[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh, and I should probably describe the immediate setting for anyone new who joins.

The group is currently in Thyat'ria, Anatolia, one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse that were visited by Christ and bestowed divine artifacts to see them through the end times. Except, in the interim, it's gone from being a church to being a massive sprawling fortress housing over a hundred thousand refugees. It has it's own private military force equipped with highly advanced weaponry and has repelled numerous attacks by demons, the undead, the Sons of Megiddo, and more. It's the mightiest bastion of humanity left in this area of the world, home to entire brigade of AA troops, one of the largest Artificer headquarters this side of the Atlantic, and it's own air base with a sizable contingent of high-tech fighters.

The city is ruled by Zaccheus the Celestrine who was given the Iron Scepter of Lordship and has used it to militarize his church to this extent. It basically lets him command his troops as if he was playing a real-time strategy game, down to micromanaging individual squads and units simultaneously. He's a benevolent ruler and is the head of the human supremacy movement, willing to do whatever it takes to survive against these monsters. His people have developed some truly horrifying weapons to battle supernatural threats with, and he's one of the few individuals in the world with access to the launch codes for the Aether satellite, putting the capacity of dozens upon dozens of H-bombs in his hands, if he should ever feel the need.

Due to the extreme fortifications, it's generally a safe place to live and the people there have relatively normal lives, if you can count drilling for demonic assaults twice a week as normal. Even with weapons readily available and abundant, crime is at a minimum since any disturbance is met with an immediate response by Zaccheus' super-soldiers and offenders are forcibly entered into his augmentation experiments.

Underneath the city is an entire labyrinth of spiritually-deadlocked bunkers, laced with psychic agony wards, EMP landmines, thermobaric mines, entire networks of neurolinked autocannon turrents controlled by a psychic warmaster, and god only knows what else. The bottom line is, it's a safe haven for any human, but don't cause trouble. Just... don't. These guys do NOT mess around when it comes to protecting their flock.

One interesting thing to note is that the Saints in fact have no presence in Thyat'ria, as it's generally acknowledged that Zaccheus doesn't need their help, not to mention their somewhat... honorbound approach to warfare tends to clash with his merciless campaigns of destruction against anything nonhuman.

Also, it should be noted that the city is absolutely COVERED in sensors that will detect anything of infernal or undead origin, which generally provokes a serious armed response. Zaccheus deploys both psychics and theurges as sentries all over the city, constantly scanning the ether and the Amorpha network for signs of attack, making it literally impossible to catch them off-guard. There's even theurgic wards set to detonate with city-block-leveling consecrated concussions if anything should try to teleport into the city from out of range.

All of this, of course, means you can get pretty much any kind of equipment you can think of, though stuff like powered armor and anything cyber-theurgic is going to require some contacts higher up the ladder.

And that just gave me the idea of cyborg-theurges who have had their organs replaced with theurgic-powered mechanics and electronics, would probably be almost impossible to kill with any kind of physical attack since their soul would be literally capable of reconstituting the body instantly. They probably have eye lasers too, because why wouldn't they?

...I think I'm going to turn off my imagination for now. I hope that was semi-informative for someone.


Oh, and for anyone wondering, YES, such, extreme measures are necessary. Thyat'ria is pretty damned close to the Infernal Sea, and we haven't even seen demons yet in this game, but they are Not. Fun. to be around. Fallen angels aren't too bad, they're at least fairly straightforward in how they try to murder you, but actual demons are on the order of reality-warping, physics-breaking eldritch abominations. Which... says something for Beelzebub's dominance over Hell since Satan was killed. He *was* considered a brighter angel than Lucifer before they fell, though, so he probably is packing the mojo to whip an army of demons in line.