RED HALO

Real Name: Lileilah

Alias: Lee, Li, Lailah

Identity: Secret

Occupation: Superhero, Angel of Death & Conception

Place of Origin: Celestial Courts

Citizenship: ?

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Her legion of other selves

Known Allies: The Demon Priest, the Outcasts, True Blue & Richard the True Knight

Group Affiliations: St. Michael’s Church

Base of Operations: New Acadia, MA

Education: the Celestial Garden

First Appearance: The Demon Priest (novel)

Height: 6′ (183 cm)

Weight: 180 lbs (82 kg)

Eyes: Red

Hair: Auburn

HISTORY

Before her fall, Lileilah served in the Celestial Garden, where she nurtured, taught, and tested unborn souls in preparation for their incarnation and birth, and when they returned from Mortal Lands, helped guide them on their way. When the Grigori fell, becoming flesh, she took on their role as the Guardian of the Garden. Her duties were already such that she manifested as a legion of beings. Now, those manifestations could wield instances of the Flaming Sword.

The Grigori, living and procreating among the humans of Mortal Lands, created chaos, bringing knowledge that humans had not worked out for themselves, as well as begetting the Nephilim— the giants and demigods of myth. Lileilah, seeing this chaos, traveled herself to Mortal Lands, and in her words, “pruned and weeded” the Earth, joining in human wars, swinging the Flaming Sword.

After the Great Reckoning, when the Grigori were removed from Mortal Lands and bound in a Nether Realm, her penance for interfering in mortal matters was to guard the fallen Grigori, as a legion, wielding their sword and standing watch over them. Eventually, due to events brought about by Tethykles the Walker, Samuel the Demon Priest, and a human called Whim, an aspect of Lileilah returned to Earth, eventually becoming the superhero known as Red Halo.

Or so the story goes…

POWERS & PARAPHERNALIA

As a fallen angel, Red Halo is able to assume many forms, both physical and metaphysical. When operating as a superhero, she usually appears as a tall, unnaturally red-skinned woman with pointy ears, horns, and white feathered wings, dressed in a short chiton-like garment and surrounded in a soft reddish glow. In combat situations, she often wears gleaming black and silver armor and carries a flaming sword.

The extent of her powers is unknown. As a psychopomp, she can manifest a second astral body, which can interact with the similar astral forms of others, especially the dying, though she has been known to pull the astral body out of the living during conflicts.