Editing Faysal Anwar (section)

==Abilities ==

*'''Pathway Creation:''' As a gatekeeper he can go virtually anywhere, virtually instantly, including mirrors and some places with locked doors and is capable of teleporting both itself and others from location-to-location. He can also open pathways to abstract things, like dead ends or [[Limbo]]. He can also alter space itself within a location.
*'''Angelic Nature:''' as an [[Angel]], his power naturally opposes and drives back minor [[Demon]]s.<ref>“Faysal!” she roared the words, and she gave them power.  “Damn you!  Help!  It doesn’t get messier than this!”<br><br>The sensation was akin to a mountain deciding to move.<br><br>Faysal flared with light.  He stood, he approached, and the imps were driven back.<br><br>The lawyers, even, reacted, retreating. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/27 Excerpt] from [[Judgment 16.1]]</ref> He is [[Connections|connected]] to everything around him,<ref name=":1" /> a part of it and deafeningly aware of it.<ref>He ''thrummed'', though utterly still, a part of all he interacted with.  The motes of sun that touched the tundra made it reverberate like a skin stretched tight, and that reverberation reached all the way to him.<br>[...]<br>In other places, the very light of the sun striking earth and the response of the earth to the pull of sun and moon could be deafening.<br><br>Here, amid so many footsteps, a storm of ''being'', he wondered if mankind could take him to pieces simply by going about their day. [...] They were in the midst of the crowd now.  People milled around them.  Each one a contained storm of events, of history, and untapped potential.<br><br>It was heady, distracting, to be in the midst of this.  Harith was a source of calm in the midst of a storm. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/03 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 14]]</ref> He can be anything or nothing, including multiple forms simultaneously.<ref name=":0" /> Injuring his physical form has little effect on him, as injury is merely a form of change, not true destruction.<ref>Before he or the angel could say another word, he raised the gun and fired.<br><br>The angel stepped back.  Blood welled from a hole in the abdomen.<br><br>“Your weapons of war don’t work against me,” the angel said.<br><br>“Okay,” Johannes said, backing up.  “Angels… opposite elements are strongest.  You create, bullets destroy.”<br><br>“Bullets change, they affect structure, even if that is tearing down blood, muscle, and bone,” the angel said. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/03 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 14]]</ref>
*'''Alien Intelligence:''' as an Angel of the Seventh Choir he is a master of subtle, long-term plans. Although he has picked up human intelligence, his thoughts and emotions (insofar as he has emotions at all) are still deeply inhuman.<ref>[[Interlude 14]]</ref>

=== Weaknesses===
As he is in some sense "a little bit of everything", he is potentially vulnerable to some Practices which are normally limited to affecting certain species.<ref>“Well, at one point he asked why I hadn’t tried using my pipes.”<br>
“He was a dog then, I take it.”<br>
“He was a great many things.  You could argue there was a little bit of ''everything'' in him.  The pipes could have worked.”<br>
“But…”<br>
“But I have a sense of how things work.  I might have won the battle, but I would have lost the war." - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-8-signature/8-07/ Excerpt] from [[Signature 8.7]]</ref> Once he took on the form of a dog as Johannes' familiar, he became vulnerable to Practices which affect dogs. Both of these render [[Johannes' Pipes]] potent, although not decisive, tools against him.<ref name=":2">In the stillness, a faint tune filled the air.<br><br>Faysal froze.<br><br>With every passing second, it grew louder, more nuanced.<br><br>“No,” Faysal said.<br><br>Light flashed around him, then died.<br><br>Diagrams around the lawyers and tools they held each glowed with an intensity that suggested they’d ''taken'' the light.  Prepared in advance.<br><br>It was the last word he spoke.<br><br>Mr. Levin approached from the edge of the crater.<br><br>By his side was Johannes, holding pipes to his mouth with one hand.<br><br>''Dogs, rats, and children''. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/27 Excerpt] from [[Judgment 16.1]]</ref>

[[Mann, Levinn, and Lewis Firm|The Mann, Levinn, and Lewis Firm]] were able to prevent him from using his power in a critical moment by absorbing it with certain diagrams and [[magic item]]s.<ref name=":2" />

Johannes was able to slow him down briefly by burying him in rats, directly manipulating [[Johannes' Bullet|a bullet]] once it was buried inside him, and other such tricks.