- All or almost all above ground human settlements are destroyed or rendered uninhabitable.
- Most of humanity is wiped out, with less than 100,000 surviving across the globe in perhaps small, mostly underground, communities.
- The ice age hasn’t made the world completely barren or uninhabitable, and mass extinction didn’t mean total extinction
- What communities that survive can still build a semi-sustainable living
- Most technologies are rendered useless, or at least their construction and maintenance mostly lost to time

References: World Building