Demon: The Fallen: Difference between revisions

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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.

** Or it is. The more evil the demon is the more like a demon he looks. Truly benevolent ones look angelic.

*** Depends on the type of Demon. Nicer Slayers still look like dark angels, just, you know, pretty ones.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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 up monsters.

* [[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 abyss, twisted them into hateful monsters. Player Characters are the ones who managed a subsequent [[Heel Face Turn]] (or are at least capable of trying).