Deva

Based on the Twelve Heavenly Generals who protect the Buddha of Medicine, drawn as zodiac animals as Japanese Buddhism has depicted them since the Heian period. The designs draw on the Butsuzozui, a 1690 compendium whose artwork appears in a Tamers episode explaining the myth.

The Reference Book assigns three Deva to each Sovereign, but in Tamers all twelve serve Zhuqiaomon alone. When a profile and a continuity disagree, both stories stand side by side.

In Tamers, Zhuqiaomon created the Deva by reconfiguring fragments of Digimon that had turned to dust, and sent them into the Real World to retrieve Calumon and remove threats to the Sovereigns.

In Tamers, Antylamon guarded the South Gate of the Sovereigns' domain instead of hunting Calumon; it defected to become Lopmon, Suzie's partner, the only Deva to join a human.

Every Deva wields a treasure whose name begins with Bao: staffs, axes, arrows, lances, conch shells, bows, orbs, pestles, blades, hammers and wheels, several transformed from the wielder's own body, like Mihiramon's tail staff or Caturamon turning itself into the hammer.