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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4191447" data-attributes="member: 1211">I don't think the mercenary angle has to have any effect on an individual game. The angels serve gods for whatever reasons and there is reason to believe that they are loyal when they are encountered by PCs. Their "contracts" could last for millenia for all we know.I think they are mercenaries in the same sense that modern soldiers are mercenaries; few people would be soldiers if they weren't payed for it. They still can be very loyal to the country they are serving. In the angel's case, the "pay" could be that they can promote the ideal/agenda that they like. I also think that the reason behind that comment is that angels aren't extensions of their deity's will, if the deity steps out of line, he or she will be left by his or her angels.I don't think bands of angels will rove around the Astral Sea looking for an employer. The Asmodeus- case shows that angels make bad leaders for themselves (that, and the rebellion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). IMC, if a god gets slain the angels will just disappear into the energy from where they came. The gods don't create the angels, but they do give them form. An angel without a master is a diffuse entity of energy without an identity. When a god comes into existance, entitys of the same persuasion shape into angels. If the god dies or changes those entities won't follow that god anymore. The interesting thing then is Hell; what happened there? Instead of being cursed by the gods, the devils is the self defense of the egos of the fallen angels. Not being content with being followers anymore, the angels under the command of Asmodeus wanted to lead. When their god died, they reshaped their minds and bodies into what is now devils. Then the nature of the universe made their leader a god and the follower nature of the former angels made the devils into a very organized and hierarchical species, now forever condemned to their own realm.</blockquote>

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