Post by Bango Jett on Feb 3, 2021 20:14:39 GMT -6
The Forsaken Earth, year unknown.
The end arrived on wings of blinding light. In its wake came the sundering of the precious earth, mutilating the surface into a vast wasteland of fetid soil and boiling the oceans down to desolate pits of charred sediment and stagnant saltwater. Rolling plains of ash and mountainsides littered with the skeletal remains of once-lush woodlands; murky pits of putrid water, diseased in their unsightly desecration; skies heavy with poisoned air and darkened clouds; the sands of the coastlines and deserts transmogrified into landscapes of crystalline glass, their jagged edifices glimmering beneath a broiling sun...all that remained was a hellish caricature of what had once been. What's more, abominable creatures run rampant in these lands--their malformations so horrid and grotesque enough to strike paralyzing fear into the hearts of those who gazed upon them--preying upon the weak and unwary alike; and others still, humanoid in form, live amongst the remaining populace in their ramshackle communities, for better of worse. The dreary new earth laid the foundation for untold suffering to come, a struggle to test the will of what remained of mankind.
None remain who remember the age before the Ruination, and few records still exist to tell of what wrought such collapse. Man's memory of history being a finite resource, the new dawn of the post-cataclysm earth remains, as it has been for centuries, a perilous effect of an anomalous cause, and the displaced denizens of man usher forward through the days, not knowing that further hardships were mere moments away…
The World That God Forgot is a post-apocalyptic story set in the American Southeast, in the tri-state area on the borders of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Life is brutal and tomorrow is never assured, nor expected. Various factions vie for control of the region, and others yet seek to restore human civilization as it was before its collapse. Remnants of technology lie scattered about the wastes--mechanical monuments to humanity's sundered accomplishments--their functions unknown to most. Mutated humanoids live amongst the general populace, often under severe persecution born out of fear and distrust. Altogether, the world is a ruin housing various survivors, each with their own goals and motivations. Your role in this story is yours to decipher; will you strive to make peace and lend aid to those in need, or will you succumb to the swaying morality of the Forsaken Wastes and attempt to attain power of your own, in whatever form that may be? The choices you make are yours, as are the consequences which you will reap.
Welcome to The World That God Forgot.