Lance's Tentative game idea

game idea

A world where some angels and demons live on the same plane of existance as humans, following a massive battle between heaven and hell that destroyed much of both planes and left only the earth intact.

A heavenly war god and his counterpart from hell both perished at each others' hands.

The god of heaven was selfish (think of the god as believed in by everyone but the singer in Jethro Tull's "Wind-Up").
He did not want to recognize that his counterpart in hell was the reverse side of the same coin - she completed him. But he wasn't willing to share credit and sent an emissary to assasinate his demonic counterpart, seeing it as a pre-emptive strike to save the world from a terrible evil.

The assasination failed, and the networks of alliances between the gods in hell and heaven lead other gods into the battle.

Some in the heavens and hell did not partake - either because of impartial natures and neutral stances, or because fighting was beneath them, or even in some cases because certain deities and certain underlings had made peace with their counterparts, or found love among the other faction. These were largely already residing on the earth, for it is the only plane where those of the heavens and those from hell can both comfortably live. Demons can go to the heavens, and angels can go to hell, but they can never rest comfortably there, in their opposing element; imagine a human trying to go to sleep with your head in a bucket of water - instinct for survival prevents it. Earth lets both live in relative ease, for it is a middle-ground where light and darkness mix.

Many of the gods in heaven and hell perished - some yet live. Of those that live, some are wounded and may never fully recover.

In any case, much of both factions in the war have had to relocate to earth - either due to losing their leading deities or because their areas of heaven/hell were destroyed in the fighting and they are living as refugees.

Of the ones that live on earth, the ones that lost their deities are in a difficult position - they have lost their ways, so to speak, and everything they ever knew is gone.
Will they try to live alongside humans? Will they disguise themselves as humans to blend in? Or should they publicly display the signs of their supernatural origins?
Will they attempt to dominate humans? Or are they willing to co-exist as peers?
Should they get involved in legal affairs of humans (i.e., joining a guard or other public servant position)? Or leave them to their own devices?

If they do not live with humans, should they seek seclusion from others? Join a group of other orphaned angels/demons?

Factions are already spreading. Some angels and demons have disguised themselves as humans and integrated themselves into human society - often taking work as healers, musicians, actors, civil servants, engineers, and anything else they might have been involved with in the heavens (depending on their parent deity). A former angel living in disguise invented the printing press, and a former demon created the first practical photosensitive material for photography. A halfling (a child of a demon/angel union) created a method for reproducing a photograph in large quantities for printed work ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodburytype ). As such, they have accelerated the advancement of the human race (The first combustion engines are being created and are an entirely human invention, however - not *everything* is due to divine influence).

There are also troublemakers - angels and demons having difficulty adapting to life on earth, or else refusing to adapt and attempting to continue their battles on the earthly plain. There are some gods and devils that are done fighting, but not all see eye to eye.

(to be continued, maybe)