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Demon: The Fallen Rulebook is the core rulebook for the Demon: The Fallen game. It is the culmination of the Year of the Damned releases of 2002.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

Reap The Whirlwind
Centuries of violence, corruption, and cynicism have sown a bitter harvest throughout the world. Wars rage and spill the blood of the innocent. Mercy and compassion are ground to dust beneath the hell of religious extremism. Faith is perverted by the schemes of politicians, priests, and criminals. Now a storm is raging in the spirit world, and the gates of Hell lie broken. The angels of the Abyss are free once more, and the fate of mankind hangs in the balance.
Raise a Fist to Heaven!

Prologue: Stage Fright[]

Told from the perspective of Melbogathra, a demon who took possession of a stage actor named Max, who had committed suicide. While in a religious play, Melbogathra reveals some sacred secrets to the audience, causing a resurgence of Faith in some of the crowd. He is fired from the theater but is quickly rehired due to his high demand by fans.

He makes a thrall of Becky, the object of Max's unrequited affections.

Introduction[]

Chapter One: In The Beginning[]

The Devil Gaviel, in the body of a young man named Noah Wallace, encounters Noah's father and tells him the story of Creation from the viewpoint of the Fallen.

  • Revelations
  • A Deal With The Devil
  • The Unmoved Mover
  • The Houses of Creation
  • Paradise
  • Forbidden Fruit
  • The Great Debate
  • The Morningstar
  • The Fall
  • Crimes of Passion
  • The Age of Wrath
  • A Clash of Angels
  • Divine Retribution
  • The Wrath of God
  • The Fire of Heaven

Chapter Two: Better to Rule in Hell[]

In an attempt to rouse the memories of a catatonic demon, the Devourer Malakh recalls his own experience in the War of Wrath, the battle between Heaven and the Fallen, and its immediate aftermath.

Chapter Three: Apocalypse Now[]

An excerpt from the diary of Anila Kaul – in truth, the Slayer Magdiel – as she remembers her time in Hell and the escape of the demons, and compares the world now to the world then.

  • Imprisonment
    • Darkness Unending
    • Mystery of the Morningstar
    • The Factions
  • Descent
    • Pain
    • Power Plays
    • Bitter Tastes of Freedom
  • Maelstrom

Chapter Four: Legions of the Damned[]

The Fiend Ahrimal, in the body of a German cop, finds himself hunting after a truly monstrous demon with the aid of a mortal Wiccan.

Chapter Five: Houses of Darkness[]

A discussion of the Houses of the Fallen, as well as of the five philosophical factions to which they adhere.

Chapter Six: Feet of Clay[]

The rules and guidelines for constructing a Demon character.

Chapter Seven: Eyes of Fire[]

The various powers of the demons, including lore and the apocalyptic form for each.

Chapter Eight: Rules[]

Chapter Nine: Systems[]

Chapter Ten: Storytelling[]

Chapter Eleven: Antagonists[]

Background Information[]

Memorable Quotes[]

"I said to my soul, be still, and let the darkness come upon you./ Which is the darkness of God."

—T. S. Eliot, East Coker[1]

"Into our first world, shall we follow/ The deception of the thrush? Into our first world./ There they were, dignified, invisible,/ Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,/ In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air..."

—T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton[2]

"When Sin claps His broad wings over the battle/ And sails rejoicing in the flood of Death;/ When souls are torn to everlasting fire,/ And fiends of Hell rejoice upon the slain,/ O who can stand? O who hath caused this?"

—William Blake, Enoch: The First City of Angels[3]

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope/ For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; there is yet faith/ But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."

—T. S. Eliot, East Coker[4]

"Lo, a shadow of horror is risen/In eternity! Unknown, unprolific,/Self-clos’d, all-repelling: what demon/Hath formed this abominable void,/This soul-shudd’ring vacuum?"

—William Blake, The Book of Urizen[5]

"In my beginning is my end. In succession/ Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,/ Are removed, destroyed, restored..."

—T. S. Eliot, East Coker[6]

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it/ looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. And the higher and mightier/ it is in the natural order, the more demoniac it will be if it rebels. It is not/ out of bad mice or bad fleas you make demons, but out of bad archangels."

—C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce[7]

"O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue/ To drown the throat of war! — When the senses/ Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,/ Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressed/ Fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?"

—William Blake, Enoch: The First City of Angels[8]

"Farewell happy Fields/ Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail/ Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell/ Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings/ A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time./ The mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n."

—John Milton, Paradise Lost[9]

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who/ say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says,/ in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it./ Without that self-choice there could be no Hell."

—C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce[10]

Characters[]

References[]

  1. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.11, Introduction
  2. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.18, Chapter One: In The Beginning
  3. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.42, Chapter Two: Better to Rule in Hell
  4. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.60, Chapter Three: Apocalypse Now
  5. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.78, Chapter Four: Legions of the Damned
  6. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.96, Chapter Five: Houses of Darkness
  7. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.120, Chapter Six: Feet of Clay
  8. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.165, Chapter Seven: Eyes of Fire
  9. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.218, Chapter Eight: Rules
  10. Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p.230, Chapter Nine: Systems
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