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The Infernal Empire

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The Infernal Empire

A totalitarian empire of doctrine and damnation, the Infernal Empire believes evil is not a choice—but an inevitable truth that must be embraced, perfected, and enforced.

Overview

  • Capital: Nokan Prime

  • Government: Infernal Totalitarian Empire

  • Supreme Ruler: The Diabolus

  • Primary Culture: Infernal Imperial

  • Religion: The Infernal Compact (State Doctrine)

  • Allies: None (only instruments)

  • Rivals: The rest of the world

Geography

The Infernal Empire spans the eastern reaches of the world, built atop conquered lands and reshaped to reflect Infernal order.

  • Terrain: Volcanic highlands, black plains, fortified cities, ritualized landscapes

  • Climate: Harsh but controlled; weather manipulation common near major cities

  • Seas: Eastern Sea

  • Borders:

Land is not merely occupied—it is disciplined.

History

The Infernal Empire did not rise through chaos, but through persuasion followed by annihilation.

  • Founded by The Diabolus roughly thirty years ago

  • Initial expansion focused on ideological conversion

  • Resistance was answered with extermination

  • Conquest of Utarn marked the Empire’s true unveiling

To the Empire, mercy is a failure of will.

Military & Enforcement

Infernal military doctrine emphasizes terror, inevitability, and spectacle.

Weapons are symbols. Fear is policy.

The Ghoul Doctrine

The Empire employs necromancy not for control—but for entropy.

  • Ghouls are animated and directed by Infernal arcanists

  • Control is deliberately relinquished mid-engagement

  • Resulting frenzy maximizes terror and civilian casualties

  • Survivors spread panic faster than any army

This practice is official, documented, and praised.

The Silver Blades

Infernal elites wield silver swords of condensed infernal light.

  • Cut through steel, flesh, and magic alike

  • Burn with cold radiance rather than heat

  • Leave wounds that do not heal cleanly

  • Instantly recognizable across the world

Seeing one drawn means the Empire has decided you are already dead.

Society & Culture

Infernal society is zealotry refined into bureaucracy.

  • Values: Purpose, inevitability, obedience

  • Social Structure:

    • Zealots and functionaries

    • Useful specialists

    • Everyone else

  • Education: Indoctrination from childhood

  • Art: Monumental, symmetrical, cruelly beautiful

Individual identity exists only as service.

Notes for Players

The Infernal Empire is not cruel by accident.

Everything it does is intentional.

If it is coming for something, it already believes it owns it.

Resistance is not impossible—but it is never clean.

Nokan Prime

Capital of the Infernal Empire

A city of impossible spires and crimson banners, Nokan Prime is a wonder of the world—where brilliance and horror are indistinguishable.

Overview

  • Status: Imperial Capital & Wonder City

  • Ruling Authority: The Scholas Magus of Nokan

  • Population: Vast, controlled, categorized

  • Function: Governance, research, indoctrination, ritual

Geography & Structure

Nokan Prime rises from black stone terraces overlooking the Eastern Sea.

  • Architecture: Obsidian towers, silver inlays, rune-lit avenues

  • Layout: Perfect symmetry enforced through magical surveying

  • Atmosphere: Constant low chant, drifting ash, crimson light

The city is too clean. Nothing decays naturally.

Districts

No district lacks watchers.

The Scholas Magus of Nokan

The Scholas is not a school.

It is a secret police, intelligence service, and arcane cult.

  • Membership requires absolute ideological purity

  • Non-zealots were purged decades ago

  • Internal betrayal is expected and rewarded

  • Wizards are tools first, people never

Think red wizards + KGB + religious inquisition.

Mandate of the Scholas

The Scholas exists to:

  • Enforce ideological purity

  • Develop new weapons of terror

  • Suppress dissent before it exists

  • Recover pre-Infernal artifacts

Their current obsession: The Crown of Iron.

The Crown of Iron

Officially denied. Obsessively pursued.

  • Believed to predate the Infernal Empire

  • Fragments rumored scattered across the world

  • Said to grant dominion over will, loyalty, or command itself

  • The Scholas believes it is destiny, not relic

Entire expeditions vanish in its name.

Magic in Nokan Prime

Magic here is weaponized theology.

  • Necromancy normalized

  • Summoning regulated

  • Experimental magic encouraged

  • Failure punished by reanimation

The city hums with spells layered atop spells.

Life in the Capital

Citizens of Nokan Prime live in structured terror.

  • Curfews enforced magically

  • Loyalty tested constantly

  • Advancement possible only through denunciation

  • Children screened for aptitude early

Ignorance is considered treason.

Notes for Players

Nokan Prime is beautiful, efficient, and utterly damned.

Knowledge is power—but also a death sentence.

If the Scholas notices you, it is already too late.

If they want the Crown of Iron… they will not stop.

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