History TabletopGame / InNomine

* ImpossibleThief: Valefor, and how. The Demon Prince once stole the entire Russian Revolution. And his career began with a book lifted from Destiny's Library, which no one else had ever done before or since. Add in the fact that the book hadn't even been written yet ...

** Even if the Shedim ''didn't'' take pleasure in corrupting their hosts, they'd do it anyway, because not doing it makes them suffer dissonance.
* ThePaladin: Malakim in general, who live by honor, fight evil relentlessly and cannot Fall (although remember that GoodIsNotNice). Also, Laurence and his angels of The Sword in particular, who tend to see themselves as knights in a fallen world.

* ImpossibleThief: Valefor, and how. The Demon Prince once stole the entire Russian Revolution. And his career began with a book lifted from Destiny's Library, which no one else had ever done before or since.

* ThePaladin: Malakim in general, who fight evil relentlessly and cannot Fall (although remember that GoodIsNotNice). Also, Laurence and his angels of The Sword in particular, who tend to see themselves as knights in a fallen world.

* TruceZone: The city of Austin, Texas, according to the ''Night Music'' supplement, is unofficially neutral ground. Angels and demons still run their own plots, but open violence against each other is avoided.

** This is the way both Lilith and her children operate-which is ironic, since Lilith's Word is Freedom.

* LivingADoubleLife: Strongly hinted to be the case with the Janus, Archangel of the Wind and Valefor, Demon Prince of Theft. First there's Janus' name. Next, their powersets and various other details are identical -- to the point of cut-and-pasted descriptions. And when your think about it, an Archangel who encourages petty theft as a way to keep the Forces of Heaven on their toes? The question is, which side is he really on, and how does he get away with it?
** In the original French games, Janus started as an ordinary angel working undercover in Hell as Valefor. He got promoted to Archangel (and recalled back to Heaven) when he made a big score against Kronos, but then he discovered that he missed the adrenaline rush of undercover work. So without telling anyone he resumed his identity as Valefor and worked his way up to Demon Prince in Hell ''just for the thrill and danger of it''. Now since the American adaptation and the French originals are divergent in many ways, often radically so, there's no guarantee that this history applies at all to the [=SJGames=] version.

* OneGenderRace: Lilim are not ''quite'' this, but it still fits them to some extent. A majority of Lilim identify as female, they are collectively called the 'Daughters of Lilith' and according to Beth [=McCoy=] (see WordOfGod below) they are created generically female. However a substantial minority identify as male ('Sons of Lilith') and a few like to appear as either sex depending on their whim.

*** Bright Lilim: Rare, but with a well-known existence. See Lilim, but with their nature changed to reflect the positive aspects of freedom and contracts, with their appearance mutating to have glowing skin and translucent wings.

*** Lilim: Demons who can give you anything you need... [[DealWithTheDevil but you'll have to pay for it eventually.]] All Lilim are created in Hell by Lillith, but some occasionally join Heaven as Bright Lilim, and others manage to clear their debts and go Free. Their celestial forms appear as green-skinned humanoids with small horns and bat wings.

* EvilCounterpart: The different types of demon are all Fallen versions of the different types of amgel (except the Lilim). In addition, some of the Demon Princes are opposite numbers to the Archangels: for instance Dominic, Archangel of Judgement and Asmodeus, Demon Prince of The Game; Blandine, Archangel of Dreams and her former lover Beleth, Demon Princess of Nightmares; and the extra-ineffable Yves, Archangel of Destiny and Kronos, Demon Prince of Fate.

*** Mercurians: Friends of Man, and along with Malakim only angels to actually resemble the stereotypical WingedHumanoid image. They can naturally detect the relationships of a person towards nearly everyone else that person knows and are natural diplomats. They are not allowed to ever hurt a human being. (Demons, on the other hand, are fair game.)

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Kobal is the Prince of Dark Humor. Lucifer often laughs at Kobal. (The other Demon Princes mostly fall under NoSenseOfHumor, especially Baal.)

* ShadesOfConflict: Canonically, BlackAndGrayMorality; Hell is thoroughly corrupt and wicked (but with sympathetic individuals in the rank and file), Heaven's leadership is full of [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] who are mostly ''trying'' to be good guys. However, notable in that the GM's section provides options for Dark Low Contrast, which is Evil Versus Evil, and Bright Low Contrast, which is GreyAndGrayMorality PlayedForLaughs. (It also provides mention of playing it backwards, which is BlackAndGrayMorality with demons as the "gray.")

* CelestialBureaucracy: For both Heaven and Hell. It's been said of the setting that both Heaven and Hell are Feudal Bureaucracies, but the Devil is (quite literally) in the details.

* DivineRanks: regular angels then Archangels, demons, Demon Princes and Lucifer for Hell

* EvenEvilHasStandards: ''Nobody'' likes the Shedim.

* NoNameGiven: The Archangel of Death has only been briefly mentioned twice, but never by name.
* OneGenderRace: Lilim are not ''quite'' this but it still fits them to some extent. A majority of Lilim identify as female, they are collectively called the 'Daughters of Lilith' and according to Beth [=McCoy=] (see WordOfGod below) they are created generically female. However a substantial minority identify as male ('Sons of Lilith') and a few like to appear as either sex depending on their whim.

* ShoutOut: Several nods to ''Literature/GoodOmens'', and at least one to ''SluggyFreelance'' (Kizke, Demon of Webcomics)

Not to be confused with the ''EuropaUniversalis III'' ExpansionPack. Or the [[ENomine German electronic music group]].

** Word-Bound angels/demons rank higher than regular ones, but lower than Archangels/Demon Princes. Most all Archangels/Demon Princes also have their own ranks within their organization.

*** Shedim: Really really creepy [[PuppeteerParasite Puppet Masters]] who corrupt their victims, degrading their moral standards over time and convincing them that their demonically implanted suggestions were the victim's own ideas; fallen Kyriotates and masters of DemonicPossession. Their celestial forms are similar to Kyriotates' forms, but are more monstrous and unnatural-looking.