10,000 years have come and gone now since the fire, and Serina’s ecosystems are slowly healing, with surviving life adapting and adjusting to a new and far hotter world… for now.

The oceans, which died in fits and spasms over thousands of years of red-tides and anoxic spells that kept seaside scavengers unusually well-fed for many generations, are clear again - but they are comparatively empty.