History TabletopGame / Infernum

* SevenDeadlySins: most of the Houses embody at least one of these, and sometimes more. Zethu is Pride, Riethii is blatantly Lust, Sturrach obviously has strong ties to Wrath, Lictat is implied to be Envy, Carthenay is Avarice, and Oblurott is predominantly Gluttony, with a side-order of Sloth.

* ShiningCity: Pandemonium, a shining symbol of all of demonkind's aspirations, hopes and dreams. From the demonic perspective, the trope is played completely straight here. From everyone else's, of course, it's a horrible black disaster of a city, build on and ringed by black, grinding, soul-sucking ice, full of twisted, winding streets that change when you're not looking at them, and dominated by those palaces and temples of the First Fallen that still stand.

* ReligionOfEvil: played with in the form of the Church of the Morningstar. On one hand, their religious trappings are intended more as mockery then anything else (to the point the average priest thinks someone who genuinely believes in their "faith" is either dead stupid or out of their mind), they're no more evil then any other demon, and they're really more of a social organization who are basically responsible for ensuring that the sun of Hell rises and sets regularly and doesn't explode or snuff out in the wind or anything like. On the other hand, the secret heart of the Church is that it's a Lucifer Cult, awaiting the return of the leader of the First Fallen and planning to fight at his side, betraying all demonkind, in the belief that he will make them his right-hand-minions after re-enslaving all other demons.

* SevenDeadlySins: most of the Houses embody at least one of these, and sometimes more. Zethu is Pride, Riethii is blatantly Lust, Sturrach obviously has strong ties to Wrath, Lictat is implied to be Envy, and Oblurott is predominantly Gluttony, with a side-order of Sloth.

* ShiningCity: Pandemonium, a shining symbol of all of demonkind's aspirations, hopes and dreams. From the demonic perspective, the trope is played completely straight here.
** From everyone else's, of course, it's a horrible black disaster of a city, build on and ringed by black, grinding, soul-sucking ice, full of twisted, winding streets that change when you're not looking at them, and dominated by those palaces and temples of the First Fallen that still stand.

It is five hundred and sixty five years since the last of the First Fallen was slain, and Hell is in turmoil once again. The Tenth House, House Lictat, has arisen after three hundred and sixty seven years to claim the position held by the destroyed Ninth House, House Jelac. The Free City Hersey, a rebellion against the very laws of the Infernum, has arisen and claimed multiple cities across Hell, forcing the other eight Houses to accept House Lictat in order to focus their attention on this new threat. The Hellgouts are swallowing larger and larger groups of mortals. Fallen angels are plummetting into the Pit more frequently then ever before. This year marks ninety eight years since the Knights of the Harrowing plunged their mountain-fortress of Outremer into Hell to lead a crusade against demonkind. The possibilities for the brave, the cunning, and the lucky, are infinite.

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons. It is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''ParadiseLost'', the various comics of AlanMoore (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), NeilGaiman's ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[TwoThousandAD Slaine]]'', ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''PerdidoStreetStation'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', ''Film/EventHorizon'', and ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons. It is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''ParadiseLost'', the various comics of AlanMoore (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), NeilGaiman's ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[TwoThousandAD Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''PerdidoStreetStation'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', ''Film/EventHorizon'', and ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

** The Book of the Tormentor has, as a sample mortal, a "Newcomer Marine", who represents a survivor of one of the "many military bases and mercenary encampments prone to being dragged into Hell". Between his quote, and his primary weapons being a shotgun and a chainsaw, he's pretty obviously supposed to be a {{Doom}}guy expy. [[TheyLive He also comes with a packet of bubblegum.]]

* LightIsNotGood: The average FallenAngel who survives in Hell quickly becomes even more evil and corrupt than most demons. Even Fallen who follow the Paths of the Divine Will (attempting to adhere to their celestial purpose) and Mortal (attempting to become like humans) can be {{Complete Monster}}s, or at least {{Jerk Ass}}es. (Not too badly, however; commit too many sins and you'll be corrupted.)

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons. It is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''ParadiseLost'', the various comics of AlanMoore (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), NeilGaiman's ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[{{ptitley5d4ry61}} Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''PerdidoStreetStation'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', ''Film/EventHorizon'', and ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Gendered demons can breed with humans and create half-demons. Demons can also breed with ''demons'' and create half-demons who are identical to those with human blood.

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons. It is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''ParadiseLost'', the various comics of AlanMoore (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), NeilGaiman's ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[{{ptitley5d4ry61}} Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''PerdidoStreetStation'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', ''Film/EventHorizon'', and ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

* AnatomyArsenal: Most if not all of these tropes are present in the system, with the right mutations and sometimes a little reflavoring. Chain of the Carriage's final form is BewareMyStingerTail incarnate (either crushing flail or actual stinger), one branch of the Chain of Living Weapons fits nicely into SwissArmyAppendage (hand, bio-gun, cutting implement, stabbing implement, crushing implement), and there's more. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chain of the Crawling Flesh]] culminates in the ability to make your skin ''peel itself off of your body and try to kill your enemies''.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: demons are more like ?Always NeutralEvil?.

* CirclesOfHell: the Pit is a 2400 mile deep crater basically divided into nine bands of terrain that roughly equate to countries. We start with Emptiness, the rim of barren ash wastes around the mouth of the crater. Next comes the eternally storm-wracked mountains of Tempest. The mudflats and swamps of Tears comes between Tempest and the volcanic badlands and slagheaps of Toil. After that, one passes through the battlefields of Slaughter to the urbanized nightmare of Industry. For the final stretch, you go down through the demonic "paradise" of Delight, through passes in the volcanic mountains of Malebolge, and finish in Pandemonium, the city of chaos on the crater's floor. Yes, you are walking on the walls of a roughly conical crater for the seven intermediate Circles between the outside and the crater floor. Gravity works differently in the Pit.

* CrapsackWorld: it's blisteringly hot and dry (except where it's freezing cold and dry), rivers are more likely to be full of magma or molten metal then water, there's ''no sun'' (though there's a reasonable facsimile), it's several types of barren wasteland, it's crawling with inhuman creatures that literally need to rip your soul apart in order to both feed themselves and sustain their society... how much worse can you get?

* DevilButNoGod: one possible interpretation of the setting is this. Lucifer and a number of other Fallen Angels named by Christianity were exiled from a place called ?Heaven?, but there?s no evidence that Heaven is anything like the Christian depiction of the place (even the Fallen Angels player race don?t remember anything about it, and of course the demons and humans haven?t ever seen it), and there?s nothing that implies there?s some kind of supreme entity running the place.
* DuelToTheDeath: One of the three lynchpins of Infernal society is the Law of the Duel.
* DumbMuscle: Hulks. Taken to the extreme, too - Hulks get a Chain that lets the turn into literal living castles.

* KillItWithFire: the Chain of the Inferno gives the character fiery powers, including launching blasts of flame, turning into living flame, cloaking themselves in auras of fire, and causing victims to spontaneously combust with a touch? though those last two options have the drawback that, eventually, the demon will burst into flames themselves when they try to use it. Also somewhat subverted, as all demons are naturally resistant to fire and the same Chain can make them even more resistant to it.

* RedRightHand: Deceivers have a single distinguishing mark to set them aside from humans. (Aside from anything their personal mutations may give.

* SacredHospitality: one of the three Laws (the others being the Law of the Covenant and the Law of the Duel) that hold the Infernum together as a functional society (for certain values of functional).

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons. It is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''{{Paradise Lost}}'', the various comics of {{Alan Moore}} (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), {{Neil Gaiman}}'s ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitley5d4ry61 Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''{{Perdido Street Station}}'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', ''Film/EventHorizon'', and ''{{Doom}}''.

* MindRape: let's see... tortures designed to break your will, malcubi can physically ''enter your dreams'', House Riethii's Noble Chain of the Harlot, the Chains of Charisma, Lies, Lust and Weeping all let you manipulate the minds and/or emotions of others in some fashion, the Chain of Possession lets you steal the bodies of others or become a voice in their head goading them to do what you want, the Chain of the Hungry Mind culminates in the ability to psychically "eat" someone's brain, the Nightmare Aspect Chain turns you into living HighOctaneNightmareFuel... yeah, this is a popular trope.

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: this is the racial motif of the Stalkers, who look something like demonic humanoid jackals and have a personality somewhere between a rabid wolf and a shark. Their racial abilities include being able to meddle with their quarry's dreams, [[MindRape cursing them with the knowledge that the Stalker is coming and there's nothing they can do to shake them off]], and [[NightmareFuel the ability to see through their prey's eyes and know exactly what they're feeling, both of these at will]].

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: again, where to begin? This is a game set in ''Hell'' after all. One particular throwaway line is the reference to the Feasthalls of House Oblurott, where the (human) dishes are mentioned as having conceived and given birth to the next course, both on the table, while waiting to be eaten.

->''"He got it half right; I have never seen Heaven and not even the angels of the Pit know its true nature. But this much is true – it is better to rule in Hell."''

-->''"A mortal poet put these pretty words in Lucifer’s mouth: “it is better to rule in Hell than it is to serve in Heaven."''\\

-->''"He got it half right; I have never seen Heaven and not even the angels of the Pit know its true nature. But this much is true – it is better to rule in Hell."''\\

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons. It is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''{{Paradise Lost}}'', the various comics of {{Alan Moore}} (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), {{Neil Gaiman}}'s ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitley5d4ry61 Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''{{Perdido Street Station}}'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''{{Hellraiser}}'', ''EventHorizon'', and ''{{Doom}}''.

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons, which takes a very literal twist on YouAreTheDemons. In short, ''Infernum'' is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''{{Paradise Lost}}'', the various comics of {{Alan Moore}} (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), {{Neil Gaiman}}'s ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitley5d4ry61 Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', ChinaMieville's ''{{Perdido Street Station}}'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''{{Hellraiser}}'', ''EventHorizon'', and ''{{Doom}}''.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: again, where to begin? This is a game set in ''Hell'' after all. One particular throwaway line is the reference to the Feasthalls of House Oblurott, where the (human) dishes are mentioned as having conceived and given birth to the next course,both on the table, while waiting to be eaten.

* DarkIsNotEvil: averted. There can be relatively good natured and honorable demons, but they?re still monstrous and most of the race is, indeed, evil.

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons, which takes a very literal twist on YouAreTheDemons. In short, ''Infernum'' is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''{{Paradise Lost}}'', the various comics of {{Alan Moore}} (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), {{Neil Gaiman}}'s ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'', [[MikeCarey Mike Carey's]] ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitley5d4ry61 Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]] ''{{Perdido Street Station}}'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''{{Hellraiser}}'', ''EventHorizon'', and ''{{Doom}}''.

''Infernum'' is an RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, using the "D20 system" created and poularized by the third edition of DungeonsAndDragons, which takes a very literal twist on YouAreTheDemons. In short, ''Infernum'' is a game in which you do not ''fight'' the LegionsOfHell... but, by default, ''play'' as them. Most heavily based on ''[[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'', its list of inspirations also includes ''{{Paradise Lost}}'', the various comics of {{Alan Moore}} (most prominently ''Promethia'', ''SwampThing'', ''From Hell'', and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''), {{Neil Gaiman}}'s ''{{Sandman}}'', Mike Carey's ''{{Lucifer}}'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''ConanTheBarbarian'', ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitley5d4ry61 Slaine]]'', ''{{Gormenghast}}'', [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]] ''{{Perdido Street Station}}'', Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, ''Foucault's Pendulum'' by Umberto Eco, ''{{Hellraiser}}'', ''EventHorizon'', and ''{{Doom}}''.