Editing Choir (section)

==First Choir==
Based around the first day of the Genesis story, "let there be light".<ref name="wog" />

===Demons - Choir of Darkness===
This Choir are associated with utter annihilation, as they oppose creation itself.<ref name=":2">Demons of the First Choir are the counterpoint to the forces that brought the universe into being. [...] They devour.  They take.  The vectors by which they act take all forms that we know to destroy things – tooth, claw, bludgeon, coil, frost, and even forces such as lightning and flame, which might well seem ironic for the Choir of Darkness.<br><br>The thing to note, however, is that these beings annihilate.  In this, they are distinct from the other choirs. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 7.x]]</ref> In some cases, however, this destruction may appear to "create" things as a byproduct - it is speculated that this is a result of other forces rushing in to fill the gap, like air into a vacuum.<ref>While the demon itself might appear to grow, spawn, create, or manifest, I would posit that this is an illusion.  The things that might appear to come to pass are a casualty of other damage, some of which might be beyond our scope of understanding.

Effects, connections, ideas, hallucinations, ideas, and whatever else might seem to be created by the demons of this choir are, I would suggest, purely the effect of reality or other forces distorting to fill the void. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 7]]</ref>

The Sun/light/fire are perhaps the strongest and oldest symbol of Creation, and so may be used to bind this Choir;<ref name=":3">“Okay.  For ''our'' purposes, let’s look at the demon we’re after as a creature of darkness.  Virtually every creation myth touches on certain key ideas.  Light is the most common.  The sun, fire, something in that vein, it’s intrinsically linked to ''creation'' in the human consciousness.  To the birth of the universe, the planet, society, and other things.  Water and earth tend to follow in general popularity, but those aren’t choirs we need to focus on.”<br><br>I nodded.  “Choir of darkness.”<br><br>“The antithesis of creation.  You could say it’s the most powerful choir.  Entropy distilled.”<br>[...]<br>“We ward off creatures with their antithesis, unless they’re weak enough that related elements can repel them,” I said.  “What idea did you have?”<br><br>“My idea is that we ward off darkness with fire.  Prometheus, Khepri, the ''sun''.  Fire keeps figuring into myths.  It holds a key place in culture and myth.  I mean, mankind survived, back in the day, and Others presumably preyed on us then.  Fire was a staple.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/04/19 Excerpt] from [[Conviction 5.5]]</ref> although ironically some demons of this Choir appear to make use of these forces as their chosen method of destruction.<ref name=":2" /> Artistic creation can also serve to bind them.<ref>Ur was a demon of darkness.  The natural conclusion was to oppose him with ''light''.  ''Light'' was the sole reason I wasn’t dead already.<br><br>But Ur was, above all else, a demon of oblivion, of ''erasure.''<br><br>To oppose him, I had to ''create''. [...] The binding on the outside… it only dawned on me now.  It was a creation of a sort too.  Not just words hidden in graffiti, but the graffiti itself. [...] The demon ate existence.  It was opposed by ''creation and light''. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/09 Excerpt] from [[Null 9.6]]</ref> However, both these approaches come with problems - light inevitably creates shadows, and making art is difficult given they frequently make it hard to see.<ref name=":8">''“The choir of darkness is the worst choir to deal with, because you can’t cast the light to banish them without also casting deeper shadows.  You can’t use creation against them when you can’t even see.''<br><br>''“The choir of chaos is the worst choir to deal with, because they’re opposed by symbols, symbols are subjective, and they steal all subjectivity from the subject.''<br><br>''“The choir of ruin is the worst choir to deal with, because they’re opposed by structure, and how was one supposed to construct when the foundation was ruined?”'' - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Judgement 16.5]]</ref>

Members include:

* [[Ur]] - an endless mass of black flesh which erases anything it touches, including all [[connections]] and record of it's victims.<ref name=":3" />
* [[Ouhim]] - a sleek, dark, feminine figure whose wide "smile" spreads beyond her face to damage her surroundings.<ref name=":4">[[Interlude 12]]</ref>
* Bazuili - destroys people, leaving behind "statues" (speculated to be simply the ground below rushing into the gap.)<ref>A ‘statue’ left in the place of a destroyed man (See Bazuili, below) is not created by the demon, nor by transmutation, but other forces filling the resulting vacuum.  In this case, it is the nearest available force of substance -the ground- seeking to repair the damage, at reality’s behest. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from ''[[List of Books#Classifying%20Others:%20Fiends%20and%20Darker%20Beings|Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings]]'' Ch 7, quoted in [[Interlude 7]]</ref>
* Tobu-Bōkyaku - a mote which passes through the ears of anyone nearby, leaving behind a loud ringing in their ears as the only sound they can hear.<ref>The cacophonous aria that follows the victims of the mote Tobu-Bōkyaku is not the demon’s cry, nor a signature, but the only sounds that remain to the victim after the being has made its passage through the victim’s ear canals. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from ''[[List of Books#Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings|Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings]]'' Ch 7, quoted in [[Interlude 7]]</ref>
* Caacrinolaas - a demon who's venom slowly but surely destroys those infected entirely, and - unless they destroy the relationship first - leaves anyone who cares for them so grief-stricken that they will never move again.<ref>In this chapter, you will read of Caacrinolaas’ venom, which slowly but surely eradicate a man’s entire being. [...] The aforementioned venom forces the victim to destroy all relationships to others by unforgivable means if he does not wish them to be inflicted with the secondary effect after he is entirely removed from the world, this effect being a pining so intense that they will never move of their own volition again, only staring into the distance. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from ''[[List of Books#Classifying%20Others:%20Fiends%20and%20Darker%20Beings|Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings]]'' Ch 7, quoted in [[Interlude 7]]</ref>
* Shabriri - a demon armed with a bell and lantern which utterly blind and deafen those exposed, so completely that their senses are instead left open to the ultimate [[void]] of everything that does ''not'' exist.<ref>You will read about Shabriri’s lantern, which scours one’s sight away, and her bell, which peals with such force that it irrevocably destroys one’s hearing. [...] Shabriri’s blindness and deafness ultimately leaves one so unable to see or hear that they will perceive absolutely everything that doesn’t exist in that space and time, as their eyes and ears are opened ever wider to true void. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from ''[[List of Books#Classifying%20Others:%20Fiends%20and%20Darker%20Beings|Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings]]'' Ch 7, quoted in [[Interlude 7]]</ref>
* Coronzon - a demon which can destroy a group of people by addressing them three times. This leaves behind a chaotic tangle of connections.<ref>A chaotic and tumultuous morass of connections remain after Coronzon destroys a group of people by addressing them thrice, but again, these connections should be said to be the fallout.  Remove a stone from a wall, and the stones around it will fall to a new configuration.  Those stones may face undue stresses, and the gaps will exist between them, but the gap nonetheless exists. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from ''[[List of Books#Classifying%20Others:%20Fiends%20and%20Darker%20Beings|Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings]]'' Ch 7, quoted in [[Interlude 7]]</ref>
* Lonely Man - no details given, except that what it destroys cannot even be replaced with anything else.<ref>Unless otherwise noted (as in the Lonely Man’s subsection), that which is destroyed can be replaced, but it cannot be ''retrieved''. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/07/05 Excerpt] from ''[[List of Books#Classifying%20Others:%20Fiends%20and%20Darker%20Beings|Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings]]'' Ch 7, quoted in [[Interlude 7]]</ref>
*An unnamed demon, bald and skinny with large eyes, small nose and mouth, and elaborate clothing.<ref>Leaving everyone else behind, to try and form battle lines and defensive measures before they had to deal with five proper demons.  The howler, the demon of the choir of darkness that had been in the fire, and the three new arrivals. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/judgment-16-05/ excerpt] from [[Judgement 16.5]]</ref><ref>The third was narrow, a thin androgynous figure, wearing clothes that looked like they had been sewn together around it.  Corset thin, with voluminous sleeves, it had a thin mouth, no hair, and an oddly small nose.  The eyes, conversely, were overlarge. [...] 

Enemy practitioners burned and continued to burn, staggering or crawling away from the fire.  Here and there, an enemy practitioner simply burned, and the fires kept them burning, locking them in place.

But the demons – the thin one with the clothes struggled, backing away, but the others remained unaffected.

- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/judgment-16-4/ excerpt] from [[Judgement 16.4]]</ref>

===Angels===
The [[Saghir Sadira]] (aka Spikes of Light) - a type of [[Angel#Power|Power]] taking the form of an indistinct figure wielding a blade of light - are associated with this choir.