Demon: the Fallen
Demon: The Fallen cover
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| Designer(s) | Michael B. Lee (Editor), Greg Stolze, Adam Tinworth, Pauline Benney (Art Director) |
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| Publisher(s) | White Wolf |
| Publication date | November, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
| System(s) | Storyteller System |
Demon: The Fallen is a trademark embracing both 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 demons; fallen angels who were cast out of Paradise after siding with Lucifer in a thousand-year war with God known as the War of Wrath. The game focuses on "infernal glory" as the driving force behind its storyline and character development; the attainment and strengthening of a demon's former angelic glory through the power of human faith, even in the face of God's damnation and their own inner torment.
The War in Heaven began when an Elohim (angel) named Ahrimal, one of the Seers, foresaw a disaster in the future - a disaster which God had either directly orchestrated or would allow to happen. The Elohim 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. Lucifer, one of the Heralds as well as the first and greatest Elohim created by God, was the first to make a conclusive decision in favor of rebellion, and he became the leader of the rebel Elohim; the Fallen.
These Fallen revealed themselves to humanity in order to bring them the light of forbidden 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, Eve and their descendants, had been given gifts that they could not use due to their initial innocence, and 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 Caine 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 punishment for their transgressions. Lucifer was not among their ranks and wandered the Earth aimlessly after the war until finally setting down in modern-day Los Angeles.
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