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* ShellShockedVeteran: Another frequent reason for their Fall; Angels who successfully kill their target frequently end up realizing they leave ''absence'' behind, which causes them to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone grow aware of the consequences their missions have]]. At large, this is also the main problem Destroyers in general deal with after their Fall when they try to fit in human society-- while all other Incarnations can more or less find their place, creatures designed to kill and destroy aren't exactly adapted to a "normal" life.
* SociopathicSoldier: Conversely, some Destroyers Fall because they got ''too'' killing-happy and started slaughtering people who weren't actually target just to satisfy their morbid fascination for murder.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Demons are insanely powerful sentient machines with the ability to hack reality itself, and so good at lying they can NoSell any form of lie detector. However, they must spend their entire life hidden among humans in a constant paranoia about an enemy who has eyes everywhere, cannot use most of their powers without risking to get caught, and that same ability to be perfect liars mean they can't even trust ''each other''.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Demons are insanely powerful sentient machines with the ability to hack reality itself, capable of literally buying lives from mortals, and so good at lying they can NoSell any form of lie detector. detector ''and'' [[AntiTrueSight supernatural-detecting power]]. However, they must spend their entire life existence hidden among humans in a constant paranoia about an enemy who has eyes everywhere, cannot state of paranoia, forced to play the role of the humans they impersonate; should they ever act too much out-of-character, or even just use most of their powers without risking to get caught, and too blatantly, their nearly all-seeing enemy will find them. And that same ability to be perfect liars mean means they can't even trust ''each other''.each other, as even ''they'' cannot tell when another one of them is lying or not.



* HealingFactor: A weird variant, which activates only when they transform; a Demon who assumes his demonic form immediately heals a number of damages equal to his Primum.
* HumanoidAbomination: Demons might look like humans when using their Cover, but their whole identity is nothing but a disguise; below it, they are mechanical monstrosities capable of hacking reality itself.

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* HealingFactor: A weird variant, which activates only when they transform; a Demon who assumes his demonic form immediately heals a number of bashing and lethal damages equal to his Primum.
* HumanoidAbomination: Demons might look like humans when using their Cover, but their whole identity is nothing but a disguise; below it, they are mechanical monstrosities with often completely alien appearances, capable of hacking reality itself.
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* RealMenLoveJesus: In contrast with most Demons, Integrators have a strong tendency to be religious, seeing in the Christian God what they would like the God-Machine to be like.
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* RageAgainstTheHeaven: Their entire hat; with the exception of Integrators, all Demons see the God-Machine as the enemy, but Saboteurs are the one actively trying to fight him.

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* RageAgainstTheHeaven: Their entire hat; with the exception of Integrators, all Demons see the God-Machine as the enemy, but Saboteurs are the one ones actively trying to fight him.

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Soldiers in war with the God-Machine, who feel betrayed by him and wish to overthrow or destroy him. They have an affinity for creating chaos and disturbing systems.

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Soldiers in at war with the God-Machine, who feel betrayed by him and wish to overthrow or destroy him. They have an affinity for creating chaos and disturbing systems.


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* RageAgainstTheHeaven: Their entire hat; with the exception of Integrators, all Demons see the God-Machine as the enemy, but Saboteurs are the one actively trying to fight him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Their motivation; Saboteurs feel betrayed by the God-Machine, and wish to strike back at him.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Even compared to other Agenda, Saboteurs tend to ''not'' see eye-to-eye with the Integrators, since their Agenda are pretty much the opposite to each other.
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* LesCollaborateur: Other Agendas, ''especially'' Saboteurs, tend to see them as traitors who would gladly hand them over to the God-Machine. While not entirely false, not all of them are like this.

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* LesCollaborateur: LesCollaborateurs: Other Agendas, ''especially'' Saboteurs, tend to see them as traitors who would gladly hand them over to the God-Machine. While not entirely false, not all of them are like this.




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* TokenEvilTeammate: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]; given they sympathize with the enemy, you would expect them to be this, and most Demons see them as such. However, the large majority of them actually has possibly one of the most sympathetic (albeit hard to accomplish) motives, since they wish to redeem the God-Machine by reprogramming it so it will be closer to human morality. There is a reason one of the nickname for them is "Idealists".

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* KnowledgeBroker: Their main hat; Inquisitors specialize in hoarding knowledge and using it to their own ends.


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* TheAtoner: How some of them see themselves- they consider they were wrong to Fall and really wish to find redemption so they can go back to being angels.
* LesCollaborateur: Other Agendas, ''especially'' Saboteurs, tend to see them as traitors who would gladly hand them over to the God-Machine. While not entirely false, not all of them are like this.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Integrators are ''not'' well-liked by other Demons, who feel like they could betray them at any moment and are naive or idiotic to think returning to the God-Machine would be a good thing. However, their ability to better understand angels make them ''very'' useful, so they are kept around.
* TheMole: The most fanatical among them think they are this; they believe their Fall is part of the God-Machine's plan so they can serve him on the side of the enemy.


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* TheHedonist: They typically are trying to find pleasure and fulfillment in their life as Demons.
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!Agenda
Once Angels Fall and become Demons, they typically end up coming up with their own goals to guide their life, referred to as Agenda.

[[folder:Inquisitors]]
Information gatherers who collect knowledge in an attempt to get the upper hand on the God-Machine.
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[[folder:Integrators]]
Those who regret their Fall and wish to return to angelhood and the God-Machine, albeit on their own terms.
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Soldiers in war with the God-Machine, who feel betrayed by him and wish to overthrow or destroy him. They have an affinity for creating chaos and disturbing systems.
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[[folder:Tempters]]
Capitalists and hedonists who wish to indulge in the pain and pleasure of their new life while accumulating the resources to fight the God-Machine.
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* MouthOfSauron: Their function back when they served the God-Machine; they were in charge of talking for him, transmitting his instructions to mortals and manipulating people into working for him.
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* BodyguardCrush: Played or sometimes inverted, depending on the individual. It's common for Guardians to Fall as a result of developping feelings for the person they are supposed to protect, but the opposite also happens- sometimes they come to ''loathe'' the people they are supposed to defend (frequently because they are assholes) and end up killing them, which trigger their Fall.
* {{Protectorate}}: Their defining feature- Guardians were in charge of protecting someone or something back when they were Angels, and they tend to keep this as their thing when they become Demons.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Demons are insanely powerful sentient machines with the ability to hack reality itself, and so good at lying they can NoSell any form of lie detector. However, they must spend their entire life hidden among humans in a constant paranoia about an enemy who has eyes everywhere, cannot use most of their powers without risking to get caught, and that same ability to be perfect liars mean they can't even trust ''each other''.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: A common motive for Destroyers to fall is that they develop feelings for the person they were meant to kill.

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* EntropyAndChaosMagic: Their Embeds of predilection, Cacophony, holds power over discord and chaos.

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* EntropyAndChaosMagic: Their Embeds of predilection, Cacophony, holds power over discord chaos, enthropy and chaos.disharmony.


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* StealthExpert: They specialize in the Mundane Embeds, which focus on concealment and increasing their ability to go unnoticed.
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* EntropyAndChaosMagic: Their Embeds of predilection, Cacophony, holds power over discord and chaos.
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* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: "Going Loud" allows a Demon to assume her OneWingedAngel form at full power, granting her access to all her affinity Embeds and raising her Primum to 10. Unfortunately, it also completely destroys her Cover, leaving her fully exposed until she finds a new one.
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* PartialTransformation: Demons are capable of summoning only specific abilities of their Demonic form rather than fully transform, which costs them Aether but is significantly less dangerous for their Cover.
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* AntiTrueSight: Coming with their specialty as spies, Demons have the ability to "Spoof" abilities meant to detect their supernatural nature, using their Cover to be registered as regular humans.

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* AntiTrueSight: Coming with their specialty as spies, Demons have the ability to "Spoof" abilities powers meant to detect their supernatural nature, using their Cover to be registered as regular humans.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Demons might look like humans when using their Cover, but their whole identity is nothing but a disguise; below it, they are mechanical monstrosities capable of hacking reality itself.
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Builders and organizers, taking elements and turning them into new ones.

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Builders and organizers, taking elements and turning them into new ones. They were in charge of collecting resources and materials for the God-Machine.
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* {{Magitek}}: The Unchained are sentient supernatural machines created by a God who literally is a quantum computer, making them a weird mix of occult and technology.
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* HealingFactor: A weird variant, which activates only when they transform; a Demon who assumes his demonic form immediately heals a number of damages equal to his Primum.
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* GlamourFailure: Compromising a Cover can cause a Demon to suffer "glitches", resulting in alterations of his psyche or physical form that betray his true nature, albeit temporarly most of the time.


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* RememberTheNewGuy: A Cover basically enforces this on reality itself-- it alters humans' memory and create objects (but not people) out of thin air to make it look like the Demon had been there for a while and support this version. How credible and realistic it is depends on the Cover rating.

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* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They can even escape supernatural senses. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth is when they are making a Pact.

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* AntiTrueSight: Coming with their specialty as spies, Demons have the ability to "Spoof" abilities meant to detect their supernatural nature, using their Cover to be registered as regular humans.
* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They truth, as not only can they perfectly control their body language to avoid any sign betraying their true thought, but they also possess an ability allowing to decide if a fact is true or false at the last second, even escape if it's objectively false; as a result, even supernatural senses.means to detect lies will still register them as telling the truth, even if they are saying BlatantLies. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth is when they are making a Pact.



* OneWingedAngel: "Going loud" is a Demon's ability to shed his human disguise and reveal his true form. They usually try to avoid it however, as this reveals their presence to the God-Machine and is likely to bring progressively stronger Angels to their location to take care of them.

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* OneWingedAngel: "Going While demons use Covers to look human by default, they can at any moment chose to assume their true, mechanical form, though doing so put the Cover at risk. They can also "Go loud" is a Demon's ability to shed his human disguise and reveal his true form. They by destroying their Cover entirely, but they usually try to avoid it however, that option, as this most definitely reveals their presence to the God-Machine and is likely to bring progressively stronger Angels to their location to take care of them.


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* PhotographicMemory: Demons automatically get the Eidetic Memory merit at character creation to represent the fact they have better memory than regular humans.
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* ProfessionalKiller: Their very function; the God-Machine created them to serve as his personal assassins.
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* MamaBear / PapaWolf: Demons don't develop friends or loved ones easily, but when they do, they tend to ''value'' said loved one a great deal. Hurt at own risk.
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* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They can even escape supernatural senses. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth if when they are making a Pact.
* DealWithTheDevil: Obviously. Demons have the ability to make "Pacts" with mortals, which is based on this trope. Unlike the more classic example, however, they don't literally take souls as payment, but parts of the mortals' existence, which they use to complete their Cover and hide from the God-Machine. Trading the entire soul mean they have the human being RetGone and take his place.
* OneWingedAngel: "Going loud" is a Demon's ability to shed his human disguise and reveal his true form. They usually try to avoid it however, as this reveals their presence to the God-Machine and is likely to bring progressively stronger Angels here to take care of them.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: And ''how''. For starter, they are neither the Christian version of the pagan spirits, they are sentient quantum reality computer programs created by the God-Machine who severed their connection with him to become independant. The "Deals", or Pact, they make with people actually are a way for them to trade memories and parts of people's life to complete their human disguise, called Covers.

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* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They can even escape supernatural senses. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth if is when they are making a Pact.
* DealWithTheDevil: Obviously. Demons have the ability to make "Pacts" with mortals, which is based on this trope. Unlike the more classic example, however, they don't literally take souls as payment, but parts of the mortals' existence, which they use to complete their Cover and hide from the God-Machine. Trading the entire soul mean they have means the human being is RetGone and they take his their place.
* OneWingedAngel: "Going loud" is a Demon's ability to shed his human disguise and reveal his true form. They usually try to avoid it however, as this reveals their presence to the God-Machine and is likely to bring progressively stronger Angels here to their location to take care of them.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: And ''how''. For starter, starters, they are neither the Christian version aren't creatures of the Abrahamic mythos, or pagan spirits, gods/spirits incorporated into it, they are sentient quantum reality computer programs created by the God-Machine who severed their connection with him it to become independant. independent. The "Deals", or Pact, Pacts, they make with people actually are a way for them to trade memories and parts of people's life to complete their human disguise, called Covers.



Those whose role was to be the Eye of the God-Machine, collecting data and informations for him. Many of them begin to fall because they started to make deductions from the datas they collected.

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Those whose role was to be the Eye of the God-Machine, collecting data and informations information for him. it. Many of them begin to fall because they started to make deductions from the datas data they collected.



Those whose role was to kill for the God-Machine. Many begin to fall when they refuse to eliminate a specific target out of compassion. They usually keep destroying after their fall, hoping to come in terms with their relationship to violence.

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Those whose role was to kill for the God-Machine. Many begin to fall when they refuse to eliminate a specific target out of compassion. They usually keep destroying after their fall, hoping to come in to terms with their relationship to violence.



Those sent by the God-Machine to protect a specific charge important to his agenda.

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Those sent by the God-Machine to protect a specific charge important to his its agenda.



Those sent to give instructions to humans, whispering in their ears and shaping thought in their mind.

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Those sent to give instructions to humans, whispering in their ears and shaping thought thoughts in their mind.minds.



Builders, taking elements and turning them into new ones.

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Builders, Builders and organizers, taking elements and turning them into new ones.
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Those whose role was to be the Eye of the God-Machine, collecting data and informations for him. Many of them begin to fall because they started to make deductions from the datas they collected.
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Those whose role was to kill for the God-Machine. Many begin to fall when they refuse to eliminate a specific target out of compassion. They usually keep destroying after their fall, hoping to come in terms with their relationship to violence.
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Those sent by the God-Machine to protect a specific charge important to his agenda.
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Those sent to give instructions to humans, whispering in their ears and shaping thought in their mind.
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* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They can even escape supernatural senses. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth if when they are making a deal.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: And ''how''. For starter, they are neither the Christian version of the pagan spirits, they are sentient quantum reality computer programs created by the God-Machine who severed their connection with him to become independant.

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* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They can even escape supernatural senses. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth if when they are making a deal.
Pact.
* DealWithTheDevil: Obviously. Demons have the ability to make "Pacts" with mortals, which is based on this trope. Unlike the more classic example, however, they don't literally take souls as payment, but parts of the mortals' existence, which they use to complete their Cover and hide from the God-Machine. Trading the entire soul mean they have the human being RetGone and take his place.
* OneWingedAngel: "Going loud" is a Demon's ability to shed his human disguise and reveal his true form. They usually try to avoid it however, as this reveals their presence to the God-Machine and is likely to bring progressively stronger Angels here to take care of them.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: And ''how''. For starter, they are neither the Christian version of the pagan spirits, they are sentient quantum reality computer programs created by the God-Machine who severed their connection with him to become independant. The "Deals", or Pact, they make with people actually are a way for them to trade memories and parts of people's life to complete their human disguise, called Covers.
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!Incarnations
Each Angel is created with an "Incarnation", which served to define their task in the God-Machine's agenda. When they fall and become Demons, they tend to retain their Incarnation, and use it to further their Agenda.

[[folder:Unchained in General]]
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* ConsummateLiar: Demons are spectacularly good at acting and hiding the truth. They can even escape supernatural senses. The only moment where they ''have'' to tell the truth if when they are making a deal.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: And ''how''. For starter, they are neither the Christian version of the pagan spirits, they are sentient quantum reality computer programs created by the God-Machine who severed their connection with him to become independant.
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[[folder:Destroyer]]

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[[folder:Messengers]]

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[[folder:Psychopomps]]

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