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 the leader of the Throne-ranked angels. She is the Seraph of Mystery, Secrecy and the Unknown, and is the source of all non-infernal magic.

Overview
Raziel (רַזִיאֶל‎) 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 Chokmah 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 a young woman of divine beauty and perfection, so much so that the world around her looks dimmed in comparison. She has long, wavy golden hair usually tied back into a high ponytail, with soft bangs falling into her jewel-blue eyes.

She possesses a total of fourteen large wings, each with a wingspan of 5-meters in length, growing out of her lower back. Unlike the regular, feathered wings most angels possess, hers resemble large and colorful sheets of stained glass shaped into pairs of wings. Her halo resembles that of an ornate crown made out of gold branches with jewel leaves, in addition to the two smaller gold halos floating above her hands.

Personality
As an Elder Seraph and commander of the high-ranked Thrones, Raziel possesses savoir-faire and presents herself in a graceful, respectable manner. However, in contrast to her courtly appearance, she is an outgoing, playful and outgoing person who enjoys affectionately teasing people.

She is an incredibly vigilant, intelligent and calculating person, and often spends her time within the Akashic records alongside Uriel and Zaphkiel. She is also said to have spent time expounding the "Torah's divine wisdom" with ancient Jewish mystics in ancient times.

She truly believes in the potential of humans, even believing that they are greater than angels in many ways, and was one of the first angels to kneel before Adam and Eve and swear to protect them. Because of this, she would often go out of her way to protect them, as shown when she gave Adam the first grimoire after they were banished from the Garden of Eden.

Like her name - "Secret of God" - suggests, she is a mysterious and enigmatic figure who even her closest siblings couldn't understand, or even feel somewhat traitorous, at times. Many of her actions are shrouded in mystery, with both positive, negative and even catastrophic results that she only cryptically smiles whenever she hears about them, as if they are all according to her plans.

According to Phanuel, Heaven had stopped trying to understand her eons ago.

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
When Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden for creating the original sin, Raziel took one of Metatron's empty tome and imbued her power into it and created the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, the first and most powerful grimoire in existence. She then gave it to Adam so the two could find their way "home" and to better understand God.

When the other angels discovered about its existence and how it is now in the hands of Adam and Eve, the only people to be banished from Heaven since the Heavenly War, they were undoubtedly disturbed by this and stole the grimoire and threw it into the sea before telling God of what had happened. However, unlike what they had predicted, not only did God not punish anyone, He laughed and ordered the angel Rahab to retrieve the grimoire from beneath the sea and give it back to Adam.

The grimoire was then passed down by Adam to Cain and then Adam's son Seth, and this tradition continued throughout the generations until it reached Enoch, who incorporated his own writings under the instructions of his guardian angel Metatron. From Enoch, it would later passed down to his descendant Noah, who used the information within the grimoire to create the biblical ark.

Centuries later, it came into the possession of Saul, king of Israel, who gifted it to his son Jonathan. The grimoire was then given to David, Jonathan's dear friend, and then passed down to David's son Solomon, who used it to turn seventy-two demons, progenitors of the 72 Pillars, into his familiars and became the greatest magician of all times.

After Solomon's death, the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh was taken and given back to Raziel by Michael, who feared about the potential dangers it could bring after seeing how Solomon was able to "tame" seventy-two demons and infernal overlords into becoming his familiars.

Wizards' Flood Myth
Sometimes in the antediluvian, Raziel granted her blessing onto a group of her faithful priests and created the first wizards. To honor her, they created the Grand Temple of Galizur in the outskirts of where the capital city Edinnu of the Edenith civilization would later be and a festival dedicated to her was held there every year, attracting people from all corners of Tellus Mahte.

However, when the Edenith civilization began to lose its faith in God and His emanations, she and the other deified angels had their temples destroyed and their followers either killed or condemned, which led to them agreeing with the plans of destroying Creation entirely to restart a new one. She, in particular, saved the last of the wizards who still believed and prayed to her and took them to Earth after it was finished, allowing the wizard-kin to flourish one more after the great Deluge.

Shadowhunters
In the 11th-century, Raziel was summoned in Lake Lyn by the Valois twins, Jonathan and Abigail, with the help of the warlock David Gramarye, and asked for a way for them to defense France from the supernatural threats, such as monsters, devils and daemon, in the region. Due to personal amusement and interest, she decided to help and took the three of them under her wings as their guardian angel, which caused certain problems with her brother Raguel due to one of them being a half-daimon.

She unlocked all of their Sacred Gears, Jonathan's Sephiroth Graal, Abigail's Blade Blacksmith, and David's Everlasting Sibilla, and began to teach them in a variety of subjects, ranging from sciences to the arts to combat and finally war. She taught them how to create and apply angelic runes, even helping him create his own grimoire filled with knowledge and information about the angelic runes that would later be known as the Gray Book.

However, due to Michael's order about limited communication with the mortal world, she and the three of them departed after spending several years together, though she did watch over them from Heaven as she had begun to develop maternal feelings for them.

Later on, when Jonathan created the shadowhunters using the Mortal Cup, Raziel reappeared to them and blessed the new race with her own angelic power, turning them into artificial half-angel hybrids capable of wielding heavenly weapons and magic. She also created Idris to serve as their homeland and main base of operations. Because of this, many supernatural beings came to know shadowhunters as "Nephilim" or "Raziel's Children".

After the three were killed by their former students, however, her attitude on the species as a whole changed, and her mood became foul whenever they are mentioned in the conversation. According to Simon, while she hadn't stopped her blessing on them - mostly because it is a permanent one - it is clear that high-ranked people of the shadowhunters had lost the Elder Seraph's favor, though the reason remained unknown.

When the three ascended to Heaven, albeit David needed certain favors and manipulations to be able to enter Heaven and not the Empty, they chose to enter the, then active, Bene Elohim Project and became three of the six-hundreds-and-sixty-six lesser angels to survive, and were taken under Raziel's wings once more and became her official adopted children.

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Quotes
"You are Raziel, Angel of Mysteries, You are Raziel, possessor of knowledge, You are Raziel, whose writings contain all celestial and earthly knowledge, Raziel, Secret of God, hear my prayer. Angel of Thrones, Guard of Heaven, we honor your name."

- Prayer to Raziel

"I am no goddess, my child, no matter how much people deemed me so. I sing nothing but prayers and hold nothing but secrets. I am but the servant of the divine one, the lord of all lords, and the king of all kings. But even a servant like me can learn from my lord and show mercy to a lost lamb who needs it the most."

- Raziel

Trivia

 * She is the ruler of Neptune and leader of all of its guardian angels.
 * She is associated with the sephira Chokmah and the second world Bryah.
 * She was originally the leader of the cherubim until she passed the position down to Jophiel.
 * The ground where she walks on ripples like water.
 * She believes in self-learning and learning through experience.
 * Her wings used to be sky-blue but she changed them since "it looked boring".
 * Her handwriting is so notorious bad, many believe the reason only a few were able to read the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh is because of her handwriting, not because of its magical protection.
 * Despite appearing as a woman, she took a masculine form from the 6th to 18th-century.
 * In the Old Religion, she is predominantly called "Mother Magick" or "Mother of Miracles".
 * In Neopaganism, she is known as the Triple Goddess, consort of the Horned God (Phanuel).
 * She has been prayed to under many different names, such as Magya, Sansae, Algèir, Seila, Abetröta, Palrisa, Pak'Liirsa, Kaliz, Jilto, Ødaim, Ælayana, Kaikash, Sythillȯ, Rheilla, M'hyǣa and Kysh.