In western Yakutia there is a place called Mirny, a city built around an enormous open-pit mine. Once it was used for diamond extraction, but today it lies abandoned. Its dramatic landscape — with houses clinging to the very edge of the pit — inspired the setting for Koyaani, the mining city where our heroine’s story begins. 

Koyaani is an industrial hub carved into the rim of a colossal quarry. Here people mine koyaanite, a rare mineral able to resist the deadly mist known as Mara. Thanks to koyaanite, the city stands protected beneath an energy dome, making it one of only two settlements in the state of Saadi to survive the apocalypse.

For more than twenty years after the blast, life under the dome has continued — people go to work and school, scientists search for answers, and everyone clings to the hope of finding a way for humanity to endure in this broken world.

At the city’s edge runs the Line of Memory — a wall etched with the names of the dead, a constant reminder that Koyaani lives in a state of vigilance. Beyond the dome’s glow lies constant danger: regular attacks from the survivors of the second city, Arcada.

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