Angel (GachaVera25)

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**Angels** 「天使 *Tenshi*」 are an ancient race of magical and merciful beings that dwell on the **heaven** 「天気 *Tenki*」, a miraculous world where the divine beings live.

## Overview

Angels are ancient divine being who lives on the heaven, they usually don't appear in public place, humans barely found them. Except if they want to show themselves to someone they want to. Angel has been described as the polar opposite of devils, they're displays to be a kind-heart, gentle beings who are always there for others, and are very quiet, they would secretly help people on earth. And they have hatred against devils. Angel have to follow the **Heavenly Principles**, if they'd break it, angels will consider them as a rebel and kick them out of the heaven.

Because angels come from the heaven, all of them uses Divine Magic from heaven allows the user to generate and manipulate holy forces without the need of a grimoires. They're loved by mana, they possessed immense mana more than humans. The more higher-rank angel, the more mana they possessed. And with Divine Magic and immense mana, they're manage to counter devils.

Due its divine beings, angel can't die by a normal way. Even their body displays like having a skin, but they're a divine soul which when they're attacked, their body can generate back. The only ways to kill angels is get negative mana or sinister form of magic, but the more higher-rank angels will be more hard to defeat.

### Rankings

The angels have developed a hierarchy in which their placements among the ranks are assigned at birth and are unable to be changed. The known angel ranks are as follows:

1. **Seraphim** 「崇拝（**セラフィム**） *Serafimu*」
2. **Cherubim** 「天童（**チャーラビム**） *Chārabimu*」
3. **Thrones** 「玉座（**スローン**） *Surōn*」
4. **Dominions** 「支配（**ドミニオン**） *Dominion*」
5. **Virtues** 「美徳（**バーチュー**） *Bāchū*」
6. **Principalities** 「公国（**プリンシパリティ**） *Purinshipariti*」
7. **Archangels** 「大天使（**アーケーンジェル**） *Ākenjeru*」

### Fallen Angels

**Fallen Angel** 「堕天使 *Datenshi*」are an angels who broke the Heavenly Principles, or rebel against the heaven. They're kicked out of heaven for their punishment and will never came back, some of them might even send to the underworld.

### Appearance

The common defining characteristic of angels are humanoid-like but with their wings. All of them slightly glow, usually wears a white outfit, females angels have veil cover their hair. In general, the higher ranking the more many and bigger wings and halo they are. Example, Seraphim have six wings cover their body and face, only showing their eyes. Cherubim have four wings with a pair of small with wings warp around their head. Thrones have a illuminating body inside the wheels full of eyes cover with four wings. Dominions have staff weapon. Virtues have divine Catalysts. Principalities have wand. And archangels always have sword with them. And a normal angels.

### Heaven

The heaven have three layers ruled over by the seven seraphim, reside on the high layer, Cherubim and Thrones also reside on the high layer, too. Dominions, Virtues and Principalities are reside on the mid layer, and Archangels and normal Angels reside on the low layer. Unlike the devils, even though they have a different hierarchy, they never mind the lower angels. They would help each other look over the world.

## Angel Hosts

*For a full list of known devil hosts, see Category:Angel Hosts.*
**Angel hosts** 「天使憑き *tenshitsuki*」, or **angel-possessed**, are humans who have direct access to the powers of angels. The host gains an immense boost in magic power and the ability to use sacred form of the host's magic attribute. When the host assimilate the angel into their body, also called Angel Dive, their body take on devil-like physical characteristics, such as wings that allows the host to fly, halo, an luminating outfit-like made of Divine Magic, sometimes the host's eyes and hair color might change into another color.

Additionally, it is possible for someone to host more than one angel at a time. Because of the angel's rules.

### Angel Contract Ritual

A angel host can undergo the **Angel Contract Ritual** 「契約天使の儀 *Keiyaku tenshi no Gi*」in which the host draw the divine circle and summon an angel, similar to Devil-Binding Ritual. If the angel agree on contract, both angel and the host will declare to the heaven, and the contract will be complete.

The host must follow the rules that angels has made, as such not using a power to kill innocent people or in the bad ways and allows an angel to absorb the host's mana, in exchange, the host can borrow an angel's Angel Magic to uses sacred form of their magic.

With an angel's exchange of absorb the host's mana, the host usually make contract with only one angel, even though they can make more contract with more angels, but due their desire of mana, the host could lost a lot of mana. This is why the host is usually a nobles or royals or people with immense mana.

The way to do the Angel Contract Ritual is written on the Celeste Book, wrote by Solene Silvamillion Clover, which tell all the step to do the Angel Contract Ritual. After her death, her angel, Luminia keep the book at the Celestial Island on the Grand Magic Zone.

However, if the angel refuse to make a contract, the Angel Contract Ritual will be over.

## Trivia

* In many real world religions and cultures, angels are personifications of good.