Gabriel

**Gabriel** is a mighty archangel and a high-ranking messenger angel, quite possibly the highest of them all. His name means "God is my Strength" and is known to be the Left Hand of God and the embodiment of the Holy Spirit, in contrast to Michael who is the Right Hand of God. Gabriel is the third oldest of the five archangels.

## Overview

Gabriel's main function in Daniel is that of revealer, a role he continues in later literature. In the Book of Ezekiel, Gabriel is understood to be the angel that was sent to destroy Jerusalem. Gabriel takes the form of a man, and stands at the left hand of God. Alongside archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending the Israelites against the angels of other nations.

Gabriel is also tasked with overseeing which soul is allowed entry to Heaven or Hell although while that duty is performed by other angels, even by Michael who scales the weight of the soul depending on its virtue or vice, this particular task is more attributed to Gabriel himself.

By Muslims, he is especially noted for revealing the Qur'an to Muhammad and for being the messenger that tells prophets of their obligations. In Islam, Gabriel is the highest-ranking angel, while Raphael is the second. He is also called the Holy Spirit in Islam.

## Appearance

Like the other angels, Gabriel's true form cannot be seen by humans. They say that its light is so intense that it burns the eyes of those who see it and explodes the eardrums of those who hear its voice. As a True Archangel, Gabriel's appearance shifts to whatever the angel desires or needs at that very moment. However, Gabriel will always have at least 1 to 12 pairs of golden wings on his back though they can also be white wings with blue tips that glow brighter than the dawn. Like demons they can possess human vessels, but only with the person’s consent. Gabriel’s greatest vessel was the one pictured above, a man of deep faith and holiness.

In that vessel, Gabriel was described by the prophet Daniel as having a body of beryl, a face like lightning and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and feet shining like burnished bronze; and his voice of words was like the voice of a crowd. It was this vessel that was remembered by so many, for it saw and conquered through the greatest adventures.

In his future vessel in the modern times, Gabriel’s vessel appears as a man in his 20s, with silvery hair and amber yellow eyes. Gabriel usually appears wearing a white t-shirt and a dark sweatshirt over blue pants. On a few occasions, Gabriel appears with a detective's cap on his head, something Gabriel usually wears when investigating the mysterious entities of creation.

## Personality

Out of all the angels, Gabriel deeply loves the humans and spends the majority of his time living among them. However, after the fall of Lucifer and the absence of God, Gabriel made his residence on Earth seemingly permanent. He will, silently, protect the humans he walks amongst whenever they are threatened. But while Gabriel loves humans, he will put them in their place if they disrespect him or act arrogant.

In human form he is laid-back, jovial, humble, and an eccentric. However, he shows a deceptively cunning and serious side when the situation warrants it, and unlike his brothers, Gabriel is actually sarcastic and humorous when he needs to be, making him the most 'human' of the angels. Despite taking a residence on Earth, he still follows his Father's commands when given. Unlike most angels, Gabriel is also capable of displaying romantic and parental love, with none being more evident than with his passionate love for Freyja and his two children.

When it comes to his job of being the messenger of God, Gabriel takes this role very seriously to the point where he will take away one's voice if they do not listen to the message he brings. He is also quite protective of his family as he furiously silenced Keith when the latter insulted his two brothers, that being Michael and Lucifer. Gabriel is aware of how dysfunctional his family is and engaged in many attempts to amend their broken links, but seeing that it was in vain Gabriel simply left Heaven and resided on Earth though still committed to his task and hoping his family would one day make amends to become whole again.

## Powers and Abilities

As the third oldest of the archangels, Gabriel is one of the most powerful beings in existence. He is third in power below Michael and Lucifer and is above the likes of Raphael and Uriel whom are both noted to be quite powerful in their own right. Gabriel's power and combat prowess was first shown when he engaged in battle against Beelzebub himself, who was second-in-command of Lucifer's rebel army, and then Mammon which resulted in Gabriel defeating them both. During his stay on Earth, Gabriel walked amongst the humans and other supernatural beings undetected for many years, with even individuals like the sons of Sparda, the werewolves, and others completely unaware of his true identity despite their highly advanced senses and perception.

Another testament to his power was when he slaughtered the entirety of the Nephilim race although he did not physically fight them but instead instigated their lust for wanton carnage and bloodshed by having them murder each other, however, Gabriel implies that he could have easily killed them himself despite their great and fearsome power but did not wish to stain his hands with their blood. Much later on in the modern age, Gabriel confronted Lucifer during the Apocalypse and engaged in fierce combat against his fallen brother. Gabriel was shown to hold out quite well against Lucifer despite the latter being more powerful than him with Lucifer even showing small signs of struggle though Gabriel was defeated in the end.

During the Grigori Invasion, Gabriel fought and bested three of the fallen Watchers, moreover some of the Watchers expressed doubt at the thought of defeating Gabriel which is an implication of how greater the archangel's power is compared to them.

* **Transcendent Angel Physiology**: Being God's messenger and sits at his Left Hand on top of being one of the first true Archangels, Gabriel is considered as an angelic being of godly power being a primordial angel himself along with Lucifer & Michael. His power is considered to be utterly fearsome as it's that which even Michael and Lucifer are war
	+ **Absolute Strength**: Gabriel possess unfathomable and terrifying raw and physical might, capable of rivalling cosmic entities and surpasses the Deities themselves. He is far stronger than Athena the Goddess of War and Wisdom, and the lesser demon queen Barlebus, with the latter nearly killing her if Gabriel give the killing blow. He is very strong that he can also put a good fight with the chief gods of every pantheon, that even the Titans are afraid of him.
	+ **Immense Endurance & Stamina**: He possesses an exceedingly superhuman endurance and stamina, beyond even supernatural beings. He can endure and keep up a prolong battles, from equal to superior opponents he faces. Gabriel's endurance can endure even the harshest environments, withstand a vicious attack without any strain, or keep with any changing life and death situations without tiring.
	+ **Absolute Speed & Reflexes**: Gabriel's speed makes him appear as a blur of motion to the human eye. He is capable of moving at speeds that rivals that of Michael. Gabriel also has great reflexes, enough to stand up against even his archangels siblings.
	+ **Immense Senses**: His sense of sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell are super-unnaturally more acute than other angels.
	+ **Immense Durability**: Gabriel can withstand attacks that would normally kill a man. He easily shrugged blows from Cherubs and other angels without even flinching.
	+ **Absolute Agility**: Gabriel is extremely agile, having unnatural balance.
	+ **Absolute Immortality**: As an archangel, Gabriel, like all celestial beings, has an indefinitely long lifespan, and is both ageless and immortal, he is capable of living forever, and is not subjected to or affected by time, aging, diseases, and/or toxins and doesn't need to breathe, eat, or sleep to sustain himself. Gabriel does, however, like all celestial beings because they're all siblings of one another, age and mature, even though he is the youngest of the archangel.
	+ **Nigh-Absolute Invulnerability**: Gabriel, like all archangels, is resistant to any form of harm whatsoever, and can't even be killed or harmed by conventional weapons or other beings, unless something angelic is involved, or if he is fighting another archangel, however certain weapons (such as an Archangel Blade) can kill him. He can also be killed by God and his archangel siblings.
	+ **Nigh-Absolute Regeneration**: Gabriel, like all angels, has the power to spontaneously regenerate his body from any injury. When Gabriel's vessel does get damaged, even by something angelic, he can heal the wound(s) instantly. Wounds from most objects, even bullets, heal in seconds without causing him any lasting discomfort.
	+ **Astral Perception**: Gabriel, like all angels, can see overlapping dimensions/planes of existence and the unseen creatures inhabiting them.
	+ **Immense** **Concealment**: Gabriel can hide from anything, including humans and even supernatural entities such as angels, demons and possibly deities.
	+ **Unlimited Intelligence**: As both the messenger and soldier of God that exist since the dawn of creation, Gabriel's knowledge, intellectual faculty, wits, and wisdom gives him great advantage in dealing things. His nigh-omniscient mind makes more wiser than any of the angels of heaven. He knows things, that very few beings or angels knows of, and so he has deep and cosmic understanding on the entirety of the multiverse. Being known as the trickster, Gabriel is very witty and wiser that he far surpasses Michael, Lucifer, and even Azazel. He cannot be deceived or outsmart by anyone, and manipulating him is nearly impossible to do, Gabriel said that being the "trickster" he cannot be trick by anyone. He is by far the only angel who is superior than Athena the Goddess of Wisdom, that he always outsmarting her when they were debating.
	+ **Heaven & Angel Lordship**: Like all archangels (except the fallen archangels), Gabriel has authority over Heaven and angels.
	+ **Expert Advisor**: Gabriel is a very skillful advisor and councilor. He is the voice of the innocents and other beings that has no courage to defend themselves. He can give advise to others while implanting some wisdom in it. He is the one that always gives Michael some wise and good decisions, when dealing with either serious or small matters. Gabriel is also a good mentor, as he leads his fellow messenger Angels and students with good confidence.
	+ **Divine Empowerment**: Gabriel can draw strength from the heavens to increase his natural abilities.
	+ **Angelic Presence**: As one of the Archangels, Gabriel's presence give a holy, sacred, and unfathomable light. Whenever he transforms into his angelic form, Gabriel can cause massive weather changes like thunder storms, tidal waves, and even shake a large continent. Being empowered by God's holy light, his mere presence can give an extreme uneasiness towards the demons and fallen angels, to the point that they will reluctantly attacks him or flee in terror.
	+ **Holy Voice**: Gabriel can cleanse, purify, heal, or shatter, destabilize, disintegrate, stabilize living and/or non-living things by speaking/singing.
	+ **Angelic Aura**: He can surround himself in glorious angelic energy.
	+ **Archangel Beauty**: Gabriel's beauty is as great as every other angel.
	+ **Nigh-Omnipotence**: As the third Archangel in existence, Gabriel have proven himself to be an all powerful Angel in his own right. Capable of even rivalling his older siblings and far superior than his younger brothers and sisters. He is powerful enough to fight and defeat a higher ranking Archdemon or even a demon king respectively, and he is considered one of the strongest beings in the multiverse, who embodies God's power. He is also as powerful or possibly superior than any chief deities of every pantheons, being far more older and experience being than them. He is so strong that he assist the dark knight, Sparda, into sealing the imperial demon king Satan from his connection on Earth.
		- **Nigh-Omniscience**: Gabriel possesses an immense amount of knowledge of the universe. Gabriel is also insanely smart, having succeeded on faking his death more than once.
		- **Aerokinesis**: Gabriel can create, shape and manipulate wind of beneficial nature; that which strengthens, enhances and causes anything/everything it comes across to flourish, representing the sustaining and preserving side of air.
		- **Communication Manipulation**: As God's messenger, Gabriel can influence and manipulate any and all forms of communication.
		- **Truth Inducement**: Gabriel can force/induce others to tell the truth, guaranteeing that the person is telling the truth to the best of his ability.
		- **Hope Inducement**: As the Archangel that was well known among humanity along with Michael, Raphael, and Uriel he can give hope to the hopeless and despaired people. It is he along with Jophiel that taught Auriel the Archangel of Hope everything he knows when it comes to spreading the hope upon Creation.
		- **Oneirokinesis**: Being the Guardian Angel of humanity he could manipulate any dreams and desires of any person (even supernatural beings). Despite being inferior to Araphel the Archangel of Darkness, his skills are still strong that he can make the most terrible nightmare, into a blissful dream. He can projects himself inside the person's dream and guide the said person to his/her destiny and path.
		- **Hallucikinesis**: He can cast high level illusions, and has the power to make it into reality. Usually he exhibit this by projecting certain point's of events, people, or objects. Gabriel can even bend illusions into a real thing, just by the snap of his fingers, on a whim.
		- **Faith Inducement**: Gabriel can force others to make them believe whatever they want them to believe.
		- **Clairvoyance**: Gabriel can gain direct visual information about an object, person, location, or physical event through means other than the user's physical sight and allows him to act when he is unable to use his eyes and may be able to 'see' spiritual/psychic beings. In addition, being an all-powerful angel, Gabriel could psychically perceive sights and visual sensations from other dimensions and from past events, future events, or locations that are currently outside the range of normal human vision. He could also receive optical/visual sensations (i.e. itchy eyes, crying/watery eyes, rolling eyes, sharper vision, rapid blinking, blurry vision, blindness), with the presence of psychic energy. He can basically observe events from far-away distances.
		- **Quintekinesis**: He can manipulate the life-force every sentient beings that has life. He can project and generate life-force energy, in a destructive force, and by adding his divine powers, it is powerful enough to obliterated an demon's soul.
		- **Hydrokinesis**: Due to being the Archangel of the Waters, Gabriel has the ability to conjure, generate and project holy and natural water that's highly effective against supernatural, demonic, and angelic beings. He has the ability to manipulate entire oceans at his very whim, influence rivers, and lakes, and bring floods down from the heavens.
		- **Divine Psionics**: He is a divine being that possesses divine powers, he possesses immense amounts of psychic power, tapping into absolute, divine psionic might, achieving an unimaginable power, capabilities, and precision beyond mundane by an outstanding margin.
		- **Cosmic Awareness** - While not omniscient, Gabriel, like his archangels siblings, possesses an immensely immediate amount of knowledge of the Universe.
		- **Telepathy**: Gabriel is able to and has the ability to read the thoughts and memories of humans and angels and communicate using his minds and read the minds of others.
		- **Empathy**: Gabriel is able to read the emotions of humans and lower beings. This allow Gabriel to also read Archangel’s mind, albeit he need their consent.
		- **Cerebrokinesis**: He can manipulate the mind, the mechanism of proceeding information and set of immaterial facilities that are linked to it.
		- **Healing**: Being an angel Gabriel can heal wounds both physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and even metaphysically. He can heal wounded people by just saying the word or by direct act, though not as potent as Raphael the Archangel of Healing.
		- **Smiting**: He can strike angels, demons, and lesser deities with a far superior force/blow.
		- **Exorcism**: Like all angels, Gabriel can exorcise demons, angels, ghosts, etc, out of a vessel.
		- **Purification**: He can remove the darkness or evil from a person or objects, often including demons possessing it or mind control affecting it.
		- **Chronokinesis**: Gabriel can control and manipulate time.
		- **Holy-Photokinesis & Pyrokinesis**: Like all Archangels, Gabriel is able to summon, generate, create, release, or radiate an overwhelming, divine, blinding white light and fire from his hand that is capable of obliterating anything from other living things to entire cities and structures. He can use the light offensively and bring light with his presence, he can also use fire in combat. With this power, he can destroy a portion of Heaven
		- **Jaydaykinesis**: Gabriel can create, shape, move, control, interact and change curses, any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.
		- **Elementokinesis**: Gabriel can create, shape and manipulate elements. Elements are the rudimentary, simplest or an essential part of which any material thing consists of.
		- **Divine-Ergokinesis**: He can manipulate divine energy, which is especially harmful to unholy entities such as demons.
		- **Divine Weaponry**: Like all angels, Gabriel can construct weapons.
		- **Advanced Combat Skills & Powerful Master Combatant**: On top of being skilled as Michael, Gabriel like his brother is a patron to the military and thus possesses natural and supernatural fighting skills and infinite strength and stamina. He also has immense defensive abilities that is unsurpassed by any other fighters in the Heavens with the exception of Michael; he also possess a high level of intellect which he use to plan his attacks with a more cautious, careful, and intelligent ways. His skills are so great that he can best and even superior than Athena, the Goddess of War & Wisdom, that he stated that her skills in warfare and battles are great even gaining an advantage to her brother Ares, the God of War, but flawed and needs to be polish all the time.
		- **Master Tactician & Strategist**: One of his most dangerous and famous natures are his unpredictable tricks and cunning tactical strategies. Lucifer has stated many times that Gabriel is very unpredictable, that it is hard to tell if Gabriel is tricking his opponents or it's just a way to divert their attentions. He possess high mastery of making plans, battle, tactics, counter measures, and counter attacks when it comes to dealing unpredictable things that he is always a few steps ahead to his enemies. The only person, however, who can best him are Michael, Lucifer and Azazel in sheer knowledge. He is also far more cunning, experience, and knowledgeable than Athena the warrior goddess of wisdom.
		- **Master Deceiver & Manipulator**: As the trickster Gabriel possess unpredictably mind and cunningness, he can manipulate both allies and enemies alike due to his tendency to joke and fun around, not even Lucifer can determine his way of thinking. Though he never tell lies (as it is forbidden to Angels to spread lies), his words are full of metamorphic and unpredictable parables to test people, that very few beings could determine and answer. He is able to deceive the demons that the Angels had abandoned Earth from them, but in reality it is only a trick to lure the demonic legion in a trap, set by the combine forces of Heaven and Earth and nearly eradicates the the demonic legion if the legion didn't retreat earlier than expected.
		- **Omnilingualism**: Like all angels, Gabriel can speak, write, understand and communicate in any language.
		- **Thaumakinesis**: He has the ability to induce and manipulate miracles; an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs.
		- **Thermokinesis**: Gabriel can create, shape and manipulate temperature, a form of kinetic energy between particles at the atomic or molecular level: the greater the movement of these particles, the greater the thermal energy and reversed.
		- **Localization**: He is able to find anyone or anything regardless of wherever the desired subject happens to be at the moment.
		- **Intangibility**: Michael can move through solid objects and ignore most physical effects in his way.
		- **Invisibility**: He can make himself invisible to all beings in creation.
		- **Power Negation & Granting**: He can grant his vessels an ounce of his power.
		- **Reality Warping**: Using his knowledge over the fabric of the world, he can alter or rewrite realities on a certain degree. Usually by recreating certain errors, destruction, or by tricking his opponents using diversion and illusions. Whenever he uses his archangel form, he can manipulate reality on a beyond godlike comprehension.
		- **Entity Conjuration**: Gabriel can conjure any form of entities of any to all kinds into reality.
		- **Resurrection**: Gabriel is known as the Angel of Resurrection and thus can resurrect others. He can only resurrect the deceased if God commands him, but sometimes (if not often) tends to do it out of respect and care for the humans.
		- **Protective Charm**: He can create, shape and manipulate any sort of charms, including magical charms, which are magical items that are believed to use magic to protect him, grant magical powers or grant good luck.
		- **Summoning**: He can transport a person, creature, or object of choice by means of Basic Teleportation, Dimensional Travel, Portal Creation, or some other way.
		- **Biokinesis**: He can manipulate life and living organisms, including but not limited to genetic alterations and physical distortion and/or augmentations of biological functions.
		- **Salvation**: He can grant salvation; the gift of saving souls and redeem them as they can forgive and absolve others of their sins and transgressions including purification of tainted souls to set them free from the consequences such as damnation and condemning influences restoring damaged souls and spirits and purify them from all evil, rising from the disgrace they committed.
		- **Voice Mimicry**: Gabriel is able to mimic the voices of others or imitate sounds such as animal noises and explosions.
		- **Angelic Possession**: Gabriel required a vessel to act on Earth, and he must have the vessel's permission.
		- **Shapeshifting**: He can change their shape, size, color, density, texture, cellular composition, and/or atomic composition to mimic qualities, impersonate entities, amplify abilities, and/or traverse environments.
		- **Teleportation**: He can teleport to anywhere, anything, anyone, and even any place he desires to. Whenever he teleports, Gabriel projects a glimmering glow of light that can blind his peers, and can instantly arrives in any place he desired, he can even teleport anything or any person he desires to.
		- **Apportation**: Like all Angels, Gabriel can teleport matter/energy from one location to another without transporting oneself along or requiring physical contact.
		- **Flight via Wings**: Gabriel can fly using his 12 pure white wings. He can also fly at super sonic-speed that he can travel through space or dimensions within seconds to minutes.
		- **Wing Projection**: Like all Angels and Archangels, Michael can display his wings like any other angel.

## History

### Genesis

Gabriel was created after Lucifer and Michael making him the third oldest of the archangels. He was present during the battle between his Father and Azathoth and aided his siblings in their own battles against the Ogdru Jahad. After successfully defeating the Ogdru Jahad, Gabriel and his siblings went on to stabilize the newly created universe before helping further in its creation. According to Gabriel, he would impose form and matter on the words as they cool.

As time went on, Gabriel become something of a intermediary between the mythical deities and angels. He would often, under his Mother's guidance, help direct the second-generation deities to their tasks when it came to imposing a firm embodiment of a concept, element, emotion and so forth and would make sure that there were no conflicts of any sorts between the gods and the angels since both sides were not exactly all that pleased on having their soon-to-be worships intermingling.

### War in Heaven

In the War in Heaven, Gabriel was amongst the leading forces of the Heavenly Host against Lucifer's rebellious faction. During the war, he attempted to persuade his brother from going any further into the Empyrean to confront God and pleaded for him to stop, but seeing Lucifer's unwavering resolve, he was prepared to fight him only to find himself engaged against Beelzebub and soon Mammon himself. After a long battle, Gabriel emerged triumphant against the two former angels, but was in shock to see the fight between Lucifer and Michael escalate to enormous proportions.

After the establishment of Hell and the major shift in the fundamental nature of existence, Gabriel's work truly began. Gabriel himself states that he had one of the more exhausting tasks in Heaven. He was one of the main ones in charge of the ‘bureaucracy’ in Heaven. The paperwork he oversees decides where certain souls go, records on Heaven’s departments and branches, also manages the creation of souls and so forth. He comically remarks that his position is akin to the "post-office" of Earth. At some point in time after the fall of man, and their developing society across the Earth, it was Gabriel who proposed that Rahab would be the one to act as a defender and mentor to the people of Hyperborea as he understood that Rahab had a deep love for them. While Azrael added that since he is his subordinate he could also be their guide to the afterlife. Both Azrael and Gabriel's proposition were accepted by Michael and the Divine Council.

Unfortunately, during the twilight age of Hyperborea, Gabriel was the archangel who descended from Heaven with his host to subdue Rahab. Rahab tore into the continent of Hyperborea, flooding massive sections of the land and even tore a chunk of the continent off in sheer anger as he sensing the darkness of the Adversary and would not allow it to fall under his hands and be seduced by his forked tongue nor the perverted touch by Yhoundeh. While fighting ferociously, he could not overcome the might of Gabriel. Instead of slaying him, Gabriel pitied the angel, so instead as punishment, he would be imprisoned in his own domain with the creatures he once swore to protect. From there, Gabriel ordered his host to slaughter the surrounding Kraken that were feeding upon the Hyperboreans who attempted to escape through the seas, as he subdued Rahab himself. Afterward, he would use the corpses of the slain Kraken to bind the now fallen angel to the depths of the ocean, crafting chains from their very entrails.

### Slayer of the Nephilim

After seeing the devastation caused by the Nephilim from the actions of the Watchers, Gabriel was tasked by God to destroy the Nephilim. He does this by turning the Nephilim against one another, leading the bastard spawns of the Watchers to slaughter each other, rather than to have his hands be covered in blood. It might be through this that Gabriel refrained from bloodshed entirely due to wanting to maintain his image as a messenger as he simply tells the Nephilim to destroy each other.

After the flood and subsiding, God repaired the air and conjured a rainbow as a promise to never again destroy the Earth. During his time on Earth, Gabriel and several other angels aided the gods in repairing their temples after their destruction from the flood.

### Book of Daniel

Gabriel appears to Daniel in a bizarre dream, with Daniel being deathly afraid of the heavenly messenger due to his appearance. Gabriel helped him up so that he could explain to him the vision regarding the goat and the ram. He explains that a fearsome and terrible king will arise, causing astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy Jerusalem, make deceit prosper, and will consider himself godly. He will then soon take his stand against what Gabriel calls "The Prince of Princes" only to be destroyed in the end.

When Daniel was praying and pleading to God to not destroy the people of Jerusalem and the city despite the sin and shame they have committed, Gabriel returns to Daniel, saying to him that he will give him insight and understanding, telling him that due to being highly esteemed his prayer is answered. Gabriel goes on to explain about these seventy years, and gives him details about the End Times and the suffering that will be caused in-between, all which lead to a virtuous eventuality. At some point later, Gabriel supposedly appeared before Daniel again but this time in a form which Daniel describes as a "man in linen" telling him about the fate of Israel and that his delay was due to his confrontation with the "Prince of Persia" until Michael arrived.

### Book of Ezekiel

Gabriel appears in a form that the bible once again describes as the "man in linen", being tasked by God to go through the land of Israel and mark upon the foreheads of those who will be spared from His judgement due to the fact that the people of Jerusalem have lost their way, becoming sinners, adulterers, and worship false idols. Gabriel is present with six other individuals, revealed to be Destroyer Angels, who follow him into the city to kill anyone, whether it be the old, the young, man, woman, or even child, that does not have the mark written on their forehead.

Due to this, Gabriel is often seen as a key facilitator of the destruction of Israel for he is the one marking the Israelites, in effect, deciding which ones live and which ones die although of course God had already decreed which ones were to be marked and Gabriel was following God's instructions. However, it is still unknown if this man in linen truly was Gabriel since Gabriel is meant to protect Israel, although on another point while Gabriel does have the people's best interest at heart his protection is only available as long as God decrees it. Gabriel describes this part of his life as one of his more "darker" moments since he was sullen, miserable, and bitter due to Lucifer's imprisonment and his Mother's leave of absence.

### The Annunciator

In the Book of Luke, Gabriel predicts the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, and appears before the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth. Gabriel presents himself before Zachariah when the priest was burning incense in the temple of God, startled and gripped with fear from Gabriel's overwhelming presence only for Gabriel to assure him to not be afraid. Gabriel tells Zechariah that his wife will bear him a son and that he is to call him "John", further saying that he will be a joy and a delight and will be highly recognized in the sight of God as he will bring back the people of Israel back in God's arms.

Zechariah, of course, could hardly believe what he was hearing leading him to question Gabriel, asking him how he could be sure of such a thing since he and his wife are so old they are far beyond the years of conceiving a child. Gabriel was annoyed by this and took Zachariah's voice away, returning it until his predictions come to pass, due to being a messenger of God and does not tolerate those who question a message from his Father.

Gabriel's more famous appearance was when descended to Nazareth, appearing before the Virgin Mary and frightening the poor woman because of his presence. Gabriel comforts her and tells her that she will give birth to a son and he will be called Jesus, going on to say that he will in fact become the "Son of God" and reign over the descendants of Jacob for all eternity. Though Mary was baffled by this since she was a virgin, but Gabriel explains to her that the Holy Spirit will enter her womb and form the child inside her.

## Gabriel

### Aliases

Gabby, Gavri'el, Jibrāʾīl, Strength of God, Master who is of God, Djibril of the El-Karrubiyan; Those brought near to Allah, The Messenger, "God's will", Fire Master, Prince of Justice, Angel of Revelation, The Messenger of God

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Faith, Kindness, Creation, Destruction, Temperance, Revelations and Messengers

## Relatives

### Siblings

Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Uriel, Araphel, Metatron, Barachiel, Ariel, Camael, Merkabah, Jophiel, Anael, Remiel, Sariel, Raziel, Azrael, Zadkiel, Cassiel, other Angels