Arch Angels

Arch Angels are incredibly powerful. They are the ultimate angelic leaders. They wield the most potent magical items on the Plane of Light and are able to invoke huge amount of divine power.

## Appearance

Arch Angels look like other angels, beautiful and terrible. They are often quite large, glorious to look upon and radiate an intensity that is palpable. THey favour bright colours like gold, silver or brilliant white.

## Role

Arch Angels are the leaders of all the angelic forces of Light. They are the masters, the princes, the generals and in many cases the fathers of all lesser archons and angels. They are used to balance the effect of creatures of similar power such as Demon Princes.

Arch Angels are usually only used in the Celestial Haven as their presence on the material plane of Tal would shake the world. When they do visit the Material Plane in such a way it is necessarily brief and only at greatest need least the Crystal Accords be breached. One of their roles is however to balance the scales of the Accords if someone is foolish enough to allow a Demon Prince or similar to access the realms of men.

## Traits

Arch Angels are incredibly powerful and all the angelic traits are realised to their fullest potential in these celestial paragons. They are immune to any magic or attack other than the most powerful and evil of forces. The have a burning strength born of the sun, can move near the speed of the light itself and power that is a direct shard of the divine power of their Avatar.

It is not unreasonable to say that an Arch Angel could destroy an entire nation single handedly.

They are spell casters of the highest orders of the divine. They are warriors of unequaled expertise. Their ageless minds understand more knowledge than dozens of lesser angels and hundreds of thousands of mortals.

The aura of an arch angel is similar to the aura of other angels. It heals those who are righteous and inspires and stregnths and protects them. It makes evil creatures fear and physically tremble. It pushes summoned creatures back and banishes lesser evil outsiders passively. The aura dispels evil magic unless it is sufficiently powerful and no illusion can survive within its radius. Enhanced individuals who do not have significant power or self control of a high order may find themselves unable to move in the presence of an angel due to this aura of awe. Such individuals if evil will try to flee in terror if they can move or simply sink trembling to whimper on the ground if not. If those creatures are actually made of evil the aura alone may destroy them. Lesser undead creatures will simply disintergrate within an arch angels aura and greater ones will flee it. Those bolstered to the highest levels by Death's own power may be able to endure it but only because their own malignant force will nullify its effects. In cases such as this the aura protects the angel from the force of the other enhanced creature.

If an arch angel handles an evil item and it is not enhanced to the highest of levels it will melt and be destroyed. If an arch angel chooses to wield a non-magical item it will become holy through the wielding. If it is deliberately blessed it will carry a mouch greater potency forever more.