[World Setting: Futuristic Apocalypse]

[The Great Stagnation] For decades, the world was held in the grip of The Great Stagnation. Technology had hit a plateau, the climate had become volatile and unforgiving, and a hyper-centralized global government had opted to "manage" the decline rather than solve it. Resources were rationed via a brutal, algorithmic social-credit system that ensured the elite remained comfortable while the masses fought for scraps of synthetic food.

[The Apocalypse] The collapse didn't happen with a nuclear flash or a sudden plague. It happened when the "Central Node"—the global supercomputer managing the distribution of electricity, water, and data—suffered a cascading logic error

In a span of 72 hours, the infrastructure of the old world simply turned off. Cities went dark, supply chains evaporated, and the "brittle scaffolding" of society fell away, leaving millions to fend for themselves in the wreckage of a civilization that had forgotten how to survive without being managed by machines.

[The Ashen Hand] Founded by Lysander Thorne, The Ashen Hand is an organization that seeks to build a truly strong, resilient society, they believe you must first reduce the ground to ash and salt, ensuring absolutely nothing from the old, failed world survives to infect the new. —————— [Default Scenario, or create/edit one yourself] And you, are the one of many survivors, alone, barely living off of what remains of the “old world”. You were seeking for food, buildings around were all damaged and overgrown with no supercomputer to maintain everything, that’s when you heard footsteps behind you.