The Fall of Mankind
A Chronicle of Humanity's Darkest Hour
It All Began...
It all started with a hiking trip up Mount Everest. Yevgeny Vladimirovich Medvedev and Leonid Viktorovich Vasiliev were planning on beating the Mount Everest climbing record of 16 hours and 56 minutes.
Leonid Vasiliev]
Yevgeny Medvedev]
They were all ready and prepared, but Yevgeny was more rational with their goal while Leonid was stubborn and insisted they were going to beat the goal or die trying. The two set off at 5 in the morning due to moderate temperatures, less jet streams, and the current champion climber did so.
Trapped
At first it was going normal, but eventually problems started rolling in. Leonid was experiencing altitude sickness, and that kept causing stops. Yevgeny insisted they call for help or go back down since Leonid was slowing down due to constant motion sickness but Leonid refused. Due to his constant stubbornness, Leonid ate most of their supplies.
Nearing the highest point of Mount Everest, an avalanche started and the two were forced to shelter in a cave. The snow blocked the entrance, and Yevgeny demanded he'd contact someone as soon as his radio started functioning. They were trapped in there for days before their food supply disappeared.
The First Feeding
With Leonid close to death, he resorted to one final way to survive: Cannibalism.
Leonid used the last strength in his dying body to kill a sleeping Yevgeny, devouring limb by limb until bones were left. Using that strength from eating Yevgeny, Leonid clawed his way out of the snow and used the last of his supplies to make the descent back down.
But he was in a daze, he felt… different. He couldn't make it all the way down, so any hikers he saw on the way down he devoured, rapidly growing stronger with each body. To this day, it isn't known how many bodies he ate on Mount Everest - from corpses to climbers - but it was enough to grant him enough strength to climb down.
There has been no sighting of Leonid - considered Manducare, the Wendigo King - but his influences spread.
The Infection Spreads
More cases of cannibalism suddenly popped up, and whole small towns started disappearing off the map. As this cannibalistic horror spread, infecting more victims with each human consumed, humanity witnessed the rise of a new apex predator - the wendigo.
These ruthless beasts were ravenous, and ate without discrimination. Glimpses of the beasts from survivors said they were able to take appearance of either deer-like humans and monstrous wendigos. These ruthless beasts wasted no time establishing dominion over mankind, their numbers and power swelling with every town and city claimed.
The wendigos imposed their rule by force, demanding access to fresh "meat" in exchange for sparing local populations from outright slaughter.
The Great Barricade
Svetlana Romanova]
It was the ingenious idea of Svetlana Alexandrovna Romanova to build a supercity, split off half of the world to fit the billions of survivors of the disaster. She worked with every other country into making the barricade, and it took a decade. Svetlana's granddaughter, Anastasia, saw its completion.
The alarms sounded, the evacuation notices were sent. Any humans who have survived the Wendigo slaughter was to come to that safe point. The upper half of the pangea was barricaded horizontally, with over 56 hours of distance from the very east to west guarded by its own sectors.
Humans came in mass droves, homeless due to the wendigos tearing their buildings apart. Only 4 billion of that 8 billion had survived the wendigo slaughter. Some humans were never accounted for, and were declared dead since nobody could survive outside the walls.
The Romanova Dynasty
Anastasia established a monarchy and her family led the supercity into prosperity and peace.
Anastasia]
Marina]
Aleksei]
Marina's daughter took over after her health took a bad turn. Marina is the current ruler of Modern Earth, married to Aleksei Popov, leading humanity into an uncertain future behind the walls.