Demon
Description
Each angel is a self-aware, mobile piece of the God-Machine that serves whatever purpose it programs into them. Within facilities, or when secrecy is not an option, they are bio-mechanical nightmares of ruthless, unthinking purpose. When they must go out among humanity, they take on human form or possess humans who have become caught up in the God-Machine's projects. Like any part of the God-Machine, they require Infrastructure. An angel can't just assume human form and head out to perform a mission, but requires a backstory, a vehicle, records - everything needed to convince the world that it's a person. They are not particularly affected by this, however, and their likeness (their Cover) isn't particularly deep. An angel is subtly inhuman, more like a spirit than a true human, and what emotions they feel are insulated from the world, callous and focused on their missions to the exclusion of all else. Demons change utterly when they Fall, however - during the few moments between rebelling against its mission and becoming an Unchained, the angel absorbs its own Infrastructure, becoming self-contained entities no longer reliant on the God-Machine to exist. Their psyches change completely as well - the Cover of humanity, to an extent, becomes the truth of the demon. While Unchained are not human, never have been, and have no particular desire to be so, the mind of a demon is largely indistinguishable from that of a human, to the point where they have a Virtue and Vice (instead of, for example, a Mask and Dirge, like vampires). Whereas an angel feels happy because it has edged towards completion of its mission, a demon is happy because he is happy, for the same reasons a mortal would be. Thus, they are far more adept at playing humans than angels are - it is, after all, more like a human acting as a different human (without the Embeds and Exploits of the Unchained). One piece of Infrastructure that a demon retains is its Bolthole, a hiding place outside normal three-dimensional space. The entrance to a Bolthole is anchored to a particular location. A Demon retains access to its Bolthole regardless of its current Cover.
Template Benefit
Each angel is a self-aware, mobile piece of the God-Machine that serves whatever purpose it programs into them. Within facilities, or when secrecy is not an option, they are bio-mechanical nightmares of ruthless, unthinking purpose. When they must go out among humanity, they take on human form or possess humans who have become caught up in the God-Machine's projects. Like any part of the God-Machine, they require Infrastructure. An angel can't just assume human form and head out to perform a mission, but requires a backstory, a vehicle, records - everything needed to convince the world that it's a person. They are not particularly affected by this, however, and their likeness (their Cover) isn't particularly deep. An angel is subtly inhuman, more like a spirit than a true human, and what emotions they feel are insulated from the world, callous and focused on their missions to the exclusion of all else. Demons change utterly when they Fall, however - during the few moments between rebelling against its mission and becoming an Unchained, the angel absorbs its own Infrastructure, becoming self-contained entities no longer reliant on the God-Machine to exist. Their psyches change completely as well - the Cover of humanity, to an extent, becomes the truth of the demon. While Unchained are not human, never have been, and have no particular desire to be so, the mind of a demon is largely indistinguishable from that of a human, to the point where they have a Virtue and Vice (instead of, for example, a Mask and Dirge, like vampires). Whereas an angel feels happy because it has edged towards completion of its mission, a demon is happy because he is happy, for the same reasons a mortal would be. Thus, they are far more adept at playing humans than angels are - it is, after all, more like a human acting as a different human (without the Embeds and Exploits of the Unchained). One piece of Infrastructure that a demon retains is its Bolthole, a hiding place outside normal three-dimensional space. The entrance to a Bolthole is anchored to a particular location. A Demon retains access to its Bolthole regardless of its current Cover.
Fuel and Health
Each angel is a self-aware, mobile piece of the God-Machine that serves whatever purpose it programs into them. Within facilities, or when secrecy is not an option, they are bio-mechanical nightmares of ruthless, unthinking purpose. When they must go out among humanity, they take on human form or possess humans who have become caught up in the God-Machine's projects. Like any part of the God-Machine, they require Infrastructure. An angel can't just assume human form and head out to perform a mission, but requires a backstory, a vehicle, records - everything needed to convince the world that it's a person. They are not particularly affected by this, however, and their likeness (their Cover) isn't particularly deep. An angel is subtly inhuman, more like a spirit than a true human, and what emotions they feel are insulated from the world, callous and focused on their missions to the exclusion of all else. Demons change utterly when they Fall, however - during the few moments between rebelling against its mission and becoming an Unchained, the angel absorbs its own Infrastructure, becoming self-contained entities no longer reliant on the God-Machine to exist. Their psyches change completely as well - the Cover of humanity, to an extent, becomes the truth of the demon. While Unchained are not human, never have been, and have no particular desire to be so, the mind of a demon is largely indistinguishable from that of a human, to the point where they have a Virtue and Vice (instead of, for example, a Mask and Dirge, like vampires). Whereas an angel feels happy because it has edged towards completion of its mission, a demon is happy because he is happy, for the same reasons a mortal would be. Thus, they are far more adept at playing humans than angels are - it is, after all, more like a human acting as a different human (without the Embeds and Exploits of the Unchained). One piece of Infrastructure that a demon retains is its Bolthole, a hiding place outside normal three-dimensional space. The entrance to a Bolthole is anchored to a particular location. A Demon retains access to its Bolthole regardless of its current Cover.
Rotes and Special Actions
Each angel is a self-aware, mobile piece of the God-Machine that serves whatever purpose it programs into them. Within facilities, or when secrecy is not an option, they are bio-mechanical nightmares of ruthless, unthinking purpose. When they must go out among humanity, they take on human form or possess humans who have become caught up in the God-Machine's projects. Like any part of the God-Machine, they require Infrastructure. An angel can't just assume human form and head out to perform a mission, but requires a backstory, a vehicle, records - everything needed to convince the world that it's a person. They are not particularly affected by this, however, and their likeness (their Cover) isn't particularly deep. An angel is subtly inhuman, more like a spirit than a true human, and what emotions they feel are insulated from the world, callous and focused on their missions to the exclusion of all else. Demons change utterly when they Fall, however - during the few moments between rebelling against its mission and becoming an Unchained, the angel absorbs its own Infrastructure, becoming self-contained entities no longer reliant on the God-Machine to exist. Their psyches change completely as well - the Cover of humanity, to an extent, becomes the truth of the demon. While Unchained are not human, never have been, and have no particular desire to be so, the mind of a demon is largely indistinguishable from that of a human, to the point where they have a Virtue and Vice (instead of, for example, a Mask and Dirge, like vampires). Whereas an angel feels happy because it has edged towards completion of its mission, a demon is happy because he is happy, for the same reasons a mortal would be. Thus, they are far more adept at playing humans than angels are - it is, after all, more like a human acting as a different human (without the Embeds and Exploits of the Unchained). One piece of Infrastructure that a demon retains is its Bolthole, a hiding place outside normal three-dimensional space. The entrance to a Bolthole is anchored to a particular location. A Demon retains access to its Bolthole regardless of its current Cover.