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Angels in general

Those of the First Kingdom. They combat the legions of Hell.

Always Lawful Good: The angels in the series are supposed to be the representation of light and goodness in the Balance Between Good and Evil. But as the trope name implies, they are intensely dedicated to upholding their people's laws, sometimes at the cost of doing the right thing. In fact, doing so is seen as heroic, though they're not above being being noble for the sake of it.
Bilingual Bonus: A lot of their terminology is comprised of Latin words ("nex sacramentum" and "Codex Bellum"), but all of the angels themselves either have Hebrew, French ^note, or made up names, making it rather inconsistent with the aforementioned Latin.
Council of Angels: Subverted; while it appears there's an angel hierarchy, the Creator is the one who sired them.
Creative Sterility: Implied by Fury's Watcher. When arriving at the museum where Avarice is located, she theorizes that part of the reason that angels are jealous of humanity is because of their art skills.
Fantastic Racism: Towards demons and anyone/anything associated with them. Having been in a war with them since the birth of their race doesn't help in the slightest.
Fantastic Slur: "Pigeons" in Darksiders and "birds" in Darksiders III.
The Fettered: There are some methods they refuse to use, such as necromancy, setting them apart from demons.
Heaven: As how angels are usually depicted, they are the scions of Heaven, also called The First Kingdom.
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Angels of great power and/or considered to be of high authority don't seem to wear helmets in battle. Examples include Uriel, Abaddon, Azrael^note, Nathaniel, Usiel, and the Archon^noteHe wears a hood, but it still counts. In fact, in The Abomination Vault, War is able to figure out who the leader of an angel garrison protecting a gate to the White City is before he announces himself not only for carrying a different weapon than the grunts, but also the fact he's not wearing a helmet.
Holier Than Thou: A bit of an issue with some of them. They tend to view themselves as wholly righteous, and in The Abomination Vault, several of them grumble about having to walk on the ground "like lesser races" rather than fly through the sky to their destination.
I Have Many Names: According to "The Lost Soul" side quest in Darksiders II, the "elder" angels ^note actually take on more than one name such as Abaddon, who is also called "Vovin".
Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Downplayed. Heaven understands the value of non-combatants and rely on them, but that doesn't stop the soldiers from looking down on them.
Knight Templar: Probably due to their set of laws that apparently are so strict, that non-angels, no matter how wise, cannot understand them.
Our Angels Are Different: In contrast to other fictional examples, the angels of Darksiders are a technologically advanced race with futuristic armor and energy-based weapons. Despite this, they still use magic whenever it's necessary.
Prophet Eyes: A seemingly common physical trait.
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Further shown in that their law book is called the "Codex Bellum" ^note"War Book" or "Book of War" in Latin.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When they're beaten by the demons in the End War, they retreat to Heaven except for Hellguard, the angels led by Uriel who continue to fight on Earth to avenge Abaddon. Because of this, the Hellguard are barred from re-entering Heaven.
Straw Vulcan: In The Abomination Vault, it turns out that the angels' idea of a "hero" is someone who obeys the laws of their people and follows the instruction of their superiors, as opposed to someone who just does the right thing.
Azrael: But we are angels. We are warriors. Mind, law, discipline... these are our heroic ideals. For us, a soldier worthy of respect tends to his or her duties, obeys the scriptures of the Codex. Emotions, satisfaction of one's desires — these must come second.
Sufficiently Advanced Alien: See Our Angels Are Different.
Warrior Monk: Most (if not, all) angels seem to worship the Creator, as they constantly allude to him. Bonus points as they are a warrior race.
Winged Humanoid: As is common with most interpretations.

Abaddon

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Voiced by: Troy Baker (Darksiders, Darksiders: Genesis), Jason Spisak (Darksiders III)

The former leader of the Hellguard, the archangel Abaddon was dedicated to exterminating the forces of Hell. Unfortunately, he wound up as one of the first major casualties of the End War. Or so it seems...

A Father to His Men: Back before the apocalypse, Abaddon greatly valued the lives of those under his command. His soldiers in turn worshiped him.
- In The Abomination Vault, when War speculates that Abaddon might have interest in the Grand Abominations due to the Big Bad of the story being an angel and that the former was constructing a Weapon of Mass Destruction that could only harm demons (which the Council ordered destroyed by War's hand), Azrael immediately defends his friend, saying that even if he did have interest, he wouldn't be willing to sacrifice any of those under his command to reach a certain goal.
- Genesis has Abaddon thank the Horsemen for saving his soldiers from the demons infesting Eden (if a bit reluctantly).
- The plot of the Death's Door comic series kicks off because a vindictive Abaddon asks for Death's help in hunting down the demon that killed several of his best warriors.
- Averted in Darksiders when he becomes the Destroyer and kills his former brethren without a second thought.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being beaten by War, Abaddon begs Uriel to aid him. Uriel, having completely lost her faith in him, does nothing.
Ambiguous Situation: It's revealed later on in the first game that after becoming the Destroyer, Abaddon convinced Azrael to take him to the Tree of Knowledge. It has been confirmed that he did in fact receive a gift from the tree, but it's never revealed what it is, as Azrael told War that it was "not for [Azrael] to know".
Back from the Dead: As the Destroyer (see Deal with the Devil).
Big Bad: After his death in the opening of Darksiders, he takes on the mantle of the Destroyer and starts leading Hell's forces on the ruined Earth.
Bishōnen Line: His dragon form as the Destroyer, while fast, is mostly a warm-up for the much harder fight when he shifts in his Fallen Angel form, where outside of his attacks being a lot harder to dodge due to the smaller arena, he'll cancel out Chaos Form if it's ever used.
BFS: His Fallen Angel form carries one that's longer than he is tall, pretty significant as he towers over War.
Body Horror: How he lost his eye. In The Abomination Vault, a construct wielding a Nephilim sword called Affliction, which, true to its name, inflicts poison and causes any wounds its victims receive from it to rot, took his eye. Even Heaven's best medicines couldn't restore it and were only able to prevent the rot from spreading.
Broken Angel: War pulls off his wings before stabbing him with the Armageddon Blade.
Broken Pedestal: As the Destroyer he seems to view the Creator as this. He's also this to Uriel, Nathaniel, and Azrael when they realize he's the Destroyer.
Came Back Wrong: Came back as a demon, not much more WRONG than that.
The Cameo: The Destroyer makes a brief appearance in dragon form at the end of Darksiders III, commanding the attack on the stronghold of Haven to wipe out mankind for good.
Deal with the Devil: Abaddon agreed to become the Destroyer out of fear of the punishment that would befall on him for attempting to trigger the End War prematurely. He later tries the same offer with War during the final battle:
Abaddon: Would you serve in Heaven or rule in Hell?
War: I choose what once a coward did not.
Dirty Coward: War clearly considers him such, especially since unlike his co-conspirators Azrael and Ulthane (who both regret their role in starting the Apocalypse and chose to aid War in fixing things despite knowing they'll likely die as penance), Abaddon chose to abandon Heaven and become a Fallen Angel to escape punishment.
Dragons Are Demonic: As the Destroyer, he is a Fallen Angel who has transformed into a dragon whose skin looks like it's made of magma.
Dragon-in-Chief: Despite being the Big Bad of the first game, the Destroyer is under orders from another, but his superior never makes an appearance. Bonus points for being a literal dragon.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Abaddon was implied to have loved Uriel as mentioned when he's the Destroyer (see quote below), whom she had loved in return. It's implied that he still had affections for her despite becoming the Destroyer.
Abaddon: She loved him. And I believe he loved her.
Evil Is Bigger: As an angel, he's human sized. His fallen angel form, however, is as tall as a Maker.
Evil Plan: Abaddon planned on breaking six of the Seven Seals (except for the seventh to prevent the Horsemen from interfering and to truly prevent the End War from happening), then having them reforged to cover his tracks. With Hell's generals summoned to gather by the breaking of the seals, the Hellguard would then launch a decapitation strike and mop up the leaderless demon hordes before anything cataclysmic could happen. When the Council inevitably investigated and found the seals intact, it would look like Hell had broken the treaty while Heaven tried to stop them, causing the Council's wrath to fall upon Hell and automatically giving victory to Heaven. Unfortunately for Abaddon, the forces of Hell were already set to go to war. Neither Kingdom gathered to declare battle rights: Hell simply erupted out guns blazing and ready to fight, so instead of Heaven getting a sneak attack against Hell, the latter did this against the former. Worse, not only was Abaddon killed in battle, but he was dragged into Hell where an entity (confirmed by the credits sequence to be Lilith) stated he would have nowhere left to run once Heaven and the Council (the latter of whom already knew about his plan) got their hands on him, driving him fully into the arms of Hell and turning him into the Destroyer. Great work, Abaddon.
- At the same time, it's somewhat subverted: humanity's destruction wasn't planned — in fact, he was trying to avoid an actual war — but thanks to how catastrophically his plan failed, it ended up happening anyway.
The Extremist Was Right: Despite his controversial plan, it turns out that Abaddon and his co-conspirators were right about Hell being responsible for much of the conflict in the story. Unfortunately for everyone, Hell also anticipated his plan and used it to their advantage to make things even worse.
Eye Scream: How Abaddon loses his eye in The Abomination Vault is... not pretty. While in the battle to protect Eden from the Big Bad's minions, one of them was wielding a Nephilim weapon called Affliction, which it used to take out Abbadon's eye. But it gets worse from there. Heaven is said to have advanced medicine, so regrowing a body part wouldn't have been much of an issue, but Abaddon's wounds immediately started rotting and poisoning him. As such, the healers were unable to replace his lost eye and were only able to stop the spread, giving him an eyepatch instead.
Eyepatch of Power: Has a fancy golden one embedded in his missing right eye.
Fantastic Racism: As applied to most, if not, all angels, Abaddon has a huuuuge hatred for demons. But let's just say he's a little more passionate about it than others. To the point he was willing to develop a Weapon of Mass Destruction that would only kill demons when set off, and kicked off the premature Endwar over the objections of most of Heaven's other generals to try and crush the Dark Kingdom once and for all.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: He received at least some of the scars on his face roughly around the same time he lost his eye during the events of The Abomination Vault, and back then they marked him as a tough, grizzled warrior who was uncompromising in his hatred of demons and Heaven's enemies but still fighting the good fight. Then he goes evil and the scars are still there to show how villainous he's become.
The Heavy: The whole events of the first game happen because of his plan to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hell, and War being set to take the for fall sets off Death's quest in the second game.
I Have Many Names: He's known variously as Abaddon, Vovin, The Destroyer, and is called the demonic word for "Lord" at least once.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: War kills him by impaling him through the back with the Armageddon Blade.
I Was Quite a Looker: His brief appearances in Darksiders Genesis show that before he lost his eye and got his scars, Abaddon was actually quite handsome.
Katanas Are Just Better: Technically, it's a Sephiroth-esque O-dachi. How appropriate following The Reveal.
Leave No Survivors: During his cameo appearance at the end of Darksiders III, he orders his demon minions to exterminate every last human in Haven to put an end to mankind for good.
The Destroyer: CHARGE! Let the armies of Hell eliminate ALL that is human! Once and for all, we will raze this planet!
Light Is Not Good: After becoming the Destroyer. Both his forms still retain a lot of his former light, but he's also the Big Bad and leader of the demonic forces.
The Lost Lenore:
- A male example. He's this to Uriel in Darksiders until she learns he's the Destroyer.
- In Genesis after Astarte is killed, Abaddon tells War and Strife that "[she] was more than a soldier to [him]", implying that there was more to their relationship than mere comradery. However, he doesn't elaborate further.
Meaningful Name:
- His name in Hebrew literally means Destroyer.
- Darksiders II also reveals his second name - "Vovin," literally "Dragon" in the angelic language, which is one of the forms Abaddon takes as the Destroyer.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Both of his forms as the Destroyer can only be damaged by the Armageddon Blade. Even in The Abomination Vault, he's the only person aside from Death able to endure a strike from Affliction without dying. The narration even notes a lesser angel would have lost his life, not simply his eye.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: Was the leader of the Hellguard. But as the Destroyer, he was put in charge of the demons that conquered Earth.
Redemption Rejection: When War finally encounters The Destroyer face-to-face, he seems legitimately sad and regretful as he holds an unconscious Uriel in his hand while reminiscing on their shared love from long ago. However, he then invokes That Man Is Dead and gives War a We Can Rule Together speech, making it clear that unlike the truly-repentant Azrael and Ulthane any regret Abaddon has for his role in starting Armageddon has long since been snuffed out and he would rather run from responsibility that face judgement for his role. When War rejects him by calling him a coward, Abaddon angrily tosses Uriel aside and begins the final battle.
Sword Beam: One of his main attacks in his fallen angel form.
That Man Is Dead: How he speaks of himself as the Destroyer, saying that his old self foolishly chose duty above all and died for it.
This Cannot Be!: Says this when he sees War in the battle of the End War, believing it could not be possible for the Horsemen to be summoned since he did not destroy the Seventh Seal.
Two Aliases, One Character: A sidequest in Darksiders II has an archangel seeking the fate of an unnamed Hellguard angel, who is revealed to have defected to Hell and bears the name "Vovin." The conclusion of the quest reveals "Vovin"'s true identity — Abaddon.
Unwitting Pawn:
- To Lilith and Hell overall. They were ready and actively wanted an excuse to kick off the Endwar, which he unwittingly gave to them.
- To a lesser extent, the Charred Council. They knew about Abaddon's intentions and could have acted even without proof, but they ultimately allowed it to go through because it got rid of humanity for them and they could just clean up the mess afterwards.
Walking Spoiler: It's a bit hard to talk about him without mentioning the fact that he becomes the Destroyer and Big Bad of the first game.
World's Best Warrior: The Abomination Vault describes Abaddon as the greatest warrior Heaven has ever produced, and most certainly the strongest alive.

Azrael

Voiced by: Keith Szarabajka

The Archangel of Death and overseer of the Well of Souls, Azrael is found by War imprisoned inside the Black Throne.

Archangel Azrael: Azrael is the Archangel of Death. He isn't however very involved with overseeing death or ushering souls, largely because that overlap with the thematic focus of Death, the second game's protagonist, and is instead a scholar and the protector of important places such as the Well of Souls.
The Archmage: Illusions? Check. Serpent Holes? Check. Being able to "hide away" entire realms? Check. Spells that can nuke demons? Check.
The Atoner: He greatly regrets his part in starting the Apocalypse and would willingly accept whatever punishment he would receive.
Badass Bookworm: In The Abomination Vault. Although he's technically a scholar and freely professing he's no warrior, he's seen a lot more combat than most of his people and even partakes in a battle or two in the novel. Said partaking involves nuking demons.
Beware the Nice Ones: One of the most benign figures in the setting, one of the worst to get on the bad side of.
Big Bad Friend: Abaddon as the Destroyer is this to him.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: When the Watcher urges War to kill him after Azrael opens the way for them to reach Straga's inner sanctum, Azrael points out that Straga's death will cause the tower they're in to collapse, and without him, they'll be trapped. War states that they still need him to the Watcher and the matter is closed.
Cultured Badass: He's a well-respected scholar by profession, but he's also a powerful mage.
Deadpan Snarker: In the book, he actually sasses Death of all people twice in the same chapter.
Azrael: [observing Dust] Interesting.
Death: Not really. Crows make poor conversationalists.
Azrael: A good thing you've never had any interest in conversation then.
[later]
Azrael: [on the Constructs that attacked the angels] ...Constructs usually mean a Maker but—
Death: But plenty of others have been hired, purchased, or even usurped mastery of constructs before. Meaning that, for all your deliberations and all the soldiers you lost, you have nothing of any substance.
Azrael: Your tact, as always, is overwhelmingly appreciated.
Foil: To Samael in the first game. Both assist War on his quest and are powerful magic users, but Azrael is an archangel and a benevolent person helping War to atone for his actions, while Samael is a ruthless and manipulative demon prince helping War for his own reasons.
Honor Before Reason: Aids the horseman War in his quest despite knowing full well he himself could very likely be killed for his transgressions, because it's the right thing to do.
Master of Illusion: A powerful and skilled user of them, able to hide a devastated forest and the angelic soldiers inside as being pristine and empty, fake a Fantastic Nuke attack (in order to hide that he can fire a real one if he wants for maximum damage efficiency), and disguise himself as others, including demons. Even Death praises his power and skill internally.
Meaningful Name: In Hebrew, his name means “help of God”. Guess what his role is in the first game?
My God, What Have I Done?: When the preemptive strike went horribly wrong and the Third Kingdom wound up slaughtered in the premature End War as he feared, he didn't take it well at all. When Abaddon showed up alive after seemingly perishing in the battle and asked to be taken to the Tree of Knowledge, he was so desperate to believe that things would turn out alright he didn't question it and did so. That didn't work out either.
My Greatest Failure: Helping Abaddon. Considering this lead to the destruction of the Third Kingdom, the extermination of mankind and the decimation of much of Heaven's forces, it's easier to see why he believes he deserves death.
Old Friend: Abaddon specifically addresses him as this while discussing the plan to break six of the seven seals early and ambush the leaders of Hell.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: Is a high-ranking official in Heaven (as well as a well-respected one) and knows his way around a battlefield despite not being a warrior.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Besides his role in the first game helping War, Azrael proves himself to be this during The Abomination Vault. He is in charge of the angel allies that Death and War fight alongside, making sure that their alliance remains stable throughout the Abomination Crisis. Furthermore, he outright admits without hesitation that even he believes that Heaven's laws can be too restrictive. He even sympathizes with Hadrimon and Raciel's story, though not enough to stop him from opposing their campaign to release the Grand Abominations.
Redemption Equals Death: Played with. In helping War he's knowingly adhering to this trope but whether War will kill him for his crimes is still up in the air, especially given what he learns about Abaddon and especially the Council.
Sealed Good in a Can: For most of the first game.
The Stoic: From receiving the brunt of Death's sarcasm to putting up with the Watcher, Azrael manages to keep his cool, expressing irritation at worst.
Uncertain Doom: After aiding War one last time in sending him to the final confrontation with the Destroyer, his fate is left ambiguous what with his role in the whole prematurely starting the Apocalypse, but War leaves it ultimately up in the air if he'll follow through on killing Azrael due to learning of the Council's own hand in the events.
Welcome to Corneria: While War is trying to free him from the Black Throne, Azrael will repeat certain lines every couple of seconds. It has since reached meme status.
The beams... redirect the beams.
One last beam, and I'll be free...
Well-Intentioned Extremist: His part in the starting the End War ahead of time marks him as this. While he initially had reservations about Abaddon's plan, he truly believed that he was helping the universe by confronting the spreading threat of Hell's influence, and was convinced that Abaddon's plan would swiftly end the war effectively before it started without harming humanity or Earth.

Uriel

Voiced by: Moon Bloodgood (Darksiders), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Darksiders II)

Abaddon's second-in-command who bore an implied one-sided crush towards him, Uriel commands what remains of the Hellguard stranded on Earth after Heaven closed its gates following their loss in the End War. Blaming War for Abaddon's death, she has spent a century searching for the Horseman with the intent of bringing vengeance upon him.

Uriel reappears in Darksiders II, aiding Death during the time he explores the devastated Earth for the rod of Arafel.

Action Girl: A notable departure from her biblical counterpart, who is described either as male or asexual.
Angelic Beauty: In a stern, scary sort of way.
Archangel Uriel: A female version thereof.
Broken Pedestal: When she learns the truth about Abaddon.
Determinator: Revealed in the second game, she and the rest of the Hellguard were stuck on Earth for the hundred years War was dead thanks the Charred Council cutting most the paths into Earth off, and she still refuse to give up despite the fight being hopeless until War showed up.
Duel to the Death: Challenges War to "Nex Sacramentum", a sacred death oath. Although she loses, War declares her death will be at a time and place of his choosing. Subverted after Abaddon dies when Uriel kills War by completing the death oath; double-subverted as War planned this to happen from his vision by the Tree of Knowledge.
Gender-Blender Name: Uriel is normally a name given to males, but this Uriel is a woman.
Heel–Face Turn: She was already a Hero Antagonist, but after War reveals to her who really started the Apocalypse, she joins him in taking Abbadon down.
Hero Antagonist: To War, for most of the game, since she blames him for the early start of the Apocalypse and Abbadon's death.
Heroic BSoD: She suffers a brief one when War reveals to her that Abaddon is the Destroyer.
Knight in Sour Armor: Her official bio in The Art of Darksiders state that Abaddon's death, being unable to re-enter Heaven, and spending a century fighting an uphill battle have made her understandably bitter. However, she still strives to do the right thing.
Knight Templar: A bit of a problem for angels in general; she can't let her grudge against War go despite him fighting against the Destroyer's armies, even challenging him to a Duel to the Death she has little chance of winning over it. She gets over it.
Made of Iron: In the second game, she gets punched through a stone statue by a Suffering and is able to get back up and into the fight in short order when Death arrives to provide an unintentional reprieve.
Meaningful Name: In Hebrew, Uriel means "God is my light". Like all angels, Uriel fights with light-based attacks.
Plucky Girl: Was this in The Abomination Vault when she was shown as a new recruit. She was willing to face down War while wielding a sword nearly as big as Chaoseater despite having heard his slaughter of her fellow angels outside the room and herself being barely out of adolescence. It managed to impress even War.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: She doesn't kill Abaddon herself, but when War is about to kill him, she tells the Destroyer, "Reap what you have sewn, Betrayer."
Rank Scales with Asskicking: She spent a century battling endless waves of demons, with no hope of escape, and she's still kicking. Also, she managed to keep a sizable portion of the Hellguard alive and continuing to battle Hells forces.
Revenge Before Reason: Averted. Despite her grudge against War, she doesn't extend that to Death when she encounters him on Earth during his search for the Rod of Arafel and though she clearly doesn't believe it also doesn't angrily refute Death when he professes to War's innocence. Then there's the fact she ultimately aids War in stopping the true threat in the Destroyer/Abaddon and helps him against his treacherous Watcher.
Shock and Awe: If you look closely, a couple of her attacks to have electricity crackling.
Subordinate Excuse: Implied towards Abbadon.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: In a marked contrast to the blank white Prophet Eyes that most other angels have.
Undying Loyalty: So loyal to Abaddon that she would follow him into Hell. Subverted when she finds out that Abaddon is the Destroyer. Once the archangel is at War's mercy, he begs Uriel to save him; she doesn't.
Worthy Opponent: To War. He explicitly states the the reason he didn't kill her after he beat her was because he thought she was the last honourable angel, and he didn't want the last of Heaven's honour to disappear.
- Futureshadowing: In The Abomination Vault, which portrays her in her early Hellguard days, War, having quickly taken a shine to her, actually states that he would be willing to fight her for real once she had more experience... after knocking her unconscious.
You Are a Credit to Your Race: To Death. She says he is honorable, which few nephilim are. To be fair, she isn't quite wrong, from what you hear of the majority of them.
- Also gets this from War, when he refused to kill her due to "not wanting the last of Heaven's honor" to die with her.

Archon Lucien

The Archon Lucien

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Voiced by: Robin Atkin Downes

A powerful archangel of the Crystal Spire, the Archon employs Death to stop an unknown corruption that is spreading within the angelic outpost of Lostlight.

Casting a Shadow: Thanks to The Corruption.
Evil Sounds Raspy: After his Corruption is revealed, his voice takes on more raspy edge that makes him sound like he's gargling on the sludgy shadows.
Fallen Angel: The Archon has succumbed to The Corruption and aided the Destroyer/Abaddon by opening the Well of Souls to allow his demon army to feast on them. When Death confronts him upon learning the truth, the Corruption finally reveals itself in full to surround his body, and when Death cuts off one pair of his feathered wings, he grows sickly black Corrupted ones to replace them.
Glowing Eyes: One of the few features visible under his hood.
Go Mad from the Revelation: Implied — Jamaerah the Scribe says that the Archon looking into Lostlight's pool of visions "rent his mind" and sent him on a rampage. It's not entirely clear what he saw, though.
Good Wings, Evil Wings: Subverted, then played straight. After Death cuts off his top pair of white angel wings, typically Good Wings, he grows black and yellow wings of Corruption, decidedly Evil Wings.
- Dem Bones: His new wings seem to be made of bone (in the form of bat wings, rather than his avian ones), with Corruption wrapped around them to form the flesh.
Holier Than Thou: A lot of what he says can be read like this. Ironically enough, that's the Corruption talking. He repeatedly refers to himself as the only "pure" being left in Lostlight (ignoring Nathaniel) while deriding the first angel to fall to Corruption as "weak of mind, given to doubts" which either is him realizing on some level that he's a hypocrite or just throwing an extra level onto his deception of Death.
I Did What I Had to Do: His justification for driving everyone in the Ivory Citadel insane and keeping the Angel Key away from Death, though this is all just because of his Corruption.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is impaled by Death before falling to his doom.
In the Hood: Instead of going with or without a helmet like most angel characters we've seen so far, Lucien wears a hood.
Jerkass: Its made pretty clear that he wouldn't give Death the time of day if it weren't for the Horseman being able to assist him. Jamaerah implies he was always like this; when Lucien was infected by corruption, the change in personality was so minute that Jamaerah and the rest couldn't tell the difference until it was too late.
Knight Templar: An outright insane variety.
Large Ham: Especially when Death starts fighting him.
Light 'em Up: When teleporting and not much else.
Light Is Not Good: He's fallen prey to The Corruption, making a danger to everyone around him. Though the effects have visually made him into...
- Dark Is Evil: When the visual signs of The Corruption appear he takes on a darkened appearance and uses Dark attacks despite his proclamations of using Light.
Manipulative Bastard: Under the guise of helpfulness he strings Death along to recover the Rod of Arafel from Earth and sends him to the Ivory Citadel with a mount, both times expecting Death to meet his end along the way, and, when Death learns the truth of Lucien's betrayal of his fellows, uses the Rod to attack and try to kill Death himself. He even goes so far as indirectly insulting himself to throw Death off by referring to the first angel to fall as "weak of mind, given to doubts" while professing his own purity.
Meaningful Name: Lucien is the French form of the Latin name Lucianus, which is derived from the other Latin name, Lucius, meaning "light". Lucien's skin is literally glowing a bright light.
Mind over Matter: Displays some skill with telekinesis when he levitates and tries to throw a part of the battle arena at Death at the climax of their battle, though this may be due to the Rod of Arafel. Not that it helps him when Death cleaves through it and him.
Our Archons Are Different: A single example, an a Holier Than Thou Jerkass to boot. Though Uriel mentions an Archon Hestus who was one of the leaders of the Hellguard against the Destroyer's forces and seems to think highly of him, so Lucien's arrogance is probably his alone.
Power Glows: His head inside of his hood is glowing yellow with holy light. It turns into dark and twisted light when he decides to fight Death.
Seers: Uses a pool in his tower to see into the future. Jamaerah states that their use was to be forbidden, and that a vision he saw within began his descent into madness and Corruption.
The Reveal: The Archon is also corrupted; in fact, it was he who had opened the Well of Souls, allowing the Destroyer to fuel his armies with countless souls. It was also he who caused the death and destruction in the Ivory Citadel.
Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without mentioning that he's not just a Holier Than Thou jerk, he's corrupted and is deliberately waylaying you.

Nathaniel

Voiced by: Jamieson Price

An angel formerly of the Hellguard who guards the Archon and the Crystal Spire. He acts as a merchant for the Lostlight area.

Big Bad Friend: See Old Friend.
Bodyguarding a Badass: The Archon doesn't really need the protection that Nathaniel gives, as the fight against him shows.
Broken Pedestal: Abaddon becomes this to him once it's revealed not only did he not pass on but he became the Destroyer.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a few prominent scars on his face, no doubt from countless battles against demons. He's also a genuinely upstanding angel.
Heroes Prefer Swords: He uses a large golden blade in combat, and he's an un-Corrupted and heroic angelic warrior.
I Owe You My Life: Death actually saved him during the battle to defend Eden from the Nephilim, in the backstory, though Nathaniel admits he's not surprised Death doesn't remember him.
Light Is Good: The last un-Corrupted angel of the Crystal Spire.
Meaningful Name: Nathaniel means "God has given" in Hebrew. This Nathaniel is the merchant for Lostlight.
Reasonable Authority Figure: The "reasonable" part being he seems to be the only angel that doesn't greet Death with disdain or grudging respect. The "authority" part being that angels without helmets seem to hold some sort of leader position in the military.
Oh, My Gods!: "By Abbadon's eye", but close enough.
Old Friend: To an angel named "Vovin" (the angelic word for "dragon"). Turns out this is another name for Abaddon.
Only Sane Man: Is literally the only uncorrupted angel in Lostlight. Including the Archon.

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