Angelic Power

Divine Power (Bastardization)

**Angelic Power**, also called by names such as **Grace** or **Heavenly Fire**, is the energy of light that runs in the veins of celestial creatures and the basis for their powers.

## Summary

Angelic power is the primordial power of light created by God since the beginning of Creation. It runs in the veins of all celestial creatures, from the Celestial Princes to the angels and fallen angels to even faeries and shadowhunters, all of them are endowed with their own angelic power.

The only celestial creatures that don't possess angelic power are demons, who were once angels before they rebelled against God and were banished into the Underworld and had all of their angelic power forcefully removed by Michael. Instead, they possess **Demonic Power**, which is the infernal counterpart and antithesis of angelic power.

## Appearance

Like one of its names suggests, angelic power takes the form of eternal golden flames.

## Characteristics

Angelic power is a mysterious energy of primordial origins, having been created by God for eons before the Dawn of Creation and possibly predated even the Celestial Princes themselves. According to Azazel, similar to how the pagan gods created the universe with the divine power of Hylemorphes, God had created the entirety of existence and nonexistence with angelic power, thus allowing celestial creatures like him to absorb the abundant angelic power in nature anywhere in Creation except in the Underworld.

It is the source of many celestial creatures' power, imbuing them with a myriad of unique abilities that grant them places on the top of the supernatural world's hierarchy. Even those whose angelic power has run out or been removed may still be able to tap into varying powers that would normally require a large amount of magical power.

Due to its heavenly nature, if extracted from a celestial being, it must be sealed inside specialized vials or else it would fall to Earth - A sign many humans have mistaken for a meteorite. Unlike meteorites, however, when angelic power touches down on Earth, it vastly enriches its surroundings and even purifies them of any corruption and/or pollution rather than destroys them.

Celestial creatures can siphon angelic power from other celestial creatures, but the effects are temporary as it would naturally wear out since it is not specifically theirs. They can also imbue their angelic power into other items, such as vials or crystals to serve as "emergency supplies" in case when they need an immediate boost of angelic power.

When an angel or fallen angel takes a human as their vessel, said human's body will be filled with a portion of the angel/fallen angel's angelic power, which would linger in their body for possibly forever even long after the angel/fallen angel departs from the vessel. Containing traces of angelic power not only does not harm the human in question and may even help them, as shown with Maris Royce whose cancer was cured entirely after she became Armaros' temporary vessel for three months.

## Other Usages

Angelic power can be used for numerous purposes other than just the source for the celestial creatures' powers. First and foremost, they are typically used as magical foci in ancient magick rituals, especially ones involving the usage of Enochian Magick. In addition, the captured angelic power of an angel or fallen angel is crucial in spells or rituals that invoke their names to request their blessing/support.

Artifacts and weapons of Heaven are infused with the natural angelic power of the realm which grants them their powers, though the personal weapons of each angel are imbued with their respective wielder's own angelic power, thus making them significantly more powerful than the ordinary weapons imbued with generic angelic power.

Non-celestials and even some low-ranked celestial creatures can also use angelic power to increase their own strength and gain more advanced powers. Weakened angels and fallen angels can absorb the angelic power of others to accelerate the regeneration process of their own angelic power, rejuvenating their strength, durability, and powers. Demons can also absorb the angelic power of others to regain some of their lost angelic abilities.

Later on, it is revealed that their celestial parent's angelic power is what keeping a Nephilim or a Miracle Child's human and angelic halves intact, but if it is removed, but if it is removed, their cells will attack each other causing the body to slowly shut down and kill the angelic hybrid. According to Azazel, most angelic hybrids often die early in their childhood due to their celestial parent's angelic power fading away, mostly due to said parent's negligence, though if said angelic hybrid manages to reach their puberty, they would mostly be safe for the rest of their life.

### Celestial Magic

**Celestial Magic** (天の魔法, *Ten no Mahō*), also known as **Heavenly Magic** or **Holy Magic**, is the special form of innate magic that only celestial creatures or those who have angelic power such as saints and prophets can possess. According to Hecate, it is the most powerful form of innate magic in existence.

It is considered unique from other forms of magic and is on the level of creating a world, which includes event shifting, time-flow manipulation, kingdom-building, and other such powers of that level. While other forms of magic "achieve a certain result based on some logical process or principle", Celestial Magic "realizes a result simply because the user has the right to do so".

## Removal

An angel's angelic power can be forcefully removed by another angel, a fallen angel, or a demon, though only a few would be willing to do so as it is considered something extremely barbaric and taboo, even viewed in similar light with sexual assult to some. According to Azazel, if an angel is caught forcefully removing another angel's angelic power, they would be cast into the dungeon in the Second Heaven until the Heavenly Council could decide what to do with them.

For other species of celestial creatures, their angelic power can only remove through death, as there are several archaic and forbidden rituals that can forcefully extract the remaining angelic power within a celestial being's corpse. This, however, is considered to be something extremely taboo and if one is caught committing such act, they will be immediately execute and their soul would be thrown into the Underworld for eternal damnation.

## Quotes

**Rossweisse**: "*So, angelic power ground zero, it's not destruction, it's...*"
**Azazel**: "*Pure creation.*"
— Rossweisse and Azazel

## Trivia

* According to Armaros, divine power is "bastardized heavenly fire".
* To those sensitive to magic, angelic power smells like "the first rays of the sunlight, the scent of ozone at the utmost limits of the atmosphere, and burning passion of the sons of God".