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Demon The Fallen #3
The Wreckage of Paradise
Ten Seconds to Midnight
Sabriel, seductive fallen angel that she is, has been playing games with the souls of mortals and devils alike. The demons Hasmed and Usiel have both felt the sting of her tender mercies, but now they may be her only hope of staving off an apocalypse. The ancient creature called Avitu has decided that humanity, demons, and all the universe want nothing more than oblivion. Can Sabriel prove it wrong? Does she even want to?
About the Author
Greg Stolze is the author of countless roleplaying products, both for White Wolf and other top publishers. His fiction has appeared in Adventure! and Lucifers Shadow. The Wreckage of Paradise concludes his Trilogy of the Fallen.
Sabriel, seductive fallen angel that she is, has been playing games with the souls of mortals and devils alike. The demons Hasmed and Usiel have both felt the sting of her tender mercies, but now they may be her only hope of staving off an apocalypse. The ancient creature called Avitu has decided that humanity, demons, and all the universe want nothing more than oblivion. Can Sabriel prove it wrong? Does she even want to?
About the Author
Greg Stolze is the author of countless roleplaying products, both for White Wolf and other top publishers. His fiction has appeared in Adventure! and Lucifers Shadow. The Wreckage of Paradise concludes his Trilogy of the Fallen.
285 pages, Paperback
First published June 16, 2003
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About the author
Greg Stolze
146 books59 followersGreg Stolze (born 1970) is an American novelist and writer, whose work has mainly focused on properties derived from role-playing games.
Stolze has contributed to numerous role-playing game books for White Wolf Game Studio and Atlas Games, including Demon: the Fallen. Some of Stolze's recent work has been self-published using the "ransom method", whereby the game is only released when enough potential buyers have contributed enough money to reach a threshold set by the author.
Together with John Tynes he created and wrote the role-playing game Unknown Armies, published by Atlas Games. He has also co-written the free game NEMESIS, which uses the One-Roll Engine presented in Godlike and the so called Madness Meter derived from Unknown Armies.
Stolze has contributed to numerous role-playing game books for White Wolf Game Studio and Atlas Games, including Demon: the Fallen. Some of Stolze's recent work has been self-published using the "ransom method", whereby the game is only released when enough potential buyers have contributed enough money to reach a threshold set by the author.
Together with John Tynes he created and wrote the role-playing game Unknown Armies, published by Atlas Games. He has also co-written the free game NEMESIS, which uses the One-Roll Engine presented in Godlike and the so called Madness Meter derived from Unknown Armies.
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November 23, 2023
Great ending for the series. I want MORE after this. Stolze really has a knack for portraying these ethereal beings stuck in meat suits, and a good variety of them too. The epilogue made me a bit sad, but all of it was natural. Basically nobody came out better than they went in, but some lost far more than others.
Decent heist plot for this one, great sermonizing (and in this book not from Wallace), good detective work, overall a great experience.
Decent heist plot for this one, great sermonizing (and in this book not from Wallace), good detective work, overall a great experience.
July 4, 2017
Off my back already Nicky Khan!!! It's done!
I started reading these around 2002 or 2003, to be honest I don't remember. I started off reading this again two days ago, so I was at an extreme handicap. Slowly but surely I got myself acquainted again with the characters: Hasmed the Scourge, Sabriel the Defiler, Usiel the Reaper, Gaviel the Devil. Oh yeah, and a guy named Lucifer. You mighta heard of him.
The story circles around an Earthbound demon named Avitu who believes that the Host's biggest mistake was giving Man thought. As a result, she gathers a dark priesthood that decided that if consciousness is the disease, prefrontontal lobotomy is the cure. The protagonists (and these ain't good people) work against Avitu, all for their own reasons which become clear at the book's conclusion.
It's well plotted. It has an epilogue - unusual for a White Wolf book - that sews up loose ends... except for one. I'll give you three guesses what doesn't get resolved, and the first two don't count.
It's hard to ask yourself 'what would Satan do?'
I started reading these around 2002 or 2003, to be honest I don't remember. I started off reading this again two days ago, so I was at an extreme handicap. Slowly but surely I got myself acquainted again with the characters: Hasmed the Scourge, Sabriel the Defiler, Usiel the Reaper, Gaviel the Devil. Oh yeah, and a guy named Lucifer. You mighta heard of him.
The story circles around an Earthbound demon named Avitu who believes that the Host's biggest mistake was giving Man thought. As a result, she gathers a dark priesthood that decided that if consciousness is the disease, prefrontontal lobotomy is the cure. The protagonists (and these ain't good people) work against Avitu, all for their own reasons which become clear at the book's conclusion.
It's well plotted. It has an epilogue - unusual for a White Wolf book - that sews up loose ends... except for one. I'll give you three guesses what doesn't get resolved, and the first two don't count.
It's hard to ask yourself 'what would Satan do?'
December 7, 2008
This series was really good, left wide open though. I was sad at what happened to Usial, sad with Tina's and Hasmed's fate, Happy with Thomas, Sabriel, & Blackie's though. It just goes to show you that sometimes things work out and somethings don't. Still very good books and I highly recommend!
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October 31, 2014
Do not be fooled by the terrible cover art and the low production value. This is an incredible series. One of my favorite fantasy series.
June 9, 2013
Like everything I have ever ready by Greg Stolze, worth devouring/reading again and again.
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