History Characters / PathfinderCelestials

!!Astral Deva (Emissary Angel)

* {{Ambadassador}}: Astral devas are messengers of the gods of good.

* BenevolentAbomination: In the Remaster, Archons are the oldest naturally Holy species in existence, and look it, being just as bizarre and alien as [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Biblical angels]]. They are also just as nobly intentioned as younger celestials, if sometimes a bit obtuse.

* OurArchonsAreDifferent: The main race of outsiders native to Heaven, and embodiments of the concepts of virtue, nobility, just rulership and order; however, they are also more prone to dogmatism and inflexibility than other celestials are. They come in several distinct types; their intensely Lawful natures mean that each serves a very specific role in the hierarchy of Heaven, often with highly martial bents, although their appearance is surprisingly varied -- archons are usually humanoid, but many lower-ranking archons have animal heads; others closely resemble angels instead. Many archons are also associated with and named after some type of object, and the weakest archons are often just that object given life.

!!Lantern Archon
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Size:''' Small

* FusionDance: Lantern archons can unite to form gestalts with greater control over their surroundings. If they happen to accidentally fuse with a teleporting shield archon, they can undergo a further and permanent transformation into an immensely powerful bastion archon.
* LightEmUp: Lantern archons always glow and can focus rays of light at enemies.
* MagikarpPower: Lantern archons are some of the weakest archons in existence, but -- under rare conditions -- a group of their kind can become a bastion archon, one of the most powerful of all archons.

!!Spyglass Archon
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Medium
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!!Horned Archon

* ArchEnemy: Horned archons have a deep-seated hatred of evil fey, and they gather in great numbers to pursue them and take them down.
* ForestRanger: Although none remember the specifics of their mortal lives, horned archons retain the skills of trained woodland warriors.
* HornedHumanoid: A horned archon looks like a well-muscled human with the head of a horned deer.

!!Legion Archon

* FlamingSword: Legion archons can conjure forth flaming greatswords.
* JavelinThrower: In ranged combat, legion archons can manifest flaming javelins to throw at enemies.

!!Shield Archon

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Both of a shield archon's hands can be transformed into a spear or a shield.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Some shield archons were originally star archons who died and reincarnated as a shield archon.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: A shield archon's shield can shrug off deadly attacks from superior opponents.
* MorphWeapon: A shield archon can transform his hands into a tower shield and a shortspear, or either individually, or back to hands again.

!!Wheel Archon

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The wheel archon's view of good and evil is rigid, almost to the point of absolute inflexibility. They carry out other celestials' instructions to the letter, even in situations that would be served better with moderation and forgiveness.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The wheel archon is named after its appearance as a flying wheel of fire with eyes on each spoke.
* LivingLieDetector: Wheel archons can't tolerate deceit and easily see through lies.
* PlayingWithFire: When the wheel archon spins furiously, it emits a rain of divine fire.

!!Lillend

Snake-bodied, winged and AlwaysFemale azatas who live for performing, enjoying and inspiring music, lillends often serve as muses for mortal singers and songwriters, and are often associated with the goddess Shelyn.

* BreakTheCutie: There's a rather noticeable tendency for lillends to show up in official products in a variety of painful and/or humiliating situations -- serving as the default example of a broken soul in ''Bestiary 4'', showing up as a succubus' broken soul "torture pets" in Wrath of the Righteous, getting used as a living battery for an Asmodean ritual in Hell's Rebels, being ambushed by evil adventurers on the cover of ''Agents of Evil'', being captured by demons and tortured into near-mindlessness in ''The Moonscar''... generally speaking, if there's a situation where a celestial is being victimized by evil beings, it's very likely for that celestial to be a lillend.
* NippleAndDimed: Lillends have the upper body of elven women and do not wear shirts, but the artwork remains safe for minors because of this trope.
* SnakePeople: A lillend has an elven upper body and a serpentine lower body.

Glorious protectors of law and justice, archons represent everything desirable about an ordered society.

* NonHumanHead: Several types of weak-to-middling archons are distinguished by possessing animal heads -- hound archons, horned archons and the raven-headed preceptor archons are all examples of this.

* DropTheHammer: As the name may indicate, they wield powerful magic hammers in battle.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Most manasaputras are wholly incorporeal entities forged of the raw Cosmic Fire from the heart of the Positive Energy Plane. When a manasaputra chooses to become corporeal, it usually adopts a resplendent humanoid form, often with striking features that clearly set it apart from mortals.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're good outsiders who were based on Hindu mythology rather than the Abrahamic flavor of most celestials. In-universe, they differ from most other celestials because they make their home on the Positive Energy Plane, not one of the good-aligned Outer Planes.