Editing Infernum (section)

===History===
When Lucifer and his rebellious angels were defeated, God threw them down into Hell, an abandoned prototype of Earth, where they hit with such force that they dug an enormous crater 2400 miles deep. As Hell was a world devoid of time, they burned there for a timeless aeon until Lucifer managed to cut open the dimensional walls between Hell and Earth and allowed Time to flow into Hell, bringing with it the possibility of Change. The First Fallen were free, and plotted their revenge, coupling with the Spawn - twisted prototypes of earthly life - in debased and incestuous manners to ultimately produce an army of half-angel, half-spawn monsters, twisted [[aberration]]s that hungered for the very essence of the soul to preserve their misbegotten existence: the first demons.

But the First Fallen were cruel and abusive parents, and underestimated the cunning of their progeny, who realized that they would be destroyed once the First Fallen reclaimed Heaven. They manipulated their creators into a civil war, and then turned on them whilst they were distracted, slaying or scattering the First Fallen and claiming Hell for themselves. Free of their commanders, the demons turned on each other, seeking greater power for themselves, ultimately founding their own civilisation built on the struggle for personal gain and the torturing of damned mortal souls to provide the vital soul-stuff - Iliaster - needed to sustain their bodies and fuel their [[magitek]].

The year is 766 After Fall. It is five hundred and sixty five years since the last of the First Fallen was slain, and Hell is in turmoil once again. The Tenth House, House Lictat, has arisen after three hundred and sixty seven years to claim the position held by the destroyed Ninth House, House Jelac. The Free Cities Heresy, a rebellion against the very laws of the Infernum, has arisen and claimed multiple cities across Hell, forcing the other eight Houses to accept House Lictat in order to focus their attention on this new threat. The Hellgouts are swallowing larger and larger groups of mortals. Fallen angels are plummetting into the Pit more frequently then ever before. This year marks ninety eight years since the Knights of the Harrowing plunged their mountain-fortress of Outremer into Hell to lead a crusade against demonkind. The possibilities for the brave, the cunning, and the lucky are infinite.