Editing Deathworld (section)

==Background==
<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><center>I will tell you the truth of burning flames, and dying stars.
The truth of broken secrets, and unending emotions.

I will tell you the lies of the heart undying, and the mind unyielding,

the lies of the cold steel, and desperate logic.

This is a time of unending pain, and boundless hope.

Your species, as young as it is, stands at the edge of extinction.

You have summoned forces you cannot hope to comprehend, and yet you serve them willingly.

You fight your ancient enemies, and yet they are human, understandable.

Could it be you are only now realizing that your kind are endless in their evil?

Could it be that to serve what is alien, is preferable to falling to your own nightmares?

I hope you believe so child.

For that is the path you walk now.

~Source Unknown. Parts of this have been found scrawled as graffiti in almost every part of the world, in almost every known language.</center></span>

[[Grimdark|Deathworld roughly follows our own timeline, up until the Second World War. The Nazis begin their invasion of Western Europe, just as in our world, but for some undetermined reason, Hitler never made the fatal mistake of invading the Soviet Union. This allowed the Nazi war machine to consolidate its grip on Fortress Europe, as well as successfully invading Britain. The uneasy peace lasted up until both sides invaded America which had maintained its glorious isolation during the war in Europe. The Nazis now control the Eastern Seaboard and the Soviets control the West, with a large No-Man's-Land between them, devastated by the war between them. These two super-powers are once again in an uneasy peace, but tensions are high. 

War back in Europe is prevented by the massive fortifications both sides have built up as neither side wishes to sacrifice the resources and manpower needed to break the other's defenses. The real battlegrounds are elsewhere, in South America and Africa, as well as in the contested central United States.]]

Worse yet, the Soviets and Nazis, despite their dehumanizing superscience and demonology, are amongst the only powers able to truthfully claim that they are ruled by humans. Their opponents, supposedly "free" are ruled by alien horrors, spirits, Fae beings, and the long-dead, if not some combination of the above. Will humanity enslave itself to undo these evils? Or will it be obliterated in the fires of hell and atom?

The setting diverges at around 1940ish, and present-day for the setting is 2020ish.