Archangel

Archangels are primordial angels, being looked at as Heaven's most fearsome wrath. They were the first and strongest class of angels to be created, making them one of God's first creations. They were created in this order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel.
The angel Metatron was also considered to be an archangel by other angels until he revealed that he was simply a regular angel who was chosen to be the Scribe of God.
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
The archangels were the four chief angelic creations of God. They were created in this explicit order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel. The archangels acted as siblings, and distinctively interacted with themselves and their father.
== Characteristics ==
According to Tsubaki, they are known in Heaven as absolute, precise and wrathful creatures, as she has called them, "The most fearsome wrath of Heaven". Like all angels, their true forms are very intense, and have proven not only harmful but also fatal to humans, though Tsubaki also claimed that special humans can see their true forms. Their presence on Earth outside a vessel is often visualized as a blinding, pure white light, and their arrival can cause minor tremors. Their true voice also emits a piercing sound, which has proven to be excruciatingly painful to humans.
It has been stated that Archangels are tethered to prophets. Before his fall, Lucifer was God's most beloved angel; he was considered beautiful, and was well respected in Heaven.
Archangels view themselves as the highest authority over all of creation since God's departure from Heaven. As leaders in Heaven, Michael and Raphael commanded the Host of Heaven, issuing orders to the "Senior Management" who were responsible for deploying angels to Earth. They did not share all their plans, especially their intention to allow Lucifer to be freed, to avoid rebellion in the lower ranks. Most of them showed little respect while interacting with humans, although Gabriel eventually confessed his appreciation of humanity even believing humans to be better than them.
The relationships between archangels and their true vessels can be complex. Holding an archangel is psychologically damaging to a human; one of Raphael's vessels was left a drooling, catatonic mess after possession. Lucifer's continued presence in an alternate vessel causes the human's body to breakdown, as evidenced by burn-like marks, scarring and tears on his skin. Lucifer's vessels can be strengthened with demon blood to better survive the ordeal; Tsubaki later commented that Lucifer was drinking gallons of blood to keep his body intact. However, if Lucifer transferred to to another vessel, the previous one would die.
In general, all archangels appear to be more powerful than any existing low-class demon and seem to be on par with high-class demons like Vampires or Werewolves.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Archangels are the highest type of celestial being, possessing an immense amount of supernatural power. They possess the powers and abilities that are inherent in all angels, but to a much higher degree, arguably the highest degree with their power just under that of God himself. Despite their tremendous power, Lucifer himself fears the Shedim, creatures he would not allow to roam free after God locked them in the demon realm. The Archangels are held in extremely high esteem by angels, being looked upon as "fierce" and "absolute" in power and capability. Archangels have a vast supply of power and can create most things out of thin air. While at full power, Lucifer was greatly feared by Asmodeus and Dagon and the weakest archangel, Gabriel, was more than a match for Asmodeus in combat and easily killed him. The archangels appear not to have been affected by the Expelling Angels spell as both Lucifer and Gabriel are known to have retained their wings.
* Lower Tier Nigh-Omnipotence - Archangels have a tremendously vast supply of power; they can accomplish almost anything they desire with only some exceptions. A great display of their power is also everything from the ability to create alternate universes to, collectively and assisted by God. Archangels rank in age in this specific order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Gabriel. As for the power line, the order is the same, with Michael and Lucifer being equals, or Michael very slightly stronger, as the Michael from the alternate reality killed his Lucifer as well as having easily beat the main reality Lucifer in a fight.
** Angelic Possession - Even archangels require vessels to manifest physically on Earth and need their consent to do so. By leaving the door in their vessel's mind 'open just a crack', an Archangel can repossess a vessel without needing their permission once again.
** Apporting - Archangels can teleport people, objects and lesser angels to wherever they want.
** Astral Perception - They can sense and perceive beings and things that are naturally invisible, such as Reapers and even Horsemen. Lucifer was able to casually look at Death's true form upon his release.
** Astral Projection - Archangels can display their wings like any other angel.
** Biokinesis - Archangels can manipulate the bodies of lesser beings, either to harm or to transfigure. Lucifer was able to cause a man to die of a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
** Chronokinesis - Archangels can travel and send themselves, and/or others, backwards or forwards through time. Gabriel was able to create a time loop.
** Clairsentience - Lucifer was able to detect the power and life of his unborn son during his routes after ending.
** Deflection - Gabriel was able to effortlessly deflect an energy blast from Asmodeus, while Lucifer deflected a single energy blast from Alternate Michael with some effort.
** Electrokinesis - Archangels can manipulate, control and generate electricity with such an intensity that they can cause coastal blackouts. With a snap of his fingers, Lucifer was able to disable a fire alarm and turn on music.
** Energy Blasts - Lucifer was able to launch blue energy blasts at Alternate Michael, which did no visible damage. Michael was then able to use the same attack to injure Lucifer.
** Healing - Archangels can cure any disease, wound, or injury.
** Flight - Like regular angels, archangels have demonstrated the ability of flight.
** Holy White Light - Archangels can blast almost anything into oblivion with holy energy. This power can also be controlled and concentrated from completely obliterating something to only severely damaging it.
** Molecular Combustion - Archangels have demonstrated the ability to explode lower angels into their component molecules with snaps of their fingers.
** Smiting - Like all other angels, archangels are capable of smiting other beings.
== Weaknesses ==
Despite them being very powerful, the archangels possess a few weaknesses which are common to all angels.
* Angel banishing sigil - An angel banishing sigil can banish an archangel.
* Enochian sigils - They can conceal a person's location from all angels, including archangels. Enochian sigils were also used to keep Lucifer confined in a cage in Limbo.
* Lucifer's Cage - This cell can hold any angel, therefore including archangels, without any internal means of escape.
* Holy Oil - Archangels can be trapped in a loop of holy fire for a period of time. Lucifer could extinguish the holy fire in a few minutes after being trapped in it. Raphael was able to escape from holy fire off-screen. Holy fire was unable to kill Michael unlike lower angels but it caused him great pain and banished him temporarily. Unlike his siblings, when contained by holy fire, Gabriel acted as if it would contain him permanently unless released.
* Heaven's Weapons - All of Heaven's weapons acting together could hurt and might have killed Raphael.
* Hand of God - The power from a Hand, is capable of knocking an Archangel down and prevents them from using their powers temporarily.
* Magic - Powerful magic and spells can have limited effect on an Archangel.
* Hyperbolic pulse generator - It is capable of expelling an archangel from their vessel.
* Grace Removal - As seen with Lucifer, even Archangels can have all or most of their grace removed, as Lucifer had much of his grace removed the Alternate Michael. This rendered Lucifer almost human, and was unable to counter Asmodeus. In this weakened state, Lucifer was more vulnerable to angel blades as well.
* Archangel Blades - An Archangel Blade can harm and kill an archangel. However, it must be wielded by another archangel to work. An archangel blade wielded by a vessel with an archangel powering them from within is also capable of killing an archangel. Unlike with an angel blade, an archangel's vessel can survive the death of the archangel possessing them by this blade as it is designed to kill the archangel and not their vessel.
* Lance of Michael - A weapon created by Michael in order to kill Lucifer slowly and painfully.
== Known Archangels ==
* Michael
* Lucifer
* Raphael
* Gabriel
== Trivia ==
* The Archangels are the only creations of God confirmed to exist pre-Universe, and thus his only known primordial creation.
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