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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 1915283" data-attributes="member: 13">Now, I can't help you with Hunter, Changeling and Mummy, as I neither read these chapters nor have the required knowledge about the game lines to really get what's going on even if I did read them. That said... What follows are naturally very brief, dry summaries. The actual stories are quite interesting and offer many more options than mentioned below. So details may vary quite a bit from the below - every playing group can have their very own end of the world.BTW, you'll need to be quite familiar with the game line in question to follow the below; it's by necessity quite full of jargon.  Demon3 possible endings:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Twilight of the Gods: [spoiler]The Earthbound unite against the Fallen. Many battles are fought all over the world. No matter who triumphs in the end, the world is probably broken and humanity is all but annihilated. If the player characters survive, they can help humanity start over and do a better job this time around.[/spoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better to Rule on Earth: [spoiler]This scenario is all about the power struggle between the greater demons. If they can't put their differences aside, though, the Earthbound will smash them. In the end, the Earth is left a burning ruin and humanity is reduced to virtual extinction. The player characters, if the have survived, can either stay and help humanity start over or cast off their human bodies and take to the skies with their brethren.[/spoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Paradise Won: [spoiler]Luficer leads an army of mortal believers against his Fallen brethren, whom he considers quite mad due to Torment, and the Earthbound. The player characters can enter a temporary alliance with the Earthbound against their common enemy - or not. If the characters help the Earthbound to assassinate Lucifer, his maddened followers wipe out the Fallen and humanity is a tattered handful of maddened, starving souls. If, on the other hand, they get on Lucifer's good side, they and the other remaining Fallen can eventually restore Creation to its former glory - even ushering in a new Age of Wonder.[/spoiler]</li> </ul> Kindred of the East4 possible endings: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Rising of One Hundred Clouds: [spoiler]The Wall becomes stronger and stronger, trapping many shen outside of the Middle Kingdom. Eventually, more and more Kuei-jin ancestors meet this fate. Most of the shen are gone after a while. Also, no new Kuei-jin draw the Second Breath. Then, the Kuei-jins' enemies - Shih, SF0 and/or Kin-jin - use their moment of weakness to strike. Eventually, the Kuei-jin either slowly fade away (which allows later chronicles with these few survivors) or are wiped out in a blaze of glory.[/spoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Serpent Bites the Hand: [spoiler]Oliver Thrace enters a pact with a Yama King (Mikaboshi or Tou Mu). He and other Tremere then enact the Screaming Plague, a powerful ritual that breaks the Kuei-jins' ties to their corpses, sending them to Final Death first in their dozens and gradually in the hundreds. If the player characters themselves enter a pact with a Yama King, they can defeat Thrace and his Tremere but it's too late to save the Kuei-jin as a race, as most have already died by this point. The remaining Kuei-jin aren't numerous enough to offer much resistance to the Yama Kings in the coming Sixth Age. Alternatively, the Yama Kings continue the ritual but the characters might eventually escape, roaming the world as the last Kuei-jin.[/spoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Trumpet of Mount Meru: [spoiler]The Celestial Emperor empowers the Shih. Led by their returned champion, the God Slayer, the Shih then systematically wipe out the Kuei-jin. The player characters possibly have a slight chance to switch sides and then march against the Yama Kings alongside the Shi as the Sixth Age begins. Either way, they'll fall in battle in the end - the only question is when and how.[/spoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wicked City: [spoiler]The Yama King Mikaboshi's influence steadily grows. He has control over SF0 and soon sends SF0 teams and akuma against the Kuei-jin. Soon, most SF0 agents will be corrupted by fighting too much near broken mirrors. At this point, the broken mirrors expand and the Wicked City invades the Middle Kingdom like a cancer, eating away at reality. Soon, all major cities are part of the Yama King's domain and the Shen living in them must swear allegiance to him or flee. Lots of Kuei-jin become corrupted. Demons of Iron and Violence and SF0 agents hunt down the surviving Shen. Bakemono and other nasty critters roam the lands, too. This story can end in a variety of ways - absolute victory of Mikaboshi, the PCs defeating Mikaboshi but turning the world into a wasteland in the process, or even the PCs becoming a guerilla force in the Yomi World after Mikaboshi's triumph.[/spoiler]</li> </ul>All these KotE chronicles can be continued with new chronicles set in the Sixth Age.</blockquote>

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