Nobody really knows what happened. It was so long ago that the ancient cities look little like what they used to, what has been seen in aged texts. They are ruins, overgrown with forests and teeming with wild animals.
Or sometimes, worse.
But now, we have rebuilt. We have our own cities of stone and wood, to defend against the elements. Some of our cities hold scientists, who aid us with their technology, or magical artifacts. We have our defenses as well. We need our defenses, desperately.
Nobody knows what ECA stands for, but we know they are the enemy. The ECA possess technology greater then our own. While they use the same guns, they are equipped with armor and vehicles that far surpass our own. We are lucky that there attacks are intermittent, and that they can still be killed.
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ECA: The ECA is a military organization that uses high-tech armor, standard weaponry, and high-tech vehicles. They are utterly ruthless and seek to subjagate all humanity, in the belief that it's for their own good.
The Free People: Everyone but the ECA. This encompasses citizens of towns and cities, wanderers, magicians, even bandits. They are all free from the ECA, and therefore are all considered Free People. (These are who you'll be playing as, most likely a wanderer.)
Magicians: Magicians are an enigmatic folk. They are those few who have mastered the ability to due magic. This process makes them cease to age and become immortal. Magicians are solitary, and often wholly neutral on the affairs of other humans. (You cannot play as a magician.)
Wanderers: People who do not stay in cities or villages for any substantial length of time.
Dragons: Pretty much what it sounds like, massive winged reptiles that breath fire. Utterly untameable.
Zombies: In certain isolated areas, or ruins, there dwell zombies. Zombies are undead monsters, reanimated human corpses that feed exclusively off of meat. They are easily avoided if one is careful, but can prove difficult to kill due to their numbers and somewhat high tolerance for damage. However, they will go down after a single shot to the head or several shots to the body.
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