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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8593434" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>The biblical flaming wheel of eyes angels are pretty heavy metal. They would not be visually amiss as something summoned from Elric's Courts of Chaos or streaking across the sky in a Warhammer Chaos battlefield.</p><p></p><p>My understanding of the classic winged people angel image is that they come from Greek mythology. You get the conflation of Classical art with Christian art as a Renaissance theme so divine Cupid and beautiful Nike types get used to represent heaven's spirits instead of four-faced animal headed things. Enough repetition of classical art as analogy for christian angel concept it gets popularized as the actual associated image.</p><p></p><p>In D&D I like classic D&D angels (winged people devas and trumpet archons, weird specific green-skinned planetars, lantern archons), 4e angels as Astral sea emanations that will work for gods of any alignment, 3rd party supplements on angels, and a Pathfinder style angels as Hosts of Heaven kind of separate from gods. I am also a fan of using other non-D&D angel concepts like <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/12199/Steve-Jackson-Games/subcategory/28908_30775/In-Nomine?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">In Nomine</a> and <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/259252/Kult-Divinity-Lost--4th-Edition-of-Kult-Core-Rules?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Kult</a>.</p><p></p><p>I prefer my D&D gods to possibly be completely separate from Angels. Thor running around with his hammer of Thunderbolts hunting trolls without angelic support seems mythologically appropriate, though Order of the Stick Thor with his own planetars can work.</p><p></p><p>I really like the idea of different celestial orders having their own specific archlords not specifically connected to gods as portrayed in the 1e Manual of the Planes, 3e Book of Exalted Deeds, and a bunch of Pathfinder books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8593434, member: 2209"] The biblical flaming wheel of eyes angels are pretty heavy metal. They would not be visually amiss as something summoned from Elric's Courts of Chaos or streaking across the sky in a Warhammer Chaos battlefield. My understanding of the classic winged people angel image is that they come from Greek mythology. You get the conflation of Classical art with Christian art as a Renaissance theme so divine Cupid and beautiful Nike types get used to represent heaven's spirits instead of four-faced animal headed things. Enough repetition of classical art as analogy for christian angel concept it gets popularized as the actual associated image. In D&D I like classic D&D angels (winged people devas and trumpet archons, weird specific green-skinned planetars, lantern archons), 4e angels as Astral sea emanations that will work for gods of any alignment, 3rd party supplements on angels, and a Pathfinder style angels as Hosts of Heaven kind of separate from gods. I am also a fan of using other non-D&D angel concepts like [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/12199/Steve-Jackson-Games/subcategory/28908_30775/In-Nomine?affiliate_id=17596']In Nomine[/URL] and [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/259252/Kult-Divinity-Lost--4th-Edition-of-Kult-Core-Rules?affiliate_id=17596']Kult[/URL]. I prefer my D&D gods to possibly be completely separate from Angels. Thor running around with his hammer of Thunderbolts hunting trolls without angelic support seems mythologically appropriate, though Order of the Stick Thor with his own planetars can work. I really like the idea of different celestial orders having their own specific archlords not specifically connected to gods as portrayed in the 1e Manual of the Planes, 3e Book of Exalted Deeds, and a bunch of Pathfinder books. [/QUOTE]
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