Your anecdotes don ' t prove anything . Any animal with entrails hanging out could have them stuffed back in and live if they aren ' t damaged and it ' s lucky enough to not get an infection . The rate of survival would go significantly up in a sterile environment with proper treatment . There are plenty of other reasons to see a vet . For example , a dog with heart worms will likely die without treatment . <| sep |> Its a flat circular world that ' s slowly being consumed as the universe shrinks around it . About a century before the ' present ', people woke to see the corpses of ten thousand gods fall from the heavens . Heaven had been consumed without them knowing and most of the top tier gods were gone . A few years later , a kind of shimmering skin of sorts began to inch across the sun . When the sun was consumed entirely , its light was diffused across the entire sky . There is no day or night anymore , but a dim , milky light across a monochromatic sky . Eventually , the impassable mountains that ring the edges of the world were consumed and people saw the edges of reality . Anyone who touched it died . Objects thrown against the edge vanished . If a person touched the edge and was holding another person , both died . The edges are closing in slowly , but at a steady speed . As entire geographies and nations were lost , society broke down . Groups of refugees and apocalyptic cults joined together to form the Pilgrimage , which is a massive caravan that travels the shrinking world growing in size . The area around the center has been heavily fortified and is protected by the few lesser gods who survived . There are about twenty or so years before only a few square kilometers of the world will remain .