Archangel

The **Council of Elders** are a powerful group of elder Whitelighters who advise and govern the forces of good.

## Description

"*It's really hard to explain. I-I don't really understand how it all works myself, but I know that there are different levels up there, a hierarchy. What I'm trying to say is that I think a holy union goes above their heads. It'd be like running an end run to my bosses' bosses.*"
—Leo Wyatt on the hierarchy up there
 The archangels were the seven chief angelic creations of God. They were created in this explicit order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Raguel, and Gabriel. The archangels acted as siblings, and distinctively interacted with themselves and their father. All except for Lucifer currently reamin in the Heaven.

## History

* Early History
* 1999

In the early days of humanity, to help the Nexus that was The All regain some of its magic, Angels and the Angels of Destiny were forced to send the mate of Neena, the first witch, back to the Higher Realm where The All resided. This was a decision, the errors of which, would only be fully realized millennia later.

Approximately 1000 BC, the Archangels saw the Titans as a risk to the world and themselves. In reply to this expanding threat, they unleashed the powers of the Greek Gods onto mortals, who were then able to imprison the Titans for millennia. However, instead of returning the divine powers back to their resting place after the battle, the mortals declared themselves Gods and forced the known world to worship them, as their abilities had completely overwhelmed their senses of humanity. After and since this crisis was resolved, the Elders have been providing guidance and support and watching over the world from their Heavenly abode.
## Powers and Abilities

**Active Powers**

* **Biological Manipulation:** The ability to to manipulate the life forces and energies; as well as chemical and cellular aspects of a physical body.
* **Electrical Force Field:** The ability to create protective electrically charged force fields.
* **Electricity Manipulation:** The ability to to create and project electricity or lightning.
* **Enhanced Strength:** The ability to have and exert a level of physical strength much greater than that of a normal person.
* **Flight:** The ability to defy gravity and propel oneself through the air at tremendous speeds and heights.  Like regular angels, archangels have demonstrated flight, though not when in a vessel.
* **Healing:** The ability to heal the injuries and wounds of others.
* **Heat Manipulation:** The ability to mentally control and manipulate heat.
* **Hovering:** The ability to rise a few feet in the air, with or without orbs.
* **Invisibility:** The ability to become unseen to the naked eye.
* **Light Manipulation:** The ability to create and manipulate light with orbs.
* **Memory Manipulation:** The ability to manipulate a person's memories.
* **Orbing:** The ability to teleport through the use of blue and white orbs.
* **Portal Creation:** The ability to open a vortex or portal to other locations, planes and times.
* **Precognition :** The ability to see premonitions of the future. Only a few Elders possess this ability.
* **Reality Warping:** The ability to change or manipulate reality and the world, itself to various degrees.
* **Remote Orbing:** The ability to orb other beings from one place to another.
* **Time Manipulation:** The ability to manipulate the passage of time.

**Other Powers**

* **Accelerated Healing:** The ability to heal yourself quickly from most injuries.
* **Angelic Possession:** The ability to inhabit the body of a living being.
* **Astral Perception:** The ability to perceive what would normally be invisible to humans.
* **Dream Walking:** The ability to enter the dreams of another person
* **Immortality:** The ability to have an infinite lifespan and an arrested aging process.
* **Power Granting:** The ability to grant any number of powers to any being.
* **Power Stripping:** The ability to strip powers from any being.
* **Sensing:** The ability to magically sense and locate beings anywhere in the world, unless they are dead or in the Underworld.

## Weakness

* **Darklighter Poison:** A poison that is fatal to anybody with Whitelighter blood in them. Which include Elders, Whitelighters, and Witches that are half Whitelighter.
* **Darklighter Arrows:** They are arrows dipped in an unknown poison. forged by Darklighters to fire at their targets with a Darklighter Crossbow.

## Known Archangels

**Archangels**

* Michael
* Lucifer
* Raphael
* Uriel
* Selaphiel
* Raguel
* Gabriel.

## Notes

* They are also known as the Council, the Founders, and the Powers That Be.