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The Hellfire Club is a social club located in New York City, catering to high society. The Club is seen as a decadent exercise in anachronistic excess, its lavish galas and parties often hiding the true aims of those who comprise its Inner Circle. | The Hellfire Club is a social club located in New York City, catering to high society. The Club is seen as a decadent exercise in anachronistic excess, its lavish galas and parties often hiding the true aims of those who comprise its Inner Circle. | ||
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Revision as of 22:56, 19 October 2006
Then came a generation that wasn't content to rest on their wealth and settle for parties and perversions - though they didn't exactly forego those aspects either. This was to be a generation with broader horizons; a generation with an altogether bolder view of the future.
The Hellfire Club is a social club located in New York City, catering to high society. The Club is seen as a decadent exercise in anachronistic excess, its lavish galas and parties often hiding the true aims of those who comprise its Inner Circle.
Contents
First Appearance
Roster
Black Court:
- Black King: Sebastian Shaw
- Black Queen: currently vacant, formerly Selene
- Black Knight: currently vacant, formerly Amanda Sefton
- Black Rook: Harry Leland
White Court:
- White King: currently vacant, formerly Pete Wisdom
- White Queen: Emma Frost
- White Bishop: Shinobi Shaw
- White Knight: currently vacant, formerly Manuel de la Rocha
Details
The Hellfire Club is a social club catering to members of the social and financial elite. The Hellfire Club also has a governing body colloquially known as the Inner Circle, taking the formal names of chess pieces and separated into a White Court and Black Court. These Courts tend to oppose each other in business and social matters in a Machiavellian competition for power, in manners both subtle and overt.
Membership in the Hellfire Club tends to be hereditary, with only those deemed worthy by the Inner Circle admitted into full membership. Members of the Inner Circle tend to reach those spots either by selection (Kings and Queens choosing their Court) or by subterfuge and deception (Pete Wisdom usurping the position of White King).
Often the machinations of the Inner Circle pit the resources of the entire Hellfire Club towards a certain goal, which has brought them into conflict with the X-Men on more than one occasion.
Plots
