History VideoGame / SoliumInfernum

** Andromalius: ''Technical". Andromalius specializes in Praetor utilization. Their unique skill empowers a chosen Praetor to deal more damage in duels and get more Prestige for combat as long as he remains a Legion commander, while their starting 2 Charisma allow him to quickly start hunting for Manuscripts to give his Praetors special moves. Their personal Legion, however, is quite vulnerable and they lack starting levels in military-important stats.
** Astaroth: ''Brute". Astaroth is a warmonger through and through: his personal Legion has quite high statistics, he starts with 2 Wrath, allowing him to field more Legions and his unique skill automatically forces a 1-turn Vendetta allowing him to eliminate vulnerable Legions or steal weak Places of Power without bothering with the [[CasusBelli formal war declaration system]].
** Beelzebub: "Gimmick/Spammer". Beelzebub is another aggressive archfiend. She starts with 1 Wrath and her Stronghold has bonus to Command rating, allowing her to field greater number of Legions, but her main strength lies in Rituals: 2 starting Destruction means easier access to damage spells and her unique skill is a free Ritual that gives her a Tribute token for every destroyed enemy Legion.
** Belial: "Diplomatic/Guerilla". Belial is focused on manipulating other players. He starts with 2 Deceit, allowing him to quickly let loose nasty Rituals allowing him to steal Tribute or block enemy Legions' movements, his Stronghold bonus buffs those same his unique skill [[FalseFlagOperation insults another player while making it look like a third party did it]]. He thrives by sowing discord and paranoia between his competitors, but if his machinations are revealed, his limited military options often lead to him folding like wet noodle.
** Erzsebet: "Balanced". While Erzsebet is also geared for military, thanks to starting with 2 Wrath, but her toolkit is focused on more strategic side of combat: her unique skill allows her Legions to walk freely through enemy territory for 1 turn, her Stronghold bonus improves her Legions healing rate and her secondary stats are Deceit and Charisma, giving her an inch in diplomatic and economic fields.
** Lillith: "Technical". Lillith is a spellcaster focused on information. With her starting 2 Prophecy she immidiately knows about Bazaar bids and her unique skill is a Ritual revealing all buffs of targeted Legion while decreasing its spell resistance. Furthermore, her Stronghold bonus improves Prophecy rituals, to uncover even more, and her secondary stats are Deceit and Destruction, so that revealed targets can be easily bombarded or infiltrated.
** Mammon: "Economist". As can be expected, Mammon is focused around getting and using money. His unique skill increases another player's choice of Tribute while simultaniously giving Mammon all the discarded tokens, allowing him to make "mutually beneficial" deals with other players. Furthermore, his strongold gives bonus to Tribute quality and his starting 2 Charisma means he has quick access to Tribute conversion and improved Bazaar access.
** Murmur: "Technical/Spammer". Murmur is an aggressive spellcaster. They starts with 2 Destruction and his Stronghold gives boost to Destruction rituals, allowing them to wipe out enemy Legions with magic from the get-go, while their unique skill is a free Ritual that summons a weak Legion anywhere on the map.

** Astragoth: {{Wrath}}. He is a brutal warmonger that desires only destruction of everything on his path
** Beelzebub: {{Gluttony}}. She cares about nothing but constant consumption.

** Lillith: {{Envy}}. Her primary motivation is bitterness for being cast out of Eden as punishment for rebelling against Adam, and now drives her to constatly spy on her rivals to outmaneuver them and never be subservient again.
** Mammon: {{Greed}}. His entire existence is focused around money, to the point he is mentioned to have invented usury.

** Emphasized in the remake, where the demons managed to main and imprison God...and [[GoneHorriblyWrong absolutely fail]] at ''keeping'' the Tyrant of Heaven fully sealed, with a lot of Hellish society barely keeping Him chained while Heaven runs just fine in His absence. It's clear the only reason the Tyrant hasn't destroyed Hell [[GodsHandsAreTied is that He physically cannot]], and in the Triumph of the Abyss ending He gets free to do exactly that.

* CityOfTheDamned: Both Pandaemonium and the city of Dis are urban settings among the sand and sulfur of Hell.

* DeliveranceFromDamnation: A 'shoeless prophet' can, by event, redeem a large amount of souls from Hell, ruining the economics of all Archfiends.

* SealedGoodInACan: The Tyrant of Heaven - aka, {{God}} - had His body slain by Lucifer and imprisoned in Hell...[[NotQuiteDead but His mind and will lives]], and He [[LeakingCanOfEvil regularly makes the Archfiends miserable]] by invoking punishing miracles on Hell.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Or perhaps in this case, 'let me be even more evil than I was before.' An Archfiend can be excommunicated for no other reason than because the Conclave [[TheParanoiac paranoidly suspects]] that ''someone'' is plotting against them (which, to their credit, [[ProperlyParanoid is usually the case]] for at least one Archfiend) and thus decides to hold a [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion popular vote]] to pin a [[TheScapegoat scapegoat]]. The person who gets voted off is usually the strongest Archfiend, done as a way of eliminating a threat...and yet, they are now free to use said strength to capture Pandaemonium for an Usurper victory now that the Conclave's own actions have ensured that they have no other choice. It's even lampshaded in the game itself through the achievement 'The Monster You Think,' earned by doing just that.

* WorldOfJerkass: The only character in the entire game who isn't absolutely evil is The Tyrant, and he has no actual spoken line of dialogue.

* AngelsDemonsAndSquid: Subverted. Some lore reveals existence of [[EldritchAbomination bizarre]] celestial architects, but they seem to just be morally neutral maintainers of cosmic order. The only factions that matters are the angels and demons, with celestials that become genuinely evil becoming demons, like Beelzebub.

* LovecraftLite: As evinced by how the [[GodIsGood Tyrant]] can wreck your shit whenever He or the angels want and the existence of [[EldritchAbomination celestials]], the wider cosmos is effectively what would happen if the universe was run by alien entities that are unremittingly hostile and have set the rules of the universe to toy with beings that both exist in willful ignorance of their own unimportance to the order of the world and [[AssholeVictim absolutely deserve it]], providing hope to everyone else.

* AngelsDemonsAndSquid: Subverted. The Bottled Alien God relic reveals a race of [[EldritchAbomination bizarre]] celestial architects, but they seem to just be morally neutral maintainers of the universe's expansion. The only factions that matters are the angels and demons,

* ScrewTheRulesTheyBrokeThemFirst: Encouraged within the gameplay itself, the amount of turns required to win an Usurpation victory is lowered every time Pandemonium changes hands. This provides incentive for Archfiends who are in good standing with the Infernal Conclave to battle those who have been excommunicated by breaking the rules...only to break the rules themselves by seizing Pandamonium for a quick win.

** Murmur: Despair. They are a necromancer that hates all life, driven to extinguish it and replace with soul-crushing cycle of death and reanimation into undeath.

* TheDevilIsALoser: When the forces of Heaven want to do something to the denizens of Hell -- take back souls they have judged worthy, send an Angelic Host to wreak havoc, punish the demon lords for whatever -- there's not a single thing the combined forces of Hell can do to stop them. In contrast, Hell's attempts to RageAgainstTheHeavens by sending demonic hordes are invariably doomed to failure (though it's possible for your troops to survive and gain strength through their ordeal).

** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Both the Temple of Lust in the original and the Garden of Infernal Delights in the remake look very... "organic".

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The entrance of the Temple of Lust is a long vertical slit that looks very... "organic".

!!This game provides examples of the following tropes:

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The entrance of the Temple of Lust is a long vertical slit that looks very... "organic".

* XanatosSpeedChess: Outright conquest is difficult in this game, so it's often better to plot against your rivals in more subtle ways -- and you can rest assured they'll be returning the favor.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Every entity in the game, given that it's set entirely in Hell. Even the angels qualify for this trope, as (from your demonic ruler's point of view) they are never anything but genocidally hostile to you.

'''Solium Infernum''' is a turn-based strategy game created by Cryptic Comet. Players take the role of Hell's demon lords (of varying ranks, determined by the player's build at the start of the game), who in [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Lucifer's absence]], have decided to [[TheStarScream take it upon themselves]] to fill the EvilPowerVacuum.

* EvilPowerVacuum: The premise of the game. Lucifer is gone, and now the remaining demon lords vie for his position.
* EvilVsEvil: Every major player in this game is an archfiend who uses damned souls and incarnate darkness for ''currency'', commands armies of devilish minions, and spends all their time plotting against their rival demonic lords for the rulership of Hell itself.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Occasionally you will be asked to send [[CannonFodder forces]] to crusade against heaven. [[SuicideMission They rarely ever survive.]] The ones who do make it back TakeALevelInBadass.

* VillainProtagonist: You a Hell Lord. You're not in any way trying to reform Hell or make it a less hellish place -- you just want to rule!
* XanatosSpeedChess: Outright conquest is difficult in this game, so it's often better to plot against your rivals in more subtle ways - and you can rest assured they'll be returning the favor.

''To reign is worth ambition.''

'''Solium Infernum''' is a turn-based strategy game created by Cryptic Comet. Players take the roles of demon lords of Hell (of varying ranks, determined by the player's build at the start of the game), who in [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Lucifer's absence]], have decided to [[TheStarScream take it upon themselves]] to fill the EvilPowerVacuum.

* VillainProtagonist: You a Hell Lord. Anything to add?

'''Solium Infernum''' is a turn-based strategy game created by Cryptic Comet. The players take the roles of demon lords of Hell (of varying ranks, determined by the player's build at the start of the game), who in [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Lucifer's absence]], have decided to [[TheStarScream take it upon themselves]] to fill the EvilPowerVacuum.

!!This show provides examples of the following tropes:

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: It's set in Hell, after all.
* TheDevilIsALoser: When the forces of Heaven want to do something to the denizens of Hell -- take back souls they have judged worthy, send an Angelic Host to wreak havoc, punish the demon lords for whatever -- there's not a single thing the combined forces of Hell can do to stop them. In contrast, Hell's attempts to RageAgainstTheHeavens by sending demonic hordes are invariably doomed to failure.
* EvilPowerVacuum: The premise of the game.
* EvilVsEvil: It depicts a war between Hell lords.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Occasionally you will be asked to send [[CannonFodder forces]] to crusade against heaven. [[SuicideMission They rarely ever survive.]] The ones who do make it back ascend to badass level.

* XanatosSpeedChess: Games often end up this way.

Solium Infernum is a turn-based strategy game created by Cryptic Comet. The players take the roles of demon lords of Hell (of varying ranks, determined by the player's build at the start of the game), who in [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Lucifer's absence]], have decided to [[TheStarScream take it upon themselves]] to fill the EvilPowerVacuum.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Occasionally you will be asked to send [[CannonFodder forces]] to crusade against heaven. [[SuicideMission They rarely ever survive.]] The ones who do make it back ascend to {{Badass}} level.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Occasionally an Angelic Host will manage to make it into Hell, and will wreak havoc on whichever unlucky players it crosses paths with.

* EvilvsEvil: It depicts a war between Hell lords.

Solium Infernum is a turn-based strategy game created by Cryptic Comet. The players take the roles of demon lords of Hell (of varying ranks, determined by the player's build at the start of the game), who in [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Lucifer's absence]], have decided to [[TheStarScream take it upon themselves]] to fill the {{EvilPowerVacuum}}.

* MagnificentBastard: All players are pretty much required to play this role if they want to survive.

* TheStarscream: The player characters.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Games often end up this way.

Solium Infernum is a turn-based strategy game created by Cryptic Comet. The players take the roles of demon lords of Hell (of varying ranks, determined by the player's build at the start of the game), who in [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Lucifer's absence]], have decided to [[TheStarScream take it upon themselves]] to fill the [[EvilPowerVacuum]].

* OurAngelsareDifferent: Occasionally an Angelic Host will manage to make it into Hell, and will wreak havoc on whichever unlucky players it crosses paths with.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Occasionally you will be asked to send [[CannonFodder forces]] to crusade against heaven. [[SuicideMission They rarely ever survive.]] The ones who do make it back ascend to [[Badass]] level.

* EvilPowerVacuum: The premise of the game.
* MagnificentBastard: All players are pretty much required to play this role if they want to survive.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Occasionally you will be asked to send [[CannonFodder forces]] to crusade against heaven. [[SuicideMission They rarely ever survive.]] The ones who do make it back ascend to [[Badass]] level.
* TheStarscream: The player characters.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Games often end up this way.