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In the beginning, God made the angels, who forged reality out of the void of non-existence. The pinnacle of this act of creation was mankind, destined to be a reflection of all the greatest traits of God and Angels and beyond. Except it didn't happen. Everyone waited and humans were still focused entirely on humping and eating anything they saw. The angels tried to ask God what was wrong with them, but anybody who went to see him didn't come back, with the best case scenario being that God assimilated them and worst case unmade them. Impatient and feeling abandoned, half of the angels decided to just give humans the blessings of civilization themselves, and going against God's command caused an angelic war. The vanquished were sealed in a featureless abyss.
Millenia later, the Abyss cracked open and the fallen angels began escaping, with the weakest demons slipping through the cracks first. Weakened, they had to posses the bodies of dying or [[Convenient Coma|comatose]] humans to survive. There's no sign of any angels or God's influence left in the world, which is instead filled with jaded humans and unfamiliar supernatural creatures. During their time in the Pit, the demons had fractured into five factions, which came to color their philosophies now that they were free: those who wish to destroy all of creation to spite an absent God (Raveners), those who see Lucifer as the Messiah of both mankind and angels (Luciferians), those who want to fashion mankind into a weapon to destroy God (Faustians), those who seek redemption and repentance (Reconcilers), and those who have come to the sinking realization that all of this was probably what God wanted to happen in the first place (Cryptics), so what the hell can you do?
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* [[A God Am I]]: The Earthbound present themselves like this to their cultists, and many of them are insane enough to seriously believe in this.
* [[Alien Geometries]]: The Lore of Paths can bend space for any number of effects, it's possible to, in effect, turn a crack in the wall into a six-foot-wide corridor or change the angle of a street you're driving down.
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* [[The Atoner]]: The Reconcilers have as their major agenda making some sort of peace with God and the world, as repayment for sending everything downhill during the Fall.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: How demonic/angelic hierarchy works.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The Raveners embrace their [[Ax Crazy|
* [[Council of Angels]]: How the universe was run in the old days.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Standard for the gameline. In this case it might actually be the
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The demons certainly aren't all evil, and the reason they're in this mess now is because they chose humans over God.
** Or it is. The more evil the demon is the more like a demon he looks. Truly benevolent ones look angelic.
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* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Kind of. Destruction of its host body does not kill a demon and he can try to find a new body or possess an inanimate object (becoming one of the Earthbound) before being drawn back into the Abyss. However, demons can be made [[Deader Than Dead]], as this process causes permanent loss of power, whittling the demon to nothingness if he loses bodies too often; and other demons can attempt to devour a disembodied demonic spirit, to absorb its power and knowledge.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: All of the characters. Thankfully, demons are usually able to possess only the comatose, suicidal or dying.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: [[Player Character
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Earthbound. Some demons got dragged out of the Abyss early by mortal sorcerers, and that ''really'' didn't help anything... "Normal" demons also can turn into this.
* [[Empty Shell]]: What demons can do to a human if they steal enough faith or use other means of mental trauma.
** This is also the usual state of those humans eligible to be hosts for the Fallen. Stated possibilities include vegetative-state brain damage, drug overdoses, catatonia, and the like.
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: There's a reason this was the last of the gamelines...
* [[Evil Feels Good]]: Subverted. Demons' [[Karma Meter]] is called "Torment" for a reason. High-Torment demons (and all of the Earthbound) invariably are insane, screwed
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Every Demon did this as part of the back story. They started out as noble idealists. War against their own kind, followed by eons of imprisonment in the
* [[Glamour]]: The Lore Of Radiance.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: One look at a manifestation of a high-end Earthbound can crush a human's mind and willpower.
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* [[Self-Inflicted Hell]]: There is no punishment in the Abyss but the rage and pain of those trapped within it.
** Or is it? The demons are described as existing several dimensions above humanity's ability to comprehend, while modern day Earth is a single plane of existence. The Abyss is ''nothing'', leaving the demons with only their rage, pain, and each other for millennia, able to see/feel the World of Darkness. Which isn't pleasant, seeing as how it's a [[Crapsack World]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Earthbound Belial, one of Lucifer's five most powerful subordinates before the imprisonment, looks a lot like Cthulhu. Or, at least, the reliquary inhabited by his spirit does, as his manifestation is said to be so horrible that it defies description.
* [[Spider Limbs]]: The Neberu when in high torment form.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: See [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]].
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