Deva

The Deva were a group of twelve Ultimate-level Holy Beast Digimon that were derived from the Buddhist myth of the Twelve Heavenly Generals, deities who protected the Bhaiṣajyaguru. The Twelve Heavenly Generals were eventually conflated with the animals of the Chinese zodiac in Japanese Buddhism, and so the Deva are also representative of those figures. The Deva were followers of the Digimon Sovereigns, and each Sovereign had three Deva subordinates.

Long ago, the Deva fought the Daemon Corps to keep the Sovereigns out of danger. In the end, all but a few perished and the Deva were succeeded as the Sovereigns' bodygaurds by the Legendary Warriors. Those who survived continued to guard the temples with their lives.