The Great Unmaking: modern civilization experienced three overlapping collapses (The Thin Places, The Current, The Cost). The Current is trying to re-knit reality after something ancient fractured. Mutation as Adaption: evolution is trying to invent new organs for metaphysical changes, “magic”. The new species: Baselines, Awakened, Altered, Singulars. Peaceful Factions: The Riverkeepers, The Hearthbound, The Ferrymen, The Archivists. Dangerous Factions: The Dams, The Bleached, The Pelagic.