> The dead continent is the result of the 60 minute war, it is filled with radiation and mutated animals that the scientists who had created the weapons, couldn’t comprehend would even exist as a consequence of the extreme weapons. The dead continent was not always dead and was far from it before the war long ago, some of the legendary cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles all lost in the conflict unable to escape the radiation and reducing them and the inhabitants mere to ash and a disfigured metal skeletons, still so dangerous that if you go within 30 miles without protection of them it is reported that it could take years off of your life span and cause horrible disease that could cause you mutate into creatures called Caningarians. Caningarians are no longer humans, they grow limbs all over with red skin where their skin has split apart or dissolved into their flesh, they will eat anything that moves. Thaddeus Valentine had ventured to the Dead Continent in his airship the 13th Floor Elevator, but he had never actually landed their as he new the dangers that the new world brought with it.

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