Favourite "cosmological aesthetic?"
Like for me personally, I usually tend towards more "eclectic" aesthetics for my world and cosmology. a good example of what I mean is stuff like Dragon Quest IX: first 5 minutes of that game you're introduced to a world with very aesthetically christianized capital "A" angels, complete with the halo and wings and all, but who are shown to be fully sapient creatures with individuality who are born and get old and presumably die and who have a bureaucracy that sees many of em asigned to protecting specific towns and parishes which makes them more in line with lowercase "g" "gods" and spirits in shinto and buddhism (not to mention their literally living a very shinto and taoist-esque celestial monastery.) But on *top* of all that they also offer basically "prayer power" to a giant "yggdrasil tree."
It's a mix of aesthetics and terminology that you would expect to at best come off as sorta, "everything and the kitchen sink-esque," if you're not viewing it from the perspective of how a lot of IRL historical religious syncreticism happened that, when combined in practice, actually makes for a very creative aesthetic that despite seeming "alien" on its face, contains just enough recognizable bits and pieces so as to likely still be familiar to audiences in a way. As someone familiar with the majority of those aesthetic inspirations behind it, and as someone who was first introduced to the concept of fantasy as a "wee windowlicker" through this sorta eclectic worldbuilding aesthetic that's fairly common to old-school "semi-occidentalist" JRPGs I am greatly influenced by it in my own personal works and I thinks it's a shame that you don't really see that sorta ecletic cosmological aesthetic in a lot of "western fantasy." Especially considering that it's always seemed to me personally as much more interesting then the bog-standard route of "Arthurian England but the folktales are all real," that DnD kinda reduced Tolkien's cosmology to.
So what's your favourite aesthetic?