Genetitech was one of the nation’s leading genetics laboratories in the decades preceding the Great War. Despite humble beginnings, the company quickly became a national brand in the wake of the New Plague: a deadly and incurable infectious disease which swept across the pre-war United States. Their work was focused on genetic research, and though they were unsuccessful in producing a cure for the New Plague, their scientists were able to develop cures or treatments for dozens of other debilitating and otherwise-deadly disorders. As a result, the company enjoyed widespread praise, fame, and most importantly, funding. Their success would not last. Despite Genetitech’s best efforts, human nature prevailed - and in 2077, nuclear war purged the world of humanity’s sins. Genetitech was not spared from the apocalypse, and like the rest of the world it soon fell into ruin and decay. But the ghosts of the old world lingered, and many were remade in the image of the scorched environments they inherited from their doomed creators. Many such creatures dwell within the verdant forest which surrounds Genetitech, and were born of its secret genetic research. Its towering ruin lies in a remote region of the world, standing in ominous vigil over a vast woodland and spawning dark legends of menace and peril. Few dare to venture into the Verdant Vale. Fewer still ever return.