The Angelus is one of the two primal forces of the universe and is the embodiment and ruler of the Light. She has been at war with her equal and opposite, The Darkness, since the Creation. At some point she and The Darkness forged a truce to avert mutual destruction and in so doing conceived The Witchblade. Each generation, The Angelus takes a human host, though such hosts have always been little more than puppets to the will of The Angelus.