I love the idea of creating a horror encounter with a seraph that the characters have to run from and can't even look at, and all the while they can hear the seraph's song getting closer and closer. Though I have no clue how that'd work mechanically.
Holy shit, you're a genius. _As you scramble down the corridor, you see the stone walls around you reflecting a shimmering golden light. You avert your gaze as the light threatens to overtake you. As the light continues to surge around you, you feel warm winds blowing at your back - and you hear the tinkling of thousands of bells, suspended above a chorus of whispered melodies. And as the chorus draws near, you can begin to make out the words their thousand voices chant in unison:_ *B̴̗̝̰͆͌̃͌̓͜͠͠Ȩ̷̼̗̻̞̫͕̭̳̺̀̕̕ ̵̼͎̊̂͐N̴̳̰̺͇̫̞̹͍̞̪̪͖͒̄̓̆͛̈́̽́͋̀̏͜͜Ò̴̗̟̜̽̿̚͠Ţ̶̯̹͈̩̹̺͕̳̾̓̅̇̐̓̈́̓ͅ ̷̧̛͚͎̮͓̼̦̰͔͙͂͒͒̾͆͆̐͐Ǎ̵̙̲̦̏͂͜F̶̡̢̯̳̳̪̆͒̚͝Ṙ̶͕͉͓̠͍̀͑́̉͑̄̀̈́ͅA̶̢͉͙̺̩̬̺̤̩̯̺̗̎̄̅̊̚̕I̴̢̡̧̛͉̻̰̬̯̼͖̤͕̥̭͐̈́́͋͂̐͌̇͑͘̚D̷̤͖͙͎̝͈̭̯̰̂̂͒͆̀̂̽̎̾͒͠.̵̡̤́̏̓͑͊̿* °
I think take a chase scene mechanic. Find a reason why the angel might be slower than usual because i think theyd just catch up too quickly. Then pepper in some wisdom or charisma saves for the party to not give into the song and turn around.
@@EgoEroTergum true although the worship was more of a syncrotyms thing rather than being in the same pantheon like odin and freya or hera and artemis plus dagon wasn't like the lovecraftian diety although i do think many old world dieties are much closer to azathoth or probobly the most direct paralell Nyarlathotep than we often realize
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Constantine didn't change shit in the Bible, after all the Canon was not really formulated even after his death, the opposite was true. It was developed and debated by Christian theologians/scholars till circa 500 AC when was finally agreed by Christians what should be in the Bible and the misconception that the council of Nicea was about the biblical Canon and constantine dictated what should be in the bible is laughable because we have enough sources to debunk this myth and nearly all today's historians are going to agree with what I have said.
Timestamps for homebrew lore: 10:17 The Angelical Courts 11:20 The Third Sphere 11:31 Angels 12:58 Archangels 13:34 Principalities 14:22 The Second Sphere 14:44 Authorities 15:22 Virtues 16:47 The First Sphere 17:03 Thrones 17:36 Seraphim
@@6xXx_Jack_xXx9 There are, I think he forgot Cherubim which is in between Thrones and Seraphim. Shame too cause this video was really damn interesting and I kinda wanna see his take on a Cherubim
He kinda missed the Cherubim, really wanted to see his take on that because in the Bible, many believed that Lucifer/Satan was once a cherubim which might make cherubims very, very unique: they have complete free will like mortals into choosing to do good or sin. Not just that, Lucifer debated and convinced so many angels that a third of them fell down with him right after a war in heaven happened.
I am really late to the party but yes there are 9 types. Cherubim, Powers and Dominions are missing and Authorities are extra here. No clue why. Great video tho.
@@janblahoslav5602 Power or Authority are the same, but translated differently. I feel like Dominion and Cherub got cut for time, the video is quite long and full of detail as it is.
Your channel is growing fast because: 1) You are funny and speaks clearly 2) The audio quality is great 3) The video quality is great 4) The editing quality is great 5) The content is well thought and researched Ps: would you be willing to make a site? To put all that info in a few nice tables and sheets? Much love from brazil
@@Werefoofle yeah we tend to tell people, specially if the content is in other language, so that the creator knows that not only the video is reaching, but we are also engaged and understanding what they are saying 😉
I was always thinking about celestials: Goodness is guaranteed a reward in planes of good, so sending angels to be good but not be rewarded, but punished for their goodness, will corrupt them. I wrote how a powerful angel trapped the angels in heaven. This powerful angel then fell and walked the earth. An easy way to write corrupted celestials is to write down an ideal or principal, but being punished for it. Loyalty? Stabbed in the back. Honor? Piss on your grave. Mercy? They continue their evil. Saving the weak? Killed and forgotten. Think about a paladin who devotes himself till level 20, and then dies(assuming his soul isn’t destroyed), is sent to heaven, given new gear and told, “here, we’re going back to battle.” He thought he could retire from fighting, but nope.
One of the angels started to think of himself as high as the highest being but was humbled So that Angel butt hurt and took his anger into his own hands and got clapped
This is great. I do this in my worldbuilding. As a Jew, there's also some interesting resonance between angels and dragons. For instance, seraphim comes from the same Hebrew word as for serpent, serap. So for me, I tend to have a lot of overlap between dragons and celestials, dragons as physical shadows of angels from a fall. Beings in their own right, now, but originally a byproduct of angelic rebellion.
That's fascinating! Thank you for sharing. I'm always looking at our angelic lore too (Kabbalah enjoyers rise up), but I never thought about that connection. I'll have to look into it myself. 🙂
@@Drekromancer medieval Persians also thought of us (Jews) as "dragon worshipers." And there's some evidence of ancient and even medieval Hebrew/Yahwist/Jewish cultural artifacts using draconic imagery. It makes some sense of the Genesis serpent too if you grant a celestial nature to it like Christians tend to do: it's cursed to live in and eat dust for its part in Adam's exile, but what did it do before? It flew! Like a dragon. Anyway, my wife loves dragons, and her patron saint (she's catholic) is gabriel the archangel, so I commissioned an icon of him as a dragon with details drawn distinctly from Jewish tradition, like holding a branch from the tree of souls and the word yesod branded on his chest.
@@jamestitus472 I personally don't buy into the idea of angels and dragons being connected, but I will admit this is all some very interesting stuff! now I'm imagining the war in Heaven pretty much being a massive Skyrim dragon battle XD
weirdly i used this in my city of heroes character backstories. not making dragons evil per se, but that they were just a different job of angels, balancing creation with destruction, angles were the words of god that created, and dragons were the ones that destroyed. both were foundations of maintaining reality my other gimick was that their halos were the words that animated them, as angels are living words of God.
Woooa that is a really qierd and awesome connection! I'm always stoked by the ties that seem to blur the Evil and Good, because that flow and balance concept seems to be closer to the OG middle eastern religions than many evangelical Christians are comfortable with.
yep, i'm always a fan of the theming Celestials around their god. your setting has a god of knowledge, well have a muti-eye Lovecraftian horror reading a libeary worth of books at once a god of thieves, a shadowing figure that the party just can't seem to stay focused on. a god of death, the literally grim reaper Eilistraee, a bunch of hot drow waifus (joking but I do like making race specific gods to have their celestials look like the race in question)
I feel like they only mean anything when you stick to this rule. The word "angel" literally means "messenger." There are some theological traditions that think of angels less as "independent servants of a god" and more as "a fragment of a god's essence given form." If you're following the latter definition, then it feels mandatory to make the angels *embody* the forces that their god represents. Besides, what's the fun in making every celestial encounter nothing but golden light? That's just one kind of divine encounter - and it's a big universe out there. Go nuts, and dive into the primordial ether of divine visions. You'll have much more fun. 🙂
I'd make where each character saw the being, but saw it at least slightly differently! For instance, the humans might see an very androgynously beautiful being, floating above them, robe flowing in the non-existent breeze. Where as elves might see a beautiful elven maiden, with very little on, small leaves or flower petals falling from her fingertips and vanishing before hitting the ground. So mething like that! If obviously plan it a little better, at least, if I were going to make it a noteworthy interaction. And it'd be a waste not to, in at least most campaigns.
All the other races are described as "humanoid" or "like humans but...", So it shouldn't be especially surprising. If anything, other races are going to point to humans as "basic noobs" that can't "git gud" because they're just vanilla, while proclaiming themselves the most elite haxxors.
I’ve been home brewing angels for so long its a joke now in my players campaigns with these terrifying celestials destroying cities for going against a god Seeing how you would do them looks awesome!
this comment made me want to write and run a campaign in a post apocaliptic world where every god makes its own demands most of which contradicts demands made by other gods, while using angels to punish anyone who dont comply. so towns are constantly being destroyed and harrased by different angels of opposing gods for not doing as each of those gods commands.
@@shccer2 if you wanted something slightly more nuanced, a single seraphim of a single god is corrupted, in some way or another, and the prayers it sings it twists. It knows it's god, and knows how to compel its god to act. If it's a righteous god, the seraphim sings nothing but prayers for delivery from unjust rule. Eventually the god brings down judgement on somewhere that wasn't asking for it. Other gods respond to this horrific act and begin to attack said deity, but the seraphim was still storing the true prayers it had, and gives them to their god all at once (Something of a celestial WMD as well as a temporary steroid boost) and the forces of the other gods are horrifically repelled. The god of justice sees this as an unprovoked attack, and goes on the war-path. Other gods begin to do tyrannical shit because if they don't receive enough prayer, they won't have enough power to do what needs be done. World divides into religious, anti-religious, and fiendish factions, all of them using what powers they have to influence this conflict. Entire villages promising their souls to fiends so they are defended from the Commandments and Judgements, people actively refusing to believe in the gods, hoping to starve them (These people might even do some anti-religious Inquisition shit, as the gods hold deeper sway in the lands of their followers) and other things like that Divine Post-Apocalypse could be cool af. Early game party trying to escape after the city they spent their first few levels in is Judged, and a seraphim appears above the city, and people start burning. It's something of a horror show as they try to flee the city without looking at or being seen by any of the angels.
Some of these Biblically-accurate angels remind me of higher-ranked modrons... I can see those creatures flying around Mechanus, prepared to smite the powers of chaos and entropy.
@@loadeddice4696 That sounds appropriate. I think the stronger Angels should be equally alien and monomaniacal about their own crusade - it's just that they're focused on fighting evil instead of chaos.
"Good luck fighting one" Oh pointy hat how you underestimate the devious plans possible from a party made up of people whom the word consequence is not known.
"Can't be poisoned" *shows a scene of the ponies walking through a plant that poisons them in the show, being the entire point of that episode* Poison joke (the plant in the scene) could be pretty neat in dnd though, it like, causes some effect the plant finds funny, based on the poisoned target
Absolutelly. From what I got the magical touch poison of the Poison Joke targets "the thing" someone is the most proud off or likes the most about themselfs: Pinki: her talkativeness or joke telling. -> swollen tongue. Twilight: her magic or being a unicorn. -> wobble horn. Rarity: her good looks. -> felt pelt. Applejack: her strenght. -> becomes tiny and weak. Rainbowdash: her flying skills. -> gets inverted flight controls. Fluttershy: her soothing feminine voice. -> Raspy bass sanger voice. So, if one of the PC's characters is super brave and confident about it, the effect of the poison will have them become a rabbit foot. If there is an ingame rules lawer, they forget all the rules and constantly break them. If one of the bardy, i mean party, is a womanizer, he becomes the woman. Or just ugly like the night. Party-idiot, who thinks he's the smarts alive, gets an IQ of 140 and realizes how impossibly dumb he actually is/was, fully aware of all the dumb stuff they did in the past, bathing in self shame. Calm and focused life loving monk goes nuklear Gandhi. Following that: the quest to find a cure. Or it's just time based and "heals" over a (few) days. Though, this plant can also be an enabler for a TPK, if encountered at a bad time and having no cure mechanic. It should be handled with the same care like the deck of many cards, or the barrel with the 1000 experimental wands, if you know the story.
If you want your poison joke to be a bit more malicious, Fallout Equestria's killing joke is a great option as well. Just keep little notes of all the offhand comments the party makes, and then turn some of those deadly. Shout out to Blackjack exploding everything she touched.
@@wulf_95 I was looking for this comment lmao. Yea, the fandom seems far from dead tbh lol, though I started watching MLP about a year ago, though I was familiar with some of the fanworks before (especially music lol). I have listening to Vylet Pony and my gf to thank for getting me into it lol
Celestials can become problems when their uncompromising demands or expectations don't fit into reality. "The god has chosen you to do this, mortal." "But... how?!" "That's your problem, n00b." The world is made up of nuance and complex interactions. Celestials are not.
But even in a world of nuance and complexity, you can have utter versions of things. I mean, look at Mechanus. I think it's okay to have absolutes in any world, as the characters' interactions with these forces can lead to interesting development for those characters.
If you need inspirations of how a powerful angel could act as a NPC/Guide, look at how the Hand of the Inheritor is written in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I think that would be a good portrayal.
Reminds me of Cieth (Chosen one that failed), Falcie (gods) and Lsie (chosen one) from FF13. A "god" in ff13 can assign a mission to a human. The vision of what to do is vague at best. The chosen human gains powers of that of the god. If the humans complete their mission they are given "eternal salvation" and become a cristal, or they can fail their mission and become a zombie angel. This actually sounds pretty cool for a D&D campaign now that I say it outloud
My favorite "Biblically Accurate Angel" i saw in D&D was in that webcomic strip with Sir Becket the Paladin. Basically, it was a creepy eldrich d10 with wings and eyes on each side. I fear what CR the d20 angel would have...
The celestial court is an interesting idea for lawful good gods, but I'm curious how the courts of neutral and chaotic gods would be set up. Maybe neutral is like a communal family and chaotic is based on who is the most faithful?
Well, one thing to remember about the court as shown in this video is that its members aren't individuals, they're essentially "constructs" fulfilling the directive of the god that created them, for whatever purpose that might be. Naturally, a lawful good god would create their "court" in such an orderly way as described in the video, each order given a specific task, but chaotic and even neutral gods wouldn't have a compulsion to create beings that exist purely to manage their other members of the court. For these non-lawful gods, I'd simply cut out all the middle-management, and then theme the rest of the god's court around whatever aspect the god oversees. Maybe a neutral god of, say, music/song/poetry would reside within a Throne with "towers" like organ pipes and "walls" made of strings/cords, and the Seraph of the court play the Throne like an instrument unto itself while singing their otherworldly prayers to the god in an endless cacophony of every song performed by mortal, everywhere, all at once. Within this Throne, our god emits an endless stream of countless otherworldly, unknowable rhymes, melodies, etc from whatever counts as its mouth(s), never before heard by mortal ears; these...eh..."emissions" then coalesce into the forms of the god's Angels, which float off to the various other planes and take the forms of various muses to inspire mortals to recreate these divinely-gifted songs in their own ways. That's just a simple example of a stripped down court, but you can add or remove things as needed for any setting. Perhaps this god of music/song/poetry is in eternal contest with an opposing god of...idk, silence or something, I'm not very smart. In that case, maybe our God of Loud has a cohort of Authorities and/or Archangels which might be...idk essences of pure sonic energy, unobservable to most mortals except for the visual distortion from the compression effects of All That Sound, and flinging directed blasts of pure sonic power at their enemies that can turn mortal bodies to jelly and deafen anyone close by to everything except the glorious sound of their godly choir.
Literally the first ever piece of art I uploaded online was my rendition of a biblically accurate angel, I've binged all of your videos like 3 times, I clicked on this one so damn fast. Love your content so so much
I love all the new videos being put out about biblically accurate angels-they’re awesome. I myself and not that religious, but i swear these things come out of a fantasy action adventure series. I always love your content Pointy Hat! It’s amazing and well-explained!
I love all of this, When i built my homebrew world I created 13 gods, and use celestials to serve them. A difference for my stuff is most of the gods are so powerful that they have assumed a state of non-sentience and just kind of float in the void eating up prayers that are delivered to them. The celestials in their Courts use the gods as kind of a battery, feeding them prayers but consuming the power and energy's that come from the gods. They also have very un-angel like forms in some cases but still have angel wings, but with feathers of a different object. The Arc-celestial of War has wings where the feathers are made of all manor of martial weapons; Where as the Greater celestial of Meed is a black bear with wings made out of dripping honeycomb.
You know? Your concept does sound a bit familiar to the antideluvians from world of darkness. I mean, incomprehensibly old and powerful beings stuck in a stasis-like coma until the heat death of the universe or if they suddenly wake up to do whatever they want, which usually ends up with continents flattened and death tolls in the billions or trillions
@@deeznuts-kw6yv until they made the mistake of actually giving them stat blocks which took a lot of the scariness away. Kinda the same thing as what happened when they made gods fightable in DnD.
Bro that’s is so extremely cool like the gods who are pretty much mindless and all powerful with no feasable way to stop them perfectly captures the fear of cosmic horror to me. And maybe you weren’t going for this with the celestials being the focus but like all powerful gods that are a force of nature no way to stop them and them not even realizing or caring about the destruction they cause by a blink or turn. I them being mindless makes them so much scarier because you can’t reason or even plead to them like imagine it’s whole disgusting or horrific form that’s larger than planets and has like millions of eyes and your pleading it to stop it’s destruction and it’s huge horrific eyes just roll over to look at you with no response
I think there was a story with a concept like this for primordials. The gist of it was that the laws of physics and other rules of reality are defined by the primordials believing reality to be defined as such, and not changing in their beliefs in the slightest. Which led to the unsettling realization that if anyone actually managed to _communicate_ with a primordial, causing them to do anything more than just vibe, the entire universe might fall apart. If I remember correctly, the horror of this realization came from the discovery that one of the primordials had moved. And they had no way of knowing what part of reality was broken as a result of this. All they knew was that reality seemed to be gradually unraveling at the seams. Which allowed for things like magic to become possible, but only because reality had already crumbled to the point that mortal minds could sculpt it to their will.
This is such a well-designed and comprehensive hierarchy system, I would love to see you do more like this where you take an inspired lore and flesh it out!
As a Catholic, can I just say FINALLY!!! SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT!!! Angels are cool. On a related note I really think it would be cool to have celestial East-Asian dragons, basically acting as like the angels of Bahamut (or similar dragon gods). They could be like if Kiren were third sphere then Long dragons could be like second sphere. Their breath attack can do radiant damage and they can grant the Wish spell once a year or something *coughdragonballreferencecough*. Just an idea I'm throwing out to the void for you or anyone reading this since I cannot homebrew monsters to save my life.
Bahamut canonically has a team of Gold Dragons to function as his closest confidants and advisors. You don't need to give him anything more special than what he already has. Any dragon that reaches ancient is pretty much a demigod so no need to try so hard. Not to say Bahamut doesn't need some of his own personally groomed celestrial helpers, just saying you are overthinking it.
@@jacobfreeman5444 sticking to canon isn't what this channel is about. It's about putting ones own personal twist on preexisting content. And so what if I'm over thinking it? That's part of the fun when it comes to homebrew. Like I said this is an idea I'm sharing with the world to act as a writing prompt for people to have fun with. Besides who wouldn't want to fight Shenron?
Very amazing content, I appreciate your twists on classics and it inspires me to do the same for my own campaign and setting. Keep it up! You're doing great
Technically, dnd official lore has the celestial counterpart of the nine hells- mount celestia and the Archons. They for some reason never gave any stats for them in 5e. MrRhexx has some great videos explaining them. Great video and angelic designs, nonetheless!
I love this take on celestials! I already had been planning to use the christian mythos be the foundation of how the celestial hierachy work and you put it in words perfectly. So if I now construct a celestial court I can use your video as a cheat sheet on what I need to remember.
I feel so bad that he keeps saying “I hope it was worth it”. BOIIII THESE ARE ALWAYS AMAZING and the fact that you worked so hard for free?! Good for you!!!
YESS!!! In my homebrew setting nearly a third of the world was glassed by what you described as a throne being knocked down ala super star destroyer crashing into the death star 2, and the only life that inhabit the desert crater are warforged, undead, and corrupted celestials. Your hierarchy fits my setting perfectly! thank you for another amazing video!
... To start this video with Bayonetta kicking ass, transition into why Celestials are so friggen hard to include, and then knock it out of the park with incredibly thoughtful, yet easy-to-understand roles of Celestials with the Spheres?!!??!?! THIS IS SO FLIPPING GOOD I AM DECEASED THANK YOU OS MUCH I NEED TO USE THESE ANGELS NAAAAAOOOOW
I love this kind of content, I think you and Map Crow should collab. He’s doing another one of his monster videos. I think it really would help both channels grow.
Just joined your squad here. Can I say that your humor is fantastic. Not to mention your editing. Just **chef kiss**. I'm bummed I didn't find you sooner.
Ooooh I was planning on making a guardian angel PC, but this'd be great as a dm *and* a player. If it ever comes up, I may incorporate this into my own things, thank you so much!!! This is not only supremely helpful, it's super interesting!!! (And man I love angels too, this was just 10/10) (There were some different words you used, like authorities instead of powers, and leaving out dominions & cherubim; but I imagine that's simply a differnce in info/for the left out ones, hard to incorporate haha; I found it pretty interesting!)
Got damn your editing is just so great Antonio. Thank you for all the work you put in! And big ups for including Last Unicorn clips; one of my childhood movies!
Honestly, your growth is probably just how solid your identity is. You provide good content along with actual homebrew, and your icon is distinct and simple enough that I totally thought you were an established creator. Good on you honestly
I would love to get a full stat block on the virtue angel in the future. Of all the angels you created, that's the one that sparks the most ideas for a campaign.
I don't know if that Dorime thing when describing the Seraphim is an actual cover or something you made for this video, but for some damn reason I can't stop listening to it, not can I get it out of my head. GG on making a meme a "truly haunting melody" because now I'm stuck with it xD But fr, if that's an actual cover, I kinda wanna listen to it now haha
Can you flesh out Gnomes next? Deep Gnomes are one of my favorite races, but no one ever takes my character seriously because, “Little man funny”. Even though I’m playing a no nonsense lawful neutral archetype. I’m not asking for edge as sharp as a razor, but maybe make some lore to make the race relevant?
I really want him to do a lot of the races because the sheer blandness of so many characters is awful. Not from lack of choice but because people try to toe the line and keep to what is written instead of using their imaginations and really pushing the envelope. Nothing wrong with reskinning and even homebrewing things a bit if it doesnt make things distracting.
Steal the Nentir Vale lore for them. 4e's gnomes had been denizens of the Feywild alongside the Eladrin, but had spent generations as slaves under the cruel dictatorship of the Fomorians, cursed fey giants with powerful magical abilities and mystic eyes. These gnomes worked hard, developing their skills with illusion magic and stealth, and ultimately managed to escape - for the most part. To this day they haven't forgotten their time as slaves, and so their culture revolves around both celebrating their freedom and making almost paranoid efforts to protect themselves. They build elaborately hidden bunker-villages, supplementing artful mundane camouflage with powerful illusions and other magical mind-fuckery effects. They hate slavery with a deep and abiding fury and will do just about anything to avoid going back there. They even have specialist defenders, like the Nightcloaks (Paladins armed with illusion magic who act as a combination of secret police and special commandos to eliminate threats before they can strike) and Phantasm Guards (Swordmages wielding fear-inducing illusion spells to attack the body and the mind simultaneously). They are surprisingly badass little fuckers but without going completely GrimDark, so you can still play a comedic gnome if you want to.
@@kiptheott That's a pretty cool take. Gives the Deep Gnomes a reason to oppose other Underdark societies like the Drow, Duergar and Mind Flayers who are each all for slavery. Also gives them an incentive either to ally with or side against the players, depending on what the players are after and whomever might be sponsoring them. Shame that this concept didn't really carry over into 5e.
Always happy to get more stats for celestial creatures! I've already been inspired to add more of them in my campaigns from the wonderfully cosmic-horror-y celestials included in "Strongholds and Followers", and this is a great further addition to that
I love everything you do. You are by far the best DnD creator out here. The amount of thought and real world applications and “twist” you put on this is honestly refreshing. Love how you don’t just “toss a demon into it” but actually make a real solid story to build off of.
This video's thumbnail made me salivate, and the video totally lived up to the hype! How can you be so good at addressing the things I want most out of this game? Actually, wait. Don't answer that question. Just keep up the good work. 🙂
You didn’t go over Dominions or Cherubim, could you upload a supplementary video talking about how you would run those? Cherubim especially are annoying because they are always depicted as cupid-esque beings when… they’re decidedly not like that
Man... your videos and homebrews are getting better and better with every new upload. Great research, great art, fun and engaging play material. Keep up the great work.
I spent the whole angelic court section thinking on how this would work for the cat lord and honestly it was hilarious to imagine a bulging titan of metal and death covered with cat ornaments and paintings over its body.
One of the aspects of the cherubim is that of a lion, so while they're also part ox and part eagle, they should still have enough cat to have come connection to the Cat Lord.
As a christian I can attest to that fact that Biblically accurate Angels would really be different than what is traditionally presented in our ttrpgs.😜 The Shin Megami Tensei series is really a treasure grove of interpretations of things like this.👍 ~ Adam
Very cool idea having a character whose backstory is just having seen a seraph once, and now tries to make sense of that experience, going on pilgrimages etc.
This whole video gave me an inspiration for a bard who heard the seraphim's song and survived. They have a dash of divine soul sorcerer and are thrown into fits of madness screaming "I MUST HEAR THAT MELODY!!!" they lose time and will forget weeks at a time trying to get back to the seraphim to hear it again
The choice of Celestials in 5e are super underwhelming. You know it's bad when the most interesting sources of radiant damage aren't even from Celestials, and they all come from FToD (Crystal Dragons, Moonstone Dragons, Bahamut, and Hollow Dragons).
I like to go with SMT's angels and demon functioning on the Law/Chaos axis rather Good/Evil so one could find a lawful evil angel or find a chaotic good fiend.
Ugh!!! You are my FAVORITE channel. Your editing is immaculate, your concepts are so amazingly creative and inspiring, I literally laugh out loud during each video when most other videos with comedy in them just make me breathe out of my nose more forcefully. I seriously get so excited each time you upload. Can I sing your praises more? Keep it coming!! Congrats on all your growth, it is MORE than deserved. Thanks for what you do man!!!
I was joking to my D&D group that your Mind's Eye build was a Biblically Accurate Beholder and you just went: WE CAN GET MORE BIBLICALLY ACCURATE xD Awesome lore as always!! :D
Dudeeee, I recently discovered tour channel, and I love it. And I recently started My first long campaign as DM and the last secreto Big Bad Boss is a tiranic celestial with an distopic idea of order, and I have been struggling to get a good celestial high level monster, and unexpectedly BOOOM u just post this!!!! Awsome bro!! Keep going with your videos, send You i like from México.
The thing a lot of people who base their view of angels on Renaissance paintings often forget is that there's a reason why angels always start every interaction with mortals by saying "Fear not," "Be not afraid," or some other version of "Hi, don't scream."
I'm gonna be real. I'm glad I found this channel early on in its lifetime. Hella enjoy the content and look forward to all future releases! Keep it up! Destined for star status in the DND, and most likely, TRPG sphere!
I wrote a stat bloc for Ophanim/Thrones one time, and this seems up the same alley. Love the idea of angels as proper creatures, they make great villains.
Your content is amazing! Not only is it fun to watch and listen to, but its so helpful for DMs to have realized stat blocks for the lore elements. Thank you so much :)
I felt the exact same way. love this. hopefully you make more stat blocks and maybe even more angels. like you could make fallen celestial variants or abilities that would change if they where fallen. thanks for the video and everything else. looking forward to more of your videos.
I've been trying to find content for Angels everywhere because wizards is absolutely lacking in this category. This is very well researched and I'm very excited to bring them into my world. Thank you very much!
That birdplane joke caught me off guard and I was wheezing for a good minute there. Love your content so much and told my party about your channel. Keep up the amazing work
It is amazing! Really needed this for my campaign - thank you so much ❤🔥 I would love to see the whole angelic court fleshed out ~ big angel fan over here ~ much love 💜
I didn’t expect to be exposed in the first 45 seconds of this video but I still love it!! Your vid’s are so much fun and I can actually sit still enough to watch them
Been looking forward to this for video of yours since you hinted at it! Last year ago I started down my own path of creating biblically accurate angels for my next game, so it was a real treat to see your take on it. :) Great work as always!
I want to just listen to this video while I’m doing my laundry but the references and art is so good and each point made is so full of content I end up rewatching it 😂🫡
I love this take, my current DM whom I've been playing with for years at this point, has an homebrew setting with a similar premise; basically as gods are divine and such the sight of one would most likely brake any mortal's mind, it adds a whole layer of cosmic horror to dnd
this has immediately become my favorite DND channel on youtube and i'm surprised that i'm so early in finding it. keep up the good work, and I hope there's tons more videos to come!
Oh man. I have been binging your videos for what feels like two weeks straight. To the point I actually said to myself, out loud, "I think I'm sick of Pointy Hat" only to fall right back in because of yt auto-play. Awesome concept and definitely inspires some ideas in me. It may be a long while before I have players strong enough to need your start blocks, but hot diggity do I really enjoy your videos.
as someone who's currently playing an aasimar character for a campaign(who may or may not be in contact with a celestial being), this was incredibly insightful towards the inner dealings of celestial beings! the higher courts were very fascinating to hear about too, this was a FUN video.
Gosh this is so so cool! This excites me so much! Cannot WAIT to incorporate them into my games! I also love angels and really want my eldritch horror to use them XD
I wish I could super like videos because this is pure inspiration to put against an evil characters and the foundation of an evil campaign, chef's kiss this is beautiful!
My guy, you just helped me immensely with a world building detail I've been struggling with for YEARS! Now, my cosmological system has a bunch of holes patched, and I have a solid framework for a BBEG/eldritch parasite I've been struggling to put together! It also clarifies how I can make a lawful based horror psuedo-god!
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How do you type like that
The accurate interpretation of Biblical Angles still freaks my the F out the more I look into them
AHHH! Run!
I understand it... yet youtube is giving me a translate to English option...
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Pointy Hat could make a sourcebook with all of his ideas thrown into it and it would become one of the best dnd supplements out there
So true.
Honestly yeah
Truly one of the best Homebrew creator this side of the internet
Truly! Someone get this man a Patreon!
Indeed!
I love the idea of creating a horror encounter with a seraph that the characters have to run from and can't even look at, and all the while they can hear the seraph's song getting closer and closer. Though I have no clue how that'd work mechanically.
Holy shit, you're a genius.
_As you scramble down the corridor, you see the stone walls around you reflecting a shimmering golden light. You avert your gaze as the light threatens to overtake you. As the light continues to surge around you, you feel warm winds blowing at your back - and you hear the tinkling of thousands of bells, suspended above a chorus of whispered melodies. And as the chorus draws near, you can begin to make out the words their thousand voices chant in unison:_
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"Keep your hand at the level of your eyes!"
I think take a chase scene mechanic. Find a reason why the angel might be slower than usual because i think theyd just catch up too quickly. Then pepper in some wisdom or charisma saves for the party to not give into the song and turn around.
@@Drekromancer The angel jusy wants to ask about your car's extended warranty! 😂😂😂
Use vicious mockery but add a dice for every round they aren't moving.
A wonderfully simplified adaptation of Christian angelology. I especially like making the oraphim the god's castle itself.
arent they called ophanim?
@@frank_calvert they are
this is perfect i've wanted to have more biblically accurate/lovecraftian celestial and gods in my setting!
Dagon was actually an old Canaanite agricultural deity worshipped alongside Baal and Yahweh. He just didn't last.
@@EgoEroTergum true although the worship was more of a syncrotyms thing rather than being in the same pantheon like odin and freya or hera and artemis plus dagon wasn't like the lovecraftian diety although i do think many old world dieties are much closer to azathoth or probobly the most direct paralell Nyarlathotep than we often realize
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Constantine didn't change shit in the Bible, after all the Canon was not really formulated even after his death, the opposite was true. It was developed and debated by Christian theologians/scholars till circa 500 AC when was finally agreed by Christians what should be in the Bible and the misconception that the council of Nicea was about the biblical Canon and constantine dictated what should be in the bible is laughable because we have enough sources to debunk this myth and nearly all today's historians are going to agree with what I have said.
@Nunya Beezwax because it was and always has been. I'm honestly confused on what you specifically are talking about
Me too
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Timestamps for homebrew lore:
10:17 The Angelical Courts
11:20 The Third Sphere
11:31 Angels
12:58 Archangels
13:34 Principalities
14:22 The Second Sphere
14:44 Authorities
15:22 Virtues
16:47 The First Sphere
17:03 Thrones
17:36 Seraphim
I thought he said there would be three types in each shpere?
@@6xXx_Jack_xXx9 There are, I think he forgot Cherubim which is in between Thrones and Seraphim. Shame too cause this video was really damn interesting and I kinda wanna see his take on a Cherubim
He kinda missed the Cherubim, really wanted to see his take on that because in the Bible, many believed that Lucifer/Satan was once a cherubim which might make cherubims very, very unique: they have complete free will like mortals into choosing to do good or sin. Not just that, Lucifer debated and convinced so many angels that a third of them fell down with him right after a war in heaven happened.
I am really late to the party but yes there are 9 types. Cherubim, Powers and Dominions are missing and Authorities are extra here. No clue why. Great video tho.
@@janblahoslav5602 Power or Authority are the same, but translated differently. I feel like Dominion and Cherub got cut for time, the video is quite long and full of detail as it is.
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@@Werefoofle yeah we tend to tell people, specially if the content is in other language, so that the creator knows that not only the video is reaching, but we are also engaged and understanding what they are saying 😉
Yeah @Pointy Hat ! This is a great idea. Much like all of your ideas 😂
Yeah, no for sure.
I was always thinking about celestials:
Goodness is guaranteed a reward in planes of good, so sending angels to be good but not be rewarded, but punished for their goodness, will corrupt them.
I wrote how a powerful angel trapped the angels in heaven. This powerful angel then fell and walked the earth.
An easy way to write corrupted celestials is to write down an ideal or principal, but being punished for it.
Loyalty? Stabbed in the back. Honor? Piss on your grave. Mercy? They continue their evil. Saving the weak? Killed and forgotten.
Think about a paladin who devotes himself till level 20, and then dies(assuming his soul isn’t destroyed), is sent to heaven, given new gear and told, “here, we’re going back to battle.”
He thought he could retire from fighting, but nope.
One of the angels started to think of himself as high as the highest being but was humbled
So that Angel butt hurt and took his anger into his own hands and got clapped
@@24heavy69 it took all the gods to banish asmodius as he was the one fighting their war
This is great. I do this in my worldbuilding. As a Jew, there's also some interesting resonance between angels and dragons. For instance, seraphim comes from the same Hebrew word as for serpent, serap. So for me, I tend to have a lot of overlap between dragons and celestials, dragons as physical shadows of angels from a fall. Beings in their own right, now, but originally a byproduct of angelic rebellion.
That's fascinating! Thank you for sharing. I'm always looking at our angelic lore too (Kabbalah enjoyers rise up), but I never thought about that connection. I'll have to look into it myself. 🙂
@@Drekromancer medieval Persians also thought of us (Jews) as "dragon worshipers." And there's some evidence of ancient and even medieval Hebrew/Yahwist/Jewish cultural artifacts using draconic imagery.
It makes some sense of the Genesis serpent too if you grant a celestial nature to it like Christians tend to do: it's cursed to live in and eat dust for its part in Adam's exile, but what did it do before? It flew! Like a dragon.
Anyway, my wife loves dragons, and her patron saint (she's catholic) is gabriel the archangel, so I commissioned an icon of him as a dragon with details drawn distinctly from Jewish tradition, like holding a branch from the tree of souls and the word yesod branded on his chest.
@@jamestitus472 I personally don't buy into the idea of angels and dragons being connected, but I will admit this is all some very interesting stuff!
now I'm imagining the war in Heaven pretty much being a massive Skyrim dragon battle
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weirdly i used this in my city of heroes character backstories. not making dragons evil per se, but that they were just a different job of angels, balancing creation with destruction, angles were the words of god that created, and dragons were the ones that destroyed. both were foundations of maintaining reality my other gimick was that their halos were the words that animated them, as angels are living words of God.
Woooa that is a really qierd and awesome connection!
I'm always stoked by the ties that seem to blur the Evil and Good, because that flow and balance concept seems to be closer to the OG middle eastern religions than many evangelical Christians are comfortable with.
yep, i'm always a fan of the theming Celestials around their god.
your setting has a god of knowledge, well have a muti-eye Lovecraftian horror reading a libeary worth of books at once
a god of thieves, a shadowing figure that the party just can't seem to stay focused on.
a god of death, the literally grim reaper
Eilistraee, a bunch of hot drow waifus (joking but I do like making race specific gods to have their celestials look like the race in question)
I feel like they only mean anything when you stick to this rule. The word "angel" literally means "messenger." There are some theological traditions that think of angels less as "independent servants of a god" and more as "a fragment of a god's essence given form." If you're following the latter definition, then it feels mandatory to make the angels *embody* the forces that their god represents. Besides, what's the fun in making every celestial encounter nothing but golden light? That's just one kind of divine encounter - and it's a big universe out there. Go nuts, and dive into the primordial ether of divine visions. You'll have much more fun. 🙂
It fits because Eilistraee is trash and Lolth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Some goth theatre kid with a sword.
Angels: Are overwhelmingly human-looking.
All the other races: "Dude, WTF?"
Like he said in the video: mortals see the angels differently.
I'd make where each character saw the being, but saw it at least slightly differently! For instance, the humans might see an very androgynously beautiful being, floating above them, robe flowing in the non-existent breeze. Where as elves might see a beautiful elven maiden, with very little on, small leaves or flower petals falling from her fingertips and vanishing before hitting the ground. So mething like that! If obviously plan it a little better, at least, if I were going to make it a noteworthy interaction. And it'd be a waste not to, in at least most campaigns.
All the other races are described as "humanoid" or "like humans but...", So it shouldn't be especially surprising.
If anything, other races are going to point to humans as "basic noobs" that can't "git gud" because they're just vanilla, while proclaiming themselves the most elite haxxors.
@@gabrieladerre2862 a beholder will see himself but with a halo
I mean in DND they should be of all races as they are just dead people anyway.
I’ve been home brewing angels for so long its a joke now in my players campaigns with these terrifying celestials destroying cities for going against a god
Seeing how you would do them looks awesome!
I'm imagining a city stuck in an annihilation catch 22 because they are caught between two gods with conflicting commandments.
this comment made me want to write and run a campaign in a post apocaliptic world where every god makes its own demands most of which contradicts demands made by other gods, while using angels to punish anyone who dont comply. so towns are constantly being destroyed and harrased by different angels of opposing gods for not doing as each of those gods commands.
@@shccer2 I think you just explained why monsters attacking towns is so common in D&D. And why the world of D&D has so many monsters to begin with.
@@shccer2 if you wanted something slightly more nuanced, a single seraphim of a single god is corrupted, in some way or another, and the prayers it sings it twists. It knows it's god, and knows how to compel its god to act. If it's a righteous god, the seraphim sings nothing but prayers for delivery from unjust rule. Eventually the god brings down judgement on somewhere that wasn't asking for it. Other gods respond to this horrific act and begin to attack said deity, but the seraphim was still storing the true prayers it had, and gives them to their god all at once (Something of a celestial WMD as well as a temporary steroid boost) and the forces of the other gods are horrifically repelled. The god of justice sees this as an unprovoked attack, and goes on the war-path.
Other gods begin to do tyrannical shit because if they don't receive enough prayer, they won't have enough power to do what needs be done.
World divides into religious, anti-religious, and fiendish factions, all of them using what powers they have to influence this conflict. Entire villages promising their souls to fiends so they are defended from the Commandments and Judgements, people actively refusing to believe in the gods, hoping to starve them (These people might even do some anti-religious Inquisition shit, as the gods hold deeper sway in the lands of their followers) and other things like that
Divine Post-Apocalypse could be cool af. Early game party trying to escape after the city they spent their first few levels in is Judged, and a seraphim appears above the city, and people start burning. It's something of a horror show as they try to flee the city without looking at or being seen by any of the angels.
Running Angles as some sort of celestial meat-robot sounds like a cool idea. One could even do a little hive-mind twist there.
A new Pointy Hat episode? What have I done today to deserve such a blessing.
Worshipped a biblically accurate angel? 😇
Idk u'r cool
I guess you're not the only one who's blessed since I just graduated today.
@@juliacortez5516 congratulations!
Prayed to the biblically accurate dnd angels
Some of these Biblically-accurate angels remind me of higher-ranked modrons... I can see those creatures flying around Mechanus, prepared to smite the powers of chaos and entropy.
Well that's what Modrons are right, basically angels/spirits of pure Law instead of Good?
@@loadeddice4696 That sounds appropriate. I think the stronger Angels should be equally alien and monomaniacal about their own crusade - it's just that they're focused on fighting evil instead of chaos.
@@loadeddice4696 Correct!
"Good luck fighting one"
Oh pointy hat how you underestimate the devious plans possible from a party made up of people whom the word consequence is not known.
A.k.a. Chaotic Stupid.
That makes me desire a power word: consequence spell now.
@@go5083 power word:karma. The actions of the target are made manifest and the consequences of them are rought upon them
"Can't be poisoned"
*shows a scene of the ponies walking through a plant that poisons them in the show, being the entire point of that episode*
Poison joke (the plant in the scene) could be pretty neat in dnd though, it like, causes some effect the plant finds funny, based on the poisoned target
Absolutelly.
From what I got the magical touch poison of the Poison Joke targets "the thing" someone is the most proud off or likes the most about themselfs:
Pinki: her talkativeness or joke telling. -> swollen tongue.
Twilight: her magic or being a unicorn. -> wobble horn.
Rarity: her good looks. -> felt pelt.
Applejack: her strenght. -> becomes tiny and weak.
Rainbowdash: her flying skills. -> gets inverted flight controls.
Fluttershy: her soothing feminine voice. -> Raspy bass sanger voice.
So, if one of the PC's characters is super brave and confident about it, the effect of the poison will have them become a rabbit foot.
If there is an ingame rules lawer, they forget all the rules and constantly break them.
If one of the bardy, i mean party, is a womanizer, he becomes the woman. Or just ugly like the night.
Party-idiot, who thinks he's the smarts alive, gets an IQ of 140 and realizes how impossibly dumb he actually is/was,
fully aware of all the dumb stuff they did in the past, bathing in self shame.
Calm and focused life loving monk goes nuklear Gandhi.
Following that: the quest to find a cure.
Or it's just time based and "heals" over a (few) days.
Though, this plant can also be an enabler for a TPK, if encountered at a bad time and having no cure mechanic.
It should be handled with the same care like the deck of many cards,
or the barrel with the 1000 experimental wands, if you know the story.
If you want your poison joke to be a bit more malicious, Fallout Equestria's killing joke is a great option as well. Just keep little notes of all the offhand comments the party makes, and then turn some of those deadly. Shout out to Blackjack exploding everything she touched.
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@@wulf_95 I was looking for this comment lmao. Yea, the fandom seems far from dead tbh lol, though I started watching MLP about a year ago, though I was familiar with some of the fanworks before (especially music lol). I have listening to Vylet Pony and my gf to thank for getting me into it lol
Celestials can become problems when their uncompromising demands or expectations don't fit into reality. "The god has chosen you to do this, mortal." "But... how?!" "That's your problem, n00b." The world is made up of nuance and complex interactions. Celestials are not.
Maybe more that they care only for the fate of your soul, your body is of no consequence.
@@jacobfreeman5444 yes you are right they want your soul to be damned (The one’s that fell that is) but, the human soul is extremely valuable
But even in a world of nuance and complexity, you can have utter versions of things. I mean, look at Mechanus. I think it's okay to have absolutes in any world, as the characters' interactions with these forces can lead to interesting development for those characters.
If you need inspirations of how a powerful angel could act as a NPC/Guide, look at how the Hand of the Inheritor is written in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I think that would be a good portrayal.
Reminds me of Cieth (Chosen one that failed), Falcie (gods) and Lsie (chosen one) from FF13.
A "god" in ff13 can assign a mission to a human. The vision of what to do is vague at best. The chosen human gains powers of that of the god. If the humans complete their mission they are given "eternal salvation" and become a cristal, or they can fail their mission and become a zombie angel.
This actually sounds pretty cool for a D&D campaign now that I say it outloud
My favorite "Biblically Accurate Angel" i saw in D&D was in that webcomic strip with Sir Becket the Paladin.
Basically, it was a creepy eldrich d10 with wings and eyes on each side.
I fear what CR the d20 angel would have...
Probably a CR 20
Miracle Matter
D100: someone make me into one!
that angel's name is D'ten and its warlock has served it well
The celestial court is an interesting idea for lawful good gods, but I'm curious how the courts of neutral and chaotic gods would be set up.
Maybe neutral is like a communal family and chaotic is based on who is the most faithful?
Well, one thing to remember about the court as shown in this video is that its members aren't individuals, they're essentially "constructs" fulfilling the directive of the god that created them, for whatever purpose that might be. Naturally, a lawful good god would create their "court" in such an orderly way as described in the video, each order given a specific task, but chaotic and even neutral gods wouldn't have a compulsion to create beings that exist purely to manage their other members of the court.
For these non-lawful gods, I'd simply cut out all the middle-management, and then theme the rest of the god's court around whatever aspect the god oversees. Maybe a neutral god of, say, music/song/poetry would reside within a Throne with "towers" like organ pipes and "walls" made of strings/cords, and the Seraph of the court play the Throne like an instrument unto itself while singing their otherworldly prayers to the god in an endless cacophony of every song performed by mortal, everywhere, all at once. Within this Throne, our god emits an endless stream of countless otherworldly, unknowable rhymes, melodies, etc from whatever counts as its mouth(s), never before heard by mortal ears; these...eh..."emissions" then coalesce into the forms of the god's Angels, which float off to the various other planes and take the forms of various muses to inspire mortals to recreate these divinely-gifted songs in their own ways.
That's just a simple example of a stripped down court, but you can add or remove things as needed for any setting. Perhaps this god of music/song/poetry is in eternal contest with an opposing god of...idk, silence or something, I'm not very smart. In that case, maybe our God of Loud has a cohort of Authorities and/or Archangels which might be...idk essences of pure sonic energy, unobservable to most mortals except for the visual distortion from the compression effects of All That Sound, and flinging directed blasts of pure sonic power at their enemies that can turn mortal bodies to jelly and deafen anyone close by to everything except the glorious sound of their godly choir.
The other planes already have minions/army’s mechanis has the modrones and limbo has frogs that make you explode
Literally the first ever piece of art I uploaded online was my rendition of a biblically accurate angel, I've binged all of your videos like 3 times, I clicked on this one so damn fast. Love your content so so much
I just finished watching all your videos and I was so sad there weren't more of them this is amazing timing
I love all the new videos being put out about biblically accurate angels-they’re awesome. I myself and not that religious, but i swear these things come out of a fantasy action adventure series. I always love your content Pointy Hat! It’s amazing and well-explained!
I love all of this, When i built my homebrew world I created 13 gods, and use celestials to serve them. A difference for my stuff is most of the gods are so powerful that they have assumed a state of non-sentience and just kind of float in the void eating up prayers that are delivered to them. The celestials in their Courts use the gods as kind of a battery, feeding them prayers but consuming the power and energy's that come from the gods. They also have very un-angel like forms in some cases but still have angel wings, but with feathers of a different object. The Arc-celestial of War has wings where the feathers are made of all manor of martial weapons; Where as the Greater celestial of Meed is a black bear with wings made out of dripping honeycomb.
You know? Your concept does sound a bit familiar to the antideluvians from world of darkness. I mean, incomprehensibly old and powerful beings stuck in a stasis-like coma until the heat death of the universe or if they suddenly wake up to do whatever they want, which usually ends up with continents flattened and death tolls in the billions or trillions
@@deeznuts-kw6yv until they made the mistake of actually giving them stat blocks which took a lot of the scariness away. Kinda the same thing as what happened when they made gods fightable in DnD.
Bro that’s is so extremely cool like the gods who are pretty much mindless and all powerful with no feasable way to stop them perfectly captures the fear of cosmic horror to me. And maybe you weren’t going for this with the celestials being the focus but like all powerful gods that are a force of nature no way to stop them and them not even realizing or caring about the destruction they cause by a blink or turn. I them being mindless makes them so much scarier because you can’t reason or even plead to them like imagine it’s whole disgusting or horrific form that’s larger than planets and has like millions of eyes and your pleading it to stop it’s destruction and it’s huge horrific eyes just roll over to look at you with no response
I think there was a story with a concept like this for primordials. The gist of it was that the laws of physics and other rules of reality are defined by the primordials believing reality to be defined as such, and not changing in their beliefs in the slightest. Which led to the unsettling realization that if anyone actually managed to _communicate_ with a primordial, causing them to do anything more than just vibe, the entire universe might fall apart.
If I remember correctly, the horror of this realization came from the discovery that one of the primordials had moved. And they had no way of knowing what part of reality was broken as a result of this. All they knew was that reality seemed to be gradually unraveling at the seams.
Which allowed for things like magic to become possible, but only because reality had already crumbled to the point that mortal minds could sculpt it to their will.
This is such a well-designed and comprehensive hierarchy system, I would love to see you do more like this where you take an inspired lore and flesh it out!
As a Catholic, can I just say FINALLY!!! SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT!!! Angels are cool. On a related note I really think it would be cool to have celestial East-Asian dragons, basically acting as like the angels of Bahamut (or similar dragon gods). They could be like if Kiren were third sphere then Long dragons could be like second sphere. Their breath attack can do radiant damage and they can grant the Wish spell once a year or something *coughdragonballreferencecough*. Just an idea I'm throwing out to the void for you or anyone reading this since I cannot homebrew monsters to save my life.
Plan for the scene where your monster loses and work back
Bahamut canonically has a team of Gold Dragons to function as his closest confidants and advisors. You don't need to give him anything more special than what he already has. Any dragon that reaches ancient is pretty much a demigod so no need to try so hard. Not to say Bahamut doesn't need some of his own personally groomed celestrial helpers, just saying you are overthinking it.
@@jacobfreeman5444 also gold dragons are already eastern inspired
@@jacobfreeman5444 sticking to canon isn't what this channel is about. It's about putting ones own personal twist on preexisting content. And so what if I'm over thinking it? That's part of the fun when it comes to homebrew. Like I said this is an idea I'm sharing with the world to act as a writing prompt for people to have fun with. Besides who wouldn't want to fight Shenron?
Tiamat has draconic devils so why not draconic celestials?
I’m literally trying to plan a Good Omens-style campaign, so this is very helpful
Very amazing content, I appreciate your twists on classics and it inspires me to do the same for my own campaign and setting. Keep it up! You're doing great
Technically, dnd official lore has the celestial counterpart of the nine hells- mount celestia and the Archons. They for some reason never gave any stats for them in 5e. MrRhexx has some great videos explaining them. Great video and angelic designs, nonetheless!
Not to be confused with the Elemental Archons of 4E.
Pointy Hat coming out with the "BE NOT AFRAID" energy! Awesome video and awesome new Celestials, Antonio!
I love this take on celestials! I already had been planning to use the christian mythos be the foundation of how the celestial hierachy work and you put it in words perfectly. So if I now construct a celestial court I can use your video as a cheat sheet on what I need to remember.
I feel so bad that he keeps saying “I hope it was worth it”. BOIIII THESE ARE ALWAYS AMAZING and the fact that you worked so hard for free?! Good for you!!!
YESS!!! In my homebrew setting nearly a third of the world was glassed by what you described as a throne being knocked down ala super star destroyer crashing into the death star 2, and the only life that inhabit the desert crater are warforged, undead, and corrupted celestials. Your hierarchy fits my setting perfectly! thank you for another amazing video!
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To start this video with Bayonetta kicking ass, transition into why Celestials are so friggen hard to include, and then knock it out of the park with incredibly thoughtful, yet easy-to-understand roles of Celestials with the Spheres?!!??!?!
THIS IS SO FLIPPING GOOD I AM DECEASED THANK YOU OS MUCH I NEED TO USE THESE ANGELS NAAAAAOOOOW
you r the only DnD youtuber that i can sit and watch the whole video without getting distracted...Plz don't stop making video, we love you...Mwaahh !!
I love this kind of content, I think you and Map Crow should collab. He’s doing another one of his monster videos. I think it really would help both channels grow.
Just joined your squad here. Can I say that your humor is fantastic. Not to mention your editing. Just **chef kiss**. I'm bummed I didn't find you sooner.
Ooooh I was planning on making a guardian angel PC, but this'd be great as a dm *and* a player. If it ever comes up, I may incorporate this into my own things, thank you so much!!! This is not only supremely helpful, it's super interesting!!! (And man I love angels too, this was just 10/10)
(There were some different words you used, like authorities instead of powers, and leaving out dominions & cherubim; but I imagine that's simply a differnce in info/for the left out ones, hard to incorporate haha; I found it pretty interesting!)
It could prompt some interesting player interactions if you had someone playing a guardian angel of another's character.
Got damn your editing is just so great Antonio. Thank you for all the work you put in!
And big ups for including Last Unicorn clips; one of my childhood movies!
You know, all these videos really makes me want to write my own setting and campain, you're incredibly inspiring
I can imagine a war-god using a fortress like an Eva to the horror of every being in the same plane
Truly, the homebrew content that D&D deserves.
Honestly, your growth is probably just how solid your identity is. You provide good content along with actual homebrew, and your icon is distinct and simple enough that I totally thought you were an established creator. Good on you honestly
I would love to get a full stat block on the virtue angel in the future. Of all the angels you created, that's the one that sparks the most ideas for a campaign.
I don't know if that Dorime thing when describing the Seraphim is an actual cover or something you made for this video, but for some damn reason I can't stop listening to it, not can I get it out of my head.
GG on making a meme a "truly haunting melody" because now I'm stuck with it xD
But fr, if that's an actual cover, I kinda wanna listen to it now haha
Can you flesh out Gnomes next?
Deep Gnomes are one of my favorite races, but no one ever takes my character seriously because, “Little man funny”.
Even though I’m playing a no nonsense lawful neutral archetype.
I’m not asking for edge as sharp as a razor, but maybe make some lore to make the race relevant?
I really want him to do a lot of the races because the sheer blandness of so many characters is awful. Not from lack of choice but because people try to toe the line and keep to what is written instead of using their imaginations and really pushing the envelope. Nothing wrong with reskinning and even homebrewing things a bit if it doesnt make things distracting.
Steal the Nentir Vale lore for them.
4e's gnomes had been denizens of the Feywild alongside the Eladrin, but had spent generations as slaves under the cruel dictatorship of the Fomorians, cursed fey giants with powerful magical abilities and mystic eyes. These gnomes worked hard, developing their skills with illusion magic and stealth, and ultimately managed to escape - for the most part.
To this day they haven't forgotten their time as slaves, and so their culture revolves around both celebrating their freedom and making almost paranoid efforts to protect themselves. They build elaborately hidden bunker-villages, supplementing artful mundane camouflage with powerful illusions and other magical mind-fuckery effects. They hate slavery with a deep and abiding fury and will do just about anything to avoid going back there. They even have specialist defenders, like the Nightcloaks (Paladins armed with illusion magic who act as a combination of secret police and special commandos to eliminate threats before they can strike) and Phantasm Guards (Swordmages wielding fear-inducing illusion spells to attack the body and the mind simultaneously). They are surprisingly badass little fuckers but without going completely GrimDark, so you can still play a comedic gnome if you want to.
@@kiptheott That's a pretty cool take. Gives the Deep Gnomes a reason to oppose other Underdark societies like the Drow, Duergar and Mind Flayers who are each all for slavery. Also gives them an incentive either to ally with or side against the players, depending on what the players are after and whomever might be sponsoring them. Shame that this concept didn't really carry over into 5e.
Always happy to get more stats for celestial creatures! I've already been inspired to add more of them in my campaigns from the wonderfully cosmic-horror-y celestials included in "Strongholds and Followers", and this is a great further addition to that
Loving these, so far. Have you considered doing a guide on how to make a monster / state block
I heavily support this.
I absolutley love biblically accurate angels! Thanks for putting out such a great video of how to incorporate them into D&D.
Hope to one day see stats for the other three. I'd love to have an adventure designed around a fallen virtue.
This is literally perfect for my campaign! I just bought your dragon stew so I’m excited to include more of your ideas for my campaign!
I love your content and I can't wait to see your future videos. Like new twists on Rangers, Dragons and Elements
I love everything you do. You are by far the best DnD creator out here. The amount of thought and real world applications and “twist” you put on this is honestly refreshing. Love how you don’t just “toss a demon into it” but actually make a real solid story to build off of.
Pointy hat is literally speed running RUclips with all this growth.
This video's thumbnail made me salivate, and the video totally lived up to the hype! How can you be so good at addressing the things I want most out of this game? Actually, wait. Don't answer that question. Just keep up the good work. 🙂
You didn’t go over Dominions or Cherubim, could you upload a supplementary video talking about how you would run those? Cherubim especially are annoying because they are always depicted as cupid-esque beings when… they’re decidedly not like that
If you ever played In Nomine, the forces of Hell consider the modern depiction of Cherubim as a masterclass work in making your foes look ridiculous.
Man... your videos and homebrews are getting better and better with every new upload. Great research, great art, fun and engaging play material. Keep up the great work.
You know the video is gonna be good when the thumbnail is Pointy Hat basically going:
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I spent the whole angelic court section thinking on how this would work for the cat lord and honestly it was hilarious to imagine a bulging titan of metal and death covered with cat ornaments and paintings over its body.
One of the aspects of the cherubim is that of a lion, so while they're also part ox and part eagle, they should still have enough cat to have come connection to the Cat Lord.
As a christian I can attest to that fact that Biblically accurate Angels would really be different than what is traditionally presented in our ttrpgs.😜
The Shin Megami Tensei series is really a treasure grove of interpretations of things like this.👍
~ Adam
Very cool idea having a character whose backstory is just having seen a seraph once, and now tries to make sense of that experience, going on pilgrimages etc.
I always enjoy the idea's you come up with , way to help keep D&D weird! Also gotta ask, what is the music you used for the Angels Montage at 9:20 ?
Also curious
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@@ronakrajput2738 thanks!
This whole video gave me an inspiration for a bard who heard the seraphim's song and survived. They have a dash of divine soul sorcerer and are thrown into fits of madness screaming "I MUST HEAR THAT MELODY!!!" they lose time and will forget weeks at a time trying to get back to the seraphim to hear it again
The choice of Celestials in 5e are super underwhelming. You know it's bad when the most interesting sources of radiant damage aren't even from Celestials, and they all come from FToD (Crystal Dragons, Moonstone Dragons, Bahamut, and Hollow Dragons).
DnD is a bit contradictory as well... some undead have resistance to radiant damage, some celestials to necrotic damage.... it is a bit of a hot mess.
I like to go with SMT's angels and demon functioning on the Law/Chaos axis rather Good/Evil so one could find a lawful evil angel or find a chaotic good fiend.
Ugh!!! You are my FAVORITE channel. Your editing is immaculate, your concepts are so amazingly creative and inspiring, I literally laugh out loud during each video when most other videos with comedy in them just make me breathe out of my nose more forcefully. I seriously get so excited each time you upload. Can I sing your praises more? Keep it coming!! Congrats on all your growth, it is MORE than deserved. Thanks for what you do man!!!
I was joking to my D&D group that your Mind's Eye build was a Biblically Accurate Beholder and you just went: WE CAN GET MORE BIBLICALLY ACCURATE xD Awesome lore as always!! :D
Dudeeee, I recently discovered tour channel, and I love it. And I recently started My first long campaign as DM and the last secreto Big Bad Boss is a tiranic celestial with an distopic idea of order, and I have been struggling to get a good celestial high level monster, and unexpectedly BOOOM u just post this!!!!
Awsome bro!! Keep going with your videos, send You i like from México.
The thing a lot of people who base their view of angels on Renaissance paintings often forget is that there's a reason why angels always start every interaction with mortals by saying "Fear not," "Be not afraid," or some other version of "Hi, don't scream."
I'm gonna be real. I'm glad I found this channel early on in its lifetime. Hella enjoy the content and look forward to all future releases! Keep it up! Destined for star status in the DND, and most likely, TRPG sphere!
I don't even play D&D, but if it were more like your stuff I probably would. These are the coolest angel concepts ever!
I wrote a stat bloc for Ophanim/Thrones one time, and this seems up the same alley. Love the idea of angels as proper creatures, they make great villains.
Your content is amazing! Not only is it fun to watch and listen to, but its so helpful for DMs to have realized stat blocks for the lore elements. Thank you so much :)
This video was just so amazing and fun! And now i want to see your stat for all the other angels cause that was SO COOL!!!
Awesome designs, a mix of biblical with humanoid and constructs. The perfect blend. Another gold mine for story exploration.
I have been seeing your videos on my recommendations for a while now and now I'm binging them
Great concepts and editing fr fr
I felt the exact same way. love this. hopefully you make more stat blocks and maybe even more angels. like you could make fallen celestial variants or abilities that would change if they where fallen. thanks for the video and everything else. looking forward to more of your videos.
I've been trying to find content for Angels everywhere because wizards is absolutely lacking in this category. This is very well researched and I'm very excited to bring them into my world. Thank you very much!
That birdplane joke caught me off guard and I was wheezing for a good minute there. Love your content so much and told my party about your channel. Keep up the amazing work
It is amazing! Really needed this for my campaign - thank you so much ❤🔥 I would love to see the whole angelic court fleshed out ~ big angel fan over here ~ much love 💜
I didn’t expect to be exposed in the first 45 seconds of this video but I still love it!! Your vid’s are so much fun and I can actually sit still enough to watch them
Been looking forward to this for video of yours since you hinted at it! Last year ago I started down my own path of creating biblically accurate angels for my next game, so it was a real treat to see your take on it. :) Great work as always!
I want to just listen to this video while I’m doing my laundry but the references and art is so good and each point made is so full of content I end up rewatching it 😂🫡
I love this take, my current DM whom I've been playing with for years at this point, has an homebrew setting with a similar premise; basically as gods are divine and such the sight of one would most likely brake any mortal's mind, it adds a whole layer of cosmic horror to dnd
this has immediately become my favorite DND channel on youtube and i'm surprised that i'm so early in finding it. keep up the good work, and I hope there's tons more videos to come!
I Choked when you Played Dorime, gods you have amazing ideas and I am so so glad I found your channel
Oh man. I have been binging your videos for what feels like two weeks straight. To the point I actually said to myself, out loud, "I think I'm sick of Pointy Hat" only to fall right back in because of yt auto-play. Awesome concept and definitely inspires some ideas in me. It may be a long while before I have players strong enough to need your start blocks, but hot diggity do I really enjoy your videos.
as someone who's currently playing an aasimar character for a campaign(who may or may not be in contact with a celestial being), this was incredibly insightful towards the inner dealings of celestial beings! the higher courts were very fascinating to hear about too, this was a FUN video.
Man, glad I was randomly recommended this video. The lore, content, humour, and editing of this vid were great.
Genuinely the best D&D creator I've watched, the ideas, the quality, and the execution of his vision, *chefs kiss*
I love everything you do. I download every homebrew of yours and hope that I can use them very soon. The quality of your videos is outstanding!!!
Gosh this is so so cool! This excites me so much! Cannot WAIT to incorporate them into my games! I also love angels and really want my eldritch horror to use them XD
You're doing an incredibly awesome job, your videos are fun to watch and I love the creativity and twists.
That 'Mean Girls' clip was spot-on and had me rolling!!! I LOVE YOUR HUMOR!!!!!
Just stoping by to say, that this channel is the best thing that happened to D&D-RUclips in a fairly long time. Keep up the good work!
I wish I could super like videos because this is pure inspiration to put against an evil characters and the foundation of an evil campaign, chef's kiss this is beautiful!
My guy, you just helped me immensely with a world building detail I've been struggling with for YEARS! Now, my cosmological system has a bunch of holes patched, and I have a solid framework for a BBEG/eldritch parasite I've been struggling to put together! It also clarifies how I can make a lawful based horror psuedo-god!
All of your videos and ideas are inspiring. I'm so glad I found this channel. Thank you for the effort.
YOU ABSOLUTE MADLAD! This is Brilliant and I am definitely gonna use these angels to terrify my characters.