The Cherubim

**Cherubim** are one of the highest ranking of angels in the Christian angel hierarchy, second only to the Seraphim. Their rank among angels is uncertain but they are always categorized in the First Sphere. Some believe them to be an order or class of angels; others hold them to be a class of heavenly beings higher than angels.

## Appearance

The biblical prophet Ezekiel describes the Cherubim as a tetrad of living creatures, each having four faces: of a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a man. They are said to have the stature and hands of a man, the feet of a calf, and four eye covered wings. Two of the wings extended upward, meeting above and sustaining the throne of God; while the other two stretched downward and covered the creatures themselves. They are usually portrayed as having lower humanoid bodies or even one that resembles a sphinx. Some, however, have no lower bodies at all, instead having a human-shaped head in the center surrounded by four wings with its three animalistic faces positioned in the direction of those wings.

## Overview

It is even believed that Satan, before his fall from Heaven, was a high ranking Cherubim, a prince of the Heavenly sphere, and is was the first to be created of the choir. This is hinted at the fact that the Devil possesses three faces in his demonic form which also shows his appearance and status as a Cherubim has become twisted and corrupted after the fall. However, this form is possibly also a transformation he assumed in battle during the War in Heaven.

The Cherubim are tasked with guarding the Garden of Eden, acting as "guard dogs" in Mephistopheles's words and would be stationed atop of the walls encircling the garden with two larger ones by the Gates alongside Uriel. In the beginning, the Cherubim were not given such a task, instead they simply sang about God's glory and majesty similarly to the Seraphim, and even held up His throne. It was not until Adam and Eve fell into temptation that the Cherubim were then charged with guarding Eden. This increase in security was likely due to Satan's managing of infiltrating the garden to tempt Adam and Eve, thus extra precautions were required.

## Known Cherubim

* Satan
* Asmodeus
* Moloch
* Paimon
* Belial
* Berith
* Bune

## Quotes

*"Cherubim aren't as powerful as True Archangels. But they're twice as big. Twice as fast. And twice as mean. There's a reason why they were charged with guarding the Garden of Eden." - Uriel.*

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Transcendent Angel Physiology:** The Cherubim are angelic beings of godly power. The Cherubim's power is to be considered utterly fearsome as no angel could ever hope to overcome or even equal.

**Wing Manifestation:** The Cherubim have or are able to manifest wings that grow or are attached to the body allowing flight. They may also protect from rear attacks or detach and re-grow for quick getaways.

**Nigh-Omnipotence:** The Cherubim possess supreme-like-power but has a limitation/restriction/weakness that inhibits their potential to become an omnipotent being. The Cherubim's near-omnipotence can range from having ultimate or maxed power over a particular domain or having expert-level power, knowledge, and presence over numerous or all aspects.

**Nigh-Omnipresence:** The Cherubim are present almost everywhere at the same time, usually being limited by/within a certain domain, such as time, space, or nothingness.

**Nigh-Omniscience:** The Cherubim know almost everything bar certain details, or is limited in some other way, such as being able to see one timeline or universe or have just small patches of information that are missing or blocked out. More simply, they may be in possession of such a vast reserve of knowledge that they can be regarded as "practically omniscient."

**High-Speed Flight:** The Cherubim can fly at super-high speeds, such as supersonic, hypersonic, light speed, or even faster than light speed.

**Super-Speed:** The Cherubim have the ability to move far beyond what is naturally possible for the vast majority of beings in their universe. Due to the wide range of speed levels within this category, the speed that the Cherubim with this can obtain varies between: sonic, supersonic, hypersonic, light speed and infinitely beyond. With the minimum possible speed being 617 - 6174 kph, and any speed above that also classifies as such.

**Courage:** The Cherubim possess an incredibly powerful courage that is capable of suppressing their fear and drawing upon superhuman reserves of courage and/or fearlessness allowing them to act/react normally in dangerous situations like combat, rescue operations, etc.

**Fearlessness:** The Cherubim are immune to fear of any kind, the Cherubim have no fear, and is unable to feel any sort of fear, terror, or even any intense anxiety. The Cherubim can think clearly, continue to move, and generally function in situations where the fear would disable a normal person. The Cherubim can act in perfect clarity and calmness even under the most extreme kinds of horrors or traumatic experiences.

**Enhanced Intelligence:** The Cherubim with this power possess extreme levels of intellect, enabling them to memorize and calculate vast amounts of information with exceptional precision. They can handle and interpret vast amounts of information at a phenomenal speed, and use their mental capabilities to predict their enemies’ movements and attack trajectories with pure logic alone. They can also apply their intellect to various fields of knowledge, such as science, engineering, medicine, art, philosophy, etc. They can invent new technologies, devise ingenious strategies, solve complex problems, and create masterpieces with ease. They can also learn new skills and languages in a matter of minutes, and master them in a matter of hours. The Cherubim with this power are essentially living supercomputers, capable of performing feats that would be impossible for ordinary humans.

**Indomitable Will:** The Cherubim possess indomitably strong willpower, a powerful force that allows them to face immense physical pain and psychological trauma without surrendering. No matter how dire the situation or stacked the odds, they refuse to yield, pushing themselves beyond their own limitations and even cheating death and fate. Anguish, suffering, and difficulty hold no power over them; their unwavering will allows them to endure any hardship with remarkable resilience.

**Enhanced Strength:** The Cherubim can raise thousands of pounds to tens of thousands of pounds. Being able to carry out any offensive action with the force of a massive vehicle. The Cherubim can lift cars, trucks, buses, moderate to large sized rocks, tall trees and are often beyond the physical limits of humans at their maximum. The Cherubim can perform extremely powerful attacks and cause a lot of collateral damage such as destroying large bridges, buildings, heavy vehicles, large trees, and killing huge creatures that require military grade weapons, such as moderate explosives, with only their physical strength.

**Enhanced Durability:** The Cherubim's physical durability, the ability to withstand damage, is extremely high, allowing them to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects. The Cherubim can withstand bullets, grenades and low to medium explosives (equivalent to ten tons of TNT), survive falling from the top of tall buildings and building collapse, withstand beatings from superhumans, take getting beaten with steel rods and bars, and survive massive amounts of blood loss.

**Electricity Generation:** The Cherubim can generate electricity, the energy emitted from charged particles. The Cherubim can become creative and use it in various methods.

**Fire Generation:** The Cherubim are able to either physically or mentally generate and project fire from their body.

**Light Generation:** The Cherubim can generate light of various intensities.

**Metal Mimicry:** The Cherubim are made up of or can transform their body completely into metal. A Cherubim's transformed form is anatomically identical to their normal form, aside of being made of metal, in which case it contains all to organs and is somewhat vulnerable to attacks. Alternately the Cherubim can transform into homogeneous matter, without any part of their form being more important than the other.

**Bovine Physiology:** The Cherubim with this ability either is or can mimic/transform into bovines including cattle, antelopes, caprines, gazelles, etc.: generally medium to large-sized ungulates.

**Eagle Physiology:** The Cherubim with this ability either is or can mimic/transform into raptors, in other words diurnal birds of prey, i.e. falconiformes, accipitriformes, and cathartiformes, including falcons, eagles, hawks, etc.

**Human Physiology:** The Cherbim are humans (Homo sapiens), a mammalian species of mundanes and mortals who are a known to being sentient and sapient race who inhabit the planet earth as a dominant species, said to be related to primates.

**Lion Physiology:** The Cherubim with this ability either is or can mimic/transform into lions.