Formed from a new age religion group based on the teachings of Porfiry Zherdev, this group survived the end by taking advantage of nature itself. One group eventually took refuge in the Moscow Zoo, repurposing the zoo cages to house shattered animals that they trained for raiding other survivors to spread their way of life.
In Zhedevite pantheistic theology, divinity is "Nature", "Birth" or "Generation" itself, conceived as "the head of everything", a personal, omnipotent and ambivalent force, capable of bringing any entity to life or to death (portraid as an anthropomorfized half woman with the head of a great elk). After the shattering, the zherdevichs incorporated the glass as the fifth element in their beliefs, thought to have birthed from Nature’s anger.
Housed in the overgrown Moscow Zoo, the Zhedevichs house, breed and train several animal species, sometimes capturing shattered animals and sometimes infecting them themselves. The religious leader, known as Parshek, is a man named Chendev.