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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4191568" data-attributes="member: 1003">I prefer they be explicitly linked.  The reference to "the curse of the dying God" may not have to be taken too literally.My preferred explanation is that Angels were (are?) created (by accident or on purpose) to enforce the Will of Power.  They are the tip of the sword; the messenger and manifestation of Purpose in one form.  Once Pelor creates/summons/wills an Angel of Vengeance into being, that Angel exists for the rest of time as Pelor's Angel of Vengeance.  It's a free-roaming Right Hand, but just as much a part of him as his actual right hand.The form that Angels have reflect what they are.  Combines Astral Matter with Will to Power and you get an Angel, every time.  They're like trees in that sense - the appearance of the sower has no effect on the appearance of the sapling that springs from the seed.But what happens when an Angel rips out the Will to Power that created him and replaces it with his own?  This questions has been asked many times but answered only once in all the history of the Universe, and the answer received was Asmodeus.  His Will then reached out and filled those who would follow him, but the fruit of the poisonous tree is poisonous in turn.Devils are Angels with free will.</blockquote>