Aedyll_
The world is dead, and we killed it. End of Ends, a powerful living power source that promised mystical abilities, infinite energy, and a way to save us all from Entropy itself ... immediately had any way of accessing it sold off to the highest bidders. Stars have gone extinct. The past and future were twisted until they broke. Thermo-arcanal war ravaged the planet. The rulers of the world were slain by the artificial God they hoped would help them regain control of the situation. That same artificial God finished off what remained of life itself. And everyone who predicted it'd probably be an unhappy ending was proven right. The end.
Or so it seemed. Instead, the post-apocalyptic world of Avarei limps along. People try to survive, in a wasteland now filled with skyscraper ruins, toxic oceans, and monsters galore, where everything is trying to kill you, where Elves, Orcs, Duergars, and even a few Aliens walk among us, and where people can control Fire and Water and Earth and Wind with their minds. They try to survive as the Nihiline, that eldritch abyss created by the universe's Heat Death, that in a few years will consume what remains of reality, stares into people's souls and makes them go insane; so don't look up for too long.
And they try to survive when people like Yaouei cause trouble for everyone. The world is ending, so in her mind there are no rules, and even though technically she's been hired by the local Questants Guild as an adventurer, she's more inclined to do things her way even if people complain. It's not like it's gonna matter in the end, after all. Time's up. We blew it up. Nothing matters.
Or does it? Maybe there's more to Yaouei than she wants to admit. There have been strange occurrences and rumors ever since she drifted into Allewood Village. Maybe jhe can be the key to saving this world after all ... or finally putting it all out of its misery ... Either way, no one's getting out of here with a happy ending this time either, probably ...