About the comic


It's been 90 years after the end of the old world. Most of the surviving population of the Known world live in Iceland, the largest safe area in existence, while the safe settlements in the other Nordic countries; Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, are small and scarce.



Countless mysterious and unspoken dangers lurk outside the safe areas, the Silent world, and hunters, mages and cleansers will spend their lives defending the settlements against the terrifying beings. Because of a great fear towards everything in the Silent world no official attempts to explore the ruins of the old have been made, and most of the information about it has turned into ancient lore, known by few.


But now, at last, it is time to send out an research crew into the great unknown! A poorly funded and terribly unqualified crew, but a crew nonetheless.

Miscellaneous comic info: SSSS began in November 2013, and normally updates on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. In 2015 SSSS won the Reuben award for "best online comic-long form", which was mind-blowing.

World info pages

Easy access links to the various world info pages that pop up in the comic now and then, arranged in the order in which they appear in the story:

Adventure 1

Page 66: Map of the known world
Page 67: The different nationalities of the world
Page 68: The first rule
Page 86: Map of the Keuruu-Pori waterway
Page 87: Icelandic and Finnish mages
Page 102: The blessed felines 1/2
Page 103: The blessed felines 2/2
Page 118: The Cleansers 1/2
Page 119: The Cleansers 2/2
Page 156: The Dalahästen train
Page 178: Beasts, Trolls and Giants
Page 195: The Nordic Languages
Page 196: Old World language trees
Page 274: Vættur - Vätte - Maahinen
Page 275: Illness documentation 1
Page 300: The Dagrenning Program
Page 362: Dog Beasts
Page 411: Kallohonka
Page 412: Luonto
Page 437: Distances of Risk
Page 508: Sjødraug
Page 509: Fylgja
Page 584: Kitty in all the languages
Page 585: Nordic Word Comparison sheet
Page 629: Character Family Trees
Page 686: The Condition of the Soul after Infection
Page 751: Tuonela


Adventure 2

Page 31: The Urban Exodus
Page 32: The Famine
Page 50: Bæjarblaðið Newspaper 1
Page 51: Bæjarblaðið Newspaper 2
Page 67: The Cat Academy 1
Page 68: The Cat Academy 2
Page 88: The Saimaa channel 1
Page 89: The Saimaa channel 2
Page 150: Kade 1
Page 151: Kade 2
Page 177: Saimaalainen newspaper 1
Page 178: Saimaalainen newspaper 2
' Page 257: Kalma 1
Page 258: Kalma 2
Page 295: Wolf beasts 1
Page 296: Wolf beasts 2
Page 320: Lehto 1
Page 321: Lehto 2
Page 351: Bear beasts 1
Page 352: Bear beasts 2
Page 353: Sielulintu 1
Page 354: Sielulintu 2


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