Raziel

"Be not afraid. I am an angel of the Lord come onto you, children. You have called me and I have come."

- Raziel

Raziel is one of the Elder Seraphim and is in-charge of the Thrones, the third-ranked order of Angels within the heavenly hierarchy. He is also the leader of the Erelim, a special class of Angels associated with moments of death and national tragedy.

He is the Seraph of Mysteries and Secrecy, the Singer of Sacred Hymns that translate into the mystical forces of Creation. In Kabbalah mysticism, he is associated with the Sefirah Chokhmah.

Overview
"Raziel is the Angel of Secrets and lead the Thrones into the battlefield. The Erelim, a special class of angels, is also led by him."

- The Infernal Compendium

Raziel meaning "Secrets of God" is an archangel within the teachings of Jewish mysticism who is the "Keeper of Secrets" and the "Angel of Mysteries". He is associated with the Sephira Chokhmah in Olam Briah and one of the Four Worlds of Kabbalistic theory. Depending on the teachings he is assigned a different role as a Cherub, an Ophanim, and the chief of Erelims.

Appearance
Raziel appears as an adolescent youth with ageless beauty. He has short and slightly platinum-blond hair, with strands of gold and silver mixed in which slightly glitter under sunlight, and his eyes are a clear blue. He also radiates a strange and mysterious aura around him, which is described to be like "the Devil's whispering in your head".

He wears a black collared-shirt with cuffs and white trims, buttoned over his neck, and held in place by a gold insignia bearing his name in Adamic hieroglyphs. Over the black shirt, he wears a white military jacket with black trims and decorated buttons. He has a thick belt encircling his waist and he wears two smaller belts below to form an X-shape over his posterior and front. He wears white pants with black boots, with their soles, toes, and heels being white. He also wears white silk gloves and a white hooded cloak on top of his attire.

When he first appeared to David, Jonathan, and Abigail, he appeared to be humanoid in form, yet large enough to cradle the three teens in his palm. His eyes were gold with no whites or pupils. His skin was covered in golden angelic runes which constantly moved across his body. His large wings spread out behind him, each feather of which contained a single golden staring eye.

Like all angelic entities in their physical form, he has multiple pairs of large, feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 5-meters in length, in order to demonstrate his position among the "Angels of the Lord". In his case, particularly, he possesses a total of fourteen raven-like wings to demonstrate his position as an Elder Seraph, which fades into a dark-blue color at the feathers' tips. Brightly-glowed eyes scattered across his wings, placed near the tips of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

Personality
Raziel is well-known across the Abrahamic Heavens as an airhead, renowned for being the origin for the Dumb Blonde stereotype popular in modern media. He is ridiculously naive to the point it became something that worries Michael and Gabriel, the latter even commented that his genuinely innocent nature even outranked her fake persona's.

He is very kind, humble, and upbeat even in the toughest of situations, and he was considered to be the Angels' source of hope and joy during the later years of the Great War. He is cheerful, feisty, and friendly, being capable of making new friends and allies with little to no efforts with his personality alone. He is also very charismatic, being able to charm the Occult Research Club within their first meeting with him.

Because of his innocent nature, he is immune to all the perverted and lustful actions of others. However, he can be very flirty, sometimes even outright seductive, in the eyes of others by accident, which led to him earning the nickname "Heaven's Male Cocktease" by Azazel as a result. In Chapter XXX, during the family night-out between Azazel and his sons, Ambrose complained for hours because of the Seraph's unbelievably innocent mind, much to Azazel's amusement and his brothers' disbelief.

Despite this, he is one of the most responsible leaders of the Abrahamic Heavens, being known to be the symbol of the virtue of diligence because of his hard-working nature. When dealing with followers of the Abrahamic religions, he can be very mature and understanding, always taking their mortality and human mindset in consideration before making any decision.

He truly believes in mankind's true potential, being one of the first Angels to kneel in front of Adam and one of the few to genuinely mean what he said when he swore to protect humanity for eternity. Because of his love for them, he would often assist them through any way he possibly can, as shown when he created the first Grimoire and gifted it to Adam and Eve after they were banished from the Garden of Eden.

Despite his love for humanity, however, he understands that hardship and struggles are required for them to grow and evolve and becomes stronger, and thus led to him restricting the Miracle system to grant only minor miracles that can be explained through scientific facts after the Great War had ended, as he believed humans now needed a chance to grow by themselves, proving their actual worth.

Because of their viewpoints toward the supernatural in general, he seems to be conflicted in regard to the exorcists and the Shadowhunters, both of whom are under his angelic patronage, as they are known to consider any species that isn't human to be beneath them, especially those they deem "demonic".

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Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

 * Witchcraft: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose beings of heavenly nature, Seraphim such as Raziel are susceptible by witchery. However, due to his immense powers, only spells and rituals of the utmost tier are capable of affecting him, much less harming or even banishing him back to Heaven.
 * Enochian Magick: As Enochian Magick can affect all angelic beings, regardless of their alignments, it is one of the few Ancient Magick capable of affecting a powerful Seraph such as Raziel.
 * Celestial Weapons: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including Angels such as Raziel, though the amount of damage caused by celestial weapons are practically non-existence to him.
 * Divine Weapons: The divine weapons of the pagan gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielder's divinity, can be used to harm heavenly beings like him. However, for a Seraph such as Raziel to be harmed by attacks formed of divine weapons, it will require the usage of the Outer Gods' and Primordial Gods' Symbols of Power.

Killing

 * Enochian Weapons: Raziel can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a Enochian weapon, his angelic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around a billion years.
 * Angel Blade: Like other angelic entities, he can be killed if the user used his own Angel Blade as the weapon, incinerating his physical body and leaving a burned imprint of his fourteen wings on the floor where his body lies.
 * Original Longinus: As the original Longinus are the original Sacred Gears, created from the highest-quality Enochian metals and forged in the Heavenly Forges with the greatest of Enochian technology, in addition to being imbued with the Biblical God's divine light, wielders of the original 13 Longinus can potentially kill a Seraph such as him if they have enough skills and experience.
 * Faustian Weapons: Raziel can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals. When his physical body is destroyed by a Faustian weapon, his angelic essence will be instantaneously transferred to the Empty until his physical body can be reformed, either by God's divine light or on its own, which will take him a rough estimation of around a billion years.
 * Primordials' Weapons: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

Quotes
"Science isn't something that oppose Magic, you dummy. Science is what humans use to explain things, they just haven't found a way to explain magic yet. It is too mysterious, y'all know?"

- Raziel

"Mankind will never understand the true nature of magic. Their mortal mind is too limited and primitive for that. To them, magic is just science that they don't understand yet, and that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And that is wrong. Yet, that is how I reprogramed the world to be, for them."

- Raziel

Trivia

 * He has scent reminiscent of amaranth, musk, and "joyfulness".
 * Despite his innocent, he scoffs at the idea of being a virgin, much to his siblings' horror.
 * He and his choir has the responsibility to choose which magic-wielders to be damned in the Inferno.
 * He has the habit of appearing in his semi-true form before lunatics, as he believes nobody would believe a crazy person saying they'd met an angel, thus preventing a breach of faith.
 * Despite being the third most ancient Angel, he still get grounded by his older siblings, mainly by Uriel, for his stupid actions that caused immense paperwork for the entirety of Heaven.
 * He sees the Shadowhunters his fourth most embarrassed things he had ever done in the last millenium.
 * In the Old Religion, he is one of the first names to be invoked in every ritual.
 * Only the most magically-gifted of magic-wielders were chosen to be his priests in ancient time.
 * Despite his bubbly and innocent nature, most rituals dedicated to him involved blood sacrifice, which once included human's before it was banned by God.
 * According to Azazel, Clarke's most well-known adage, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", was something that Raziel had whispered to him in his sleep.