About the Angels in Paradis
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General Info | The Hierarchy | Fallen Angels

General Information
In Paradis, angels are defined as creations of Adonai, the single God, and are a mix between that God's children and servants. They are as varied as humanity is in terms of hair colour, body build, weight, eye colour, skin colour and personality. The one thing that identifies them all as angels is the wings that protrude from their shoulder blades.

Angels are also defined by certain basic abilities. These abilities are flight, teleportation and healing abilities. Other talents depend on the individual angel and include alchemical or magical powers such as elemental control or summonings and extremely high intelligence, as well as increased fighting ability.

Unlike in many other stories about angels and demons, angels here are male and female to a certain extent. While female angels have breasts and more traditionally feminine body shapes, neither male nor female angels have genitalia. Their groins are akin to that of a Ken doll. The only exception are a class of angels known as the Grigori, who were created at a later date than most other angels, and thus there was a design modification. (A modification that later made for an extreme amount of trouble.)

A major feature of Paradis' angel lore is the concept of free will. Angels with free will is a highly debated theological idea, for the purposes of storytelling and creating a more interesting world, Adonai gives It's angels free will. This allows for greater freedom of individual characters and greater personality. However, do not think that this diminishes one of the key aspects ascribed to God, omnipotence. God may be all seeing, in Paradis, God is all seeing because it can see all outcomes of a situation. It does not know which path the subject will take nor will it try to influence the decision, as that would destroy the subject's free will.





The Angelic Hierarchy
The angelic hierarchy is one of the defining aspects of angelic lore. These classifications indicate rank and importance in most legends, although due to convoluted and often contradicting information it is hard to glean which class is above the other and what each group is supposed to do, exactly. Not even the angels of Paradis have quite figured out what God was thinking with the hierarchical system. Regardless, here it is.

1. Seraphim - Traditionally defined by six wings, they are considered the most important angels. Amongst their ranks are Metatron, Lucifer and Sariel.
2. Cherubim: The second highest ranking angels, cherubim are traditionally said to have four wings and are often described as fierce warriors. Cherubim in Paradis include Samael.
3. Virtues and Principalities: This group is usually ambigiously defined by theologians, and are often ignored by most writers. In Paradis, such angels in this group include Raziel.
4. Archangels: This group is the middle ground in Paradis, and they are generally the most well known of any order of angel. Traditionally they include such angels as Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.
5. Grigori: This class was created after the fall of Samael in order to make up for the intense loss of life. They are the only class to have a specific task, and were assigned to watch over mankind. Later many of them were killed, leaving only a couple of hundred remaining in the choirs of Heaven. Amongst their ranks is Azazel.
6. Angels: Your generic angel who simply wasn't given a fancier title. Most angels fall under this category.
7. Cherubs: Also defined as a child angel







Fallen Angels
In most stories, demons and fallen angels are usually mixed up, lumped together, or the names are usually interchangeable. In Paradis, demon is a word never used. The preferred title is 'fallen angel'. This title refers to any angel that was sent to hell during the Edenic or Lucifian War as well as the Grigori massacre.

Fallen angels are not condemned to an eternity of Hell. Rather there is a contract known as the Agreement that offers them redemption under specific circumstances. For the ability to be redeemed to occur, Hell must be completely devoid of human souls when the last human passes away and the individual angel must be put through the same judgment as human souls have endured. Those who pass are allowed to return to Heaven. Those who don't are blinked out of existence.