Demon: Earthbound

Demon: The Earthbound is a supplement for Demon: The Fallen about the Earthbound, Fallen who were raised from the Abyss through human cults and have managed to gain great power, even as their nature is twisted beyond anything once angelic.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

In the Deep Places of the Earth

They have slumbered for centuries, dreaming of the day when they will rise again. In ancient times, their cults extended into the hearts of great empires. They ruled from temples heaped with skulls that echoed with the discordant chants of the faithful, drawing humanity down a path of slavery and corruption. The Earthbound dream of a world in which humanity exists only to furnish them with power, offering up souls in an unending feast. Now their time has come again.

The Old Ones Rise

Demon: The Earthbound details the origins, history and power of these monstrous spirits, revered in the past as gods and twisted by centuries of mortal worship and depraved sacrifice. No longer angels nor wholly demons, the Earthbound are the nightmarish products of divine power and the darkest parts of the human soul.

Prologue: A New Home[]

An Annunaki enslaved by an Earthbound betrays her friends to take her master to safety.

Introduction[]

Notes on the themes and moods in this book, as well as suggested media for gaining a feel for the Earthbound.

Chapter One: A Stirring Upon the Deep[]

The history of the Earthbound, from the betrayal of Lucifer's five lieutenants to their binding to idols, to the rising as gods to the falls of the Earthbound's power during the Age of Enlightenment, and information on their recent revival.

Chapter Two: Carved in Stone[]

How the Earthbound exist and exert their powers, including information on reliquaries, how they can be awakened, the Rituals and cults that spring up around them, and how they can fight back against those who would destroy them.

Chapter Three: Raising the Old Gods[]

Instructions on creating a playable Earthbound, including differences between them and regular Fallen, the mechanics of playing one, including their Visages and Grotesqueries, and the complete powers of the Lore of Chaos, the Lore of Contamination, and the Lore of Violation.

New Traits
- Reliquary Traits:
  - Perfect Reliquaries:
    - Great Durability
    - Great Regeneration
    - Manifestation
  - Improvised Reliquaries:
    - Minor Durability
    - Minor Regeneration
    - Limited Hoard
    - Easy Manifestation
  - Location:
    - Durability
    - Great Regeneration
    - Manifestation
    - Pervasiveness
    - Huge Size
    - Immobility

New Archetypes:
- Destroyer
- Enslaver
- Sadist
- Tyrant
- Vivisectionist

New Abilities:
- Indoctrination (Skill)
- Recall (Talent)
- Tactics (Skill)
- Torture (Skill)

New Backgrounds:
- Codex
- Cult
- Hoard
- Mastery
- Thralls
- Worship

Altered Backgrounds:
- Allies
- Influence
- Resources

Urges:
- Flesh
- Thought
- Emotion

Innate Powers:
- Immunity to Possession
- Resistance to Illusion
- Resistance to Lethal Damage
- Healing Physical Damage
- Invocations and Enslavement
- Supernatural Awareness
- Lore Mastery
- Bodiless Immortality
- Forcing Worship
- Possession
- Empowering Thralls
- The Apocalyptic Body
- Death of the Undying

Black Knowledge:

Earthbound Visages:
- Face of Terror
  - 1-Point Features:
    - Adhesive Grip
    - Casts No Reflection
    - Chameleon Skin
    - Distracting Aura
    - Enhanced Movement
    - Horns
    - Improved Initiative
    - Lashing Tail
    - Leaping
    - Lore Sense
    - Relentless
    - Sense the Hidden
    - Supernatural Vision
    - Thorns
  - 2-Point Features:
    - Aura of Dread
    - Aura of Entropy
    - Claws/Teeth
    - Cloak of Shadows
    - Enhanced Ability
    - Extra Limbs
    - Frenzy
    - Gaping Maw
    - Huge Size
    - Ichor
    - Immune to Electricity
    - Immune to Falling Damage
    - Ink Cloud
    - Irresistible Force
    - Magnetic Field
    - Miasma
    - Multiple Eyes
    - Shocking Touch
    - The Host
    - Viscous Flesh
    - Vomit Acid
  - 3-Point Features:
    - Alter Size
    - Aura of Misfortune
    - Chimerical Attack
    - Damage Resistance
    - Disperse
    - Distortion
    - Enhanced Senses
    - Extra Actions
    - Extra Health Levels
    - Hypnotic Visions
    - Immune to Fire
    - Primal Mind
    - Reaper's Breath
    - Rend the Soul
    - Spark of Faith
    - Thunderous Voice
    - touch of Death
    - Toxins
    - Tremor Sense
    - Venom
    - Wings
  - 4-Point Features:
    - Armor
    - Deadly Blood
    - Dread Gaze
    - Enhanced Mental Traits
    - Enhanced Physical Traits
    - Enhanced Social Traits
    - Eyes of Fate
    - Immune to Bashing Damage
    - Mist

Grotesqueries:
- Unspeakably Hideous
- Abhorrent Sounds
- Bulging Muscles
- Decaying
- Deformed Limbs
- Extra Face
- Eyes
- Genitalia
- Glow
- Misshapen Head
- Mouths
- No Arms
- No Head
- No Legs
- Pustules
- Skin
- Slime
- Stench
- Unstable
- Vestigial Limbs

Thralls Abilities:
- Mundane Abilities
- Limited Evocations
  - Mutations and Powers:
    - Animal Control
    - Cause Insanity
    - Claws/Fangs
    - Corrupting Touch
    - Damage Resistance
    - Darksight
    - Extra Actions
    - Extra Health
    - Fast Healing
    - Frenzy
    - Immunity to Feat
    - Immunity to Mind-Control
    - Master's Voice
    - Mental Blast
    - Mind Eater
    - Resistance to Illusion
    - Scream of Terror
    - Superhuman Attribute
    - Supernatural Awareness
    - Tainted Bile
    - Water Breathing
    - Webbing
  - Stigmata:
    - Attribute Atrophy
    - Derangement
    - Feeding Requirement
    - Minor Physical Mutation
    - Major Physical Mutation
    - Severe Physical Mutation
    - Sensory Impairment

Chapter Four: Forbidden Arcana[]

Information on powerful Earthbound-created relics, rituals, and bastions.

Relics:
- Enhanced Items:
  - Altar Knife
  - Enhanced Body Armor
  - False ID
  - Unscaled Eyes
- Enchanted Items:
  - Attunement
  - Celestial Gauntlets
  - Veil of Secrets
  - Pain of the Ages
  - Press of Voices
- Demonic Items:
  - Black Whip of Ruin
  - Infernal Grimoire
  - Child's Companion
  - Ghost Coin

Rituals:
- Undying Fire
- Unholy Geas
- Song of Sinuous Questing
- Soul Cascade
- Plague Tide
- Networking

Bastions:
- Il-Ilum
- Nactirum
- Nganti'iiya
- Ocean of Storms

Chapter Five: Storytelling[]

Using the Earthbound as enemies, suggestions for how players can follow their chain of command, including their servants and cults, and suggestions for how to fight an Earthbound.

Chapter Six: Darkness Rising[]

Present the history and statistics of 6 Earthbound: Sarisel, the Gardener of Hell, Bezariel, the Blood Angel, Ix Tab, the Suicide Goddess, Oranash, the Wind from the Sea, Verakuk, the Warden and Chelniel, the Stone-Circle.

Background Information[]

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

Earthbound[]

Asmodeus - Neberu whose vision of humanity gaining power over the Elohim caused Lucifer's lieutenants to take action.
Abaddon - Rabisu who created the nephilim in an attempt to supplant humanity.
Azrael - Halaku who collected the souls of the nephilim after their defeat.
Dagon - Annunaki who was one of Lucifer's most trusted advisors and later became an Earthbound.
Belial - Lammasu who was another of Lucifer's most trusted advisors, became the "Great Beast", and is now Lucifer's greatest enemy.
Azrael - "Angel of Death"
Enshagkushanna
Manishtusu
Urughanna - Young Earthbound in Sydney, Australia
Hedammu - Earthbound who uses the relic, "Press of Voices"
Ocaedien - Earthbound Defiler
Onianiel - Earthbound, Silver Legion
Muku-Ngaanta, the guardian-in-the-rocks
Ophegel - Earthbound, Lammasu Defiler
Kaminari, the Empress of Thunder - Earthbound, Malefactor
Balam-Agag - Earthbound, Scourge
Leshii the Devourer - Earthbound
Harsis the Scourge
Phaestus the Malefactor
Kaoru-Shinju the Fiend
Dhanavantari the Defiler
Manishtusu the Devourer
Lelwani the Slayer
Baal - Earthbound, Devourer
Sarisel, the Gardener of Hell
Bezariel, the Blood Angel
Ix Tab, the Suicide Goddess
Oranash, the Wind from the Sea
Verakuk, the Warden
Chelniel, the Stone-Circle
Abromalgia - Earthbound, Devourer, reliquary destroyed by Yin-Kui
Dyubbiel - Earthbound, Devil, "The Guardian Angel of Persia"
Ukhat - Earthbound, Defiler
Sadu - Earthbound, Defiler
Bel-Namataru - Earthbound, Fiend
Demavand - Earthbound, Annunaki
Lethe - Earthbound, Fiend, servitor to Asmodeus
Ghede - Earthbound, Scourge
Gawama - Earthbound, Scourge
Gorgias - Earthbound, Scourge
Dazhbog - Earthbound, Scourge
Zu - Earthbound, Devourer
Hoso-no-Kami - Earthbound, Scourge
Lord Lidersk - Earthbound, Defiler
Shedim - Earthbound, Devourer, Rabisu
Abatwa - Earthbound, Slayer
Ala - Earthbound
Drugaskan - Earthbound
Oludumare - Earthbound
Esmodai - Earthbound, Fiend
Taphtharoth the Eyesore - Earthbound, Defiler

Others[]

Ga-Gorib/Keith - Fallen
Dr. Lilah el Soueid - Human scholar
Mr. Feldham - Fallen
Dominic Ellington - Member of the Black Library of the Star Catchers
Gilles de Rais - Black Magician who summoned Belial in the past
Alexander Davidson - Scientist who has lost his sanity
Marry Herron - Human
Binod Poddar - Human
Bobby Weatherbee - Human
Verdell Watson - Human, Murderer
Alice Watson - Human
Charise Clark - Human
Peter Hartwell - Human
Roger Hartwell - Human
Daitya - Fallen
Kadath - Fallen, Azrael knows his true name
Detective Albert Lyman - Human
Lieutenant McAllister - Human
Nolan Brenner - Human, Film Director
David Williams - Human
Gavin Rogers - Human
Kirsten - Fallen
Moloch the Abomination - Fallen
Adramalech - Fallen
Gruagach - Halaku Slayer, Alabaster Legion
Blaysiel/Roy Derry - Annunaki, Malefactor
Lita Mann - Blaysiel's Thrall
Iturya - Fallen, soul devoured by a Earthbound
Afigorith - Malefactor who has assumed the identity of Muku-Ngaanta (Earthbound)
Moses - Magician
Solomon - Tricked Earthbound Demons
Chen - Sarisel's Thrall
Saliel - Defiler, Fallen enslaved by Sarisel
Lalaroth - Devourer, Ravener, Fallen enslaved by Sarisel
Joseph Stranvitch - Mage who freed Bezariel
Marash - Devil, Faustian, needs Bezariel's protection
Yrreck - Malefactor, Luciferan, Bezariel's bodyguard
Neriel - Fallen, Bezariel's confidante
Maria Dominguez - Human
Naraumiel - Devourer, Fallen working for Ix Tab, but wants to find the Balam to help him defeat her
Jusfiel - Slayer, Cryptic, Fallen that works for Oranash
Sirsirhass - Slayer, Fallen that works for Oranash
Ulak - Slayer, Faustian, Fallen that works for Oranash
T'lshog - Slayer, Faustian, Fallen that works for Oranash
Opiel - Devil, Faustian, Fallen that follows Verakuk
Paogh - Fiend, Cryptic, Fallen that follows Verakuk
Indina, Angel of Longing (Ishhara) - Fallen that Chelniel liked working with, searching for them
Hajriel - Devourer, Cryptic, Fallern servant to Chelniel
Kroskyn - Scourge, Ravener, Fallen who protects Chelniel's Stone reliquary
Yin-Kui, the "White Fan" - Blind Human, Demon Hunter from the past
Shi Huangdi - Emperpr, thrall to Kaoru-Shinji, Past
Peter of Abano - Italian Magician, Past
Constantine - Thrall of Asmodeus and later abandoned by Asmodeus, Past
Maxentius - Thrall of Abaddon, Past
Pope John XII - Made a thrall by Ala

Terminology[]

Bastion, Earthbound, Grotesquerie, Lore of Chaos, Lore of Contamination, Lore of Violation, Nephilim, Relic (DTF), Reliquary, Ritual (DTF), Faith, Black Library of the Star Catchers (Order), Usher's Mist (Location), Dune Drop Inn (Usher's Mist), Ziusudra (Underground city), Sisterhood of the Needle (Aka "Ur-Dalla", Group of Priestesses that summoned Abaddon), Cult of Kybele (Cult that worshipped Abaddon as "Kybele"), Mithra's Wisdom (Cult, worshipped Asmodeus as "Mithra"), Shanmukha (Cult of Weapon-smiths that worshipped Dagon as "Arumukam the Six-faced"), Heitsi-Eibib (Cult that worshipped Azrael), Deiknymena ("The Ministers of Shown Things", Belial Cult), Cult of Molech (Wizards, Belial Cult), Gaki-Daishi (Belial Cult), Children of Myrddin (Belial Cult), The Heptameron (Book by Solomon), Cult of Sarisel (Cult), Bezariel's Cult, Ix Tab's Cult, Oranash's Cult, Verakuk's Cult, Chelniel's Cult, Fianna, Balam, The Red Sect, Green Sect, The Many Ancestors (Yin-kui's group, fought against the Red and Green Sects), The Skin-Eaters (Cult of Cannibals, Dyubbiel's Cult), Sons of Mornings (Group of Luciferan Fallen), The Gospel of Menahem (Apocryphal Text), The Arrasian Heresy, Okomfo (Abatwa's caste of conjurers), Bhiksu (Buddhist Demon Hunters),

References[]

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