Empyrean is considered the final stop for mankind. The place that the remaining world is supposed to accommodate. While the rest of the world burns, this is the nirvana where god wants us to sleep, the heaven of the world, the remaining soil that allows itself to humans.
The end of modern-day society happened 200 years ago, most of the world was reduced to nothingness, volcanoes ruptured, tsunamis hit cities and earthquakes killed countless lives. It hit mankind out of a sudden, the world turned haywire in a matter of months, and everything humans worked so hard for, vanished in an instant. Hundreds of years of development, gone within a matter of months.
It was written in scriptures to be god's divine punishment on us humans, the mistreatment of mother earth was put to a halt, and for the next 200 years we had to rebuild humanity in the right way, the way god wants us to, or we would go through the same fate once more. Since then, we had to overcome many battles such as old diseases, natural disasters, and internal human conflict that started shaving off human life before, in the early days, this time though we have progressed faster, we managed to subdue these problems with incredible speeds unlike before.
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This land is called Empyrean, a mixture, formed from the islands of 3 different ancient nations, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan. The mix was brought together by a massive earthquake that sent parts of these countries far from their regions. The collision with one another formed Empyrean.
The lands from the rest of these countries were either submerged or burned into a wasteland.
This land has the only remaining soil where produce thrives, nothing grows on the soil of the other remaining lands, the rest of the world's soil was turned and is nothing but barren land now, it is as though nature prohibits the stay of humans within these areas to manage us.
The people of Empyrean came from different parts of Southeast Asia, leaving the rest of the world's ethnicities to be wiped out. The lifestyles and culture had been altered, they now show no resemblance to any conventional, previous world identity but one that now centres itself around nature and has many of its roots from the very first few traditional religions of the world when humanity once began.
The people of this land had newfound powers, born from the evolution through many years to survive the destruction of the modern world. The powers developed and after 200 years have become the way of life for our people.
The ability to control nature's elements was given to humans. One being for fire the next for water the other for wind and the final being for the earth. They are controlled by using one's internal energy that allows the manipulation of these elements. The strength and duration are heavily dependent on the person's vitality.
Scripts about these powers and how to control them were collected through the years, as they soon developed ways to produce, and increase their prowess in the methods of controlling these elements. Soon after figuring out the mechanisms to produce different techniques, we started to mass-produce them, and thousands of scripts were made to enhance the abilities of humankind further. There are currently thousands of scripts collected and stored in the great library in the centre of the country. From these, a selected few are taught and the rest are for those who pursue their studies further into the arts of these powers.
All in all, the land of Empyrean stays strong today, as the final pillar of human civilization. The country manages to keep itself strong as its army and crops help defend and feed its people. The newfound powers work to keep evolution on an upward trend without impacting the environment as it did before, some say this is the pinnacle of the human race and it's where all of humanity will end, here, on Empyrean.