“Deep in the ruins of the Founder cities, traces of the Fall can still be found. We know them as anomalies, and for scavengers, they are a fact of life. We know what these strange phenomenon do,  how to avoid them, but nothing about how or why they work.

Anomalies are not the only thing in those ruins, however. If you listen to the wind as it passes through the broken shells of buildings, you can hear traces of the lives that once called this land home. We call them whisperwinds.”

Leopold, Independent Scavenger

Every scavenger has stories about what goes on in the heart of the ruins. From strange creatures crawling among the twisted metal and stone to anomalies that turn lead into gold, distinguishing fact from fiction is no easy task.

Every scavenger has at least one story about the whisperwind as well. Most consider the occurrence a warning of impending doom, while others claim it causes misfortune. A few scavengers have claimed that the whisperwind has lead them to treasure, claims that are met with jokes and dismissals from other scavengers. Most will agree that while the winds are annoying during the day, at night, they almost always preclude some sort of disaster.

Older scavengers will tell any who listen what the source of the whisperwind is.

The lost spirits of the Founders who died in the Fall.

Northern scientists have waived this reasoning aside with explanations of their own. Some insist that the whisperwind is the result of cracks in the crumbling buildings, others that the acoustics of the Founder cities are such that the wind is carrying actual conversations from large groups of humans. A few have proposed that anomalies are picking up radio signals and converting them into audible noise.

Until the UNA agrees to invest some money into research of the whisperwind, campfire stories and second hand tales are all most folk have to go by. Every scavenger will tell you the same thing at the end of any story about the whisperwind.

“If you hear the whisperwind calling, best get running fore the sun starts falling.”