The earth had given up its soul, ripped out from years of abuse and war strife. The sun had burned up most of the living organisms in a series of increasingly frequent fiery storms. Surviving human tribes abandoned cities and fractured urban areas to resettle below the surface, away from the elements to form a new society. The Don Family led the way, forming clans of the remaining people and commanded the majority of the underworld masses serve the Brights, the ruling elite. A few months later, the child was born in the soot, to the city of Tar. There was prophesy of a corrupted teen was an impostor, so tall, he was reminiscent of a god. They called him the people's vengeance, because he encountered and defeated slayers in darkness but brought forth light.