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Within D&D, it's (also?) a symbol associated with Mount Celestia.

I think it's more of a situation where they don't want to touch on IRL mythology unless/until they can dedicate the page space to properly do it justice. Much as I love Deities & Demigods, On Hallowed Ground, etc., the versions of the IRL pantheons they covered were never particularly deep or...

More or less what I meant. Underlying point being that gods operate under a different paradigm than creatures like archons, devil, demons, etc. who are more direct manifestations of alignment and of the plane that birthed them. The Greek gods aren't in Arborea because they're Chaotic Good in...

Portals, the River Styx, detours through the Outlands/Astral Sea/Material Plane, etc. Also, as Micah Sweet noted, the Blood War is traditionally fought all across the lower planes, not just in Avernus.

I mean, I didn't make that call, and it's not that much different than basically all of the Norse gods hanging out one plane "chaos-ward" in Ysgard. End of the day, I look at it this way: the gods don't live where alignment says it's "appropriate" for them to live, they live where they choose...

According to the video, they've since dialed that back.

Circling back to this, think of it this way: just because two people a both good, that does not necessarily mean they are both on the same side. Archons are good, but just as importantly they are also lawful. They want to impose order - a righteous and benevolent order, to be sure, but order...

Well, for one, "Celestial" as a classification has been generally broadened in 5e. Some Astral Sea natives like the Mercane, Kindori, and Reigar are classified as Celestials now, as are the Dabus and Rilmani, despite none of them traditionally being a flavor of Good. More broadly, I think all...

I could also see them being saved for a Fizban/Bigby-style Celestial deep-dive book at some point in the future.

Not especially clean, but I grabbed this from the Pointy Hat video:

Oops - forgot to link the video in the post. It's there now.

Pointy Hat did a sponsored preview video on the new tieflings earlier today - I believe he shows the art there.

The Olympian Glades of Arborea (i.e. the pure CG plane). Home of the Ancient Greek pantheon (as one might expect) and the Elven pantheon, among others, as well as the old celestial version of the eladrin, back before the Feywild gobbled them up in 4e.

Nice to see the Outlands back in the center of the Great Wheel, where it belongs.

Circling back to this... Take with the customary grain of salt as prescribed by your physician, but I was watching NerdImmersion's stream going over the Barbarian changes and he noted that while not part of the group of creators selected to do preview videos like we've been getting this week...

Yeah, it was missing on the barbarian changes article they put up on Beyond as well. Alas, 'twas a fun mental image...

I'm more amused by the Persuasion option - I think Crawford used the example of raging at a masquerade ball... HULK SOCIALIZE!!!!

You know, I've never been a G Gundam guy, but now that martial arts paladin is properly on the table... Future Warforged Paladin: "This hand of mine glows with an awesome power!"

Don't recall how deeply Crawford covered Lay on Hands in the video, but going by the article they posted on Beyond, it looks like it's a bonus action now. https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1749-2024-paladin-vs-2014-paladin-whats-new