Steampunk earth: Is set in 18th centery where there is still a revolutionary war going on (, where air ships soar through the sky's...And gold is still a common currency. Tech doesn't surpass steam powered technology. How ever gas masks where already invented due to the Blight gas suddenly appearing.

The cascade event which happened in August 20th, 1860 was mainly due to a experiment gone wrong, Dr Wild Was working on a solution for getting electricity. How ever the Manichean he built ended up going haywire and sending a strange chaotic energy coursing through the city. Destroying about six more city's in its wake. The energy some how changed people into anthropomorphic animals, Full animals or rotters. What it did was completely random. Ontop of that it awoken several more creatures in its wake. (Orks, Goblins Dragons whome been slumbering underground for eons.) This world economy is somewhat nonexistant. People mainly barter for goods. Or trade parts, or scavenge things form the ruins of Blight gassed citys. Majority of New england is still under British control at this time. There forces had doubled since the cascade. They have a tendency of shooting The ANthros (refured to as Demihumans) on site due to there freaky nature. ANd not knowing if they are akin to the rotters at all. Anyone changed form the cascade lived outside of the surviving citys or make what they got in the gas filled citys using a elaborate network of air pipes to give them fresh air. Or whoring Gas mask filters.