Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Astral Deva

Uh. No smartass commentary for this one really. I'll just get straight into it.

Contrary to popular belief, Lucifer's host of angels regained their beauty when they fell. In fact, the very idea that the fallen are malformed, monstrous lot is a ploy propagated by the Lord of Lies himself, helping him sow confusion on every step of the way. While scholars of the faith realize this, it is not common knowledge among the general populace.
When two angels appear on the day of a massive trial, both claiming to bear the message of god, with one saying that the accused is innocent and should be let got and the other that the man of guilty and should be stoned, the king's advisors need to find a way to quickly divulge which is which, before riots erupt.

When the warleader Hunbald Hunblaadi formed the Holy Kingdom of Blaadya in the ruins of the defeated Tyrant's realm, he made a grave mistake - He swore an oath that the kingdom belongs to all the gods of goodness and light, in an attempt to justify his conquest with zealousness. The only problem was - the gods heard him, and now the royal rooms rarely house less than two astral devas of all shapes and sizes, with the requests, orders, and suggestions from the myriad gods, godlings, demigods and ascended heroes who all consider the newly formed kingdom their earthly domain. While this initially granted legitimacy to the Holy Crown, the requests are becoming harder and harder to implement without contradicting. A group of heroes who have each devoted their lives to one of the gods involved have been summoned, and tasked with either finding a compromise, or if that fails, petitioning their patrons for some sort of relief of duty for the King.

While it is not unheard of for angels to fall from grace, most do so violently, becoming monstrous creatures of darkness. This was not the case with Savidar, who simply became a capitalist. Becoming the multiverse's premier planar guide (his own words) he chose to use his god-given power to amass wealth across the realms. When, after millennia of ignoring him, his goddess calls him to heel, he makes an offer to the group of archmages he is currently leading through the gates of madness - help him find a way to hide from the higher order angels hunting him, and before he goes away for good, he can transport them to any point in the place-time continuum free of charge.

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