One-Winged Angel/Literature: Difference between revisions

** Also, this is explicitly the main power of the Knights of the [[Artifact of Doom|Blackened Denarii]]. They change from human into some horrible form for combat, with a twisted Angelic rune on their forehead and a second set of eyes. So far we have seen: A snake-man, a medusa-haired human/panther thing, [[Everything's Worse with Bears|a six-legged horned fanged bear]], a normal human with ''a shadow that will strangle you'', an obsidian statue, a feathery tentacled thing, a praying mantis with [[Nightmare Fuel|little praying mantises for blood]], an emaciated grayish spiny humanoid, and various forms of big and ugly and scaly and hairy.

** Interestingly, Nicodemus (the head Denarian) explicitly does ''not'' have a [[One-Winged Angel]] form- both because he's [[The Chessmaster]] by nature and would rather put his power into abilities other than raw strength, and because between the [[Artifact of Doom]] hangman's noose he wears (which makes him immune to conventional attacks) and his own skill as a warrior, even his base human form can overpowering anything if need be.

* The Storm King, [[Big Bad]] of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'' trilogy, upon being summoned back into the world by [[Evil Sorcerer]] Pryrates, takes on an [[Eldritch Abomination]]-esque form that must have been a lot of fun for the author to write.

* There's something of a sort like this in ''[[American Gods]]'', as the deities seem to have a form that shows one of their believers whose [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|faith]] was strong enough to make them real. Thus, Mr. Nancy/Anasi has this form of an African boy with a distented stomach and infected leg and {{spoiler|Hinzelmann}} shows a child pierced by swords, which actually reflects his being created through human sacrifice. Interestingly, [[The Other Wiki]] novel for the character indicates that this was actually that character's true form in the original stories.

 

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