Backstory
Asura's Wrath takes place over thousands of years, across and above the world. Prior to the game, an advanced civilization known as Shinkoku Trastrium rises to power and unifies the nations of Earth, known as Gaea. Trastrium is a hierarchical empire, under which unaltered mortal humans comprise the lower class, and are ruled by near-immortal, genetically/cybernetically altered humans called demigods. The Emperor is the beloved figurehead of Trastrium, and commands the demigod military through his Eight Guardian Generals. The demigods control the supply of mantra, a powerful energy source resemblingelectricity that is derived from mortal emotion. Only demigods can manipulate mantra, which comes to power all human technology and allows the demigods to augment their physical abilities. The demigods promote a new world religion based around their worship, and make great advances in science from the resulting influx of mantra.
Trastrium’s growth comes at the cost of critical levels of pollution and overpopulation, which forces Gaea into action. The planet unleashes its natural immune system to restore balance to the world; the Gohma. An endless horde of mutated animals, the Gohma’s attempts to cleanse the world are barely fought off by Trastrium forces over millennia, with neither side possessing a way to decisively defeat the other. This eternal conflict becomes known as the War of Creation.
Asura, the titular character, is the newly appointed demigod general of Wrath to the Eight Guardian Generals. His daughter Mithra is chosen by the 127th Emperor Strada to be Trastrium’s Priestess, the ultimate amplifier of mantra. He grudgingly approves, and goes on to fight many battles with the help of his daughter’s prayers.
The War of Creation drags on, punctuated every few thousand years with the awakening of Vlitra, a continent-sized Gohma that is the embodiment of the planet’s rage towards Trastrium and the demigods. While suppressed by succeeding generations of Generals and billions of warriors, Vlitra and the Gohma eventually gain enough power to wipe out humanity and the demigods at the time of Vlitra's next awakening. Fearing defeat, the demigods begin construction of the Karma Fortress, an orbital space station which will house the Brahmastra, a gigantic laser powered by mantra.
