Gadreel

"When they say my name perhaps I will be remembered, not as the one who let the serpent in but as one of the few who helped give Heaven a second chance."

- Gadreel to Carl Black.

Gadreel is one of the chief fallen angel cadres of the Grigori. He was originally the first angel to guard Eden from any unwelcome guests before Uriel.

Overview
Gadreel is listed as one of the chief leaders of the Grigori. This is depicted in the second section of the Book of Enoch; Parables. Being one of the corrupt Watchers, he is said to have been responsible for teaching man warfare. This contradicts the first section of Enoch, which claims that Azazel was responsible for doing this.

Gadreel was mentioned as the third of Five Satans who led other Angels into copulating with humans, leading to the creation of the giant-like Nephilim. The others were called Yeqon (or Yaqum, Aramaic "he shall rise"), Asbeel ("deserter from God"), Penemue ("the inside"), and Tamiel ("covered hand").

Appearance
Like all cadres, Gadreel possesses twelve black wings, with the wingspan of approximately 7-feet.

Gadreel's human form appears as an adolescent youth with "ageless beauty" akin to that of marble Greek statues. He has short bright-blond hair, with strands of gold mixed in. His eyes constantly changing their color by mainly stays either blue or red.

He wears a black collared-shirt with cuffs and black trim, buttoned over his neck, and hold in place by a silver rune. Over the black shirt, he wears a grey military jacket with black trim and decorated button. He has a thick belt encircling his waist, and he wears two smaller belts over his posterior and front. He wears black pants with black boots, with their soles, toe, and heels being white. He also wears gray silk gloves.

Personality
Gadreel possesses indomitable willpower, absolute loyalty to Satanael and refusal to give up even under seemingly insurmountable odds (most notably when he faced a fully-powered Lucifer).

Due to Lucifer's actions causing Gadreel to lose his duty as guardian of the Garden of Eden, Gadreel loathes the Morning Star and everything he represents.

Powers and Abilities
Even as the weakest Cadre of the Grigori, Gadreel is still a very powerful Fallen Angel, able to fight armies of both angels and demons on his own. He was able to even survive a world-destroying blast by Merkabah, a far more powerful foe.
 * Angelic Physiology: As a Fallen Angel, he still has all the power of an Angel. He is quite powerful, possibly due to his advanced age. He was able to kill groups of angels without much trouble.
 * Superhuman Physicality: He has high levels of superhuman strength, stamina, reflexes & durability. Even when weakened, weaker demons was still frightened of him. He was even able to overpower some of Abaddon's soldiers all by himself without difficulty.
 * Immortality: As an Angel, even as a fallen, he was still immune to age & illness.
 * Regeneration: He also has a healing factor, which can heal not only him, but even his physical vessel. He was using his healing factor to restore Carl Black from the inside, when his healing powers could not.
 * Healing: He was able to restore a entire school-worth of children back to life, with all their injuries healed. He is able to heal thousands to millions of entities without costing that much of his energy.
 * Smiting: He was able to smite a hunter to death.
 * Telekinesis: He was able to toss dean around & even pinned him to a wall with this power.
 * Telepathy: He can read people's minds & even listen into the "angel radio".
 * White Light: Like all Angels, he was able to emit a White Light, which not only displayed his wings, but also annihilated three of demonic soldiers instantly.
 * Supernatural Senses: He can hear people's prayers, as he did with Carl Black. He was even able to locate a warded Castiel by locating the Reaper she was speaking to.


 * Spell Casting: Gadreel was able to cast the spell that activated the Horn of Gabriel.


 * Combatant: He is a highly skilled combatant, being able to use his powers, weapons & combat skills to full effect.


 * Pain Tolerance: He has claimed to have survived relentless torture in Hell and that he can go on many years with relentless torture.

Original Guardian
Gadreel was the angel, a Power, that originally guarded the Garden of Eden before Uriel from hostile forces, until Lucifer managed to trick Gadreel into letting Samael (or either Nachash or Lilith) in.

Gadreel was stationed by the Northern gate and was unaware of Lucifer, Samael, Lilith, or Tanin'iver's presence. Lucifer conjured several stars, threw them across Gadreel's line of view and commanded them to dash around him like hyperactive fireflies, briefly disorienting the angel. Following this, Lilith commanded her steed, Tanin'iver, to lunge towards Gadreel and subdue the angel by the throat, preventing him from alerting the other angelic gate guardians. This gave Samael and Lilith the opportunity to sneak into the Garden of Eden undetected by Gadreel and the rest of the angels. Tanin'iver, however, was wounded by Gadreel during the scuffle who drove the beast away.

Gadreel's brief defeat by Tanin'iver causing his silence to alert the other angels earned him the title of the Silent Sentinel. This ruptured the Garden's stability, triggering a series of events that caused the Fall of Man. As punishment for his failure, Gadreel was kicked out from the Garden of Eden with Uriel taking Gadreel's place as the guardian of Eden. Due to his failure for preventing the Adversary from entering the Garden of Eden, and being tricked by the Morning Star, Gadreel was shamed and scolded by God and the other angels.

Fallen Watcher
Due to his failure for preventing the serpent from entering the Garden of Eden, and being tricked by the Morning Star, Gadreel was shamed and scolded by God and the other angels. In attempt to rectify his mistakes, even though he himself knew it would be impossible to be redeemed for such failure, Gadreel pleaded with God to bestow upon him a new position as recompense for his previously failed duty. God accepted and moved Gadreel to the Watchers, tasked with observing and guiding mankind alongside 200 other Watcher angels.

Unfortunately, Gadreel failed that as well as he was among the Watchers that joined the others in descending unto Earth to teach men forbidden knowledge and fornicate with their daughters. Gadreel had no choice in the matter either as the Watchers all took an oath that bound them together, meaning that if one of them commits a sin then they will all be a part of it. However, he was one of the fallen to start the entire teaching mankind forbidden knowledge and forficate with them as he was a member of the Five Satans.

Nevertheless, because of Gadreel's actions alongside the other Watchers, he was banished from Heaven and thrown into Sheol for eternity.

Quotes

 * "Don't be mistaken boi. Azazel may be the one who taught humans the art of weaponry, but Gadreel, he was the one who taught them how to use it in combat, one against another, releasing murder and death and war upon the world." - Raphael talking about the differences between Azazel and Gadreel.


 * "Upon the hill we saw a figure wreathed in red. With smoke around it rising it sang to the newly dead. "Do not give what cannot be taken" It's mouth did not move. "There is no country for us, and no fruit within this grove"." - A bio of Gadreel.

Trivia

 * Some depictions say that he had been responsible for deceiving Eve.

Images Sources

 * (Gadreel watchers grigori war fallen angel Mohrbacher.jpg) GADREEL, ANGEL OF WAR by Peter Mohrbacher
 * (Gadreel watchers grigori war fallen angel Engle.jpg) GADREEL, ANGEL OF WAR by Jason Engle
 * (Andres-de-leon-gadreel-final3.jpg) Gadreel the angel of war by Andres De Leon
 * (Angel Gaderel.jpg) angel Gaderel by Enemicarium