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I know they exist. My question I pose to all of you is this: do you know anything about them?
I have met many people who believe in many things; some believe in things that others do not believe in, while others claim to be these otherworldly or supernatural beings. I want to know more about angels specifically, since I already know enough about demons. Things that perhaps I shouldn't know, and am almost afraid to say, but if it's the internet, and I am anonymous, am I safe to say these things?

Daemons, or demons, are creatures of another world, unbelievably powerful, and no they do not work for Satan. They are all kinds, and yes are found in all the folklore that are spread across the world: shapeshifters, elementals, cruel beings who love to cause pain for the pitiful ignorant humans. I don't want to be an ignorant human; I want to know more.

I believe angels and demons are no less real than you or I...

So might I ask: What do you feel you are unaware of? Why is it you feel you are indeed ignorant?

I don't have much anymore. Mostly just angel hierarchy.
You know ranks, duties, names.

Nothing really too informative.
Gotta get it from my bro, but if you still would like that let me know.

To speak the truth on the subject I only have adverse feelings when I hear certain things about angels and demons alike.

As far as I'm concerned, Demons are entities just like us. They are as varied and numerous as we are. They can be as vicious and malevolent as any hard core criminal found on death row. But there are others that are as giving and grateful to like as any green peace person you can think of.
People think of Demons as generally evil beings but I think that is merely a product of the past.
As I recall it, Pope innocent the (2nd or 3rd I can never remember) Declared them evil since they where not of heaven or earth. Thus that confused me because the first fallen were angels as well as Serty(The Star). This threw them into the same league as devils which are indigenous to the underworld.

Angels on the other hand I have split feelings as well. Because while some are seen as harbingers of goodness and protection. Many do not know that is there charge, that they have a stake in human life and it is there law no human shall come to harm by them.
Most of the angels of the Eight courts do not like humans in general. We are favored and they are our caretakers. But to openly hate us is to risk being cast out as well. Which even raises the question.
What of Lockry the angel of death. Personally I think Lockry is in a sense unemotional towards all.

But not all this is from the same source. Lockry is a Hebrew and Mormon figure of obscurity.
And some catholic sects think there are more or less courts to the angels hierarchy.

Couple of questions.
1) Who or what is Serty, and from what culture, tradition, sect etc is it from? Can you give us a source for this?
2) Who or what is Lockry, why is there absolutely no information on him anywhere? Can you give us a source for this?
3) In what belief systems involving a seperation between demons and devils declare devils to be cthonic entities that existed prior to the fall of the angels, other than Dungeons and Dragons 4E (which has it the other way around)?

I'm curious about Serty because it's a very interesting word, etymologically speaking, but I'll wait for Oborosen to come back with details as to what language it's in.

As for Angels of Death, there've been a bunch of attributations throughout the past centuries to various angels, but as you probably know, there's very little consensus when it comes to angelic hierarchy and the roles of the angels among varying sects.

Setry, The first, The north star, The prince of darkness, The lord of flies.
Honestly I don't know how many surnames. I only use Setry because my friend Mari used it around me for about ten years. She's scandinavian so that kinda explains the mixed results.
The closest Iv ever been to there is Holland and that was on a layover headed to Australia.

Abbot_Natalis you where really on the money there. Strangely I don't remember a book like that being published as of late. The list I'm looking for was one my brother acquired from the net.

Mistreena you have a good point, but that still points out how varied all this information can be.
Can you remember if the Professors name was MacArthur, If so then I know what your talking about. Still my favorite Norse figure is Fenris, that or the story of what was used to tie him down.

From what I know of the separation from the old to current belief system. Was not too off track besides the fact the upper religious figures almost always over stepped there boundaries. Pope innocent from what I can tell was one of them. Thought I still could be wrong about the name. Because he's the same pope that helped screw the Templar's over.

Is it Setry, as you're spelling it now, or Serty, as you spelled it before? Further, do you not feel that it comes across as a little disingenuous purely because one of your friends used it, and it's presumably from a Scandinavian language, yet you (ostensibly) haven't research it to see if it's real/correct? Incidentally, do you have an actual source for it, aside from "my friend Mari"? From what I can see, it looks like you took epithets of Beel zeBub and decided to shove a random word there instead: all I know is I've never come across the word Setry/Serty in Demonology, and I can't find a translation for it in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish - which isn't to say it doesn't exist, just that it seems as though there's no source for this word outside your friend.

Further, you didn't answer my question regarding Lockry, so if you could do that without me having to shoot you another PM, that would be fantastic.