History TabletopGame / InNomine

* CessationOfExistence: the fate of Undead when they are killed, and celestials who loses all their Celestial Forces in celestial combat and doesn't have a vessel and/or any remaining Corporeal Forces (those that do end up as an EmptyShell called a Remnant) also happens to some ordinary humans for reasons left ambiguous by the rulebooks.

*** Angelic choirs are also ranked, from highest to lowest: Seraphim, Cherubim, Ofanim, Elohim, Malakim, Kyriotates and Mercurians. Demons have the same ranks for their fallen counterparts, except that Malakim (who DO NOT FALL!) are replaced with Lilim (who are always created Fallen). Seraphim/Balseraphim are the only choir/band who insist on 'pulling rank', usually.

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

*** 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. Oddly, Lilith is said to be proud of those of her daughters on Heaven's side.

* SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome: There are probably more Bright Lilim in an average group of PC angels than there are in all of (canonical) Heaven.

** Angels of War serving Michael are the ''only'' angels allowed to take trophies from demons they slay. It is a form of pride, but one officially allowed to Michael and his angels after the inquisition of heresy lead by Dominic, in which Michael war pardoned. (Not because he was innocent, but because his pride had inspired his triumph over Hell in many conflicts.)

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The game is loaded with them, and two or three are suggested for every Archangel/Demon Prince supplement. Dominic may be an ineffectual nanny, an uncompromising tyrant, an outright Balseraph in disguise, or the smartest, most clear-eyed person in Heaven. Yves may be a secret mastermind, a doddering old man, or God in a GeorgeBurns costume. Lucifer, Valefor, Alaemon, and/or Kobal may be working for God. Valefor might actually ''be'' Lucifer. Or Valefor (a Demon Prince) and Janus (an Archangel) might be ''the same person''. And in the French game, you can remove the latter "might". He is also Hermes. [[invoked]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Any demon meeting Lucifer for the first time gets to ask one favor. And that demon had better hope Lucifer is in a good frame of mind.

* BattleTrophy: In the supplement ''Superiors 1: War and Honor''. Angels who follow the Archangel Michael have been known to take the weapons, insignia or even body parts of defeated demons as trophies. A few of them have necklaces of demon ears.

* MadScientist: Vapula, the Demon Prince of Technology. Lacking Archangel Jean's Heavenly access to the secrets of the physical universe, he works to catch up by experimenting on every soul in sight -- literally.

* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: Hitler was largely responsible for his own success, though there was a lot of plotting going around on both sides.

* CrossoverCosmology: All mythologies exist somewhere in the Reaches, except for those religions that are actually divinely inspired; Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism (among others) are divine, while the Greek, Norse, Chinese and Shinto pantheons are ethereal. Hinduism and Santeria/Vodun are the exceptions; they are functionally both divine ''and'' an ethereal religions, the Hindu Triad are ethereal deities on par with archangels, and the whole setup is implied to be a way of telling angels that they don't know everything.

* ShoutOut: To a Steve Martin StandUpComedy joke, TerryPratchett's ''Literature/GoodOmens'', and ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.

* TheLibraryOfBabel: Yves' Library in Heaven contains anything ever written or recorded, including some works that were only created in dreams.

* BevelingTheirOwnLies: How a Balseraph's ConsummateLiar ability works-they trick ''themselves'' into believing what they're saying. Also why they gain Dissonance when their lies are revealed-the dawning realization that the world they think they see is a self-induced LotusEaterMachine causes them to lose control over the Symphony and may eventually send them into a complete VillainousBSOD when they realize they don't know what's real anymore.

* AscendedDemon: Possible, but difficult- not the least because any demon attempting to redeem himself is likely to run afoul of Asmodeus and be destroyed as a traitor to Hell.

* TruceZone: The city of Austin, Texas, and Chez Régis in the original French game ''InNomine Satanis/Magna Veritas''.

* CrossoverCosmology: All mythologies exist somewhere in the Reaches, except for those religions that are actually divinely inspired; Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism (among others) are divine, while the Greek, Norse, Chinese and Shinto pantheons are ethereal. Hinduism is the exception; it is functionally both a divine ''and'' an ethereal religion, the Hindu Triad are ethereal deities on par with archangels, and the whole setup is implied to be a way of telling angels that they don't know everything.