Synopsis:
The story
takes place in what used to be northern Scotland, but is now a wasteland,
returned to a twisted, mutated nature, generations after a nuclear apocalypse.
A young woman who was born into this nightmare is struggling to survive. She
was taken in at a young age by a group of scavengers, who consisted of two
small families, molded together for protection. When one of the families accidentally conceived another child they outcast her, because they could no
longer survive in a group of that size.
When searching for a place to shelter during
the winter she stumbles upon a bunker, left behind by people
of the old civilisation. Here she meets a very old man, created to
outlive most humans, designed to lead an isolated civilisation, set up before
the apocalypse to preserve the human race. He teaches her of the old
world and begins to question her purpose in life, yearning for a better
existence.
The time has
come for the man to leave his bunker, and lead the new civilisation to a
brighter future. Wishing for a a meaningful life,the girl offers to guide him
on his journey. On the way she learns more and more of the world beyond the
wasteland she was born into, driving her to deliver this prophet to his
destination. Along the way they face the perils of the forest, including
bandits and mutant animals, all driven insane by the world around them.
The girl, having learnt the ways of the old civilisation, asks the man to name her. He chooses Neith after the Godess of War and the Hunt. The Prophet had been educated in the history of human kind, and recognised the girls strength and knowledge of hunting and and killing.
The girl, having learnt the ways of the old civilisation, asks the man to name her. He chooses Neith after the Godess of War and the Hunt. The Prophet had been educated in the history of human kind, and recognised the girls strength and knowledge of hunting and and killing.
Just as their
goal seems in sight, they’re separated, as the girl is taken by psychopath
bandits that have learned to live in harmony with the twisted landscape. The
prophet knows he must continue his quest alone, but has come to care for the
young girl. In grief he attempts to continue on, but can’t bring himself to leave the girl, turning back in an attempt to save her. He fails and is captured, but
the girl escapes, freeing him, but is mortally wounded in the process. He
believes that if he can get her to the new civilisation, they will have the
technology to save her. They make it to the new civilisation in time, and she
is saved by their technology.
Lore:
In 2054,
China declared war on America, instantly throwing the World into a nuclear war.
Inevitably, almost all life was wiped out, leaving the Earth a desolate
wasteland, mutated by the radiation.
Anyone who
wasn’t killed by the nuclear explosions was killed by the resulting famine, and
fallout. The world slowly, but surely descended into madness. The few humans
that were left turned to a primal violence, fighting for what little resources
were left behind. Nothing is left of civilisation; very few people even have names, or
understand a language.
As nature
began to reclaim the world, it was distorted, and twisted by the radiation;
most parts of the world are far from what the old civilisation had
created. Mutated animals rule the food chain, while carnivorous, or poisonous
plants prey on those brave enough to attempt change.
In the build
up to the war America and other UN countries created a contingency plan.
Expecting almost everyone to be wiped out, they saw it as an opportunity to create
a “perfect” future, one that they would engineer as they saw fit. They chose a
small group of women, chosen for their genes, and stored them in cryogenic
stasis in an underground bunker on an isolated Scottish isle for 200 years. They
also froze the means to create new life through these women, training them for
the world they would wake up in, and informing them of the duty they had. They
also created a genetically modified human male,
designed to outlive any human, as a prophet for the civilisation.
Little did
the American’s know, that the whole reason for the Chinese’ declaration of war,
was for the exact same reason. The war was a suicide mission, to ultimately create a brighter tomorrow. They too had made a similar contingency
plan, following their ideals, their idea of “perfection”. This of course, would
inevitably lead to similar conflict in the future, when the two civilisations
met.
The Prophet:
The male was
created by the science of the old world to be a perfect human being, able to
face the potential dangers of the world. He was left in a bunker in northern
Scotland as an embryo. The bunker contained the means to develop said embryo
into a human, raising it into the perfectly molded human being to lead the
civilisation. This included information about the old world that he would
discover at a certain age. The entire bunker was engineered to create what the
American’s saw as a perfect leader. The prophet has only known what was fed to
him by the bunker, which would lead to a “perfect” civilisation.
The
contingency plan also includes multiple other males, identical to this one, but
raised in a slightly different ways, in the event that one way, or another
failed. They too were placed in other parts of Scotland, and Wales, if one
failed, another bunker would open, instructing the male to find the original
isolated civilisation. Of course, if one succeeded, the others would be left to rot. This particular prophet was the third in a line of
others that had failed to reach the civilisation before him. The journey to the
civilisation was meant as a final test for the prophet, teaching him of the
potential dangers of the world, which were unknown to the people who made him.
This, to his creators, would be the final piece in the puzzle that was his education, allowing him
to lead the civilisation to a perfect future, one better than the old world.
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