Rules The Angels Have To Follow

Despite being the most powerful entities in the Unnatural universe, they still have rules.

The two most powerful antagonists or protagonists on *Unnatural World* are, in fact, archangels with the holy one, Joshua, almost worst than the fallen one in Lucifer. Add in all sorts of minor angels and a major ally in Ophiel, and the series was soon overflowing with Heaven's army. With so many angels running around, here are the rules the angels in *Unnatural Worl*d have to follow.

## Rules

### Requires A Vessel While On Earth

The big reason that Azazel attacked Jaclyn Smith and dropped his blood into John's mouth was to create vessel for Lucifer. That is because Lucifer and Joshua both needed a vessel in order to walk the Earth and set out upon their final battle. That is something that all angels need - a vessel that allows them to walk the Earth.

This is similar to demons, who also have to have a vessel to operate on Earth. Interestingly, while angels can take on a basic vessel and walk the Earth, an archangel is different. They are so powerful that only true vessels can hold them, any other will decay or explode.

### Must Have Permission For A Vessel

A demon can take over anybody that they can control; they can do this without the person even giving them permission. However, due to the grace of an angel, that is not possible for them. The only way that an angel can take over the body of a human is if that human gives them permission to do so.

Not only that but if a vessel decides that they no longer want the angel in them, they can revoke the permission. They can then kick the angel out while blocking their way to come back into them (although it is very hard to overcome the angelic possession).

### Only Possess Certain Humans

It is also very difficult to find humans that can serve as true vessels for an angel. Mabrius once said that it was very hard for him to find a human host that was durable enough to contain his might. It is even harder for someone as powerful as Lucifer or Joshua.

When Lucifer was preparing John to serve as his vessel, John had to drink demon's blood because he needed it to keep his body from exploding once Lucifer took over. The name for these bodies are true vessels, which is most important for archangels. John Smith is Lucifer's true vessel while Jacob Smith's is Joshua's.

### Can't Show True Forms

An angel is not able to show their true form to a human. According to Mabrius, his true form is gigantic — which stands at 6'2 billion feet. He also said that their true form is basically nothing more than waves and lights — pure energy. Other instances are pure white lights or even luminous smoke for those without wings.

Lucifer, and presumably other archangels, are dangerous to anyone who sees them in their true form. When Lucifer showed his true form, it destroyed an entire convent. To emphasize the danger, Pamela Barnes used her powers to see what Mabrius really looked like and her eyes burned out, blinding her.

### Must Remain Loyal To Heaven

God created angels and they have no option but to remain loyal to Heaven. Their powers, which are many, are restricted by this loyalty. If and when an angel betrays Heaven and rebels, their powers begin to wane and end up vanishing over time.

Archangels such as Lucifer and the seraphim do not suffer from this condition and restriction, as Lucifer rebelled but remained one of the most powerful beings in *Unnatural World* history. With that said, regular angels must always remain loyal to Heaven or they will eventually lose their grace and become mortal beings; powerless and nothing more than another human.

### Fallen Angels Lose Grace

When an angel falls, they lose their grace. When it comes to the difference between angels and mortals, angels have grace and humans have souls. It is the grace of an angel that provides them with Enochian magic.

When an angel falls, they lose their grace and also lose their powers. These are seen as what appears to be falling meteors, and when an angel falls, they also lose their wings. There is also another way to lose grace: when it is removed by slitting their vessel's throat with an angel blade and drawing it out. If an angel loses their grace but never fell, they can regain it.

### Require Wings To Teleport

When an angel teleports somewhere, it is usually accompanied by the sound of flapping wings. That is because angel's wings are what they use to teleport from one place to another. According to Zachariah, humans cannot see an angel's wings because their senses are too dull to view them. However, the wings are seen in shadows and are burned into the ground when an angel perishes.

When an angel loses its wings and is unable to teleport, they can still move around as blue luminous smoke. After the Big Fall, all angels lost the ability to teleport outside of upper-level angels, like Lucifer and the Grigori.

### Communicate Through Angel Radio

The angels are able to send out messages to each other using what Jacob Smith referred to as "angel radio." This can also be used as a weapon, as Mabrius used angel radio to broadcast Metatron revealing his dastardly plan to all other angels, turning them all against him.

For some reason, angel radio is extremely painful to the Nephilim Jack, who is unable to listen to it without getting an excruciating headache. For all other angels, this was a way to gather the troops when they needed to congregate somewhere.

### They Must Remain In Heaven

Angels have to remain in Heaven. While some can take on Earthly vessels, they must remain in Heaven to protect it. The only way that an angel can maintain its powers is if it remains connected and loyal to Heaven. Their job is to guard the souls in Heaven and if they leave, they are going against their duties.

However, that was proven when Metatron caused all angels to fall from Heaven. This proved fatal to many of the angels and others became trapped on Earth, most losing their wings while still keeping some of their powers since they were expelled. Since the Fall, angels are now an endangered species.

### They Must Keep Their Faith

Jacob Smith was speaking to Anna about angels and God. He asked how many angels had actually seen God and she admitted that there were only, like, five of them who've seen God personally (The rest did see him but not his true face). She was not one of them. Jacob then asked how she could even know that God really existed if almost no angels had ever seen him.

Her answer was frightening. Anna told Jacob that angels have to take his existence by faith. If they do not have faith, they will have their lives taken from them. While humans have free will, an angel who does not believe is no longer allowed to live. This was proved false when an Angel fell from Heaven but did not die. The fallen angel only lost permission to enter Heaven.

### Can't Question Hierarchy

There are some, like Mabrius, who don’t fall under this rule anymore, but the standard angel has no choice but be a soldier of heaven. Even Mabrius generally falls under this as far as his factory settings are concerned, but he’s by and large gotten over it.

Every other random angel we’ve seen, though, follows rules down to the tee as they don’t question the hierarchy they’re supposed to fall under. These angels consider the hierarchy the plan of God and have no problems following orders if it means even taking people’s lives.

### They Can't Go To Hell Unless It's Your Job

Other than Lucifer and Sabrael, no angels ever enter heaven save for one instance where they did so to retrieve the soul of Jacob.

Even though we’ve seen angels break a lot of rules over the years, they still haven’t broken this one of not entering Hell and remain either in Heaven or on Earth. Mabrius and Naomi had said sending angels to Hell for missions had cost many angel lives, so that might be a reason why.

### No Contact With Humans (Unless your a Guardian Angel/Archangel)

This rule falls under both having to follow and loving to break, but we decided to keep it under the former pile. By and large, most of the angels don’t have contacts with humans. The angels that are alive right now don’t have any connection with humans other than the occasional visit to John and Jacob.

Under their original orders, they were never supposed to have any contact with them at all, or even use them as vessels unless completely necessary.

### They Can't Go To The Apocalypse World

After Jack’s impending birth opened up the gateway to the Apocalypse World, the angels became knowledgeable that there are different universes out there. This means they have the option to carry on to other worlds if they want to.

However, with Joshua now in charge of heaven, that is out of the question. Joshua keeping his cards pretty close to the chest which means the handful of angels that do remain can’t go on to different universes even if they wanted to unless commanded by God. Considering the Apocalypse World is awful, no one’s lining up to go there as it is. But this rule is useless considering it was destroyed by God.

### Following Archangels Commands

The angels we saw initially were doing whatever they did because of orders from archangels. They were following the orders from Joshua and this continued. The civil war in heaven began because the archangel Raphael wanted to bring Michael and Lucifer back.

Lucifer simply strolled in heaven and made the angels do his bidding, although in this case they all just did in fear as he threatened that “he who hesitates, disintegrates.”

### Carrying Angel Blades

Despite the angels being encouraged never to fight one another and to see each other as siblings, it seems they are also taught to take each other out whenever it’s convenient. This is because every angel comes equipped with an angel blade.

At first it seemed only a few had this option but it turned out that every angel carried a blade. Now, an angel blade is so easy to find that even the Smiths and Lazarus carried one on a regular basis. So it seems the angels are now handing these out.

### Remembering All Current And Future Prophets

Mabrius had said having so much knowledge can feel like a burden at times and he wasn’t so crazy about it. This was true to continuity as Mabrius has always been able to tell the Winchesters who the current prophet is.

This also came into very good use when a false prophet was running around and causing people to slay each other. So, while it’s not the best thing to have the names of so many people, both past and future, seared in their heads, the rule does have its benefits.

### Attending Conferences

The angels make their decisions up in heaven, but these meetings don’t just happen anywhere, they take place in a boardroom. We saw this room first when Naomi was using it, but the meeting was fully in place when Lucifer brought one together.

More than a meeting, it was a conference where Lucifer told everyone what the plan was to beat the Darkness and no had any choice but to agree with him. You can bet Zachariah had similar conferences back as well.

### Showing Wings When Using Superpowers

We’re not sure if it’s a rule or just a reflex the angels love to show. Either way, whenever an angel powers up, they show off those beautiful wings in a burst of light. It would seem this rule is a requirement as it gives the angels the energy they need to maximize their fighting potential.

Mabrius' alternate reality form showed his wings when using his powers on John and Jacob. He was successful at walloping them bad, so it seems this showing off their wings thing has a reason behind it.

### Becoming Humans After Losing Their Grace

Although angels like the idea of welcoming human habits, they aren’t so quick to jump in at the opportunity of becoming one themselves. This isn’t an option, though, when their grace is taken away and at that point they have no choice but to become humans.

While the whole grace thing was way different where Anna had to be reborn, now it comes in the form of removing the grace from their throats, rendering them human. Whichever way is used, at the end of it the angel becomes human and is stuck in the host’s body.

## Rules Angels Love To Break

### Time Travel

Time travel was supposed to be this big act that could only be used for the most important of angelic missions. The angels time traveling in 2009 made it clear how wrong it was to do so; however, they’ve still broken this rule (pardon the incoming pun) time and time again.

They did so in 1896, then again 2013, along with numerous other times. Zachariah had no problems with continually time traveling if it meant he won at what he wanted to.

### Resurrection

This hasn’t been as prevalent as it used to be considering the regularity with which the angels started doing this at one point. They were shown to have powers of resurrection and the first instance was when we saw them resurrect Jacob in 2008.

It didn’t stop there as many others were brought back too; Malcolm Knapp was brought back the easiest way by Mabrius in the 2009, which makes it questionable why Matt didn’t do the same in 2013. Over time, the resurrection thing became too easy and it’s been phased out.

### Leaving Heaven (This Doesn't Go For All Angels)

The angels hadn’t been on earth in millennia, but this ended up being a continuity mistake as we’ve seen several instances now that show angels being in the past and active on Earth.

The angels very freely roam the Earth without feeling out of place. Now, we see angels on Earth more than we see them in Heaven. We never see them questioning why they’re on Earth anymore.

### Not Listening To God (Most Archangels; Lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel)

While the regular angels use the word of God as something never to be broken, some archangels have seen who Charles is, and they know Charles is a ignorant human. This is why they love not following Charles’s orders.

Lucifer and Gabriel in particular have no respect for their father’s words and love to rebel. Both of them were quite immature, so you can see why they loved to defy what they were told to do. Everything Lucifer ever did, in fact, was to piss off his old man.

### Running Away From Their Problems (Archangels)

For this point, there’s no better character to use as an example than Gabriel. While we had thought he was a simple trickster at first, and then Loki, it turned out he was an archangel.

Gabriel was a master of running away from his problems as he spent thousands of years in hiding just so he wouldn’t have to confront problems in heaven. The same way, Lucifer also ran away from heaven because he disagreed with God; he did so again from 2037 where he proclaimed he’d wreak havoc simply because he could.

### Using Reality Warping (Archangels)

The high-ranking angels also had reality warping powers and they used these powers to antagonize the Smiths. However, now it seems only the archangels had these powers as the regular angels aren’t shown to use them.

The archangels love to utilize these powers whenever they can. Gabriel did it right from the get-go by morphing the world, and even taking Jacob’s life over and again. Lucifer did it most recently by showing John alternate visions when he wanted to take possession of his body.

### Using The Angel Blades

Of course, simply having an angel blade doesn’t mean you need to use it. It may have been given to the angels to be used only when absolutely needed as opposed to taking each other out on minor squabbles; however, the angels do use the blades very frequently.

This got to the point that Lazarus improvised and melted the angel blades to make bullets out of them. This way, the blade fragments would take out multiple angels without the need to fight and stab anyone. Mabrius uses one quite frequently.

### Using Hand of God Weapons (Archangels)

This applies to those angels who could get their hands on a Hand of God weapon. Seeing that these angels would have done anything to beat the Darkness, they would have no qualms breaking this rule.

As it happened, it was Lucifer who used the Hand of God weapon against the Darkness and lost horribly; the reason that God was nowhere near as powerful as the Darkness. He had tried to use it first when he’d also done some time traveling, but the weapon was all juiced out.

### Usurping Authority To Become The Leader

While the angels can’t function without having a leader, the leadership position itself doesn’t have to be an archangel. We saw Mabrius do this first when he found himself in charge of a faction of angels, before Joshua took over.

Later on, Metatron did the same, and was followed once more by Mabrius, and then Hannah in this position. Bartholomew also tried to join the fray briefly before he was taken out. The angels love to claim power when a position for it opens up.

### Sending Someone Else In The Past Or Future

We haven’t seen angels time travel as much as we’ve seen them send someone else back in time. This, though, was supposed to be even more taboo than the angels time traveling themselves as sending a person through time could fracture reality.

However, Zachariah was prepared to suffer the consequences and sent Jacob to an alternate future and was prepared to do so repeatedly. Later, Mabrius sent the Smiths back in time even though he was cut off from heaven. Since then, the Smiths have done a lot of angel-assisted time travel.

### Developing Fondness For Human Habits

Mabrius was the first angel we saw display this, but the angels have been shown to enjoy human habits for a long time. Chief among them is Gabriel, who is a pretty big playboy and enjoys being a ladies’ man – he was even seen sleeping at one point, which makes no sense.

Mabrius shows every kind of human habit nowadays as he’s seen crying and laughing whenever the need to do so arises; something he couldn’t do once before. We’ve also seen angels sire nephilims so you can surmise that they can also do pretty adult stuff.

### Cutting Deals With Demons

The very idea that an angel would become partners with a demon was something unforgivable. Both Mabrius and Raphael were doing it. Despite being in a partnership with Lazarus, both angels had very low opinions of demons.

Later on, Lucifer seemed to be favoring a deal with Lazarus, but then decided to make him his personal dog and kept him on a leash instead. The idea had been that angels would instantly obliterate demons – not anymore.

### Siring Nephilims

Like we mentioned beforehand, angels take on human habits and have even become parents to children whose other parent is a human. The first chronological happening of this was when the Nephilim Mabrius and Metatron took out was conceived, although her parent is unknown.

The best example we have now is Jack, who is the son of Lucifer. Previously, it had been stated angels don’t have the capacity to be reproductive, but clearly some angels have been getting pretty rebellious in this regard.