Hundreds of Thousands of years before this day, a species was born in Africa. It was a primate-like it's ancestors, the species ate both meat and fruits, used limited tools, and had hair. But unlike other primates, it's hair ended on it's head. They walked upright, something only accomplished millions of years prior. And they learned to travel. Over time, from their cradle of Ethiopia, this species traveled across the earth, first alone, then as families, and then as small groups. Even after a volcanic eruption reduced it to a few thousand survivors, it's progress didn't stop. They learned to communicate, build settlements, make weapons, and after the ice age ended somewhat, agriculture. They build cities, made government, empires, until eventually they lived on the entire planet. They gave themselves a name at some point-mankind, or scientifically, Homo Sapiens.
But they, like all life, needed resources to work. The problem was, theirs was on a larger scale than anything that came before-at least as far as they knew. Oil began running out, so they began turning to other forms of energy. Man also began assimilating it's separate governments into a world state. They colonized other worlds, and found life-even intelligent ones. But the earth was exhausting their resources, and with separate nations it was difficult to go into space en masse. It was a race against time.
No one remembered how, but according to hearsay, one day, there were little men left. Their cities decayed. Civilization crumbled. Eventually, the last man was gone. Many things were remembered to have happened during this time-increased volcanic activity due to deeper and deeper mining, disagreements on whether to unite or not. Of course, no animals remembered this. Or almost none. The smartest ones and with the longest memories, such as some primates and crows, remembered. But their speech and intellect was limited, and like man before them, the truth was spun into legend. No one remembered if mankind died in a day or a millenium, whether it left or went extinct, and how long ago it precisely was. All the earth's smartest creatures knew was that, tens of thousands of millenia before, the creatures their ancestors feared left the Earth. It was left with no intelligent species. Crows, Racoons, Monkeys. They were smart, but not enough to make too complex of tools or create agriculture. And so earth was left primal. And now, forty thousand or more years after the last man left, it is beginning to freeze. An ice age will come soon. And while most of the fauna that lived before mankind left has survived, the ice ages, meteor strikes, and supervolcanoes will test it for thousands, if not millions of years. And how will they adapt? Well, dear reader, that is up to you.
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Exalted Inquellian State=American Crow
Utceforp=Atlantic Mudskipper
The Frozen Forest=Ring Tailed Lemur
Witiland=Grey Wolf
Zjaum=Killer Whale
UniversalCommons=Octopus
Zedeshia=Coyote
Ralnis=Jellyfish
Kasa Tkoth Sphere=Pink Shrimp
Houyhnhnm Cities=Rock hyrax
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