Grigori

* Netherworld
* Mortal World (Earth)

**Grigori** is an interdimensional organization that serves as the fallen angels' government after their banishment from Heaven. It was founded by the Celestial Prince Samael, and is currently ruled by Azazel and the Cadres.

## Overview

**Watcher** is a type of biblical angel. *Watcher* occurs in both plural and singular forms in the Book of Daniel (4th–2nd century BC), where reference is made to their holiness. The apocryphal Books of Enoch (2nd–1st centuries BC) refer to both good and bad Watchers, with a primary focus on the rebellious ones.

In the Book of Enoch, the watchers are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women and, at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, defect en masse to illicitly instruct humanity and procreate among them. The offspring of these unions are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity.

## Summary

The Grigori was founded by Samael after he rescued the fallen angels who rebelled against the Heavenly Council after their lovers and children, the Nephilim, were killed in the Great Flood. Under Samael's commands, they fought against the heavenly host during the Celestial War, though after he was sealed into the Otherworld, Shemhazai became the Governor-Emperor and the organization became the new government and faction for all the angels who were banished from Heaven.

During the Great War, the Grigori and the fallen angels were the last of the Three Factions to enter the battlefield. Originally, the cadres wanted to let this war remain a war between Heaven and the Underworld, but after accusations of their involvement in Azrael's death, they saw no other choice but to join in unless they wanted to be seen as guilty of the supposed crimes.

Because of their disadvantages in terms of powers and authority, the organization had to face many struggles in their early battles. However, as time went on, they began to learn from their mistakes and began to employ the lowest and most unhonorable strategies in order to survive.

Soon, their chance to escape the war came in the news of the newly established Ouroboros Barrier, which had sealed away nearly all of the demons inside the Underworld permanently, thus heavily crippled their remaining forces. While many fallen angels saw this as a chance to defeat both Heaven and the Underworld once and for all, the cadres led by Azazel decided otherwise and commanded their troops to retreat back into Purgatory in order to preserve the survival of their kind.

Following their retreat into Purgatory, the Grigori went under many reformations and began to slowly transform from a pure fallen angel-only group into a diverse, multi-mythological organization that claims to dedicate themselves to the creation and preservation of peace within the supernatural between all the mythological factions.

Eventually, the Grigori's plans for peace came to fruition during the European Reformation in the form of Ishara, the first recorded wielder of the Neo-Longinus Alphecca Tyrant. Due to her young age, she was corrupted by its power and began to brainwash everyone and anyone around her in an attempt to conquer the world. Due to its power as a holy relic, Heaven's exorcists and the Grigori's agents were forced to work together to put her down, thus creating an opportunity for the two factions to reconcile after the Great War.

After the events, the two factions began to make contacts with each other and finally, in the Age of Enlightenment, the two came to an agreement and a peace treaty between the angels and the fallen angels was signed. Many centuries later in the Edwardian era, a meeting was held between the cadres and the Heavenly Council to discuss the Three Factions' future, as the demons had all been sealed away and the devils are now the rulers of the Netherworld. The Four Great Seraphs proposed a peace treaty between all Three Factions, which the cadres obliged as "it's too troublesome to convince [Four Great Seraphs] otherwise.

In 20XX, the cadre Kokabiel "defected" and stole three of the seven Excalibur holy swords from the Catholic Church, the Protestant Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. After he was "captured and defeated" through the combined effort of members from all Three Factions, a secret meeting was held between the leaders of the Three Factions - Michael and Gabriel (Four Great Seraphs), Four Great Satans, and the Cadres - and a secret peace treaty was signed in the Valley of Hinnom, with a fake meeting being held several weeks later in Kuoh Academy to lure out the Khaos Brigade.

## Departments

Some of the known departments and their leader within the Grigori are:

* **Battle** (Gadreel)
* **Biology** (Zaqiel)
* **Building** (Dagon)
* **Containment** (Bezaliel)
* **Culture** (Marqot)
* **Domestic Affairs** (Shemhazai)
* **Ecology** (Tamiel)
* **Environment** (Daniel)

* **Finance** (Anduriel)
* **Foreign Affairs** (Penemue)
* **Health** (Yomiel)
* **History** (Arakiel)
* **Intelligence** (Ashima)
* **Knowledge** (Ramiel)
* **Military** (Ursiel)
* **Pleasure** (Asbeel)

* **Public Reception** (Chazaqiel)
* **Resource** (Turiel)
* **Security** (Sydyk)
* **Sorcery** (Armaros)
* **Special Technology** (Azazel)
* **Technology** (Yarikh)
* **Transportation** (Ludociel)
* **Weather** (Manuzi)

## Factions

### Small Council

**Small Council** (小さな評議会, *Chīsana Hyōgi-kai*) is a term used to refer to the small group of high-ranked members within a department whose authority is only beneath that of the department's head. Because of this, they are given many important rights and responsibilities, and are allowed to make their own important decisions for the entire department if the leader is out of commissions.

### Favored Sons

**Favored Sons** (黒神王の侍者ファービッド・ソンズ, *Fābiddo Sonzu*) is a group within the Grigori known for their ideologies about fallen angel supremacy to the most extreme ways. It started as a terrorist organization which mainly based its terrorist acts in forced rebellions or simply anarchy to bring upon change until the cadres had to personally stepped in. They are named after Azazel's infamous army of monsters and half-fallen angels during the Celestial War.

## Trivia

* The Grigori is considered the experts in terms of Sacred Gear research, with various mythological researchers asking their help in researching Sacred Gears.
* In Greek, their motto is "Για πάντα ξύπνιος. Για πάντα προστασία. Για πάντα ρολόι."
* In the Pleasure Deparment, it was originally illegal for humans to be a sex worker or entertainer but it was changed later on.