The Ghost:Shards/Alas Babylon

This Shard in a Nutshell: The modern world is transposed into Creation from before the Primordial War, in fact before the creation of humans: BADLY. Millions of people died, some by drowning, some from collapsing buildings, and MANY from groups of 'Raiders'. Now the Exalted have come into existence and are trying to restore order, and get humanity ready for a war that everyone knows is coming but no one knows why or who it will be fought against, only that Sol En Victus says they must be ready when the time comes to fight it. What Legends will they Report of your deeds?

What has come before

A Breif history of the setting.

The Change Over

It started in the Year of Our Lord 2020. No one has ever been able to explain why, but over the course of 12 days the world unfolded from it's round shape to match the dimensions of the true maps:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection_SW.jpg

Then it Vanished.

Instead of the world everyone was used too we found ourselves here:

http://thor.divnull.com/pub/exalted/creation2.png

(Ignore the markings, this is strictly Geography.)

Every single person then alive came through the change over we think, though we will never be sure, as did most of the things we had built, anything that was not part of the the landscape or built into the ground came through, from cars to boats to airplanes and grain silos: But it came through in the same location relative to the new ground or sea levels... Millions drowned, millions more were crushed when the buildings that had come through collapsed without their foundations, and then the REAL trouble started.

The Years of Encroaching Darkness

You see, this world was not uninhabited. Three main types of beings lived here already, the Jade Born, the Dragon Kings, and the Gods and Elementals. Two of the three of these groups at first were incredibly hostile to our presence, and killed many thousands of the survivors, but during this time it was we ourselves who were our own worst enemies.

The Dragon Kings

The Dragon Kings are great saurian beings divided into four races each composed of exactly forty million members. They reincarnate in an endless cycle of life and death and rebirth and in a sense are effectively immortal. Unlike humans they do not forget the things they did in their past lives and so death for them is merely an inconvenience, not an end. They also had been the mandated lords of creation for over 5000 years of recorded history and while some few of them welcomed us as fellow travelers on the highways and byways of life MOST of them saw us as uncouth interlopers into their territory and attacked us ruthlessly.