The Lantern Bearers

prologue: the fall of man

Roughly a century ago, on a crisp, cool day of mid march, a phenomenon happened that would change the entirey of earth forever.....

The fall....of the God Eye.

A meteorite struck the earth on this very day, without warning and wasn't detected by any sort of radar, not even by the strongest radars, scanners, what have you, that mankind has to offer.

On collision;

60% of the human population was wiped out.
50% of the vegetation destroyed.
70% of wildlife, gone.

The world as we knew it, was in shambles in a blink of an eye.

Parties
Family gatherings
School plays
Even lazy afternoons

All turned to ash when that meteorite fell.

Some would speculate that it was God's wrath that was dashed against mankind, hence the name, God eye.

Dunno why they chose eye though, i assume it's because his eye is watching over the survivors' suffering from his punishment? Kind of a stretch, but whatever.

Then, the most bizarre event occurred...
It lifted itself to the sky, out of the atmosphere and just....stopped, blocking out the sun.

No matter the orbit or rotation, it blocks out the sun regardless, consistently casting darkness over earth. You would think with the earth's rotation, we would at least have a normal night with the moon and stars out and no fear of the darkness eating us, but somehow it's all over the globe.

Abominations creep in the darkness with glowing skin most of the time....

Anomalies and weird occurances, exist in our world for some unknown reason....

Humanity can only adapt bit by bit to these conditions.....

One thing that we cling onto though, is light. Light keeps the ferocious darkness at bay and keeps us safe.

One explorer, by the name of Aiden Marker, gathered a following and he with his group became the first to venture out into, what we call now, the voided earth.

Not only did they explore it, but they also charted it as well and called them the luminescent charts. These charts and maps show key points of interest, such as safe havens, anomaly sightings, artifact manifestation zones, and other key locations all on a handy map. These would later be uploaded to most PDAs and can be used on the fly.

Aiden, however, would mysteriously vanish, as well as his foster daughter with a prosthetic arm. Some say he was captured by the slave market, some say he died in the void by either an anomaly encounter or one of the voided fiends, and some say he might have killed himself and her out of a fit of madness, which is fairly common.

Either way, many have tried to find his whereabouts or where he died so they can obtain his journal. A small book, packed with knowledge of treasures beyond your wildest dreams.

Even in the darkness, i suppose that there is a glimmer of hope and adventure.....in this hell sort of world we live in....