In the year 2012, a mysterious illness began to sweep the globe. In its wake, those who survived it were left with immensely powerful supernatural abilities.
As the number of people capable of wielding magic powers increased, they began to organize and seize control of the course of history. Using their powers to travel between parallel universes, these mages forge empires of a scale never before seen. And at the center of it all is the Academy, a neutral institution founded for mages to share their knowledge with each other.
Mages struggle against each other to impose their will upon the multiverse, but there is one threat that unites them all together. In recent months, mysterious entities have appeared. These entities wield power far greater than any one mage, and they seem determined to annihilate all of humanity. The mages will have to set aside their differences in order to beat them. The fate of the multiverse depends on it.
Welcome to Breckenridge, Colorado. Surrounded by snow-covered mountains and rugged pine forests, the town is one of the few remaining refuges for humans and animals alike now that the United States is at war with itself. With Denver being a hot spot for military activity, many dogs have begun to migrate in a last, desperate attempt to survive.
A brutal winter is just coming to an end. Those dogs that have survived it are scattered and weak. To top it all off, new survivors are coming from the bigger cities and suburbs, trying to find some place that isn't littered with explosions and gunfire on a regular basis. With them they bring their own ideas and beliefs on how best to survive this cruel new world.
What the dogs don't know is that the war is beginning to move. The rebel Americans are loosing ground in the state of Colorado. The United States army is slowly pushing them back, closer to the Breckenridge safe haven. The federal army is determined to take back the state, while the rebels are willing to fight down to the last man standing.