Chapter 1

In the old world, the world before they rained fire from the sky, they had a word for the world we are now forced to live in. They called it Pandemonium. The elders of my order, used to say that it meant chaos, or the complete lack of order. Now they simply point out of a window and say “Watch.” Knowing that simply observing ‘The World After’ would allow you to define pandemonium in the simplest terms. Man has left the world of reason, and understanding, behind. Replacing it, instead with a world, where those who are the most violent, the most savage, the most unafraid to embrace the beast within, rule. This was the world in which I was reared. A world in which I have come to thrive, turning the violence inward, and unleashing it on those who would use it against those who can not. I am a Justice Bringer, and my order is one of the few bastions of safety left in this world.

According to the old calendar, the year would be 2094, though, according to this world’s calendar, it would be 74 AF (After the Fire). Decades have passed, since the rulers of the Old World, unleashed the powers of their gods, and wrought destruction of unimaginable scale, on our world. After the Long Winter, what was left of man, began to scratch out their new world. The weapons of old war, the guns, and bullets, were hoarded by those with the least scruples, and the most violence within them. And kingdoms that stretched only so far as their violence would allow them, cropped up within the lands that could still support life. And thus, the state of perpetual war we now know as life, began. Pandemonium was born.

Out of the ashes of decades of war, several orders striving to restore the order of the Old World, began to take root. Far to the north, where the Fires, had touched the least, was born The Council. An order of scholars, who’s dream was to rebuild the knowledge of the sciences of the Old World. Hoping that as they grew, they could sway man back onto the path of reason and peace. To the best of my knowledge, they still exist, though trapped in their northern fortresses, the savagery of The World After, proving they are as yet not strong enough to thrive.

To the west, from across the great sea, came The Austere. They claimed charitable intentions bringing with them seeds, hoping to feed those who were incapable of feeding themselves. They were lying. They came to convert, and to dominate. They withheld their promises, unless those who sought aid pledged to follow their creed. And their cruelty, and smug superiority, gave rise to my own order. The Justice Bringers.

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