Leibowitz Abbey

Intro Twelve hundred years ago, the world ended. Great nations waged war in an event called the Flame Deluge (a nuclear war), and after that came the Great Simplification, where angry mobs killed the princess (government officials) and men of learning (scientists), and strove to reset human history. Now, civilization has started spreading again across the continent of North America, and there is increasing interest in both science and literacy; a renaissance indeed is finally underway. Far off, in the Utah Desert, the abbey of the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz (pictured here) stands, near the village of Sanly Bowitts in the Empire of Denver. The Brothers of Saint Leibowitz have, ever since the Great Simplification, kept alive the knowledge of the past civilization throughout the generations, and you are one of the brothers there, under the abbot Dom Paulo. There is a lot happening at this time, as great nations are starting to rise, such as the Empire of Denver, Texarkana, and Laredo, an old Jewish wanderer named Benjamin has settled on the Mesa of Last Resort, one of your fellow brothers, Brother Kornhoer, has succeeded in creating a prototype electric generator, a scholar from Texarkana named Thon Taddeo has taken an interest in the abbey’s Memorabilia (the books and artifacts the monks have preserved from the past civilization) and is coming to study it, and, most concerningly, there are rumors of war between Texarkana and Laredo, which New Rome, the current seat of the Catholic Church, is pretty worried about. At such a time as this, there is much to think about, even for a cloistered monk as yourself; and can choose your story as you and your order navigates through all this news. This is inspired by the book A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.