Animus Anathem

For the last three centuries, one people has prospered above all else. From the far east of the Red Sands to the western expanse of the Humidities, humans have expanded, grown, built, farmed, explored. But what they have failed to notice is that all others with whom they have lived for aeons in this world have begun to fade. Diseases, malformations, society collapses, wars, famines, predation have stalked, run to ground, and killed nearly every other sentient creature.   It started as an academic exercise. A curiosity of the coincidence of so many disparate and unconnected groups facing extinction for the first time in known history by so many different sources. No one could think of any common tie or source, no great wound in the world to be healed. Efforts to reverse or stop individual disasters had mild if any mitigating success. And as with many slow things, its plodding, unceasing progress towards societal annihilation went more or less unmeasured and unreported until its side effects could no longer be ignored by the dominant species. Now as some ancestries have already been forever removed from the world, it is an epoch marked by its calamitous loss of diversity that has begun to reverberate back upon all civilization with disastrous knock on effects. Human and non human life alike stands on a great precipice and all who live and share this world must answer the question: is it too late?   This campaign has a central mystery and a generally open world design.