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In some ways, Dark Fall preceded itself. The Darkness has been spoken of as a monolithic abstract force long before enough denizens of it realized the boons of cooperation to make that fearful allusion into reality.

But reality it is. Dark Fall is essentially a support network of demons. Unlike the machiavellian Ends of the World, Dark Fall's ultimate goal does not include much regard for civilization on Earth. Not all of Dark Fall's denizens are omnicidal, or bent on destroying humanity; but those that aren't, at best wield a studied indifference. To Dark Fall's denizens, human civilization is often prey, a source of energy to be plucked clean, or perhaps an obstruction to a greater goal. Some of them take an academic interest in humans (and some of those eventually find their affection for the "human cattle" grows too great for them to bear...), but often that academic interest is wildly misplaced and completely wrong.

What Dark Fall's goals do include is power. They crave the energy of human souls, they crave the artifacts of power that are scattered across the worlds. Many of the small demonic fiefdoms that comprise Dark Fall aren't even interested in Earth; they became dragged into this conflict when a Magic World hurled its last beacon of hope out into the worlds in a final act of defiance, and ancient magic ensured that that beacon landed on Earth, and took up a champion. Others simply destroy for destruction's sake, or feed on sadness. More than anyone else, the creatures of Dark Fall rely on summoned monsters to do their bidding, harvesting energy, sowing despair, and hunting for relics, while the commanding general stands nearby and oversees the energy collection, ensuring as much returns home as possible.

Most generals are very bad at this for some reason.

In short, Dark Fall is mostly made up of alien beings with little concept of what humans are and little interest in finding out. The Fallen are after power - the power to dominate worlds, the power to control hearts. Some are merely after the energy found in human souls; others want to transform Earth into a hell-world of their own design. None of them particularly worry about other groups gaining power first; partly that's out of arrogance, and partly because they are mostly all after different things in the first place. There are far more worlds than Earth, and Dark Fall has besieged many of them; there is plenty of room for everyone to have a chunk of Creation to call their own. For those of Dark Fall that do crave conquest, their conquest is apocalyptic in scope, transforming the taken world utterly into a realm of darkness. And if Earth gets conquered by someone else first, well...that just makes the humans easier to harvest, honestly.

Dark Fall is a top-down group, led from above by the most powerful among them; godlike forces like the Obsidian Prince, Lord Dune and Queen Metallia. Immensely powerful, they expect obedience, and nobody who defies their decrees lives for long; however, these distant beings rarely have much to say, leaving much of the operation of Dark Fall to key minions and generals. Even little treacheries amid the band are tolerated, although it bears noting that "tolerance" does not necessarily indicate going unpunished. It only means the culprit isn't summarily executed.

Dark Fall has few real strongholds on Earth; instead, the Fallen generals are easily able to retreat to small private dimensions, controlled by their masters. Some of these are anchored to local geography; many others are adimensional labyrinths, enterable only by the generals themselves. The greatest of these, and open to all Fallen who haven't recently earned the ire of Queen Beryl, is the Dark Kingdom itself, hidden in a dimensional snarl at Point D in Antarctica - not much more than a quick hop, to the generals of Dark Fall.

Appropriate Dark Fall characters include:

• A whimsically themed but monstrously powerful overlord, come to Earth as a stepping stone to the many worlds beyond it.
• An ancient witch, seeking the pure energy of innocent hearts to at last cast her most powerful spell.
• A loyal general to a distant demon king, offering up the energy of childrens' fear to loose the seals keeping the dark god asleep.
• A mysterious masked man from beyond the stars, who turns peoples' dreams into demons!

Sub-topics:

History - The story of Dark Fall.

Cast - Fallen characters!

For more information, please see: Organizations, Theme