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==Choirs and Bands: Types of Angels and Demons==
Demons first, because it's easier, for a reason that will become clear shortly:

* Balseraphs, Hell's liars. Their innate powers are convincing people of things, regardless of whether they are true, by making it their own personal truth and then imposing that truth on others. Fallen Seraphim. 
* Djinn, Hell's stalkers. Apathetic by nature due to their aversion to wanting to care about anything, but with tendencies towards obsession since they still secretly want to be cared about- not like they'd ever admit it, b-b-b-baka! Fallen Cherubim. 
* Calabim, Hell's smashers. They produce an entropic field that makes everything around them fall apart, and they just love to break shit with it. Fallen Ofanim.
* Habbalah, Hell's emotional manipulators. Able to overwhelm people with an emotion of their choosing. Fallen Elohim. Also notable in that they think they are angels serving God's Will in Hell; everybody else including other demons considers them crazy for thinking this.
* Lilim, natural born dealers. Originate from Lilith, who works with Hell. Their innate powers are related to Geases: They do something for you, and you must now do something for them, backed up by hooks in your very soul. Refuse to fulfil your end of the deal, and you waste away and die unless you return the favor.
* Shedim, Hell's puppet masters. Your basic Possessing Demon but with a catch: they take a more subtle approach by pushing bad ideas to the host, who thinks the heinous shit the Shedite encourages them to do as a result is their own idea. Fallen Kyriotates.
* Impudites, Hell's charmers. Their supernatural power also allows them to drain Essence from people they've Charmed, which is their major advantage: an Impudite is never short of Essence. Fallen Mercurians.
* Skulkers, fallen Grigori. Purely theoretical, as regular Grigori are rare enough as it is. It doesn't help that their resonance would do even more to conceal their presence. 

Now, the Angels:

* Seraphim, Heaven's lie detectors. Can not only detect lies but also have a direct line to the capital-T Truth. A tendency to not understand when speaking the literal truth isn't a good idea means they're poorly suited in social situations. 
* Cherubim, Heaven's bodyguards. They can attune themselves to something and protect it with their lives. A tad overprotective, but they're the most dedicated friends you could ever have. 
* Ofanim, Heaven's speed freaks and messengers. Nobody's faster than they are, but their hyperactivity makes them tricky to keep up with. 
* Elohim, Heaven's therapists. Able to sense the emotions of others, but are required to keep a detached viewpoint themselves. 
* Malakim, Heaven's warriors. They can detect Honor, as defined by the person who committed the act, and are themselves bound by a strict set of oaths. Notably, they cannot Fall, and thus have no directly corresponding Band of Demons.
* Bright Lilim, redeemed versions of Hell's Lilim, and the reason we're listing the Bands and Choirs in this order. Very rare, and thus possess a tendency for [[Mary Sue]]-seeking players to abuse. See Lilim, but made more positive.
* Kyriotates, Heaven's body snatchers. Favor grabbing animals, which is their chief advantage over Shedim: They aren't restricted to humans, which most Shedim are, and completely overwrite the host's mind while in control. They also can possess more than one person/thing at a time naturally (the only demon that managed to do that was the Demon Prince Legion...and he went insane and had to be destroyed by Heaven and Hell working together before he annihilated everything). The most alien of the angels- expect pronoun trouble in the vein of "we am the Kyriotate in the pigeons, the old man, and the dog". 
* Mercurians, Heaven's diplomats. Able to detect the relationships between groups of people, and the best at relating to humans (apart from the Grigori).
* Grigori, formerly Heaven's eyes and ears. They were meant to live alongside humans to keep watch for demons, but after neglecting their duty in favor of siring the half-celestial hybrids known as the Nephilim they were all exiled from Heaven. Rarely heard from since, it's assumed that maybe 50 of them at most are still around.