Rank Information

Subject: Rank Information Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:09 pm

EXORCISTS

EXORCIST
Exorcists are people who are compatible with Innocence, managing to synchronize with it. They possess Anti-Akuma weapons and must learn how to fight with it, using its basic techniques only at first and then upgrade from there. They all uses levels of invocation, in which they can activate their level one or level two attacks. These members are usually Level One with their power levels.

ADVANCED EXORCIST
Advanced Exorcists, commonly known as Level Two and Three's are exorcists who have managed to control their Anti-Akuma weapon fully. However, their synchronizing rate is still below 100%, but not by far. These Exorcists are able to master Maximum Invocation -- Very power attacks that can defeat strong enemies.

CRITICAL POINT BREAKER
Critical Point Breakers are Exorcits whose Synchronizing Rate is greater than 100%. They are extremely powerful and are able to beat Level 3 Akuma's and below without any trouble.

EXORCIST GENERAL
Generals are the most powerful Exorcists who have legendary synchronizing rates that are far past one of the Critical Point Breaker. They have much combat experience and have fully mastered the use of their Anti-Akuma weapon. However, even Generals have trouble fighting against Level 4 Akuma.

CLERGYMEN

Clergymen are members of The Order who are are the people who work within the order while the Exorcists are away in their missions. There are seven known departments that clergymen can be apart of, but often, Clergymen become finders. There are seven included departments of Clergymen, below.

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FINDERS
Finders are people who work within the Logistics Department or the Intelligence Department, and are assigned to explore the sights that contain innocence based on the research in that area. They often come along with Exorcists during missions for assistance. They are the people who locate and retrieve the innocence while the Exorcists protect it.

BOOKMAN CLAN
The Bookman clan is a very secretive group that records the events of history in unbiased points of view. Many believe that the clan has disappeared, but others say that it has simply gone into hiding. Bookmen are to keep themselves in a neutral attitude at all time, never taking loyalties so that their writing only contains unbiased information. If any of their work contains even a hint of biased thoughts, the entire writing of information is considered "taint". Many rules have been made for Bookmen to make sure that they continue to prevent being biased, many including lack of feelings, never showing affection or attachment, and friendships are, under no circumstances, prohibited.

Bookmen often do not choose sides in war, but form alliances that are only held during the course of the war, so that they may record the history in a more detailed manner, many including primary visions of how strong their men are, or what impasses each side has come to. While recording history, it is prohibited that a Bookman is to interfere in the events. They must act as silent, still watchers, who record from the sidelines to make sure that they do not intrude on what is supposed to happen next.

It still remains unknown to many if the Bookman clan has survived throughout the last 100 years, since many have been taken prisoner for information and killed into silence. Many have started to assume that the clan has completely died out except for the two members, who are widely known as Bookman, and his successor, Lavi. People have claimed to and hear rumors that the Bookman Clan has gone underground and is recording in a secret manner that keeps them unknown, but it is unsure, and the information has not been confirmed.

AKUMA RANKS

LEVEL ZERO
Level zero is the Akuma right after its creation. It is only the metal skeleton which is presented similarly to a model kit format when still unoccupied by a soul. The human soul is the dominant personality, but it is still bound to the Earl's control. The ends of the arms varies from Akuma to Akuma. The separate 'bones' are not connected in any way, but rather hover near where they would be connected. After a soul occupies the skeleton, a pentacle along with its host's name below it will be inscribed on the forehead of the skeletal structure. No matter how inhuman an Akuma becomes upon reaching level 2, the level 0 form remains as its skeleton.

LEVEL ONE
Level one consists of a floating ball shaped creature with dozens of gun barrels protruding from it that fire enlarged 5.56 x 45 mm NATO-like rounds. The gun barrels are flexible and can be bent to face any desired angle without affecting its firing capabilities. The bullets made of the blood of the Akuma is deadly to the human flesh, leaving black star marks, cracking and corroding the human's body. Only those with a parasitic Innocence like Allen Walker, Arystar Krory (Crowley) or Suman Dark can heal the virus, sucking the virus out with his teeth (for Allen, his Innocence just cures him of the Akuma poison. Krory can also suck the virus out of other humans that were hit by an akuma blood bullet), from these bullets. The souls inside a Level 1 Akuma have the bodies and clothes of their original forms. However, their faces are rather distorted and there is a chain around their necks expressing intense pain and sadness of the trapped soul. Level 1 akuma exhibit somewhat a transition from deteriorating human personality to an evil personality for level 2 later on as observed in their increasing obsession to simply kill and may, hence, show zombie like behavior in their human form. A Level 1 Akuma will advance to a Level 2 once it has fulfilled a substantial quota of kills of humans and exorcist.

LEVEL TWO
Level two produces a dramatic change. They develop a unique ability and a sense of self. Level 2 Akuma are capable of intelligent thought and are largely independent, though they still maintain unquestionable loyalty to the Millennium Earl and the Clan of Noah. The souls of Level 2 Akuma seem to become more deteriorated. The souls inside of these Akuma can't seem to be identified at all and are in a fetal position, wrapped from head to toe in bandages. Level 2 Akuma come in all shapes and sizes (some have even appeared simply as a gas, fire, a demonic court jester, or even a playing card) and they have no common appearance. They also have different powers, such as copying a person's appearance (mirror image), emitting "ice fire" which hurts worse than normal fire, creating blades of air, emitting destructive sound waves, and creating bubbles that absorb water from everything they touch. Some Level 2 Akuma even carry modern day weaponry such as homing missiles and various types of firearms that resemble machine guns and so on, as observed in the manga. Level 2 Akuma are able to fight on the same level of a normal Exorcist, unlile their previous Level 1 form which was easy for Exorcists to destroy. Furthermore, according to Eliade, the souls inside the Akuma which have evolved to Level 2 or higher will never be able to reach heaven after being released from their Akuma vessel. After murdering enough people, it can evolve to Level 3.

MODIFIED AKUMA
Modified Akuma are Akuma, that were modified by the members of The Black Order. They are completely friendly and never attack people until they get too close to the Millenium Earl. If the Earl gives a Modified Akuma a direct order, the Modified Akuma will become evil again. To prevent this, when a Modified Akuma is about to loose control it'll automatically self destruct, thus preventing itself from attacking humans or Exorcists.

LEVEL THREE
Level three brings perhaps the most terrifying changes of any previous stage. Regardless of their appearance in Level 2, all level 3 Akuma become bipedal, roughly 8 to 9 feet tall, with sharp jagged teeth, and wear what looks like medieval armor that covers most of their bodies (other than a few exceptions). In addition to this, they receive a massive power boost. A Level 3 Akuma is easily capable of standing up to multiple exorcists in combat and usually has an extremely powerful ability in addition to its greatly improved strength and speed. Their abilities seem to revolve around the use of their Dark Matter, the polar opposite of Innocence. General Level Exorcists, or Exorcists with powerful Innocence are able to destroy Level 3 Akuma easily though. The first Level 3 Akuma encountered in the series was only destroyed after a fight that almost cost Lenalee her life and forced her Innocence to take drastic measures, for a shocking revelation. According to Cross's modified Akuma, there are plenty of Akuma at Level 3 or above in Japan. The souls embedded in the level 3 Akuma are near gone and is a floating dark mass with eyes. The souls want to be released from being an Akuma by saying phrases like "Please love me," or "Please destroy me,". There are different types of Level 3 Akuma, one of which is the Stable, Melee-fighter type.

COMBINED AKUMA
An enormous Akuma that was the result of large numbers of Akuma in Edo fusing. It had three faces, two on its cheeks and one larger one in the middle. Its main attack, "Evil Star Gita" consisted of five balls appearing around its main body in the form of an upside down pentagram, shooting vastly destructive laser-like beams. Sachiko was hit and presumably killed by one of these beams in an attempt to attack it. Eventually it was caught in Mari's threads and poisoned by the melody he played with them. It was finished off by Kanda slicing its main face in half, surprising onlookers by making it look easy after others had tried and failed. Cross Marian, Klaud Nine and Winter Socalo have easily destroyed many of them during the invasion of the Black Order HQ without any effort. However, the eye of one such Akuma attacked Johnny Gill and evolved to a level 4 Akuma, the first confirmed one in over 100 years for both the Black Order and the Bookmen.

LEVEL FOUR
The rarest Akuma's evolution yet (Bookman stated that in over 100 years, the order and Bookmen had never confirmed a Level 4). The soul trapped inside a Level 4, according to Allen, doesn't even look like a soul anymore and is just darkness, thus, cannot longer be saved (Allen puked after witnessing the horrifying change, unable to look at it after his initial glance). Unlike the tall, imposing figure of a Level 3 Akuma, the first Level 4 Akuma introduced is about the size of a small child (between 4-5 feet tall), and possesses a more childlike appearance. The body is pale, and the appearance of the face is similar to that of a combined Akuma. The body has an 'organic' appearance, with a series of large and small stripes ringing its arms, legs, and neck. A large, inverted pentacle appears on its slightly bulged stomach, with a smaller pentacle on its forehead. The joints on a Level 4 are visible, similar to the joints on a wooden puppet. A Level 4 also possesses a pair of small fairy-like wings and a pair of flattened halos over its head (one small, one large), giving it an angelic appearance. The Akuma's innocent appearance is just a facade, however, as it refers to itself as a 'massacre weapon'. A small flick of its fingers is strong enough to send a General-Level Exorcist (Allen) flying what seems to be several meters, with the consecutive landing enough to knock them unconscious and put a rather large crater into the impacted wall. It can also make a scream that is able to affect the generals and other exorcists and disrupt their synchronization rates. It has shown little regard for members of it's own faction, as it killed many of the newly made Skulls, all because it was "a little excited".

NOAH CLAN

There are no ranks for Noah's. The Noah Family (ノアの一族, Noa no ichizoku) consists of fourteen human descendants of Noah who have inherited his genes. It was originally believed that they were the descendants of a single individual known as "Noah", but it is later revealed that there was originally a clan of 12 members. The Noah clan claim to be the original ancestors of all humans after the Great Flood, and that all humans possess "Noah genes." Every era, the Noah are resurrected through reincarnation to assist the Earl.

A Noah can be identified by a gray skin tone, yellow/gold eyes, and a horizontal line of seven cross-shaped stigmata referred to as holy marks. Another identifying feature of the Noahs is an extremely wide, Cheshire-Cat-esque smile, which the akuma also possess. Like Akuma creatures, they base their powers off Dark Matter, the opposite of Innocence, and as such are vulnerable to Innocence. However, since Innocence and Dark Matter are weak against each other, the Noah can also destroy Innocence by merely touching it. All of the Dark Matter powers of the Noah are very powerful, far surpassing those of the Akuma. Unlike normal humans, they are immune to the blood virus [1]. They have absolute command over the Akuma. The Noah share an inborn drive to kill Exorcists, but otherwise possess unique will and mindsets. "Carved" on their genes is a memory of one of the original Noah and a "true name" different from any member in their generation and possess a supernatural ability. They claim to be immortal, However, a Noah's human body can be destroyed after suffering enough physical trauma. The Noah will reincarnate into another body in time.

CIVILIANS

BROKERS
Brokers are humans who have sold out others to the Earl so that they may become Akuma. They have made a deal with the Earl so that they are not harmed by Noah while they continue to lurk the shadows and find others who have lost loved ones. Unfortunately, that does not save them from the safety of Akuma. Many Brokers are powerful leaders, so that they my influence others and use that as a way to continue the flow of Akuma Growth. They usually claim to others that they know a way to stop death and often set up the bait so that the mourning ones may then become Akuma. If they accept, the Earl is there waiting.

WITCHES AND SORCERERS
Witches and Sorcerers are civilians who have taken it upon themselves to learn how to manipulate dark magic and use it at their will. While most Witches and Sorcerers are evil, others take advantage of this magic to do good and destroy Akuma.

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