Azrael

Siblings: The True Archangels

**Azrael** is the True Archangel of Death as well as the one who leads the Angels of Death.

## Overview

Despite being the angel who transports the souls of the deceased to their respective afterlives, he holds a benevolent role. However, he is not the only angel of death as there is an entire garrison of angels of death, including Rahab and Sariel, which Azrael commands.

Azrael makes sure that the souls of the deceased make it safely to the afterlife and provides solace towards those suffering from the death of a loved one. As angels of death are sometimes confused with Grim Reapers, Azrael is often imagined as someone with a hood and a scythe.

Azrael is fierce towards those who do not feel remorse for the wrong things they did when they were alive. He also appears to them to notify that their time on Earth had expired.

If they try to resist, Azrael forcibly takes their souls from their bodies and takes them to Hell, where they will be punished. When Azrael is extracting the soul of a sinful person, that person would feel like every part of him is being pulled while his entire body is being mutilated.

## Appearance

Azrael is utterly hideous when in his true form. His true form is so terrifying that humans, monsters, and low-ranking demons and angels will descend into madness if they see it. Only the other True Archangels and Archdemons are immune to his hideousness, although they will still feel uncomfortable. To those who died a righteous person, however, Azrael is described as very beautiful and etheral, with the scent of heavenly perfume sourced to him.

With Satan, however, his already terrifying form becomes even more even more hideous. Standing taller than a mountain clouded in God's divine wrath. His wings covers the skies and it said if anyone else sees this form, they will die from fear. It is said Satan himself turn his tail and run rather than even look at Azrael, seeing his own death the longer the two are in the same location.

## Personality

Azrael is a stern, cold, and stoic angel. However, unlike Lucifer and Satan, he is not cruel. He is just, honorable, and fair. He gives the souls of the righteous a swift and painless death and the souls of sinners a painful and slow death. His actions are not for his own benefit but rather according to God's will.

Azrael is capable of sympathy as he would comfort the souls of the righteous if they are scared. Despite his uncaring personality, he loves his family deeply and has a good relationship with his mentor, Death.

## Powers and Abilities

**Appendage Generation:** Azrael has or can generate body parts, such as arms, legs, mouths, eyes, etc., on themselves, others or any other surface. When used on oneself and others, this ability can be used to manifest extra body parts, create appendages foreign to the subject’s normal physiological structure, or to potentially even replace lost anatomy.

**Beauty Embodiment:** Azrael acts as the physical representation or personification of the beauty, as such, they are infinitely and supremely beautiful and have limitless control over beauty. They have perfect physical beauty and may never age and might even be immune to death unless certain conditions are met.

**Cherubim Physiology:** Azrael with this ability either is or can transform into an Cherubim, one of the few defined forms of heavenly creatures. Being high-ranking spiritual beings, it is likely that they don't have any true, fixed form, which explains both the difficulty and variety of how they are described.

**Death Embodiment:** Azrael embodies death or the dead. At the most fundamental level, Azrael would possess key physical characteristics and/or personality traits related to the concept they're personifying, usually having a skeleton theme. Azrael would firstly be exempt from death, and have roles related to guiding the dead or inducing it. Azrael would also be able to manipulate death or the dead.

**Directional Lordship:** Azrael has absolute control over any direction (west, east, north, south and center) and everything on and associated with that direction, such as entities, elements, colors, concepts, seasons, places, etc.

**Dream Walking:** Azrael is capable of entering the dreams of others. Azrael may be able to enter daydreams.

**Enhanced Swordsmanship:** Azrael possesses incredible proficiency and skill in wielding and utilizing a sword, a bladed melee weapon intended for cutting or thrusting that is longer than a knife or dagger, consisting of a long blade attached to a hilt. Regardless, of the sword’s shape or size, Azrael can wield it as if it were an extension of their hand(s). They can also wield a sword with incredible expertise in speed, power, and skill, allowing them to perform feats such as stopping and deflecting bullets, decimating large objects or areas, cutting through solid material such as steel, and even hold back their strength to deal damage to their foes without killing them.

**Super-Swordsmanship:** Azrael is able to wield a sword with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, dexterity, and skill, allowing them to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease, such as cutting through nigh invulnerable or intangible materials, blocking or deflecting things that should be impossible to block/deflect and even slash targets from any distance.

**Absolute Swordsmanship:** Azrael has reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, possessing proficiency, capabilities and knowledge in swords at a maximum and limitless level. They know everything about swords and how to wield them and surpass any and all masters of combat of any form, having complete knowledge of the forms whether they be unknown, nigh impossible to master, or forbidden and can also create their own forms of combat to throw off their enemies. Their swordsmanship skill and proficiency are absolutely unparalleled, being unsurpassed by anything in existence. Their sword wielding is godly in nature, each sword movement possessing otherworldly beauty.

**Fallen Transcendent Angel Physiology:** Azrael either is or can transform into a Fallen Transcendent Angel: a leader of a group of angels who rebelled against God and were cast into Hell. Strangely, Azrael not only got to keep their power but still have access to angelic powers as well as demonic ones even though Azrael is not a full-fledged demon. Furthermore, Azrael's angelic essence could be different than just plain angel like Transcendent Hybrid of possibly Transcendent Dragonborn (Angelic Dragon),Transcendent Cyborg (Angel-Machine), Transcendent Nephalem (Fallen Transcendent Angel/Ascended Transcendent Demon), Deity (Angelic Deity), Transcendent Nephilim (Fallen Transcendent Angel/Transcendent Human) , etc which in turn could push Azrael's potential and all other abilities far beyond normal transcendent angels.

**Heaven Deity Physiology:** Azrael with this ability either is or can transform into a Heaven Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with heaven, the Aether and the skies. Heaven Deities were and still are common in mythology and considered very powerful among deities. Heaven has had many names depending on culture.

**Life and Death Lordship:** Azrael has absolute control over both life and death, and thus over all living and dead things, allowing them to have limitless control over everything and everyone that is either alive or dead, and as well manipulate all things related to life and death.

**Omnilegence:** Azrael has an encyclopedic knowledge of all written, scribbled, typed or otherwise recorded material in existence, including computers and the internet (possibly including visual forms of material/media as well), so as humanity's knowledge grows, so does Azrael's. They have access to knowledge written down thousands of years ago and in different languages simply by their connection to the written and typed word, including the ability to understand idioms, symbolic words and phrases.

**Psychopomp:** As an archetype, psychopomps, are entities who serves as a guide to the afterlife to assist souls be they lost or found, damn or saved, good or evil, all to help them move on to their predestined life that comes after death.

**Psychopomp Manipulation:** Azrael can manipulate or otherwise influence various kinds of psychopomps. They control them to do their bidding, such as helping them during situations, using them against foes, using them to see locations and get information about a particular place, using them for battle, using them for spying on others.

**Relative Appearance Alteration:** Azrael's appearance differs depending on who sees them, on what Azrael would look like according to sees, tastes, and/or experiences. The perceived appearance varies from person to person and can include changes in race, voice, and mannerisms to present anything from an ideal figurehead to something or someone most hated or feared by a viewer.

**Threads of Fate Manipulation:** Azrael can create, shape and manipulate the threads of fate, supernatural strings that embody the lives, experiences and/or destinies of individuals. Also known as the threads of life, in mythology, they are spun into existence, (granting someone life), then they are lengthened/woven (creating a certain amount of time individuals have to live and a particular destiny they fulfill) and if the individual is truly mortal, they are cut (the individual’s life ends), no more different then individuals who are truly immortal, they’re string would be impossible to cut (the individual’s life endlessly continues).

**Vengeance Spirit Physiology:** Azrael with this ability either is or can transform into a vengeful ghost, a spirit/ghost who represents or is associated with vengeance, revenge, retribution, and even karma. They return from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unjust death they went through, or even the case of the spirit's body not being buried properly, or their grave being disturbed. Vengeful ghosts were fairly common in mythology and greatly feared among civilizations.

## History

Azrael, known as the final plague in the series of ten unleashed by God upon Egypt, brought about the demise of Egypt's firstborn children while sparing the lives of the Hebrews. This significant event is now recognized as the "Passover." Azrael's name gained prominence as he transported souls to heaven for God's judgment.