Prologue

One hundred years ago, a violent war broke out between the eight most powerful nations in the world. the war was bloody, Millions died and millions more suffered. After the war was fought, and no one stood strong enough to claim victory the remnants of the Eight countries Governments, although humbled were still strong enough to dig into how The War as they dug deeper the more and more disappointed they became. What the Leaders found out was that right around the time the war started the personifications of the eight nations were hosting a peaceful meeting on ways not to start another world war.

When asked, none of the eight personifications could point out how the fight started nor who started it. But that admission did nothing to ease the leaders disappointment nor the rest of the humans sorrow driven anger at the destruction The War has cost.

So the Humans temper flared, Blaming all Personifications, even the ones that did their best to stay out of the conflict. And they demanded their leaders do something so get rid of the 'Condemned' as some took to calling them.

And so the World leaders tried to follow their people's pleas of action, each nation's Government Experimenting with different ways to silence the Personifications. The United States had the most progress considering they had the most Personifications to work with. Using the Personified States in many of the experiments, the Main personification of America forced to watch as his States were subjected to the Horrors that any sane person would call Inhumain. but then he would smile- a cruel smile that held no sense of any of his normal joy- as he thought of how no one considered his States, his friends, or himself 'Human' anymore.

As the attempts to silence the personifications continued with little results the leaders came together to discuss what to do about the lack of progress. And the Leaders brainstormed. eventually settling on a plan. A few days latter the leaders of each country spoke to their people explaining the plan.

Operation Condemned is what the plan was commonly know as. and the plan seemed simple enough: Take the personifications that posed the most threat- like America, and the states and Russia and so on and so forth- and wipe their memory as best they could, then stick them in with a small population of regular humans, these were planned to be Criminals that were sentenced for life considering most of them were still war criminals. and the rest of the personifications were be put into mental Hospitals were they would systematically be driven to madness and eventually death.

Operation Condemned was put up to a vote to the general public to both the United states and Canada (it seemed only fair because the inclosed space was going to be on the border of both countries) and the polls came back almost unanimously in favor of the Plan.

And so construction of the Fence was started immediately. It was built from a new metal developed during The War. the Metal Nicknamed Black Mirror, was a super tough alloy that prevented nearly anything from piercing or breaking through it. The Fence was built around an area of four hundred square miles, of open land, and when it was finished the North American Leaders started construction on various mental Hospitals around the perimeter of the fence to place all of the Personifications that were not going inside.

Then the time came where everything was ready. and the Personifications were being transported to their final preparation centers. All of the Personifications were forced into a large room together, and were given twenty four hours to talk with family and friends, catch up and say their final farewells. When the twenty four hours were up,it was broadcast live, all over the world, as the Personifications had to be forced from each other kicking, screaming, crying, begging, anything to stay with each other, there walls that had been built up over years of suffering were torn away, exposing their shattered remnants of what made them human. And the World watched, wide eyed at the decision that they had made, they say the humanity in the personifications for the first time since The War. Ant they regretted their decision. But by the it was to late, and the deed was , crying, pleading with the men forcing them away from each other the Personifications were dragged away, beaten into submission and prepped for their new Hell.

A Hundred years later, no one on the outside of the Fence remembers the regret anyone felt for putting the personifications behind the fence. infact the fence and its surrounding mental hospitals where hardly ever mentioned.

Inside the fence a sort of dictatorship had sprung up in wake of a growing food whatever sense of rights disappeared with the food. And now, in the courtyard of a long, flat grey, windowless building, dozens of children, -all of which were overworked underweight and their clothes were threadbare handme downs that barely counted as more than rags- were pressed up against the smooth nearly seamless obsidian black of the fence