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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4191563" data-attributes="member: 2732">If Wizards had kept what the beings were called before, Devas, Planetars, and Solars, I doubt there'd be as much problem with this as I and some other people have.  The beings have ties to elemental planes because of the original concept of the Devas patrolling different planes, and because Gygax used Theosophy concepts as their original basis, not Christianity.  If you view this site you can read up on the Solar and Planetary Spirits and Devas and see how EGG was forming his view of the upper planes.<a href="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/etg-hp.htm" target="_blank">http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/etg-hp.htm</a>These beings weren't called Angels until 3.5 came out, likely because non TSR WoTC staff had angels in MTG, or somebody thought of these beings as angels first and wanted to call "a spade a space", for lack of a better term.  Personally, I think turning Angels into cosmic enforcers just take away from the name's connotation.  It's like having Demons that are good--it hits the wrong note in most people's archetypes.  So, while the 4e concept is cool--in fact Gygax actually defined a Solar in Gord the Rogue as less "man with wings" and more "energy being", and in Mythus he stated there were such things as "Devas serving Balance"--I think I could live with this particular concept if we just returned to the original D&D terminology for these creatures and removed the term "Angel".</blockquote>

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