History TabletopGame / DemonTheDescent

* InfernalParadise: The basic appeal of Hell to the Unchained; it's a place where they don't have to be afraid of the God-Machine any longer, a place where they can be happy. Some demons—commonly nicknamed "The Devils"—want to create a "traditional" FireAndBrimstoneHell sort of place to rule over, others want an ordinary human life, and others still have entirely different ideas of Hell.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: The "Lucky Break" Embed allows you to have something happen to advance your schemes by pure chance. That said, the user can only decide the end result they want, not the way it happens; collateral damage is likely. Meanwhile, "Murder by Improbability" just drops a freak accident on any ordinary human without an extraordinary fate.

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* WindsOfDestinyChange: The "Lucky Break" Embed allows you to have something happen to advance your schemes by pure chance. That said, the user can only decide the end result they want, not the way it happens; collateral damage is likely.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: As the rulebook says, "The God-Machine is slow to react, but implacable when roused." All the better reason to stay low and avoid attracting attention to yourself. Subverted if you prove yourself too resilient to take down; the GM will start consider you [[KnowWhenToFoldEm not worth its time and resources]], and use different means to get what it wants. Double-subverted if you [[BullyingADragon keep on causing trouble for it,]] resulting in it [[RocksFallEveryoneDies considering you a top-priority threat to be removed]].

* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: The Exploit "Play On Words" allows a character to weaponize ''puns''.

* UnstoppableRage: The "Going Loud" transformation, which is like a Full Transformation, but more potent. It instantly heals damage to a greater effect than a Full Transformation and bumps the Primum stat up to to 10. However, it also completely ''destroys'' the current Cover that the demon is using. Needless to say, they don't use this unless they are very desperate, or ''very'' ticked off.

* HateSink: InUniverse, Integrators are loathed by the other Agendas, since they are basically at cross-purpose with every and other non-Integrator demon. They ''will'' work together, but to say there's TeethClenchedTeamwork is an understatement.

* ConspiracyTheorist: The Inquisitors archetype are a bunch of conspiracy theorists. The problem, given [[InMysteriousWays how]] the God-Machine works with its Infrastructures and Occult Matrices, and how they helped ''design'' such systems before the fall, this may be less conspiracy theory and more ProperlyParanoid.

* {{Omniglot}}: Demons speak a bizarre "machine language" that can be easily modified into more earthly tongues. Any earthly tongues, and [[RequiredSecondaryPowers they can understand any as well]]. Up to and including knowing all local idioms, metaphors and shibboleths, and being able to replicate even the most obscure local accent. That said, there are a couple of limitations: they cannot speak a language that is "dead", that isn't regularly used as a language and so a person cannot grow up speaking it from early childhood. For example, demons don't have this instinctive mastery over ancient Egyptian, or Latin, and when the last speaker of Aka-bo died in 2010, all demons lost the ability to speak Aka-bo. It also doesn't translate into an instinctive ability to decipher codes or recognize limited argots; a demon would understand [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken the First Tongue, as all spirits speak this naturally]], but would have no innate knowledge of the in-universe terms of [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Kindred]] or [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Awakened]].

* RealityWarper: Demonic Embeds tweak reality subtly, Exploits forgo the ''subtle'' bit, and angels and the God-Machine can shape reality like so much play-doh. Subverted in that these are not actual Reality Warping. Embeds and Exploits work by finding places where the physical laws of the world don't quite fit together and milking them for all they're worth, possibly bringing forth effects that even the ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening real]]'' Reality Warpers find impossible to recreate.

* SpyFiction: '''Bleach and Ammonia flavor'''. Demons can lie so well not even supernatural lie detector can pierce through it, you can't fully trust your allies, and your allies can't fully trust ''you'' in turn. Enemy agents are ''everywhere'', getting your disguise uncovered is death sentence, and the enemy is literally a [[DeusEstMachina godlike mechanical entity]]. You can score victories and foil the enemy's plan here and there, but tread very carefully; scoring too much of a victory will result in the enemy [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant devoting more and more resources to]] ''[[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant end]]'' you. Similar to how bleach and ammonia are useful to have, but one wrong move, they mix and you will die from the resultant DeadlyGas.

** Possibly making this worse is the case of Seattle in the ''Demon'' core, where it's hinted that the G-M, or at least not all parts of it, has no idea what's currently going on with the 'splinter' Seattles, even though it caused them.

* UndeadTaxExemption: When the God-Machine creates a new angel, it also provides all the requisite background checks, resources, and anything else the angel would need in its mission from nothing. [[DeusEstMachina Considering its capacity]], this is decidedly trivial matter.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife / LifeImitatesArt: An in-universe example, the Embed "Like the Movies" allows a character to turn certain situations into fiction-like coincidences. Using it too much attracts the attention of the God-Machine, which apparently has enough time on its hands to watch human media and know if someone's applying tropes to reality.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Boy are our demons different. They're more like [[Film/TheMatrix Exiles]] than anything else. Interestingly, the book itself admits there are actually plenty of other kinds of demons in this universe, including ones who fit the classic conception better—Unchained merely are the only one you get to play as.

* NotSoDifferent: The angels of the God-Machine tend not to change their forms much in the moment of the Fall, and no small number of Embeds and Exploits are just as resonant with angelic aesthetics as demonic powers.

** Partially Subverted, because even though they can’t fib, nothing’s stopping them from ‘forgetting’ certain details, adding in loopholes via [[ExactWords the exact wording of the agreement]] (it isn’t their fault if some months are shorter than others, or that you willingly gave up your wife for a year in exchange for a week of immeasurable wealth) or just using technical mumbo-jumbo that, while still true, is utterly incomprehensible to the average person.

** Even if you ‘’don’t’’ include the Agendas, a demon’s morality can still be entirely alien, to the point of being able to invert virtues and vices; Generosity becomes a sin because it endangers the unchained's life or sacrifices resources that she and/or her friends(/allies) need, whilst Pride is good because it helps him assert his self-will and inherent right to be a free entity.

** Partially Subverted, because even though they can’t fib, nothing’s stopping them from ‘forgetting’ certain details, adding in loopholes via [[ExactWords the exact wording of the agreement]] or just using technical mumbo-jumbo that, while still true, is utterly incomprehensible to the average person.