Ashes Part 2

 Now that I have my Enclaves chosen, it's time to roll up some Enclave Tags and see how that informs the setting.

Eureka

Tags:  Splinter Group, Evangelists

The idea of them being evangelists of some stripe does open the door to post-apocalyptic religions and the potential for ironic humor. People picking through the ruins of the Before Times and misinterpreting the relics left behind.

Ferndale

Tags: Miasmatic Zone, Hunger

This threw me for a loop. I had envisioned Ferndale continuing as a breadbasket community. A lot of the land in that area is being used for dairy farming now, so I assumed that it would continue to be farmland.

After a good bit of thought, I decided that the area is irradiated, killing the people and the soil at the same time. There is a decommissioned nuclear power plant not far from there. With no one to keep them away or tell them what they had found, it's possible that some post-apocalyptic scavengers loaded up on irradiated and nuclear materials that were being stored there. By the time they realized what they had, the materials had been used all over town. Radioactive metals had been worked into tools. Homes had been built with irradiated materials.

Squatch-Ville

Tags: Reckless Complacency, Nobility

I think making Sasquatch the nobility would make this fun. They were living secretly in the redwood forests until everything collapsed. The fall of Crescent City pushed so many people inland that there was no way the Sasquatch could hide any longer.  So they shared their knowledge and resources with the humans, who elevated them from saviors and guides to rulers as they built Squatch-ville. 

But now that they've grown accustomed to the adulation of their human subjects, they are determined to keep it. I haven't decided exactly what trouble is on the horizon in Squatch-ville but the Sasquatch are determined to keep it quiet.

(One possibility for Eureka is that the Splinter Group splintered from Squatch-ville, trying to tell the people there of the coming danger, but were exiled. Will anyone in Eureka listen?)