Celestial
| Celestial | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Alignment: | Always Good |
| Type: | Outsider |
Celestials are powerful outsiders, typically of good alignment, and the cosmological counterpart to fiends. Just as fiends, celestials come from many different origins.
While the term "angel" properly refers to a particular subset of celestials, mortals on the Material Plane who might be helped by any celestial being might claim to have been "visited by an angel".[1]
Types of celestials
The following are the known types of celestials:
- Angels
- Angels, also called aasimon, are immortal, winged beings empowered by the gods whom they serve. An angel who commits an evil act becomes an outcast and is no longer necessarily bound to be a good creature.[2]
- Archons
- Not to be confused with the similarly named elemental archons, celestial archons are personifications of law and good. They have a strict hierarchy and are consistently at odds with fiends, particularly demons.
- Guardinals
- The animal-featured guardinals are powerful outsiders of neutral good alignment native to Elysium.[3]
- Eladrin
- A race of chaotic good elves who have wild, joyful natures. Of the celestials, they have some of the shortest tempers regarding injustice and oppression. In earlier editions, they are native to Arborea and are true celestial beings of the Upper Planes. In fifth edition, they are native to the Feywild (which shares themes with Arborea) and so are fey rather than celestials.[4]
- Celestial paragons
- Celestial paragons are the opposites of archfiends. They operate separately from deities and are rulers of different races of celestials.
Other races of celestials include couatls[5], pegasi[6], lillends, unicorns, asuras, devas, bariaurs, ki-rin, einheriar, moon dogs, and hollyphants.
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Bibliography
- Cook, Monte, Jonathan Tweet and Skip Williams. Monster Manual v.3.5. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2003. Item code 17756.
- Mearls, Mike, Jeremy Crawford and Christopher Perkins. Monster Manual. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2014. Item code A9218.
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celestial | Verbal communication | Language, | Dragon magazine #359 | 76 |
| Celestial | Verbal communication | Language, | Dungeon magazine #147 | 72, 73, 75, 80 |
| Celestial Essence | Item | Libris Mortis, D&D 3.5e | 74, 75 | |
| Celestial Grindwheel, The (Hextor) | Item | Book, | Dragon magazine #356 | 39 |
| Celestial House | People Group | Clan, | Living Greyhawk Gazetteer | 23, 24 |
| Celestial House | People Group | Clan, | World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) | 10 |
| Celestial Imperium | Kingdom | Dragon magazine #253 | 44 | |
| Celestial Imperium | Kingdom | Dragon magazine #AN1 | 72, 73 | |
| Celestial Order of the Moons | People Group | Living Greyhawk Gazetteer | 128, 130, 132 | |
| Celestial Order of the Moons | People Group | Living Greyhawk Journal #4 | 31 | |
| Celestial Scion (General) | Rules | Feat/Proficiency/Skill, | Dragon magazine #315 | 52 |
| Celestial Sea | Geographical feature | Sea, | Dragon magazine #AN1 | 72, 73 |
| Celestial Sphere | Planar | Dance of Demons | 275, 329 | |
| Chan Roh (Celestial Dragon) | Non-player character | Dragon, celestial, | WG8 Fate of Istus | 109, 117 |
| Sapphire Celestials | People Group | WG8 Fate of Istus | 110, 111 |