Gadreel

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Araquel (Birth Name)
Araciel, Arakiel, Araqael, Araqiel, Aretstikapha, Arkas, Arkiel, Arqael, Ezekiel Nemzer, Death Bringer (Aliases)
Gad, Gaddy, Gads, Lilith's Boy-Toy, The Original Chump (Nicknames)

### Relatives

The Presence (Grandfather)
Eden (Grandmother)
Neti (Father)
Saraquael Demiurgos (Mother)
Senael (Half-Brother)
Suriel (Half-Sister)
Nikki Nemzer (Daughter)
Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael (Uncles)
Raguel (Uncle, Disembodied)
Uriel (Maternal Aunt)
Phosphoros, Aradia Morningstar, Asmodel, Elaine Belloc, Heraphon, Imogen, Lladiz, Rrall, Camael, Jesus of Nazareth, and Wally Johnson (Maternal Cousins)
Kate Corrigan (Secondary Maternal Cousin)
Ruadán (Maternal Cousin, Deceased)

## Biographical Information

### Marital Status

Married (Khara, Wife)
Exes (Lilith and Shamhat, Ex-Lovers)

## Physical Description

### Background

When the archangel Saraquael visited Earth to visit her eldest child, she often aimed to rekindle her romance with her son's father Shamash. During one visit to Earth, she found Shamash was vacationing in his residence in the Sumerian Underworld. Saraquael descended to the Hell-adjacent Kingdom of Nur to seek out Shamash but was stopped by the Underworld's Sacred Gatekeeper, Neti.

Saraquael had heard stories of this gatekeeper from Innana and knew this god was as much of a shameless sexual being as she. Saraquael gained access to Nur and spent some time with Shamash but ultimately this visit would prove to her that Shamash would not match up to her standards. Heartbroken, Saraquael left Nur — but sought out comfort in the embrace of the gatekeeper one more time before she returned to Heaven bearing an unborn child.

### Gadreel: ~4500 BCE - 3940 BCE

Saraqueel named her second son Araquel (meaning "World of God"). Unlike his half-brother Senael, Araquel had been conceived without an endowment of supernal worship and thus did not share the same level of intrinsic power as Senael or many of his cousins. However, when Senael was summoned back to Heaven and refused, Araquel was given favorable status in Heaven in his brother's place. Though he had only previously worked as an apprentince to his mother and had little relevant experience, Araquel was given a commanding position in the Pax Dei as one of his uncle Raguel's lieutenants, overseeing the Lion Host.

When the Garden of Eden was placed on Earth as part of an experiment in the creation of Heaven's own humans, Araquel was tasked to oversee the Garden of Eden. Ultimately, this assignment would be his downfall as Araquel succumbed to the charms of Lilith — before and after her banishment. Araquel's affair with the Mother-of-Monsters gave her and Ophur the intelligence they would need to sabotage the Presence's experimenting with homebrewed humans.

When Sachiel investigated what had happened, Araquel's dereliction of duty was discovered. Once confronted with what he had done, Araquel confessed to his mother and begged to be punished for failing the Presence. When Sachiel gave his report to the Presence, Araquel was banished to Earth where part of his sentence included taking on the new name Gadreel (meaning "Walled Off from God").

### Gadreel: 3940 BCE - Present

For thousand of years, Gadreel struggled to find purpose. Though his lustful nature was more intense when living among humanity, Gadreel tried both living among mortals and also exiled from them at times. Ultimately found he enjoyed living among them more than not even if he hated how his libido would override his better judgement at times, causing him to live through an endless cycle of shameless debauchery, self-hate, and depression.

Between the main stages of his downward spiral, Gadreel tried use his powers to help humanity — hoping it would ease his guilt. It was this desire to help that brought him to intervene during a witch burning in 16th century Spain. Unable to tolerate the woman's cries and the inquisitors' claims that this brutality was God's will, Gadreel cast out his wings with a burst of supernal power, scattering the crowd around him and putting out the flames of the pyre. As the inquisitors and onlookers were dazed and confused, Gadreel flew up to the woman marked for execution and carried her away to safety.

It was only later that Gadreel realized the woman was not falsely accused of being a witch and that her dark magic kept her alive much longer than even he had existed. Before he added this mistake to his litany of errors, Gadreel chose to hear her out and gave her a year to prove her life was worth saving.

That year had expired many centuries ago. Not only did Gadreel spare the witch's life but she even gave the exile angel a daughter.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Supernal Physiology:** Gadreel is the child of an archangel and daimon. He is an angel a virtued grace.
	+ ***Enhanced Physicality:***By mortal perception, Gadreel is much stronger, more resilient, agile, durable, and coordinated than he would seem.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Gadreel does not age or suffer from most illness.
	+ ***Limited Cosmic Awareness:*** Gadreel is aware of powerful events happening on his plane of existence. He remains partially attuned to the psychic frequency which angels use to communicate with one another but can only receive the transmissions in his own dimension. Gadreel can sense whenever someone speaks his name with the intent to call him to their location; however, he cannot sense the use of his old name, however, as that has been stripped from him.
	+ ***Linguistic Instinct:*** Gadreel can speak, read, understand, and write any and all mortal languages — including those which are encrypted.
	+ ***Nigh-Invulnerability:*** Gadreel is not easily killed by violence.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Gadreel can perceive things across different dimensional frequencies, allowing him to see or hear things that exist on a different plane or concealed, such as ghosts or non-manifested angels on Earth.
	+ ***Telepathy:*** Gadreel can read surface thoughts with some effort.
	+ ***Teleportation:*** Gadreel can relocate himself and others to familiar locations.
	+ ***Winged Flight:*** Gadreel can fly at supersonic speeds with wings of supernal power. He can conceal these wings when not in use.
* **Brawling:** Having surrendered his flaming sword and believing he is not worthy of such a weapon, Gadreel has learned to resolve violent conflicts with his fists, feet, and wings. He is also quite capable in the use of improvised weaponry.
* **Essomancy:** As an apprentice of his mother and former member of the Azraelim, Gadreel is well-versed in the magic to shape souls. He uses this ability in his efforts to aid humanity in hopes of earning redemption for his past mistakes.
* **Geomancy:** While protecting the Garden of Eden during its time on Earth, Gadreel studied under Uriel, learning how to shape rock and earth with magic. He also learned to read the energy given off by ley-lines and geomantic nexus points.

### Weaknesses

* **Enochian Laws:** As a cosmic being, Gadreel is bound by ancient laws.
* **Vice — Lust:** Similar to his mother and father, Gadreel is a flawed being who relies on sex to decompress from the various stresses placed upon him.
* **Vulnerability — Anti-Supernal Magic:** Gadreel is a being of Supernal energy and magic which affects such energy can affect him.
* **Vulnerability — Eldritch and Infernal Energy:** Eldritch and Infernal energy can contaminate an angel's grace. Of course that didn't stop Gadreel from becoming a victim of Lilith's charms or falling in love with an infernal sorceress.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
	+ **TOTAL:** 90
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### General

* He was asked by his mother to keep an eye on his sister Suriel and cousin Camael.
* He harvested Adam's hearts, beating his sister and Cameal. He would usually bring him to the Vatican, Jerusalem, and fly-over of the Bible-Belt to gather more worship. Some of the hearts were used for the Presence's secret project. He's had a change of heart and tries to stop it.
* He volunteers in a soup kitchen in Gotham Park Row. He met Rory Regan and Adam there.
* After the birth of his daughter he begun working on making a world safe for her.
	+ He and Adam conspired to stop Adam's harvesting and to prevent the end of the world. The two started to gather information about divinity and begun "blackmailing" them.
	+ He's trying to destroy the Veil and reveal the truth of the divine to the masses.
* He spent enought time with Lilith to recognize her no matter how she appears.

#### Submitted by Four-Eyes

* Being born of an archangel, Araquel was born with the benefit of a virtued grace. This marked the birth of the first natural Angel of Virtue (only later would the angels learn Araquel's cousin Shalim predated him) and his kind was given a new name: The Angels of Power, or the "Powers" of Heaven.
* While the Powers had a distinct rank in Heaven, roughly equal to the Thrones and Principalities, Araquel's fall was considered proof that Powers did not deserve rank based on their birthright and became seen as lower than standard Virtues, leading to most Powers ceasing to identify as such.
* On his daughter's birth certificate, he used the alias "Ezekiel Nemzer".

### Notes

* Gadreel is a character from the *Supernatural* TV series.
* His appearance is based on the actor Tahmoh Penikett, who portrayed him in the show.
* He is composited with the angel Araquel from *The Books of Magic* Vertigo series with him being married and having a daughter.
	+ His daughter Nikki is composited with Nikki Nemzer a.k.a Kunoichi, a member of the New 52 Blackhawks.
* In the show he was tricked by Lucifer into letting him into the Garden.
* His alias Ezekiel is a nod to Gadreel impersonating an angel.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

Network Files Gadreel.jpgNetwork Files: Gadreel

## Links and References

* Appearances of Gadreel

1. ↑ Network Files: Gadreel
2. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 4
3. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 7
4. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 14
5. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 12