[ WP ] A world that lay broken

In a world where everything was destroyed in the blink of an eye, there will never be enough of the old generation left to spread the truth to the newer ones. Take our world. Though I am but an old man, I have seen the world as it is and as it once was. Our world, the realm we call Ittrei, was torn asunder in what can only be described as apocalypse. Ittrei was not without its problems-we had a fair amount of poor and impoverished, and crime was not quite rampant, but it was no small thing either. However, one thing all Ittreites could all agree on was that Ittrei was not going anywhere. Our great capital, Genesis, was a glorious attraction from many other realms, and was the peak of technology. Genesis was a wealthy utopia, and its surrounding fiefs of Mistral and Gordain were the perfect defense against any invaders. But it was no physical invader who destroyed our beautiful realm. Serrigus Wyd was the lord of Mistral, the location of the realm ’ s primary royal armory. Wyd was well-liked by the people, but he had a dark secret. A venal man, many violent, belligerent factions went to him to obtain royal weaponry, so long as they had the funds to pay. One day, however, the supreme king of our land, Detritus Lex, unearthed this corruption in his government. He planned to remove Wyd from power, and delivered an ultimatum to Wyd. The devious lord had other plans, however. Serrigus consolidated his forces at the armory, and commandeered an experimental bio-weapon, extremely classified, and an entire fleet of the latest airships. He led forces on the ground in to Genesis, and obliterated the infrastructure of the government, as well as bombing Gordain, the best defense of this realm, in minutes. Now the supreme power, Wyd took control with an iron fist and the roughest military to maintain his hold. When he grew old with no heir, however, he did not wish to leave this realm without a grand exit. For this, he led one last campaign of terror. Later known as the Last Act of Hell, Wyd, now the Grand King, self-destructed a large nuclear reactor that powered Old Genesis. The ensuing explosion wiped out nearly all life in Gordain and Mistral, and all life in New Genesis, the crown jewel of Wyd ’ s now-broken kingdom. By now, the surrounding villages had become independent. To each their own, without the truly advanced production capabilities of Genesis and without the proper plans or engineers to design them, the surrounding villages of the Ittrein Kingdom have now retrogressed to a shell of the former glory of Ittrei. All that remains are old, withered souls, teaching the new generations of the evils of old, and trying to prevent the same corruption from ever happening again.
