Archangel

The **Archangels**, also known as **True Angels**, **True Archangels** or simply **Angels**, is a special class of Angel that can control other angels. Excluding a couple, all Archangels were created in the very beginning.

These archangels are reputed as the strongest class of angel, being looked at as Heaven's most fearsome wrath. They were the first angels to be created by God. They were also known as "Rav-Malakhim" or "Malakhim-Panav," who are the angels that stand before the lord himself.

## Summary

The true archangels are the chief angelic creations of God. They were created in this explicit order: first was Michael and Lucifer (then known as Helel), and then Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel. The archangels acted as siblings, and distinctively interacted with themselves and their father. Many other archangels came after those five including Metatron, Sandalphon, Azrael, Raguel, Remiel, Anael, Camael, Jophiel, Zadkiel, Barachiel, along with many others.

Archangels are one of the few bodies of angels that contact those on the material plane directly and are the ministers and messengers between God and mankind. Some of the most famous archangels include Michael and Gabriel who both appear in the Bible, although only Michael was named expressly as an archangel.

The archangels are powerful, angelic beings created by God before other angels. They were imbued with immense power far surpassing that of lesser angels, demons, and most other supernatural beings. Zariel describes them as "fierce and absolute." They appear to be the angels that one angel described as having personally seen God.

According to some texts, archangels are also the primary warrior race of angels and are known to be at constant war with the fallen angels. It is even suggested that Lucifer was an archangel before her fall from grace, however, she was commonly seen as a Seraphim. The most prominent archangels are Samael, Azrael, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Lucifer, and Uriel. These archangels were the first angels to be created in existence and thus are among the most powerful of their kind, more so than lesser archangels. After the War in Heaven, a new group was created to counter the Seven Princes of Hell, they are known as the Seven Archangels or the Seven Great Seraphs.

## History

Some point after God along with his first creations, the Arcuthas, fought The Darkness (God's own sister) and later the Chaos and her Primordial Entities and Azathoth and his Outer Gods and together, while they were unable to fully destroy them, they succeeded in binding them. God then created the Nihilo Mask that would serve as both lock and key for Chaos and Azathoth, and imprisoning the Outer Gods in the "Outer-Verse".

Then he had to seal away his first creations in the Abyss after being corrupted by the Dragon Tathamet, God had then fully began Creation and made the Archangels to maintain it along with Him. When Ayin (God's other sister) and Tathamet attack God, He sent the Archangels to go against the latter while also fighting against Ophis' accidental creations, The Levians. After the banishing of them both and helping create Heaven, with God personally raised Michael, Samael and Helel who then take care of Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel, and accordingly, Helel took care of Gabriel, and showed her different tricks. Michael in turn would take care of Raphael while Samael took care of Uriel.

Later on, when God learned of the Great Old Ones, he tasked his archangels to find and destroy these eldritch beings. The archangels were mostly successful in destroying some of these beings, however, many of them were unable to be destroyed as they turned out to be slivers of the primordial chaos of Azathoth and thus are technically like him and so are not fully physical beings. Instead of destroying them, the archangels would simply imprison them. They would then request the deities of Pagan religions to watch over the Earth and make certain that the Old Ones would not rise while they repair the multiverse alongside their father.

## Members

### Seven Great Seraphs

The **Seven Great Seraphs** is are the current leaders of the Angels after God had entered his lamentation sleep in True Longinus. Despite this, they pushed most of the responsibility onto the Seraphim to focuse on maintaining and ruling existence in their Father's absence.

### Elder Seraphim

The **Elder Seraphim** (, *Erudā Serafimu*), also known as the **Twelve Great Seraphim**, are the leaders of the Heavenly Council and rule the Angels while the Archangels were busy.

### Younger Seraphim

The **Younger Seraphim** (, *Wakai Serafimu*), also known as the **Lords of the Heavenly Host**, are the thirteen Seraph-ranked Angels who rose to their current status through the victories and achivements dedicated toward the Heaven.

According to Azazel, while the Elder Seraphim rule the Heavenly Council, the Younger Seraphim rule the Heavenly Host - The Abrahamic Heaven's famous military, which is said to be the strongest military across all mythology, thus making them immensely important figures.

## Quotes

* *"There are two different types of "Archangels," the normal Archangels who are just better Angels, who in it of themselves are just messengers. The other kind, the kind you're probably thinking about, are considered the "True Archangels," the Angels that could rival and surpass beings like Odin or Zeus. They are the Archangels that God calls upon when he needs help."* - Carl Black.

## Trivia

* Archangel means Chief Angel.
* There is a weaker class also known as Archangel which are among the eighth, making them second in the third hierarchy. They are treated as stronger then low-class angels but weaker than any other order of angels. They were also known as Beni Elohim.
* While they would rather stay in one gender, they along with the rest of their kind are genderless beings and so can be any gender they desire.
	+ The Jewish name for these Archangels are rav-mal'ákh.