Grigori

### Summary

The organization which acts as the government of the fallen angels and the agents affiliated to them.

### Origins

Abrahamic Mythology

**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 leadership, they fought against the heavenly host during the Celestial War until the Celestial Prince was sealed into the Otherworld. After the war, Shemhazai became the Governor-Emperor and the organization became the new government and home 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 Hell, 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 of Hell permanently, thus heavily crippled their remaining forces. While many fallen angels saw this as a chance to defeat both Heaven and Hell 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 Belos d'Ishar, the first recorded wielder of the Neo-Longinus Alphecca Tyrant. Due to his young age, he was corrupted by its power and began to brainwash everyone and anyone around him 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 him 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 them [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** 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**, also called the **Favorite Sons of the Black Goat**, 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-fallens 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.
* The Cadres all are quite taken with the game *mahjong* to the point they created a competition many years back called the "Leader of Fallen Angel Mahjong Competition", which currently has had a total of 316 competitions.