The Dark Angels

Zarathos, a Dark Angel

A **Dark Angel** is an angel who acts as a soldier of God, however, they are much different than fallen angels despite the similarities in their characteristics or traits.

They are spirits that inhabit a mortal body which then use them as vessels in order to exact their vengeance against the sinful and the depraved of the human world while also defending the virtuous from malevolent forces. These vessels in turn become a Ghost Rider.

## Overview

The dark angels were originally a host of angels that had a seat within the Heavenly Council and oversaw the progress of Earth's humans. However, when humanity began using the knowledge given to them by the Watchers for corrupted and malevolent means, they slowly descended into sin and committed many great atrocities, which prompted these angelic hosts to grow extremely wrathful and hateful towards them.

Seeing their rage and willingness to exact wrathful justice and vengeance, God changed the positions of the angelic host to instead become His agents of divine vengeance. This in the process led to the formation and creation of the Dark Angels, whom were soon sent by God to inhabit a vessel of a human that abhors the violence and sin committed by their fellow man. This also, in turn, resulted in the birth of the legendary Ghost Rider.

## Description

Dark angels, unlike normal angels, are more fierce, brutal, and cold in their actions. Whatever the action it may be that they are tasked with, they perform it with destructive tendencies and their results never cease to amaze other angels, even going so far as to install fear. Due to their attributes they are mostly regarded as spirits of vengeance and as such are overseen by Raguel, the archangel of vengeance.

They instigate war, hatred, and mass destruction to eradicate the filth, which are the humans who have gone so far down into corruption, and destroy the world so that a new world can be established. In some passages, these angels are regarded as the avengers of God's justice without being evil spirits. The dark angels are more feared than respected by lesser angels. Archangels, however, hold them in high regard rather than fear, and even go so far as to say that many of them possess the potential of being an archangel.

## Notable Dark Angels

* Zarathos (Spirit inhabiting Johnny Blaze)
* Balthazar (Spirit inhabiting Robbie Reyes)
* Kaecilius (Spirit inhabiting Daniel Ketch)
* Tamuiz (Spirit inhabiting Nathan Steele)
* Inias (Spirit inhabiting Alejandra Jones)
* Ignatius (Spirit inhabiting Haytham Kenway)

## Quotes

*"The Dark Angels are, in accordance to your military rankings and operations, God's own 'Black Ops' team of angels. Vengeful, wrathful, and hateful against all sin and evil." - Immanuel.*

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Angelic Aura:** The Dark Angels can surround themselves in glorious angelic energy. It is impressively sacred, it can also turn others into angels as well and can cause goodness.

**Angelic Form:** The Dark Angels are angels, who possess these forms naturally and/or can naturally channels their own angelic powers through their bodies to bring out their true inner forms, empowering them to their fullest potential. The angelic form usually manifests as an extremely beautiful winged light-like entity with varying amounts of goodly/light powers and intense energies, and overwhelming feelings of fear/love/holy power through the body/appearance of the angel and grants improved versions of their lower assuming form and abilities gaining the full potential of their abilities and reflect their true selves. Sometimes these forms angels take are minor minor alternations from there lower or hidden in forms, merely gaining holy light, a halo, aura and/or the wings of an angel.

**Angelic Wings:** The Dark Angels have/or possess the ability to manifest or generate two or multiple pairs of powerful wings on themselves at will as a natural feature of the divine/celestial species. Flight is an angel's wing's main function; however, it is not their only purpose as they also enable angels to teleport and travel to other planes and dimensions, possess healing and magical powers, aid in combat and are said to contain their angelic powers and immortality. So, if their wings were removed, they could be rendered a mortal human in certain worlds/fantasies. Angel wings, depending on the situation, can also be regenerated if removed. This, however, varies per fantasy world and mythology itself.

**Feather Wing Manifestation:** The Dark Angels have or can form feathered wings and use them from transportation to offensive and defensive purposes.

**Angelic Force Manipulation:** The Dark Angels with this power possess and are able to use strong angelic power. This ability not only grants the Dark Angels great strength, abilities, and control over numerous variations of holy energies, but also allows them to overwhelm weaker angels as well as rival that of powerful sacred entities.

**Divine Force Manipulation:** The Dark Angels have control of anything that is divine. They are able to manipulate divine objects and relics that are connected to the gods or divine power. With this, the Dark Angels are completely considered worthy of spiritual respect, allowing them to achieve feats that are impossible to be reached by mere mortals.

**Demonic Slayer:** The Dark Angels can kill demons/demonic entities of any form, being able to go toe-to-toe with even the strongest of demons and gain resistance to their demonic powers and demonic corrupting effects.

**Enhanced Condition:** The Dark Angels possess all their capabilities, attributes and aspects at an advanced level, beyond that of the peak members of their own species. This means the Dark Angels aspects (E.g., beauty, charisma, character and physique) attributes (E.g., physical and mental condition) as well as capabilities (E.g., potential, feats, skills and abilities, be it natural or supernatural) would be beyond that of standard individuals.

**Super-Condition:** The Dark Angels possess supernatural capabilities, attributes and aspects that are beyond what is naturally possible. With their condition alone, they can dwarf most beings in their respective universe, being virtually supreme in their existential aspects and attributes. With their superhuman physique, they can move buildings, run at the speed of light, survive nuclear explosions unscathed, and remain active for days to weeks untired. With their mind, they can amass knowledge and information about everything, allowing them to invent and create things beyond the grasps of regular humans. They can master languages and subjects in mere days or even hours too.

**Semi-Immortality:** The Dark Angels with this ability never age, and as a result, they stay young forever or at least never suffer the ravages of aging. Because of this, the Dark Angels will always be at their physical prime. The Dark Angels will also be immune to aging abilities, such as Age Acceleration or Reversal.

**Immortality:** The Dark Angels possess immortality, a state where one has eternal life and is undying. They never age, are completely self-sustaining, free from all bodily necessities, and can survive virtually any kind of harm, remaining immune to all forms of decay. Any damage done to the Dark Angels would either be regenerated or simply remain non-fatal. As a byproduct of having everlasting life, the Dark Angels may have an infinite reservoir of life energy that fuels the dynamic system of their immortality.