Nephilim
February 23, 2009
The children of angels and man originally created by a Job like argument between two angels and God. They claimed that given a chance the same as the humans they could rise above the temptations of sin and depravity. God, as he did in those days, acquiesced to the their bargain and a contingent of angels was sent to Earth.
It didn’t take those angels long to begin fornicating in earnest with the daughters and sons of God and a whole race of half angel half human beings was created. The Nephilim, a distinction for those who are 1/2 and 1/2 regardless of if their parent was acting as a female or a male at the time, are the basis for legends of demi-gods the world over.
They got to be so plentiful and troubling that Michael was dispatched to round them up and shove them in a valley to await sentencing. (The parallel to the Titans of the Greeks and the enslaving of giants by the Norse is unmistakable here.)
The great flood was supposed to kill them off and did wipe out many, but later giant figures such as Goliath would surface showing that the Nephilim blood line was still active on Earth.
Nephilim are powerful beings with certain divine powers. All Nephilim are essentially holy at birth but corruption comes and goes. Fallen Angels are unable to procreate with humans to create Nephilim, such spawn are always demons and monsters of terrestrial origin. Though the act of procreating with humans was deemed an sin in Heaven after the initial plague that was mostly curtailed by the Flood, it still occurs and harsh punishments are exacted upon those who engage in such acts, but the act in and of itself does not warrant automatic casting down of the angel involved.
Why this crime/sin is not punished with automatic expulsion from Heaven is unknown but it good money points to an edict from on High that even Michael can not twist or turn.
Even so there are precious few Nephilim wandering around. And the children of the Nephilim lose their touch of the Divine rather quickly. Within a single generation in fact.
There are rumors of several Nephilim that have bred further with other angels creating something greater than a Nephilim, lower than an angel and different the the Scions.
Whether an individual is 1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 blood they are all referred to as Nephilim. The only distinction made is that of the parentage of the Nephilim. Those born of an angel acting in a female role, that of the womb, are sterile be they male or female children. Those that are born from a human woman with an angel acting as procreator are capable of passing along the blood.
