Archangels

Archangels
Seasons	4-current
Species	Transcendent Angels
Status	Michael (alive) Lucifer (alive) Ariel (alive) Uriel (deceased) Sariel (deceased) Raphael (alive) Gabriel (alive)
Related Species	Angels
Description	Extremely powerful, fierce, and very wrathful celestial agents of God who serve as His lieutenants
Family	God (creator/father) Amara (aunt) Eve (aunt) Death (uncle) Oracle (oldest brother) Seraphim (older siblings/enemies) Angels (younger siblings/subordinates)

“	The Archangels. The strongest, greatest, most feared forces in all of Heaven. No creature nor demon nor angel can be equal to them. The very arrival of their presence can cause entities of evil to flee in terror. Take my word for it, you do not want them as your enemy. Archangels are fierce. They're absolute. They're Heaven's most terrifying weapon.	„
	— Oracle, about the Archangels

Archangels are transcendent angels, being looked upon as Heaven's most fearsome wrath. They are among the first, earliest, and strongest class order of angel caste created by God, chief angels of higher rank with far greater power than any ordinary angel and among the highest angels in the celestial hierarchy. They are basically generals in God's army and are immensely powerful beings, as well as the highest-ranking celestials on Heaven's chain of command. Visually, Archangels appear with larger wings and stand more powerful than their normal kin. They were among the first angels to be created, after Oracle and the Seraphim, arguably making them some of God's first creations, older than Turok-Hans. Like Oracle and the Seraphim, Archangels were hard to make and are hard to revive, as they were formed from powerful primordial energies of creation which no longer exist after the physical plane and universe were created

After the creation of Oracle and the other Seraphim and the imprisonment of the Darkness, the Archangels were the first angels to be created, arguably making them some of God's first creations, older than Turok-Hans but the Seraphim predate them. They answer directly to God and serve as the leaders and generals of the Heavenly Host with dominion over all lower angels, as well as higher angels, such as the Powers and even the Cherubim. Archangels are one of the higher classes of angels that were granted human bodies of their own to distinguish them from their lower brethren and to better allow them to perform their duties on earth. As such they resemble humans in all ways but for their great strength and enormous feathery wings that unfurl from their upper backs. Chief angels, they have authority over all other angels and possess powers and responsibilities that lesser angels do not. There are seven Archangels and they were created in this order: Michael, Lucifer, Ariel, Uriel, Sariel, Raphael, and Gabriel. Michael is the mightiest and the most loyal archangel, Lucifer is the most prideful and avaricious, Ariel is the most compassionate and friendliest, Uriel was the most impatient and proudest, Sariel was the smartest and most political, Raphael is the most ruthless and imperious, while Gabriel is the most mischievous and deceptive.

After Lucifer's infamous rebellion and imprisonment as well as following Oracle's disappearance into exile, Gabriel went into hiding amongst the pagan gods and Ariel left to find Oracle, whilst Michael, Uriel, Sariel, and Raphael continued running Heaven with God and schemed to take over the Multiverse. The angel Metatron was also considered to be an Archangel by other Angels until he revealed that he is simply a Malakhim who was chosen to be the Scribe of God.

History

Creation

After creating His first creation, the Original Seraphim Angel Oracle, locking away the Darkness, and the failed experiment and death of the other seraphs, God and Aurora eventually created seven chief celestial angelic beings whom He christened Archangels — creating them in the following explicit order: Michael, Lucifer, Ariel, Uriel, Sariel, Raphael, and Gabriel. The archangels acted as siblings and distinctively met interacted with their father. After helping create Heaven, Michael personally raised his younger brother Lucifer as a parent would a child, and accordingly, Lucifer took care of Gabriel and showed him different tricks. Even after the creation of other angels, these seven were the only ones to have direct interaction with God, aside from several selected others.

Turok-Han War

Some point after their creation, the Archangels also not only helped in the fight against the Turok-Hans but they, along with Oracle, led the armies of Heaven to fight them when they went into war with God's first beasts. Eventually, when the Turok-Hans were hunted to the brink of extinction, what remained of them were locked away in Purgatory.

Creation of Man

Following the defeat and imprisonment of the Turok-Hans in Purgatory, God created mankind and then He asked that all His children, including the archangels, to kneel before and bow down to them. Although the other six archangels complied, Lucifer however refused and led a rebellion trying to overthrow God, driving him to be jealous of humanity. Therefore, Michael, on God's command, battled and defeated Lucifer and then banished his brother and other wicked angels out of Heaven and into Hell.

Oracle's Disappearance

Sometime later, after Lucifer's fall from Paradise, Oracle departed from Heaven and vanished into exile. The six remaining Archangels, according to Metatron, initially fell into despair, ferociously whined, cried, and wailed. They wanted their oldest brother back and they led armies of angels across all planes of existence in creation to find him, but over time, however, almost all of them began to give up.

For millions of years, Lucifer was imprisoned in Hell's depths, Ariel and Gabriel were among those few that didn't and they eventually skipped out of Heaven, with Ariel becoming human and Gabriel living amongst the humans and pagan deities under a false identity, but the four remaining archangels (Michael, Uriel, Sariel, and Raphael) remained in Heaven under the guise of being God's representatives, and decided it was their duty to rule Creation.

Whilst they wanted their brother back, over time, however, they began to shift their attention into ruling all of existence. Although immensely powerful themselves, to rule the Multiverse, they needed the Words of God. However, Metatron, the Scribe of God, predicted the archangels' decision and proceeded to leave Heaven to protect the tablets and himself.

Characteristics

“	Sidney: And these Archangels, their tied to prophets? Oracle: Yes. Mia: So if say a prophet just happened to be in the same room as a demon... Oracle: Then the most fearsome wrath of Heaven would rain down on that demon.	„
	— Oracle, Mia, and Sidney, about Archangels

According to Oracle, Archangels are known in Heaven as absolute, precise and wrathful creatures, as he has called them, "The most fearsome wrath of Heaven", known for their immense wrath, and are feared even by other angels. Like all other angels, their true forms are very massive, intense, and have proven not only harmful but also fatal to humans, though Oracle also claimed that some rare and special humans can see their true forms, even when the archangel is within a vessel. Most humans are incapable of surviving possession by an archangel and even those who can survive are left in a dilapidated state if not healed by angelic powers. Their presence on Earth outside a vessel is often visualized as a blinding, pure white light, and their arrival can cause minor tremors, as shown by Lucifer when the Chapel shook as he escaped the Cage, and by Raphael while intervening to protect the prophet Chuck Shurley from Lilith. Their true voice also emits a piercing sound, which has proven to be excruciatingly painful to human's ears -- as such, archangels never speak to humans without the use of a vessel. Archangels appear on Earth in massive, blinding flashes of white light which can cause massive fluctuations in temperature and even widespread blackouts. During a subsequent appearance, Raphael caused the entire Eastern Sea Board to experience a blackout and generated strong winds and heavy rainstorms. Shortly before his defeat, Lucifer's presence caused the temperature to drop drastically in Detroit.

It has been stated that Archangels are tethered to prophets. Raphael seemed to be the one who monitored and protected prophet Chuck Shurley. Before his fall, Lucifer was God's most beloved angel; he was considered beautiful and was well respected in Heaven.

Archangels view themselves as the highest authority over all of creation, and although some of them have little respect for human life, Ariel and Gabriel have both confessed their appreciation of humanity, even believing humans to be better than them. As leaders in Heaven, Michael, Uriel, Sariel, and Raphael commanded the Host of Heaven, issuing orders to the "Senior Management" who were responsible for deploying angels to Earth. They did share all their plans, especially their intention to not allow Lucifer to be freed and to avoid rebellion in the lower ranks.

Each Archangel holds a power called the Primordial Blessing, which God created and blessed the Archangels with. However, Michael, Ariel, and Lucifer do not have one as they were already so much more powerful than the younger Archangels.

God tells the Teams that, like the Seraphim, the Archangels are beings of primordial creation. As a result, it is extremely difficult, but not impossible, for even God Himself to resurrect them from the dead, unlike lesser angels. However, God states that recreating even one of the archangels would take time.

Powers and Abilities

As chief angels and among the highest order of angels, Archangels are among the highest type of celestial beings, possessing an immense amount of nigh-supreme powers and abilities (right next to the Seraphim and the Primordial Beings) that makes them among the oldest and most powerful beings in Creation. Even just five archangels together are powerful enough to weaken the Darkness, the second most powerful entity of all, albeit assisted by other extremely powerful beings. They possess the powers and abilities that are inherent in all angels, but to a much higher degree as they are endowed with superior angelic abilities, arguably the highest degree with their power just under that of God Himself and the Seraphim. The Archangels are held in extremely high esteem by angels, being looked upon as "fierce" and "absolute" in power and capability. Archangels have a vast supply of power and can create most things out of thin air. They can also overpower and destroy just about anything. Archangels are shown to be considerably more powerful than the Greater Demons. While at full power, Lucifer was greatly feared by Asmodeus and Dagon and even the youngest archangel, Gabriel, was more than a match for Asmodeus in combat and easily killed him. The powers of the archangels are incalculable, it is estimated that no archangel has yet used the full extent of their power in the history of all of Creation.

• Immortality: Archangels possess an infinitely long lifespan and even when manifested, they possess youthful bodies and don't age another day or die from the passing of time. Archangels aren't affected by time or disease and don't need to breathe, eat, or sleep to sustain themselves and are immune to disease and the effects of aging. Unless killed, archangels will live forever. They predate creation and the Multiverse itself, making them more than 10 billion years old.
  • Immunity: Archangels have immunity to that which affects lesser angels. Michael was not killed by holy fire as lesser angels are, and Lucifer is one of the five things in all creation that Rayne's blades and the colt cannot kill, though both can still inflict pain upon him for a time.
  • Invulnerability: The Archangels are next to indestructible and cannot be damaged, injured, or killed by anything that's at least not supernatural, unless it's an archangel blade, another archangel, a Seraph, a Seraphim Blade, Oracle, the Primordial Beings, or Death's Scythe. They cannot be killed by the Colt or Rayne's Blade, though both will cause them great pain, and are immune to most other forms of damage. Lot's Stone will also cause archangels pain. Largely, however, the only thing that can hurt an archangel is another archangel. Like the typical rule of more power affording more resilience, the most powerful of the Archangels are immune to weaknesses even their younger siblings are subjected to. Michael and Lucifer have both proven to be immune to Angel Blades as well as apparently, the "instant death powers that Oracle and even the Primordial Beings possess". Michael and Lucifer are also unable to be killed by Holy Fire and while they cannot track humans warded by Enochian, they can't contain Lucifer or Michael even if they are combined and strengthened with holy fire, as Michael effortlessly put out the Holy fire ring, despite it being amplified by the Church's enhancer and Lucifer was able to overcome both Holy fire and Angel Traps used by Satan to bind him.
  • Regeneration: If they are harmed in some way, Archangels can instantly heal from just about almost any non-fatal injuries and wounds instantly.
• Lower Tier Nigh-Omnipotence: As the first and highest order of angels (under the Seraphim), Archangels are endowed with a tremendously vast supply of almost incalculable power, right under that of Oracle and God Himself, that makes them one of the most powerful beings in all of creation. They can overpower anything, create almost anything out of thin air and nothingness, and accomplish almost anything they desire with only some exceptions. Only the Primordial Beings and the Seraphim can defeat them. A great display of their power is also the ability to, collectively and assisted by Aurora, Eve, Death, Oberon, Oracle, Eartheia, angels, demons, reapers, fairies, and witches, be able to stand up to and fatally injure The Darkness, but not enough for God to re-imprison her. Archangels rank and age in this specific order: Michael, Lucifer, Ariel, Uriel, Sariel, Raphael, Gabriel. As for the power line, the order is the same, but it appears that the difference in power between younger Archangels are minimal while Michael and Lucifer, the strongest and most powerful of all of the Archangels, are far more powerful than any of the younger Archangels and even considerably more powerful than Ariel, despite her being older and much more powerful than the younger ones. Michael, the strongest Archangel, is noted to be ultimately even more powerful than Lucifer and though their battle, when at full power, could devastate Earth. Michael would kill Lucifer ultimately, implying Michael's power are so great he could kill the other Archangels with his own power. Michael's surpassing power has proven to be highly true, as he easily overpowered Ariel and Gabriel as well as visibly overpowering and ultimately defeating Lucifer in their second fight, the first fight ended in victory. They are far older than the Multiverse itself. The true extent of an archangel's power is unknown.
  • Angelic Possession: Like many, if not, all other angels, even Archangels require vessels to manifest physically on Earth and can possess a human vessel in order to be able to function on Earth. With the awesome size and power of archangels, it is actually very necessary for them to do so. However, even archangels cannot possess a vessel without the permission of the vessel. But because they can manifest their own physical bodies to become corporal, they choose not to and don't necessarily need to. Archangels have no need for possession as God gave them their own bodies when they were created. Archangels are able to possess lower angels. Gabriel had refined his skills of possession to such an extent that he could possess higher angels as well. It should be noted that this is more of mind control than possession.
  • Highly Advanced Apporting: Archangels can summon angels to them and can banish them as well. They can also teleport people, objects and lesser angels to wherever they want.
  • Astral Projection: Archangels can display their wings, like any other angel. Additionally, Archangels are also capable of sending a copy of themselves into the world. Their true form can also be fully revealed, not just their wings if they desire. While the younger Archangels and even Ariel's true form could only kill humans if they hear or see it, the strongest of the Archangels' true divine form is so vastly powerful just by being in their presence would kill any being not powerful enough to withstand it.
  • Biokinesis: By snapping or clicking their fingers, Archangels can manipulate the bodies of lesser beings and obliterate a living being, literately making people of beings explode, by merely thinking of it and snapping their fingers, either to harm or to transfigure. Lucifer was able to cause a man to die of a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Highly Advanced Chronokinesis: Archangels have more power and control over time than lower angels. They can manipulate time and travel/send themselves and/or others backward and forward to different eras in history.
  • Conversion: Lucifer created most of the race of demons by twisting humans souls.
  • Cryokinesis: Archangels are able to create and manipulate ice using only their minds.
  • Deflection: Gabriel was able to effortlessly deflect an energy blast from Asmodeus, while Lucifer deflected a single energy blast from Michael with some effort. Michael effortlessly deflected blasts from Gabriel and even did the same to Oracle.
  • Demotion of Spheres: Archangels are able to demote Higher Angels to the lowest sphere, by saying a prayer of damnation before stabbing their body, which casts their spirit out.
  • Electrokinesis: Archangels can manifest electrical power and are able to control and manipulate, control, and generate electricity with such an intensity that they can cause coastal blackouts.
  • Electromagnetic Interference: Lucifer was able to cause the lights to flicker with his presence at the Elysian Fields Hotel.
  • Exorcism: With just a snap of his fingers, Lucifer was able to exorcise a demon back to Hell.
  • Healing: Archangels can cure and heal a human of any disease, wounds, or injuries they possess.
  • Highly Advanced Illumination Holy White Light: Archangels can produce and then unleashed a powerful, overwhelming, magnificent, divine white light glow from their hands which will burn anyone within its range and can obliterate entire buildings and destroy a number of beings in one place. Archangels can blast basically anything into oblivion with holy energy. Archangels have direct control over this light power that can also be controlled and concentrated from completely obliterating something to only severely damaging it, deciding how much it burns and whether or not it will kill its victims.
  • Molecular Combustion: Archangels have demonstrated the ability to explode, or implode humans, monsters, pagans, demons, and even other lower and middle angels into their component molecules with snaps of their fingers. Sidney describes it as popping a balloon full of chunky soup. Both Raphael and Lucifer have displayed this ability, each killing angels once with it and Lucifer used this power to kill humans, demons, and another angel who tried to attack him.
  • Power Granting: Archangels can grant protection or give powers to other beings, including demons, as shown when Raphael made Satan immune to a Cherub's angelic killing touch.
  • Highly Advanced Pyrokinesis: Archangels have the power to create, manipulate, control, and generate fire using only their minds. They can incinerate any other angel type, all demons, all fairies, alphas, all monsters, deities, and humans with a tap. Michael incinerated Anna, burning her from the inside out.
  • Highly Advanced Reality Warping: Archangels have among the greatest degree of reality-warping and their reality-warping powers make them virtually omnipotent. Like some Malakhim, Powers, and Cherubs, Archangels can alter and manipulate reality itself, albeit to a greater degree than virtually any other being or spell. Gabriel and Lucifer are the most adept at this, able to alter the entire universe for just one or two individuals. This ability is better demonstrated in the archangel Gabriel, who can create anything he wants out of thin air and can even put people in a TV universe. He learned this ability from Lucifer.
    • Highly Advanced Conjuration: Archangels can create anything out of thin air.
    • Self-Duplication: Gabriel was able to create multiple copies of himself.
  • Resurrection: Archangels can restore life to the deceased, resurrecting deceased individuals back to life.
  • Shapeshifting: Archangels can and are able to change their form/appearance at will, even within a vessel, as Lucifer did when he appeared to Rayne using Christina's visage. Gabriel also demonstrated this ability several times, in conjunction with his reality-warping abilities. It is unknown if this is true shapeshifting, an illusion, or a facet of their reality-altering ability. However, some rare others may be able to see an Archangels true form through the adopted visage.
    • Manifestation: Archangels can manifest human bodies for themselves.
  • Smiting: Like all other angels, Archangels are capable of smiting other beings, however, they have among the most powerful form of smiting. While super-charged, Lucifer attempted to smite Asmodeus but failed as the demon fled.
  • Soul Channeling/Soul Absorption: Lucifer was able to draw power from human souls.
  • Spell Breaking: Lucifer was able to break a witch's binding spell.
  • Spell Casting: Archangels can cast spells.
  • Supernatural Concealment: Archangels are able to hide from other beings, except Oracle and the Primordial Beings.
  • Cosmic Senses: Archangels are gifted with astronomically heightened senses which allows them to hear every breath, movement, and heartbeat. Gabriel was able to hear things from many floors up and between walls.
  • Super Speed: Lucifer was able to use super speed to pin a witch to a wall.
    • Super Reflexes: Raphael was able to catch an angel blade thrown at him from behind, all without turning around.
  • Super Stamina: No matter the task at hand, an Archangel will never tire. Archangels, even in their vessels, need nothing to sustain themselves or to maintain their strength, to strive, or operate, as they are self-sufficient. "Falling", or being banished doesn't affect their powers at all, whereas it causes normal angels to lose the ability to smite and heal. They are able to battle even the most powerful of beings without becoming tired.
  • Super Strength: As the first and most powerful angels (under the Seraphim), even within a vessel or in their manifested body, Archangels are the physically strongest of angels, next to the Oracle, and are endowed with astronomical physical strength greater than that of virtually any being, except the Seraphim and the Primordial Beings, and makes them even much physically stronger than humans, spirits, monsters, fairies, deities, demons, and even other lower and middle angels. Dominions and Malakhim are completely no match for an Archangel even in numbers, and Powers and even Cherubim are unable to pose any challenge to them unless they gain the upper hand or in large numbers, which even then, the Archangel would win with ease. Archangels can exert or apply extreme immense amounts of physical force to people, objects, and beings. They can overpower and kill anything, besides the Seraphim and the Primordial Beings. They are however strong enough to challenge the Seraphim and when together can defeat single one.
  • Highly Advanced Telekinesis: Archangels are among the most powerful telekinetics and can move just about anything, any object, matter, or being, with their minds, even at great range.
  • Highly Advanced Telepathy: Archangels can read, hear, feel, and sense the thoughts and minds of mortal humans, other angels, and monsters. Additionally, Archangels have such a special bond that they can read each other's thoughts and summon each other from across great distances. Their bond is so strong that Julian claimed it was stronger than a Dyad's, which is two beings literally becoming one and the same.
    • Dream Walking: Archangels are capable of entering and appearing in the dreams of sleeping mortals, and they usually use this ability to communicate when they can't find the person they're looking for, or when they want to talk privately.
    • Empathy: Archangels can read, feel, sense, and understand the emotions of other human mortals in their presence.
    • Memory Manipulation: Archangels can implant false memories, erase memories, fabricate memories, and restore memories in the minds of mortals.
    • Mental Projection: Archangels can communicate with humans by projecting images into their minds. Lucifer used this to communicate with his vessels to get a "yes" from them. Once his cage was damaged, Lucifer was able to use this power to communicate with Sidney Devereaux in the form of visions.
    • Pathokinesis: Lucifer was able to cause Sidney to feel calm.
    • Sedation: Archangels can cause other beings to sleep. Michael used this to put Christina Van Helsing to sleep.
    • Sensory Synchronization: Archangels can see and hear through the eyes of those who serve them.
  • Teleportation: Archangels can move, transverse, disappear, and reappear virtually anywhere instantly from place to place, even crossing between dimensions, across the entire universe that's not sigil-protected instantly.
  • Advanced Terrakinesis: Archangels can cause massively powerful, full-fledged earthquakes, regardless of whether they are in a vessel or not.
  • Thermokinesis: Archangels possess the power to alter the temperature of their surroundings. Lucifer's presence could cause a massive drop in temperature, and he could cause ice to form on a window just by breathing on it. He was also able to heat up a pair of Supernatural Handcuffs until they popped off of his wrist. He later melted a pair of the handcuffs. Michael was also to cause a doorknob to heat up drastically to prevent Adam from escaping.
  • Voice Mimicry: Archangels can duplicate the voice of any other being.
  • Advanced Weather Manipulation: Archangels have unlimited control over the weather and can create rain, thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and other weather effects. Practically every Archangel changes the weather upon their first emergence. The sheer presence of an archangel can and will drastically alter the weather in the surrounding regions, and they are capable of causing raging storms and generating strong air-currents, though archangels are also able to exert some intentional control over the weather.
  • Wings: Archangels can manifest their white wings from their upper backs.
    • Flight: Like all regular angels, Archangels have demonstrated flight, even though while not in a vessel. They possess a pair of large wings that provide them with natural flying capabilities.
    • Wing Blades: The feathers of their wings, if swung fast enough, can severe flesh and eviscerate their opponents.
    • Wing Shields: Their wings are impenetrable and provide shielding from gunfire. They can wrap themselves in their wings and move through a hail of bullets unharmed.
• Lower Tier Nigh-Omniscience: Being around for billions of years, the Archangels possess an almost unlimited amount of vast knowledge of the universe and awareness about many things. Even when Lucifer was trapped in the Cage, he had knowledge about what Sidney has been through.
  • Precognition: Archangels can see glimpses into the possible futures, although they cannot and do not always see all possible futures or the full picture; as Michael has apparently been "wrong", and neither Michael nor Lucifer nor Uriel foresaw their defeats.
  • Supernatural Perception: Archangels can sense and perceive supernatural beings and things, including species that are naturally invisible, such as Reapers or even the Horsemen. They are capable of seeing ghosts and other invisible creatures. Lucifer was able to casually look at Death's true form upon his release.
  • Temporal Awareness: Archangels are able to detect alterations in a timeline and as such are able to recognize time travelers on sight.

Skills and Talents

• Eidetic Memories: Archangels have photographic memories, which include the faces of every prophet who has existed or ever will exist etched into their memories. This ability also makes them aware of reality-warping and allows them to recognize when a timeline changes or has been altered.
• Skilled Fighters: As the highest angelic warriors of Heaven, Archangels are skilled warriors and trained fighters.
  • Trained Swordsmanship: As the highest angelic warriors of Heaven, Archangels are master swordsmen, skilled warriors, and trained fighters.

Weaknesses

Despite them being extremely powerful and even though they are the second-highest order of angels, the Archangels possess a few weaknesses which are common to all angels. Some of their weaknesses may not affect them in their true intense light form.

Harming, Misleading, Banishing, and Trapping

• Angel Banishing Sigil: An angel banishing sigil can be used to banish an archangel but Michael cannot be affected thanks to being God's representative and executioner.
• Lot's Stone: Lot's Stone can destroy their vessel.
• Enochian Sigil: Enochian sigils can block and/or conceal a persons and or beings location from being sensed by all angels, including even archangels. Enochian sigils were also used to keep Lucifer confined in his cage.
• Lucifer's Cage: Created by God Himself with the express purpose of containing Lucifer himself for all eternity, this cell is an immensely powerful prison for archangels and can hold any angel, therefore including archangels, without any internal means of escape.
• Magic: Powerful magic could have limited effects upon the younger Archangels, as Kali was able to bind Gabriel but could not do anything to Michael or Lucifer.
• Holy Oil: When burned, Archangels can be trapped in place in a loop of holy fire. When burning holy oil comes into direct contact with an archangel, it is immensely painful and, for a prolonged enough amount of time, could severely harm the younger archangels but not kill them. For Ariel, she is still greatly harmed by Holy Fire but it cannot kill her. Michael and Lucifer are also capable of surviving contact with it, but it is still very agonizing. However, while it could easily hold Raphael and Gabriel and apparently Uriel and Sariel, a Holy Fire Ring cannot hold Ariel forever and Michael and Lucifer can simply remove them in minutes.
• Turok-Hans: The Turok-Hans can harm archangels.
  • Turok-Han Bite: While a Turok-Han bite can't kill Archangels, it weakens them and causes hallucinations. The effects are temporary and only lasts for a few hours. 
• Heaven's Weapon Arsenal: Powerful weapons from Heaven could harm or potentially even kill an Archangel. All of Heaven's weapons acting together can kill Gabriel, Raphael, Sariel, and possibly Uriel. It is also capable of severely harming Ariel and even hurting Lucifer and Michael, as evidenced when Gabriel used a blast of fully focused Heaven's Weapons Energy to easily damage and send Michael flying through walls. 
• Angel Blades: Angel blades are able to slightly harm Archangels up to at least Uriel. However, an Angel blade is incapable of harming the likes of Michael and Lucifer, as Michael was unfazed when he was repeatedly shot by angel bullets and survived repeated stabbing to it in the chest.
• Hand of God: The power from a Hand of God is capable of knocking an Archangel down and prevents them to use their powers temporarily. 
• Mass Explosions: Mass explosions can cause harm to archangels to a degree. 
• Electricity: Archangels can be stunned and rendered unconscious by electric shock. 
• Higher Angels: Dozens of Higher angels combined can prove a threat to a single Archangel. Other Archangels are capable of harming each other greatly.

Destroying

• Archangel Blades: Even stronger than angel blades, Archangel blades are capable of harming and killing an archangel. All archangels wield such weapons. However, Michael is much more resilient to it, as only an Archangel Blade powered by Lucifer can kill him. Lucifer himself can only be killed by an Archangel Blade from Ariel. Additionally, it must be wielded by another archangel to work.
• Death's Scythe: Can kill anything.
• Michael: Michael, as the most powerful Archangel, is capable of easily overpowering and killing the younger Archangels and he is powerful enough that he does not need an Archangel Blade to kill another archangel.
• Original Angelic Blades: Being the most powerful angelic blades ever created and among the most powerful weapons in the universe carried by Oracle himself, these blades can harm and kill archangels.
• Severe Trauma: Severe trauma or injury, such as dismemberment, can kill archangels, but only if they are performed by another Archangel or a Seraphim.
• Seraphim: Even if it isn't Oracle, the Seraphim can overpower and kill archangels. Even Michael, Lucifer, and Ariel are shown to be inferior to the Seraphim, as Barachiel has taken Michael, Gabriel, and Ariel simultaneously and held her own quite well.
  • Seraphim Sword: The sword of the seraphim are capable of killing archangels. However, when stabbed by Oracle's Seraphim Sword, Lim 'E Light, it will eradicate the archangels out of existence entirely.
  • Oracle: Being the Original Angel and as their trainer and oldest brother, Oracle can overpower and kill any of the archangels with ease. Oracle has been shown to be capable of banishing Uriel, the middle archangel, by snapping his fingers and has killed Sariel, the third youngest archangel, by clicking his fingers and also render her powerless, showing Oracle can effortlessly kill the younger archangels. He was also able to overpower Ariel with minor effort and has defeated Michael and Lucifer in fights, showing even the elder archangels are no match for Oracle. However, given the fact Oracle haven't used his smiting ability or his molecular combustion, it's implied that the elder archangels are immune to it but are still noticeably inferior in raw power and skill.
• Death: As a primordial being and literally the bringer of death, Death is able to easily kill any being in creation, including the archangels.
• Eve: As a primordial being that embodies life itself, Eve can easily kill the archangels with ease.
• God: As a primordial being and the one who created the archangels, God can easily kill the archangels. God was also capable of easily rendering Lucifer powerless.
• Amara: Being the Darkness and as a primordial being that rivals, if not surpass, even God, Amara can easily kill, overpower, harm, and torture any of the archangels, shown when she effortlessly overpowered Lucifer and tortured him. However, combined and with the help of fairies, pagans, demons, witches, angels, Oracle, Aurora, Eve, Death, Oberon and Eartheia, they were able to fatally injure Amara in God's second war with her but even then, Amara, after overpowering and levitating God, easily knocked both Michael and Lucifer out.
• Lightbringer: This sword can kill Archangels but Michael is much more resilient to it, necessitating the sword to fully penetrate his heart to kill him.

Known Archangels

• Michael: The eldest of the archangels, Michael is the mightiest and most powerful Archangel under God's command, making him God's third oldest and mightiest Angel currently alive, next to Oracle and Eartheia. As a general in God's army, Michael commands the Holy Host of Heaven. During the rebellion, Michael cast Lucifer and his followers to Earth for their disobedience. And it was prophesied he would battle Lucifer in the final days of the Apocalypse, and he almost and theoretically won until Oracle intervened and defeated Lucifer. When God left, Michael wanted the Host of Heaven to bow down to him and take control of Heaven, and as Oracle declared Civil War, it is unknown if they ever took the pledge. However, even though Michael briefly killed Oracle and took the position of King of Heaven, as well as merged with the Angel and Demon Tablets with a spell, Oracle only pretended he was dead and in their second encounter, he defeated Michael and stripped him of his augmentations. Michael eventually gives up his war after learning of God's true will that Oracle serves as the new ruler and surrenders to the Original Angel. However, he was not killed or imprisoned, only demoted to being Oracle's fourth in command and now serves Oracle as God ordered. Even after Eartheia's return, Michael still holds his current position.

• Lucifer: The second oldest archangel, Lucifer was once God's most beloved, beautiful, and glorious angel and was also an extremely powerful force in God's heavenly alliance. He was the bringer of God's wrath and authority, the accuser and punisher of the wicked. Lucifer is among the most infamous of all angels. But when God created mankind and commanded His angels to bow down to and love them more than He, the jealous and prideful Lucifer refused and rebelled. Thus, he disobeyed and defied God and waged war against Him. He, along with the one-third of Heaven's angels under his command, fought against the Archangel Michael, but were defeated and cast down to Earth where Lucifer fell from grace. In his exile, Lucifer became known as The Devil or Satan and has since planned to tempt Mankind to sin and destruction. Thousands of years later, Lucifer was released from his cage and began the Apocalypse. He almost ended all of Creation until Oracle arrived and defeated him, re-imprisoning him back in the cage. However, when Amara was set free, Lucifer wanted to help stop her and was therefore set free to help. After God's war with Amara, Lucifer has officially been redeemed but is no longer member of the heavenly host and remains neutral to them, wanting as an on-off ally to Oracle. He has reconciled with his Archangel siblings, even Michael, although they are not as close as before but are much more cordial and civil compared to their previous hostile relationship. Lucifer has however made peace and fully reconciled his relationship with Oracle. But the other angels still dislike and most are even afraid of Lucifer, although some of them still work for him, as his eyes and ears in Heaven, and only tolerate him because of Oracle.

• Ariel: The third oldest archangel, Ariel is first and oldest female archangel, making her the second oldest female angel in creation currently alive, after Eartheia. Sometime after Oracle's disappearance, she also, however, fell to Earth and spent the next 2,000 years on Earth looking for him. But eventually, after reuniting with Oracle, she reclaimed her grace and became an archangel again. She is now currently in Heaven where she resides as Oracle's second-in-command. When Eartheia was revived, Ariel willingly welcomed her older and more powerful sister to the family, especially after Oracle chose Eartheia to be the new Trainer of the Holy Host.

• Uriel: The fourth born and middle child of the archangels. Uriel was below Michael and was noted as a Specialist by Oracle, known also as the Weaponizer of God. He was a considerably powerful archangel. However, after being discovered of working against Heaven, he was killed by Oracle after being revealed to be a Lucifer loyalist and wanting to start the Apocalypse.

• Sariel: The third youngest archangel and the youngest female archangel. Sariel was a celestial being of high ranking who existed in a part of Heaven that not many have been to. She could easily exert control to lower angels and even alter their memory. When it was revealed she was leader of the Order of Angiris and was working against Oracle, she was seemingly killed by Gabriel. However, it was later revealed she survived and has since been working with Oracle.

• Raphael: The second youngest archangel and God's strongest healer. Before Lucifer's banishment, Raphael was an executive angel and he watched over all the prophets. But once Lucifer fell, Raphael fell directly under Michael and served him as a dangerous foot soldier. When the Apocalypse ended, Raphael returned to Heaven with all the other angels and joined Michael during his crusade to restart the Apocalypse. After Michael's defeat at Oracle's hand, Raphael now serves under Oracle.

  

• Gabriel: The youngest of the archangels, Gabriel was God's greatest messenger. He, like Michael, was a general in God's army of angels. He was a high-executive in the establishment before he left Heaven and once he departed from Heaven, he masqueraded as The Trickster on Earth. In the aftermath of the Apocalypse, Gabriel returned to Heaven to be by Oracle's side during his civil war with Michael. After Oracle defeated Michael, Gabriel then became Oracle's third-in-command and currently resides in Heaven. Even after Eartheia's resurrection, Gabriel still keeps his position as Oracle's third in command.

Trivia

• In the Series, like in some religions and in lore, there are 7 archangels and they are the favorites of God.
• Michaelmas, also known as the Feast of Saint Michael, is a Christian festival observed on September 29, to honor the Archangels, specifically Michael, and sometimes Gabriel.
• The archangels are collectively one of the most dangerous and powerful creatures in the entire series. They also rank third in terms of dangerous and power as villains, second only to Amara first and the Seraphim second.
• After Season 6, it appears that all the Archangels, excluding Lucifer, as he remained trapped in the cage, had fallen under Oracle's command; however, in Season 8, Sariel was secretly working against him.
• Metatron was described as an Archangel in one of the Word of God tablets, but he revealed that he was simply an angel that was chosen to be a scribe.
• While it is unknown what an Angel Suppressing Sigil would do to an archangel, Sidney was able to use the angel banishing sigil against Ariel and later Lucifer successfully, showing that archangels can be affected by that sigil. However, Michael is an exception thanks to his status as God's Representative, which makes him immune to that of any Enochian Sigil apart from the concealing ones.
• Although Holy Fire can hold Archangels, they are not indefinite but it takes a long time, roughly half a month for the younger Archangels and 3 days for Ariel. However, Michael and Lucifer cannot be held for anymore than minutes.
• Lucifer's eyes are shown to glow reddish-orange. This implies that the color Archangels eyes would glow with the same color whereas the eyes of Oracle and some other angels glow bright blue. However, it is a trait is unique to Lucifer. It is possible that Lucifer appeared that way as he makes use of theatrics when talking with certain people to psychologically get under their skin, as well as him being the First of the Fallen Angels.
  • In Lucifer Morningstar, Lucifer's eyes often glow in this color, proving this is his natural eye color.
• Aside from the Seraphim, the Archangels are one of the only two creations of God confirmed to exist pre-Multiverse, and thus one of His only known primordial creations.