Spike, on the other hand, is bad at
drawing. His drawing of Angel (BtVS/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?
Maybe it was
Angel remember that Spike once entered Buffy's
house and stole some stuff from her basement (BtVS/Listening
to Fear)?
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 Powers
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. 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). See 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. 
Cupof
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.
