Editing Demon: The Fallen (section)

=== Star, Cross and Moon ===
Lucifer found allies in the most unlikely of corners: Humanity. Specifically a tribe that told the history of the world as it had actually happened. They had no sorcerers of their own and were too insignificant for the Earthbound to conquer. These people, the [[Jews|Hebrews]], started to received the secret guidance of the Morningstar himself. Earthbound caught wind of this and tried to tempt the Jews, but they turned out to be very resilient to their efforts. Solomon, successor to King David, was a seeker of knowledge. This put him into eventual contact with the Phoenicians, who were willing to teach him if he took upon the worship of the Earthbound-in-disguise. Solomon agreed and began to learn a great deal of things while at the same time building temples, shrines and performed rituals and prayers. A staggering total of 72 Earthbound were involved this way, with Solomon eventually building them all a great temple under Mount Moab. When it was done he withdrew an ancient Assyrian parchment and began to perform a ritual. Each of the 72 Earthbound were bound into a single bronze urn that Solomon had prepared. He then brought it out to the Dead Sea and dropped it into its depths, never to be found again.

With the ever-increasing number of Earthbound in the world they eventually came into conflict. The classical period saw the conflict between many of the Earthbound, with many mortal religions creating stories of their exploits against mortals and each other alike. With the rise of the [[Roman Empire]] Asmodeus and Abaddon decided to team up and help the Romans. This worked spectacularly, and the Pax Romana was a time of great depravity in the world. Those Earthbound part of it found great stability and an income of worship as well. Everything was peachy until a Hebrew man named Paul stated to have undergone a revelation (courtesty of ol' Lucifer) and claimed the divine connection of a man called Yeshua ben Josef, aka Jesus Christ. The Earthbound were appalled at the call to such a fake religion (as in, there's no Earthbound behind it) and began to take steps against this new religion, Christianity. While the problem was not new (given the whole Hebrew issue) the half-hearted steps taken against the Jews meant that something drastic was needed. Both the Christians and the Jews faced mass persecution by the Roman government, encouraged by the Roman people. The Archdukes saw Lucifer's hand in this, as did they in the deaths of Caligula and Nero, who had five-pointed stars carved upon their foreheads. As the years passed though the accord between the Earthbound began to fracture, cumulating in a Roman called Constatine received an omen in his dreams: a cross of light in the sky accompanied by the words ''in hoc signo vinces''. Doing just that, he ordered his men to paint crosses on their shields and fight their battle, which they won despite the odds. The now Emperor Constatine made Christianity the state religion and outlawed the worship of the old gods (aka the Earthbound). Almost overnight the Earthbound were stripped of their income of Faith, and the death blow was struck when the entire Empire collapsed. In the aftermath the Earthbound made a mad grab for any Faith they could find, but their rage made it difficult to find a steady income of Faith.

Even worse for them, the relatively untouched Arabia saw the rise of a merchant called Muhammad, who claimed that there was only ''one'' God, and that all who claimed otherwise should be converted or slaughtered. In a last mad grab for power they tried to turn the three faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam against one another, but the wars between them only bolstered the faith of the people. Now utterly drained the Earthbound found themselves falling into torpor. In their death throes the Earthbound created things like the Inquisition, the Plague and religious extremism, but it was for naught. Only deepening the world's faith the start of the Renaissance and the belief in science, reason or logic rather than demons saw the remaining Earthbound run completely out of Faith. Their Reliquaries were disassembled, hidden or otherwise obscured, their relics buried with them and their servants scattered to the winds, waiting for the eventual return of their Earthbound masters. For centuries the Earthbound slept, through enlightenment, colonization, world wars and the rebuilding of the world.

And Lucifer saw it was good.