Grigori

Azazel, The Governor-General

The **Grigori** is an organization that serves as the Fallen Angels' main form of government. It was created by the Celestial Prince Samael, who held the position of Governor-Emperor before his confinement.

## 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 created by God until they were banished from Heaven for teaching the Primordial Humans forbidden knowledge and having half-Angel, half-Primordial Human hybrids known as the Nephilim.

At first, the organization was led by its founder, Samael, who held the position of Governor-General, though he did push most of his duties and responsibilities onto his Cadres. After Samael was captured and sealed into the Otherworld by the Four Great Seraphs in the aftermath of the Celestial War, the Cadres became the official leaders of the organization, led by the Governor-General Azazel and his second-in-command Shemhazai.

During the Great War, the Grigori and their Fallen Angels were the last to enter the battlefield, originally wanting to let this war remain a battle between Heaven and the Underworld. However, when accusations about Samael's involvement in Azrael's death appeared, the Cadres had no choice but to enter the war unless they wanted their men to see their silence as agreement to such accusations. Because of this, despite being the youngest and weakest of the Three Factions, the Grigori was forced to take up their arms and fight to protect their Emperor's honor.

Because of their weakness, the Grigori had to face many struggles in their many battles against their heavenly and demonic brethren. However, as time went on, they began to learn from their mistakes and exploit their opponents' pride to their advantage. According to Azazel, by that point, none of their men even dream of anything but to survive anymore.

Soon, their chance to escape the battle came in the news of the original Four Great Satans' and the Biblical God's death. Taking advantage of the situation, Azazel commanded all of Grigori's armies to retreat back into Purgatory to escape any fallout from the Four Great Seraphs' wrath.

A coward decision, many have thought at the time, but it ultimately saved their lives when the Ouroboros was created, as only by the Purgatory's special connections with Heaven did the Fallen Angels did not share the same fate as the Demons and becoming trapped within their own home-realm for eternity. And in the Purgatory they stayed for many centuries, silently manipulating and pulling the strings from the curtains while waiting for a good opportunity to reveal themselves.

Eventually, that opportunity came in the form of Elena Pellegrino, the first recorded wielder of the Neo Longinus Alphecca Tyrant. Due to her young age, she couldn't control her own powers and was corrupted by its holy power before going on a rampage and brainwashing everyone on her path. Because of its power as an Arma Christi, the exorcists of Heaven and 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 event, the Grigori began to be more active and eventually made an official return to Earth, opening up a special institute known as the Nephilim Institute to research Sacred Gears, as well as to train Sacred Gear wielders to prevent situations like Pellegrino from happening again. However, they do have a strict policy of not causing harm to humans, a deal they made with Heaven, and set on eliminating wielders who might cause harm to the world and trying to avoid future threats.

Sometimes in the Edwardian era, a special meeting between the Cadres and Michael and Gabriel was held, discussing the plans for the Three Factions' future. As the Demons are now imprisoned and the Devils had taken over as the rulers of the Netherworld, a hellbound realm that got severed from the Underworld attached itself to the Divine World, the Princes proposed forming a peace treaty between all Three Factions, which the Cadres had no choice but to obliged after seeing the smile on their eldest siblings' faces.

After several years of silence, in 20XX, the Cadre Kokabiel "defected" and stole three of the seven Excalibur Holy Swords from the Catholic Church, the Church of England, and the Eastern Orthodox Church using the mad scientist Valper Galilei and a stray exorcist Freed Sellzen.

After he was "defeated and captured" by Azazel's adopted son Vali Lucifer and "imprisoned" in the Kokytus Prison, Kokabiel retired from his position as a Cadre to live an anonymous life, opening a private resort in the Bahamas, which also functions as a safe house for Grigori's agents in the area. For the rest of the organization, using this as an excuse, Azazel invited the current Four Great Satans to a meeting with them and the Four Great Seraphs in the Valley of Hinnom to sign a secret treaty, as well as planning out the date for an official one.

## Departments

* **Astrology Department**: The department presides over the planets and stars of outer space. They research the different planets and stars along with predicting the meteors and asteroids that will fall in the atmosphere. They are also tasked with conquering other planets and galaxies, terraforming them to be inhabitable for future businesses. They are led by Baraqiel.
* **Battle Department**: The department that 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 that presides over all things Beauty-related. They create new types of beauty and beauty objects along with controlling and maintaining every beauty contest in the Grigori. It is also implied that they are also tasked with spying and torturing, as well as training other black ops teams. They are led by Daniel.
* **Biology Department**: The department that presides over biological research. 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 that maintains and controls the various businesses of the Grigori, be it trading, building or simply cleaning, they make sure the businesses don't grow and collapse too quickly. They also controlled the numerous companies, incorporations, and factories owned by the Grigori on Earth and other dimensions. They are the largest department and are led by Tamiel.
* **Containment Department**: The department that 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, and most often overworked, department of them all. They are led by Bezaliel.
* **Domestic Affairs Department**: The department that presides over the domestic affairs of the Grigori. They are also tasked with recruiting new members and training new agents. They are led by Shemhazai.
* **Energy Department**: The department that presides over the energies that power up the Grigori along with lesser objects and departments. They research ways to gain more renewable energies and how to use that energy. They are led by Lasciel.
* **Finance Department**: The department that 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, Factions, and pantheons. They are led by Penemue.
* **Health Department**: The department that presides over healthcare and medicine. They mainly research new medicine and methods of healing and control every single hospital and medical center in Purgatory and the Grigori's colonies. They are led by Yomiel.
* **Knowledge Department**: The department that presides over education and forbidden knowledge. The entire department resides within a giant library known as the Citadel where all of the Grigori's research and private information is stored and it is their duty to protect it. They are also tasked with managing the public perception of the Grigori and to keep the mundane ignorant of the supernatural. They are led by Ramiel.
* **Magic Department**: The department that presides over all things magical within the Grigori, whether it is spells and enchantment, or magical artifacts. They are extremely secretive and seclusive, and only make contact with the Knowledge Department. According to Azazel, they were all wingless and former servants of Raziel, who was angered by their betrayal and ripped their wings out with his bare hands. They are led by Chezaqiel.
* **Military Department**: The department that presides over the major battles and wars that Grigori participates 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 research about mental disorders, as well as operating social experiments. They are also tasked with interrogating prisoners to draw information, and operating the Grigori-owned brothels. They are led by Asbeel.
* **Stone Department**: The department that presides over the stones and gems laying beneath the Earth's surface. They are the creators of Enochian crystals, a crystallized version of the standard Enochian metals only available in special mines near the living heart of Purgatory. They are led by Turiel.
* **Special Technology Department**: The department that presides over the research, experimentation, and creation of special technology, especially that of Sacred Gears. They used to be led by Satanael before his defection, and are now led by Azazel until he finds a suitable replacement.
* **Weather Department**: The department that presides over the weather. They research and experiment on the weather and Weather Magic, and work to maintain its order, as well as to generate the required weather all over Purgatory and all of Grigori's colonies. 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.
* **Archon Faction**: The Archon Faction is a gigantic Faction of the Grigori which was made to follow the original vision of the original leader and Governor-Emperor 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. Nowadays, the faction is much calmer than before, though it is still an extremist group.
* **Five Lesser Satans**: The Five Lesser Satans were a group of five Guardian Angels who were banished as punishment for saving Primordial Humans and Nephilim alike from the Great Flood against the Heavenly Council's orders. They consist of Yeqon, Asbeel, Penemue, Gadreel, and Kasdaye.
* **Nephilim Institute**: The Nephilim Institute is a private international institution that is run by Grigori. It is a special facility reserved for researching Sacred Gears and for training Sacred Gear wielders in their special powers, as well as to create Artificial Sacred Gears and special artifacts and technology per orders from other Factions. The institute is run by the Knowledge Department and the Cadres are known for choosing special students to be their apprentices from time to time.
	+ **Abyss Team**: Abyss Team is an old team originally led by Satanael. They were once Satanael's apprentices in the Nephilim Institute whose Sacred Gears are deemed powerful, yet ferocious and negative, compared to others, and were brainwashed by their teacher to assist him in his quest to take over Grigori.
* **Slash/Dog Team**: A special black ops team created by Azazel and is led by, and named after, Tobio Ikuse, the current wielder of the Longinus Canis Lykaon. Their missions can range anywhere from bodyguards to assassionations to artifact retrievals.

## 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.