The Sunderscape

A facsimile of the world after a cataclysmic world-ender that the people barely remember. People still live here - and they thrive, in many cases - but the toll the cataclysm has taken is evident in the ruined gravity spots, in the crumbling infrastructure, in the shattered moon that hangs forlorn in the sky.

Post-Apocalyptic; Science Fiction

The Sunderscape is the collective whole of society and its dregs after the civilized world was razed beyond repair. Here, people are rebuilding, and exploring, and living simpler lives than their predecessors. Here, knowledge is cherished and the tattered remains of cultures are preserved. Here, you would expect nothing beyond the savage and mercurial climate and the occasional feral predators to cause problems; you would never expect murder, or treason, or subterfuge...

Take the current world we live in. Now add arbitrary regions with hyper-gravity, and others with such low gravity that you have to wear weighted armor to avoid floating up to never return.

Television and the Internet are a thing of the past now. People use paper maps, and write letters, and - most vitally - listen to the radio. Hand-made armor is highly sought-out, and so blacksmiths are very well respected. Medicine has been brought back a couple steps, but given that many of the old diseases were wiped out in the cataclysm, along with the majority of the people.