A good resource for the kind of world that Lonesome Travels is set in is the anime flick, Vampire Hunter D. If
you haven’t seen the movie, or know nothing about it, I recommend going to
www.anipike.com
And doing some major
research for yourself. Any anime fan should have seen Vampire Hunter D.
But still, here's my little synopsis. Vampire Hunter D is set in the post-apocalyptic future
of 12,090 AD, where the Earth has been devastated by nuclear war that occurred in 1999.
Mankind was forced to retreat into underground shelters, where they remained for
thousands of years. And when they emerged, they found a world much changed. Creatures of legend and
myth; vampires, werewolves, demons, had emerged from the shadows, and had set up a rule over mankind.
Now, vampires rule as the highest social class, the Aristocrats, or Aristos for short, and
wield their power over mankind in technologically advanced forms of feudalistic rule.
HOWEVER, we aren't playing a Vampire Hunter D rpg, now are we?
Lonesome Travels is set in a slightly similar world to Vampire Hunter D, however,
it is a much different world.
In the year 3467, mankind enacted World War III, devastating their world to the brink of making
themselves a nearly-extinct species. This time, known as the Catachysm, was almost the end
of humanity, and the end of life as we currently know it.
Several thousand years later, they returned to the light, to the surface world, and found
that vampires had overtaken their world, and ordered about creatures of darkness at their
whim. Mankind was forced to bow in submission.
But there were some that would not bow down, some that had a fire in their souls that would
not be extinguished. It was these men and women who returned to the ancient ways of
vampire hunting, demon hunting. These ones would become the Lord Masters, the founders of
the hunter class, and the primogens of each classification of hunter.
The current year is 10,184 AC (After Catachysm, all records of how time was annotated before the
Catachysm has been lost), and the vampires have begun losing some of their power over mankind.
Humans rule the day, vampires rule the night and hunters stalk both light and shadow. From the
darkest streets of the militaristic Citadel to the furthest outer reaches of the Blasted Lands,
to the crystalline spires of Illumina, hunters exist.
However, life for these warriors is not an easy one…
