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The Grenian Angelic is a race of sentient avian humanoids who are considered to be the bridge between the profane and the sacred worlds and/or spiritual beings intermediate between the goddesses and men. Often acting as messengers or diviners to humans and Oni, they were regarded as holy and out of bounds for others to interact with.

Appearance

Grenian Angelics in particular share similar builds to humans but are notably taller and thinner. Their irises tend to take on very luminescent hues of silver, blue, or yellow and have a secondary color "ring" in their irises that are only visible when a person shines a light at them. Angelics tend to be of a fair olive color skin type and have rough ridged fingertips, mostly useful for climbing or hanging on to surfaces with very little traction.

Their legs are rather long and lean which hints to their innate speed and ability to evade land threats on a whim. Reaching up to 2 meters tall, an Angelic's body proportions tend to be larger to match the height and demand of their abilities.

Physiology

Grenian angels are typically born with the ability to spawn feathered wings resembling that of eagles out of their own souls, though depending on what sub-race an angelic belongs to and their soul potential, their lengths and color tend to vary. The average wingspan of a Grenian Angel can be between 2-4 meters in length, but some have been recorded to have larger wingspans. An example would be Emriesk Errin 's wingspan of 78 meters in his final form.

Eastern Grenian Angels tend to have longer wings but with lesser heavy plumage which aids them in maintaining a constant height without flapping their wings for a period of time. A typical male Eastern will always have larger wings spanning at an average of 5 meters. Females fare quite less with smaller but heavier wings as defensive assets, spanning at an average of 3 meters.

Western Grenian Angels have shorter wingspans but thicker plumage for defensive purposes and strength against strong winds and air jet streams. Males and females tend to have very little differences in wingspan.

Both variants of Angels have specialized vocal structures that allow them to produce avian calls. Eastern and Western angelics are known to have over 400 distinctive bird calls that mostly resemble a mix between eagle and raven calls when it comes to how they sound.

A defining physical feature of Angelics are their material hides. Hides in the angelic world are like a secondary skin built to protect and bolster their abilities. Easterns primarily manifest metalized versions which are composed of a mix of steel, organic steel, and vibranium (a grenian metal that is capable of absorbing vibration and kinetic force to a great extent). Metallic hides take on a glossy white color that works in conjunction with the user's photoimpery as it intensifies light refracting from it. Westerns have more natural and organic hides that are similar in durability than their metallic counterparts, but do hide traces of metals within such as Laconia and mythril. Only difference is their organic steel is much more potent and is easier to manipulate.

Inoperables

Inoperables, or translated as "Faceless cancers of the world", are a corrupted beast form of Angelics that manifest once the Angelic's soul becomes completely corrupted and surrenders to an unbelievable amount of despair similar to that of an Oriphyrin transformation. The process in which an Angelic transforms into an Inoperable is done by phases:

• First Phase: Decaying insides: High amounts of decay begin to seep out of small or large wounds. The Angel's inner decay causes bile within their system to transform into a highly corrosive liquid that starts eating away proteins and muscle mass.

• Second Phase: Dulling of senses and powers: As the name suggests, the increasing decay attacking the body from the inside affects cognitive functions by severing neural connections as a result of the corrosive liquid eating away at each neuron's mylin sheath and lack of protein to maintain them. As for powers, their effects begin to fade due to the damage in their soul.

• Third Phase: The Blood Purge: An Angelic will begin excreting blood in whatever way possible. If unable to do so by throwing it up or other normal methods, the decay will always harm the Angelic's body enough to create lesions on their skin in order to speed up the process. Sometimes at this point an Angelic would have gone mad enough to self harm. They are now considered Rogues.

• Fourth Phase: Cocoon Form: It is a blessing and curse to have hides. When an Angelic is transforming into an Inoperable, the hide is possibly the most unforgiving element to it. Against the will of it's host, the hide will begin to overrun the Angelic's body, covering it in a bloody mix of blood and metal. The Angelic will cease to move and will barely be breathing. But within the cocoon of sorts, the decay intensifies to unbelievable levels and begins to rapidly eat away at the Angelic's skin, apendages,and face.

• Final Phase: Faceless Terror: Finally, the Angelic undergoing the change will be released from the cocoon as the rough metallic skinned beast emerges from it. Their long arms and legs provide them with greater ease to lift themselves off the ground and maintain a towering height. The Angelic's overall conscience is completely destroyed and replaced with an insatiable desire to obliterate literally everything it senses. Without sight, an Inoperable can perceive spiritual essences,psyche, and gain an ability simply known as Seismic Sense (the ability to perceive what's around you by motion) making it rather easy for them to lock on to specific target at a time. If killed in this form, they will reduce themselves to glass-like orbs of swirling corruptible energy that can easily spawn more Inoperables if not destroyed.

Abilities

Because of an angelic's physiological build, they are built for speed and endurance. Overtime, this translated in their ability to call upon brief bursts of speed and energy through their potent adrenal glands. They are naturally nimble and speedy as well. Angelics have augmented sensory nerves that allow them to "feel" the air around them in order to make out if an area is safe to be in or not. When it comes to eyesight, angelics can easily make out anything from an aerial view, much like eagles or other birds of prey can. Though an Angelic's ability to see from great distances are arguably stronger, letting them see up to 3 miles away. Such ability has been nicknamed "Hypersight"

Spiritually, angelics have the ability to Imprint. Imprinting is a delicate and often uncontrollable process that causes an angelic's soul to bind and imprint some of it's core traits onto another soul. Memories, emotions, even lessened variants of Soul Phantasms and soul genetics can be transmitted and changed depending on what imprinted bond is dictated. Mated pairs will always have an Imprinted bond with each other, but there are always instances where an Angelic will imprint outside their pair and even outside their kind. Imprinted bonds range from Imprinted mate, Imprinted brother/sister, Imprinted Child, and Imprinted Friend. Imprinted bonds are incredibly difficult to break, so they are often regarded as unbreakable by the general populace. Imprinted angelics will always have an easier time feeling the presence of their imprinted subject despite any distance and have an even easier time tracking them down.

Eastern Angels

• In terms of the three components, Easterns tend to have maxed out soul components. Their ability to imprint is arguably the strongest of their kind and the most influential, easily spreading to multiple races if they wish to do so. If mated with a Western, the chances of their psonic abilities transcending to reality manipulation is bolstered.

• Their Hypersight is unfortunately weaker than their Western counterparts. However, they make up for it with their augmented strength.

Western Angels

• In terms of the three components, Westerns tend to have maxed out mind components. They can easily mix their domain over radical frequencies with whatever soul phantasm they have, within reason. This results in Westerns being able to command elements with only their mind, or command other things. Almost as an effect of this, Western angelics have the ability to play around with psyche, which in turn grants them an ability to sway people and convince them to do anything if they are experienced.

• Their imprinting is considerably fickle, though they do substitute bonds by connecting their own psyche with others. More often than not, they have a limit on imprinting.

• Hypersight is greatly enhanced with their psonic potential. They can sometimes connect with a certain psychic "signature" of a subject granted if they are already familiar with it.

• Westerns have an Environmental Interaction Parameter branch called "Psyche-Radical Parameter" for obvious reasons.

• Western hides have traces of Mythril and Laconia, making them resistant to magic and mana. However, the degree of resistance depends on each individual's amount of those two materials in their hide.

Behavior

Contrast to popular belief, not all Angels are inclined to act good or polite. Or even human. Rather, they act more avian than humanoid. Their central psyche and behaviors revolve around structure of any kind. Because of this, their need to provide stability and structure make them highly social creatures. Most tend to form groups of angels called Flocks with one leading male acting as a guardian. Within a flock, there is a change in behavior to subservient males and females. Any angel below their leader will almost always become more willing to carry out the will of it's leader without any spoken cue, mimicking the psychological phenomena known as The Gentuan Effect. Subservient angels will always adopt personality traits of their leader and prone to plumage flashing whenever the leader addresses them or challenges them: A sign of surrender or conformity.

In territorial situations, Angels adopt a very aggressive form of thought and action. When an angel is threatened, they will spread their wings and puff out their chests and slightly move from side to side while hissing in certain intervals. This accompanies their changes in thought processes brought upon their fight or flight mentality. Between two male Angelics in an altercation, they will go through cycles of flashing their wings and bumping their chests on each other while executing aggressive calls.

An angelic feels most comfortable in large open spaces. A lack of such environment slowly begins to eat away at their sentience and overtime an enclosed Angelic will become a Rogue and then an Inoperable if it persists for years. Enclosed angelics quickly develop anxiety problems and cognitive disorders. A reliable way of determining if an Angelic is about to go Rogue or has deteriorated enough in enclosure is their quick and fidgety actions, rapid eye movement, shivering, ripping out their plumage or skin, biting themselves or any material they can, and uncontrollable calls of fear or aggression.

Angels are free spirited, therefore prefer to keep active rather than idle and free from any enclosures. 

Customs

In an Angelic flock or culture in general, their form of greeting involves a brief form of physical contact made by either lightly slapping their wing feathers at someone or tapping them with their fingers quickly. Forming a physical bond in initial contact with a stranger or someone they know is considered respectful and establishes trust. Overtime it assumes a purpose of displaying playfulness or affection.

Males are often called Sentinels as they are tasked with protection and strength whereas females are called Sirens.

Quick motions tend to arouse their instinctual drive to attack and therefore will sometimes manifest in an Angelic stiffening up and briefly showing a degree of discomfort or in cases where the Angelic isn't civilized, a defensive stance followed by a strike before fleeing (or fighting).

Preening is a critical custom shared by Angelics, though their way of preening is not entirely similar to other avians. Because of their lack of beaks, Angelics would substitute that by colliding the ends of their wings with each other and flapping in order to remove dust particles in their plumage. Such sign signifies that the angelic's bond with the other is very strong and respectful. When an angelic dislikes another, he or she would simply puff up their plumage and shake them to send a cloud of dust in the direction of their enemy. Though not entirely arousing hostility, this tends to anger angelics to no end.

Angelics provide affection in several ways, such as wrapping their wings around a loved one while pressing them close to their chest and pressing their nose against the crown of their loved one's head. When there is a mated pair, males quickly develop signs of possessiveness and jealousy. As a general way of making sure no other male claims their mate, males will always bite the nape of their mate's neck to leave a permanent mark. Also they tend to wrap their wings around their mates constantly. When there are young ones involved, angelic parents are highly protective of their young even after they mature. The bond between angelics related by blood is rather strong and involves constant affectionate gestures along with aggressive displays when threatened.

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