Visage

Visages

Adad, the Visage of Storms Anshar, the Visage of the Firmament Antu, the Visage of Paths Aruru, the Visage of the Flesh Bel, the Visage of the Celestials Dagan, the Visage of Awakening Ellil, the Visage of the Winds Ereshkigal, the Visage of the Realms Ishhara, the Visage of Longing Kishar, the Visage of the Earth Mammetum, the Visage of Transfiguration Mummu, the Visage of the Forge Namtar, the Visage of Death Nedu, the Visage of Portals Nergal, the Visage of the Spirit Ninsun, the Visage of Patterns Ninurtu, the Visage of the Wild Nusku, the Visage of Flame Qingu, the Visage of Radiance Shamash, the Visage of Light

Chapter Six of Demon: The Fallen provides everything you need to create a functional character, but this section devotes special attention to shaping the demon's true visage, or revelatory form. In many cases, a demon feels more at home in this form than he does in the stolen human flesh he currently inhabits. After all, this flesh is a temporary shell, and a borrowed (or, more accurately, stolen) one at that. The revelatory form, however, offers a small taste of the freedom that all angels once enjoyed, and a more fitting manifestation of the demon's true nature than a human flesh-cloak. The apocalyptic form is more than a war form or a weapon for the fallen; it is a reflection of their goals, their dreams and their nigh-forgotten purpose as agents of Creation.

When creating a character, read over the description of the demon's visage, as determined by the character's primary lore. Also, have a look through the suggestions for incorporating the visage more completely into your character concept (seethe God's Intent section below). Even it you wind up choosing entirely different powers for your demon's revelatory form, this visage still applies to some degree. While one Dagan might cause flowers to spring into bloom and any who look on her to feel stronger (the Aura of Vitality and Affirm abilities) and another might soar invisibly through the night watching over her chosen thralls (Wings and Pass Without Trace), the very fact that both embody the Visage of Awakening means that they shine with life, in whatever ways their players interpret that characteristic. Decide how the character embodies her primary lore and why she chose to specialize in it in the first place. Was it integral to her duties under God? Has she fallen back on a particular lore path because the years have eroded her knowledge of her previous specialty? God's Intent

The various types of lore that demons now evoke is but a weak cousin to the power they once wielded during the War of Wrath. When God created each of the angels, He did so with a specific purpose in mind. That purpose shows through, if only a little, in a fallen angel's visage. Even those lore paths that grew out of necessity during the war manifested revelatory forms that harked back to an angel's original role in Heaven's plan. Although the Lore of the Forge didn't exist prior to the Fall, those fallen who dedicated themselves to mastering the lore still bore skin like iron and the molten veins of an angel of the deep earth. Whatever the fallen have become, even after countless ages of torment, their appearance still hints at the luminous glory of their origins.

Some suggestions follow for the original purpose for angels who exhibit each of the visages. Consider your character with regard to her purpose as mandated by the Creator (and expressed through her primary lore) when describing the derails of her visage.

It might seem as though a given purpose could arguably fall under a number of different visages. For example, an angel responsible for hope might now be a Slayer with the Namtar Visage (old things die, but new things take their place), an Ishhara Defiler (longing is not far from hope, ideologically) or even a Devil who exhibits the Visage of the Celestials (in God's Word there is always hope). This kind of overlap is deliberate. Although the angels never questioned God on the matter, the assumption was always that two pairs of eyes on a project are better than one. Therefore, if a subject falls under multiple jurisdictions, it prevents any one angel from having the last word on the subject's usage and specific traits.