Camael

Siblings: The True Archangels

**Camael** is the True Archangel of strength, courage, war, and charity in Christian and Jewish mythology and angelology.

## Overview

Camael is considered to be leader of the Powers. According to poet Gustav Davidson's popular work *A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels* (1967), he is known as one of the ten Kabbalah angels, assigned to the Sephira Gevurah.

He is claimed to be the leader of the forces that expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden holding a flaming sword. However, in iconography he is often depicted holding a cup while Uriel is the one depicted as holding a flaming sword.

Camael's name is also included in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as one of the Seven Archangels along with Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Jophiel, and Zadkiel.

## Personality

Camael is stubborn and has a fiery personality. He has a sense of duty and will not joke around when it comes to his duties.

## Powers and Abilities

**Aura Manipulation:** Camael can create, shape and manipulate aura, a form of life-force that exists as an invisible etheric phenomenon/emanation produced by and surrounding a person or object.

**Chivalry:** Camael is a noble knight: they have an innate ability to manifest great courage and nobility at all times, especially in the face of adversity. The knights express a desire to maintain order and are well rounded in many aspects. They are well versed in the seven knightly virtues, and some are as jealous as to try and destroy that which they see as impure, as well as suffering from psychological stress due to having to suppress their natural instincts and desires. Their selflessness and compassion make them very charismatic, and they soon earned the trust of those around them.

**Courage Manipulation:** Camael can manipulate, induce, take away or augment courage, bravery, etc., the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement.

**Freedom Inducement:** Camael can induce freedom onto anyone, making them free from rules or laws and make them able to do whatever they want.

**Holy Fire Manipulation:** Camael can create, shape and manipulate holy flames, which are especially effective against demons and other evil beings and are inextinguishable by normal means. It may also trap and/or immobilize angels or demons, rather than killing them outright. The color of the flames varies, but usually blue, white, or the normal if light shades of fire.

**Love Manipulation:** Camael can manipulate and can sense of all the aspects of love, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling love, even manifesting the emotional energy to a physical level.

**Paradise Entrance:** Camael can open a pathway/portal to the paradise/heaven/utopia afterlives/realities which benevolent souls rightfully go to be at peace and happiness, linking the modern world to the one being called by it.

**Perseverance Manipulation:** Camael can sense and control endurance/persistence, the ability to control the continuance of an action despite difficulty and opposition, of themselves and others. Whether by increasing and decreasing it, or by channeling and manifesting it into a physical and malleable energy.

**Pure Heart:** Camael possesses a heart devoid of evil, darkness, malice, etc.

**Purpose Manipulation:** Camael can manipulate the purpose of anything, meaning they can manipulate what people, parts of the body and other objects were meant or intended to do, or alter their reason to exist. For example, they can alter the purpose of muscles to make them stronger and meant to lift heavy objects with little effort. They can also affect the purpose of a person's existence, and perhaps alter their destiny in a way. They can make any object be usable in ways they were not meant to. They can also alter a person or object's properties, such as shape, to make them be able to be used for the desired purpose.

**Relationship Manipulation:** Camael can sense and manipulate the relationships, including social, intimate and interpersonal, breaking, altering them, reforming them or creating completely new ones. They will thus be able to alter people's emotions, personalities, relationships, viewpoints and moral orientations.

**Sephirot Empowerment:** Camael gains access to the various emanations of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah, allowing them to tap into the primal, undiluted forces of creation and the divine.

**Strength Manipulation:** Camael with this ability is able to manipulate the strength (be it physical, mental, spiritual, etc.) of oneself or others, turning a weakling into a very strong person and vice versa, or remove the strength of others or bestowal strength onto any other person.

**Super-Hearing:** Camael's sense of hearing is glaringly, obviously and super/unnaturally more acute than other beings in their universe because their capabilities are pushed to a superhuman level. Allowing them to hear anything over incredible distances, hear things that are seemingly too quiet to be discernible as well as being able to hear sounds over an insane range of frequencies. Camael can even be able to hear individual molecules/atoms and their movements, or even the supernatural/paranormal, including the activities or spirits or immaterial beings and creatures. This also allows them to acquire auditory information from even the future or past.

**War & Peace Manipulation:** Camael can manipulate both war and peace in all forms (Physical, mental, spiritual, etc). They can induce, erase and become empowered by war and peace at once. They can cause world peace or a world war, pitting everyone on the planet against each other.

**Wrath Embodiment:** Camael can become a physical manifestation or personification of wrath in their reality and gains power from the anger in others or oneself. Camael can use anger and endless rage as a power source to extend their life span or as a weapon. They can become immune to death unless certain conditions are met. They can also embodiment the hatred, the violence, the vengeance and the war, concepts related to wrath.

## Trivia

* Camael is not recognized by the Catholic Church due to the Vatican's decision to ban the veneration of angels not mentioned in the Bible.
* His name, Camael, means "God is risen" or "raised by God".