Elohim

Demiurgic Archangel (older brother)

True Demons (eternal enemies/opposition)

Demiurgic Archangels

Human (Castiel and Gabriel Hornblower)

Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים), also known as Angels, are supremely powerful winged celestial beings who serves as attendants to God and resided in the Heaven. The Elohim can be considered as the true angels of Creation, with angels from various outer-verses serve as a small fragment, facets and avatars of the Elohim.

The Elohim are the supreme power of Creation, challenged only by the forces of Hell, to which the forces of Elohim and Demons are trapped in an eternal struggle over Creation.

## Overview

The Elohim were the first creatures created by God, born from His radiance on the first day of Creation. Each Elohim is a mote of divine power and wisdom, and their light was the first dawn of Creation. They stood at the edge of the Creation, pushing back the void and creating the outerverses (thus filling the Omniverse), for God made them to be the guardians and caretakers of all that He created. After Creation is formed, the Elohim is driven to serving their father, God, and the Demiurgic Archangel as well as overseeing the cosmos.

The Elohim are also known as the ultimate angels, with seemingly infinite facets and avatars of them spreading across Creation (prominent example being the Angels from Supernatural). As the first creature to be born, the Elohim hold a facet of God's own powers and wisdom, allowing them to perform unfathomable act of creation and destruction, as well as being powerful and wise beyond imagination.

It is possible to turn human into Elohim, as shown with Enoch's ascension into an angel. This is done by the Elohim sharing a portion of their divine essence (and hence, grace) into said human. However, the angelic human can still be rendered mortal by stripping them of their grace and essence. God and the Demiurgic Archangels also have the power to turn human into angels as well.

## Appearance

The generic angels/Elohim are depicted in paintings are almost always of this class being with wings, silk robes, and halos. This regular appearance of the angels, however, is far from the truth. The Elohim are spirits of pure light, comprised entirely of divine essence of creation and destruction. Their essence are also completely formless and boundless, hence Elohim can take on a form. Elohim are generally humanoid while taking on a form, albeit with pairs of wings on their back.

The Elohim's natural forms are hazardous, overwhelming, and terrifying all at the same time. In fact, the nature of the Elohim's true form can twist the cosmos into unfathomable abnormality or complete destruction in an instant. Their true forms are also harmful to most beings within Creation, ranging from humans, monsters to even supremely powerful beings such as deities, cosmic entities, conceptual entities and even demons themselves. Castiel's true form was able to smite multiple weaker demons at once, and his voice is fatal to them as well. To human, the Elohim are straight up eldritch entities; most beings do not have the minds to comprehend what they have just seen and will spiral down into pure insanity at the Elohim's true form. For mortals beings and weaker demons, witnessing an angel's true form will straight up kill them, which also burn out their eyes socket and puncture their ears.

Perhaps the Elohim's most notable trait is their angel wings. While angel wings are incorporeal in the physical plane, Elohim can project their wings through astral projection to solidifying their status as an angel. Number of wings vary between ranks of angels, with lower Elohim possessing a pair of wings, while higher Elohim such as the Seraph Castiel has hundreds of pairs of wings, despite the Earthly depiction of three. While most medieval depictions resemble the angelic wings to that of a dove, in truth, angelic wings are of pure energy that "has the shape of Creation itself", which provide the basis of an angel's divinity; Castiel's wings are what made him the carrier of the Explicit Name of God.

## Characteristics

Elohim angels are the facets of God's identity and will, and as a result, directly gain their powers through their father. According to the angel Ibriel, Elohim are boundless and formless essence, which embody creation and destruction itself. Despite embodying a small facet God's beings and powers, the Elohim innately has minds and wills of their own, thus securing God's wishes for free will in his Creation. The Elohim embodies an aspect of Creation or of God himself, and are the enforcer of the laws of reality. For example, a Cherubim is mentioned to be the embodiment of Reality while Castiel embodies the Name of God. The Angels are created from, more or less, the essence of the Void. As a result, even if the angels are erased from existence, they can still return to 'existence' by taking on their pure, abstract form. As such, when angels are smote by higher angels, they can still return in another form. In addition, many angels create avatars to communicate with mortals, the biggest example being Gabriel, Lucifer and Michael having so much avatar and archetypes that the "history" and "story" become obscure and "goes in thousands".

The Elohim's essence, which are also considered God's grace, are tied to their being and is one of the most basis component of their 'existence'. Because of this, destroying angels' essence cannot permanently erase them. Their angelic power exists in the form of grace, which is an extension to the angelic essence and wings of an Elohim. When Sandalphon extracted Castiel's angelic essence, the angel was left wingless, heavily weaken and in Castiel’s word, “shattered”, rendering Castiel unable to transport via teleportation and is quickly drained from overexerting himself. However, angelic essence cannot fade so long as they follow God and do not give in to corruption of Hell, and such, it will eventually heal. As angelic essence regenerate, so does the wings. As shown when Castiel's wings are also restored over time as his angelic essence recharge and he returned to full power.

The "physical appearance" of an angel's true form varies. Their height and powers are commensurate with their rank, and the higher the rank, the greater the height and powers. Castiel's true form is described as "being taller than all of the level of Heaven combined", meaning Castiel is literally larger than the Omniverse itself, making him far more powerful than most angels. Naturally, their true form are hazardous, overwhelming, and terrifying all at the same time, and in fact, can induce insanity to deities and cosmic entities if they look at an Angel's true form. For human and weak demons, an Angel's true form will straight up smite and kill them. Worse, an Elohim's presence in the Universe completely distort reality and the space-time continuum itself, which can result in total universal collapse should the Angels manifest themselves for too long. Higher angels such as Seraphim even has access to the absolute divinity of God and Goddess, making their true form too intense even for lower angels to witness, forcing them to burn up continuously for "self-nullification". The Elohim's voice is as intense as their true form, as Castiel's voice created a singularity that almost consumed various Outerverses. However, human spirits can perceive and even communicate with Angels without any harm, as they are already dead.

Due to their intense form and voice, Angels have to occupy a human vessel in order to manifest on Earth. The person they possess must consent to this, as opposed to demonic possession which is non-consensual. Though angels can possess human's not of a specific bloodline, they usually risk the vessel deteriorating or even exploding upon possession. However, Angels can safely possess a freshly dead body, providing that the dead human consented before-handed and the dead body has not rot. It seems that while occupied, the vessel's blood is altered by the angel's presence. Castiel has commented that he cannot use his "own" blood for a ritual, because he is "not human". Angelic blood does appear to hold some special properties, as the demon Belphegor was able to use some of Castiel's blood and graveyard dirt to eject all the escaped souls from Hell that were occupying corpses, and an Angel's blood further consecrated a church after it was spilled. When Angels possess a human vessel, they can avoid being killed by Angelic Swords; a stab to vital organ only release their spirit back to Heaven. However, if their Spirit/true form is fatally wounded by an Angel Sword, they will be killed and their essence returning to the Void, where God or the Archangels can retrieve their essence for future resurrection.

When angels converse with each other in Heaven, they speak Enochian. Angels can speak with each other without them being physically present. Dean Winchester referred to this communication as "angel radio", and it appears to be a common method of relaying information between angels. This might be referred to as a telepathic link; angels also have some ability to read human minds.

### Powers and Abilities

The Elohim are completely beyond the grasp of Creation itself, possessing the powers to channel God's might to create the cosmos. Angels possss great deal of divine powers; including metapotence, forming the universe, being able to see the true essence of everything, manipulating the void and destroy chaos and omnipotent control over the Creation. At the beginning of Creation, when outerverses are formed, the angels collectively created all aspects of reality and gave the entire cosmos boundary length, breadth and volume, and they called it space -- the boundary of existence, a zone in which the very concept of existence could be expressed. As such, the Angels predated the cosmos altogether, and it is mentioned that angels existed long before any concepts were ever born, even time and space and reached above outerversal level of powers. On a fundamental note, an angel's basic form of power is the ability to produce a blast of holy white light, which is an extension of their angelic essence. This light is so powerful it can render any unholy beast to ash. They also have the ability to heal mind and body, read and manipulate minds, enter dreams, telekinesis, affect or even control the weather, manipulate time, space and reality, pyrokinesis, and much more. Basically, their power transcend infinity itself and although an angel's power depends on the rank of the angel, but nonetheless, they naturally outclass most supernatural beings and beasts, with very little exception, and are classed as among the most powerful beings all of Creation.

The angelic essence is comprised of celestial and holy energy, which allows them to channel their power into ripples of energy to attack other beings. The intensity of this ripple of energy varies, from stunning human to disintegrating cosmic entities and destroying an entire army of opponents. Another use of their holy power is that they can smite other lower beings by touching the forehead of the victims, which will melt their internal organs and causing intense light to burn from the mouth and eyes socket, though some angels have been able to smite demons with just a gesture. While angelic smiting can destroy most beings, powerful demons such as Crowley, Maltresia or Leech can easily resist the smiting from lower angels. Nevertheless, higher angels such as Castiel would have been able to easily kill Crowley when he had the chance. Moreover, higher angels can even smite lower angels, as Sandalphon once smote two angels. In some occasions, Angels can use their divine energy to exorcise and banish spirits, blessing weapons and heal injuries of others, as demonstrated by Castiel. However, the application of angels do not stop there. Angels are creators of the universes and such, is capable of using their essence to create suns, cosmic energy, matter, etc. Their creative powers even allow them to create worlds, realms, space-time continuum, reality and even formless aspects of the universes such as the concept of causality and fate. The Elohim are innately capable of using magic, especially the Song of Magic, a type of magic that create everything through songs and are immune to most magic. As a result of their exalted nature, Angels can easily manipulate reality. The only limit to their virtual omnipotent might is that they cannot destroy the cosmos without being ordered by God, only creating it. Angels are also created from the emptiness of the Void and such, has some control over the Void, chaos, non-existence and existence. The angelic powers are spiritual and metaphysical in nature, as shown when Castiel's fire destroy the evilness of a group of villagers. Angels are also capable of many other feats of miracles. They could grant a human their power by marking their souls, stripping powers and magic from sorcerers and supernatural beings, resurrecting dead individuals, turning human into salts, manipulating souls, turning monsters back into human, blessing grounds or manipulating the sky and stars.

Like most supernatural entities, Angels have far superior physical might in comparison to human. Additionally, due to their almighty powers, Angels can easily overpower most beings in Creation, such as monsters, demons, cosmic entities and deities even while possessing a vessel. Even an unnamed Malakh was able to effortlessly carry a large rubble of a collapsing building with a single hand. Castiel was able to shatter stone and glass on numerous occasion by pushing his enemies through it, lifting full grown men over his head single-handed and cause a woman to fly at supersonic speed with a light push. Angels also has far greater speed and agility than most beings; they can move faster than time itself. While angels are incorporeal spirits, they can imbue their human vessel with far greater durability, to the point their body can easily take physical damages that would otherwise be fatal to most being. The only way that one can harm an Angel is to use an Angelic Sword. The higher the angel, the stronger they are. Castiel, as a Seraph, is capable of overpowering lower angels with ease while Lucifer can casually knock an angel unconscious with a slap. Angels are virtually immortal spirit directly born from absolute nothingness and such, cannot die from any means, as even when they are erased from existence or banished to the Void, they can reform and heal their essence before returning, though this would arguably take them "nearly as long as eternity to do so". Their immortality is also passed down to their human vessel. An Angel also has very potent senses; they can see things that no human could, and could smell things from afar. Their sense of taste is equally as powerful as Castiel can taste his food down to its molecular structure.

All angels are tied to their Angel Swords, and such, can summon it at will. No matter how high or low the angelic ranking is, the Angel Swords have the exact same set of powers and will always be fatal to Angels. The only exception to this rule are the Demiurgic Archangels, as they are above all Angels and serve as Godheads. This is shown when a hunter using the Angel Sword of a weaker Malakh was able to wound Castiel, a high-ranking Seraphim. All Elohim, outside of fulfilling their duties, are also competent warriors and intelligence agents. As a byproduct of their long life, Angels possess vast knowledge, photographic memory and cosmic awareness. Ibriel, for example, was able to remember the intricate structure and build of Heaven despite the vastness of the realm being beyond any form of infinity or definition of word.

Perhaps the most peculiar aspect of an Angel is their wings. The pair of wings are naturally correspondent to the ranking. A low-level angel has a single pair of wings while higher level of angels have several hundreds pairs of wings. In a human vessel on a mortal plane, the wings can only appear as shadows due to its ethereal nature. An angel's wings are what comprise their divinity. For example, Castiel's wings are what connect him to the Explicit Name of God. The Angel Wings can also be used to fly, teleport and travel through different dimensions, universes and time periods. Despite its shadowy nature, angelic wings can be manifested through elements, such as when Castiel use light, lightning and fire to manifest his wings. While angelic powers mostly correlated to rankings, they do have special duties and as a result, have special powers to fulfil such duties. For instance, the Seraphim are the caretaker to the entirety of Creation and such, personify the divine consciousness based on intellectual comprehension of all of Creation, giving them an incomprehensible wisdom and divine might, something no other class of Angel has. The Demiurgic Archangels are responsible for expanding Creation and such, can create Omniverses, while the Ophanim can demote and promote angels even to the rank of Seraphim (an entirely higher class than the Ophanim themselves) as long as God or Michael order it.

### Weaknesses

The Elohim are bounded by self-judgement; their subconscious belief can make themselves stronger or weakened and falling down to becoming human. Amenadiel's subconscious hate causes him to gradually lose his wings, turning him into a human and his subsequent subconscious forgiveness turned him back into an Angel. Their self-judgement can be harmful; one Angel in particular die and cease to exist when he stopped believing in his presence on life. However, the same Angel return when he start believing in himself once more, meaning that Angels do die from losing belief in their existence but their mind/consciousness remains, allowing them to return through their self-judgement. While Angels are practically invincible, they can be killed by Angelic-made weapons if their true form is fatally wounded from it. However, they can use a human vessel to mitigate the harm without killing the human. As Angels are born from God, any magical practices that directly comes from God can harm angels in different ways. For example, the Song of Magic was able to strip a lower angel of her divinity, albeit this effect is temporary.

## Society

### Angelic Rank

**Supreme Echelon**:

* **Demiurgic Archangel** - The Demiurgic Archangel stands on the top of the heavenly echelon. They are far more powerful that all other Elohim and Demons in existence, can annihilating and erasing all angels in Heaven and demons in Hell with nothing but a thought. They are also the architecture behind Creation, forming the vast and endless Omniverse. Demiurgic Archangels are practically omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent and unlike other angels, they are directly separated from His own beings and are something of their own, existing beyond their father's omnipotence and influence. Only their parents, God and Goddess, can surpass them while the Hellhound Weldrok can somewhat rival them (though the demon was able to defeat Michael and Gabriel later on). In some occasions, the Demiurgic Archangels are so revered that they are not considered an Elohim anymore and something beyond them, not dissimilar to godhead.
	+ **Known Members**: Michael Demiurgos, Lucifer Morningstar, Gabriel Hornblower

**Higher Echelon**:

* **Seraphim** - The Seraphim (singular 'seraph') are the second highest class of angels in Heaven, below the Demiurgic Archangels, and the highest angelic class of the Higher Echelon. They are known as the leaders of angels, and are known directly embodies God's being itself (for example, Castiel embodying God's identity), thus inherit the most powerful fragment of God's power. It is because of their higher divinity that they personify the divine consciousness based on intellectual comprehension of all of Creation, giving them an incomprehensible wisdom and divine might. Their understanding and connection absolute divinity of God causes their continual "burning up" in self-nullification; their true form are too much even for lower angels to witness. Seraphim goes in number of millions and act as leader and higher-ups in the angelic hierarchy. For example, Castiel is the embodiment of the Explicit Name of God and such, commanded the 72 Angels (including other Seraphim and Cherubim) under him whose name carry a part of God's Name.
	+ **Known Members**: Castiel, Sandalphon, Zuriel
* **Cherubim** - The Cherubim are the second highest angelic class in the Higher Echelon. They are responsible for the development of Heaven itself, a prime example is that Ibriel is the architecture of the Heavenly palaces. They are also responsible for caretaking the basic foundational concepts that course through all of Creation, as well as taking care of day-to-day business in Heaven and guarding mankinds. In contrast to the Seraphim and the Demiurgic Archangels, their powers correlated to controlling the laws of reality and platonic concepts in Creation. Some Cherubim also works directly for the Seraphim, a prime example being that some Cherubim are a part of the 72 Angels that carry the Explicit Name of God working under the seraph Castiel.
	+ **Known Members**: Ibriel
* **Throne** - The lowest level of the Higher Echelon. They are the angelic class that symbolizes God's authority and power. They are also the judge, jury and executioner of Heaven and are responsible for demoting or promoting angels, even to their rank. In effect, they help carry out the Heavenly orders and make sure the laws of reality is not broken. Due to their association with laws of reality, they also has deep-seated connection to Gods and Elder Gods themselves, especially deities that are connected to fate.

**Middle Echelon**:

* **Dominion** - The Dominion are Angels that are responsible for the stability of the entire cosmos itself, commanding over the Outerverses and its individual Avatar of God. They took charges of thousands of Outerverses at the same time. Some of the Dominion also guard over Hell, making sure the demons do not wreck havoc across the Creation. The unnamed Head of the Dominion commands over the entire Omniverse itself.
* **Virtues** -
* **Powers** -

**Lower Echelon**:

* **Principalities** -
* **Archangels** -
* **Malakim** -