Classification: incorporeal aberrants tasked with observing and guarding Earth's inhabitants.
Colloquial name: angels.
Origin: angels were created by the theomorphic/nousverous aberrant referred to by them as Yahweh. According to them, their God created athe cosmos like a watchmaker would a timepiece, and manages it with such skill it resembles omniscience. Angels were created to serve as Yahweh's messengers and enforcers. Since the creation of the Demon Accords, they have been barred from acting overtly in the physical universe, as that would invite an equal response from the opposition.
The most active Earthbound angel is Barbiel, the Angel of October, referred to by Chris Gordon as "my angelic case officer". Though eager to learn about and understand human trends, Barbiel's main purpose is observing and guiding the angel who fell by choice to become God's Hammer.
Description: angels do not possess bodies and can shape their true, incorporeal forms into whatever they wish, though they seem to prefer anthropomorphism. Angels often appear as winged, humanoid silhouettes made of white light.
Behaviour: Angels are determined and patient, taking the long view on a scale spanning eons. When able to intervene and help others, they appear generous and jovial. Barbiel often exhibits such traits while observing, usually appearing to pass helpful information to his charge while showing off the latest piece of human media he has absorbed. Angels have also been known to exhibit a fierce joy while destroying demons.
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Threat level: local/regional. Angels are considerably more powerful than Chris Gordon when they choose to manifest physically, and should thus be capable of easily crushing large vehicles in single strikes and pulverising concrete walls by running through them, receiving no damage as a result. They have access to their Swords, aberrant energy constructs that can sever any amount of mundane material they can touch and permanently obliterate the true forms of demons, otherwise unkillable to any amount of spiritual or elemental power, as well as an endless supply of Angel Fire, a single "burst" of which instantly turned three hundred werewolves to ash when used by Chris Gordon, with werewolves being several times denser than humans of a similar build, and far more durable.
Angels also possess insight into future matters bordering on precognition, can change the state of their bodies at will, and are able to bypass the senses of aberrants whose senses are orders of magnitudes sharper than those of humans. Angels can influence natural events when free to act, for example, directing meteor impacts as powerful as nuclear strikes at things they deem must be destroyed. It has been hypothesised that many of the natural disasters presented in the Bible were the result of angelic intervention.
Collaboration: reaching out to Heaven has resulted in a statement that, while wanting to help is admirable, sometimes, one must not intervene, and instead allow those less powerful or wise to find their path and prove their worth. This is a similar stance to the Collective's former policy of noninterventionism, and understandable. Nevertheless, we have been looking for ways to get angels to act in cosmoses unbound by the Demon Accords, where their abilities can be put to full use, at the same time creating measures for preventing their rivals from following them there.