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Sariel
| Sariel | |
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  Sprites of Sariel in Highly Responsive to Prayers Angel of DeathMore Character Titles | |
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Angel of Death |
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Makai, in the Fallen Shrine |
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Sariel is an angel of death that Reimu Hakurei encounters deep within Makai in the Fallen Shrine in Highly Responsive to Prayers. They are the final enemy Reimu confronts there before returning to her shrine. But since they have no profile and exchanges no dialogue with Reimu, nothing else is known about them.
Character Design
Name
Sariel's name means "Command of God". In Judaic and Islamic traditions, Sariel is the name of an archangel. However, some Judaic-Christian texts claim that Sariel is an Angel of Death, alongside Michael, Gabriel, and Samael. In other texts, Sariel is referred to as a fallen angel. The Sariel in religion is always depicted as being male, so the Sariel in this game is ambiguous enough to belong to either gender.
In Coptic tradition, Sariel is thought to be the angel of the church of Sardis, referred to in The Revelation to John, and has an immense knowledge of magic, magic rituals, and magic powers that give him the ability to lead others astray. Fittingly, Sariel's second theme is called 'The Civilization of Magic".
Design
Seen in Sariel's sprite in Highly Responsive to Prayers, this character is a ghost-like angelic figure with white knee-length hair with seemingly blue eyes. Sariel wears a long, simple blue dress with long white sleeves. They have six angel wings and hold a strange wand. Their six wings (if one looks closely) show that this character is possibly a seraph. (Seraphim are the highest order of angels in the Christian angelic hierarchy.) They also have another form, where they seem to become a silhouette with a "black hole"-like thing within it.
Relationships
Minor Relationships
- Shinki
Shinki is the creator of Makai and everything within it. In light of this, Shinki may also have created Sariel.
Additional Information
- Sariel's background changes throughout the battle: from a starry night, to a river with two floating yin-yang orbs, to what appears to be an inferno with human arms reaching out of the ground, and a collection of orbs showing Reimu and her shrine at another point in time.
- Sariel appeared in a silhouette in the second form, similar to the Windows game covers. This makes Sariel the first character in the whole series to appear in a silhouette.
- Sariel is the first character to have more than one theme.
- Sariel's sprite is based on the sprite of the final boss of Tournament of the Gods II, a game by AliceSoft (comparison).
Fandom
Official Sources
- 1997/08/15 Highly Responsive to Prayers
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