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[Velkas]

I'm currently working on a new conworld, and I have decided that I wish to have a variety of magical beings existing in this world. However, I am not sure how these beings can fit into this world, and what their natures should be. That's where you come in. I want suggestions of what these creatures should be like (no minor details yet, just what they are, how they fit into this world and it, and how they relate to each other and humanity).

So, let's start with the three types of beings I really want to include: demons, angels, and faeries.

Oh, and some more details on what I have so far on this fledgling conworld:
It's supposed to be a dark fantasy setting with steampunk elements. Very cynical tone, without a black-and-white style morality (so no evil demons vs. good angels, with good faeries off to the side). And I want to make these beings really awesome, especially the demons and the angels. I'm not sure if there should be half-human hybrids, but that might be a possibility (depending on how they turn out). And I want the magic to be somewhat mysterious and non-scientific, but beyond that, I don't have anything figured out. Oh, and I'm not sure whether or not I should have actual deities exist in my world, so I'm open to either possibility.

...That was vague. But I shall better know what I am looking for as this discussion lengthens.
If you have any ideas, please post them, for I am stuck. Help me develop the beginnings of my conworld...

Thank you.
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[Sakir]

'Kinda vague', and basically it feels impossible to say anything and be sure it is at all relevant to you. What'd be 'really awesome'? Here's some ideas I guess, but I'm fumbling blind here...

1. Angels are 40-foot long winged beasts, and have been blinded for use as passenger vehicles and war mounts. Wild angels try to free the slaved ones, but also like to raid villages for human flesh to eat.

2. Demons are made of an animated liquid purple quicksilver material, and can shapeshift into various forms. They are generally pretty mean customers, having been the result of an experiment gone wrong: the experiment was an attempt to make a perfect toothpaste.

3. Faeries are a segment of the population at large that, besides having an interesting bohemian culture, are also rabidly anti-homosexual.

Or did you want basically conventional angels/demons/faeries and a cosmology to sort them out? In that case, you'd have to decide whether or not they are part of a pantheon or something. Do you have gods? Are there factions associated with them? Are they powered on faith-power? Are faeries/angels/demons qualitatively different from other creatures? Or are they just creatures of a certain phenotype?

These three are possibly the most common tropes in fantasy ever, and have been done in a myriad of different ways: which approach do you like most? We can't conworld for you
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[Velkas]

Your ideas were quite interesting, but I was looking for something closer to the norm. However, the designs I came up with yesterday seem as if they would clash with the steampunk and horror elements of this world, so I think I'm not going to include them. They had no reason to exist in my world (I may use an alternate Earth instead, though).

So here are my incomplete designs, if you're interested. I was thinking they originated from groups of humans mutated by magic. Oh, and each has a distinctive eye colour, as well.

Angels: (gold eyes) power-hungry, militaristic, society values honor and order.
Demons: (red eyes) emotional, impulsive, manipulative
Faeries: (purple eyes) value beauty and aesthetics, think in a dreamlike state, speak in riddles, strongly linked to magic.

[Tharivious]

This proved to be one of my biggest obstacles with Veghinix, as these three groups were featured pretty heavily in the lore I'd built up during its early stages. Ultimately, only the Fey wound up not being turned on their heads with various revisions until the base was just an alternate form and the name was meaningless.

Best advice that I can give is to look at some of the existing versions of the triad and see what works for you. As much as I hate to admit it, 4E D&D's take on angels and demons isn't horrible (when taken as a non-D&D game, since it goes completely against the canon of settings that had existed for 30 years prior). Angels as the servants of the gods (all gods, no less, not just the "good" ones), and demons as ancient elemental things can work out nicely with the right spin applied to it. Supernatural put an impressive spin on the angel/demon thing, too. Demons being mortals who made a bad deal with the devil, and angels being the children of God, but neither really wanting to protect anything and both working ultimately toward the same apocalyptic ending. It's not easy to work up completely original takes on angels and demons because so much has been done to try to make them different, but with a little extra effort, it can still work out.

Fey... Fey are easy to work with. Take a heavy dose of the original, gory versions of Grimm's, mix in a nice dusting of your steampunk lore, and then it's just a matter of figuring out what their motivations and societal structure is like.
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[Velkas]

You know what? ...I think I'm still using them.

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