Creation and Ascendance

Angels were created by the will of their deities from the spirits of select petitioners. The gods or goddesses simply formed new bodies for these chosen followers in their afterlife, making them into Guardians.

Guardians who served faithfully as warriors in the holy armies could be promoted and transformed into celestial apprentices in a process called "ascendance". Such a promotion involved a change in physical form, magical power, and status. Typically, Guardians were promoted into demi, who were in turn transformed into storms and finally solars. The powers considered the good deeds performed by the angel when deciding when and how to promote him or her. An angel retained all memories when ascending; it was only the physical form and powers that were changed.

The angels of Mount Celestia were not formed directly from petitioners but were instead promoted from trumpet archons or other archons, who had already risen through the ranks of those celestials from the lowly lantern archon.

Devas are the lowest of the celestial apperentices, yet they were not formed from the ascendance of Guardians; instead, they were created from the spirits of greater angels who had been slain on other planes in the course of their missions. For this reason, they were held in reverence by other angels of greater power.

Ascendance was always offered, not required. If an individual angel desired to remain in his or her current form rather then transform into a higher being, there was no shame attached to this decision. Nevertheless, the great majority of angels accepted promotion, seeing it as a chance to obtain an even more virtuous state of existence.

Some more modern scholars refuted all of this and claimed that angels were in fact formed from fragments of the "astral essence" of the good gods themselves. Even if true in some cases, it is certain that at least some petitioners were made into angels by the powers.

Bred for Military

Angels are born to be the servants of a God or Goddess, and this commonly causes angels as a whole to become an army of sorts. Although not all Angels are truly warriors, all of them have some degree of combat ability, magic or otherwise. This also means they are raised m taking their own spin on them. Although there is one thing certain about angels, whenever they appear, they represent a great interest from their deity, and dismissing that off-handily is a dire mistake.

Society

Angels lived primarily in the Upper Planes and were permitted to travel freely among them from one to the other, likely by means of the World Tree. They could also enter the Astral and Material Planes if directed by their divine masters, to support the purposes of good.

In the Upper Planes, angels served as defenders and protectors of their homes, repelling any invasions. They sometimes acted as guides and guards to any mortal visitors of their realms.

Types

The angels were divided into two main groupings: warriors and celestial stewards. The warriors were called upon to fight for the good gods and to defend the borders of those deities' realms. Some sources held that angels were more likely to fight other angels from other good planes than fiends from the Lower Planes. The only commonly known type of angel to serve as a warrior was the Guardian. In contrast, the celestial stewards were those angels who served as the direct hands of the gods. Each type had a particular purpose to serve.

Angel Names

Male: Albo, Alexander, Auriel, Azrael, Calidon, Castian, Castiel, Demetry, Destian, Gabriel, Helel, Izunal, Jacob, Michael, Orion, Perisis, Raemond, Raphael, Samual, Tyriel

Female: Aysa, Camisa, Elisa, Gavrial, Hannah, Iris, Itherael, Jane, Jordan, Keyrea, Lucky, Lucy, Meryn, Teryn