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God may or may not exist, but the world has ample evidence that there is a Satan, a great Adversary, a deceiver, an ac-
cuser. As long as there has been free choice, so the Church says, Satan has sown his seed in humankind. Most Christians, Jews
and Muslims understand that as a metaphor. The agents of the Lucifuge know it’s more than that.
Every one of them believes that he or she is a literal descendant of Lucifer or some other Duke of Hell. The Bringer of
Light and his companions have always seen fit to take their pleasure with mortals, and about once

a century, the Devil has a son or daughter. They are exceptional people, prone to great evil —
and great guilt. They have children of their own; the bloodlines swell and bloat. Families move
and intermarry. The Devil’s mark seems sometimes to vanish over the generations. But the taint
of Lucifer revives itself once every seven generations, almost without fail. A woman comes

of age and finds herself visited by monsters. A man finds that he can call upon cold fires that
dance in his dreams. Another, visited every night by succubi who feed his desires and ask him
his secrets, discovers that people who hurt him, betray him, or even annoy him suffer terrible
accidents, whether he wants them to or not.
Some of Lucifer’s children embrace their heritage. Some don’t. And the Luci-

fuge exists for those who would fight what they are. It began in ninth-century
Milan: a gracious lady of noble bearing employed a cadre of genealogists and
occultists to list and follow the bloodlines of Lucifer across Europe, looking for
the Children of the Seventh Generation, waiting for them to be born, follow-
ing them through their lives until they came into their heritage. When the time
came, the lady’s agents would give them an offer: renounce Satan and all his
wiles and fight the forces of Hell. If they refused, the messengers killed them, or

kidnapped them and made them agree with the lady’s wishes.
The cabal of genealogists are still there; so are the messengers, but now
all of them are themselves Children of the Seventh Generation. Their head-
quarters are still in Milan, and their leader is still the same statuesque lady,
looking no different to how she looked in the year 853. The only name she
recognizes is the Lucifuge. She is the organization, she issues
the commands, she brings each new Child of the Seventh
Generation into her presence and reveals their destiny: to
stand against Hell and all its doings, whether they want to
or not.
The Enemy
The cadre in Milan checks genealogies and monitors
the news worldwide. It issues requests to the Lucifuge
agents to scout out odd events or strange characters,
and sometimes asks the agents to fi nd and
recruit (or kill) a new child of Lucifer
who has just come into his heritage.
But that’s as far as it goes. Milan tells
each agent who her 13 geographi-
cally nearest colleagues are, but
some of those could be hundreds
or thousands of miles away, partic-
ularly in the Far East, where the Lu-
cifuge has long failed to track down
many of Lucifer’s descendants.
Representatives of the Lucifuge,
perhaps unsurprisingly, have a much more
liberal approach to tracking down monsters
than some of the other organizations. In the
end, Lucifer is their enemy, and it’s apparent to
every agent that while the creatures of darkness

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