Without shelter or a permanent place to call home, they might as well be.įor seven years, humanity continues on, living in the cracks and hiding in the shadows. They are considered scum by fort-dwellers and view themselves as dead men walking. The guns they carry might not be useful against dragons, but they’re more than enough to keep the people of the fort in line. Those who cannot obey a fort’s rules are cast out, to live as nomads. The forts themselves are isolated and corrupt, run by a power-hungry militia. In the After, concrete is the building material of choice, and people freely give up their rights in exchange for protection for their families. Eventually, small groups of survivors banded together and formed forts where they could live safely and securely. The people who survived those first brutal days took to hiding.

Riots broke out as men were forced to fight not only for their survival against the dragons, but against each other. Guns had no effect on the unearthly creatures from another dimension. Buildings crumbled, countries fell, and within a matter of months, humankind was broken.

Like ants, they swarmed over the human cities, destroying everything in their wake.

Back in 2016, a Rift opened in the heavens and dragons poured forth, as terrible and violent as the beasts of legend. The year is 2023, seven years after the destruction of the known world. (If you’ve been following along, feel free to skip this section! If this series is new to you, here’s a quick recap of the characters and events that have happened before.)

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