Goddess Clan

The Goddess Clan is one of the five major races in the world of Nanatsu no Taizai.

Overview
Three thousand years ago, the Goddess Clan constantly clashed with the Demon Clan. Similar to the latter's Ten Commandments, this clan has their own elite unit, the Four Archangels, who even the Ten Commandments must be wary of, according to Monspeet. Despite often battling, most goddesses acted gentle towards humans and considered killing demons as a way to save them. However, the two legendary clans were largely evenly matched and thus a tentative balance was created. At some point in time, they broke a treaty with the Demon Clan, and even slaughtered many women and children they were holding as prisoners of war.

However, when Meliodas had betrayed his own people for his alliance and relationship with the Supreme Deity's daughter Elizabeth and severely crippled their strength by killing two members of the Ten Commandments, the rest of goddesses seized the opportunity to finally defeat the Demon Clan and instigated the Giant Clan, Fairy Clan and humans against them, starting the great war.

As a result, the Demon Clan was ultimately defeated by the Goddess Clan and their allied clans and sealed away in the Coffin of Eternal Darkness for many years, realizing it was the only way to win after losing their strongest fighter Mael. Despite their victory, they lost much of their power and the ability to maintain their physical forms in order to seal the Demon Clan for hundreds of years. The souls of the Goddess Clan came to inhabit within objects, only being able to manifest themselves in the physical world taking the body of another being as a vessel.

According to Jelamet, a majority of the goddesses apparently inhabit places called Sky Palaces, where they lay dormant, as she made use of the gate in the altar to bring the remainder of the Goddess Clan to invade and control Britannia.

An unknown goddess tried to communicate with humans to find more about Meliodas, but what happened to her after her object's destruction is unknown. Other few goddesses escaped the battle after realizing some of the orders they received were wrong and became the leaders of the Druids, who worship the Goddess Clan.

In the present day with Hendrickson unleashing the Ten Commandments by incompletely breaking the seal, the Four Archangels "revived" to join the reincarnation of Elizabeth, the Seven Deadly Sins and the other races against the Demon Clan, now facing a new Holy War. However, two of them lost their physical bodies again while it was revealed that the Archangel Mael is still alive and turned into one of the Ten Commandments. After the return of Mael, the leader of the Archangels also loses his physical form at the end of the new Holy War, making Mael the last "survivor" of the Four Archangels.

Appearance
As the name suggest, the Goddess Clan appears to be composed mostly of females, with only a few males have been seen so far. They appear human except with one or more angel-like wings, though some of them can have larger sizes or monster-like features such as having three heads.

Physiology
Higher ranking Goddesses are distinguished by their multiple pairs of wings, with more pairs of wings they have and the larger is the size of those wings meaning the goddess is stronger. Whenever a Goddess inhabits a physical vessel or whenever they use their magical powers, their eyes manifest the symbol of a golden triskele.

Powers and Abilities
The Goddess Clan is an extremely powerful race able to stand on equal ground with the Demon Clan, although it required the cooperation of the fairies, giants and humans to seal them away after losing their strongest fighter. Despite their power, they needed physical forms to actually affect the world by their actions. According to Ludociel, they aren't actual Gods like the Demon King or the Supreme Deity, despite their massive power. Members of the Goddess Clan share several common abilities:


 * An archetypal magic technique of the Goddess clan that creates light particles, often envolving the target in a dazzling sphere of light that breaks apart their body. It is mostly counteracts darkness by disintegrating, though it also can cause physical damage.
 * A technique that erases "abominable" souls, such as vampires and demons. This technique was passed down to the Druids.


 * Resurrection: Ban sought out the Goddesses to resurrect Elaine, believing that something like that should be easy for them. One of them said that resurrection of a single fairy is an easy task. Though, even when Mael, one of the Four Archangels, used a technique that let deceased souls reincarnate in a new life with their memories of their past lives, rather than resurrect them, the veracity of the statement has to be proven still.


 * By chanelling their power, goddess can counteract negative effects, such as severe injuries either caused physical or by miasma, to even strong poisonous acid. It can also recover health and stamina or clear the mind of someone. This power has the opposite effect on demons when not controlled enough, hurting them and repelling their power.


 * A spell that only a high ranking Goddess could use. The user gathers light in their palm to create some kind of symbol and blowing it over their desired target, with those affected get a magic power boost. The Demon Clan refers to this technique as because it is also a brainwashing spell that turns the targets into fanatical zealots loyal to the Goddesses with no regard of their injuries and keep on fighting until they are broken and dead.
 * Possession: With the consent or forming a pact with another being, Goddesses are able to take their bodies as vessels and use them as their own, being able to use all his/her abilities through their vessel, despite not being so strong that with their original bodies. However, the vessel (especially humans) may have difficulty hosting high-ranking Goddesses, leading their bodies to undergo transformations. The compatibility between the vessel and the Goddess can affect its overall strength.
 * Flight: Given the nature of their wings, this allows the Goddesses to fly. The stronger ones even have the strength enough to carry a giant.
 * Time Regression Spell: A spell that allows one to send the soul of another being towards the past. This spell can be taught to members of other races, mainly the druids.
 * Healing: This is the natural ability that all Godesses have allowing them to heal any one from any clan even Demons, healing any injuries.

Four Archangels
is an elite unit composed of four of the strongest and highest-ranking members of the race, outclassed only by the Supreme Deity herself.
 * Ludociel (Leader)
 * Mael
 * Sariel
 * Tarmiel

Divine Lance Corporal
are Goddesses who serve the Four Archangels within the Divine Militia and are of higher rank than Divine Soldiers.
 * Nerobasta
 * Jelamet

Divine Soldier
are Goddesses who serve the Four Archangels within the Divine Militia.
 * Jenna
 * Zaneri

Trivia

 * Female members of the Goddess Clan can be based on the Valkyries of Norse Mythology, while male members can be based on the Angels of the Bible.
 * Despite being names Goddesses which referes to female deities, there are in fact males among them and they are confirmed to not be actual gods.
 * The symbol in their eyes resemble a triskelion, a symbol that represents the drawing of the three powers of maiden, mother, and crone. It also can be a reference to the Holy Trinity.
 * All the members of the Four Archangels have their name end in "-el", which is the Hebrew word for "God." It is also used at the end of the names of each Archangels of God in the Bible.