The New World of Darkness, circa. 5500 - 5000 BCE From the introduction: Seven thousand years before the modern era, we lived in a true age of darkness. Beyond the tilled fields and muddy cattle pastures, endless glades and ominous forests gird the meagre campfires that pass for civilisation. The changing seasons and the weather or disease they bring are almost as deadly as the malign spirits stalking he wilds. The Great Wolf is the ruler of Pangaea, a primeval merger of the spiritual and physical planes in which his half-wolf children keep what peace they see fit between mankind and the mighty mergers of spirit and flesh that dwell just beyond the mortal world. For the people later generations may come to know as the Vinca, life is as short and desperate as it is brutal. Superstition reigns high and mighty over reason, often considered a better guide to the many supernatural forces of this realm than what man is capable of comprehending.