Category:Ferrymen

The following is a list of angels who belong to the Ferryman class, the Angels of Death. These angels are, second only to Kritchaboids, as close to the darkness as an angel can get, while still being on God's side and avoiding becoming a demon. Burned worse than Kritchaboids, they often resemble flaming skeletons when not in disguise. Their mission is to ferry souls to the afterlife, usually to the Courtroom of Eternal Judgment first. After this, they may escort a soul to Heaven or Hell. If Heaven, they take a soul directly to the Gate and the waiting area, where souls wait to enter the actual Holy City.

If Hell, they are delivered to Jublikrat, who in spite falling away, harbors the least amount of grudge against Heaven - and against the Ferrymen whom he would otherwise have been a part of. Jublikrat was known by many names throughout the ancient world, most notably as Thanatos to the Greeks and Mot to the ancient Canaanites, and was even worshiped as a personification of death itself. From there, the condemned soul is further escorted by Jublikrat into the damned realms. Thus, the Ferrymen and Jublikrat have a complicated love-hate relationship.

While usually escorting souls as part of God's will, Ferrymen also can serve as sanctioned assassins of men who have managed to find some way or another to pose a sufficiently credible threat to Vocational Destiny. They are also known by such titles as Malak Mashhit, or "the Destroyer Angels." They are also compared often to Charon, Psychopomps, the Grim Reaper, or the Shinigami.

Maurice is the most well-known in Dozerfleet mythology, though he serves a dual role as a guardian angel to both Boris Heminski and Tabitha Pang.

They're distinguishable by having white armor with metallic red trims, or with being dressed as a mixture of sea merchants from the 17th century with 20th-century white lab coat medical doctors. Sometimes, they mix the doctor costumes with fireman masks. Their outfits represent their complicated role of dealing with life and death on an intimate level. They are the most dour of the non-fallen angels, given the gravity of their job, and rarely show emotion.