Well, my first non-hello post, so I hope you like this one. This is my version of the beginnings of the Angels and their history, typed in a frenzy of inspiration after noticing people thought of them as allies of the old ones, and then having a few thoughts. So without further ado, I present to you:

The History of the Angels

In the elder days, many thousands of years before men and orcs, the Old Ones first came to this land through their mighty portal. Though small in number, their power was beyond imagining, and in the great library at Nirvana, the names of the greatest are written in ink of molten gold on pages of finest silk, their exploits reverentially detailed in every way. Harashamé, who first created the Slann to serve the old ones, Gelial, who spent his every waking hour crafting the great magical maps of how the worlds should be altered to fit the Old Ones vision. Halaalogin, who opened the gate of the Old Ones. Yet the most revered of these creators, his name and tale kept in the tallest tower of the ninth level of the great library, as high as the top of the Celestial throne itself, is Seraphaal, great warrior of the Old Ones.
Seraphaal was the Old Ones greatest champion. Whenever great resistance was encountered, it was Seraphaal who fought and defeated them. He was the great protector of the Old Ones and their work.
When the Old Ones made ready to leave this world, Seraphaal was the last. All the other Old Ones and many of their servants passed through. Yet as Seraphaal was about to pass through the portal, something went wrong. None know truly what happened then, whether chaos corrupted the portal, whether another of the Old Ones broke it, whether a third party reached into the fabric of the gate and twisted it out of reality. Whatever happened, chaos took control and the pure energy of chaos spilled forth. The winds of magic, ten thousand times stronger than they are now, burst from the corrupted portal, carrying with them countless tonnes of pure warpstone powder. A thousand greater daemons and an uncharted horde of lesser daemons burst forth, determined to ravage this world in the name of their dark gods. Yet Seraphaal was the greatest warrior of the Old Ones, with the power to warp worlds at his fingertips. With his warriors he met the oncoming storm. The winds exhausted their power battering against a magical shield forged from the heart of a dying star. Warpstone combusted when it came near him. His sword, carved from a single pure white diamond and enchanted with magic beyond belief, cleaved three greater daemons in half with each stroke. Through his actions was the true, first Storm of Chaos blunted. Because of Seraphaal the winds of magic cannot warp the world, as was their power in that old time. Daemons cannot appear anywhere on the earth, and choking clouds of warpstone do not cover the globe.
Yet Seraphaal could not stand forever against the tide, and eventually he fell. The chaos army, despite being able to ravage the lands of the lizardmen, was a mere fraction of its former size due to his efforts, but his power was not quite limitless, and finally he succumbed. Yet he was an Old One, and they were far more than any mortal. He was the first to die in the history of the universe, and when he fell, his body exploded into thousands of gleaming fragments. Where they touched the ground, the angels formed from these fragments. The angels fought back the daemonic tide once more, but their power was not of their master, and eventually they retreated to their far off isle where they began to rebuild their strength. Over the millennia they have rebuilt their forces, and despite being small in number, they fight with the power of the Old Ones and they fury of the greatest warrior ever known, and no foe can stand before their holy onslaught.



Please, tell me what you think! All names are mutable (although I like calling the City of the Angels Nirvana) as are the details, so give it a go.

I love it! This is fantastic. This is pretty much exactly wha tI feel the angels are. Bravo.
---Baran

nice story i love it its a greazt way and with this story of their creation i can re fluff my character.

This comes from the creator's mouth, who first breathed life into Angelic Beings.

I love it.

Great work. That hits the nail absoloutely on the head. BRILIANT! That is army book material. It explains everything anyone would want to know at any time.

Congrats, your first non hello post is EXCELLENT.

More fluff. More. If you wish, check the original fluff for the Great War and see how you could alter it to fit this story.

Welcome aboard Seraphim!

It's very very very good.
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Back on topic:
Hmmm. I love the concept. The names need work, but still, excelent. I don't think the angels should retreat immedietly, how ever. I've invisioned them as being caught in a civil war that severly depletes them. Mainly I like this because it gives us an origin of the Dark Angel, and of Daemon Kin.
Still, very very good. I love it. I've got plenty of ideas for adding on...

Well thanks for all the comments, I'm glad you liked it. Well I've read the story of the angels in the archives and I think that we could put the two together, as well as not have the angels retreat, and a civil war. For example, instead of "The angels fought back the daemonic tide once more, but their power was not of their master, and eventually they retreated to their far off isle where they began to rebuild their strength", we could expand on this, e.g:

When the angels were formed, the daemonic advance crumbled. Depleted by the power of Seraphaal, then faced with an army of new warriors, the Daemonic legions fell back to the gate of the Old Ones, and for many years, peace reigned. The angels build their great city of Nirvana, with its towering spires and shining walls, as a home for their people. Yet they knew this one city would not be enough of a buffer. So they spent great effort building a line of great stone monoliths along the border to the northern wastes. Each of these monolith housed a group of angels who could defend it if need be. Yet its true power was not physical. As the heart of each monolith with a shard of Seraphaal's great sword, enchanted with powerful daemon-repelling magics maintained by the angels. In this way, they created a barrier through which daemons could not pass. Victory seemed to have been won.
Yet the powers of chaos are the most insidious and manipulative of foes. When Seraphaal shattered, some of the shards landed within the daemonic ranks and picked up a small taint of corruption. Some angels who died picked up a taint as they returned. From this small taint grew a secret sect of angels, the dark angels. These insidious traitors were servents of the chaos gods, holding dark rituals within carefully warded chambers. Every day, their numbers grew.
Finally, they revealed themselves. almost a third of the angelic population had been corrupted, and they had the element of surprise. Some bound themselves to a daemon, forming a hideous symbiosis of dark and light that caused even the hearts of the angels to quail. War erupted in the streets of Nirvana. With the angels and their magical defences thus weakened, the daemons attacked. They smashed through the barrier of monoliths into the world beyond, the start of the great war with the lizardmen. Daemons swarmed into the city of Nirvana. Many ancient and beautifully crafted buildings and countless records were destroyed. Hope seemed lost. Yet the Celestial throne still stood defiant. Sephiroth, greatest of angels, led the defence. In him the power of Seraphaal flowed, and none could stand before him. Wielding a blade make from a shard of the god's sword, he advanced on the daemons. Inch by inch the servants of chaos were pushed back, yet Sephiroth knew that the angels could not hold out forever. As the daemons pushed back once again, he knew what he had to do. Taking his sword, he strode to the top of the Celestial throne and stood upon its seat. Calling all his power into his blade, he reactivated the monoliths. The daemons vanished, the energy of the monoliths banishing them back to the realm of chaos. Yet it was a hollow victory. Great legions of daemons had got past and waged a great war against the lizardmen in which the weakened angels could do nothing. Yet that was not their greatest loss. Sephiroth had sacrificed himself to save the angels, and banished himself as deeply as one could go. Without his energies the monoliths dimmed once more, their powers still active but weakened, and although it would take milennia for chaos to recover, it would take longer for the angels. The dark angels and their allies fled Nirvana after the daemons were destroyed, and their fate remains unknown. Meanwhile, the angels maintain their vigil over the north. The Spirit of Sephiroth is stirring in the angelic void, and the angels prepare for war.


Well I've tried to include everything I missed. I elaborated on the monoliths idea and made it so the angels didn't just crumble, they flourished for a while before being brought low by the actions of the dark angels, so I got the civil war in there as well. If you can think of any other changes/comments that would be great. An army book needs plenty of backstory and fluff, so the longer and better-written this is the better :)

Wow, yet again very very good.

One problem, the Isle that the angels are *supposed* to be on are actually on the South side of the world. Actually the Southern Wastes have a greater focus of Daemon Energy, and is closer to Lustira, so we should set it there i think.

I think they are kind of the defenders of the south, and possibly the reason no incursions ever come from there.

Very, very good again. Keep it up.

North, south, no problem, they can be wherever you want them to be, just replace all mentions of the word north with south and you'll be fine :) . I think it works better with them south anyway, as if they were north they'd have to be way off the the west or east, otherwise someone would have found them sooner. Plus, as woodpecker and grand said, this also gives a reason why there are no chaos incursions from the south as well.

P.S, I'm tinkering with a magic lore for angels at the moment, hopefully you'll see my paltry efforts at this soon!

WOW. GOOD. JOB. AMAZING. This is truly quite good. I can't wait to here what the magic lore is.
---Baran

i like it cept for the part with the dark angels other than that it's a good explenation of how we won the war agenst the demons

I love it, I like writing but I am not excellent at it. This is pure good reading. I think it explains a lot. I love what you have done. There is already a magic lore but if it is as good as your writing I am sure we could work something out.

I love it, it's great. But... do you mind if I take your work and try to write it a bit more elegantly- Just to make it sound more like the ancient battles and whatnot- I just think I could find some better words you may have passed up.

Oh ya, I also have to say I do not want our head angel to be Sephiroth. I have an encyclopedia of angels in which I can find a better name for our head angel, but Sephiroth can't be it. I'm sorry, I just don't want to use the villian from Final Fantasy 7- too cliche and will only make people think of that Sephiroth.

Meh, the reason i first used Spehrioth in the original fluff was that e was a one winged angels.

And where on earth do you get a dictonary of angels?

Compliments of my girlfriend...

She's the best! Beats the rest!

sorry... ummm, anyways, ya, it's a dicitonary of Angels from all religions, and alot of cult stuff. It's 383 pages long, and each page is about the size of a normal piece of printer paper, soooo, it has alot of names. If I can find it on Amazon, I'll throw a link up here- it's reallly great inspiration.

sounds interesting, if you find a link to where to get one post it here because I might look into it.

Hmm, that is just really scary...

Anyway. More fluff!

What else do we really need to cover? We have there creation, we have a first meeting (which needs re-writing still) we could do a description of there cities?

i got a world map of the warhammer world right here
http://siegetower.com/warmaster/oldworldmap.html
also pandamonium is a city carvesd into a mountan made entirely from black sone with towers and a tremensedly lage spire which oversees all his land in it are many blacksmithsand traning faclitys with a grand library which houses the most historical events ever dating bace sence the time of the old ones and recordings of every major battle ever

Intresting map, i have a more detailed one up on my wall though. You can see the tower of stars, but where is Pandemonium actually meant to be?

pandemonium is on the angel's main island where that is i don't know but it would be in the mountanus regons of the area where few travel

Ehum. Why the heck is it called Pandamonium? You do know what that means, don't you? I mean, calling the city "Chaotic" would be about the same as that...

aa so thats what it means the only definition I could find was that it's a city of deamons
i chose it because i liked the word

-EDIT- found a def: a situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion because people are excited, angry or frightened
named it that now cause thats what a battles like