Along their way they will have to avoid raider attacks, investigate military headquarters, and infiltrate into the territory of a dangerous anti-technological religious sect. Those who do are believed to be divinely chosen.Įight characters have to join forces for a common cause: find an important scientist kidnapped by a massive stratocracy.

Initiation into its ranks requires Fulgor to be absorbed into the system intravenously… a process that few survive. Forsaking technology, the Kaphirite cult believe the alien artifacts are the ultimate judge as to who deserves to live. Out of the ashes of the devastation to the north is born an ultra-religious cult, one that worships Fulgor as a divine gift. Calling itself Wintersöhne (Sons of the Winter), it has pursued research into refining Fulgor for human consumption and developing it for military purposes. In Europe, a new society was born from the remains of the German army and its intelligence services. Those who have survived the dramatic changes wrought by the strikes have done so thanks to Fulgor, a unique substance carried to the planet by the same meteors that so dramatically changed its environment. Fast-forward to 1971 and extreme temperatures and violent storms are now part of daily life.

In early 1942, huge meteors crashed into Earth, the resulting climate change kickstarting a new ice age. Firearms and vehicles are scarce, conflicts and hostilities have no end, and the terrible freezing cold annihilates friends and foes in its path.

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