What is the Shattered Hollows?

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The Shattered Hollows is a Training Outpost, located within the Arctic circle on Earth, about 6000 years in the future. The outpost itself wasn't erected until around a century after the conclusion of the Shining Wars (0 E.S.W), when a high valley carved out by glaciers was razed to sea level, turning the setting from mountainous splendor to a damp, dark, and deadly swamp.

The Shattered Hollows, by the time our story begins, has morphed into a rigidly run encampment that creates elite mercenaries for hire through training and upgrades to physical attributes using organic nanobotics. While the playing field amongst humanity has been mechanically evened out, only a select few are given the opportunity to excel...and they are tightly controlled.

The mysterious origins of the Shattered Hollows have been couched in vague terms, with only a select few understanding what the Shattered Hollows truly is since its advent millennia before. Without the Warrant the Shattered Hollows are locked away from humanity's open use, while simultaneously representing the source of Human power in the Spur and Spiral.