AngelsWP (天使・エンジェル, Tenshi/Enjeru?) are Divine Spirits[1] with the role of messengers of God, who bring his blessings to Humans.[2]
Characteristics[]
While the image of angels as human-like with wings is well-known, it was really influenced primarily by the images of the goddess of victory NikeWP from Greek Mythology.[3]
Although both the Holy Church and magi such as Paracelsus acknowledge God as a unique being, and the existence of angels as "messengers from God",[4][2] the true nature of such beings is as nothing more than vessels of power.[3][5][1][6] Angels are power itself, and do not have personalities or emotions.[3][6] In magecraft, the name Angel is just given to anything with an ambiguous magical nature and being used by magecraft.[2] Magi make use of their names and their ability to deliver the blessings of God to alter their magecraft,[1] using this widespread Concept of Angels to stabilize the existence of magecraft.[2] If you affix the name of an angel to magical energy, it gains "directive". "Angel" in this case thus only pertains to the concept of applying directives to magical energy.[1]
The Church regards demons as fallen angels that only the "substitutes of God" have the authority to vanquish. In particular, True Daemons are said to have been directly created by God.[7]
The style of martial arts known as Jacob's Limbs is said to have been invented by Jacob as he wrestled with an angelWP. If one reached the limits of the Jacob's Limbs skill, they could triumph even over an Archangel. According to legends, a Saint who mastered this can surely beat to death an angel of destruction that leads 12,000 angelsWP.[8]
The angel Metatron is God's right hand,[6] and the executor of his will, said in Jewish mysticism to be one of God's proxies and among the highest of the 72 guardian angels on Earth. He's the one with the role of judging humans in the court of heaven, and often said to also have been the pillar of fire that guided the Israelites in the Book of ExodusWP, described as the fire which illuminates the world and heavens.[1] It is believed that his name means "one who serves behind the throne" or "one who occupies the throne next to the throne of glory",[6] referring to God's throne. It's said that the prophet EnochWP, a descendant of Adam, was turned into an angel and became Metatron.[1]
The Archangel MichaelWP is one of, if not the most famous of all angels. Sometimes depicted with a sword in one hand, and in the other a pair of scales. Those scales are to measure the sins of the dead, and the sword is to drive away Satan the serpent.[9]
The sword and Noble Phantasm of First Hassan, Azrael, is named after AzraelWP, the Islamic angel of death.[10]
In Kabbalah, ShemhamphoraeWP is a form of Notarikon and Gematria gathering the names of 72 angels. Using the Book of Exodus and its 19th verse for about three verses, which in the original Hebrew consisted of 72 letters, and taking one letter from each of the three verses at a time, they made abbreviations for the names of 72 angels. The angels of the Shemhamphorae are linked to the 12 signs of the zodiac, and also to the 72 Demons of the Lesser Key of Solomon.[11]
The Alphabet of SirachWP, written some time between 700 and 1000 AD, describes how, after Lilith opposed God and Adam and left the Garden of Eden, three angels tried to convince her to return, but failed even after God declared that 100 of her children, the evil Lilim spirits, would be killed if she did not return. In response, Lilith swore that she would kill the infants of humanity in return, but she cannot use this power on babies named after the angels who tried to stop her from leaving the Garden of Eden (Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof), or babies who wear charms bearing their likeness.[12]
In the Tokyo Holy Grail War of the World of Fate/Prototype, Masters and Servants are given Command Spells of different ranks called Master Degrees, each corresponding to a rank in the angelic hierarchy, represented using the number of wings, with the first-ranked being the highest and 7th-ranked being the lowest. This is divided according to the level of arcane knowledge possessed by a magus and how strong they are.[13][14] It goes:
- First - Seven-winged Seraphim.
- Second – Six-winged Cherubim.
- Third – Five-winged Thrones.
- Fourth – Four-winged Dominions.
- Fifth - Three-winged Virtues.
- Sixth – Two-winged Powers.
- Seventh – One-winged Princes.
Known Angels[]
- Metatron Jeanne (Archangel)
Hierarchy[]
First Order[]
Also known as SeraphimWP (熾天使?), they are usually depicted as six-winged serpents.[9] First Order Angels exceed the power of a Top Servant.[15]
Second Order[]
Also known as CherubimWP (智天使?), the plural of cherub. They are usually depicted with four faces and four wings, a half-human half-beast angel. They are the guardians of the eastern edge of paradise.[9]
Third Order[]
Also known as GalgalimWP (座天使?). Sometimes equated with the ThronesWP, which are depicted as blazing wheels, with the wheel's outer rim lined with eyes.[3]
Fourth Order[]
Also known as KyriotesWP (主天使?).
Fifth Order[]
Also known as Dynamis (力天使?).
Sixth Order[]
Also known as Exusiai (能天使?).
Seventh Order[]
Also known as Arkhe (権天使?).
Eighth Order[]
Also known as ArchangelWP (大天使?).
Ninth Order[]
Role[]
Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files[]
Interior of Castle Adra adorned with sculpted angels.
Fate/Prototype[]
Fate/Grand Order[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Trinity Metatronius: Courtroom for Humanity's Judgement - Section 6: The Transcendent Archangel
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 1: case. Adra Castle Separation - Chapter 1 Part 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 1: case. Adra Castle Separation - Chapter 1 Part 1
- ↑ Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Blue and Silver Volume 5: Knight of Fate Arc - Act 2 Part 3-A
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Trinity Metatronius: Courtroom for Humanity's Judgement - Section 1: Courtroom for the Judgment of Mankind
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Fate/Grand Order - Metatron Jeanne's Profile, translated by ChaoticChoir
- ↑
[] Fate/hollow ataraxia - Heaven's Feel - 1/ Heaven Feel's Backnight I That which is called Prana is merely a fuel for the purpose of activating Magecraft; by itself, it can wield no effect.
However, there do exist exceptions to this rule, whereby -- restricted to those circumstances in which Prana itself comes to bear qualities that approach the nature of Magecraft -- it is let to take a 'form' (カタチ, katachi?, lit. "shape").
For example ――― it is rumored that the Einzberns bestowed a personality unto the Holy Grail.
If said personality is possessed of Prana, it would from its birth come to bear the Thaumaturgical Trait (魔術特性, Majutsu Tokusei?) of "Wishgranting" (願いを叶える, negai wo kanaeru?).
Should its vital processes and the faculties that it holds as a Holy Grail come into direct junction, it would likely be able to give 'form' to the Miracle (奇跡, kiseki?) of "Magecraft" merely by the release of Prana.
The "Incarnated Demons" (受肉した魔, juniku-shita ma?) spoken of by the Holy Church also follow this convention.
Those beings created as fiends before existing as organisms exercise a Magecraft of an order beyond human ability.
The Thaumaturgical Circuits that Magi (we) bear are little more than spurious nerves (疑似神経, giji shinkei?, lit. "pseudo- / quasi- / virtual nerves") -- fabricated (作り上げた, tsukuri-ageta?) in the shadow 裏 (ura, lit. "shadow / reverse / behind"?) of the nerves that we possess as of existing as humans; a faculty extrinsically affixed (後付, atozuke?, lit. "attached after").
However ――― fiends possess nothing so much as 'spurious nerves.'
To them, the entirety of their vital processes serve as faculties that exist for the purpose of calling forth fiends.
It appears that the Holy Church refer to such beings as "True Daemons" (真性悪魔, shinsei akuma?).
Distinct from those imposters (偽物, nisemono?) that clad themselves in the Ideations of Man (人間の想念, ningen no sounen?) and come into being (成る, naru?) via "Unit Designation" (個体名, kotai-mei?, lit. "unit name"), they are authentic "Daemons" brought forth by the Lord, who were as they were before being Named (名付ける, nazukeru?) by Man.魔力というのは魔術を起動させる為の燃料にすぎず、ソレ単体で効果を発揮する事はない。
だが特例として、魔力そのものが魔術に近い特性を持っている場合にかぎり、カタチとして残る事がある。
たとえば―――伝え聞くアインツベルンは、聖杯に人格を与えたという。
その人格が魔力を持つのなら、ソレは生まれながらにして『願いを叶える』という魔術特性を持つに至る。
生命活動と聖杯の機能が直結しているであろうソレなら、魔力を放出するだけで『魔術』めいた奇跡をカタチにするだろう。
聖堂教会が語る『受肉した魔』もこの例に当て嵌まる。
生物である前に『魔』として創造されたモノたちは、人間より高度な魔術を行使する。
魔術師（われわれ）の魔術回路は疑似神経にすぎない。人間としての神経の裏に作り上げた、後付の能力だ。
だが―――『魔』には疑似神経などない。
彼らにとって、その生体機能全てが『魔』を呼び込む為の機能なのだから。
教会ではそれを『真性悪魔』と呼ぶのだそうだ。
人間の想念を被（かぶ）って『個体名』に成る偽物とは違う、主が遣わした、人が名付ける前からそうであった本当の『悪魔』だと。 - ↑ Fate/Grand Order material IV - Martha (Ruler), p.236-245, translated by Clyton at Beast's Lair
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 1: case. Adra Castle Separation - Chapter 2 Part 3
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Camelot: The Sacred Round Table Realm - Section 11: The Evening Bell of Death
- ↑ Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 1: case. Adra Castle Separation - Chapter 2 Part 2
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Lilith's Profile and voice lines, translated by Petrikow
- ↑ Fate/Prototype Tribute Phantasm - Command Mantra Setting, p.34-35
- ↑ Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver Volume 4: Dear My Hero Arc - Act 4 Part 1-B
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Trinity Metatronius: Courtroom for Humanity's Judgement - Section 17: The Messenger of God Signals Death