Epheriel

The Angel Epheriel was a divine being said to be charged with maintaining the flow of time, and was depicted in the scriptures of the Old Tome as the divine being at the left hand of the Archangel Cethell. Canonically, she was the sister of the Angel Remiel, the sword who sat at Cethell's right side. She was frequently depicted holding an hourglass of silver sand, representing her divine role. 
Most scriptures described her nature as a motherly one, and as a result it was not uncommon to see Epheriel surrounded by lesser angels in religious works of art. In reality, however, she was far removed from her benevolent depictions. She held a strong hatred for mortals, believing them to be an inferior form of life that had become problematic.
Acting on the orders of her Holy Lord in 1416 B.E, the Archangel Cethell, she manufactured and manipulated events in order to create the Asevian Invasion, going as far as to resurrect Escha Artaryan and speak untruths to her, regarding both her destiny and her divine protection. 
She later made herself known to the adventurers Lucièn Lafayette and Gabrielle Moreau, the two individuals who would come to rule the Kingdom of Vesryn only months later, and the Empire of Greater Vesryn many years after that. Contrary to her nature as told by the Church's teachings, she held a quiet enmity towards the two, and their travelling companions by extension. Despite this, she informed them of their fate and the divine plan that had been created for them, though warning both not to indulge in the mysterious powers they had gained from interacting with the Dragon's Legacy. She issued a strict and ominous warning from the heavens themselves, and departed after sating her curiosity. 
After the defeat of Empress Escha Artaryan at the Battle of the Aldmarch Plains, she confronted Lucièn. Denying the grim fate assigned to him by Heaven, he used his powers to exploit her overconfidence and overpower her in a single moment of vulnerability. Rather than being destroyed himself, as was the angel's wish, he took away the entirety of her time and killed her instantly. An unexpected consequence of this process was that by absorbing her energies, Lucièn further amplified the faint celestial power of his blood and ultimately paved the way for his immortality.
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