How would you do an undead villain with an angelic motif?

A necromancer screwed up the ritual to become a lich and revives a long dead member of a forgotten race of birdpeople. With no memory of his previous life, the birdman wanders, radiant with the glow of magic, until encountering a group who label him as an angel. He believes them to be correct and sets out to use his great power to fulfil his heavenly duty, but with his morals twisted by the taint of undeath.

People were getting up to all sorts of crazy shit during the Black Death out of desperation, including a man openly selling human corpses for meat in the middle of Paris in broad daylight from a stall. Imagine how mad the world would have to be in order to have a street vendor butchering a dead kid and pricing their cuts for the poorest of the poor to eat.
Not to mention the Voodoo folks and La Muerta being depicted alongside Jesus in Catholic Churches. It pisses off the Vatican, butvthey shrug it off as "so long as you aren't hurting anyone and are otherwise a good Catholic, go ahead".

Human sacrifice popping back up as an oldworld heresy in slums is about right.

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World of Warcraft had some as upper tier minions in Wrath of the Lich King

A villain that wants to prevent anyone and everyone from death, but does it in a way similar to Soma's WAU, where the line between living, surviving, and dead is very blurred for them, and doesn't care about consent of the 'patients' or what state they're in, as long as they're "alive".

She isn't murdering people
she's just bringing them one step closer to god (involuntarily)

So Dark Souls meets Franken Fran?

Never played Dark Souls or read Franken Fran, but sure!
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With a very large ass. Villains represent the temptations of evil...and so does a large ass.

Dark Souls is a bleak crumbling world, full of grandeur but sad in how empty and uncared for it is, where death is like being old forever.

Franken Fran is about a plucky mad scientist flesh golem that epitomizes body horror. "Life, at any cost" is her motto.

That's a good way to go about it. You have competing ideas on the idea of "sacrifice" in good times that could mean leaving some food or money at a shrine or whatever but during times of desperation and bad shit like you said you could have people thinking that money isn't enough (especially when you don't have enough to give anyways) so maybe a little blood would be better so some village that's rocked pretty hard with a bad harvest or whatever might not be to turned off by the idea of making a literal sacrifice if it means god will cut them some slack.

An unhinged, naturally occurring undead. They were very religious in life, some horrifying aspect of the death caused them to return as a form of undead, and they have been going mad ever since.

They have become totally obsessed with the true afterlife which they have been denied, and they have convinced themselves that the reason they are still bound to the mortal plane is because their god has chosen them to perform his works as a Chosen Angel.

No necromancer, no lich. Probably better if no corporeal form. Just a very religious ghost, taking on the role of a divine spirit. Have them haunt a cathedral and appear above the alter in a nimbus of light, the very stones of the church obeying her will.

Sounds about right then.

There is literally nothing angelic about the Chosen Undead. No angel wings. No halo. No divine aura.

The best you can get is a knight or cleric wielding miracles, and there's nothing angelic about that.

It's funny how dead Sephiroth was for much of FF7.

I was thinking something like that, or Kefka's penultimate form (I think anyway, been a while)...

Sephiroth is probably a better choice, as Kefka was later on just a mockery of Daniels Inferno (or a tribute)

I think you mean Dante's Divine Comedy.

I do. Never fails that Veeky Forums is better-read than I am, or, at least remembers literature better

>Daniels Inferno

Angel of death. Black robes, scythe, hourglass, black feathery wings, halo, the works. Sent by god with the mission of killing as many as possible. His is not to question why, but only to elk out the judgment of God. And as he is literally doing God's work, he is oblivious and deaf to any line of rationality to do otherwise.

Although he HAS gotten more sophisticated than in his youth when he just ran around from village to village reaping people. The little buggers breed so damn fast. Starving the peasants worked a little. He got some locust to help. But it didn't make enough impact. Plagues seemed to hold so much promise initially, and he was working on a big push but then penecillian betrayed him and he gave it all up. But war, war never changes. And recent development of nuclear bombs piqued his interest quite a bit, but he has utterly failed to instigate conflict. To his utter dismay, the threat of full scale nuclear war has even gotten the big power players to stop going at each others throats.

So maybe simple is best and he'll just cook all the fuckers out. Heaven knows the SUN won't betray him....

>And as I gazed upon Satan's horrific visage, one of half-eaten chinese takeout and joint roaches he said "Dude, why are you in my fucking basement?"

>Angel
Stopped reading right there

>with an angelic motif?
>Angel...
>Stopped reading

Well if it is a motif then it isn't "literally an thing" it's something drawing inspiration or the likeness of.

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by fleshing them out more

angles are special snowflakes, so try harder

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Well boo fucking hoo, sorry for for tiptoeing in what is apparently taboo territory.

You seem pretty upset right now. You should go cool off.

Try incorporeal undead, like a ghost. I'm on my phone or I'd link a Patrick swayze pic from the movie Ghost where he looks transparent and luminous and shit. It's a shitty movie but the visual works for what you are aiming for.

So go transparent ghost, luminous and maybe wearing white robes and a nimbus of light.

In gurps this is cake, but it should work even in d&D. Start with an incorporeal undead creature or template. Add emancipated undead. Then load up on class levels and ghosttouch gear.

People keep assuming angelic has to mean a bodybuilder half nekkid with wings and a sword. But angelic can cover a very wide range of aesthetics. "Spirit of light" fits even better, and the overlap with ghosts should be obvious.

How about a spirit haunting a gravestone? Or better yet, a bunch of spirits?

Some hedge wizard or novice necromancer tried to bind spirits in a graveyard, but they fucked up and the souls were dragged screaming from their afterlives and bound into the marble angel statue in the cemetery. It starts out clumsy and disjoint, pulled in a million different directions by the many consciousnesses fighting for control, but gains purpose as the souls begin to act in tandem - perhaps under the direction of the most powerful of their number, like an old priest or inquisitor who believes he has been reborn as an angel of death.

Go full Old Testament with it. Cracked stone with too many eyes peeking from underneath, visible veins of unnatural flesh, auras of insanity and fear - the whole nine yards.

European women don't have asses like that

>European women don't have asses like that
t. Irishman

You could do something like a Living Saint from the point of view of someone opposed to their religion.

Give him a mask like this and a gentle and kindly disposition. Don't make them an actual angel, but have them dress and act the part to hide the literal and figurative rot underneath. Hardly a scrap of his actual flesh should ever show underneath all of the adornments. Put it all together in a way that exudes serenity and wisdom, at least at the surface level. There should be some kind of twisted benevolence to it, though it could be a bit patronizing, and its wrath should be expressed more with disappointment than with rage.

Mercy is a shit tier waifu, and you should feel bad.

Satan. Still angelic in nature, but with Micheal's Spear sticking out of his chest.

That's a regular valkyrie, though. Bitch sees you being badass in battle and then trips you or redirects an arrow so you die and she can claim your soul.

Valkyries dont wait for you to die of old age or hope you fuck up and get killed. They make that shit happen.

Valkyries are Choosers of the Slain, not Makers of the Slain. They take those who died in glorious battle. Being proactive about it and manipulating events to kill people would defeat their purpose.

The Norns would be pretty pissed since they go to the trouble of measuring out people's lives only to have fate dicked with. Albeit in some versions the Norn Skuld is also a Valkyrie.

He says as he posts Dva

After some deliberation, it has been decided that Pharah is the best Overwaifu.

All Overwaifus are quality however.

The autistic indian one is not that great tho

Not by posting some Disney wannabe shit design from a shit game.

How about a zombie angel?

Choosers Of The Slain - they decide who dies.

They choose who is slain in battle.

There isn't really much room for debate here.

Arguably they fulfill a supplementary role to that of the Norns; who deal with fate in generalities; the Valkyries are empowered by Odin to be the arbitrators of death in battle - for Death in battle is the reward of the brave and the fearsome.

Valkyries are not your waifu.

>phoneposting

Now I'm gonna waifu them even harder just to spite you

Oh, they can. They just have to work for it, which probably won't ever happen.

>shit skin
>has the shit VA they literally paid in food stamps with a tin can mix
>the bitch who's whole gimmick is to loudly fly into the open air and sit there like an idiot in her high visibility skins for all to plink at
>the bitch with the easiest ultimate shutdown
>can't seem to decide if she's egyptian or native american
>so bland that the 2 lines of background blizzard gave her is outshines by idiots hyperspeculating she's a quadrupple amputee aa thats literally her one interesting character facet
>has super lesbian qoutes from time to time that all other chicks shutdown besides zarya giving a non-commital "oh?"
>best waifu

Well shit. Now i'm gonna waifu them si hard i'll have a harem AND immortality.
No ones gonna question a guy who just got off a flying chariot driven by BDSM angels.

your argument is invalid

I would.

Question everything.

Not to mention her mommy issues.

pic related

Someone who has developed a Godcomlpex after returning from the dead. If they are a lich then have them believe they're building an empire greater than any other and use those "good necromancy wat do?" thread ideas but put sinister twists on it.

Have their empire run on extremely draconian laws with high execution rates. Those executed are raised from the dead to serve those who they believe deserve life.

She's okay, but her mom is a top qt

Got any pics?

A shitty candid shot won't change my mind. Here, look at this, tasteful as fuck and still infinitely more sexy and beautiful than that shit you just posted. Also this.

Just early screenshots, we should have a new batch of fanart and porn in about two hours
>delicious brown sniper milf

>>delicious brown sniper milf
There's nothing about that sentence that doesn't get me hard.

Mercy is qt and all, but her spine looks like it's been shattered in a couple places

The fact her culture doesn't believe in toilet paper doesn't bother you? Or that they legit believe toilets are the most unhealthiest thing ever and vehemently refuse to use them?

Do they still do that 200 or so years in the future?

Do they even have toilets as we know it in the Overwatch world?

I use corncobs myself.

It's the heels and her gargantuan ass. If you can take a look at her skeleton for SFM rigs. Its a little curvy from the position heels force the muscles, google high heel spines, but the actual area where it bends is all ass no bone. You can see it if you look closely at her movement during gameplay.

She's egyptian, not poointheloo

Google the phrase "toilet witches" on a day you need a workout for your obliques, lol

Nanomachines, son.

Mostly analyzed while standing around in the spawn, so maybe you're correct. Mild scoliosis + heels (why the fuck are you wearing heels on the battlefield?) + huge ass could do it.

I figured she broke her back and always wanted a fatter ass so she designed her own mechanical spine + wings and made dat booty

Same deal, mate. Google it if you don't believe me. That whole area actually believes toilet paper and toilets are unhealthy as fuck. Also this shit.
Even with scientific evidence supporting their uses they vehemently refuse that shit. Hell, one women was recently murdered for using the toilet against her fathers wishes as he didn't want her tracking in all the disease she must have picked up for being exposed to the air in the outhouse.

>her spine looks like it's been shattered in a couple places
It probably is, she's a lich after all

We need more technolichs in fiction.

>Hell, one women was recently murdered for using the toilet against her fathers wishes as he didn't want her tracking in all the disease she must have picked up for being exposed to the air in the outhouse.
Source.

user, pls.

The news. They had a nice big deal about it. Even went over how they think shitting in the open is good as it lets the disease air rise away from the good air. Literally the miasma hypothesis in this day and age. Honestly can't find a link through google as the "women raped trying to find private place to defecate" stories avalanche the first 50 pages since toilets are non-existant in a lot of places over there.

Choosers of the Slain means they pick those worthy AMONG the slain.

Seriouisly, dude, this isn't even difficult. They choose those worthy to sit at Odin's table in Asgard quaffing mead and fighting, their wounds magically restored after every battle in Odin's hall. These are the Einherjar, those slain in glorious combat, who shall fight by the gods side during Ragnarok.

Odin wants, nay, NEEDS the brave and the bold. Everyone else who dies gets sent down to Hel, and since she's the daughter of Loki she sides with him during the Twilight of the Gods. Odin needs men who have faced a true test of character and given their all in glorious combat, even their lives. This doesn't exactly work very well when it's run as a dating service for lonely ladies on horses who think Erikk Stoutloins is really cute with the little braids in his red beard. They're basically just Norse Uber providing taxi service to the feasts after death.

I'm not sure which Edda you thought you read but ganking people on a whim was never a part of their religious function.

Nah. Check her again. Tracer is now the smallest ass in overwatch. Hell genji beats her.

Nah Valkyries try to kill people they like so they can go to Valhalla

Daniels inferno, in which average Dan burns down a Wendy's

Figures Wendy's would be the official fast food chain of Hell. I would have thought possibly Arbys but they're just too small time.

>not riding to valhalla on a throne made of the squirming masses of writhing valkyrie bodies
>not cock slapping the loser who had to die to get there
>not banging all the mead hall maidens with your physical tangible cock

Norse ghosts, user. They get physical bodies again in Valhalla, mostly so they can fight and die again and again with their wounds always healing preparing for the Norse end of days.

Their undead are admittedly kind of wiggy. Norse Draugr aren't the muttering zombies of Skyrim but can appear as rotted corpses or shapeshift into whatever they want, and even appear in people's dreams. They also know the future.

>not doing all that but also taking out the mead hall maidens on a nice date first

Underbasted roast.

>being this degenerate

Zombie Jesus.

Do what now? Have you ever seen a European woman other than a runway model? Plenty of German girls have asses like that, which now that I think about it may be the reason German porn has so much ass-related content.

If your assertions are correct I need to spend some time in the eurozone

Haha. ASSertions.

No user, just her heart.

Well for starters Mercy is swiss, and I thought the deal with german women were big fat tits not big fat asses