Guardians

Guardians (鬼神族, Kishin-zoku, lit. "Fierce God Tribe"), also known as Evil or Icon in Digital Devil Saga series, is one of various Species in Megami Tensei Universe. Fierce Gods/Guardians are deities from various pantheons that are associated with huge woes, like war, death, and chaos. Generally they have opposite alignments (Like Light-Chaos, or Dark-Law).

Races

Race	Japanese	Meaning	Alignment
Tenma	天魔	Heavenly Demon	Light-Chaos
Fury	破壊神	Destruction God	Light-Chaos
Kishin	鬼神	Fierce God	Light-Chaos
Lady	地母神	Mother Goddess	Light-Chaos
Vile	邪神	Wicked God	Dark-Law
Reaper	死神	Death God	Dark-Neutral
Wargod	軍神	God of War	Light-Law / Light-Neutral
Kunitsu	国津神	Nation Ruler God	Light-Chaos / Dark-Neutral
Zealot	狂神	Mad God	Light-Chaos / Dark-Neutral
Entity	威霊	Spiritual Authority	Various. Most are Light-Neutral
Shinshou	神将	Godly General	Light-Neutral
Tenjin	天神	Heavenly God	Light-Law

Race and species
Species	Races
Gods	Deity - Megami - Amatsu* - Enigma - Zealot* - Godly - Chaos - Lady* - Nymph - Vile* - Reaper* - Entity* - Meta* - Soshin
Kishin	Tenma - Fury - Kishin - Lady* - Femme* - Vile* - Reaper* - Wargod - Kunitsu - Zealot* - Entity* - Shinshou - Tenjin*
Demonics	Tyrant* - Genma* - Night* - Fairy* - Yoma* - Fiend* - Suiyou - Shinoma - Shin Akuma
Demons	Tyrant* - Night* - Yoma* - Fairy*
Flying	Herald - Divine - Fallen - Futenshi - Akuma
Avians	Avian - Flight - Raptor
Dragons	Dragon - Snake - Drake - Hiryu
Oni	Touki - Brute - Femme* - Jirae* - Jaki - Haunt* - Henii
Beasts	Avatar - Holy - Beast - Wilder - UMA - Food - Kaijuu
Vegetation	Tree - Wood* - Jusei
Elements	Element* - Mitama - Wood*
Fairies	Fairy* - Jirae* - Genma* - Element*
Evil Spirits	Haunt* - Spirit - Undead* - Rumor*
Humans	Human - Gaean - Messian - Summoner - Meta* - Ranger - Hero - General - Famed - Therian* - Fiend* - Kyojin - Shinja
Fiends	Fiend* - Therian*
Fouls	Foul* - Vermin - Demonoid - Rumor* - Karma - Machine*
Ghosts	Foul* - Undead*
Machines	Machine* - Virus - Vaccine - Kugutsu
Other	Zoma - Fake - Ghost - Foreigner - Qadištu - Horde - Devil - Primal - Matter - Enemy exclusive race Godslayer - Goddess - Nahobino - Panagia - Player Character exclusive race
Type	Good - Evil - Holy - Ghost - Ogre - Fiend - Dragon - Alternate - Boss - Beast - Bird - Zombie - Myth
Order	Pyro - Frost - Volt - Wind - Fury - Pagan - Skill - Fiend - Evil - Element - Spirit
* Asterisk denotes race that has been put under different species throughout the series. Italic font denotes the race/species name (not in katakana for Western loanword) has not yet received any official English localization.