Celestial, Messenger
- Armor Class
- 3 [16] (m)
- Hit Dice
- 5
- Attacks
- Weapon (1d6)
- Special
- telepathy, healing touch 1/day, immunities, half nonmagical damage, celestial banishment
- Move
- 15 Fly 27
- HDE/XP
- 7/600
Description
Celestials are a powerful and ancient group of lesser divine beings with otherworldly or extra-dimensional origins. They are tasked with maintaining balance and order between the mortal and celestial worlds.
If reduced to 0 Hit Points in the mortal world, a celestial is not destroyed but disappears in a blinding white light, banished back to its home dimension or plane. Once banished, it cannot return to the mortal world for an entire year. To truly destroy one it must be reduced to 0 Hit Points while in its home dimension.
The least powerful of the true celestials, celestial messengers exist to deliver messages from the gods to mortals, and as such, are the celestials most commonly encountered by in the mortal realm.
Appearing as slender humanoids, marked only by their serene beauty, shimmering silver hair, and the large, feathered wings on their back, Celestial messengers possess a limited form of telepathy, allowing them to communicate with any creature within 50 feet without needing to speak.
In combat, messengers physical attacks with weapons cause an additional point of damage. Additionally, these celestials possess a limited ability to heal injuries to either themselves, or others with a touch, equivalent to the spell Cure (Cause) Serious Wounds, which they can use once a day. Messengers are immune to Sleep, hold, and charm spells, as well as illusions. Finally, messengers only take half damage from non-magical weapons.
See Also
Other creatures grouped under Celestial: Celestial, Arbiter, Celestial, Ascended, Celestial, Charger, Celestial, Descendant, Celestial, Egregor, Celestial, Guardian, Celestial, Oracle, Celestial, Solar, Celestial, Warden, Celestial, Watcher.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.