Posted by Gut that plays mostly good aligned on May 9, 2000 at 06:46:03:
In Reply to: Angels posted by Pal on May 9, 2000 at 05:53:57:
> Should angels, holiest of holy lightwalking warriors of goodly goodness, be willing to attack lightwalkers, especially priests?
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> I mean, as a paladin, should I have to worry about beings from the sacred heavens which I've devoted my mortal life to defending attacking me simply because some deranged lunatic conjurer decided to lash me? Angels already act with a mind of their own, attacking some evil people on sight, couldn't they also be able to use their own mind in refusing to aid against lightwalkers?
Maybe the angel is seeking atonement because you sinned? Plus remember the conjuror has bound them and is forcing them (although no, they're not exactly slaves) to do his/her will.
> Granted, it couldn't be all lightwalkers since good people are allowed into battleragers, but surely the priests and maybe even magi could be protected from them. I'm not talking about the conjurer that conjures the angel either as the angel has his own issues with said conjurer(I'd be pretty pissed too if somebody drug me from the bliss of the heavens).
Why should all ragers be deemed "evil"? and all magi deemed "good" and thus safe from them?
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> Angels conjured by goodly conjurers should respectfully dissent when urged to attack lightwalkers or if they're really upset by it, maybe they'd return to the heavens sooner than usual.
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> Angels conjured by neutral conjurers should either return to the heavens sooner(when the attack occurs) or turn on the conjurer.
I'm not an expert on the bible or any other religion, but don't angels have different personalities? They range down the good-neutral scale? Could be wrong about this in RL, but in the Fantasy world, where you have different religions, it's perfectly conceivable that all angels wouldn't be "extreme good" and might attack another good creature.
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> Even making it a 50/50 toss-up whether or not the angel would aid would make it better than 100% chance that that holiest of goodly lightwalkers would attack another lightwalker. They should act more like Marans.
My opinion, a 50/50 (or something other than 100%) seems reasonable.