Angel

Angels are powerful celestial beings of light created by God. They are responsible of maintaining Heaven and guard the souls of righteous humans. They power Heaven and at full potential they are imbued with considerable power. Angels also have connections to Prophets.
== Characteristics ==
As warriors of God and agents of fate, angels are extremely powerful beings in the supernatural world. They are superhuman beings superior to mortals in both power and intelligence. Their true spiritual forms or visages prove overwhelming to most mortals; however, some 'special' people can view their true visages without suffering lasting effects. Respectively, angels in their true form do have large swan-like wings on their backs which can range in number anywhere from two to six.
When angels die after being stabbed by an angel blade, shadows of their wings are burned into the surface on which they are lying.
Tsubaki describes angels as being emotionless, not permitted to have feelings or free will. She even goes on to compare angels to marble statues, in the sense that they're both cold, loyal and have no choice. However, Gabriel has shown anger and love towards his brothers, Michael and Lucifer. Lucifer is saddened and sheds tears over having killed Gabriel during a bad ending. Cupids are shown to be very cheerful, emotional, and love giving hugs as opposed to handshakes. To be more accurate, angels are very much capable of both developing human emotions and flaws of character, rather the majority of them choose not to show or admit to having emotions as emotions are considered doorways to doubt as well as a weakness, and they are not permitted to display emotions for the same reasons.
Angels consider themselves family to one another, referring to each other as brothers and sisters. The angels also refer to God as their father. Even though God is their 'father', all angels except the archangel Metatron have never actually seen God or his true face. Only four angels have actually met God and seen his true face. This number later proves to be false, and six angels are said to have met him.
Due to their age and power, many angels look down upon humans and see them as inferior. Lucifer rebelled because God loved humans, a flawed and arrogant species, more than angels. Some angels continued to hold resentment to this many thousands of years later. Despite this, angels guard the souls in Heaven, and refuse to pawn them, even for the Word of God. Feelings of resentment aren't universal, as some angels are much more civil with humans, while others consider them better than angels because, despite their inherent flaws, a lot of them strive to do good.
While outside of a vessel, angels either appear to humans as a brilliant white light, or a bluish luminous smoke (depending if they have their wings or not). While within a vessel, angels only have their powers thanks to their grace. Without it, they are just like humans and become subject to the process of life and death. Removing it voluntarily is very painful, comparable to a human removing a kidney.
== Powers and Abilities ==
As warriors of God and agents of Fate, Angels are powerful beings in the supernatural world, possessing a wide range of abilities that vary from Angel to Angel depending on the class of the Angel. Angels get their power from their grace and wings. Their grace supplies them with a certain amount of enochian magic and the condition of wings affect their overall strength and abilities.
=== Low-tier powers ===
Common powers granted to all angels with varying levels of effectiveness.
* Angelic Possession - Angels require a vessel while on Earth. However, they must have the vessel's permission before they can take control. Even once they are possessed, the vessel can expel the angel at any time but this presumably does not apply for all angels. Angels can only continue to possess humans of a specific bloodline otherwise their vessels will be unable to contain the angel and explode. This goes even more so for archangels as any vessel they possess that is not their true vessel will begin to deteriorate.
* Astral Projection - Angels can project shadowy forms of their wings onto surfaces at will. If one is killed by Angel Blades, its wings are burned onto the surface on which they died.
* Dream Walking - Angels can appear in people's dreams, they usually use this to communicate, when they can't find the person they're looking for, or want to talk privately. Lucifer was able to talk to his future vessels in their dreams.
* Electromagnetic Interference - Angels can manipulate electrical appliances.
* Flight - When angels are disembodied on Earth, they can fly anywhere they desire, usually in the form of bright smoke or pure light.
* Immortality - Angels do not age and cannot be killed by any ailment or mortal damage. Some angels have existed since the beginning of time.
* Invulnerability - To date, the only things capable of killing angels are Angel Blades, Holy Fire, a stronger angel, Death, God, Amara, and Leviathans. Archangels have even fewer weaknesses, as Michael wasn't killed by Holy Fire, and they can only be killed conventionally by Archangel Blades, as an Angel Blade was unable to kill one. It has been stated that Death's Scythe can kill angels.
* Localization - Angels can localize any human who is not protected by enochian sigils.
* Limited Cosmic Awareness - All angels have a certain degree of knowledge and awareness of the universe. They have knowledge of demons, other angels, symbols, spells, artifacts, prophets, nephilim and more. They also generally have awareness of the level of power a being has.
** Multilingualism - Due to their age, angels are proficient in most, if not all, languages ever spoken on earth. Alternate Michael succeeded to quote a verse from the Koran in perfect Arabic.
* Protective Charm - An angel can protect an individual from most forms of physical damage. This degree of protection is linked to an angel's power.
* Regeneration - If an angel's vessel is damaged, it will repair itself nearly instantly unless the wound was caused by angelic weaponry.
* Reality Warping - Angels are powerful enough to bend reality to their will. The more powerful the angel, the greater their capability. Even angels cut off from Heaven possess this power to some extent.
* Sedation - Angels are able to render humans unconscious with a touch.
* Smiting - Perhaps an angel's most versatile and terrifying weapon, smiting (sometimes known as the Killing Touch) allows the angel to kill almost any demon, monster and even humans with a touch. Smiting is often exhibited when angels place their hands or palms on their adversaries' face, forehead, or mouth.
* Super Stamina - Angels never tire, and they do not require food, water, oxygen, or sleep to sustain themselves.
* Super Strength - Once possessing a vessel, angels use their power to dramatically increase the physical strength threshold of their hosts. Their strength varies from angel to angel, depending on their position within the celestial hierarchy; lesser angels (cherubs, rit zien and common angels) are still considerably powerful and are able to destroy most monsters and regular to low-class demons, while seraphim, mid-class angels, can destroy all monsters and mid-class demons and virtually all lesser angels. Archangels are the most powerful class of angel of all, and one of the most powerful beings in Creation overall. As such, they easily outclass most other supernatural beings with God, Death and Amara being their only confirmed superiors.
* Super Senses - All angels enhance their vessels' senses to a superhuman level. Angels possess an acute sense of smell. This sense of smell is heightened to the point where they can identify people by smelling their body, bone or by their blood. Angels can also identify people by sniffing their genes and hormones as well. Because angels operate on a different plane of existence, they can see atoms and ions which are impossible for humans to see. Angels can hear a humans conversations miles away from them, and they are somehow able to locate any human on the planet and find them, but they can't locate people if they are protected by an Enochian charm or symbol. They also have an amazing sense of taste and are able to taste every molecule in a piece of food.
* Supernatural Perception - Angels are able to see almost all supernatural activity around them. They can sense any location, being, or object not protected by Enochian Symbols. This perception also extends to electromagnetic waves, and can decipher radio modulation signals.
* Telekinesis - Angels are able to telekinetically move beings and objects with their mind. They are able to use this power in a more aggressive manner like demons, but are often not depicted as doing so.
* Telepathy - Angels can read the minds of other angels with if they have the permission of the angel, higher angels such as Seraphs and Archangels can also read humans minds.
* Temporal Awareness - Angels are capable of becoming aware whenever any alteration occur within the time-stream, allowing them to discern alternate timelines and the like. With this, angels have identified other time-travelers in this manner.
* Voice Mimicry - Angels can perfectly mimic the voice of mortals.
* Lie Detection - Angels can sense whether or not a human is lying to them if they so wish.
=== Enhanced Powers - Accessed through connection to Heaven ===
To lower-class angels, certain powers are granted and maintained as long as they stay connected and loyal to Heaven and its rulers. Should they rebel and fall, those powers will wane and eventually vanish in time, and after that all of their powers will eventually vanish, rendering them mortal. However, higher-class angels such as Seraphim and archangels do not suffer from this condition.
* Enhanced Chronokinesis - Using the power of Heaven, angels are able to enhance their ability to travel through the time if they own the ability.
* Healing - Angels can cause the wounds, diseases, and toxins of another being to heal instantaneously.
* Resurrection - Angels can bring the dead back to life. However, they must know where all the pieces of the original body are, and they must have the soul of the subject.
* Smiting - Angels are able to destroy low to mid-level demons with a simple touch. They can also use it to kill monsters and humans.
=== Mid-tier Powers ===
Abilities more commonly used by higher classes of angels such as the Seraphim, the Grigori and the archangels, although it is possible that these powers can also be used by low level angels. Mid-Tier powers are generally defined by powers that regular angels can access through heaven, where as angels with mid-tier powers do not need a connection to maintain that ability.
* Advanced Astral Projection - Higher angels astral form is more intense than lower angels.
* Advanced Biokinesis - Seraphs can stop people from turning into monsters.
* Advanced Chronokinesis – Higher angels can travel through time and are also able to transport people through time and bring them back without need an external source to power them. 
* Advanced Healing - While normal angels possess the ability to heal through their connection to Heaven, Seraphim up possess the power of their own-not needing aforementioned connection. 
* Advanced Holy White Light - A particularly lethal power, some angels can unleash a highly concentrated blast of pure energy from their palms to destroy targets. The level of destruction can be controlled. It is unknown that regular angels can use this power to smite supernatural beings unlike a seraph. 
* Advanced Pyrokinesis - Powerful angels can generate and manipulate fire. Michael was proficient enough to kill another angel by setting her ablaze from within. Interestingly, this didn't simply destroy the vessel, it also killed the angel, suggesting the fire had a supernatural element to it. 
* Invisibility - Seraphs and Cherubs can become invisible to humans. 
* Memory Manipulation - Powerful angels are able to erase, restore, alter, and fabricate memories in the minds of humans. 
* Soul Reading/Channeling - Angels are able to physically interact with and read a human's soul by literally placing there hands inside a person's chest. However, the process is an painful experience for the human and could leave a person with physical and mental damage. They can also use the soul as a source of energy, but the pain is even greater for the human, and there is the risk of an explosion if the angel is not careful. 
* Power Negation - Powerful angels such as seraphs are capable of removing psychic powers from human beings permanently. However, the process is very painful and can leave the person mentally-damaged. 
=== High-tier Powers ===
Extremely powerful abilities, used only by Heaven's most powerful denizens, the archangels, but Metatron also shares a few of these powers.
* Advanced Terrakinesis - Archangels are able to create severe quakes.
* Cosmic Awareness - All archangels and Metatron have a superhuman knowledge of the universe.
* Electrokinesis - Raphael could produce powerful arcs of electricity that appeared from his back.
* Energy Blasts - Archangels are capable of conjuring and weaponizing powerful blueish energy in the form of blasts, as shown when Lucifer attacked the Alternate Michael with a single blue energy blast, which knocked him off his feet but did no damage. Michael then used the same attack with much more power, quickly overwhelming and severely weakening Lucifer.
* Highly Advanced Chronokinesis - Archangels have the most advanced powers over time. Gabriel is able to put someone through a time loop for as long as he wants. Michael was able to effortlessly send two humans back to their time with a single touch. Lucifer was able to transport someone into the past even when other angels had lost their powers. Even while warding was keeping Lucifer from entering the location himself, he was still able to get the person there.
* Highly Advanced Holy White Light - Archangels can blast nearly anything into oblivion with their white light. They can also control this power from completely obliterating something to only severely damaging it.
* Highly Advanced Reality Warping - Like some Angels and Seraphs, Archangels can alter reality, albeit to a greater degree. This ability is better demonstrated by the archangel Gabriel, who can create anything he wants out of thin air and can even put people in a TV universe.
** Conjuration - Gabriel is able create things out of thin air.
* Immunity - Michael has displayed a limited immunity to holy fire as it only hurts him rather than being fatal. Lucifer could only be temporarily contained by a combination of warding and holy fire.
* Molecular Combustion - Archangels are able to render beings, including lower angels, down to their component molecules, causing them to explode. Both Raphael and Lucifer have displayed this power while powered by the souls of Purgatory.
* Precognition - Lucifer and Michael are able to see a glimpse of the future
* Shapeshifting - Lucifer was able to take multiple forms while not in a vessel, and while in vessel, Gabriel could also do this; When the angels fell, they took the form of their grace.
* Thermokinesis - Lucifer demonstrated the ability to freeze a pane of glass with his breath. His presence can cause an entire town to drop in temperature. Michael could do the opposite and caused a door handle to heat up intensely.
* Weather Manipulation - Raphael was able to generate storms that caused blackouts over the entire Eastern Seaboard. Lucifer unleashed incredibly fierce winds with his release and also causes thunder when summoned.
=== Unique Powers ===
* Matchmaking - Certain types of angels in the Cherub class, e.g. Cupids, use a special sigil called a Cupid's Bow to bring couples together. Couples touched by a cupid have their hearts marked with an enochian sigil.
* Empathy - Angels in the Rit Zien class can sense another beings emotions and experiences related to pain.
* Unique Smiting - The Rit Zien have a unique method of smiting their victims by vaporizing them completely.
=== Former Powers ===
* Apporting - Angels were able to apport humans and monsters when they had wings.
* Teleportation - Angels are able to travel from one place to another, instantly, without occupying the space in between. However, they require their wings to teleport. They can also summon or send other beings. After the Fall, Angels lost the ability to teleport. However Lucifer and Gabriel are still able to teleport.
* Chronokinesis - Angels can travel through time, in either direction. They can also take others with them, and just send others without going themselves. However, this is a very difficult ability to master with or without Heaven's assistance. More powerful angels such as Seraphim or Archangels are able to manipulate time with less effort, even when cut off from Heaven. Unfortunately after the Fall, angels lose their ability to travel through time. However, Lucifer is still able to use this power as he still had intact wings.
== Weaknesses ==
When at full power, Angels are supremely powerful entities and have few weaknesses compared to other supernatural beings such as demons or monsters. However, there are many means that can be used against angelic beings.
=== Harming, Misleading, Banishing and Trapping ===
* Angelic Exorcism - There is an exorcism chant to expel angels from their human vessels and send them back to heaven.
* Angel banishing sigil - This sigil is capable of banishing angels, even an archangel.
* Angel Depowering Sigil - A sigil capable of depowering an angel. Archangels are significantly weakened though not fully depowered by this.
* Angel Depowering Spell - It is capable of depowering nearby angels if certain trail along with the sigils.
* Angel Imprisoning Sigil - It could temporarily imprison them. When imprisoned, they can lose their powers temporarily. The sigil also block any sound from inside of the warded room to be heard by any angels in outside of the room.
* Angel Proofing Sigil - It prevents an angel from entering a room, or listening sounds coming from inside.
* Angel trap - It's another way to trap angels besides Holy Fire.
* Angel Suppressing Sigil - It is used to give control of a vessel to the human the angel is inhabiting.
* Anti-Christ - A cambion, destined to be anti-christ, is said to be able to char the entire Host of Heaven, yet it is not tested. Only thing a cambion could do so far was turning a cutt-off angel from heaven into a toy figure.
* Angel Ward - Angel wards are enochian-based symbols that prevent the entry of an angel from a certain location.
* Enochian sigil - When Enochian sigils are placed on human rib cages, they prevent any type of angel from detecting and finding them. They can also be used to prevent angels from entering a building, capable of weaken the angel and they can also prevent an angel from hearing a conversation of those in a warded room.
* Eve - A being older than the angels themselves, she can suppress their powers through her mere presence alone.
* Expelling Angels Spell - This spell banishes all angels from Heaven, causing them to fall from sky. The spell also burns the wings of angels and weakens them significantly.
* Grace Removal - An angel's grace is what supplies it with Enochian magic, and therefore if it is removed they will be rendered powerless and mortal. Grace can be removed by slitting their throat with an angel blade and drawing it out of their vessel and/or spirit. The grace can then be consumed by any angel or placed inside a vial.
* Hand of God - These items contain a portion of God's power and it can harm an archangel to a certain degree.
* Hexbag - Hexbags can used to prevent angels from detecting and finding someone.
* Holy Fire - Encased in a circle of flames created from Holy Oil, the angel is trapped. The trapped angel still can use some of their powers. Touching the flame will kill the vessel and the angel. However, it cannot kill Michael, being only able to banish him.
* Hyperbolic pulse generator - It is capable of exorcising an angel, including an archangel from their vessel.
* Lucifer's Cage - This cell can hold any angel without any internal means of escape.
* Enochian Brass Knuckles carved with Enochian sigil's - These magical knuckles can weaken, hurt and prevent an angel to use their powers temporarily.
* Mark of Cain - The Mark is capable of corrupting even Archangels, as seen with Lucifer.
* Vessel Expulsion - A vessel possesses the ability to expel the angel possessing them if they so choose depending on their strength of will and willingness to be possessed. 
* Weapons of Heaven - Lot's Salt can dissolve an archangel's vessel, as it did to Raphael's. All of Heaven's weapons acting together can seriously wound, and might kill, Raphael.
* Weak Vessels - Having a weak vessel prevents an angel to use his full power.
* Herd of Demons - While individual demons are usually no match for an angel, a herd of regular demons are shown to be capable of subduing an angel.
* Sufficient Mechanical Trauma - A sufficient level of mechanical trauma is enough to somewhat effect angels.
== Trivia ==
* In the Christian religion, there are 9 ranks in the Christian angelic hierarchy: the Seraphim, the Cherubims, the Thrones, the Dominions, the Virtues, the Powers, the Principalities, the Archangels and the Angels:
** The Seraphim are the highest angelic class and they serve as the caretakers of God's throne.
** The Cherubim guard the way to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden and the throne of God.
** The Thrones are living symbols of God's justice and authority.
** The Dominions regulate the duties of lower angels.
** The Virtues supervise the movements of the heavenly bodies in order to ensure that the cosmos remains in order.
** The Powers are the bearers of conscience and the keepers of history. They are also the warrior angels created to be completely loyal to God.
** The Principalities preside over the bands of angels and charge them with fulfilling the divine ministry.
** The Archangels are the administrators of duties for the angels and they are also their commanders.
** The Angels are the lowest order of the angels. They are sent as messengers to mankind.Category:Species
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