Ruin

The world weeps in shades of rust and grey. The End, as the survivors call it, wasn't a single event, but a cascade. The tectonic plates shifted violently, unleashing earthquakes that swallowed cities whole, the volcanoes, spewing ash that blotted out the sun for years, choking the land and poisoning the water, and then the radiation, from fractured nuclear power plants, it seeped into the very bones of the earth.