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, the Sovereigns created the Deva from the data of deleted Digimon, and Zhuqiaomon sent them into the Real World to retrieve Calumon and remove threats to the Sovereigns.

In Tamers, Antylamon guarded the South Gate of Zhuqiaomon's palace. For protecting Suzie from Makuramon, Zhuqiaomon reverted it to Lopmon as punishment, and it became 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.