Grigori

Azazel, Gorvernor-General of the Grigori

* Netherworld
* Mortal World (Earth)

**Former Cadres**

* {Kokabiel} (Retired)
* {Caspiel} (Defected)
* {Yophiel} (Defected)

### Summary

An ancient organization formed by Samael. It is the largest and most powerful faction of the Fallen Angels, as well as their only form of government.

The **Grigori** is an infernal organization created to be the home of the Fallen Angels who fell from the grace of Abrahamic God but did not wish to become Archdaemon of the Abrahamic Underworld.

It was founded and created by the Celestial Princes Samael, who held the position of Governor-Emperor before her confinement, and is currently ruled by Azazel and the Cadres.

## Overview

The **Grigori**, or **The Watchers**, are a group of fallen angels told of in biblical apocrypha who mated with human females, giving rise to a race of hybrids known as the Nephilim, who are mentioned in Genesis. The Watchers appear in biblical apocrypha, in the first and second book of Enoch and Jubilees.

The word "Grigori" derives from the Slavonic Second Book of Enoch.

## Summary

Originally from the Fifth Heaven, the Grigori were once Angels that were created by the Abrahamic God until they fell from the Abrahamic Heavens for producing Angel/Edenim hybrids known as Nephilim, who had caused endless destruction and misery from the primordial humans.

At first, the Grigori was led by Samael who held the position of Governor-Emperor, though in reality, it was nothing but an empty title, as the organization was ruled by the Cadres from the shadows. After Samael was captured and banished into the Otherworld by other Celestial Princes in the aftermath of the Great War, the Cadres publicly became the leaders of the organization, led by the Fallen Angel Governor-Generals: Satanael and Azazel.

The Grigori participated in the Great War against the Heavenly Council and the Angels of the Abrahamic Heavens and the original Four Great Satans and the Devils of the Abrahamic Underworld. However, after the Biblical God and the Four Great Satans were killed, and the Ouroboros Barrier was formed and sealed off the Demons of the Abrahamic Underworld permanently, the Grigori became the first to retreat after losing many of their subordinates, colonies, and fellow Fallen Angels.

Because of their disadvantages in terms of powers and authority, the organization had to face many struggles in their early battles. However, as time went on, they began to learn from their mistakes and began to employ the lowest and most unhonorable strategies in order to survive.

After the Great War, the Grigori went into hiding on Earth among humans and began researching Sacred Gears and creating Artificial Sacred Gears, while also taking in possessors of Sacred Gears that had no family and were left alone. However, they had a strict policy of not causing harm to humanity and set on eliminating those Sacred Gear users who might cause harm to the world and trying to avoid future threats.

Sometimes in the modern era, the Grigori and the Heavenly Council came to a truce between them, establishing a pseudo-peace treaty between the two Factions for the first time in eons. They also began planning to form a permanent peace between the three biblical Factions, ending the tension between the three races.

Following their retreat into the Purgatory, the Grigori went under many reformations and began to slowly transform from a pure fallen angel-only group into a diverse, multi-mythological organization that claims to dedicate themselves to the creation and preservation of peace within the supernatural between all the mythological factions.

Eventually, the Grigori's plans for peace came to fruition during the European Reformation in the form of Ishara, the first recorded wielder of the Neo-Longinus Alphecca Tyrant. Due to her young age, she was corrupted by its power and began to brainwash everyone and anyone around her in an attempt to conquer the world. Due to its power as a holy relic, Heaven's exorcists and the Grigori's agents were forced to work together to put her down, thus creating an opportunity for the two factions to reconcile after the Great War.

After the events, the two factions began to make contacts with each other and finally, in the Age of Enlightenment, the two came to an agreement and a peace treaty between the angels and the fallen angels was signed. Many centuries later in the Edwardian era, a meeting was held between the cadres and the Heavenly Council to discuss the Three Factions' future, as the demons had all been sealed away and the devils are now the rulers of the Netherworld. The Four Great Seraphs proposed a peace treaty between all Three Factions, which the cadres obliged as "it's too troublesome to convince [Four Great Seraphs] otherwise.

In 20XX, as part of the plan formed by the Grigori and the Heavenly Council, the Cadre Kokabiel pretended to go "rogue" and began stealing three of the seven Holy Swords from the Excalibur Project from the Catholic Church, the Church of England, and the Eastern Orthodox Church with the help of Freed Sellzen and Valper Galilei.

After he was "defeated and captured" by Vali Lucifer and sealed into the Kokytos Prison, through the combined effort of members from all Three Factions, a secret meeting was held between the leaders of the Three Factions - Heavenly Council, Four Great Satans, and the Cadres - and a secret peace treaty was signed in the Valley of Hinnom, with a fake meeting being held several weeks later in Kuoh Academy to lure out the Khaos Brigade.

## Departments

* **Air Department**: The department presides over the Air. They research and experiment on how and why the air works and try to maintain its natural order. They have usually worked with the Weather Department as their departments are close to each other in concept. They are led by Chazaqiel.
* **Astrology Department**: The department presides over the planets and stars of outer space. The research the different planets and stars along with predicting the meteors and asteroids that will fall in the atmosphere. They are led by Baraqiel.
* **Battle Department**: The department presides over the minor battles and fighting arenas that are in the Grigori. They maintain and control the order then as they don't want the battle to be uncontrollable to handle and dangerous to the general public. They are led by Gadreel.
* **Beauty Department**: The department presides over all things of Beauty. They create new types of beauty and beauty objects along with controlling and maintaining every beauty contest in the Grigori. They are led by Daniel.
* **Biology Department**: The department presides over Biology. Their duty is to research and study life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical processes, molecular interactions, physiological mechanisms, development, and evolution. They are led by Zaqiel.
* **Business Department**: The department maintains and controls the business of the Grigori, be it trading, building or simply cleaning, they make sure the business doesn't grow and collapse too quickly. They are the largest department and are led by Tamiel.
* **Containment Department**: The department presides over the Containment of dangerous beings and items. They are constantly maintained and watched over so they don't malfunction or break allowing dangerous beings and items to be free. They are the smallest department of them all, and are led by Bezaliel.
* **Domestic Affairs Department**: The department that presides over Domestic Affairs of the Grigori. They are led by Shemhazai.
* **Energy Department**: The department presides over the energies that power up the Grigori along with lesser objects and departments. The research about ways to gain more renewable energies and how to use that energy. They are led by Lasciel.
* **Environment Department**: The department presides over the Environment and Agriculture. They research on their environment how and why the weather works and try to maintain its natural order, no matter what. They are led by Arakiel.
* **Finance Department**: The department presides over the Finance and Commerce of the Grigori. They are charged with the responsibility of assisting the Grigori across a wide range of policy areas to ensure its outcomes are met, particularly with regard to expenditure, financial management, and the operations of its government. They also maintain and control work-safety, corporate groups, and consumer protection. They are led by Anduriel.
* **Foreign Affairs Department**: The department presides over Foreign Affairs to other groups and Factions. They are led by Penemue.
* **Health Department**: The department presides over healthcare and Medicare. They mainly research new medicine and ways of healing and also control every single hospital and medical center in the Grigori. They are led by Yomiel.
* **Knowledge Department**: The department presides over Knowledge. They maintain and control the amount of information gathered around so they won't gain too much too quickly. They also fund and control the three major schools along with any other educational procedures. They are led by Ramiel.
* **Military Department**: The department presides over the major battles and wars that Grigori appears in. They build up the forces of the Grigori to serve the Cadres with all their will. They used to be led by Kokabiel before his retirement, and are now led by Ursiel.
* **Pleasure Department**: The department that presides over three separate parts. They mainly research psychology about desires and similar kinds of stuff like therapy and social experiments. They are also a more formal and controlled version of a red-light district. They are led by Asbeel.
* **Stone Department**: The department presides over the stones and gems that live in the Earth below. They collect gems carefully as they do not want to harm the environment. They also research on the special gems and stones that they find. They are led by Turiel.
* **Special Technology Department**: The department presides over the research, experimentation, and creation of special technology, especially that of Sacred Gears. They used to be led by Satanael before her defection, and are now led by Azazel.
* **Weather Department**: The department presides over the weather. They research and experiment on how and why the weather works and try to maintain its order. They have usually worked with the Air Department as their departments are close to each other in concept. They are led by Ananiel.

## Groups & Factions

* **Department Councils**: The Department Councils are minor councils existing within each department that maintain the department under its Cadre. They can make their own decisions if the Cadre is out of commission.
* **Five Lesser Satans**: The Five Lesser Satans were a group of Guardian Angels of the Edenith Civilization, and thus, was partly responsible for the downfall of the Edenith civilization, the death of the original Nephilim and primordial humans, and the destruction of Tellus Mahte via the biblical Great Flood. They consist of Yeqon, Asbeel, Penemue, Gadreel, and Tamiel.
* **Nephilim Institute**: The Nephilim Institute is a "school" that is run by Grigori. It was originally meant to train the Nephilim, half-Angel and half-Edenim children of Fallen Angels, to learn and control their angelic powers. In the modern era, it has become a school to train future agents of the Grigori, as well as the Sacred Gear users affiliated with them.
	+ **Abyss Team**: Abyss Team is an old team originally led by Caspiel. They were students from the Mathael Class of the Nephilim Institute who hold Sacred Gears deemed power, yet ferocious and negative compared to others, that were seduced by their teacher to assist him in his nefarious quest.
* **Slash/Dog Team**: The Slash/Dog Team is a special black ops team created by Azazel and is led by and named after Ikuse Tobio, the current wielder of the Longinus Canis Lykaon. Their missions can range anywhere from bodyguards to assassinations to artifact-retrieval.

## Minor Factions

### Small Council

**Small Council** (小さな評議会, *Chīsana Hyōgi-kai*) is a term used to refer to the small group of high-ranked members within a department whose authority is only beneath that of the department's head. Because of this, they are given many important rights and responsibilities, and are allowed to make their own important decisions for the entire department if the leader is out of commissions.

### Favored Sons

**Favored Sons** (黒神王の侍者ファービッド・ソンズ, *Fābiddo Sonzu*) is a group within the Grigori known for their ideologies about fallen angel supremacy to the most extreme ways. It had started as a terrorist organization which mainly based its terrorist acts in forced rebellions or simply anarchy to bring upon change until the cadres stopped it from causing too much mayhem, They are named after Azazel's infamous army of half-fallen angels during the Great War.

## Trivia

* The Grigori is considered the experts in terms of Sacred Gear research, with various mythological researchers asking their help in researching Sacred Gears.
* Their motto means "*Forever awake. Forever protect. Forever watch.*"
	+ In Greek, the motto is "Για πάντα ξύπνιος. Για πάντα προστασία. Για πάντα ρολόι."
* In the Pleasure Deparment, it was originally illegal for humans to be a sex worker or entertainer but it was changed later on.