History
Before the present events of Eden, the world was unrecognizable — scarred by the aftermath of the Third World War. Nations collapsed beneath the weight of their own weapons and brought about a famine that ravaged the world. With time, alliances were made and new nations were born.
The Great Famine
World War Three
World War III began as a conflict between rival superpowers in 2046, but quickly escalated into a full-scale global confrontation. Tensions over dwindling resources, territorial disputes, and ideological divides (human and Hydra civil rights) spiraled into open warfare. In its later stages, desperation and mistrust drove several nations to deploy nuclear weapons, shattering the balance of deterrence. Major population centers were obliterated in minutes, governments decapitated, and vital infrastructure reduced to radioactive ruins. The chain reaction of strikes left vast swaths of the Earth uninhabitable, while electromagnetic pulses crippled global communications and power grids. Nuclear fallout triggered a prolonged ‘nuclear winter’, plunging global temperatures and destroying crop cycles. The Great Famine started. Once-mighty nations collapsed under the weight of famine, disease, and mass displacement, fragmenting into isolated city-states and ungoverned territories.
The Great Famine
In the aftermath of World War III, the world descended into a catastrophic famine remembered as The Great Famine. The war had scorched vast farmlands, poisoned water sources with chemical weapons, and crippled global trade routes. Entire breadbasket regions, once the lifeline of the world’s food supply, lay in ruins. The war’s end brought no peace to the starving. Governments had collapsed, agricultural infrastructure was obliterated, and erratic weather patterns, worsened by wartime atmospheric damage, caused crops to fail season after season. The famine claimed nearly one-fifth of the global population before fragile recovery began, leaving a scar on civilization.
Western Europe
Both World War III and the Great Famine caused a major shift in terriorities in Western Europe. Many governments failed to recover and crumbled. As time passed, the division of land started to change. Some recuperated and established formal order while others continue to struggle.
