Set twenty-five thousand years after the apocalypse, The Firewall Saga tells the story of Earth divided in two by a wall of nuclear fire that encircles the equator.

Each chapter will be published as a 1/10000 NFT. The first official chapter minted is Chapter 14 featuring the wonderful artwork of Mr. DanielSheldon.eth

https://mirror.xyz/gryphonboy.eth/XuRY39x9YOOOpy1VJDiRVVUq_EY-lNVVwYPEGDKXz2I

Keep an eye on the official Gryphonboy.eth collection page for subsequent mints.

https://mirror.xyz/gryphonboy.eth/collection

This is a new kind of book. It is open source.

If you own the NFT you own that part of the story and are free to use it however you see fit. Write your own branching fork of the story or create any derivative art. Just please always cite the source. The idea is for an open-ended sort of collaborative project using the mirror.xyz platform, where other writers and artists can fork it and expand a universe from it.

Create your own derivative entries in mirror.xyz that follow on from the main story or alternative versions of the main story or whatever our infinite ape imaginations can conceive. If you want to support me and my work please consider including Gryphonboy.eth in your funding recipients on mirror.xyz

Please feel free to contact me on Twitter to discuss your ideas. This publication is layer 1. The primary source. It is a living document and I am open to editing and updating the source as time passes.

                       **High-level synopsis**

The Northern Hemisphere of Earth has been turned into a radioactive wasteland. Most of its landmass is inhospitable to life and vast swathes of the oceans have boiled off into the atmosphere.

The advanced infrastructure of the early 21st century nation-states allowed small pockets of human civilization to survive with much of their scientific knowledge intact. Over the subsequent millennia, the northern survivors have managed to consolidate and advance the progress of civilization. Unfortunately, the reality of scorched earth has pushed the boundaries of what even the most advanced scientific understanding can achieve, and their survival now depends on crossing the Firewall into the unknown Southern Hemisphere...

...where the effects of the creation of the Firewall could not have been more different. The initial cataclysm was as devastating to the South as it was to the North; however, radiation was limited to a narrow band close to the equator, leaving much of the landmass habitable. With the near-total destruction of human civilization, the southern hemisphere's eco-systems have been able to bounce back from the cataclysm and have turned the south into a thriving biome. Humanity has managed to hang on, but the progress of the 21st century was lost and the cultures that now thrive are tribal and barbaric.

Book 1 of the saga, Emberlight, tells the story of the Northerner's attempts to breach the Firewall and explore the South, following the adventures of Antigua and her robotic steed as they explore this uncharted part of the world. It follows her encounters with southern natives whose primitive, nomadic ways are as alien to her as her cyber-enhanced bio-armor and robot horse are to them. Can these two races, once a single world population, reunite and thrive again?

Or will the clash of cultures result in a global war?

Set twenty-five thousand years after the apocalypse, The Firewall Saga tells the story of Earth divided in two by a wall of nuclear fire that encircles the equator.

Each chapter will be published as a 1/10000 NFT. The first official chapter minted is Chapter 14 featuring the wonderful artwork of Mr. DanielSheldon.eth

https://mirror.xyz/gryphonboy.eth/XuRY39x9YOOOpy1VJDiRVVUq_EY-lNVVwYPEGDKXz2I

Keep an eye on the official Gryphonboy.eth collection page for subsequent mints.

https://mirror.xyz/gryphonboy.eth/collection

This is a new kind of book. It is open source.

If you own the NFT you own that part of the story and are free to use it however you see fit. Write your own branching fork of the story or create any derivative art. Just please always cite the source. The idea is for an open-ended sort of collaborative project using the mirror.xyz platform, where other writers and artists can fork it and expand a universe from it.

Create your own derivative entries in mirror.xyz that follow on from the main story or alternative versions of the main story or whatever our infinite ape imaginations can conceive. If you want to support me and my work please consider including Gryphonboy.eth in your funding recipients on mirror.xyz

Please feel free to contact me on Twitter to discuss your ideas. This publication is layer 1. The primary source. It is a living document and I am open to editing and updating the source as time passes.

                       **High-level synopsis**

The Northern Hemisphere of Earth has been turned into a radioactive wasteland. Most of its landmass is inhospitable to life and vast swathes of the oceans have boiled off into the atmosphere.

The advanced infrastructure of the early 21st century nation-states allowed small pockets of human civilization to survive with much of their scientific knowledge intact. Over the subsequent millennia, the northern survivors have managed to consolidate and advance the progress of civilization. Unfortunately, the reality of scorched earth has pushed the boundaries of what even the most advanced scientific understanding can achieve, and their survival now depends on crossing the Firewall into the unknown Southern Hemisphere...

...where the effects of the creation of the Firewall could not have been more different. The initial cataclysm was as devastating to the South as it was to the North; however, radiation was limited to a narrow band close to the equator, leaving much of the landmass habitable. With the near-total destruction of human civilization, the southern hemisphere's eco-systems have been able to bounce back from the cataclysm and have turned the south into a thriving biome. Humanity has managed to hang on, but the progress of the 21st century was lost and the cultures that now thrive are tribal and barbaric.

Book 1 of the saga, Emberlight, tells the story of the Northerner's attempts to breach the Firewall and explore the South, following the adventures of Antigua and her robotic steed as they explore this uncharted part of the world. It follows her encounters with southern natives whose primitive, nomadic ways are as alien to her as her cyber-enhanced bio-armor and robot horse are to them. Can these two races, once a single world population, reunite and thrive again?

Or will the clash of cultures result in a global war?