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The Deva are a group of twelve Perfect-level Holy Beast Digimon that are derived from the myth of the Twelve Heavenly Generals, deities who protected the. The Twelve Heavenly Generals were eventually conflated with the animals of the in Japanese Buddhism, and so the Deva are also representative of those figures. The Deva are followers of the Four Holy Beasts, and each one has three Deva assigned to them. These grouping are based on the order in which the animals of the zodiac came in during the Great Race, while at the same time representing the face of an analog 12-hour clock as well as moving through the cardinal points, starting from North, in a clockwise direction.

The Deva share many similarities beyond their basis. Nearly all of the Deva have three horns and red eyes, and each wears Chinese-styled armor with a red or purple scarf. Each of the Deva wields a signature weapon which is named in Chinese, with the form, where "X" is a generic type of weapon. Although the Twelve Heavenly Generals of Buddhist mythology were each armed with a specific weapon, some of these are switched around for the Deva Digimon. For example, the generals Śaṇḍilya and Indra wield a shell and a lance, respectively, while Sandiramon and Indsramon wield a lance and a shell, respectively. Finally, each Deva's Special Move is named after one of the mentioned in the, which usually has some relation either to the Deva's zodiac animal or weapon.