Angels

## The Angels of Lore

Symbol of the Celestial Realm, home of the Angels

### Purpose

Preserve balance and harmony on the human world, Lore and all other planets. Ensuring all goes along the ways that were intended at creation.

## Other attributes

### Internal ranks or jobs

ArchangelsCherubim

Powers

Virtues

Dominions

Angels

### Specified jobs or activities

Ensuring Balance of the elements, upholding creation, inspiring, sending blessings, maintaining the circle of life, rescuing creatures; writing past, present and future.

### Other specifications

Immortal, their soul is their essence, can be incorporal.

## Political Information

### Allies

Paladins, Good, Seraphic Paladins, Astral Beings, The Elementals

### Known for

The Celestial RealmArchangel Council

 Founding and Purpose

Angels have been around since the beginning of time. Nobody knows where they came from or when they were created.

### Ranks and purposes

The purpose of angels is to uphold creation mainly. The angels that interact with creation have different ranks and tasks.

#### Archangels

The first twelve angels that were created are called Archangels. Five of them fell to Evil, but seven of them prevailed and continued to stand for Good and the upholding of creation. These seven angels form the Archangel Council, the leading organization of the Celestial Realm and all other angels.

Archangels have four wings and are considered the strongest of all angels seen.

#### Cherubim

Cherubim (also called Cherubs) are the twenty-four angels of knowledge; they advise the Archangel Council. They are, basically, angel lords. They travel and uphold worlds, realms, and dimensions. These are possibly the only angels besides the Archangels that can manipulate time and its balance.

Cherubs have blue wings and are known to wear crowns.

#### Powers

Powers are the angels of the elements. Some are called Elemental Lords by lorepedians. Powers uphold elements like light, darkness, fire, water, ice, energy, earth, wind etc.

Powers usually appear in the form of their element and are usually shy and neutral/ignorant until specifically called upon.

#### Virtues

The Virtues are the ones that stand for virtues and moral concepts such as love, justice, peace and health.

Virtues are very often the angels who interact with creation the most and are possibly the most called upon.

#### Dominions

These are the warrior angels. They will stand up against the forces of evil and anything that causes major disbalance in creation. They fall under the command of the Archangel of Vigor as the general of the heavenly host.

Currently, Dominions are few in number as a direct result of the war from the time of the five fallen archangels, which thinned out the ranks of the angel warriors drastically. But at the Battle of the Dawn, they still appeared to be a considerable army.

#### Angels

Normal angels are given specified tasks, some as helpers to one of the above ranks (except Dominions). There are also angels that have duties in the Celestial Realm itself.

However, the most commonly known angel is the Guardian Angel; each creature with a soul will have a guardian angel that will care about it's well-being and balance. Although invisible to them, the guardian angels are always on guard to protect them. That said, it is also possible for a higher ranked angel to be someone's guardian angel.

## Notable events and achievements.

### AQWorlds

In AQWorlds, the angels were not mentioned until Aranx and Revontheus appeared in the war between The Legion and The Nation in 2012. Aranx sided with Dage the Evil for an unknown reason but stayed pure. And Revontheus sided with Nulgath and thus became a fallen angel.

Later on, Aranx got featured more in the Artist Alley as selling angelic gear to the AQWorlds players and was featured in the background story of Solrac. He and Astar also appeared a couple of times in Battleon. The next angels to join were Gjappy, Bido, Conqueroftheworld, and Sephira as a fallen angel.

In the release of Brightfortress it was revealed that demons like Nulgath do have a mirror version in the Mirror Realm. But that angels such as Aranx do not.

Gjappy got featured as angelic loremaster shortly after in a release about a battle coliseum.

In 2016, the Celestial Realm got released. This featured a storyline for the Hero wherein he has to help Aranx to defend the Celestial Realm against the attacks of the Infernals - a faction of demons that are more aggressive than The Nation. They kidnap three angels and as the Hero rallies to rescue them a fallen angel has to be defeated.

Then the infernals wage war upon the Celestial Realm, and the Hero joins the angels in the battle of the Lost Ruins where the angels fight to defeat the infernals and drive them out of the Celestial Realm. In the end, the Infernal Warlord gets defeated but reincarnates stronger; the Queen of Monsters who was behind the assault, escapes from the angels.

Next, in the Infernal Spire the Hero meets Aranx again and together they try to prevent the infernals from stealing celestial weaponry. Sadly, they fail, and both get away in time as the tower collapses.

And there is more to come.

### Other AE games

Other AE Games do not explicitly feature Angels or Celestials.

## Fun Facts

* Good angels do not have a mirror realm version.
* The last time that the Archangel Council was complete is longer ago than people think.
* Most angels are on the Good side, but some also chose to be neutral.
* Evil or Chaos angels are considered fallen angels.

## Real life story

It was mainly Aranx and Gjappy that convinced the developers of the games that adding an angel faction would do no harm as there were fiends as well.

Ever since, Aranx has been the first official angel to appear in AQWorlds. Artix Entertainment was first hesitant to the concept of angels, but later allowed more angelic items and releases. Their hesitation is expressed in the way they name angels "Celestials" and demons "Fiends".

In 2016, Artix Entertainment officially approved the angel/celestial faction by the Celestial Realm release and the Abyssal Angel class made by Sync.