To be fair, biblical angels literal descriptions are pretty horrifying. I suspect there's more going on here with that though - there's clearly some very weird shit going on with their world.
Well yeah, I know about the angel stuff, and that's something to consider, but that's us, here in the real world, making those connections. And even here we cheat and depict them as beautiful people with wings because no one wants to see what a real angel would look like. But in the world they live in, not a single person thinks their gods are completely fucked up?
I know, if that's all you've ever known you tend to just accept things and not question it, I get it. But damn, those things CAN'T just be normal gods, there has to be something else going on. Otherwise, as an author, why depict them that way at all?
12 Miles Below just finished Book 7 on RR, probably my favorite overall of what I’m following. Love the setting still and I thought I might start to get tired of Keith, but still going strong.