Ramiel

"Look, as the Seraph of Hope and Morality and whatever, I shouldn't be telling you this. But sometimes, peaceful negotiation isn't capable of dealing with problems of this size. It requires something greater, harder. It requires something undeniable. It requires violent."

- Ramiel

Ramiel, also known as the Thunder of God, is one of the Younger Seraphim and is in-charge of the Watchers, a group of Angels whose duty is to watch over and protect followers of the Abrahamic faiths from supernatural threats. He is the former leader of the Watchers who founded the Grigori.

He is the Seraph of Hope, Piety, and Morality. He is also tasked with providing divine visions for prophets per order of the Elder Seraphim and guiding the souls of the faithful into the Abrahamic Heavens.

Overview
"One of the seven archangels serving God. His duty is to spread their instructions. The words he conveys appear as visions to people. On the day of judgement, he knows which souls will be saved and which will be destroyed. His duty is to guide the souls that will be saved."

- The Infernal Compendium

Remiel, whose name means Mercy of God or Compassion of God, is an Archangel of whirlwinds, thunder, hope, and earthquakes who has various apocalyptic functions in Christian and Islamic lore. He is charged with leading souls to judgment and to spread the instructions of God to man. He knows which souls will be saved and which will be destroyed and will guide the souls that will be saved. The words he conveys appear as visions to people and is often called the angel of "true visions."

Ramiel, whose name means Thunder of God, is believed to be a fallen Watcher in the Book of Enoch. Ramel belongs in a group of leaders that are turned into Fallen Angels due to mating with human women. It is said that Ramiel was Baraqiel's lieutenant before his fall, with two embodying the forces of thunder and lightning.

Appearance
Ramiel appears as a tall and muscular young man, whose body is described as putting Greek marble statues to shame. He has golden hair that is slicked back, with numerous spiky strands pointing backwards, though some fall down in a small tuft on his forehead. His dark-blue eyes are comparable to thunder clouds. He also has a distinct lightning bolt-shaped scar over his right eye.

He wears a casual attire, consisting of a wide-collared purple shirt, a black coat with gray fur trimming, bluish-black pants held up by a leather belt with gold chains dangling on the sides, and a pair of Dragon's hide boots. He is almost always seen wearing a pair of wireless headphones.

Like all angelic entities in their physical form, he has multiple pairs of large, feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 4-meters in length, in order to demonstrate his position among the "Angels of the Lord '' . In his case, particularly, he possesses a total of twelve eagle-like wings to demonstrate his position as a Seraph, which are dark-blue in color with glowing goldish-white lines running across them, reminiscent of strikes of lightning in a thunderstorm. Brightly-glowed eyes scattered across his wings, placed near the tips of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

Personality
Ramiel initially appears to be arrogant, overbearing, and selfish, with a deep-seated hatred toward enemies of the Abrahamic Heavens such as Devils and Fallen Angels. However, he has shown to be quite open-minded regarding the newly-formed peace between the Three Factions, stating that he believes everyone has the potential to be good inside them and that the current generation of Devils is different from those before them.

According to Azazel, he is quite stubborn and tends to misunderstand others. This, in addition to his tendency to "act first, think later", has resulted in multiple problems that both he and the Heavenly Council has to deal with, much to the latter's annoyance. Despite this, he can still understand reasons and apologize when he is in the wrong.

He is an honorable warrior who believes that all proper fights should be the ones that are fought on equal ground. Because of this, he deems those who fight dirty or use underhand tactics to be unworthy of their powers, as shown when he took away the Sacred Gears of the Hero Faction after the Demonic Beast Riot. However, he has no qualm about using such methods in serious battles and in war when he scolded Team DxD for trying to fight righteously when dealing with remnants of the Khaos Brigade, as "there is a great difference between the real and the fake".

He cares greatly for his angelic family - regardless of whether they are Angels, Fallen Angels, or Demons - and wishes that they can just be together again like how they once were before the Heavenly War. It is because of his familial love that he was the only one to ask for the Nephilim to be spared, which sparked the rumors of him being a spy for the Fallen Angels. Despite this, it was his Holy Lightning that killed off the majority of the Nephilim, though he claimed it was out of mercy, as the Heavenly Host would undoubtedly be much more brutal than his lightning could ever be.

He treats his Brave Saints as his own children and has practically adopted them in the Angels' eyes. According to Azazel, he had never seen Ramiel as happy as he was when one of his Deck's members accidentally called him "dad".

He also has an utter lack of concern about blending in with the mundane, as he often forgets that they are not meant to see the supernatural world anymore.

History
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Abilities
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Powers
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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 Ramiel are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals even rumored to be capable of banishing him back to Heaven for an extended amount of time.
 * 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 Ramiel.
 * 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 Ramiel, though the amount of damage caused by celestial weapons are only miniscule to him at best.
 * 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 Ramiel to be harmed by attacks formed of divine weapons, it will require the usage of the chieftain gods' Symbols of Power.

Killing

 * Enochian Weapons: Ramiel 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 1.2 billions 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 twelve 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: Ramiel 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 1.2 billions 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
"I am the Divine Ramiel. I shall be your guide. You do not need my guidance? Very well... You are free to choose your own path."

- Ramiel

"Kindhearted one, your heart aches with worry for your people, does it not? It is true that not all will be safe, even in a world under His rule. Those who do not repent breaking His teachings will suffer His judgement. But, man has continuously chosen to walk a fool’s path. When the unjust kill the just, and the righteous shed tears, can all truly be forgiven?"

- Ramiel

Trivia

 * His name, Ramiel, means "Thunder of God".
 * His other name, Remiel, means "Mercy of God" or "Compassion of God".
 * His favorite music is Classic rock.
 * He hates wearing jeans, comparing it to a torture device.
 * His scent is said to be like ozone, rain and clear winds, with the soft hint of oaks.
 * It was rumored that he was the one who asked God to spare the surviving Nephilim, though the Heavenly Council neither confirms nor denies it.
 * He is said to be responsible for the destruction of the armies of Sennacherib.
 * He is more "tolerable" of pagans and pagan gods than his fellow Seraphim.
 * He was worshipped by ancient people as the Proto-Into-European storm-god, Perkʷunos.
 * His battle against Leviathan was the base for the Chaoskampf myth, in which a thunder-god represents order would defeat a serpent-like monster of chaos in order to restore balance to the world and/or gain divine authority from the monster.
 * Ironically, his battle was depicted in Genesis 1 but with God in his place, much to his embarrassment and his fellow Seraphim's amusement.