Centuries after a cataclysm remembered only through allegory and metaphor the post-apocalyptic has segued into the dystopian. Two survivors, part of an enclosed community that has been insulated from the world since before The Fall, emerge from their secure home to discover the descendants of those left behind and the civilisations they have created. Exploring a land of cunning traders, brutal slavers, religious fanatics and faded wonders peopled by those twisted in mind as well as in body they learn as much about what they have lost as what they have gained, unearthing the miracles of the past as well as its horrors.