Talk:Deva (aasimar)

I fixed the spelling on the Religion title. Should tieflings be referred to as the Aasimar/Deva's evil-aligned counterpart if (and conversely should a Deva be explicitly called good-aligned?), in the tiefling article it is stated that they can be of any alignment, just like a deva?--DarastrixUxBahumati 17:37, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have made this edit in an attempt to clarify that particular sentence. Fw190a8 01:03, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Aasimar
This article seems to combine devas with aasimar. Is there any actual official source that says devas and aasimar are the same thing? ➳ Quin 00:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Should most of this article be moved to the Deva (Angel) and the article renamed.
--Cliffracerslayer 20:57, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

I too am uncomfortable with the apparant confusion between Aasimar and Deva. As I understood it Aasimar are mortal beings, the angelic equivalent of Tieflings, not beings that have a society of their own, nor with a special relationship to life and death.

As I understood it they are conceived in the normal way, born in the normal way and die in the normal way.

I feel uneasy about doing so but I will try establish that Deva's are separate from Aasimar, the former being the semi-mortal servants of the celestial planes and Aasimar should have their own section within the Deva article explaining that Aasimar are the product of unions between Deva but that while Deva are sometimes referred to as Aasimar these are not what is normally understood by the term.


 * After reading the article, I understand your concerns here. I am totally confused however. This appears to be yet another 4th edition moment of madness. So far, I have been able to establish that in 3e, these things were called aasimar (Races of Faerûn, p.112, and they were renamed devas in 4e (Forgotten Realms Player's Guide, p.21). The pictures on this article look nothing like the aasimar picture in Races of Faerûn (again, p.112). In 3e, was there already a creature called a deva? Does this mean that in 4e, we have two completely different creatures with the same name? Or does this mean that aasimar are devas? Fw190a8 (talk &middot; contr) 22:20, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

--Cliffracerslayer 23:28, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

I believe that Devas *are* Aasimar but that not all Aasimar *are* Devas. I tried to edit the entire article as follows.

The Devas are spiritual beings that are immortal as it says. However rather than creating a new body from scratch which is silly, they possess the bodies of Aasimar in the following manner.

They don't overide control over the Aasimar body which would be evil. Instead they merge themselves with the soul of the Aasimar. The Aasimar's soul loses it's seperate existence and becomes a part of the Deva, but in the return the Aasimar becomes immortal as a part of the Aasimar and will not die and go to the Fugue plan but remain attached to the Deva forever.

This does not alter the Aasimar's body however, so to all other intents and purposes they are the same creature.

I rewrote the entire article along those lines, but my edit went all wrong so nothing got saved. Anyway this is pretty sound if creative solution in my opinion for the Aasimar/Deva question.

As for the pictures, they are outsiders and very diverse in appearance. It doesn't matter much what they look like in the pictures since they could just be descended from odd looking Celestials and still be Aasimar/Deva.