Children of the Apocalypse
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In the ruins of an ancient city¸ a band of treasure hunters seeks ancient artifacts to fuel the creations of a powerful Tinker Mage. Armies trade musket fire across rolling hills as pikemen brace to receive a charge of monstrous shock troops. An assassin in the service of the Goddess of Death and Disease sets a gunpowder charge beneath the foundations of a rival church. A wizard faces down a psion in an arcane duel for possession of a trove of ancient texts. All these adventures and more are daily occurrences in the world of Children of the Apocalypse ¸ a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting for Savage Worlds. Legend tells of how the ancient¸ technologically advanced civilization of Earth fell in the devastating War of the Gods. The final blow in that war was a devastating plague that wiped out almost every living humanoid¸ with only a tiny fraction left to rebuild civilization. Much has been achieved under the auspices of the Four benign deities¸ Iset (Justice and Learning)¸ Edward (Magic and Psionics)¸ Jonas (Tinkers and Scientists)¸ and Rahel (Law and War). New cities have risen¸ far from the haunted ruins of the old. Lost technologies have been rediscovered¸ including the recent addition of gunpowder as a tool for construction and warfare. Alongside these cities have also risen dominions of beastmen and other twisted creatures¸ some building cities and civilizations of their own. There¸ and also in the shadows of the humanoid cities¸ the dark gods plot and plan¸ always seeking advantage but never pressing to the point of triggering another war of the gods. But such a war is coming¸ and it will forever change the shape of the world.