DIVINE BESTIARY

Dante mixed his religion with his cultural heritage but smooshing together Grecoroman and Christian mythology. The result is something that feels like a sequel of sorts to Virgil's work, which is, of course, intentional. The result is that insted of the expected populations of devils and angels, you get stuff like centaurs and cerberus. Angels do appear later on, but their participation in the actual goings on in Purgatory is minimal, and you really don't see them at all in Paradise until the very end. Obviously, Dante's journey isn't a violent one and the work is mostly allegorical. We can learn way more aboot what kinda creatures there are from the video game sources, because they kind of rely on it, as will the megawad. In addition to that, we'll also be subscribing to Dante's breakdown of the 9 angelic choirs, and whatever else he has to say on the matter. After having compiled all the sources together and sorting out which is the most sensible bestiary that covers everything, my bestiary for the wad will have monsters fit into one of 7 (technically 9) categories which sort of fit into the alignments of D&D. The links below will have more to say aboot each type, including data on the monsters in-game with credits regarding where everything came from, as well as what creatures and souls each is based on from the various sources I used.