Appalachia

Appalachia is the general name given to post-apocalyptic West Virginia. Located within the Eastern Commonwealth of the former United States, the region was spared most of the destruction and carnage of the Great War due to its lack of strategic targets, but much of the surviving human population nonetheless perished over the following years due to the Scorch. In 2102, the residents of Vault 76 emerged into Appalachia after twenty-five years of isolation and began to reclaim the wilderness.

Background
In 2102, twenty-five years after the Great War, Appalachia consists of a vast, mostly intact swathe of the state of West Virginia, and becomes the focus of reconstruction efforts led by the residents of Vault 76.

Environment
While the predominately rural landscape is mostly unscathed, it is plagued by irradiated and mutated creatures. Of particular concern is the Scorch, a hazardous, mutagenic fungus indigenous to the vast caverns beneath Appalachia. Scorch is spread by Scorchbeasts, which periodically breach the surface and terrorize the countryside.

Organizations
In the aftermath of the Great War, a number of factions formed among the survivors, including the Free States and the Responders, but these groups were later wiped out. By 2102, a faction of Scorch-infested, semi-intelligent ghouls called the Scorched have overrun multiple ruins and towns.

Sometime prior to 2102, a detachment of the Brotherhood of Steel visited Appalachia.

Appearances
Appalachia appears only in Fallout 76.

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