The Great Famine

Another dark chapter in history. Humanity had been forced to part with their homes, and those who stayed were dying off at a steady pace, and the letters became fewer and fewer. Corralled to the empty wastelands outside Muiryn, food quickly became scarce, and an improvised village of tents carpeted the entire valley outside the city walls. Over a million refugees, all starving. A crisis the Linked Kings could not deal with.

It took 30 years to end the famine. For Muiryn to streamline their food production. And even that wouldn't even have helped if so many hadn't already gone down with the plague, reducing the number of refugees.

"This is when the Annihilators began being produced, if the Linked Kings speak the truth. I remember the plague doctors. They said that their herbs and potions where for curing our diseases. Whatever their intentions, their experimental brews did plenty of things, but never cured anyone. The starving people had bigger things to worry about then conspiracies, so I suppose there was no time like the present to start taking people away. Thousands of people. Never heard from again. It was a total disaster, and nobody knew what the hell was going on. They where called 'experiment groups' and they were never heard from again. Those who were sick but still standing were on the plague doctors lists, and when your name was called out and they took you away, you were still considered lucky to have a chance to be cured."