Saraphim - The Most Holy

These serpentine beings know truth from lies, and must never speak falsehoods.

Cherubim - The Guardians

These are literally guardian angels, who cannot let their attuned charges come to harm.

Ofanim - The Wheels of Fire

Creatures of motion; they know where they need to go, and how to get there most quickly. To stop moving is unthinkable.

Elohim - The Powers

These shining, androgynous angels are agents of balance. They put aside their own subjective whims, and percieve the emotions of others.

Malakim - The Virtues

They see the honor of others, and are bound by oaths of their own. These black-feathered angels were created to defend Heaven's honor during the Fall, and cannot Fall themselves.

Kyriotates - The Dominions

These angels possess living mortals to interact with the corporeal realm. But though their appearance is horrific, they must protect their hosts above anything else.

Mercurians - The Friends of Man

Appear as winged humans with golden halos. They understand the web of human friendships, and love humanity so much that they cannot lift their hands against any mortal, no matter how far from the light.

Grigori - The Watchers

An outcast choir. They loved humanity too much, bearing and siring children among the mortals, and were exiled from Heaven. None speak their name.

The various Choirs have their own ways of dealing with life, and Earth in particular...Even such trivial actions as getting a soda can illustrate their natures, in the abstract.

Confronted with a soda machine, a Saraph would disdainfully ask another angel to handle the matter for him.

Confronted with a soda machine, a Cherub would wait to watch someone else use it, then find some way to get money, buy a cola, and give it to someone he thought needed a drink.

Confronted with a soda machine, an Ofinite would rip the door off its hinges, grab as many drinks as possible, and spiral out into the night before drawing any more attention. (And that's before the caffeine high.)

Confronted with a soda machine, an Elohite would understand that it was merely an extention of a giant marketing machine, designed to manipulate its customers into purchasing colas whether they were desired or not. If it seemed unimportant to the Symphony that the machine remain there, he would take it home to disassemble, that he might fully analyze its simplicity of design and complexity of purpose.

Malakim find no redeeming qualities in carbonated beverages.

Confronted with a soda machine, a Kyriotate would pull out his two quarters and...hey, this guy's got some neat stuff in his pockets!

Confronted with a soda machine, a Mercurian would put two quarters in the slot and punch the button for the drink he wanted.

A Grigori would sneak up to see what was causing all the disturbance, then wait for all the other angels to leave before getting a soda for himself.

Demonic Bands

Balsaraphs - The Liars

They live in their own worlds, where every truth is what they say it is; when they want, they can force their internal truths on you, and make you believe them.

Djinn - The Stalkers

These demons can trail their attuned victim for days. They cannot physically harm a target...unless the poor fool asks them to do something to him.

Calabim - The Destroyers

Fallen Ofanim, these bat-winged, horned demons focus motion outside of themselves, manifesting as destructive entropy.

Habbalah - The Punishers

Claim, one and all, that they are angels who still serve God. They inflict intense emotions on others to "discover" the weaklings unworthy of Heaven.

Lilim - The Tempters

The dauters of Lilith. They can see into people's hearts and see their deepest desires-and will fill them, for a price.

Shedim - The Corruptors

Possess humans, whispering vile thoughts into their minds, convincing them to damn themselves.

Impudites - The Charmers

Love humanity, and make friends with the mortals they meet, but they steal human energy, and human luck.

Balseraphs have chauffeurs-or at least convince3 someone else to drive.

Djinn randomly pick another car to tailgate for hours. They don't care what their own cars are like.

Calabim drive like their in a demolition derby-in a stolen car.

Habbalah tailgate, cut in front, honk frequently, and try to goad other drivers into racing with them. Then they run the other guy off the road and laugh.

Lilim are very polite drivers, always letting other people cut in front or take the best parking spots. But they take down licence plate numbers of everyone they've done a favor for...

Shedim start by tempting their hosts to park in hadicapped spaces while they dash into the convenience store, and progress to "Look, crossing the street, one of THEM! Run him down!"

Impudites drive flashy sports cars, with 12 attractive passengers crammed into the back seat.