Gabriel

== Subsidiary Words ==
Human Sexuality, the Kiln
== Choir Attunements ==
=== Grigori ===
Gabriel's grigori were his only servitors devoted to healing, rather than hurting. While other angels of Fire punished the cruel, grigori of Fire had the ability to recognize on sight anyone who had been a victim of cruelty. A successful Perception roll would give the grigori some idea of the nature of the victim's suffering, with a higher check digit providing more detailed information (a 6 would even identify the culprit). It was their job to tend to these victims, while alerting their fellow servitors to the existence of someone in need of attention . . .
The Grigori of Gabriel oppose Mariel (brilliance vs irrelevance)
=== Ohr ===
These ohrot can do body hits as well as soul hits.
=== Chezeq ===
Chezeqim of Fire can triple their effective strength for moving flammable material.
== Servitors ==
=== Friends of the Divine Spark ===
==== 12 Forces ====
* Iahmel, a malak
=== Vassals of Fire ===
==== 19 Forces ====
* Bhati, kuriotes angel of the Kiln
==== Unknown Forces ====
* Aba, eloah angel of Human Sexuality
=== Unknown Rank ===
* Pinkie Pie, a mercurian
*Zahun, the kuriotes angel of Scandal, who shares a name and a Word with an impudite of Fate.
=== Saints ===
* Philip Kindred Dick
== Avoiding Dissonance in Heaven ==
The servitors of Gabriel face a special challenge when they are in Heaven. Each and every one feels a deep compulsion to confront cruelty on a regular basis. This hardly presents an obstacle on Earth, but Heaven may be something more of a challenge. Since failure can causes these angels to Fall, it is worth considering how the Flames have managed to exist as part of the Silver City for eons upon eons.
=== Heavenly Reprieve ===
It is primarily the presence of cruelty that drives the Flames to combat it. Since Heaven is mostly without, many servitors of Gabrielle who stay within the Celestial City can avoid dissonance by furthering Fire in any way. Performing one of Gabriel's celestial jobs will stand in for the punishment of the cruel, allowing the angel to avoid dissonance. Malakim of Fire can also fulfill one of their non-confrontational oaths to avoid dissonance in Heaven.
=== Commuter Angels ===
Soldekai, Chamberlain of the Legions of Flame, is well aware of the challenge facing Gabriel’s servitors; he both turns a blind eye to “unscheduled” earthly visits to meet their Lady's dissonance requirements and manages them himself in a complex rotation that ensures no angel of Fire is left to burn in their own flame.
=== The Purgatory Project ===
Those who achieve their Destiny are admitted to Heaven, those who meet their Fate condemned to Hell. Cruelty and morality help color what someone’s Destiny and Fate are, but it is still entirely possible for someone who was petty or vicious in life to end up in Heaven if the whole of their life was a net benefit to the Symphony.
That’s great for Yves but hardly satisfying to Gabriel or her servitors. As a result, some Flames in Heaven take it upon themselves to visit these recently (and not so recently departed) to ensure they know the errors of their Earthly ways. A rough organization called the Purgatory Project loosely organizes this effort. Depending on the angel, these visits could vary from time-outs and counseling sessions to protracted tortures that could turn the denizens of Hell green with envy. However, the objective will be to purge a soul of its wickedness. Eventually souls in the care of the purgators will be allowed to go free (even if it requires flaying away the bulk of their Ethereal and Celestial Forces).
The founder of the Purgatory Project, an ofan by the name of Kushiel, Fell and now serves Asmodeus. Make of that what you will. Some Purgators have made of it missionary work for the Flames. Rather than punishing the cruel in heaven, these angels descend into Hell in order to flay away the cruel and corrupt elements of damned souls so that they can enter Heaven. Their greatest dream is to welcome Kushiel back into the Host.
=== The Vigilance Committee ===
As with the Purgatory Project, members of the Vigilance Committee act as an extralegal arm of God’s vengeance within Heaven. However, instead of regulating the souls of the departed, their target is their fellow angels. Where Judgement is ruled by his word, these angels are governed more by passion.
These Flames may act as volunteer advocates, pointing out the unintentional cruelties inflicted by their peers (censuring seraphim for revealing harmful truths, requiring malakim to feel the pain of their “collateral damage,” and the like). Some members of the Vigilance Committee occasionally end up as the moral bullies of Heaven with all the overtones of an internal Purity Crusade only blunted by the fervor with which it burns. When they stalk the Celestium, the criminals of heaven are eager to turn themselves over to Judgement. At least Dominic makes sure the punishment fits the crime; Vigilantes in full flame will merely turn on each other after the fact to make up for their own excess.
=== All In ===
It should be noted that Gabriel herself doesn’t have any specific solutions for her servitors in Heaven; all of these solutions are either the product of Soldekai's frantic administration or the cleverness of individual angels. As far as she is concerned the War is on Earth and that’s where the Flames belong. Should an angel of Fire ascend, they’re to take care of their business as quickly as possible and then return to Earth where they can smite more of the wicked. Whatever methods she may have encoraged in the past have been burnt away by her all-consuming madness. If you’re not actively fighting evil, you are not of the Flame.
Category:Archangels
Category:Ofanim
Category:Fire (Word)
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Category:Prophets