Your name is Shu, and you’ve come a long way at the end of the world.
The earth you once knew has been devoured, consumed from without by a ravenous being from beyond the stars. Humanity’s been reshaped into a vicious, feral thing by the Crucible, their bodies twisted into raging beasts of muscle and bone, voices and minds warped into tools of war. The Daughters—combatants elected by the Crucible to fight and devour their fellows to reach even the apex of hideous strength—are perhaps the lucky ones, granted the freedom of choice in a world where most humans, flora, and fauna have been melted down into a carpet of raw biomass that’s pulled taut across our world.
Like every other Daughter in existence, you can feel the pull—gnawing at your bones, pulling every fiber of your being towards the tether between a mutilated earth and an alien sky. You call it the Cord, and it’s said that reaching its summit will grant the Crucible’s victor the power to reshape all that is into all that will be.
A siren’s song, beckoning you to the end of all things…
…but with your family at your back, you’ll tear the Cord to the ground and build a world humanity can thrive in.
Here, at the edge of the cancerous sea of churning biomass that spreads from the Cord’s base it towers over you, the skyline filled with its terrible form—a living scar slashed against reality, joining earth and sky with the pain of a throbbing wound. It spans the whole of your vision, looking for all the world like a solid wall of blackened flesh and skyscraper muscle.
It’s a stark reminder of where you are and what’s become of humanity, a noose around their collective neck. A festering thing, whose corruption’s made a mockery of the countless souls lost in pursuit of simple desperation and lofty dreams. You’re about to tread on a million lives, hoping to save a billion more.
Hope is all you have, in the end…
…hope, and those by your side.
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