When Elohim Fall, they maintain the belief that they're angels.
When some Elohim Fall, it's only logical that some of them attempt to
maintain their service to "their Archangel." Of course, the first service
any Archangel would demand of the new Habbalite is that they Redeem. Which
is foolish, of course -- God so clearly wants the angel in his new state.
Doubtless their brethren of the higher Choir follow this logic to a
resonable conclusion and simply take service with an appropriate Demon
Prince. This is fine, since naturally the ends will always justify a
Habbalite's divinely-inspired means.
Nevertheless, these particular Habbalah must persevere, even if it requires
subterfuge, and serve the Archangel they are drawn to, regardless of
whether the poor limited angel can actually make them Hearts or not.
At first, the pretense is simple. Simply avoid Heaven and maintain your
coporeal duties. Even when Judgment comes around with a Seraph, Elohite or
Malakite, the Habbalah can clearly state that they're still angels
faithfully serving their Archangel, feel no particular guilt over their
recent actions, and have acted honorably in line with their own codes. Of
course, those nastily perceptive ones can worm out the Truth anyway, which
is bothersome. So they take flight, and present themselves to another
portion of their Archangel's organization, and eventually they get caught
there too.
What to do, what to do? How can they continue to serve and yet keep their
secret...
!
Enter Alaemon. He has a number of these Habbalah, which are even loosely
organized as a group whose name in Helltongue translates as "They Who
Choose to Serve in Secret." When one of them approaches his organization,
or is found by them, he offers them exactly what they wish. Through his
demons' expertise at keeping secrets, they can funnel orders and directives
through filters from the angelic hierarchy to the Habbalah, so that they
may serve their Archangel yet.
In reality, of course, the Habbalite is pumped for any intelligence
knowledge he has, and this is added to Alaemon's own data, whereupon a team
is sent to establish a supposed "deep cover operative" with a local group
of the Archangel's Servitors, if at all possible. A Balseraph represents
himself as a contact for a deep cover agent, presents the necessary signs
for his organization, and gets backed up by such manipulation as can be
provided by Shedim, Habbalah, or Impudites. With any luck, the local
agents believe what's going on and Alaemon gets another stream of data for
as long as he can maintain the subterfuge. One happy Habbalah joins his
service, it's trivially easy to switch orders coming through the "contact"
when he wants the Habbalite to do something, and if the deception ever
breaks, then by this time his agents should have plenty of material around
to keep the Habbalite working for the Conspiracy.
Asmodeus is a little peeved that Habbalah are occasionally assigned to
clearly Heavenly missions, but Kronos calms him. First, they're
Habbalah; the means by which they do their jobs often turn the mission to
a long-term gain for Hell anyway; and second, if you think long-term, the
whole setup is so unstable that eventually the Habbalite is working for
Hell openly anyway.
Really, it's a win-win situation.
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