I had an idea for extending the ring-angel concept to cover more of what people want:
On her first emergence, the demon empress is in form of a vast ball of green fire crowned by eight rings of brass. Each ring holds eight mouths, each containing eight vicious fangs.
The rings lazily rotate and spin about the all seeing eye of the empress, which never moves but gazes in all directions regardless. To any and everyone around her, the empress is always staring directly into their eyes.
When the empress chooses to draw her sword and spread her wings, her crowns begin to spin so quickly that they blur and sing demonic praises in an ancient tongue to the glory of their master.
In a fraction of a second eight of her sixty four mouths yawn so wide that they split their rings, sending them shooting out spinward at specific locations around the eye.
As their praises peak the seven mouths on each once crown slam closed their jaws and swallow themselves whole, allowing each one to reform to reflect its new purpose.
One crown grows sharp, and sprouts jagged fangs, forming a brazen macuahuitl-blade dripping with nuclear venom and spite.
Four are positioned along the upper half of the eye, such that a trick of perspective (and essence) make them appear as asymmetric arcs framing the gaze of the empress in all directions. An illusion enhanced by skeletal frame of fractal feathers grown from each wing's broken fangs.
The final three orbit beneath the eye as a tripod, segmenting into what appears to be titanic millipedes of volcanic glass with almost delicate grasping mandibles.
Unbound by its crown, the lidless eye grows brighter and seems to glare at the world around it. Those who gaze into the depths of its slitted pupil will begin to see hints and echos of its purpose.
Never sufficient to learn something new, or confirm something suspected, but always just enough to draw the mind to questions that could have been asked and truths that could be known.
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That enough body horror, wings, and hand adjacent appendages for everyone's tastes without being cheesy?
I haven't really tried describing something like this before, so I'm not sure if the tone is right or it's too much.
