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Angels are supernatural beings with the body of a human and great feathered wings. They are extraordinary beautiful with delicate features, and their body naturally radiates a faint glow that can turn into a dazzling light. They are universally portrayed as being kindhearted, loyal, friendly, powerful, endowed with great wisdom, and having a legendary protective healing magic.

In reality these traits and abilities vary a lot from one species to another, as does their size. They are actually many kinds of angels, including solaros, archangels and cherubs... and some of them are not nearly as gentle as people think.

Angels radiate an aura that reflects their mood. For example, a sad angel in a city would make the entire neighborhood surrounding her sad as well.

Angels are natural enemies and rivals of succubi, although there hasn't been any major fighting between the two since the cease-fire that ended the Tenebris War between Heaven and Hell, a war that took place ages ago and nearly lead to the ruin of both sides. A theory on the nature of Hell and Heaven by the archmage Talbeln Veridimus.

Angels are very rare in Felarya. Several of them live among the humans in several cities, serving as renowned healers, but most angels who come to Felarya are giant-sized. The giant angels that come here have questionable motives: an angel rarely leaves heaven without a good reason and once in Felarya, there is not much for an 80 foot tall creature to eat, other than living creatures. Some angels have tasted humans (usually damned souls en route to the hell gates) and sometimes, they discover they enjoy it. Such angels will try at first to discretely eat only other damned souls, and a few manage to stop at that, but the majority find they want to eat more... and Felarya is the perfect place to fulfill their needs.

So an adventurer suddenly coming across the rare and splendid sight of an angel in the Felaryan jungle may be in for an unpleasant surprise: rather than being safe while around the angel, he's on the menu! The major difference between an angel and other predators is that an angel will always apologize before swallowing their prey. This is the ONLY major difference, and their apologies make little difference in the end as their stomach is just as bad a place to end up as a succubus's. That angels sometimes swallow people is little known, as the angels try to remain as discrete as possible, sometimes using magic like invisibility or directly teleporting their prey in to their stomach to help conceal their actions, all the while keeping a straight, albeit blushing, face.

Who could ever suspect such pure, innocent creatures anyway?

Doodles of some shy angels in Felarya ^_^ Picture by ZomBynX and used with artist's permission. For larger version visit ZomBynX's gallery

Known Angels

Chloé

Markie

Krista

Purifier and defiler angels

Purifier Angels

Purifier Angels are a rare and giant species of female angels measuring 80 feet in average. They are all very proficient at dimensional magic and travel a lot from worlds to worlds, never staying very long in the same place once their task is finished. They are seen as a real enigma by many, including others angels. For some reasons, they generate an incredible amount of light or "positive" energy, which allow them to easily overwhelm creature with darkness energy in them, such as demons, and to repel their attacks. While they are a living nightmare for these creatures, they stand fairly powerless (aside from their size) against beings without affinity for darkness.

A Purifier Angel will relentlessly track and devour creatures with darkness in them, either by swallowing them whole if they are small enough, or by using her rapier, imbued with her excessive positive energy, to shrink the target to a more manageable size. Once swallowed, the prey is digested in the same fashion as in any stomach, aside from the fact that the angel turns the darkness of her victim into light, thus "cleansing" them, which makes little difference for said victim in the end. Purifier Angels always insist vigorously on this point though.

Purifier Angels have a strange psyche. They are convinced to act righteously in any circumstances, with a mix of determination, naiveness and innocence. It's almost impossible to convince a Purifier Angel to not "purify" you (IE: swallow you whole and alive!) once she had decided to do so. Purifier Angels are very voracious and when they sense darkness inside a creature, they feel an almost irresistible urge to "cleanse" it.

The problem is darkness don't necessarily means "evil", a concept Purifier Angels have apparently very little interest in. They don't have the slightest sense of modesty either, going around all naked and appearing mostly during the night or in dark places like Tenebra maze.

Due to their nature, it is virtually impossible for a Purifier Angel to "Fall". Under typical circumstances, it just can not happen. However, there have been known cases of Purifier Angels undergoing inversion, and becoming Defiler Angels. Exactly how the process occurs is unknown, but all are rumored to have attempted to seek out and cleanse a powerful darkness-based being; Déméchrelle in Felarya for example.

Defiler Angels

Inverted Purifier Angels are called Defiler Angels, and they are eerie beings; as Purifier Angels exist to consume darkness and transform it into light, so do Defiler Angels live to consume light and transform it into darkness.

Defilers seem to radiate darkness from the very core of their being, and absorb all light within their presence. They have pretty much the same powers that they possessed as Cleanser Angels, only they work in an opposite fashion. Defilers are apparently just as unconcerned with matters of good and evil as they were when they were Cleanser Angels... their sole interest is devouring creatures strongly aligned with light.

Rumored sightings of a Defiler Angel automatically set Heaven on high alert, as they are considered an extreme threat to other angels, and nothing less than an entire squads of elite warriors, or Archangels will be sent to investigate locations where Defiler Angels were said to be seen.

Strangely, it appears that Purifier Angels and Defiler Angels have no effect at all upon one another; or perhaps more accurately, their natures repel one another like similar magnetic poles. Despite being one of the most darkness-aligned creatures in existence, a Defiler Angel can not be consumed or transformed by a Cleanser Angel, and the reverse is also true.

• Credits goes to TheQuantumMechanic and Shaman for the design of purifier and defiler angels.