Editing Demon: The Fallen (section)

=== War in Heaven ===
The first blow came from God Himself. Shielding those faithful to Him God essentially place a divine bitchslap upon reality, filling it with entropy and ruining Paradise. Oh sure, it did not destroy the world outright but scarred it enough to break endless perfection. Initially the angels on both sides were naive and kind in a way. Fights were on many different levels, from physical battles to acts of physics meeting. Those who lost were captured and imprisoned: the Fallen to be processed later and the loyalists to deprive God of His soldiers and to try and seduce them. This meant that the war was a bloodless one, until a local man ruined everything. He had joined the Fallen while his brother had remained faithful to God. The man observed his brother make a sacrifice to God and was rewarded with His love. This drove the man into a rage from jealousy but also love. For he loved his brother as much as he hated him, and he loved God as much as he hated Him. So the man decided to make a sacrifice of his own, that which he cherished the most was given to God. It was an act of love, an act of jealousy; an act of kindness, an act of hatred. The man killed his brother, the man gave his brother to God. This first act of cruelty, of murder, of hate and desire, changed the angelic host and the rebel Fallen forever. As a punishment the Lord set a mark upon the man, lest any finding him should kill him.

Way to go, [[Caine]].

This turned the war for the bloody. Lucifer's lieutenants, the Fallen [[Belial]], [[Abaddon]], Dagon, [[Asmodeus]] and [[Azrael]], each took command of a host of Fallen and began to wage their wars. They were successful but ruthless: exterminating or enslaving those who would side with God against the Fallen. The successes kept mounting up so Lucifer decided to enact his Great Experiment: uplifting Humanity to their true potential. He appointed ten of the most learned of Fallen and gave them the task to teach something to Humanity:

* Giriel taught how to shape the land by combining elements and minerals.
* Sharaael taught medicine.
* Bephamael taught astronomy and how to use it to predict the future.
* Marael taught meteology.
* Gamael taught metallurgy.
* Ur-Shanbi taught how to predict the future.
* Samael taught of the Moon and its powers.
* Agriel taught farming and herbology.
* Shamshiel taught of the Sun.
* Penemue taught linguistics, writing and reading.

Unimaginatively called the Ten, these Fallen set out to be the teachers of Humanity. For a while they did quite well and Humanity grew to unimaginable heights. Some Fallen however were distressed by this: because if Humanity was to master all of Creation, what use would the Fallen be? A nameless traitor suggested that in order to remain the masters of Humanity, perhaps it would be possible to create something new to lord over the humans. Asmodeus, Abaddon and Azrael being to formulate a plot to create a new race of beings. These things would be born from Fallen and humans, making them subservient to their Fallen progenitors but lording over Humanity in their masters' name. This saw the creation of the [[Nephilim]]: possessing the gifts of Man and Fallen, but terrible to behold in visage or potential. They quickly began to dominate their cities, but they made a grave mistake when they turned on the Ten. This lead word of their existence to Lucifer's citadel, who purged them with fire and sword. This great battle left the world in tatters and created the Shattering.