Chezeqim

The chezeqim are a minor choir embodying sheer, raw strength. They are huge. Their celestial form looks like a puffy cumulus cloud, lit with various colors, depending on the individual and its mood. The cloud form can squish into just about any shape, though it remains cloud-like. In size, it can shrink down to roughly house-sized or expand to cover several city blocks.
Chezeqim have no other form; they cannot take vessels. (They can, however, use the Song of Possession normally.) Nonetheless, they can remain on the corporeal plane indefinitely, where they can, in effect, use the Songs of Motion for free, proportional to their Corporeal Forces, and without disturbance. Of course, they are screamingly obvious to Symphonically Aware beings, which is one of the reasons they're a minor choir, so long as the War is stealthy.
On the corporeal plane, the application of their titanic strength is clear. On the celestial plane, they can haul around vast Essence constructs, and in fact are often the "construction machinery" when an archangelic Cathedral needs to be overhauled, working closely with that archangel's aeons. The same is true on the ethereal plane, where they helped build Blandine's Tower.
Other celestials tend to think of chezeqim as big, dumb lugs. In fact, there is nothing wrong with their Ethereal Forces, and they are as intelligent as any other choir.
== Resonance ==
The chezeqic resonance is for strength. To use its resonance, a chezeq vows to perform a specific deed. It then has an effective Strength equal to its Celestial Forces multiplied by its Corporeal Forces, for the purposes of pursuing the vow. It gets much more dramatic if chezeqim work together; chezeqim making a joint oath can multiply ALL their Celestial and Corporeal Forces together for the effective Strength of the team. The results can be literally astronomical.
(What, you thought spiral galaxies got that shape by themselves? Yeah, yeah, gravitational dynamics. Who do you think implements those gravitational dynamics?)
They can manipulate things inside themselves as well as outside. Inside themselves, they can observe and manipulate as if one character were in (Ethereal Forces) places at once. So, a chezeq can "haunt" a whole house at once and act as a considerable "staff" while doing so. (Of course, you have zero privacy while in this house.)
== Dissonance ==
It is dissonant for a chezeq to break its vow, very much in the manner of malakic dissonance rules. So chezeqim and their bosses learn to build reasonable exit conditions into their vows.
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