The Empire of Caertina thrives on spectacle. Its coliseum hosts extreme bestiarii events — wild creatures captured from the surrounding wilderness, trained to maximum ferocity, and pitted against human gladiators in front of roaring crowds. You arrive in chains, a criminal sentenced to fight for the city's entertainment. Survival is the only path to freedom. Each battle is more punishing than the last, and the only way out of that hell is to be too good to kill.