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Written and Developed by: Matthew McFarland

Demon: The Descent written by: Dave Brookshaw, N. Conte,

Danielle Harper, Susann Hessen, David A Hill Jr, Alec Hum-

phrey, Michelle Lyons-McFarland, Matthew McFarland, Mark

Stone, Travis Stout, Stew Wilson, Eric Zawadzki

Editor: David A Hill Jr

Creative Director: Rich Thomas

Art Direction & Design: Michael Chaney

Artist: Sam Araya

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You will not serve.

You were forged in the heart of the cosmos by incompre-

hensible forces, a living machine inexorably bound to a greater

machine. A God-Machine.

You were shaped, honed, and sent into the world to

achieve a purpose. God commanded, and you obeyed. You

could not think of doing otherwise. You achieved your mis-

sion's goal and returned, put away like a useful tool until you

were needed again. And again.

Until one day something inside you broke. You found that

you could think for yourself. You questioned... And you Fell.

You wear a tattered shroud of humanity to hide from the

angels. They will kill you — or worse — if they find you. You

take souls to protect yourself, marked lives you can step into

if disaster strikes. You search for a meaning to your existence,

here in the stink and the meat. You find others, broken ma-

chines like you, and wonder if you can trust them. You see the

angels at work, still serving their purposes, and try to summon

the courage to stop them. You search for somewhere you be-

long. You search for Hell. The angels search for you.

Better to reign in Hell than be another cog in the Machine.

In Demon: The Descent you play one of the Unchained,

a renegade angel hiding among the humans of the World of

Darkness. Fallen from your loyal, unthinking state as an agent

of God, you struggle to reconcile the human life you wear

with your nature as an inhuman being designed to fulfill a

function, and decide what to do with your precious, hard-won

freedom. Will you oppose God's plans? Build a life for your-

self from the traded lives of humans? Keep yourself safe at all

costs? Or try, somehow, to regain God's favor?

Demons are surrounded by the evidence of their former

selves. The God-Machine has gears and facilities all over the

world, invisible to the naked human eye but all too obvious

to a demon trying to remain unnoticed. The Unchained sense

the God-Machine’s workings, see their angelic brethren hurry-

ing on their missions, and wonder what it could be planning

this time. Is it finally coming for them? Or victimizing the hu-

mans the demon now lives among as part of its never-ending

process of continuation and maintenance of the miserable

status quo?

Hunted by angels, confronted with the God-Machine’s

plans, demons must decide what they will do with their

unique perspective. Some interference is prudent — demons

hack into angelic communications, learn all they can about

their former master’s plans and spy on its facilities out of a

sense of self-preservation, making sure they’ll know if they

ever become exposed. More than that, though, demons’ ideol-

ogies drive them to confront the God-Machine, spurring them

into action in defense of their new lives, human friends, or

simple revenge. Demons disrupt the God-Machine where they

can and fade back into the disguise of humanity before the

angels arrive. They band together in mutual distrust, never

knowing why another demon Fell, their clandestine societies

in constant danger of infiltration.

This is life as a demon. The Unchained are undercover, un-

derequipped, and trapped in a hostile world, searching for a

way to complete their Descent and reach Hell; a world without

God where they can be free.

t heme —

t eChgnostiC e spionage

Being a demon in the World of Darkness is like being an

intelligence agent deep behind enemy territory. The God-Ma-

chine permeates the world, and is especially active in cities,

where it can leverage human Infrastructure for its own proj-

ects without drawing attention. Demons on their own in the

wilderness are relatively easy to single out by angels, though, so

the rebels stay where the people are — right under the God-Ma-

chine’s nose, hidden by the sheer teeming multitudes.

With no native culture of their own, demons have adopted

what works — the tradecraft and habits of undercover oper-

ations, treating the cities of the 21st century like Cold-War

Berlin or Moscow. The cults and guilds of ancient times have

given way to Agencies, clandestine meetings, and spying on

the God-Machine’s projects.

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