o several million
score. Once great cities were wiped clean from the face of the
earth. Those that were spared stood like majestic mountains. With
time, they also crumbled away, turning into gigantic mounds that were
loosely held together by rusty girders, brittle concrete and broken
glass.
Bands of strange-looking humans roamed the face of the land foraging
for the scarce and much-valued commodities of food and fresh water.
In the years following the deluge, the surface dwelling survivors died
out from exposure to radiation and to the adverse climactic conditions
that were inherited from the global fall out.
The progeny of the survivors became strange in appearance and behaviour
until they all became new forms of humans, evolved from mutants, to
small hybrid races which soon became as distinct and individual as
those humans that lived in the late Twentieth Century. The
amalgamation of these races found that great tension had formed between
them, due to their differences in appearances and forms of speech, and
so they broke away from the main body of humanity and headed for their
own select areas of the continent.
Many of these new races of humans ventured forth and eventually
established unique civilisations. One race went to the extreme western
part of the North continent. Everywhere, they found small pockets of
survivors and conquered them. They looted their food stores and used
those people as slaves; so becoming a feared band of humans that
resembled upright, and very dark featured, apes. They called
themselves the Teniqu
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