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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3192480" data-attributes="member: 11697">1e had Planetars, Solars, and some types of Devas. They were not really described as a common, cohesive group however. 2e did that by detailed them all as Aasimon, direct servitors of specific deities rather than being servitors of the abstract alignments like Archons/Guardinals/Eladrin. 3e renamed Aasimon as Angels, but otherwise left everything virtually intact (or more often, unchanged by default since they didn't go into as much detail).After that initial period though, some of the later 2e planar material is incredibly dark (more so than really anything that was been made before or even after).2e did that long before 3e came along. Baatezu and Tanar'ri were just the major 'race' of fiends in their respective planes, but there were others who had a different particular outlook on their alignment, or a different origin, etc.The names (perhaps with the except of Ysgard) are now less specific to particular mythologies. Because while much of the Elven pantheon and the Olympian pantheon reside in Arborea, it'd shaft the elves to have the entire plane named Olympus. Same to a lesser extent with Tartarus/Carceri, Hades/Gray Waste (especially given that the plane monstrously predates the Greek pantheon in D&D history). But at least we no longer have 'The Happy Hunting Grounds'.</blockquote>