Dystopia

Aurora Obscura

[soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/state-azure/a-memento-for-blade-runners?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing] [p]Since the mid-21st century, humanity has descended into a spiral of violence and despair. Following the [b...

Cyberpunk Dystopia

Ouriel

In the ashes of a fallen empire the dragon lords reign

Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Military Post Apocalyptic Stealth

Nexus

Welcome to a world surrounded by all enshrouding fog called "The Balemist" and plagued with the undead that reside therein. As an appointed Judge of the King you are to range the realm aiding the folk when you can, dispensing the king's justice where...

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Horror Medieval

Depraved Immortality

[p]This is a collection of historical documents that have been collected over centuries of research and archeological study in Faerun of Toril and their many large scale events that occurred both on the continent, and outside the planet itself. Many...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Historical Horror

NUGaming's Exiled Lands of Dark Desires

We have created a fantasy world that is set in a fictional timeline. Some aspects of our world have been inspired by our own history, as well as drawing further inspiration from the Conan storyline, the Early Middle Ages all the way up to the...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Synthacrosia

The Tower of Souls Created By Stormbril A tower wrought of cold metal and ancient stone stretches upwards into infinity, constru...

Clockpunk Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Sword & Sorcery

Albion

The Prime Millenia and The Myth of Creation In the beginning of this realm, there was nothing. Then, The Dawnfather and The Stormlord created the sky and filled it with light. The Dawnfather joined with the The Moonweaver to separate the li...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Guide to the Wastes

An Unofficial In-Character Guide to the Setting of Dystopia Rising, assembled by Players, for Players. [aloud]To contribute to the Wasteland Guide as an Author, Click [url:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScly5KG4NQmmLBnTIbtgWBY...

Biopunk Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic

Lythora

Ancient Dystopia Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy

Children of Tantalus

Cyberpunk Dystopia Horror Science Fiction

Reichskommissariat Nordamerika

[p]The series opens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1994. It is not the Cambridge we know. The brick sidewalks still wind through Harvard Square, the elms still arch over Brattle Street, the Charles still slides dark and slow pa...

Alternative History Dystopia Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Soft Magic

Fallout: Vault 93

A campaign setting in development that spans the territories from Asheville, NC, north to Bristol, TN, and east to Charlotte, NC.

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Häpna

Welcome to Häpna, a dark fantasy, steampunk, dystopian world. Within this vast underground cavern lies a world-size archipelago, inhabited by beings who have adapted to a life without the sun's warmth for thousands of years....

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Religious Steampunk Surreal

Shadowrama!

Welcome to the Sixth World! This is a guide I put together for my Gone Gaming player group to chronicle their adventures and the friends and fiends they made along the way. It's 2057. The great dragon Dunkelzahn has just announced he's running for...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Urban

Space Western

A spaghetti western sci-fi theme

Dystopia Space Opera Western

Melior

Fifty years ago, the world of Melior was forcefully introduced to magic during an apocalyptic invasion. Folks are questioning their old traditions and faiths as they struggle to rebuild amidst the new dangers of everyday life.

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic

Fading Suns

[p][/p] [p]The Drift made the stars small, and corporations vast.[/p] [p]In the wake of Earth’s disappearance during the Second Corporate War, humanity scattered across the galaxy. The world we came from is now legend, buried beneath profit margins...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction

Shadowfell

Ancient Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Victorian Weird

Taurua

World drifting far away from the eternal struggles and battles of mighty deities in the multiverse. So far away, that most beings of great power have long since lost knowledge of Taurua. On this, small world at the edge of eternal darkness and a...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Medieval Steampunk

Last Light in the Cold

Dystopia Science Fantasy Science Fiction Speculative Weird

Dawn of Others

[p]Certainty ended long ago. Now, the world is a place of ruin and restless change. The dead move among the living, and flesh shifts in ways that memory cannot hold. Science and sorcery bleed together, their boundaries lost. In the shadows, people ga...

Dystopia Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

The Great Dust Bowl

A FALLOUT SETTING New PlayersOther Games[/col3] [...

Alternative History Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Western

Malkora

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Hive world Dathnor 40k

The Hive-world was spared the punishment that befell its last planetary governor and his administration, but only just. Now the Astra Militarum have assumed command with its iron grip, they brought the emperors might down on this world and now...

Crime Dystopia Gothic Science Fantasy Urban

Thaldris

When the galaxy becomes a world, space becomes a sea, and the planets its islands… only then have you reached Thaldris. Thaldris is a cold planet inhabited by a small people known as the Frostborn. They live at...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Military Science Fantasy

Memento Mori

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction

Ithir swe

Dystopia Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Speculative

Ad Sydera

Big arse WIP. Original science fiction pet project.

Adult 18+ Dystopia Horror Science Fiction Transhumanism

Cyberpunk RED: Cradle of Innocence

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Horror Mystery

Galaxies End

A legacy of humanity [p]In the year 2034 AD, global tensions rose to conflict and open warfare. In what became historically known as 'The Third War', or 'The Final War' to some, major superpowers of Earth vied for political control of the p...

Dystopia Military Political Post-modern Science Fiction

Uncharted Territory

[Cover image: "Lonely Pine Tree" by Finchwing](i'm tired i'll finish this when i have the energy) Uncharted Territory is a post-modern dystopian novel project focused on the successes and failures of conformative societies....

Dystopia Exploration Political Post-modern Young Adult (YA)

/dev/null

where complaints, résumés, and tests inevitably end up

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Science Fantasy

WILDZOO

[p]Welcome to WILDZOO, where history and mystique intertwine, an epic adventure beckons for all Animals. Follow the journey of Keke Pharrell, a spirited Feline orphan, as she embarks on a quest to uncover the incomplete truth behind her mysterious p...

Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Historical Medieval Science Fantasy

The Dark Future

Adult 18+ Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Political

Bloheron

Long ages ago a humanoid race fled a disaster. Finding this plantary system emenable they settled in and explored. Long years passed as they toiled in terraforming with the help of beings they created. In fear of losing control they bred antagonists...

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Pangaea

It was 2145. Robots, as well as biological and cybernetic modifications had become common place, and the U.S.A. was still pulling itself together after the second American Civil War. In those days wars were fought primarily with robots (when they we...

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction Surreal

The Shattered Isles

The Shattered Isles are the broken remnants of the world following the cataclysm a thousand years ago. The cataclysm cracked the sun and cast the world into perpetual darkness. It also broke the Gates of Death, unleashing vengeful spirits and demons...

Crime Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Gothic Victorian

Ménicéa

[container:meniceaintro]The void. All that was left of the Menicean civilization after the Clan War. Sitting alone in a world they once thought to be only for themselves, Gérouns started anew. Those who ended the neverending blood...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Supernatural

Aluth

[h3|062f7db0-4184-49bd-904d-40915967ffdc]WHERE IMPERNANCE IS INFINITE [h3|091d8275-0748-42f4-b431-e1754e93e00f] [p]A planet that had once been but a barren, desolate wasteland is now a thriving, fractured archipelago. With...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Political Religious

Nexus

[p]In NEXUS, players will embark on a cosmic odyssey into the unknown. Thrust into a crossroads of destinies between humanity, extraterrestrial civilizations, and unexplored realities, the interconnection of the universe collides in this unique...

Dystopia Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera Superheroic

Tempus

world torn apart by planar portals and reduced to a land of islands.

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Steampunk

Primal Dawn

[p]Welcome to The Carcass, this is the year 300 of the Afterfall, and the last bullet was shot a long, long time ago...[/p] [p]This is a world trying to rise again, over the ashes and eroded debris of an older one, that violently disappeared. The...

Ancient Dystopia Post Apocalyptic

Arton

The Gods have fallen. Ever since the The Usurper Trinity led their armies of mankind against the oppressors above, the world has been plagued by si...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Medieval Post Apocalyptic

Aurum

Both brutal & mystical, Aurum is a world unable to shake its dependency on old technology and fading magic. The sins of the past have left many regions scarred, ruined, and dominated by monsters. Normal people depend on protection from the Caster Gui...

Dystopia MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Superheroic

The Divided States

The United States approximately 1,000 years in the future after the Faro Plague caused by Ted Faro(HZD). After the extinction of life on earth, CYAN was instructed by GAIA, to activate the Yellowstone volcano, burying the inactive machinery under lay...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Military Modern

Coffins of Iron

Humanity endures in the long shadow of extinction. Once shackled by the Vendrasi—the Scourge; cold alien masters who bent mankind into servitude wi...

Dystopia Gothic Hard Science Mecha Military

Etagard

300 years after Evermore's intergalactic conflict, humankind is at the height of civilization and technology. Understanding of the universe at large, some believe, is complete. Only the explorers know that things beyond comprehension still lurk unsee...

Dystopia Mecha Political Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Cybersmily's Cyberpunk 2020 World

[p]This is the world of Cyberpunk 2020 and contains information about the campaigns I ran or currently running. My players can find details about the world, NPCs, places, etc here to help them navigate the campaigns I run here.[/p] [p][articleblock:6...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction

Willscor

[p]A large and varied planet, ranging from desolate wastelands devoid of life to arctic harsh climates to lush forests, the nature of Willscor is in balance, but its people sure are not. With constants strife between superpowers, both beneath wraps a...

Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban

Earth-618

A divergent timeline from Earth-616, which begins at the end of the second World War. (1945).

Cyberpunk Dystopia Superheroic

2099: Europea

A world in chaos, ruined by the climate and the following rebellions and raids. People joined together in so-called Mega-cities, enormous conglomerations, each with their own distinct vision. There are currently 4 of these Mega-cities known, at le...

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Modern

Verge Drive

The world of the Verge Drive is an homage to the convoluted, confusing, and down right unrelentingly complicated narratives of the fighting game genre, paying tribute to such titles as Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and Mortal Kombat....

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy

Die Siegel der Magie

[/col3] [aloud] Was ist DSDM? Dies ist ein Dark-Fantasy Projekt, deren Geschichte und Lore von verschiedenen Autor*innen ergänzt wird. Dafür benutzen wir den unten verlinkten Discord S...

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Horror

Mulvreksh

El mundo de Mulvreksh es uno lleno de magia, intriga, conflicto, historia y drama, uno en el que nada esta decidido y todo es posible. El Setting Consiste en diferentes esferas de planos materiales los dos principales son Gaia y Evergarden....

Asian Inspired Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Romantic

falmoth

Ancient Atompunk Cyberpunk Dystopia Fairy tale

Calims Reach

[p]Calim's Reach is the battle laden Sub-Sector of the Grim Dark universe of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40000 which contains the setting for the Battle Barge Tabletop Gaming Cruise's narrative play! With the advent of the Cicatrix Maledictum, the tit...

Biopunk Comedy Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia

Aeloria

In the Name of Aeloria, We Rise! [p][/p] Planet Veridera [p]Veridera—a planet of breathtaking vistas and sprawling megacities—serves as home, refuge, and cage to its people. Beneath the shimmering skyline and meticulously manicured...

Dystopia Mecha Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Earth, Year 2267

Earth in the year 2267, post WWIII where nukes irradiated large swaths of the United States and Europe, sea levels have risen and flooded coasts. Florida is gone, London is a floating city.

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction, Modern

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE

[container:ipa-home] [container:ipa-home-nav][url:#allegiances]FACTIONS[url:#characters]CHARACTERS[url:#fleets]SHIPS[url:#history]HISTORY[url:https://www.worldanvil.com/w/i-pledge-allegiance-grumpy-old-guy/c/stories-of-i-pledg...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Exploration

Undearth

'They say that, in the older times, light gave strength to a person. That since our ancestors chose to run, chose to dig, we have slowly become weaker and weaker over time. No one knows how far down humanity has gone in the last six centuries. We dig...

Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Horror

Long War

Contrary to humanity's expectations, neither leaving Earth nor expanding throught the Galaxy could change human nature. When Mankind expanded throughout the stars, its problems expanded as well. Both in number and in scale. Most of them will...

Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

Spheres of the Gods

[p]Once the capital system of the galaxy-encompassing, technologically unmatched The Saikar Empire based on the human homeworld of Bastion, the Hy...

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Mecha Science Fantasy Transhumanism

The Daoverse Chronicles

[p]Your boundless journey through the Daoverse begins in a small, seemingly insignificant corner of an almost empty universe: Teel.By now, seven generations of Settlers gave birth to their chil...

Asian Inspired Atompunk Biopunk Cyberpunk Dystopia

Nyvarra the world of Drakharis

Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Flintlock Political

The Reign of Dreus

Toril, the world of the Forgotten Realms is a world of many countries and continents, but this world will simply cover one part of the continent of Faerun. However, the Sword Coast is a realm of many different peoples and governments. From city-state...

Dystopia Fantasy Political Sword & Sorcery

Calyria

Calyria is a world dominated by radical philosophies, where corporations and ideological groups have seized power, leaving states powerless. In the wake of this ideological takeover, a large part of society has lost their rights before the eye...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Political Speculative

The Dark Utopia

The dark utopia is a gloomy dimension that lies beyond the usual universes. A kind of extra-dimensional dungeon, in which the worst beings of different universes were banished, corrupt gods and cosmic horrors can be found here as well as the long-for...

Dystopia Speculative Surreal

Arcturus IV

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Historical Horror Medieval

Caelides

This is the world after the grand convergence event that returned Heaven, Hell, and Earth into one unified realm. It resembles the primordial realm from the begining of creation, yet a mallignant rot and cold has taken hold and spread across the worl...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Sword & Sorcery

Occulta Mundos

Season One — Current Running Canon Seventeen-year-old Xander Javier Astral moves from Liberty City's violence and grief into Centennial Springs' polished systems of recruitment, surveillance, experimental medicine, and hidden power....

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Isekai Science Fiction

Alpine City 2056: Year Of the Rats

[quote] “Welcome to the Jungle, we’ve got fun and games…” — Guns N’ Roses, “Appetite for Destruction”, 1987[/quote] Alpine City, northwest side, Patrol Sector 8 … your own little slice of Hell, nestled in Neo-Corp paradise....

Cyberpunk Dystopia

Almora - Steampunk Campaign

Welcome to Almora (The Steampunk adaption), a world created for my friends to ruin, fuck with, bring to its knees, play Pathfinder 2e with a steampunk flavor.

Clockpunk Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Steampunk

Augmented Valor

[p]Set in 2829 CE, Augmented Valor is a cyberpunk noir science fiction setting in a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear World War III and two nuclear wars with self-aware machines, with no Skynet. [/p] [p]The Earth was poisoned by the wars, leavin...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Military

aeloha

a world of imperialism and revolution. science and magic, not unlike earth. a realm of myth and adventure.

Dystopia Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Steampunk

QuickSilver City

Welcome to Quicksilver City [p]Hermes brought you here. What happens next is yours to decide.[/p] [p]Mercury Rising is an adult, story-driven Second Life supernatural roleplay community set in 2035, within a pocket dimension created...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Post-modern

The Ophelia VII 'Dust Zone

Ophelia VII is the oldest Cardinal-World in the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man, second in sanctity only to Holy-Terra itself. A world of mile-high cathedrals, linked by avenues lines with statues of thousands of Imperial Saints. Here, beneath th...

Dystopia Fanfiction Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Tolvara Sub-Sector

It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies....

Dystopia Science Fiction

Degenesis: Rebirth

Apocalyptic events shook the world in its foundations: Asteroids crashed into it, the climate changed and a deadly plague killed a large part of the world's population. Humanity was driven into hiding. It took quite some time but eventually humanity...

Dystopia Modern Post Apocalyptic

Warscape

Project: Warscape Lore Compendium for a TTRPG set in a dark fantasy world of war, conquest, and morality in an ever-expanding, consequential landscape of heroes, villains, and those who strive to become something greater. Character developm...

Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Political Steampunk

Graves of the Departed Empire

[quote]When you look to the future, do you imagine a utopian world filled with Cities-on-the-Hill or do you imagine a world crushed in darkness?I give only the two options because I find that everyone gravitates one way or the other. Very lit...

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Transhumanism Urban

Earth Post-Infection

How long ago the world ended, I have no idea. What I do know is this. I am a traveler, seeing many people and many stories. These are some of them. The Shotgun Guy, I couldn't get a name, provides a symbol of protection, two shotguns crossed in fro...

Dystopia Exploration Military Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Crux Umbra

[container:primer][p]Earth is no longer the world of the living.[/p] [p]Thirty years ago, the mages burned it in their fury.[/p] [p]Now, the vampires reign supreme in blood and ash.[/p] [p]As for humanity?[/p] [p]What little remains is hunted through...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Horror Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

Ars Re

Dystopia Fantasy Post Apocalyptic

Future's Seen

It is the year 2121. The Great Rewind has happened in the recent past which has resulted in the technology being rewound to the 1860s - 1880’s. Future’s Seen centres around the City of @[Birden...

Dystopia

Ascent of the Old Ones

This is a homebrew setting focused around the concept of a D&D world progressing in technology, and taking to the stars. The setting is inspired from various bits of sci-fi and post Apocalypse, such as Fallout, Battlestar Galactica, Far Cry...

Dystopia Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

The Vau

Welcome to The Vau, the central location of the series: Time of the Paragons. This is the tale of the events surrounding the dual system of Bora and Kvum, a red and brown dwarf star respectively, and the four habitable planets orbiting Kvum, known as...

Dystopia Flintlock Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

Estya

The world of Estya is the setting in the (hopefully) upcoming fantasy novel A War of Men and Demons and is a land torn apart by centuries of war. It is a world where magic runs through the earth itself and in the blood of every Estyan. From th...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

Gilead System

The worlds of the Gilead System have stood for millennia as a beacon of Imperial order, located in the coreward region near the border of the Segmentum Solar and the Segmentum Obscurus. The numerous habitable planets and moons of the system were disc...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Science Fiction

Cyberpunk Gold

Welcome to the year 2078! Taking place just after the events of Cyberpunk 2077, Night City is bustling and is as deadly as ever. You understand more than anyone that the only thing that matters here is eddies and fame, and after a recent streak of...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Post-modern Science Fantasy

Hegemony International

Hegemony International is the foremost manufacturer, distributor, and servicer of best-in-class systems. A thought leader in multinational business, @[Hegemony](organization:9ab51e8c-eb...

Comedy Dystopia

Allianz deutscher Länder, Nordrhein-Ruhr

[spoiler]Willkommen in der Allianz deutscher Länder, Mitte 2081 im schönen Allianz-land Nordrhein-Ruhr und um Genau zu sein im Rhein-Ruhr-Megaplex dem größten Megaplex der Welt. Hier kommt alles zus...

Cyberpunk Dystopia

Try Again

Civilisation is a shadow of what it once was, an old-world filled with clues. Overgrown cities and stories of old fill the plains of trash, but no one knew the real story, the real reason everyone was set back in time. Hello, and welcome t...

Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Young Adult (YA)

Bread Will Walk

[p]Appetite, care and the difficulty of remaining yourself[/p] [p]Magret knows her brother is still Gerben. The hungry city sees something else. As his body becomes bread, a familiar gesture can matter more than a name, and the distance to safety can...

Dystopia Fairy tale Surreal

Aiur

Welcome to the world of Aiur (pronounced I-er). A land filled with people of all walks of life, and hero's of all ranks. The world has only recently recovered from the Great Shadow War only 20 years prior. Great adventure awaits throughout the land!...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Sword & Sorcery

Az-Atla Realm of the Lost Moon

For over 50,000 years, Az-Atla has existed. Never fallen and ever-growing under the care of the Devouring Mother. She has crafted civilization from the ruins of time. She has nurtured the discovery of wisdom, technology and magical wonders for her ci...

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

Gelihay

[p]The Gelihain Crisis[/p] [p]"A princess is missing. A god is awakening. And the world has forgotten why it feared the dark."[/p] [p]Princess Sanra has mysteriously disappeared from Carleigh Palace in the city of Dwen. In her absence,...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Sword & Sorcery

Datapuls Nürnberg

Willkommen im Datapuls Nürnberg, einem Setting für Shadowrun 6. Das Datapuls befasst sich mit Nürnberg und dem Allianzland Franken, wobei die Informationen zum Teil aus offiziellen Quellen stammen, zum Teil aber auch selbst entwickelt sind. Da...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark

The Corporate States of America

The election of 2020 revealed to the world that Facebook could still win presidencies. Mark Zuckerberg's secret democratic candidate, funded by a "well meaning" Silcon Valley elite, won with 70% of the voting public. It felt like a revolution. It...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fiction Speculative

Era of Ecstasy and Darkling

The magical people are dismissed from the human kind. Theres a group of kids who have became an orphan because they have failed the test in the kingdom. They all come together. But they all have secrets holding onto them. The misfits group come t...

Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Romance

Rime

The City of Rime is lauded to the outside world as a haven for the magically gifted, where they can use their magic without fear of repercussions, harassment, or arrest. Founded when public opinion began to turn against those gifted by the Starfall t...

Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic