Humans were going about their days when the Lizard King emerged from the Earth with an enormous army of lizard warriors and other malicious, non-human creatures, and took over the world. There was a brief battle, but, like, what are you gonna do against a surprise attack from untold masses of 8-foot-tall, spear-toting lizard warriors? Your best. But it won’t be good enough, I’m sorry to say.

About half the human population was killed. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to midnight, although only they could see it because the internet was down.

The Lizard King ruled for 10 years. During his reign, a variety of other non-human creatures emerged from hiding to live openly on the surface of the planet among humans. The most numerous were lizard people — both the Lizard King’s own warriors, and civilians — but this also included dragons, wyverns, a time traveler, a magician made of fungus, an ancient Mesopotamian goddess, Crab Lord, a praying praying mantis named Praying Mantis, and many others who became part of our everyday lives. The world was changed. We felt it in the water, we felt it in the earth, we smelled it in the air.

Lizard people and humans did not initially get along. Though most lizard people were not allied with the Lizard King, humans had trouble seeing past the fact that they were the same species. However, a team of lizard people and human video game developers worked together to create High Five 5000, a co-operative competitive action-adventure informal greeting simulator video game, which taught us that humans and non-humans can truly coexist.

Humans and non-humans alike both fought against the Lizard King’s forces throughout his reign. Then suddenly, after 10 years of tyrannical rule, the Lizard King became a born-again Christian and left the earth with his lizard warriors, traveling out into space in what he described as self-imposed exile.