Lore
Kenshi tells its history through ruins and silence. These pages piece together the Ancient Empire, the Skeletons, the Collapse and the dead world beneath the wasteland.
The Ancient Empire
The lost high civilisation whose ruins, technology and machines still litter the wasteland.
Skeleton History
The story of the robotic Skeletons — built by the Ancients, and now the wasteland's longest memory.
Cat-Lon
The Last Emperor — a powerful Skeleton ruler tied to the Second Empire and one of Kenshi's great endgame figures.
The Second Empire
The empire that rose after the Ancients and fell in turn — the wasteland's most recent lost order.
Holy Nation Lore
The faith of Okran and Narko — how a sun-worshipping theocracy came to rule the wasteland's green heart.
The Collapse
The catastrophe that ended the old world and turned a living planet into the wasteland.
Behemoths
Colossal, ancient creatures that wander the wastes — relics of a different scale of life.
Stobe
A legendary wanderer remembered in place-names across the map — Kenshi's quiet patron of the doomed journey.
AI Core History
The intelligences of the Ancient world, now reduced to rare salvage that powers research and runs deep.