The Lore of The Last Of Us is RELENTLESS

The world didn’t end with bombs or blood. It ended with breakfast. A missing worker in Jakarta. A contaminated grain shipment. A quiet bite of toast. By the time we realized, the Cordyceps fungus had already taken root—in food, in cities, in people. Hospitals fell. Flights landed infected. Military orders turned into mass graves. And through it all, Cordyceps never screamed. It simply spread. This is the full lore of the outbreak—how it started, how it fractured humanity, and why it never truly ended. From Outbreak Day to the birth of FEDRA, from collapsing cities to airborne spores that turned the world into a graveyard… Cordyceps didn’t just destroy us. It replaced us. And if you listen closely— in the tunnels, in the ruins— it’s still spreading.