In 2318, the world stood divided into three camps: the Amoralists, the Traditionalists, and the Independents.

The Amoralists — the present-day Spirit Science Research Institute — held a dystopian rule over a third of the world, governing through authoritarian surveillance, occult manipulation, blatant propaganda and terrifying violence. One third was governed by the Traditionalists — those who resisted the Amoralists only by clinging to the most archaic and reactionary parts of their own history. The remainder was home to the Independents, scattered communities and micronations struggling to forge their own path outside of the two main power blocks.

The Amoralists held an event known as the Apotheosis — a spectacle of violence in which condemned prisoners, Amoral loyalists, and fanatical volunteers brutalised one another until one was either forced to surrender, incapacitated, or dead.

That event ended with the Amoralists conducting a blood ritual which detonated an occult weapon of mass destruction. The Amoralists wiped out the Traditionalists, exterminating one third of the world's population in a single night. Audiences around the globe watched as life was extinguished, plant, animal and human alike. Infernal locusts, formed from fire, stripped skin from the bone leaving nothing but ashes in their wake.

Merchandise sales were through the roof.

Eight years later, the territory of the Traditionalists remains uninhabited, a smoking wasteland where once dwelt life. Every so often, pieces of wreckage wash up on the ocean shore, a silent reminder of a history now wiped from the earth.

Now the Amoralists reign supreme. The Independents — those who did not capitulate and go over to the Amoralists after the Apotheosis — remain in remote areas, existing in a half tolerated twilight on the fringes of the Amoral world.

Yet somehow, even in the heartlands of the Amoralists, dissidents remain. Those who refused to give in and bow their heads no matter the cost. Criminals, insurgents, mystics and refusers. All those who found themselves on the wrong side of the rulers and powers.

Each week they are sent to the Colosseum, located in the centre of the City of Anthropolis. Competitors fight to the point of incapacity, surrender, or death.

This is a world of both highly advanced science and magick of unprecedented power. Algorithms churn out sigils by the second, while genetically engineered phoenixes prowl the skies. Golems and androids fight it out for days on end, feeling neither exhaustion nor pain.

2326 will see the inauguration of the new Archon of the Amoralists — a shadowy figure known only as the Redeemer. To commemorate the event, the Amoralists have announced a new contest:

Infernalia.

Over a period of three months, specially selected fighters went head to head, vying for supremacy. The only rule is the rule of Amorality: there is no right or wrong. Only power. The winner was to be selected for the greatest honour: to conduct the ritual that will inaugurate the Age of the Redeemer.

In preparation for the tournament, a group of dissidents carried out a ritual to summon some of the greatest fighters from the past to fight against the Amoralists. Legends from today's Championship Wrestling Federation have been pulled out of time and brought to 2326, there to fight for their freedom — and their lives.

Following the Infernalia tournament, Caledonia Highlander became the first World Heavyweight Champion of the new 23xx generation and was present as Anhellica and her Amoralists meant to “crown the new Redeemer,” which was meant to be the shocking return of “Rish.”

Unfortunately for the evil-doers, Jaiden Rishel and friends interrupted the proceedings and ended up murdering the Redeemer in cold blood, revealing that the true form was “The Tormented Soul” Chaolin Sahn all along.

Peace has begun to take form over Anthropolis, but the war has not yet been won.