15 Saturday Oct 2022
Saminga is one of those demon princes who is so young they perceive time like mortals, nor own so old that time is essentially meaningless. For the Prince of Death the last 25 years have passed like a quarter hour. He’s noticed the passage of time, but it’s hardly meaningful.
Feudal
Suite of Blood – Suite of Life – Suite of Pestilence
Continue reading29 Tuesday Mar 2022
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Covid-19, David, Dominic, In Nomine, Kronos, Lawrence, Novalis, NPC, Nybbas, Orc, Saminga, Valefor, Wordbound
One of the joys of playing a contemporary game like d20 Modern or In Nomine is that you have the ability to make your adventures topical (or not, escapism is entirely valid). With that in mind, I’ve pulled together a selection of Angels and Demons who could be used as avatars of the disease and its impacts.
Continue reading25 Saturday Dec 2021
Posted in Events, Heaven, Hell, Musings, Variations
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Asmodeus, Blandine, Caganer, Christmas, David, Dominic, Gabriel, Herod, I Was There, In Nomine, Ineffability, Jean, Jesus, Jordi, Lawrence, Malphas, Marc, Nativity, Saminga, Uriel, Yves
Steve Jackson Games made a very intentional choice with In Nomine to make the setting agnostic to any particular faith. As such, the divinity of Jesus is never firmly established (though Dominic & Lawrence clearly believe it) and attempts to discern the truth of such matters will be foiled by the ineffability of the divine.
However, this isn’t necessarily going to stop players from trying to track down figures who witness moments key to individual faith traditions in order to determine what is correct for their individual game.
Continue reading07 Saturday Aug 2021
Posted in Hell
Working on Malcoeur got me realizing that it’s high time I tightened up the Duchies of Death and defined the high court of Saminga.
For those of you who don’t recall, Saminga makes his home inside the realm of Abaddon, which may or may not be the corpse of the first Demon Prince of Destruction. Official materials tend to paint Saminga as a bumbling fool, but I prefer to treat him as passion driven. On matters of death (which includes all of his realm) he is very competent. It’s the reactions of the living and the neverborn that give him trouble.
Continue reading24 Saturday Jul 2021
Since I started compiling the Dictionnaire INfernale there have been a number of Demons I have proposed on this blog that I have added to that dictionary, but this is the first which I added to the dictionary then realized I just had to have an extended post on.
Saminga’s write up in Night Music informs us that the Demon of Heart Failure is subordinate to the Duke of Disease. It is the only official word on the matter.
Continue reading15 Thursday Jul 2021
When I decided to rebuild Haagenti’s Duchies, I mentioned that a lot of his senior nobles would be allies and turncoats. When that comes to words, that’ll mostly be ones that tend to fall in the borderland between Haagenti and either one of his allies or one of the demon’s he’s eaten.
Since this is pretty much the same test as what I personally use for identifying Marquis, it’s a good bet that most of these demons will make senior nobility.
Continue reading29 Tuesday Dec 2020
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8 Force, Azrael, Crossover, DC Comics, Elemental Spirit, Gestalt Spirit, Saminga, Sandman, Superiors, Undead
Death is the second oldest of the Endless. She is neither mortal, nor dream, nor god, but a personification of Death itself. It has long bothered me that the Ethereal Player’s Guide has no element for death, but in retrospect I think this was a good decision because death can also be a stand in for so many other things.
For Death of the Endless, I think it’s safe to say that death represents a boundary. Her job is to mark the end of things and (when appropriate) deliver them to whomever takes them to what comes next. I will therefore be treating her as a Superior Elemental of Boundaries… which are a kind of Structure.
Continue reading17 Sunday May 2020
Another month has come and gone, and there are another trio of fun search terms that stand out from the rest:
21 Saturday Mar 2020
Laraje is Hell’s own William Tell. He may look like a dirty cream goat draped in a putrescent green tabbard, but he is also a crippling shot and one of the last high profile servitors of Makatiel. Unlike some hunters, Laraje takes no joy in a quick kill. His pleasure comes inflicting burning red wounds and evoking bilious vomit.
Although Laraje is only a Captain in Saminga‘s service, his high profile makes him a de-facto leader of the Makatiel Diaspora. Continue reading
09 Tuesday Oct 2018
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Adventure Hook, In Nomine, Saminga, The Hooters, Undead, Zombie
The Zombies are in open revolt. One of their number managed to retain a faint sliver of their soul and overthrew their Infernal master (currently resting in limbo rather than facing Saminga’s wrath). Now the monsters are in charge of their own and rallying for… something.
Attempts to disburse the zombies will likely turn violent, and reasoning may prove difficult as most are still little more than mindless shambling bodies.
Book of the Neglected 