分类:天使

==天使==

Angels are beings of the Light from the High Heavens. They are ruled by the Angiris Council.
==Characteristics==

===Tyrael, the Archangel of Justice===
The Angelic host believes in strict discipline and order and wages a constant battle for the sake of all creation against the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells who seek to turn existence into pure chaos.

In the Diablo universe, Angels are quite different from their judeo-christian counterparts. They strive to bring discipline into the world and oppose chaos and will go through any means to accomplish it. They believe that everything in the universe has order. Inarius, the creator of Sanctuary, wanted its inhabitants to worship him and fuel his ego.

After the discovery of Sanctuary by the other Angels, the Angiris Council even contemplated destroying the hidden world because humans were an abomination of the combination of Angel and Demon blood. Even during their early efforts to gain the trust of humans drove many away from them because of their austere methods and strict discipline.

Angels are regarded as prideful and aloof and rarely appear on Sanctuary believing it is wrong to interfere in the affairs of mortals.

Even so, in battle, Angels can strike as much fear in mortal hearts as demons. They wield the elemental powers of Ice and Lightning and are expert melee fighters. The Seraphim division of the Angelic Army has been known to sweep entire legions of Demons in a single day. A fallen angel is an angel that has been exiled or banished from the High Heavens. This can come to be because of corruption, or more often such banishment is a punishment for disobeying or rebelling against the Angiris Council. Another way is for deliberate betrayal by an angel.

Angels are seen as figures surounded in a shroud of light. They have tendrills on their backs that give the illision of wings of fire.( stated in Kingdom  of Shadows.)

===List of known angels, including fallen===
  
These are in no particular order

Tyrael

Imperius

Auriel

Malthael

Itherael

Inarius

Hadriel

Izual

Yaerius

*Fallen Angels

The fall of Izual

Izual was a great lieutenant to the Archangel Tyrael. He once led a fierce attack upon the Hellforge as the creation of the dark demonblade Shadowfang was nearing completion. During the battle that ensued, Izual was overcome by legions of Chaos and was lost to the Darkness.

His body was corrupted by the Prime Evils and they forced his soul into the body of a demon, making him a demonic monstrosity and they forced him to betray his own kind and give up Heaven's most guarded secrets. Izual became a corrupt shadow of his former self; a fallen angel trusted neither by Heaven nor Hell.

*The fall of Inarius

When Inarius and some of his followers created Sanctuary against the will of the Angiris Council, he was given to the Prime Evil, Mephisto, as a act of retribution to the destruction of the Triune. Mephisto apparently turned Inarius and his followers into Overlords, but this is cannot be proven since the Sin War novels, which are to be considered canon, say that only Inarius was given to Mephisto.

===In the Diablo Manual, it is written:===
"He bound Inarius with tremendous chains and slowly tore the wings from the back of the angel. Great barbed hooks were then used to stretch out the once glowing skin and his features were distorted by vile powers. Many of the followers of Inarius were given as gifts to Baal and Diablo, but the rest were molded to match the bloated image of the now crippled angel. To this day, Inarius is said to be trapped in Hell within a chamber of mirrors, his eyelids torn from his face as he is forced to gaze upon his misshapen form for all eternity. His misguided followers now serve as Hell's taskmaster taking the anguish of their lost glory out upon the bodies of others."



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