The Rise

What is the Rise?
The Rise was a series of strange, chaotic events that happened shortly after a strange phenomenon known only as the White Death, which occured on the 31st of January, 1991, when three quarters of the population mysteriously began dying all over the globe due to natural causes. Scientists at the United Nations were at a loss to explain these strange events in full detail, but figures of religious authority proclaimed that it was the Wrath of God that was punishing the people of Earth for their vices and neverending depravity.

They were partially correct. For in fact, the White Death was another name for the Fall. This disaster was in fact caused by an ancient Abrahamic ritual performed every two centuries roughly since the beginning of recorded history primarily to keep Humanity from progressing too far. Usually, it worked via the 'Rats in a Cage' method, where if too many rats were placed in a single cage with no privacy, then they would turn on one another, hence relying on causing overpopulation so that Mankind would be too busy fighting amongst itself to advance. But due to unforseen circumstances, it instead caused the opposite effect. However, after seeing the disastrous results of His mistakes, God tried to heal the damage by restoring life to the surviving human race, preventing it from dying out.

Eight years later, those who had died during the Fall, as well as the bodies of veterans from WWII, WWI and the Vietnam War rose from their graves all over the world. Within a month, the coast of North America was nuked from the sky by the remnants of the U.S government after reports of the Undead were first sighted in Florida. In two months, the only safe place was on a small island near Haiti when Russia was placed under Quarantine by the Russian government. Within three months, the human race had become totally extinct, with bands of survivors scattered all over Australia, Japan and Germany.

Upon seeing the consequences of His own actions, God then sensed the presence of Satan's armies mobilizing in key points all over the globe. Fearing another Heavenly War (the last took place about 65 million years ago, wiping out all life on Earth) He sent down his heavenly warriors, the Angels, to take whatever measures nessecary to prepare.