Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?
Seven generations after the collapse of The Comfort Age, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization's remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains.
Niwa, a gifted and introverted young empath-scholar, is called to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace and save her people.
She and her fellow travelers draw upon their nature-based survival skills, varying levels of control over psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts as they traverse a depopulated but healing landscape. They encounter diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of "New New Orleans", and the Rocky Mountains.
As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa's mission becomes about more than saving her people from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving in civilization's aftermath, with surprising twists.
Look for the light coming through the cracks of this crumbling empire