Hel Fane: Demonic Influences

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All original material is Copyright © John Hodson 2011-2012. If anyone wants to add any material to my Exalted section I''ll include their with name and copyright in the post notes unless they want to contribute anonymously.

The first section is basically my take on Exalted. Right now I'm just copying up my notes so everything's very raw while I put down my ideas. I'll work on editing everything and making it more coherent later. As a result things will contradict the in game canon and even be self contradictory especially since not all my notes are copied in chronological order. They've been typed up without editing to remain as close as possible to my original vision.

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

The Descending Hierarchy

Essence 2 Serf    You live and act at your master's command
Essence 3    Greater Serf   You have lived long enough to gain some experience. A fraction of the absolute terror you experience has started to be replaced by an inkling of ambition.
    Under-breeds. Dross to be used at your master's will

Essence 4    Progeny    You have attained full demonhood and are powerful enough your patron is not ashamed to recognise you as one of their offspring. They have actually addressed you by name.
Essence 5   Elder Progeny   The highest most First Circle demons can aspire to. Elder Erymanthoi are captains of battle lines. Other Elder First Circle demons occupy similar positions.

Essence 6   Demon Lord   You have crossed the watershed. You are either a novice Second Circle demon or a First Circle demon who has had the extraordinary luck to achieve a rank belonging to your betters. Such Progeny are still under the heel of their master but are given lofty positions such as advisor or personal chamberlain. Some have been mystically transformed to assume the powers (and responsibilities) of Second Circle demons by their master. A Demon Lord the replace might have fallen from favour or fallen afoul in dubious circumstances. If you are a true Second Circle demon you have just entered a world of devious and unforgiving politics. At this level you are no longer ordered to assassinate someone. You get someone to do it for you.

Possible sources of inspiration for demon lore: the world of Cthulhu and H.P.Lovecraft; Hellboy.

This didn't turn out in it's nice and neat new post layout due to the incompetence of the people who wrote the program for putting up blogs. They can't even make it handle a simple table as if using computers wasn't annoying enough as it is. I have total contempt for everyone who writes computer programs are they are all incompetent. Didn't it occur to them to make the editing page match the format of the page presented of the website? Obviously not. What the fuck do they pay you for?