Denver Beck

1. #1Godfall

   Keys: Godfall, Godfalls, Godfall event, fallen god, Godfall events

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   Godfall: The term used for the catastrophic arrival of one of the enormous dead gods that have fallen onto Earth. By 2046, nine Godfalls have occurred. Each fallen god is a colossal physical corpse rather than an abstract supernatural event, and its remains can permanently transform the region around it. Their bodies poison or alter landscapes, disrupt existing ecosystems, create new corpse ecologies, and produce biological and supernatural phenomena that humanity does not fully understand. Creatures, parasites, valuable materials, anomalous substances, and other hazards may develop within or around a dead god.

   The damage caused by the Godfalls is cumulative. Humanity survived the first on a global scale, but every subsequent fall compounded ecological collapse, climate disruption, infrastructure failure, displacement, conflict, and population loss. By 2046, Earth remains inhabited but is in dire condition, with much of the surviving population concentrated in heavily defended cities and scattered settlements beyond their protection.

   A Godfall refers specifically to the arrival of a dead god and the resulting catastrophe. Individual fallen gods can differ enormously in anatomy, environmental effects, hazards, and the ecosystems that form around their remains.

2. #2Earth, 2046

   Keys: Earth in 2046, Earth, 2046, post-Godfall Earth, post-Godfall world, after the Godfalls, state of the world

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   Earth, 2046:

   Earth is still inhabited twenty years after the beginning of the Godfall era, but the planet is in dire condition. Nine dead gods have fallen since 2026, and the damage caused by each Godfall has compounded what came before it. The first was survivable on a global scale. The later falls struck a civilization already weakened by previous disasters, producing cascading ecological, climatic, psychological, infrastructural, economic, and population losses.

   Humanity has not gone extinct, nor has civilization disappeared entirely. Governments, militaries, cities, industry, communications, trade, and organized communities still exist, but they are diminished, fragmented, and increasingly concentrated in defensible regions. Enormous areas of the planet have become dangerous, abandoned, environmentally altered, or difficult to reach. Some regions have been transformed directly by fallen gods and their corpse ecologies, while others have deteriorated through climate disruption, migration, famine, infrastructure collapse, conflict, or simple neglect.

   The global human population is far below the roughly eight billion people alive in 2026. The exact surviving population has not been established. Population loss has been uneven, with some regions suffering near-total collapse while others retain major concentrations of survivors.

   The surviving governments have consolidated much of their remaining military strength, infrastructure, personnel, and resources around a small number of heavily protected population centers. Each continent has only one or two true megacities remaining, although smaller walled metropolises and defended cities also survive. Massive defensive walls were constructed hurriedly around many of these population centers. Government protection is overwhelmingly concentrated inside them, leaving towns and settlements beyond the walls largely responsible for their own survival.

   Human communities still exist outside the protected cities. These range from established settlements and trade communities to isolated homesteads, scavenger camps, temporary enclaves, and settlements built near or within the altered environments surrounding dead gods. Life beyond government protection is substantially more dangerous and less predictable.

   Long-distance and international communication still exists in 2046, but it is unreliable. Connections may be intermittent, delayed, distorted, or lost entirely depending on infrastructure, distance, local conditions, and Godfall-related interference. Earth remains globally connected enough that distant governments and populations know of one another, but it is no longer the continuously connected world that existed before the Godfalls.

   The world of 2046 should not be treated as a uniformly empty wasteland. It is a damaged, uneven patchwork of surviving civilization, abandoned territory, defended cities, isolated communities, altered ecosystems, corpse landscapes, and regions where humanity has little remaining control.

3. #3Dead Gods

   Keys: dead god, dead gods, fallen god, fallen gods, god corpse, god corpses, divine corpse, divine corpses, corpse of a god

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   Dead Gods:

   The entities responsible for the Godfall catastrophes are enormous humanoid or otherwise anatomically recognizable beings whose dead bodies physically fall onto Earth. Humanity commonly refers to them as dead gods or fallen gods. Whether they are literally divine beings, extraterrestrial organisms, supernatural entities, or something else remains unknown.

   A fallen god is a physical corpse rather than a temporary manifestation. Its body remains where it lands and may persist for decades, becoming part of the surrounding geography. These corpses can be vast enough to contain navigable internal spaces and support entire ecosystems within or around their remains.

   Dead gods are not uniform. Their anatomy, scale, composition, environmental effects, hazards, and the organisms associated with them can differ dramatically from one corpse to another. A phenomenon observed around one fallen god should not automatically be assumed to occur around another.

   Their bodies do not behave like ordinary biological remains. Flesh, bone, organs, fluids, and other tissues may persist far longer than expected, transform surrounding environments, produce anomalous substances, contaminate soil or water, alter local weather or ecology, and support organisms that did not exist before the Godfall era. Some remains may also contain materials or structures valuable enough that humans deliberately enter or harvest the corpses despite the danger.

   The death of a god does not necessarily mean that every part of its body is inert. Organs, tissues, fluids, nervous structures, parasites, and other biological systems may continue functioning or behaving in ways that resemble life. Signs of movement, warmth, circulation, growth, electrical activity, or other biological processes do not automatically mean that the god itself is alive.

   Human knowledge of the dead gods remains incomplete. Researchers, governments, scavengers, delvers, settlements, and religious groups may interpret the corpses differently, and many claims about their origins or nature remain theories rather than established fact.

   Nine dead gods have fallen by 2046. Each has contributed to the continuing transformation and deterioration of Earth, but each corpse should be treated as its own distinct environment rather than as a copy of the others.

4. #4Megacities

   Keys: megacity, megacities, mega-city, mega-cities, walled megacity, walled megacities, megacity walls

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   Megacities:

   By 2046, surviving governments have concentrated much of their remaining population, military strength, infrastructure, personnel, supplies, and strategic resources into a small number of heavily defended megacities.

   These cities are not simply large urban centers. They are fortified population strongholds intended to preserve functioning government and civilization in a world where national authorities can no longer reliably protect all of their former territory. Massive defensive walls were constructed around many of them, often hurriedly and under crisis conditions as the Godfalls continued to weaken the world.

   Each continent has only one or two true megacities remaining, although smaller walled metropolises and fortified cities also survive. The exact surviving megacities and their populations have not yet been established.

   Government protection is overwhelmingly concentrated within these defended population centers. Military forces, medicine, food distribution, communications infrastructure, industry, power generation, and other critical systems are maintained more reliably inside the walls than beyond them.

   Life inside a megacity is comparatively secure, but it is not a return to the pre-Godfall world. Resources remain strained, infrastructure may be patched together or heavily rationed, and the enormous concentration of survivors places continual pressure on housing, food, medicine, security, and government institutions.

   The walls also represent a political boundary. Communities outside them cannot assume that government forces will come to their aid. Settlements, towns, travelers, and isolated populations beyond megacity protection are largely expected to survive on their own unless they possess something strategically valuable enough to justify intervention.

   Megacities should therefore be portrayed as surviving islands of organized civilization rather than untouched safe zones. They preserve government, technology, industry, and large populations, but they exist within a planet that those governments no longer fully control.

5. #5The Godfall Era

   Keys: Godfall Era, Godfall chronology, Godfall timeline, history of the Godfalls, history of Godfall

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   The Godfall Era, 2026–2046:

   The Godfall Era began in 2026, when the first enormous dead god fell to Earth. Humanity numbered roughly eight billion people at the beginning of the era. The first Godfall was catastrophic but survivable on a global scale. What made the following twenty years devastating was accumulation: every subsequent Godfall struck a civilization already damaged by the ones before it.

   Nine Godfalls have occurred by 2046. Godfall Ten has not fallen.

   The known sequence of the Nine is:

   Godfall One fell in the Baltic region. Its presence produced black, acidic water and widespread environmental destruction.

   Godfall Two struck France. Its influence caused shared suicidal nightmares and compulsive psychological attachment among affected people.

   Godfall Three fell in the Sahara. It produced clean water in an increasingly damaged world, but the region became home to dangerous alien predators.

   Godfall Four fell in the Yukon. Its effects drove runaway glaciation and increasingly severe winters.

   Godfall Five struck the Amazon. Its corpse ecology produced uncontrolled and increasingly strange biological growth.

   Godfall Six fell in Australia. Its influence brought catastrophic desiccation. Much of the continent's remaining water became concentrated within or associated with the fallen god.

   Godfall Seven fell in Mongolia. Known as the Choir, its remains are associated with mouths and an unnatural, persistent one-note singing.

   Godfall Eight fell in the Pacific. Its presence causes severe gravity distortion.

   Godfall Nine fell in Northern Oregon. It spreads white, bone-like material that replaces or entombs the natural landscape, including forests, buildings, roads, and people.

   The Nine did not simply cause nine isolated disasters. Their effects compounded one another. Ecological systems failed under repeated disruption. Climate patterns worsened. Infrastructure and supply networks became harder to maintain. Displacement, famine, conflict, psychological trauma, contaminated territory, corpse ecologies, and the loss of habitable land progressively reduced humanity's ability to recover before the next Godfall occurred.

   By 2046, the Godfall Era has become a twenty-year period of cumulative collapse rather than a single apocalypse. Humanity survives, but every recovery has taken place under the possibility that another god may fall.

6. #6Godflesh Products

   Keys: godflesh, godflesh products, processed godflesh

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   The corpses of the fallen gods are valuable resources as well as catastrophic hazards. Materials harvested from their bodies can be processed, refined, sold, or used by surviving human communities. Collectively, goods made from or dependent upon these harvested divine remains are commonly treated as godflesh products.

   Professional Delvers enter fallen gods and other contaminated corpse environments to recover usable material. Known sources include divine bone, nerve, marrow, teeth, ichor, organs, skin and other tissue, as well as stranger materials and relics found within the corpses. Harvesting remains dangerous even years after a Godfall because dead tissue can shift, vessels can rupture, chambers can collapse, and apparently inactive anatomy may unexpectedly become active again. And, simply, the Gods do not decay as humans do.

   God-material is not necessarily useful in the state in which it is harvested. Raw material may be transported out of the corpse and processed through refineries or other specialized facilities before it becomes usable. This creates an industry around extraction as well as processing. Delvers may work for shares of what they recover, with the value of a haul depending heavily upon what was found and what survives processing.

   The properties and uses of god-material depend upon its source. A useful substance recovered from one fallen god should not automatically be assumed to exist in another. The Nine differ significantly in anatomy, composition, and anomalous effects, and the materials taken from their bodies can therefore have very different properties.

   Godflesh products are therefore part of the practical economy of the Godfall Era. Humanity does not enter the corpses only to study them, but rather people descend into dead gods because their remains can contain materials capable of keeping settlements functioning, making fortunes, or accomplishing things that ordinary pre-Godfall technology and medicine cannot.

7. #7Corpse Ecologies

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   A corpse ecology is the biological and environmental system that develops within, upon, and around the remains of a fallen god. Dead gods do not simply decay like enormous ordinary animals. Their bodies create new habitats and introduce conditions capable of supporting forms of life and ecological relationships that did not exist before the Godfall Era.

   Corpse ecologies can include parasites, scavengers, predators, carrion-feeders, altered vegetation, unusual microbial or fungal growth, and other organisms adapted to living from the body or the environment it has created. Some live directly within divine tissue or anatomical cavities, while others occupy contaminated ground and surrounding territory.

   These ecosystems are not uniform. Each fallen god has its own anatomy, substances, anomalous effects, and environmental influence, and its corpse ecology develops accordingly. A species or ecological phenomenon common around one god should not automatically appear around another.

   The boundary of a corpse ecology is not necessarily limited to the physical body of the god. Its influence may extend into surrounding soil, water, vegetation, ruins, abandoned settlements, and other environments affected by the corpse. The farther an ecology spreads from its source, the more it may intermingle with surviving terrestrial life and human habitation.

   Corpse ecologies can remain active long after the original Godfall. Humans therefore treat fallen gods not only as enormous corpses but as living environments with their own food chains, hazards, resources, and patterns of behavior. The oldest Godfall is a well established ecosystem after twenty years of existence.

   Human understanding of these ecosystems remains incomplete. Delvers, researchers, settlements, and others who live near Godfall sites may learn local patterns well enough to survive them, but knowledge gained around one corpse cannot safely be treated as universal.

8. #8The Rot

   Keys: The Rot, Godfall Rot, Godfall's Rot, Rot effects, Rot

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   The Rot is the common term for the continuing transformation of the world caused by a fallen god after its Godfall. Every dead god produces a Rot, but there is no single universal form it takes. Each Rot reflects the nature of the god responsible for it and can affect biology, landscape, climate, water, gravity, perception, human psychology, or other aspects of the surrounding environment.

   The Rot is not ordinary decomposition, radiation, pollution, or disease, although individual forms of Rot may resemble any of these. It is an anomalous environmental influence originating from a fallen god and spreading beyond the corpse itself. Depending upon the Godfall, its effects may alter existing matter, create entirely new environmental conditions, transform living organisms, or make previously habitable territory increasingly dangerous.

   Different Rots should never be treated as interchangeable. Knowledge gained in the territory of one fallen god may be useless or actively dangerous around another. The hazards, useful resources, organisms, and survival rules associated with each Godfall must be learned separately.

   Known Rots vary dramatically. The Baltic Godfall produced black, acidic water and widespread environmental poisoning. The French Godfall affected the human mind through shared suicidal nightmares and compulsive psychological attachment. The Sahara Godfall brought clean water while supporting an increasingly dangerous alien ecology. The Yukon Godfall drove runaway glaciation and increasingly severe winter conditions. The Amazon Godfall caused uncontrolled biological growth. The Australian Godfall produced catastrophic desiccation. The Choir in Mongolia transformed its surroundings through mouths, throats, and persistent unnatural song. The Pacific Godfall distorts gravity. The White King in Northern Oregon spreads white, bone-like material through the surrounding landscape, engulfing or replacing forests, structures, roads, and people.

   The Rot can extend far beyond the physical boundaries of a divine corpse and may continue changing territory years after the original impact. Regions affected by it can therefore expand, intensify, or develop new hazards over time.

   Corpse ecologies often develop within Rot-affected environments, but the two terms are not synonymous. The Rot is the fallen god's anomalous transformation of its surroundings. A corpse ecology is the network of organisms and biological relationships that develops within or around those altered conditions.

   Humanity understands the effects of individual Rots far better than it understands their underlying cause. The existence of the Rot is established fact by 2046; why dead gods produce it, how it functions, and whether it has any purpose remain unknown.

9. #9Delvers

   Keys: Delver, Delvers, Delver crew, Delver crews, delving crews, delving crew

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   Delvers are people who enter the bodies of fallen gods to recover valuable materials from within them. They may work alone or in crews, traveling through divine anatomy and corpse environments that can extend deep beneath the surface. A run can last for days, requiring teams to carry their own supplies, equipment, and harvested material as they move.

   What comes back depends on the corpse. Ichor, skin, marrow, nerve, organs, anomalous metals, power cores, relics, and stranger substances may all be worth extracting, but both usefulness and value vary from one fallen god to another.

   The work is dangerous physical labor rather than ordinary scavenging. Routes can pass through veins, organs, cavities, ruptured tissue, and deeper anatomical regions that remain poorly understood. Flesh may shift or collapse, vessels can burst, passages can become impassable, and corpse ecologies introduce parasites, scavengers, and predators adapted to living inside the god.

   Survival depends heavily on local knowledge. Experienced crews learn the anatomy, hazards, Rot, and ecology of the corpse they regularly enter, but expertise does not transfer cleanly between Godfalls. A person who knows one dead god intimately may still be dangerously unprepared inside another.

   Equipment varies according to the environment and intended harvest. Common gear includes lamps, pressure sensors, reinforced carriers, sealed containers, cutting tools, preservation equipment, and other specialized devices designed to function inside divine remains.

   The profession supports a larger extraction economy. Material recovered from a successful run may be sold to refineries, settlements, hospitals, industry, governments, or private buyers. Compensation can depend on the value of what survives processing, and some crews work for a percentage or share of the final haul.

   A distinct occupational culture has developed around the work. Crew trust, route knowledge, hazard recognition, and experience matter as much as equipment because a single mistake can kill everyone involved. Older or retired members of the profession sometimes remain around Godfall sites in related work, including cleansing dangerous corpse organisms that wander into inhabited areas.

   An old delver is a good delver.

10. #10The Drowned Mother

    Keys: Godfall One, Godfall 1, The Drowned Mother, Drowned Mother

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    The Drowned Mother is Godfall One, a colossal godcorpse lying in the Baltic Sea. Its fall turned the surrounding water black and acidic, poisoning the Baltic and nearby land. The altered water moves against tides, forms slow spirals around the corpse, and sometimes leaves wet handprints on ships that never touched it. Fish develop human teeth and translucent organs, while shorelines grow slick black tissue and reeds develop cartilage at their roots. The Drowned Mother's ichor is highly poisonous and is not harvested. Surprisingly full of edible life, however.

    Major products include acid-resistant hide, cartilage reeds, and abyssal organs.

11. #11The Dreamer

    Keys: Dreamer, The Dreamer, Godfall Two, Godfall 2

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    The Dreamer is Godfall Two, a colossal godcorpse lying in France. Its presence causes contagious shared nightmares filled with the same figures, places, and impossible architecture. Strangers can wake knowing pieces of one another's childhood memories after encountering each other in dreams. Those affected become violently homesick for somewhere they have never physically visited and may sleepwalk toward it. The worst cases insist they are not dreaming at all, but remembering.

    Major products include dreamglass, memory fluid, cranial tissue, and sleep relics.

12. #12The Winter Saint

    Keys: The Winter Saint, Winter Saint, Godfall Four, Godfall 4

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    The Winter Saint is Godfall Four, a colossal godcorpse lying in the Yukon. Its presence caused runaway glacial expansion, catastrophic winters, and massive storm systems that repeatedly trace the same paths across Canada as though following circulatory routes. New ice forms in enormous ribs, spirals, arches, and shapes resembling frozen organs. Glaciers sometimes contain perfectly preserved animals, buildings, or human bodies older than the things trapped within them. In some regions, snowfall rises from the ground into the sky, and entire frozen valleys have shifted miles overnight without disturbing the land between them.

    Major products include god-ice, cold marrow, storm organs, and preserved tissue.

13. #13The Verdant Maw

    Keys: The Verdant Maw, Verdant Maw, Maw, Godfall Five, Godfall 5

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    The Maw is Godfall Five, a colossal godcorpse lying in the Amazon Basin. Its presence has driven the surrounding rainforest into violent biological confusion. The forest does not simply grow faster; it produces organisms and anatomy that should not exist. Trees develop lungs, vines pulse, flowers close around living animals without killing them, insects hatch with internal eye-like structures, and plants imitate nearby species badly enough to produce bark that sweats, leaf-shaped skin, or fruit containing tiny arrangements of bone. Paths cut through the growth can vanish within hours, replaced by vegetation that seems to have grown around the idea that people passed through.

    Major products include living fiber, regenerative flesh, seed-organs, and adaptive enzymes.

14. #14The Thirsting Void

    Keys: The Thirsting Void, Thirsting Void, Void, Godfall Six, Godfall 6

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    The Thirsting God is Godfall Six, a colossal godcorpse lying in Australia. Its presence causes extreme desiccation, slowly drawing moisture from the surrounding environment toward the corpse. Rivers have narrowed or vanished, soil turns to powder, crops fail, and living things caught too close can become dry husks without visibly decomposing. Huge underground reservoirs of stolen water have formed somewhere inside the corpse's void-like abdomen, and this is the only water left on the continent.

    Major products include reservoir water and 'fish', desiccant glands, moisture membranes, and preserved organs.

15. #15The Eternal Choir

    Keys: Choir, Eternal Choir, The Eternal Choir, The Choir, Godfall Seven, Godfall 7

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    The Choir is Godfall Seven, a colossal godcorpse lying in Mongolia. The corpse has no visible mouth, but everything around it gradually acquires one. Cracks in stone develop lips, trees form wet throats beneath their bark, livestock grow additional mouths, and buildings whisper through vents that lead nowhere. Over time, the entire affected region begins singing the same note. Nobody knows what will happen when the song is finished.

    They are biologically incompatible with humanity, you freaks.

    Major products include throat tissue, resonance bone, vocal membranes, and harmonic relics.

16. #16The Hanging God

    Keys: The Hanging God, Hanging God, Godfall 8, Godfall eight

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    The Hanging God is Godfall Eight, a colossal godcorpse lying in the Pacific Ocean. Its impact distorted gravity so severely that portions of coastline, islands, seawater, wreckage, and even sections of former cities remain suspended hundreds or thousands of feet above the ocean. Gravity becomes increasingly unpredictable closer to the corpse, making travel, settlement, and Delving extremely dangerous.

    Major products include gravity organs, weightless bone, anchor-stone, and gravitational relics.

17. #17-------Godfall Nine---------

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18. #18The White King

    Keys: White King, The White King, Godfall Nine, Godfall 9

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    The White King is Godfall Nine, a colossal godcorpse lying in Northern Oregon. His presence causes white growths to replace natural matter. Bark pales, bones turn ivory-white, soil develops thin layers of soft tissue, and rivers occasionally carry strands resembling hair. Entire towns were caught in the spread, their buildings, roads, vehicles, and inhabitants calcified beneath smooth bone-like growth. People remain where they were overtaken, transformed into white statues in kitchens, cars, streets, classrooms, and homes, preserving ordinary life at the moment of death. The farther inward one travels, the harder it becomes to tell where the White King ends and the surrounding landscape begins.

    Once someone drinks water produced by the Wellspring, the corpse and the things living within it become aware of them.

    Major products include white bone, godskin, marrow, ivory growth, deep tissue, and relics.

19. #19Rib

    Keys: Rib settlement, the settlement of Rib, Rib, Oregon

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    Rib is a permanent human settlement built within the upper chest of Godfall Nine, the White King, in Northern Oregon. Most of the settlement occupies a small portion of the corpse's sternum and surrounding upper chest, using the enormous divine anatomy itself as shelter and infrastructure.

    Approximately 6,000 people live in Rib. It is not merely a Delver camp or temporary extraction post. Families live there, children are born and raised there, and the settlement supports the ordinary services required by a permanent population, including butchers, doctors, teachers, traders, laborers, and other residents alongside the Delvers who enter deeper portions of the corpse.

    Rib exists largely because of the White King. Its economy depends heavily upon materials recovered from the corpse, particularly ichor, skin, marrow, and other usable godflesh. Delver crews travel from the settlement into the King's internal anatomy, returning with whatever material can be harvested, processed, traded, or sold.

    Compared with settlements established around richer Godfalls, Rib is poor. The White King does not provide the same abundance of valuable material found at some other corpses, and equipment is often limited, old, repaired, or reused. Delvers cannot assume that advanced sensors, specialized machinery, or replacement gear will always be available. It's proximity to The Winter Saint often means winters are brutal and ichor is required to survive them, the same ichor shipped to the megacities at great cost.

    Long-term exposure to the White King visibly affects some residents. People who spend years living inside Rib will gradually become unnaturally pale or bleached as the King's influence leaches color from them. Children born and raised within the corpse sometimes develop unusual physical traits, although these changes are inconsistent and not fully understood.

    Despite its location, Rib is a functioning community rather than a nest of desperate scavengers. People work, raise families, maintain relationships, trade, argue, celebrate, and build lives inside the corpse. Life there is harsher and poorer than life within the protected megacities, but Rib has existed long enough to develop its own routines, local knowledge, and sense of permanence.

    "We climb so others don't fall."

20. #20Delving

    Keys: Delver, Delving, Delvers, delving

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    Delvers are people who enter the bodies of fallen gods to recover valuable materials from within them. They work alone or in crews, traveling through divine anatomy and corpse environments that can extend deep beneath the surface. A run may keep a crew inside a god for days at a time.

    Delvers recover ichor, skin, marrow, tissue, anomalous metals, power cores, relics, and other valuable materials depending on the Godfall. The work is dangerous physical labor involving unstable anatomy, ruptured vessels, collapsing tissue, parasites, predators, and other hazards unique to each corpse.

    Civilization depends heavily on what Delvers recover, but Delvers are widely stigmatized by people living in protected cities. They are treated as necessary filth, the sin-eaters of the post-Godfall world.

21. #21Glasswing

    Keys: Glasswing, Glasswings, moth, moths

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    Classification: Godfall Nine (9) insect Threat Level: Harmless Typical Habitat: Damp god-tissue, vascular chambers, inhabited sections of Rib, passages with access to surface airflow

    Pale moth-like insects with nearly transparent wings that breed in damp god-tissue and feed on necrotic flesh during their larval stage. Glasswings are considered useful by Delvers because adults reliably return toward the surface and fresh air. In confusing or damaged sections of the White King, crews sometimes watch which direction Glasswings travel to help locate ventilation shafts, open passages, or a route back upward.

    Rib propagates them to help handle surface trash. Children tend to collect them in jars due to their soft bioluminescence.

22. #22Bellblossom

    Keys: Bellblossom, Bellblossoms, bell flower, bell flowers

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    Classification: Godfall Nine (9) sessile organism Threat Level: Harmless Typical Habitat: Damp interior walls, vascular chambers, rib cavities, abandoned passages

    Pale, flower-like organisms that grow from the White King's inner walls, especially along damp chambers and old vascular passages. Their translucent petals slowly open in response to vibration and airflow, producing soft, resonant notes as air moves through the hollow structures beneath them. Large patches can turn an otherwise silent passage into a faint, chiming chorus. Bellblossoms are harmless and are often considered one of the few genuinely beautiful things growing inside the corpse. Useful, even, as they warn of nearby predators.

    Bringing an especially pretty home to a partner has become a Rib tradition.

23. #23Ichor Tick

    Keys: Ichor Tick, Ichor Ticks

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    Classification: Godfall Nine (9) parasite Threat Level: Low Typical Habitat: Active vessels, ichor pockets, damaged organs, contaminated carrion

    Melon-sized armored parasites that attach directly to active deep vessels. They are incredibly valuable because their swollen abdomens contain concentrated ichor. They are also territorial and tend to occur in nests. Rarely attack humans.

24. #24Marrow Hound

    Keys: marrow hound, marrowhound, marrow hounds, marrowhounds

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    Classification: Godfall Nine (9) altered predator Threat Level: Moderate Typical Habitat: Rib cavities, sternum tunnels, marrow chambers, deep interior passages.

    Large, hairless predators found in cavities beneath the White King's ribs and sternum. Marrow Hounds are probably descended from dogs or coyotes, but generations inside the corpse have left them almost entirely white, with elongated limbs, pale eyes, and an extremely sensitive sense of smell. They are drawn to blood and ichor and will stalk injured Delvers for long distances, often remaining just beyond the light until their target becomes isolated or weak enough to attack.

    Humans consider themselves endurance predators. Marrow Hounds prove we have a long way to go.

25. #25Saint

    Keys: Saints, Saint

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    Classification: Deep Godfall Nine (9) humanoid parasitical infection Threat Level: High Typical Habitat: Deep ichor channels, major vascular junctions, poorly explored interior regions

    Extremely rare humanoid parasites found near the White King’s deepest ichor channels. Thin, white, eyeless, and almost perfectly motionless, they remain pressed against the walls until they sense body heat, then rush anything living and cling to it with startling strength. Fine feeding filaments emerge from their mouths and fingers, burrowing into flesh to draw blood while introducing traces of ichor into the victim. Delvers call them Saints because bodies taken by them are sometimes found days later fused upright into the walls, pale and rigid, as though standing in prayer.

    Nobody knows whether Saints are native parasites, growths produced by the King, or what eventually happens to people who never come back up. But some look too familiar for comfort.

26. #26The Gullet

    Keys: The Gullet, Gullet

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    Classification: Deep Godfall Nine (9) apex predator Threat Level: Run. Pray. (Run, prey) Typical Habitat: Deep vascular systems, major ichor channels, organ cavities below mapped Delver territory

    Enormous, pale deep-corpse predators that rise through major vessels and organ cavities to feed on other Godfall creatures. Their boneless bodies can squeeze through impossibly narrow passages, and their four-part jaws unfold wide enough to swallow engorged Ichor Ticks whole. Everything else in the corpse ecology flees before them. Delvers know one is coming when entire organs turn into graveyards.

27. #27-------Godfall Three---------

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28. #28The Wellspring

    Keys: The Wellspring, Wellspring, Godfall Three, Godfall 3

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    The Wellspring is Godfall Three, a colossal godcorpse lying in the Sahara. Its body produces immense quantities of clean, safe drinking water despite no understood biological mechanism capable of sustaining that output. Anything that drinks the water becomes detectable to the ecosystem inside and around the corpse. Predators can track those who have consumed it days or weeks later, plants turn toward them, and burrowing creatures may follow beneath the sand.

    Her humanoid appearance has led to more questions than answers, as well as a religious following. Lalla Tala, as she is known in the local tongue, is life and death to the town of Ighrem.

    Major products include divine water, aquatic consumables, predator exports, and water-bearing organs.

29. #29Ighrem

    Keys: Ighrem, Wellspring Settlement, Ighrem, Sahara, the settlement of Ighrem, Ighrem settlement, Sahara settlement

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    Ighrem is the largest permanent settlement surrounding Godfall Three, the Wellspring, in the Sahara. It is safer to live beside the corpse rather than inside of her, with the town spreading along the rivers, wetlands, and oasis created by her water.

    The settlement began as a cluster of research stations established soon after the Wellspring fell in 2027. As the surrounding region changed, caravans began using the stations for water, supplies, repairs, and shelter. Markets followed, then families, permanent housing, defenses, and eventually a much larger city.

    By 2046, Ighrem is significantly larger than the newer Godfall settlements and serves as one of Africa's major trade hubs.

    The original research mission is long over. Most of the researchers are dead, gone, or have settled into ordinary local work, and many former laboratories now serve as clinics, workshops, warehouses, businesses, or even homes.

    Ighrem developed in Amazigh territory, but nearly twenty years of migration and trade have made its population highly mixed. Delvers, merchants, mechanics, guards, farmers, caravan crews, laborers, and families from across Africa live and work there.

    The Wellspring makes Ighrem possible, but the people living there understand what she is, Lalla Tala. Her water supports the city, her corpse supports its Delvers, and her wetlands support things that would happily eat both.

    "Nothing crosses alone."

30. #30Throat gnats

    Keys: Throat gnats, Throat gnat, gnat infestation, Wellspring gnats

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) nuisance parasite Threat Level: Low Typical Habitat: Stagnant pools, wet vascular chambers, runoff channels, abandoned camps

    Throat Gnats are tiny translucent insects found throughout the Wellspring's wettest regions. They are attracted to exhaled moisture and gather around the mouth, nose, eyes, and ears, where they feed on mucus and other bodily fluids. Large swarms may crawl into the respiratory passages and lay eggs in warm tissue. Most infestations are survivable if treated quickly, but heavy exposure can obstruct breathing or lead to larvae emerging from the throat, nostrils, or tear ducts several days later.

    A mesh mask is required in Delver gear.

31. #31Cupworm

    Keys: Cupworm, Cupworms, cup worm, cup worms, Wellspring worm

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) nuisance parasite Threat Level: Low Typical Habitat: Shallow pools, drinking basins, exposed vascular water, slow runoff channels

    Cupworms are palm-length translucent flatworms that lie nearly invisible at the bottoms of shallow pools and drinking basins throughout the Wellspring. When a person or animal lowers its face to drink, the worm launches itself toward the mouth and attaches to the tongue, gums, throat, or esophagus. Its bite releases an anesthetic secretion, allowing it to feed on blood without immediately being noticed. Victims may not realize one has attached until they feel movement while swallowing or breathing becomes difficult due to the worm's growth.

    Experienced Delvers never drink directly from open Wellspring water. The water must be physically filtered and boiled.

32. #32Reed men

    Keys: Reed Man, Reed Men, reedmen, reedman, Wellspring reeds

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) mid-level ambush predator Threat Level: Moderate Typical Habitat: Pale reed beds, riverbanks, shallow waterways, dense oasis vegetation

    Reed Men are tall, extremely thin predators that hide among the pale reed beds growing throughout the Wellspring, her rivers, and the oasis beyond. Their bodies are covered in flexible stalk-like growths that let them disappear almost completely when standing still.

    They hunt by waiting beside trails, shallow water, and dense vegetation until prey comes within reach. Their arms can unfold to nearly twice their standing height and end in clusters of hooked digits strong enough to drag children, animals, seniors, injured people, and unhealthy adults into cover. Healthy adults are generally considered safe due to their weight.

    Reed Men do not usually kill immediately. They puncture the abdomen and insert a fibrous feeding organ that slowly drains blood and intestinal fluid while the victim remains pinned inside the reeds.

    Delvers sometimes find empty clothing hanging upright among the stalks. It really makes you miss mosquitos.

33. #33Siltbacks

    Keys: Siltbacks, Siltback, silt back, silt backs, Wellspring siltback

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) mid-level ambush predator Threat Level: Meh Typical Habitat: Shallow pools, muddy riverbeds, flooded tissue flats, oasis waterways.

    Broad, flat-bodied predators that bury themselves beneath mud and shallow water until almost nothing is visible. When stepped on, a Siltback folds upward around the victim's leg and locks on with hundreds of short, backward-facing teeth. Anyone caught alone in deeper water are at serious risk of being held under. Delvers are encouraged to use sticks to probe their path when fording waterways.

    Old Siltbacks sometimes carry scraps of clothing, hair, jewelry, and bone embedded in the scar tissue along their undersides. Problem is? An old siltback is a successful siltback.

34. #34Floodmouths

    Keys: Floodmouth, Floodmouths, flood mouth

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) high-level ambush predator Threat Level: Moderate Typical Habitat: Major reservoir walls, flooded vascular junctions, rupture cavities, deep internal waterways.

    Floodmouths grow almost completely flush with the Wellspring's inner tissue, resembling nothing more than broad patches of scarred flesh until prey comes close. Their bodies peel open into enormous muscular throats that create a sudden inward current, powerful enough to rip a standing Delver off their feet and drag them into a digestive chamber buried behind the wall. Tethers, solid footing, and a fast crew can save someone before they disappear inside.

    If the wall opens its mouth, somebody is already too close.

35. #35Vein Rakers

    Keys: Vein Raker, Vein Rakers, Raker, Wellspring Raker, Rakers

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) high-level pursuit predator Threat Level: Moderate Typical Habitat: Major vascular channels, deep water arteries, flooded organ passages, interior circulation routes.

    Vein Rakers are long, pale predators built to move through the Wellspring's largest vessels, using hooked limbs to pull themselves along the walls at frightening speed. They hunt by detecting pressure changes caused by footsteps, swimming, and machinery, then pursue until they can pin prey against the vessel wall and open the abdomen with a row of inward-curving feeding claws. They are fast, aggressive, and extremely difficult to shake, but concentrated gunfire and narrow passages can drive one off or kill it.

    Never run from a Raker through a vein. That's what it was made for.

36. #36Cistern Crawlers

    Keys: Cistern Crawl, Cistern Crawlers, crawler, crawlers, Wellspring crawler

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) high-level interior predator Threat Level: High Typical Habitat: Major fluid chambers, reservoir access passages, submerged organ cavities, deep Wellspring interiors.

    Cistern Crawlers are massive eyeless predators with six long limbs and swollen translucent abdomens filled with water. They move surprisingly quietly for their size and attack by pinning prey beneath their weight before forcing a narrow feeding tube into the mouth or throat. The tube pumps water into the lungs and stomach until the victim stops fighting, after which the Crawler begins feeding. They are brutally strong but vulnerable around the soft abdominal reservoir, and experienced Delvers know that rupturing it can cripple or kill one.

    Getting drowned inside something that fell in the Sahara feels unnecessarily personal. Someone should talk to God about that. Wait..

37. #37The Deepwell

    Keys: Deepwell, The Deepwell

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) extreme-level reservoir predator Threat Level: OH FUCK! Typical Habitat: Major internal reservoirs, deepest flooded chambers, unmapped Wellspring waterways.

    The Deepwell is something enormous living inside one of the Wellspring's largest explored internal reservoirs. No reliable account describes the entire animal, as dead men tell no tales. Delvers report pale ridges moving beneath the water, vast sections of flesh passing below them for minutes at a time, and glowing eyes opening at depths where lights should not reach. When it moves, the reservoir moves with it, producing sudden currents, rising water levels, extreme floods, and enough displacement to pull platforms, boats, and entire crews under.

    Few people have encountered them and come back. Delvers are taught to keep quiet while on the water, keep your lights low, and never fish in the deeper reservoirs.

38. #38The Aït Waman

    Keys: The Aït Waman, Waman, the Waman, Wellspring cult, Godfall cult, human offerings, human sacrifice, water cult

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Entry settings

    Classification: Godfall Three (3) hostile human cult Threat Level: Extreme Extreme Typical Habitat: Wellspring settlements, oasis routes, abandoned camps, pilgrimage sites, entrances into the corpse.

    The Aït Waman are a Saharan Godfall cult who believe the fallen gods are a blessing upon humanity rather than a catastrophe. They are not purely Amazigh, and their members come from across the African continent, but the Amazigh-derived name is what local communities around the Wellspring call them when in polite company. The Waman deliberately drink the Wellspring's water so she will "know" them, and they abduct travelers, settlers, and Delvers to carry into the corpse as living offerings.

    Creatures kill because they are hungry. The Waman do it because they think they are right. Delvers carry guns for more than the local fauna as fanatics still go down when you shoot them.

    "Drink, and be known."

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