Thousands of years ago, the Sun died. How, is impossible to say. Some say it was the consequence of forbidden, godlike science. Other tales claim it was the wrath of the gods themselves which snuffed out its billion year light in an instant. Whatever the cause, the Time of Light ended, and the eternal night and winter of the Fimbulvetr began.
It was only through sheer technological might, the atmosphere-warming Sky Furnaces desperately launched after the Sun's death, that civilization survived... In a sense. Over the countless cold, dayless centuries followed, remaining populations crowded into the last great city-state Colonies where life still continued. But as the world grew ever colder, so did the relationships between different races. Primal survival instincts which, in the Time of Light, had no place in society began to stir after ages of slumber.
Although it was subtle at first, the instinctual concern for preserving the survival of one's own species regardless of the cost on others slowly took hold over society. A powerful feline house ruling one Colony would accuse a neighboring rodent enclave of violating a resource-sharing treaty, eventually leading to war. Working class canines in the same Colony would blame food shortages the ruling felines and carry out a genocidal revolt, while reptiles in yet another would be exiled to the Nightlands by the ruling mammals. Yet in all scenarios, hybrids would by far receive the most persecution, being seen by each side as impure abominations - the shameful, aberrant fruit of inter-species procreation.
In time, the Species Wars, as they would later be known as, led to the destruction of civilization...With one exception:
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