A
Angel · ◆ Darkness

The Watchers

The Grigori · The Sons of Heaven

majorattestedJudaism

The two hundred angels of the Book of Enoch who were set to watch over humankind, and who instead descended on Mount Hermon, bound themselves by oath, took wives, taught forbidden arts, and fathered the giants. Their fall brings the Flood, and their prison waits under the hills until the judgment.

Knowledge86
Power78
Darkness70
Ruin84
✦Signature powerThe Oath of HermonTwo hundred bound by mutual curses, so that none could repent without betraying the rest.
◈ Open relationship graph →

Its universe

The mythic order The Watchers belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

Voices & connections

Figures bound to The Watchers, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

Enochenemy ofAzazelhas member

Relics & objects

Sacred and cursed things that belong to the world of The Watchers.

The Forbidden FruitCursedThe Golden CalfCursedTablets of the LawSacredArk of the CovenantSacred

Read the story

Illustrated chapters where The Watchers appears. Start reading in a click.

Illustrated storyThe WatchersFrom the Book of Enoch: two hundred angels set to watch over humankind descend instead on Mount Hermon, bind themselves by a mutual oath, take wives, teach the forbidden arts — metallurgy, sorcery, the reading of stars — and father the giants. The scribe Enoch is sent to write their judgment. The oldest fall-of-angels story ever written down.Begin reading →Illustrated storyThe Sleeper in ClayThe Gnostic Genesis: the Archons shape Adam as a trap for the light, the blind god breathes his stolen inheritance into the clay, and the copy stands up greater than its makers. The garden, the tree, the serpent who tells the truth — the oldest story in the world, told from the point of view of the spark.Begin reading →