The Shadow Realm
Leader of The Shadow Realm
A Frozen World
Present Day
In the year 2115 nothing that we are currently familiar with is left of the planet known as Earth. Our planet's surface is now laden with multiple layers of permanent frost and dunes of freshly fallen snow. Most if not all of Earth's civil structures now lie in ruin, leaving echoes of a former civilization strewn across the icy wasteland once known as the United States of America.
However, our planet wasn't always like this...
Origins "The Initial Freeze" (2080-2086)
It all started with a slight decline of Earth's average temperature, encompassing harsher winter storms and sparse snow showers in the middle of summer. In the year 2086, Earth's scientists began to notice that this decrease in temperature wasn't slowing down, and that the warmth the sun once gave out to Earth was quickly becoming no less than that of an dying flame. The cause for this was the sun's energy draining faster than we thought possible through a burst of rapid helium consumption, resulting in the sun's diminishing mass.
A heavy overcast and storm-like light is the present equivalent to a bright, sunny, day in the continent of North America, and the average global temperature of Earth during the day is now around -20°F while the average low as night cloaks the world is around -75°F.
The average daylight hours have now been reduced to seven, with nighttime hours lasting more than 16 hours annually as a direct result from what little to no light we receive from our dying host star.
Our planet's plant life has long been dead and gone, frozen long ago and trapped under the several layers of permanent (or perma) frost coating our planets surface. The lack of warmth and plants to feast on soon took out most, if not all, of the herbivores, including 85% of the world's cattle population, with most of the worlds carnivores following shortly after there were no more corpses to feast on.
A quarter of the world's population died following "The Initial Freeze."
The Triton Project (2090-2110)
The world's scientific union soon realized they only had one option, which would be to leave their home planet for the nearest inhabitable solar system, Sector 2-13E, and that meant most of earth's population would be left behind to suffer Earth's icy atmosphere. One scientist, however, was brave enough to stand up against the injustice of the situation, and in secret uploaded the project's files to sources visible to the public eye.
As soon as the Triton Project's folders were leaked, they sparked public outrage, and riots quickly slowed the progress of the project. After 10 years of hard work proven futile, the project was canceled, leaving the human race stuck on their dying planet.
The Fall of Power (2100)
About this time, the world's government structures (already on their last legs) collapsed, taking the world's last power grid plans and methods of warmth with them, including the sustenance for numerous cities. Forty five percent of the United States' population died in the years following the disaster, and the future of mankind began to look bleak...
Yet humanity continues to push on.
Progression Era (2115-????)
Various factions soon replaced the United States' fallen governments and established domed colonies across the wasteland once known as the North Americas. The future, although not at all what people where expecting, was slowly beginning to become less of a wasteland, and more like a home - your home.
