Demon: The Fallen - Houses and Factions (Lore Video)

Disclaimer: While borrowing heavily from Judeo-Christian themes, it is clear that Demon: the Fallen is trying to be its own thing. That being said, it borrows clumsily, but I am retelling it as it was written. Also, keep in mind, this title was released close to the end of the old World of Darkness timeline, meaning it is quite possibly retconned out of existence.
Before their Fall, each Elohim belonged to one of the Seven Divine Houses, as we have learned earlier. But with their Betrayal of the Creator's grand plan, they were punished through the Archangel Michael, cast out from Heaven and given new names and purposes.
In this video we will explore that punishment, as well as the Factions that the Demons have divided themselves into during their short time on Earth.
Sources:
Demon: the Fallen core rulebook
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Blasphemous OST
Chaos Gate OST
Space Marine OST
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[@derrickhaggard]

When I played the character I did was a female Demon of House Namaru whose lore was Flame, and was a Reconciler who possessed the body of a comatose female cop who wanted to protect others and was sick and tired of seeing corrupt officials whether they be fellow cops, federal officers, or politicians get away with their crimes. And despite my character regaining her true memories and celestial name Mera she remained a Reconciler going by the mindset if the Creator wanted to forgive her and return her to her true angelic form and bring her back to Heaven then she was fine with that but if both sides reject her aka the Creator refuses to forgive her and her fellow Demons see her as a traitor for wanting to protect innocent humans then she was fine with as the saying goes being considered damned by both the light and the dark if it means protecting innocent humans.

[@jor4114]

Yo, she sounds awesome.

[@ananousous]

"There are no innocents! Not anymore!" --Dracula

[@fireorb2]

I happened to see the premiere of the video oh, I have to say the demon series is pretty interesting. I guess that explains why the whole world of darkness is so messed up.

[@ThePrimogen]

Glad you caught it! Yeah, the demons are pretty much the cherry on the shitcake in the World of Darkness

[@jacobaugustine6249]

@@ThePrimogen you know if I was younger I'd be a s*** stack but I came here from 40K and I'm like oh cool another planet

[@jacobaugustine6249]

I like the idea of a character a fallen that's obsessed with making Humanity better like God put a limit on my creativity but now that I'm free I'm going to do my absolute best

[@jackp492]

the archangel spat some harsh truths there, oddly appreciated it, summed us up pretty well

[@vaughnlewis3443]

Are you by chance going to make a playlist for demon videos please. ( including the intro video)

[@ThePrimogen]

Yes, thank you for reminding me, I'll get right on it!

[@ThePrimogen]

And made!

[@jarrodsangaming5768]

If your Halaku and you know it clap your hands!

[@unevenbonsai1715]

I wonder what the demons think of vampires and when are we getting a baali vampire clan video. I'm also interested in interaction with wraith, spirits, hunters, mages and vampires

[@Kardel_VA]

Blasphemous and Warhammer music in the background? How fitting.

[@nicerguise3225]

I love the videos! They make me want to play World of Darkness games.

[@trickyagent127]

Ooo, caught one premiering

[@ThePrimogen]

Hope you enjoyed :D

[@tombirmingham7033]

The loss of the truth is the worst part

[@baronagony4767]

My favorite of all the world of darkness

[@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

I will always be endeared to the Lucifarians. "The fight is not done, the war is not won. We must stay the course, and save humanity!"

[@deusveritasest56]

.... Is that Dark Soul OST ? Remember me something...

[@Duskwalker68]

Wonderful job as always man! Which is your favourite of the Houses? I'm always torn between the Devils and the Defilers.

[@ThePrimogen]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've always been weak for the Devils, although I enjoy the Fiends as well.

[@Duskwalker68]

@@ThePrimogen nice! The Devils are definitely the most powerful IMO. Both good choices!

[@ThePrimogen]

@@Duskwalker68 Glad you approve :D

[@juliagoodwin9510]

So is God a part of the World of Darkness or what?

[@ThePrimogen]

This is the iffy part of Demon: the Fallen. Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, but also that's just one, uh, facet of reality, or something. I try to avoid using God specifically when I'm writing my scripts but it's kind of unavoidable that God is a huge thing in WoD anyway because of Caine mythos and such. This was the nail in the coffin though.

[@juliagoodwin9510]

@@ThePrimogen Sounds confusing.

[@ThePrimogen]

@@juliagoodwin9510 It's a case of White Wolf wanting to eat the cake and keep it too. They explain it in the beginning of the Demon book saying basically that while in one facet of reality, Adam, Eve, Caine and Abel existed as individual people, in another they were tribes of people. It's a mess, but that's what happens when you decide to answer some of the biggest unknown in the setting.

[@juliagoodwin9510]

No idea how the Wyrm, the Wyld and the Weaver are supposed to fit in, that kind of thing makes my head hurt.

[@Duskwalker68]

@@juliagoodwin9510 they don't fit, really. White Wolf never wrote the different parts of WoD with the intent to mix them sadly, so the Werewolf lore doesn't mix very well with Vampire, Demon, etc. My headcanon/custom campaign rule is that Gaia was in fact the Gangrel Antidiluvian Ennoia, and that she created the Garou to protect nature from the predations of mankind and her fellow Vampires; instilling a zealous belief in a fake religion to make them more useful to her. Doesn't make a ton of sense but it kind of works for me lol

[@nineflames2863]

So in summary: The World of Darkness is such a terrible place because its creator threw a hissy fit during creation. What a -dick- lovely guy. On a different note: This creation myth is obviously *heavily* inspired by christian mythology. Does that mean all of creation in the WoD was done by this equivalent of the abrahamic god? What about places and cultures that have nothing to do with christianity? There are as many creation myths as there are peoples after all.

[@ThePrimogen]

That's the tricky part, and what I believe is why Demon: the Fallen might not see a rerelease. I think they address it in the book to some degree, but it's hard to look past that yep, it basically says that the Abrahamic god is the creator of everything. But again I'm just diving into Demon so I will be investigating this further.

[@justinblasdel9325]

There are different realms of existence which overlap the true Earth. The best reason I was given for the conflict between Demon cosmology and other religions is that they were just one part of the whole of existence. If Demons say they created humans, then they did. If the Weaver says it created humans, then it did. Also, in Demon the Fallen, Lucifer refers to God as "she".

[@furkancankaya2233]

so humans get panishment even if they didint do anything... fk

[@unevenbonsai1715]

Jesus! This sucks for humans, well at least you can be a hunter or mage

[@globalpat8201]

I am writing a demon the fallen fanfiction on wattpad

[@Mortablunt]

How has that gone?

[@globalpat8201]

@@Mortablunt Not well. it was on wattpad but i may restart it

[@jacobaugustine4052]

@@globalpat8201 link

[@chucknorrisonlinux]

3.2.1

[@ThePrimogen]

Hope you enjoyed :D

[@chucknorrisonlinux]

@@ThePrimogen I did. Not as much detail than I hoped but you're getting to it lol. I just need to be patient

[@ThePrimogen]

@@chucknorrisonlinux Haha it's true. I'm very limited by my wordcount per video, which is around 2000, but depending on how popular this video series is I might expand on the individual Houses and Factions more. My first video on the clans of VtM was very bare-bones as well and back then I wrote ~1500 words per episode.