New London's world differs from ours in many ways. Where our world is complete and only separated by the seven seas. Shatter is punctuated by the seven skies instead where the world was torn asunder from the inside, where chunks of their Earth float in defiance of sense and gravity.

When the Earth imploded most people fled to the skies, naturally, seeking a safe haven from the crumbling ground beneath them. But others chose to flee downwards instead, casting themselves deeper into the world's crust and embedding themselves there for years to come.

These inhabitants would, much later on, mind you, come to be called Lynchers by the denizens of New London. Earning the name because of their habit to suspend themselves via rope from several rock formations and cliffaces. Which, to the kind denizens of New London, was pretty much a plead for death.

What is New London you ask? When the world fell into calamity, only one city was left standing amongst the ruins of the world. The city of London was hanging by the edge, threatening to fall into the endless abyss.

It eventually did, but not without the inhabitants taking a large chunk of the city with them into the sky. The last chunk of London was christened New London by the survivors and ushered in the first but not last hope of humanity reclaiming a spot for themselves. The irony was... This was as close as humanities dream of the sky ever was.