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The sky is cloudless today, and the morning sun is beginning its journey up into the sky. The people of the village meanwhile are just waking up, a few stepping out of their homes, blinking a little at the morning light before they begin to go about their jobs for the day. The season is spring, and the crops must be sown. On the whole, it looks to be a good day.

They do not know of the vibrancy that nature used to contain so many centuries ago. They do not know of whales, nor elephants, nor even horses. They do not know of all the trees, the plants, everything that made nature so unique, so beautiful. They know none of this, only the world they live in.

They do not know of the wonders that humanity once had. They do not know of the computer and its electrical brain, the car and its wide use, the gun and the death it caused. They do not know of the dreams man once had, of utopia, of the stars, of singularity. They know none of this, only their own, simple society.

To us, this is a dark age. An age where all humanity's former accomplishments have led to nothing, an age where the biosphere has lost almost all the beauty it once had, an age where life is reduced to that of millennia ago.

But as far as these people are concerned, life is good.

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350 years after The Fall, and nature has come back to reclaim the lands left barren by the first decades of the Dark Centuries. To say it is less diverse is an understatement. In every order, every genus, countless kinds of beast and plant died out, never to be seen again. It will take millions of years for nature to regenerate its former diversity, but in the meantime, it still lives on.

More important in the historical record though is the redevelopment of agriculture and early societies. In a way this never truly disappeared, for even in the worst days of the initial period after The Fall, a few bastions remained here and there. Now though, as the climate finally becomes stable and habitable again (Indeed being set to warm to an even greater degree in the years to come, the after-effects of the Industrial Age still exerting themselves strongly on the atmosphere), proper chains of settlements and villages are popping up. To be sure they are small, rarely numbering more than a few hundred people. To be sure they are primitive, their clothes crudely woven out of rat leather and plant fabric, their metal tools mined and reforged from the ruins of the great cities of old, even writing being forgotten amongst most of them. But it is a start.

The image above portrays a village of the Vull Culture, one of these early agricultural societies who first began to develop along the river Rhine Circa 300 years after The Fall. Characterised primarily by their partially sunken sod dwellings, most of the Vull sites discover so far seem to have numbered at an estimated 200 people or so, with villages consisting of two sections, one for habitation and one for the growing of food, as seen above. The main reason the Vull capture the interest of most scholars and archeologists of today is because they appear to have been amongst the first to encounter and engage in diplomacy with the mysterious Nephilim, if more recent discoveries are anything to go by...

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The sky is cloudless today, and the morning sun is beginning its journey up into the sky. The people of the village meanwhile are just waking up, a few stepping out of their homes, blinking a little at the morning light before they begin to go about their jobs for the day. The season is spring, and the crops must be sown. On the whole, it looks to be a good day.

They do not know of the vibrancy that nature used to contain so many centuries ago. They do not know of whales, nor elephants, nor even horses. They do not know of all the trees, the plants, everything that made nature so unique, so beautiful. They know none of this, only the world they live in.

They do not know of the wonders that humanity once had. They do not know of the computer and its electrical brain, the car and its wide use, the gun and the death it caused. They do not know of the dreams man once had, of utopia, of the stars, of singularity. They know none of this, only their own, simple society.

To us, this is a dark age. An age where all humanity's former accomplishments have led to nothing, an age where the biosphere has lost almost all the beauty it once had, an age where life is reduced to that of millennia ago.

But as far as these people are concerned, life is good.

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350 years after The Fall, and nature has come back to reclaim the lands left barren by the first decades of the Dark Centuries. To say it is less diverse is an understatement. In every order, every genus, countless kinds of beast and plant died out, never to be seen again. It will take millions of years for nature to regenerate its former diversity, but in the meantime, it still lives on.

More important in the historical record though is the redevelopment of agriculture and early societies. In a way this never truly disappeared, for even in the worst days of the initial period after The Fall, a few bastions remained here and there. Now though, as the climate finally becomes stable and habitable again (Indeed being set to warm to an even greater degree in the years to come, the after-effects of the Industrial Age still exerting themselves strongly on the atmosphere), proper chains of settlements and villages are popping up. To be sure they are small, rarely numbering more than a few hundred people. To be sure they are primitive, their clothes crudely woven out of rat leather and plant fabric, their metal tools mined and reforged from the ruins of the great cities of old, even writing being forgotten amongst most of them. But it is a start.

The image above portrays a village of the Vull Culture, one of these early agricultural societies who first began to develop along the river Rhine Circa 300 years after The Fall. Characterised primarily by their partially sunken sod dwellings, most of the Vull sites discover so far seem to have numbered at an estimated 200 people or so, with villages consisting of two sections, one for habitation and one for the growing of food, as seen above. The main reason the Vull capture the interest of most scholars and archeologists of today is because they appear to have been amongst the first to encounter and engage in diplomacy with the mysterious Nephilim, if more recent discoveries are anything to go by...

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