We have our demons--six big demon lords from the black wound of a broken reality, ready and willing to eat up everything you know and love. out of all the Angels, these are the ones I've thought most of, since they are the villains--the monsters you and your players will need to stop.
Now, being the villains, they need to handle a few different types of issues. First is the dungeon-crawling "monster" component. They need to be threats, and at least a decent variety of threats to keep them feeling new and different. It's not just monsters we're building, but armies. Each should cover a specific feel of threat and powers and tricks up their sleeve.
Secondly is the more insidious threat of the ideological heresy. This is a world where God cannot help you without burning the whole universe, where all mankind is trapped on a world that is nothing but darkness and ice. Unlike some demonic forces, I don't need these to be tempting you with bad ideas--I want to have them tempt you with GOOD ones. Join us and we'll help you survive the long nights. Give us your hand and you will get power. Let us whisper our secrets to you and you can use them to heal the sick or stop aging or...These are demons that don't care about you or your soul. All they want to do is climb out of the Darkness enough so they can kill off the angels and put this poor wounded reality out of its misery. It'll be better for you, after all--you'll be free from this as well, and maybe Zah can try this again...You'll probably be dead by then...why not get a little power now and help yourself?
They're there--in the darkness, under your bed, in the places where the angles meet, in the crossroads and hidden glens and quiet moments in conversation where shivers grab your neck. They're trapped in the hell of non-being, and you and everything you know are the chains around their necks. They don't care about you, but they will give you anything if you help them. You want to be faster, stronger, more handsome, live forever, become an arch-mage? Fantastic. Just dip your toes in the waters of Qlippoth, and become a little less than what Zha had planned for you. Become a bit more like them. Weaken their bonds a minuscule amount.
They live outside of time, so they have all the time in the world. They can make their own worlds, so they outnumber us. They know secrets from a dead universe, so they have us outgunned and outwitted. Every inch in our world gains them one step closer to burning the stars and the earth and space and time. We are their enemy at the atomic level.
The Dragon
The Kraken
The Ivory Queen
The Bargheist
The Red Marshall
The Green Monk
They are the Sycorax, and they are so close to victory...
Secondly is the more insidious threat of the ideological heresy. This is a world where God cannot help you without burning the whole universe, where all mankind is trapped on a world that is nothing but darkness and ice. Unlike some demonic forces, I don't need these to be tempting you with bad ideas--I want to have them tempt you with GOOD ones. Join us and we'll help you survive the long nights. Give us your hand and you will get power. Let us whisper our secrets to you and you can use them to heal the sick or stop aging or...These are demons that don't care about you or your soul. All they want to do is climb out of the Darkness enough so they can kill off the angels and put this poor wounded reality out of its misery. It'll be better for you, after all--you'll be free from this as well, and maybe Zah can try this again...You'll probably be dead by then...why not get a little power now and help yourself?
They're there--in the darkness, under your bed, in the places where the angles meet, in the crossroads and hidden glens and quiet moments in conversation where shivers grab your neck. They're trapped in the hell of non-being, and you and everything you know are the chains around their necks. They don't care about you, but they will give you anything if you help them. You want to be faster, stronger, more handsome, live forever, become an arch-mage? Fantastic. Just dip your toes in the waters of Qlippoth, and become a little less than what Zha had planned for you. Become a bit more like them. Weaken their bonds a minuscule amount.
They live outside of time, so they have all the time in the world. They can make their own worlds, so they outnumber us. They know secrets from a dead universe, so they have us outgunned and outwitted. Every inch in our world gains them one step closer to burning the stars and the earth and space and time. We are their enemy at the atomic level.
The Dragon
The Kraken
The Ivory Queen
The Bargheist
The Red Marshall
The Green Monk
They are the Sycorax, and they are so close to victory...
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