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 ====== World of Darkness ======
 {{ img:b:r:wod.png?460 |World of Darkness}}
-The name of the over-arching...um, brand name for games like Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Hunter: the Reckoning and Vampire: the Masquerade.((:fn:>The order I named this in has a slight chance of seriously angering someone, which I find hilarious.)) It was originally created by White Wolf, which is currently owned by Paradox. White Wolf underwent a mass execution under Paradox but was recently re-formed.\\  All three of the main books are on their 5th Edition and it looks like Paradox doesn't acknowledge the existence of the 20th Anniversary Editions.\\
+The name of the over-arching...um, brand name for games like Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Hunter: The Reckoning and [[lb:wod:vampire|Vampire: The Masquerade]].((:fn:>The order I named this in has a slight chance of seriously angering someone, which I find hilarious.)) It was originally created by White Wolf, which is currently owned by Paradox. White Wolf underwent a mass execution under Paradox but was recently re-formed.\\  All three of the main books are on their 5th Edition and it looks like Paradox doesn't acknowledge the existence of the 20th Anniversary Editions.\\
 At one point in time the WoD was rebooted, which resulted in the [[lb:cod]].
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 ===== Speculah & Analysis =====
+==== Demon: The Fallen & “Breaking the Cosmology” ====
+Something you may read about on the [[1d6>Demon: The Fallen|1d6chan article on Demon]] is that a notable criticism is the heavy focus on the Abrahamic faiths. For reference, Demon: The Fallen assumes that the Abrahamic faith is the ‘correct’ interpretation of the world's cosmology. The Judeo-Christian God is //the// creator-God and the mythology of the Abrahamic religions is just history in this world.\\
+The critique usually goes that this goes against the pre-established ‘pagan’ cosmology of the World of Darkness – as clearly established in Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension and several others.((:fn:>That I don't wanna bother listing.))
+I thought this criticism was fair enough at first...until I thought about it. And then I realized something.
+The World of Darkness wasn't ‘pagan’ in the first place. It was Abrahamic from the start. It's just that other gamelines introduced pagan elements //later//. //Demon// can thus actually be interpreted as a course-correction.
+If you don't believe me, let's look at the one game that started it all: **[[lb:wod:vampire|Vampire: The Masquerade]]**. Now, with a straight face, tell me that that game's cosmology isn't Abrahamic in the slightest. Tell me that it doesn't assume the Abrahamic faiths to be ‘correct’.\\
+You can’t (unless you're exceptionally good at lying or are very ignorant), because everyone knows the origin of vampires: all vampires can trace their lineage back to //Caine// from the book of //Genesis//. Caine's curse for killing his brother was vampirism. And it is from Caine that all other vampires come from.\\
+Thus the Abrahamic God must necessarily exist. So the cosmology is Abrahamic in the first place.
 ==== Why do Fishmalk exist? ====
 For some reason – probably that I saw it mentioned a few times online – I started thinking about why the stereotype of the silly Malkavian player exists. Obviously, I'm not super experienced (and I prefer //Requiem//), but I think it's pretty obvious so I'll lay it out.