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And so it came to pass 300 years ago, the apocalypse
arrived. Not from the collapse of the environment,
not from the ambition of kings or generals, but
the hubris of the young. An influencer decided
to read from an ancient tome as a joke on a livestream.
The simple incantation, multiplied across hundreds
of thousands of speakers worldwide, created a
series of rifts to the Infernal Realms, what
would come to be known as the Time of Tearing.
Demons poured out, nukes were launched, it was,
in fact, a full -blown kerfuffle. Of course,
in the aftermath, There was about a century of
the most beastly behavior. People fighting for
resources, making war bands and traipsing about
in the most impractical and immodest costumes,
bashing each other about the heads with spiked
sticks and such. Eventually, a warlord who would
later be known as Queen Lizzie took over the
fair metropolis now known as Neo -Britannia.
As she settled her followers, she discovered
a perfectly preserved home. the home of an ordinary
woman who would be known henceforth as Saint
Linda. In it, Queen Lizzie found perfectly preserved
accounts of a more civilized time, accounts that
would become the blueprints of a new society,
the Austenets and the Bridgertenets. And now,
after 200 years of cultivating a stable and enlightened
society, once again Neo -Britannia's most cherished
season begins, the Marriage Mart. And with it,
our story. Scandals and Scavengers, a post -apocalyptic
Regency romance. Coming soon.