the Red Winters of Mars

Earth, the year 3100.
Humanity is gone from this dust-coated rock, all that remains are the cockroaches and the mutated scavengers who could never be recognized as human. And the machines. Mechanical war engines still stalk the decimated planet, tearing eachother apart in grand displays of swords and hellfire. Impact craters dot the Earth's surface, entire seas have evaporated. The Earth is dry, dead, and uninhabitable. But there is one hope: Mars. The red planet, which sits so far off the horizon. It seems impossible, even though it's already been done. To those who could never make it there, they wait for their impending doom each passing day, choking on smog and dust.

Mars, year 4300.
Lunae Planum.
Fafnir Village.

A peaceful life is lived here, in a village of seventy-eight people. tradition is held high among these people, and they wish to stay living the way their people had lived for over 800 years. At the age of 15, people chosen as Champions, Trackers, Spellcasters, or Pillars, are bonded with a dragon, each to their own. These people are meant to be the the village's defense, should anything come their way, such as a Landship, a massive, metal ship running on tracks, built to conquer.

This is about one boy, his dragon, and a few unlikely friends, all of whom simply wish to survive in the harsh world that is modern Mars.