What's your favorite Blackoath setting?

As some of you know, lately I've been working again on my old Empire Undying game, the one that's been in development since 2021. I often say that this is my best setting, and while the vast majority of you don't have access to what I've released so far (since that's exclusive to Evocatus, Master, and Grand Master Patreon members), I can promise you that it's the most detailed setting I've written so far.

This brought me to think about my different settings, and I thought it would be fun to see what is everyone's favorite Blackoath setting so far. Keep in mind that I'm just talking about the setting and surrounding lore, completely isolated from the mechanics. So these are the games I thought we could take into consideration for this little poll:

• Broken Shores: The world suffered a cataclysm due to all the gods essentially killing each other, all but three, among them the goddess of the ocean, who flooded the world. It's been a few hundred years since that catastrophe took place, and the planet is completely covered in water, with humans living in small floating settlements, and tiny islands. It is a dangerous place, filled with cultists, unreliable magic (since the god of magic died), and horrible creatures.

• Riftbreakers: The Kaethor peninsula has been overrun by creatures from other worlds due to the sudden appearance of rifts (portals) that open to self-contained dimensions of all kinds. If it only thanks to the arrival of the Strangers (the PCs) that humanity has a chance to fight back.

• Sacrifice: The continent of Neia is a vast, diverse land, comprised of many different countries, with many of them being in direct or indirect confrontation. Nowhere else is this truer than in what is now known as No Man's Land, the result of a war between the Cadaennor Dominion and the Kingdom of Pavaria that has been going on for a hundred years. While the Church of the Burning Light attempts to control all aspects of life (or at the very least, worship and spirituality) in the continent, the increasing presence of demons and creatures of evil makes the already difficult life of peasants and the common men even harder to endure.

• Empire Undying: The Acavian Empire has ruled over their vast empire for thousands of years, despite numerous rebellions and political upheaval. This has become increasingly challenging due to the appearance of the Devouring, a plague that has taken over all the known world. The only reason the Acavians are still holding is thanks to their necromantic prowess; the Devouring seems unable to infect those that are already dead. With legions comprised mostly of the dead (the so-called "chosen") and commanded by the avatar of the god of Death, the empire's borders are relatively safe. In Theni, the empire's capital, all these problems seem far away, as the city with the thousand temples never sleeps, and the decadent sciri nobility seems determined to drown all their problems in the most decadent way possible, while death keeps knocking on the empire's door.

• Salvage & Sorcery (and Into the Warp & Ruin): After centuries of spreading across all the known universe, the Federation's presence on the system of Oblivion's Edge becomes completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy due to a warp storm. Only a few decades later, the system is in chaos, with the remnants of humanity living in isolation (and often in confrontation) in the few stations and settlements still surviving. Mutants, cultists, and raiders abound, and all hope for survival lies in scavenging the remnants of civilization before others do it before you.

• Across a Thousand Dead Worlds: Earth is collapsing, both ecologically, and socially. The rich escape the planet, while the poor survive as they can on the dying planet. But everything changes (well, not for most people) when a hollow asteroid filled with perfectly preserved alien ships is discovered. Although humans are unable to pilot these ships, volunteers (the players) are happy to board them to explore alien facilities and planets, in the hope of recovering alien artifacts and striking it rich. Most die in the attempt, but those who manage to survive long enough return swimming in riches and fame.

• Ker Nethalas: Iskandria is a vast planet, with dozens of countries and kingdoms, most of which have endured for centuries, if not millennia. This is an aether-rich world, with magic being relatively common place, and the occasional planar incursion (a natural phenomena that merges a plane of existence with physical reality) are generally kept in check. Here you can find ancient ruins, like those of the Vaelorian Ascendancy under the Alderworth Kingdom, or the mysterious ruins of whoever it was that lived in the frozen north millennia ago, as well as all sorts of creatures, cultures, cults, and organizations.

• Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate: The multiverse is controlled by a semi-sentient entity or energy simply known as the Ruthless Heavens that assimilates planets, super-powering all life on them with the intention of pushing then into constant conflict. This is a vast universe, filled with wonder and incredibly powerful creatures, from sentient beasts and weapons, to ancient warriors who have been walking the path of ascension for millennia.

• Choir of Flesh: It is the year 1000 AD. The world has ended, the apocalypse is here. Angels descend from the sky, but instead of salvation they bring madness and change, forceful devotion and eternal praise to the Heavens. At the same time, The Flesh That Feeds emerges from the ground, turning everything into meat, and spreading everlasting mutation and aggression. The two forces clash in what is left of France, with what's left of humanity left trying to survive in the middle of it all.

• Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse: After reaching incredible technological peaks, humanity has been thrown into an unending feudal period, ruled over by all-powerful artificial intelligences that are seen as deities. The world is a vast wasteland filled with ancient technological terrors and mutated beasts, with the only remnants of civilization surviving in city-states controlled by the AIs and their chosen ones.

Man now that I've written this list I realize how much of a recurring theme the end of the world it is for me. I need to come up with fresh ideas...