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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6071488" data-attributes="member: 63">What do people think about the WotC article about angels in NEXT? <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4dreye%2F20130109" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4dreye/20130109</a>I think they're defining the physical features of angels the wrong way. 1. In a multiverse of many species, angels should be able to look all sorts of ways -- different skin colors, facial features, sexes, and ages. When an angel appears to orcs, it might look orcish, muscular and tusked. To elves, it could choose to be svelte and androgynous. To the 60% of Americans who aren't white, it could choose to appear as something other than a European.2. How then to differentiate angels of different ranks? FANTASY! Magic: the Gathering has had some fantastic angels, with different sorts of halos and designs. Movanic devas might have simple glowing silver or gold ring halos. Honestly, humanoid with feathered wings is impressive enough; the halo might not even be necessary.<img src="http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/wallpapers/SigardaHostofHerons_AVR_Facebook_Wallpaper.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Planetars might have large disk halos with ornate patterns in them (as well as patterns on their wings) that hint at what deity they serve. <img src="http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/sf/sf147_basandraArt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkgzjrAfRf1qbuknmo1_1280.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Solars would have brilliantly glowing fiery halos, shining eyes, as well as an aureola (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureola" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureola</a>). <img src="http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/daily/features/feature79_angel.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbfy4giDj91qc29lyo1_1280.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Perhaps angels that serve no god have no mouth. They can still create a booming voice that sounds from all directions, but it is a visual cue that they are either rebellious or fallen.3. Supernatural weapons are great. Oversized spears and swords, whips of white fire, ridiculous scythes for the angel of death.4. All this stuff is just how they choose to appear, how our mortal minds conceive them. They're beings of otherworldly grandeur and mystery, and if you were to peel away these veils they wear for our sakes, you would see crazy stuff. Orbs of energy surrounded by wheels of gems, pulsing as they talk. Flashing vertical planes of multicolored lights that appear 2-dimensional from any angle. A hollow presence that blocks everything behind it but cannot actually be seen. Undulating columns of mercury-like mirrors that reflect everything except for living creatures. But hey, in general, I'm fine with the classic stuff:<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzv67ks1cd1qbuknmo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1357842563&Signature=cruBirJrp3yJdrUPuQlcnkFuhS4%3D" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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