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Message: <blockquote data-quote="katahn" data-source="post: 4191501" data-attributes="member: 65004">Exactly.  The new fluff on angels doesn't invalidate the idea of "devils as fallen angels" at all.  The gods collectively would find the concept of deicide very, very, very bad and that alone would be grounds for them banding together to curse/punish the transgressors and do their best to lock them away.Why not just obliterate them?Maybe they couldn't.  Maybe the collective power of the rebelling angels was too strong for the pantheon to end their existance.  Maybe angels cannot be permanently killed, even by the gods, which given their origins now as sentient collections of astral energy makes at least a little sense.  Remember, in polytheistic cultures the gods were NOT all-powerful like our judeo-christian concept of God is today... the gods were quite powerful but in their own ways were more akin to superheroes than the God of the bible/koran/torah/book of mormon/etc.Maybe the collective pantheon couldn't destroy Asmodeus and his followers because in killing the unnamed god and becoming a god himself, Asmodeus was able to shield himself and his forces just enough so the best the pantheon could do was curse them and "lock them in".  Asmodeus had no concept of loyalty or love for his forces, but could easily be justified in shielding them from the perspective of losing his military forces would leave him too weak.In the end, your mileage may vary.  I however can see some interesting possible epic-level campaign stories that might spin out from this.</blockquote>

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