Welp, I'll quote from The Wikipedia article:
There is, of course, much more to the lore and backstory than that. Check out the Wikipedia page, as well as the White Wolf Wiki page if you're curious about the setting.Demon: The Fallen is a role-playing game and a fictional setting from the World of Darkness line by White Wolf Game Studio. The player characters in the game are fallen angels, who were cast out of paradise after a thousand year war with God.
According to Demon: The Fallen, the War in Heaven began when an angel named Ahrimal foresaw a disaster in the future - a disaster which God had either directly orchestrated or would allow to happen. The angels debated whether or not to act against God in order to prevent this disaster; many argued that it would be safer to do nothing, because their action could potentially be the cause of the disaster. The angel Lucifer was the first to make a conclusive decision in favor of rebellion, and he became the leader of the rebel angels.
These "Fallen" revealed themselves to humanity in order to bring them "the light" of knowledge and awareness. In so doing they incurred the wrath of God, who had given humanity the potential to be aware of the Word, the good and evil, yet had not intended Man to have this kind of awareness yet. The humans (Adam and Eve) had been given gifts that they could not use due to their initial innocence ("A child is happy because he is unaware"), and the game's Adam and Eve are portrayed as having had only rudimentary knowledge and awareness, solely concerned with their survival. During the war that followed, the sin of Cain taught the Fallen how to kill and many grew twisted and evil. In the end, the Fallen lost the war, and were banished to the abyss of Hell as a punishment for their transgressions.
I'm planning to run a forum-based Roleplaying game of Demon! As such, I need players. Pretty much everyone is welcome. Just lemme know if you want to join. I know most of you won't have the Rulebooks, but that's okay, I can hook you up. Just come into #BSF on irc.rizon.net and we'll get them to you, if you're interested. Once you have the rulebooks, there are some things that will help:
Easy to Understand Guide to Character Creation.
Interactive editable Demon: The Fallen character sheets in .pdf format. - Download Foxit Reader if you don't already have a program that allows you to save the interactive fields in a .pdf file. I recommend using the standard 4-page Character Sheet.
Background Info:
This Campaign is set in the year 2013, in the US. That's all I've decided upon yet. Be sure to read the fluff in the first and second chapters of the Core Rulebook so you understand the history of Demon: The Fallen. Some of it may be important. All of it will be, actually. >.>
House Rules:
- You can use the points-buy system for making Custom Apocalyptic Forms, listed in Chapter 4 of the Demon Player's Guide.
- I am allowing Merits and Flaws, as listed in Chapter 3 of the Player's Guide. You can also use any of the ones listed on This Page
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Player Characters:
- Gabriel Lynch, Celestial Name: Adirael, House: Asharu (Scourge), Faction: Luciferan, Primary Lore: Awakening - Played by Atrum.
- Pia Earnest, Celestial Name: Svarog, House: Annunaki (Malefactor), Faction: Luciferan, Primary Lore: Forge - Played by STARSTRUCK.
- Danielle Blackwell, Celestial Name: Samekhel, House: Neberu (Fiend), Faction: Cryptic, Primary Lore: Patterns - Played by Latooni.
- Suzanna Partridge, Celestial Name: Nammu, House: Lammasu (Defiler), Faction: Faustian, Primary Lore: Transfiguration - Played by kittenpillar100.
- Nathaniel Brooke, Celestial Name: Dantanian, House: Namaru (Devil), Faction: Faustian, Primary Lore: Radiance - Played by vidboi.