Asura’s Wrath takes place in a sort of parallel world that combines advanced science fiction with Buddhist & Hindu religion. You play as Asura, a demigod who starts as one of the Eight Guardian Generals who are tasked with saving their world, Gaea, from being overrun with demonic creatures called gohma. It’s a never-ending battle due to a massive beast called Vlitra that awakens every few thousand years to try to wipe humanity from the world. The demigods manage to subdue the beast each time, but never destroy it. After having subdued Vlitra, Asura is quickly betrayed by his fellow generals, who frame him for the Emperor’s murder, kill his wife, kidnap his daughter & send him to the afterlife, Naraka. After fighting his way back to the living, Asura learns that the generals have set themselves up as gods & are abusing their powers to “purify,” aka. kill, the humans to turn their souls into mantra — a substance that gives them great power. Asura’s wrath quickly boils over when he also learns that his daughter, Mithra, is imprisoned so they can use her priestess powers to amplify the Mantra, making them even more powerful.