humanity

. Society had broken down, and a lawless populace lacking cohesion led to a blood-drenched free-for-all. People would kill each other over access to food, water, drugs, or technological luxuries such as radios. C

ivil war was common, and among this, the common man and the world outside of power struggles took a backseat. In this political climate, sudden large-scale bomb attacks pitted the East and West against one another. Many able-bodied men and women participated in the last great world war.

In a war among desperate men over ever scarcer resources, for reasons made all too obvious, there was no winner. The bomb attacks and ground conflict took the lives of millions. This, coupled with the poor living conditions of the remaining humans formed a cascading effect and began to tip mankind over the edge. In the aftermath of this final war, government, becoming utterly useless, was abandoned altogether. The remaining people lived out their lives in the lawless crumbling shells of cities and towns. Finally, a particularly lethal and fast-spreading epidemic of an unknown virus dealt the ultimate blow, ending humanity's tenure on earth. Architecture began to crumble from decades of disuse, and scavengers such as seagulls and rats fed off of the corpses of a dead society. A dead race.





During the time Frisk spent underground, above the hollow Mount Ebott,had become a nest of rats on a sinking ship