Phoenix

If you are looking for the Eldar ground attack aircraft, see Phoenix Aircraft.

The Phoenix is a creature from Greco-Roman mythology, a fiery bird with metaphysical connections to the sun said to live in Arabia. Its most famous trait is its immortality, which it achieves by ceremonially immolating itself when it grows old and feeble, only to be reincarnated as a chick from the ashes.

Roleplaying Games

In fantasy gaming, like most mythological monsters and as popularized by Dungeons & Dragons, Phoenixes tend to be a species rather than a single individual. Like the Unicorn, they have been generally associated with the Good branch of alignment, mostly because of their adoption as a Christ-figure in Christianity and their long association with healing, life, renewal, and immortality in general, Traits are likely taken from A similar asein creature called a Fenghuang or Hō-ō and are often conflated, likely way Phoenixes tend to be placed in the celestial good catagory. They tend to be significantly more badass, often given both elemental control over fire and/or allowed to resurrect themselves in combat.

in D&D 5e, likely realizeing Phoenixes and Fenghuang were two different birds, it was reclassified from its traditional good outsider to a special type of fire elemental, hellbent on burninating everything (still a neutral aligned creature though).

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Monstergirls

This article or section is about Monstergirls (or a monster that is frequently depicted as a Monstergirl), something that /tg/ widely considers to be the purest form of awesome. Expect PROMOTIONS! and /d/elight in equal measure, often with drawfaggotry or writefaggotry to match.

Phoenixes as a kind of fiery harpy sorcerer are actually surprisingly popular, although the powers associated with the actual monster means that phoenix-girls are often seen as rather Mary Sue, even by monstergirls fans.