular that a Tether actually formed at SouthforkRanch in 1980, after the "Who Shot JR?" episode was aired. Warvingon was in the right place at the right time, and Nybbas made him Seneschal and promoted him to Knight.

A Tether tied to a popular TV show is almost always short-lived, and SouthforkRanch was already waning by the time Dallas ended in 1991. However, Warvingon again surprised his detractors; between Dallas's overseas syndications and his turning the ranch into an Event and Conference Center, he has managed to keep the Tether alive so far. But even the popular spin-off Knot's Landing failed to restore him to his former glory, and he's been languishing at this tourist attraction north of Dallas for over a decade now.

As Warren Worthington III, he has kept his wardrobe current but still exudes all the 70s smarm of Leisure Suit Larry. He hits on members of his staff and visitors constantly, and only by using his resonance has he avoided sexual harrassment lawsuits. He kisses up to agents of the Game when they visit, but thinks of himself as far more important than he is, considering his Tether to be far more potent and strategic than the DallasINSOffice.

Had he been more intelligent and flexible, Warvingon might have parleyed his Tether into something more formidable. The episode that created it ushered in the practice of ending a TV series's season with a cliffhanger, and he might have become the Demon of Cliffhangers or the Demon of Night-Time Dramas. Behind his back, his subordinates and other demons say that if Warvingon aspires to any higher Word, it is to be the Demon of Cheese.