Editing Demon: The Fallen (section)

=== Shattering and Imprisonment ===
Lucifer had made a miscalculation: the Fallen were teaching Humanity too much, too fast. They began to buckle under the weight of their divinity, eventually snapping. In an attempt to make Humanity like God its own divinity proved to be too much. The most critical failure however was that this caused Humanity to lose its mastery of the One Language, a primordial tongue used by all of mankind to speak with one another. They drifted apart and began to forget of the Fallen, starting to think of them as legends and myths. All that they had built was lost or abandoned, and the Fallen were left with nothing.

At this point the loyalist Host struck. One by one their citadels fell, their inhabitants imprisoned. After 40 days and 40 nights of battle Lucifer's own stronghold was breached and the Lightbringer was bound in chains of fire. Dragged off the Fallen were sentenced to banishment into the Abyss, a place utterly devoid of God's touch. Once the final Fallen were cast inside its gates were shut, never to be reopened. They quickly discovered that one of their kin was missing: Lucifer himself was not with them. The agony of being utterly devoid of everything but those around them began to drive the Fallen slowly insane, decrying Lucifer as a traitor who sold them out. And that was the last anyone heard from the Fallen, until...