The Ferals

In an ancient past, two centuries gone, the human population has been absolutely decimated by a virulent, engineered plague that destroyed all but 1 in ten-thousand inhabitants of Earth, leaving a worldwide population of only 775,000 people populating the globe.

The plague's first burn through the population wasn't the end of the destruction, though. Mutations of the virus, recreating itself as quickly as the scientists of the First Generation tried to protect the human race, continued to rage, slamming through populations where more than 500 people gathered, whether cities or groups of refugees. Every few months, a new variant would burn through larger towns and mass migration groups, keeping the population at barely functional levels.

Few of those groups of five hundred or more humans remain, but RECON virus has changed as well, and regularly moves through even the small towns of one or two hundred people, wiping the population off the face of the earth in a matter of days.

The scientists never found a treatment, or a cure.

This is their story. It is the story of a group of survivors who should, statistically, never have managed to survive at all.

Shaped from overwhelming loss and mistreatment, the Ferals rose from the abandoned, abused, and misplaced orphans who survived the disease. The first Ferals found and sheltered others like themselves, used talents that the old civilization neither understood nor respected to become more than they were, and somehow found a way not to die of plague, starvation, RECON variants, or the depredations of adult survivors determined to either own them or kill them.

From this crucible, a culture like no other is forged, out of the fires of hardship, necessity, and myth, and the magics of evolutionary psionics.

Tempered by a child's innocent need to care for those around them, and the law, ritual, and cameraderie that is the best of humanity, and tested by the worst of humanity's selfishness, greed, and fear, The Ferals, who name themselves Enfolded, become more than simple humans, and rise from the ashes of destruction into a new force, complex and fascinating, in a world that has never before seen their like.