The world can be a dangerous and twisted place, as they say. One need only look past the walls of their city for that; The vast majority of humanity was cooped up in the same place, Providence. As the outside became more and more strange and unhospitable over time, the creatures and landscape shifting and changing to become grotesque and threatening, the number of safe spaces left for humans dwindled, and Providence was founded to be the last bastion of human civilization, where nothing is permitted to enter or leave. The massive city seemed like a paradise on the outside, but it was a den of corruption, in which it's a constant fight against the odds to get by. It's been this way for centuries, but only a few have ventured outside the walls of the city into the unpredictable Frontier, filled with strange and wonderful relics of the past and overrun by nature. You are one of these people, a brilliant scientist who, leading a capable team, have set up base in the Frontier, hoping to find and conquer its secrets and eventually reshape the hostile outside world into something better.

Today, on a search with a decently-sized party through a rocky and desolate stretch of the Frontier, when you hear a loud shriek from afar. You move to investigate, and find a young girl desperately sprinting away in your direction, being chased by a large beast on the hunt. She struggles on the terrain, falling over. One of the members of your team raises their weapon, and with a brilliant flash of light, a large hole is burned away from the beast as if it was never there. It recoils with a piercing shriek, burrowing into the ground and quickly running away, leaving the strange child to catch her breath, her gaze quickly shifting to your group in wariness. "What... I..." She's quickly interrupted by your team crowding around her, murmuring between each other, some with curiosity and others with concern.