Spike,
on the other hand, is bad at drawing. His drawing of Angel (Chosen)
is just dreadful...
Well, it was brought to my attention
(thank you Erin) that Spike maybe is GOOD at drawing after all... In BtVS/Crush,
when Buffy discloses the shrine Spike had built for her, we can see many
drawings of the Slayer; we never saw Spike drawing, but if it wasn't
Spike who did those drawings, who did? I think it was Spike, because it
is hard to believe he would have asked somebody else to do it...
Fang Gang
- Angel's gang: Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Lorne.
Fanged Four
- Angel, Darla, Spike and Drusilla.
Game
face - The demon face of a vampire.
Gypsy
Curse - Angelus was cursed with a soul by gypsies, in 1898, after having
tortured, raped and killed one of their girls. The soul gave Angelus a
"moral compass" that has made him suffer over all he did as an evil vampire.
If Angel has a single moment of true happiness, he loses the soul and becomes
Angelus again.
Mandy
- Angel's favorite song, composed by Scott English and Richard Kerr, and
sung by Barry Manilow:
I remember
all my life
Rainin'
down as cold as ice
Shadows
of a man
A face
through a window
Cryin'
in the night
The night
goes into
Mornin',
just another day
Happy people
pass my way
Lookin'
in their eyes
I see a
memory
I never
realized
How happy
you made me, oh Mandy
Well, you
came and you gave without takin'
But I sent
you away, oh Mandy
Well, you
kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need
you today, oh Mandy
Standin'
on the edge of time
I've walked
away when love was mine
Caught
up in a world of uphill climbin'
The tears
are in my mind
And nothing
is rhymin', oh Mandy
Yesterday's
a dream
I face
the mornin'
Cryin'
on a breeze
The pain
is callin', oh Mandy
You came
and you gave without takin'
But I sent
you away, oh Mandy
You kissed
me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need
you
Mohra
- Powerful assassins, soldiers of darkness. They take out warriors like
Angel and Buffy. They need vast amounts of salt to live. The peculiarity
about these demons is that their veins run with the blood of eternity
that is, their fluorescent green blood has regenerative properties. To
kill the beast one must bring darkness to 1000 eyes a jewel in its forehead.*
*Source: Francis
Doyle/Book of Kelsor in I Will Remember You
After having
his blood mixed with the Mohra's, after a fight (I Will remember
You), Angel became human once again; however, he ended up giving
up being alive and asked the Oracles to turn him back into his old vampire
self.
The fact that
Angel became human in I Will Remember You makes some people
wonder if the shanshu prophecy has already been fulfilled. However,
one has to notice that, when Angel was talking to the Oracle, he asked
if "it wasn't the Powers That Be that did this?" and the Oracle asked back
if Angel had saved humanity or averted the Apocalypse, which are the requirements
to fulfill the prophecy a vampire with a soul who will become human.
Muo-Ping
- Glass receptacle of Angel's soul, after the spell performed by the dark
shaman Wo Pang, which made Angel have a moment of true happiness (Awakening).
Nyazian
Scrolls - It predicted a confluence of events the Tro-clan
which would bring about the ruination of mankind. It was about a child
born to vampires, and at the same time it said that the child would never
be born, that there would be no birth:
For surely in that time, when
the sky opens and the heavens weep, there will be no birth, only death.
Also, Holtz arrival, Angel's sworn
enemy, was foretold in the Scrolls:
Born out of/raised up from darkness
to bring darkness.
And, worse of all, it predicted that:
The father will kill the son.
The prophecy, translated by Wesley
as well as a translator from Wolfram & Hart, was about Connor,
son of vampires Angel and Darla, who wasn't born eventually he just "appeared"
after his mother staked herself and turned into dust. However, it turned
out to be that part of the
Nyazian Scrolls were false ("The father
will kill the son"), planted by [Sahjhan],
because of a real prophecy that predicted:
The one sired by the vampire with
a soul will grow to manhood and kill Sahjhan.
Old Ones
- See [Buffy
Files]
Orb of
Thesulah - See [Buffy
Files]
Oracles
- One of the Power That Be's dangerous channels. They a male and a female
humanoid entities were finicky and unpredictable; one should get in,
ask one's questions and get out; and not forget to take them a gift.
Angel paid a visit to the Oracles
after Doyle's death, begging them to return his friend (Parting Gifts),
but the Powers That Be refused. Later, the vampire looked for them because
he had became human after his blood was mixed with the Mohra's
(I
Will Remember You); first, Angel wanted to know if it was a permanent
condition and later, he wanted to return to be a vampire.
The next time he needed help from
the Oracles was when he noticed a black symbol on Cordelia's hand. He headed
to the Oracles only to find them slain; however, the spirit of the female
Oracle was able to tell Angel that the mark belonged to a warrior of the
underworld named Vocah, as well as telling him how to save Cordy she
was in great danger, having permanent visions which had put her in a hospital.
Only the words of Anatole (written in
the Prophecies of Aberjian),
could
remove the mark and save Codelia:
And if the beast shalt find thee,
and touch thee, thou shalt be wounded in thy soul, and thou shalt know
madness. The beast shalt attack and cripple thee and thou shalt know neither
friend nor family. But thou shalt undo the beast. Thou shalt find the sacred
words of Anatole and thou shalt be restored. Three times shalt thou say
these words: unbind, unbind, unbind.
Their place was located in a underground
chamber, under the post office in Los Angeles, where there was a white
stone arc in one wall with a foreign inscription above it, which read:
The
Gateway for Lost Souls.
I come before the Oracles for
guidance and direction. I beseech access to the knowing ones.
Source: I Will Remember You
and
To Shanshu in L.A.
Order
of Ra-tet - Mystical order whose origins have been shrouded in mystery
since the dawn of time. The Ra-tet was formed by five enormously powerful
beings, which were linked to an embodiment of the ancient god Ra, making
them symbolic manifestations (totems), each one representing a stage in
Ras journey across the sky:
-
Semkhet - A human-like
skinless saber-toothed tiger who lived in a cave in Death Valley, California
-
Maat - High and
mighty white magick female shaman
-
Mesektet - The
six-year-old girl in the White Room
-
Ashet - African-American
man, a being composed entirely of light
-
Manjet - An immortal
man (unless he was ritually murdered), a neutral totem, the potential of
every human soul. Sacred Guardian of the Shen, Keeper of the Orb of Maat
and Devotee of Light; or simply Manny
Only the totems
themselves knew their true purpose. The [Beast]
sought and killed all them, grabbing things out from them two metallic
gold wings (Semkhet and Ashet), a glass orb (Manjet), a black energy cloud
(Mesektet), and a human heart (Maat) to be used in a ritual it performed
in Connor's apartment in order to blot out the sun. (Long Day's Journey).
Powers That
Be - High powers whose main goal is to maintain the forces of Good
and Evil balanced. In their hands are decisions like to revert Angel's
human condition (I Will Remember You), or fulfill the shanshu
prophecy one day. Cordelia's visions (earlier Doyle's) were a direct channel
to these powers. The Powers That Be don't live in our reality (they left
here when the Earth, millions of years ago, became a demon realm). In order
to approach them, one have to go through dangerous channels (Conduits).
In the beginning of the 21st Century,
one of the Powers That Be, [Jasmine],
decided that was about time to stop just observing the chaos and came back
to our world to fix it; her plans, however, were thwarted by Angel and
friends, and eventually she was killed by Connor.
Prophecies
of Aberjian -
It is an ancient sacred text, written over the last 4000 years, in a dozen
different languages, some of which aren't even human. The word shanshu
is pivotal to what it prophesies about the vampire with a soul.
Shanshu
has roots in so many different languages. The most ancient source is the
Proto-Bantu and they consider life and death the same thing, part of a
cycle only a thing that's not alive never dies. It says that you get
to live until you die. It says the vampire with a soul, once he fulfills
his destiny, will shanshu. Become human. It's his reward.
It won't happen
tomorrow or the next day. He has to survive the coming darkness, the apocalyptic
battles, a few plagues, and some fiends that will be unleashed.*
*Source: Wesley
Wyndham-Prycein To Shanshu in L.A.
Angel found
the parchment with the prophecies in the vaults at Wolfram & Hart
(Blind Date). Later, it was stolen by the demon Vocah (To
Shanshu in L.A.), conjured by Wolfram & Hart the evil
law firm needed the parchment in order to perform an incantation and bring
vampire Darla from the dead. Angel did manage to kill Vocah; however, the
ritual was completed by Lindsey MacDonald. Afterwards, Lindsey attempted
to burn the parchment, but Angel kept him from doing it by cutting his
hand off.
The Prophecies
of Aberjian also mention three children, seers; together the children
have the power to see into the heart of things, which made them a real
threat to Wolfram & Hart. They were each found in different remote
locations and brought together by the evil law firm and would have been
killed if Angel hadn't intervened. According to the prophecies, they have
an important role to play.
More recently,
a newly translated portion appeared at Wolfram & Hart; it seems to
indicate the splitting of the root of a tree into two parts, each of will
seek refreshment from a hidden river. However, one cannot be sure whether
this text is real or not, because the source who presented the translation
(Sirk) was a non-trustworth person.
What is certain
is that the original scroll containing the prophecy was at Wolfram &
Hart and was signed by Angel (with his own blood), who gave up his chance
of one day to become human again, to prove his loyalty to the Circle of
the Black Thorn. Whether this was something valid or not, only the Senior
Partners or the Powers That Be know.
Vampires
with a soul - Angel and Spike.
Proto-Bantu
-
Linguistic group Western Bantu.
Bantu
- Group of African languages.
Pylea
-
Demon dimension with no music, 
where
Lorne and the Groosalugg came from. In Pylea, humans were slaves called
"cows" and treated as such, until Princess Cordelia changed the situation.
There are 2 suns there and vampires can walk under their light; they also
have their image reflected. The problem is that their demon appearance
is much more horrific than in our dimension (see Angel's pic). Pylea's "hell" (the place
they believe they go to pay their mistakes) is named
Tarkna.
Rings
Claddagh
- See [Buffy
Files]
Gem
of Amara - See [Buffy
Files]
Signature
- While running the LA branch of Wolfram & Hart, Angel had to put his
signature in several documents; the last time was when he signed away his
chance to become human again, signing the very original scroll that contained
the Shanshu prophecy (Not Fade Away).
Svea Priestesses
aka The Svear - Mystical order, all descendants of the powerful Nordic
priestess Svea. They cast the spell that banished the Beast in 1789, in
Prussia. In 2003, the Fang Gang found one priestess and her family in Pacoima,
all dead slaughtered by Cordelia/Jasmine.
Tattoo
- Angel has a tattoo on his right shoulder blade a large Gryphon holding
the letter "A", a work of art inspired from the Book of Kells (Latin text
of the Gospels, believed to have been made by Irish monks around AD 800).
Visit this link for further information:
[Angel's
Tattoo]
Transuding
Furies - Three ghost-like sisters, who
seem to know Angel *very well*, responsible for casting the non-violence
spell on Caritas.
Visions
- Doyle had visions, given by the Powers That Be, that helped Angel to
help innocent people in danger. These visions were passed to Cordelia (through
a kiss), right before Doyle sacrificed himself to save half-demons like
him (Hero). Both Doyle and Cordelia had painfull headaches
because of the visions, and Cordy's just stopped when she agreed to become
part-demon otherwise, the visions would have ended up killing her (Birthday).
Watcher
- See [Buffy
Files]
White Room - An inter-dimensional space at Wolfram & Hart, a kind of
gateway. There used to be a little girl there, or rather, something old
and evil (Mesektet, one of the five totems that formed the Ra-tet) that
pretended to be a little girl. This entity had its black energy sucked
by the Beast and was terminated (Habeas Corpses); without
Mesektet, Wolfram & Hart was cut off from the Senior Partners, effectively
neutralized for a while, at least. Before dying, Mesektet managed to
say to the Fang Gang that the answer (Angelus) to defeat the Beast
was among them.
Nowadays, the
new Conduit to the Senior Partners in the White Room is the big black cat
that had a "meeting" with Gunn (Home).
One can reach
the White Room through the elevator, after punching the floor buttons in
a certain sequence (18, 23, 20, 28 and 27), which makes a new, bigger button
appear above the other on the panel. Pushing this button, the elevator
dissolves into the big, white, empty room.
Wolfram
& Hart Attorney at Law - Evil [multi-dimensional]
corporation, ruled by the Senior Partners the Wolf, the Ram and the
Hart. Their home office wasn't located in Hell, as one could think;
it was located in our good old Earth. The LA branch was founded in 1791
on ground deconsecrated by the blood of mass murderer Mathias Pavayne.
Some of the
evil lawyers who worked there: Lilah Morgan (killed by evil Cordelia),
Gavin Park (killed by the Beast), Lindsey McDonald (left the firm), and
the bosses Holland Manners (killed along with many other lawyers by vampires
Darla and Drusilla) and Linwood Murrow (killed by Lilah). All the employees
of the LA branch (but Lilah, the new boss, who managed to escape) were
killed by the Beast in 2003.
One of their
many evil deeds was to bring back from the dead (by using black magick)
Darla, in order for her to torment her ex-lover Angel.
The Wolf, the
Ram and the Hart wanted Angel, the vampire with a soul, to turn to the
darkness all because the prophecy (Shanshu) that read "a vampire with
a soul would have a pivotal role in the Apocalypse".
In 2003, Angel
and the Fang Gang accepted an offer made by the Senior Partners (delivered
by deceased Lilah) to take over the LA branch, after they had thwarted
Jasmine's plans of making the Earth a wonderful place to live; for months,
the soulled vampire and his friends tried to fight evil from inside the
belly of the beast (as put by Lilah and Spike). However, as they discovered
eventually, the Senior Partners' main goal was to keep the Fang Gang busy,
distracting them of the upcoming Apocalypse. Afterwards, Angel decided
to face the evil high powers by bringing down their most powerful weapon
in our dimension the Circle of the Black Thorn, taking to a halt the
Senior Partners' Apocalypse machine.
Our firm
has always been here. In one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer
Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor.
See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being.
Angel
Investigations - Detective agency founded by Angel in Los Angeles,
in 1999, whose slogan was "we help the hepless."
Auction
House (an establishment firmly rooted in the black market) to retrieve
the object the vampire wanted the Axis to find Cordelia only to find
cat burglar [
Circle
of the Black Thorn - The Senior Partners' instrument on Earth, was
the most powerful group in our plane of existence until the Fang Gang
killed every member of it: Izzy, the Vinji leader (killed by Illyria), Archduke
Sebassis (killed by Angel), Cyvus Vail (killed by Illyria), Fell Brethren
(exterminated by Spike), senator Helen Bruckner (killed by Gunn) and the
Sahrvins (exterminated by Lindsey and Lorne). All members were demons.
Cup
of Eternal Torment - A newly translated portion of the Shanshu says
if the balance is disrupted by the existence of 2 vampires with a
soul, the souled vampire referred by the prophecy will drink from the Cup
of Eternal Torment, and that further torments will be visited upon him
until he saves the world or destroys it. Afterwards, said vampire will
have a clean slate and live again as a human. Whoever is supposed to drink
from the cup will be the one to drink from the cup; and once that happens,
the universe should realign.
