Suriel

Andrej Pejic as Suriel

GENERAL Name: Suriel Birthdate: Creation's beginning Faction: {$team} Codename: Suriel Position: Itinerant Musician and Physician, Fallen Archangel of Death and Healing Hometown: Heaven FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: 6'0 Father: God Weight: Slender Mother: God Hair Color: White-gold Siblings: Lucifer, Michael, Raphael, etc. Eye Color: Silver-blue Children: NA

Background

Heaven

Once described as a beautiful youth with wings of ruby, Suriel, as the Angel of healing, wisdom, and death, served loyally for aeons in Heaven, ushering souls to Heaven and Hell, teaching humanity about health and hygiene, and opting to stay out of conflicts that caused other angels to Fall from grace. While he didn't treat fallen angels cruelly or with disdain, he didn't fully understand why they would rebel. He saw Hell as a necessary evil, a place for lost souls to eventually redeem themselves.

Earth

World War II changed that. So many soldiers and civilians died of so many horrific injuries, for such a pointless cause, that he was overloaded with work, and his function would not allow him to set things right.

He chose to leave Heaven and Fell to earth, not out of spite, but to try to minister directly to humanity (particularly those on the fringes of society, including veterans), and to inspire peace. The Vietnam war has deeply tested his resolve, but he perseveres, choosing hope, rather than cynicism.

Historical Information

Suriel

Etymology, Aramaic: 'Prince of God', 'God's Command'.

Alternate Names: Sariel, Suriyel, Seriel, Sauriel, Surya, Saraqael, Saryell, Sarakiel, Suruel, Surufel, Suryal, Sourial, Arazyal and Asaradel.

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Confirmed Sightings:

In Kabbalistic lore, he is one of seven angels of the earth, and also named as the one who retrieved the soul of Moses from Mt. Sinai. A Prince of the Presence, he had dominion over the skies and the zodiac sign of Aries. Agrippa assigns him to Taurus, however.

Origen identified Suriel as one of seven angels who are primordial powers.

Talmud: Taught humanity hygiene.

Falasha Anthology: Named 'Suriel the Trumpeter' and 'Suriel the Angel of Death', he is said to have been Moses' instructor.

Enoch: One of the four great archangels. Lifted Enoch to Heaven. Taught humanity the lunar calendar.

Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan: Brought Adam and Eve to the Cave of Treasures.

The Ladder of Jacob: Dispatched by the Lord to Jacob to explain to him the meaning of the dream about the ladder.

War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness: One of the four leaders of the forces of good.

Neofiti Targum: In charge of dreams and their interpretation.

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Mistaken Identity: Lucifer (as a beautiful youth), Metatron (as a fellow Prince of the Presence), Raphael (for his healing), Uriel (as another psychopomp) and Razael (for also being a teacher of men). Also said to have been one of the Nephilim, but his continuing angelic duties preclude this.

* (This is a resource for those who ICly want to do research on him, based on RL sources.)

IC Events

Traits

Powers

• Angelic traits: No need to eat/sleep except when worn out; immune to disease. Omniglot: As a former guide for the human dead, he can speak and read any human language.
• Soothing Song: He can target people by vocal emanation to heal. This usually means a song, but could also reflect prayer or inspirational talk. His healing can affect emotional trauma directly as long as the person can hear him. He can accelerate natural healing abilities, but he cannot bring someone back from the dead. Injuries heal at up to four times their natural rate.
• Level Headed: Powers that would make Suriel suffer extreme emotions have blunted effects. A power that would cause him to become incandescently angry instead makes him merely mad. Cannot get drunk, can only get a mild buzz.
• Choirboy: He can play any stringed instrument (guitar, violin, bass, etc) and has, well, the voice of an angel.
• Flight: He's an angel, and thus can manifest his wings and fly, up to 200 mph.
• Speaker to the Dead: Suriel, as a former psychopomp, ferried the souls of the recently dead to Heaven or Hell. He doesn't do that anymore, but he can still perceive ghosts and similar entities, and communicate with them.

Skills

• Medicine: He is very skilled at First Aid, Field Medicine, and surgery. He knows how the human body works, and knows how to take it apart and put it back again. He works as a back-alley doctor for the disadvantaged, working with shelters to treat their residents at no cost.
• Counseling: He also provides counseling on a formal and informal basis at various shelters and on the street, using both religious and secular techniques to try to provide comfort to the troubled, and to turn the disaffected from negative courses of action.
• Music: An accomplished musician, he can play stringed instruments in many musical styles, historical and modern. A virtuoso, he could have a solid career as a rock star, but he chooses to instead play the role of a wandering folk musician, using it as an opportunity to connect with fans and the general public on a more intimate level, particularly if it helps his work.
• Singing: Likewise, he has the voice of an angel. Beautiful and soothing, it best conveys messages of peace and love.

Advantages

• Underground fanbase: he's got at least a few fans in every town he visits, who'll put him up/hook him up with minor stuff/directions/street level info/etc.
• Historian: Having interacted with humanity for the whole of its existence, his perspective tends toward the long view. This may make him sometimes slow to react; conversely, he may be very decisive where others hesitate. His perspective is very much not just in the moment.

Flaws

• Fallen: As a fallen angel, Suriel is a potential target for anything Infernal in nature. Angels who still serve God may well feel contempt for him as well.
• Wounded Heart: Any damage that Suriel inflicts upon another living being, except in defense, is inflicted upon him.5
• Hail Mary: If he takes /serious/ damage, he can unconsciously pull on his energy pool to try to heal himself. This is a finite resource. The more he pulls to heal, the more mortal shifted he is, and he can still die.
• Tarnished Wings: No longer pristine, his wings, once glorious gold, are now pale, their ends tattered and stained red with the blood of those whom he's failed to save.

Gallery

Logs

▼ Show logs

1965-06-22 - My Dad has more Political Swing... (log: dead-girl lorraine-reilly social suriel)

1965-02-08 - Pie, Hushpuppies, and Fisticuffs (log: book-of-raziel elmo jp lucifer michael plot severin sunspot suriel vitale x-ternals)

1965-02-07 - Queen of New York (log: able elektra kaleb plot power suriel tchalla)

1965-01-30 - Maybe Use Less Windex (log: reno social strange suriel)

1965-01-25 - A Case For Syrupy Condolences (log: lucifer rosemarie social suriel)

1965-01-16 - Death and Baklava (log: kai reno social suriel)

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