Gabriel

Angelic crusader with translucent blue wings and halo wearing white-gold European armor covering his body. White armor parts turn red and wings/halo turn yellow when enraged.

He carries out the will of the Council with a ruthless efficiency that brings him both fear and respect. He is known as the Will of God and is among the most powerful of all the angels. When he was defeated by V1 for the first time in Gluttony, the Council believed him to be squandering his power and cut him off from the light of The Father. They told him that he would be dead within 24 hours if he did not prove his devotion by finding and killing V1. After he was defeated by the machine a second time in Heresy, he returned to Heaven and killed every member of the Council, realizing the atrocities he had committed on their behalf in the name of an absentee God.

Long before the game takes place, he killed Minos, claiming it was justice, as the king reformed the Lust layer of Hell into a figurative utopia, which stopped sinners' punishments. Minos had refused to fight, believing in civil discussion but was promptly smote by Gabriel. The Heavenly Council then rewarded him with the title "Judge of Hell". Also before the events of the game, during the Sisyphean Insurrection, he was able to recognize the powerful charisma of Sisyphusand his army's reliance on his leadership, even though he himself did not realize why at the time, and commanded the armies of heaven to focus their energies at Sisyphus. He was then able to behead Sisyphus himself, breaking the morale of the Sisyphean army completely and making mopping up the insurrection a mere formality. Due to his accomplishments and his charisma, he was revered and treated as an idol by the people of Heaven. Within Act 1, V1 encounters Gabriel when it trespasses into Gluttony, where Gabriel reveals he intends to stop the mechanical invasion of Hell. However, V1 defeats Gabriel, leaving the angel to promise that they will fight again as he retreats. However, for his failure and defeat at the hands of an object, the Heavenly Council, after stripping him of his connection to Heaven's light, demands that within the next 24 hours, he rectifies his mistake, or die. When V1 arrives in Heresy, Gabriel detects its presence, and demands that it comes face him. After lamenting the loss of life on the upper levels caused by the machine intrusion, Gabriel engages V1 once more, but is once again defeated. With this defeat, Gabriel suddenly has an epiphany and retreats to the moon (presumably Heaven's first layer) in order to deliberate in the epilogue. He eventually comes to the conclusion that God is missing or dead, and he has been manipulated by the Heavenly Council to commit atrocity in an attempt to control the system God has left behind. He returns to the Heavenly Council and promptly executes the council members, and brandishes one of their decapitated heads before a crowd of heavenly denizens. Having accepted his imminent death, he prepares to spend his last hours in Hell.

Gabriel is formal, righteous, and a powerful warrior. He is, in the end, kind at heart, although he can maintain a rather stoic exterior, as expected of an Angel. He has a deep hope that God will return one day.