In the time before, decimation destroyed the Old World. Humanity unleashed the terror onto themselves, building vast stores filled with weapons of mass destruction. Decimation irrevocably changed the land and indiscriminately eradicated all life in its path.
Pockets of survivors eked out an existence on the broken Earth. Most who survived the Old World’s fall hid in bunkers for safety, but eventually, time would force them all from succor. Chaos ruled the untamed ruins of the wasteland. People fought and died over scraps. The untold energies that decimation unleashed would give rise to the aberrants, those born with psionic abilities. Many feared the aberrants and their gifts. Most would become the weapons of others. Fighting consumed humanity as resources dwindled. It took thousands of years for the world to recover from the cataclysm that decimation had wrought.
As Earth began to heal, a band of six powerful aberrants, Divine Souls, would conquer swaths of known territory. Through fear and force of personality, they garnered such a following they could unite the fractured lands. Each Divine Soul crowned themselves God-King and built great city-states to rule as they saw fit. However, one Divine Soul would betray the others and command the Slauthkin to rise to the surface.
This lizard-like race would form an empire under their Divine Soul’s leadership. An uneasy peace would eventually develop. The collection of city-states came to be known as the Divine Ascendancy. Neither the Slauthkin Empire nor the Ascendancy wished to waste resources in all-out conflict with each other, though skirmishes would be frequent. For hundreds of years, the Ascendancy and the Empire would stand.
