History TabletopGame / DemonTheFallen

* NumberOfTheBeast: There are six hundred sixty-six Earthbound.

* HopelessWar: [[VampireTheMasquerade After Caine invented murder]], Lucifer essentially lost control of three of his five legions, and many of those renegade Fallen didn't take long at all to more or less spiral into StupidEvil. The Fallen who kept their shit together were pretty much fucked from word go because they had to spend almost as much time and effort fixing their fellows' screw ups and bullshit evil experiments as they did resisting the heavenly host.

* ShoutOut: Earthbound Belial, one of Lucifer's five most powerful subordinates before the imprisonment, looks a lot like [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]. Or at least the reliquary inhabited by his spirit does, as his manifestation is said to be so horrible that it defies description.

The pinnacle of the Houses' collective 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.

* BadassArmy: The Fallen were this once upon a time. Despite going up against the will of ''God Himself'' and being outnumbered by the loyalists 2:1, the Fallen did remarkably well in the War of Wrath. And if it weren't for a rather large and ultimately fatal fuck up near the end, they probably could have kept going.

** The overriding feeling is more "God is Apathetic." Given the fact that the World of Darkness is such a [[WorldHalfEmpty crapsack world]], perhaps He just gave up on the whole thing. Not to mention that a free and sapient humanity managed to ''create'' the CrapsackWorld, even without the presence of the Earthbound; after all, many of the supernatural threats were once human.

* NiceGuy: Ahrimal/Detective Gerhard Leibner is an entirely benign, genuinely altrustic and well-meaning demon upon his return to the world. He was apparently drawn to his host because he was something of a KnightInSourArmor, being an idealist who had his hopes crushed repeatedly by the cynical Classical World of Darkness. Ahrimal admits Gerhard was more or less a shell of a man by the time he arrived and took comtrol of his body.

* NiceGuy: Ahrimal/Detective Gerhard Leibner is an entirely benign, genuinely altrustic, and well-meaning demon upon his return to the world. He was apparently draw to his host because he was something of a KnightInSourArmor, being an idealist who had his hopes crushed repeatedly by the cynical Classical World of Darkness.

* KickTheDog: God and the heavenly host made the defeated Fallen watch as they destroyed everything the rebel angels had worked for, then, rather than simply unmaking them, sealed them away in the Abyss so their suffering would be eternal.

* KickTheDog: God and the heavenly host made the defeated Fallen watch as they destroyed everything they had worked for, then, rather than simply unmaking them, sealed them away in the Abyss so their suffering would be eternal.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Almost impressively, as the Fallen weren't to a man the most sympathetic of people by the time they had lost the war against heaven. Still, condemning '''each and every one''' of them to never-ending anguish and suffering (to the point that it's likely even the nicer Fallen were DrivenToMadness and turned into spiteful horrors) was a pretty petty thing to do.

* {{Anti-Villain}}: Naturally, many of the Fallen are this. They had sympathetic reasons to rebel against God, and [[FateWorseThanDeath what happened to them after they lost the war]] [[AndIMustScream was fucked up.]]

* {{AntiVillain}}: Naturally, many of the Fallen are this. They had sympathetic reasons to rebel against God, and [[FateWorseThanDeath what happened to them after they lost the war]] [[AndIMustScream was fucked up.]]

* DrivenToInsanity: An eternity of damnation and hellish torment within the Abyss has driven ''every last Fallen'' insane. Only by merging with a human host (and by extension, their memories and emotions) can a demon ultimately get enough of a grip on themselves to avoid being a hate-filled monstrosity.

** 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.

* BadassArmy: The Fallen were this once upon a time. Despite going up against the will of ''God Himself'' and being outnumbered by the loyalists 2:1, the Fallen did remarkably well in the War of Wrath. And if it weren't for a rather large and ultimately fatal fuck up near the end, they probably could have keep going.

* BadassArmy: The Fallen were this once upon a time. Despite going up against the will of ''God Himself'' and being outnumbered by the loyalist 2:1, the Fallen did remarkably well in the War of Wrath. And if it weren't for a rather large and ultimately fatal fuck up near the end, they probably could have keep going.

* ShellShockedVeteran: You'd be hard pressed to find an angel or demon who ''isn't'' this, what with every single one of them having fought in a generations long, unimaginably brutal civil war.

* ShellShockedSurvivor: You'd be hard pressed to find an angel or demon who ''isn't'' this, what with every single one of them having fought in a generations long, unimaginably brutal civil war.