Long ago, when the pyrpyramids were still young, humans for the first time encountered essential beings to their survival. As the legends say: Each human has a inhuman guardian whose only purpose is to guard that human from dark influences. These beings were first believed to only be angels with white wings, but it was proven that even black winged angels and demons could guard these mortal beings.
All together these beings bore the name of Guardians!
Guardians are beings without a real soul, but only an essence. They live in the Upper World, going down to Earth only when needed. Guardians could be born as such or powerful humans that the Angel Council considered would be good for their society. Every Guardian has a goal to meet, and once he/she does they have a choice: to become human and after a fair life leave for the Afterlife and eternal rest; stay a Guardian and join the Council if possible; or give the essence that creates them in order for it to mix with other essences and form new Guardians.
Angeles, the oldest group have guarded humans and served the Almighty Power Up There since the very beginning of all times. They were categorized into nine famous angel ranks.
The simple term angels refer to the lowest rank order of the angels, and the most recognized. They are the ones most concerned with the affairs of living things. Within the category of the angels, there are many different kinds, with different functions. The angels are sent as messengers to mankind.
Archangel means to be first in rank or power. This refers to the three greatest and most famous archangels - Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, with Michael as the Head Archangel and the leader of the Heavenly Armies. The Seven Archangels are said to be the guardian angels of nations and countries, and are concerned with the issues and events surrounding these, including politics, military matters, commerce and trade.
The Principalities or Rulers are the angels that guide and protect nations, or groups of peoples, and institutions such as the Church. The Principalities preside over the bands of angels and charge them with fulfilling the divine ministry. There are some who administer and some who assist. Their duty also is said to be to carry out the orders given to them by the upper sphere angels and bequeath blessings to the material world. Their task is to oversee groups of people. They are the educators and guardians of the realm of earth.
The Powers or Authorities are warrior angels and they oppose evil spirits, specially those that make use of the matter in the universe, so they don't do as much harm in the world as would otherwise, usually casting and chaining evil spirits to detention places. The primary duty of the "Powers" is to supervise the movements of the heavenly bodies in order to ensure that the cosmos remains in order.
Virtues or Strongholds are the ministries through which signs and miracles are made in the world.
Dominions or Lordships regulate the duties of lower angels. It is only with extreme rarity that the angelic lords make themselves physically known to humans. They are believed to look like divinely beautiful humans with a pair of feathered wings.
Thrones or Elders, are a class of celestial beings, and are living symbols of God's justice and authority, and have as one of their symbols the throne.
Cherubim have four faces: one of a man, an ox, a lion, and an eagle. They have four conjoined wings covered with eyes, a lion's body figure, and they have ox's feet. Cherubim guard the way to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden and the throne of Go. It is said that they strongly resemble one other type of angels.
Finally, the Seraphim are the highest angelic class and they serve as the caretakers of God's throne and continuously shout praises: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!" Seraphim are fiery six-winged beings. They are said to have special abilities in comparison to other angels. There were only seven of them, but a legend mentions a creature that exceeds their beauty and power.
There are other angel groups, such as the Amors and Seruvims - messengers of love, that only serve in protecting humans and their souls. In fact, almost none of the ranking angels ever even went to Earth! The two exceptions didn't make it back, but for two completely different reasons.
Black Angeles have almost the same categorization as Angels, only they do not have Seraphim and the Amors.
Demons, first believed to be evil, only got the chance to prove themselves when one demon stood up to the Angel Council about the matter. They have five unofficial categories and the only three that are really important are the Secubas, who have two pairs of leathery bat wings; the Shapeshifters, who are able to imitate everything except a Guardian's true form; and the White Demons, who have white bat wings instead of the usual black ones.
The ancient Angel Council consists of mostly Angels and they decide everything that's not of too great of importance for the Almighty Power that has created all that is. But even with all that power and influence in their possession, they cannot do as they please. The Council has been dissatisfied with the human race since the first sins committed and they have tried quite a good few times to convince the Almighty One to erase the race and start a new one. Since they had all the power, their opinion mattered.
Yet there was a single angel's vote they had to have on their side.
Legends say that one day, just a few years after the first humans left paradise, a strange Guardian was born. It was a beautiful girl with a lot of three-colored hair, a heart-shaped face, small nose and almond shaped eyes the color of untamed rubies. From her back sprang beautiful, pure white wings, six of them, but what surprised them all, even the Almighty One, ... Was her essence. She did not just have an essence that was as pure as the Holy light around all the angels, but she had just as pure a soul! The girl was soon favored by everyone, especially the Almighty Power Up There, and she was frozen in the innocent form of a six year old. It was, and still is, rumored that only she has ever seen the true form of the Almighty Power Up There, and so everyone in the Upper World knew that she was a priority.
The Almighty Power Up There is what every Guardian called The Creator of everything, since they didn't know if it was a he, or a she or maybe them. The only one that knew the real identity or identities was that one child Seraph.
As she didn't know anything about humans, since she was raised separately from the other Guardian children, the Council tried to get her to agree with them. They told her how the human race is always making mistakes, and most of the time repeating them, but it had the opposite effect. It got the child interested in humans and so she went to the only window to the human world. From there she saw the human race and immediately took a liking to them. She liked how silly they were and she loved the way they interacted with each other and other creatures they share the Earth with. When the Almighty One asked her for her opinion after he once saw her dreamily looking through the window, the Great Creator was even more reluctant to wipe out his first human world.
The Angel Council then took matters in their own hands. They sent one of the ancient magic books to the world, where an Egyptian High Priest and Prince found it and locked it away. Sorcerers from the almighty kingdom on the river Nile tried to decipher the spells and when they needed it the most during war, they succeeded. Following the ancient spell's instructions, the High Priest tricked his brother, the Pharaoh, into slaughtering an entire village of thieves in order to create the seven Millennium Items.
The Items made Egypt unstoppable, but they had another use. Those Items were never to touch the Earth, so when the Almighty One found out, he allowed the Angel Council to punish the humans for their supposed transgressions. The Council said that the Items were cursed should something like that happen, and all they now need was the Almighty One's approval for activation of the curse that would wipe out the sinners.
What they didn't know was that the young child had seen them giving the Millennium Book to the humans and she accused them as such. Since she only had her testimony as proof, she couldn't really do much although the Almighty Power Up There was already regretting the approval he gave of such harsh actions.
Not wanting the interesting race to vanish, the Seraph girl was getting ready to leave for the human world without even knowing what it was like when she saw him. A tall human boy of five years of age with brown hair, tanned skin and the most beautiful blue eyes she had ever seen. Not even knowing who the boy was, she decided that she wanted to be close to him and she dived to Earth.
The entire Upper World had been frantic in their search for the unique child until someone spotted her soul and essence forming a human infant in the queen of Egypt's body, becoming the future heir and the Light of Hope.
The Council tried everything to stop the queen from giving birth to the Seraph child and the queen ended up dying during labour, but the child was born. The people easily took a liking to the exotic child that looked almost nothing like her parents and they supported her through her entire life. The boy she has seen before diving for Earth ended up being her Earthly cousin and he was the first beside the doctors to hold her. He was also the one to name his little cousin and he proclaimed himself as the authority for the Princess of Egypt.
However, even as the Almighty Power Up There was happy that the child was safe, he finally understood what had happened with the Millennium Book and he had took away some of the Council's power. But the creature sealed away with the power of the Millennium Items was still going to awake and destroy all of humanity and maybe more. And there was nothing that could be done as the Dark One was indestructible.
The Seraph child eventually turned out to be a beautiful sixteen year old girl that was just as innocent and pure as she was when the Guardians first found her. Much of that was thanks to the boy that named her and they have grown up together, the best friends and greatest rivals. They were there for each other always and they together came to rule all of Egypt, the girl as the rightful Pharaoh and the boy as her High Priest.
Afew months after the Seraph's coronation as Pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt, the young ruler gave her life away so she could seal the darkness away! By that time, those closest to her knew of her real essence and identity as a Guardian. They had witnessed her absorb the whole Dark One and as her corporal form faded away they saw that on each of her pure white wings a single feather became black, marking her as the Dirty Angel. The SSeraph became famous and for two centuries every being knew of her sacrifice even as the Earthly name she bore was forgotten by time itself. In her time, a new group of Guardians formed. They are called the Ancient Ones. They are humans with such ppowerful souls that even after officially becoming Guardians their souls still survived. The souls bbecame buried deep in the new essence and stays dormant until the Guardian finally decides to leave for the Afterlife. With her, there were four other Ancient Ones. One other angel was created tnen and we all encounter it at the end of our life.
In her time also came the first official Guardianship where a single Guardian becomes a single human's protector and partner. There are temporary Guardians and those that stay with one human for the entirety of his/hers life.
After the 'death' of the Seraph that got the nickname Legendary Seraphim, the Angel Council took it upon themselves to get all Guardians to see the human race as meaningless creatures that sin. They took over the training and learning facilities for young children Guardians and started reteaching them. In doing so, they distanced Guardians from their charges and soon the magnificence of the first Guardianship was forgotten. . Guardians sneered at men and women alike, many got guardianship duties over problematic human beings just so they would be punished for this or that.
And there was the Council's favourite punishment: a boy with brown hair and most beautiful, deep blue eyes that was named Seto.
