On an Earth that is very much like our own, the civilizations of ancient man have been crushed; thegiant glaciers that cover the northern part of the globe continue even nowmoving ever south; grinding the remains of the sky-touching cities of menbeneath them. This ice age created warfare between two mighty nations; and inthe midst of this mechanized slaughter, a virulent influenza plague ultimatelykilled most of the human population. Almost two thousand years later, some of the survivors have again gathered together in a few vastcity-states. In the wild lands between these megalopolises, the individualswho'd chosen not to return to the sprawl of the city-states, roam as the FreeTribes in the company of sabretooth cats, mammoths and dire wolves.
