Nobody knows how or why it all happened, and actually it doesn't really matter. All of those people who argued about the end of everything, who warned, who threatened, who pleaded - those who hastened it, and those who tried to prevent it. All of them are gone. Long ago they became dust, and long ago that very dust has been blown into the skies, and washed in to the streams, rivers and oceans. Who could ever find it today? For a few short millennia, they ruled this earth with their great tools of metal and fire, but they couldn't rule themselves - and when they finally turned on one another, it was awful to behold. They might have created a heaven - but instead they'd created a hell, and it consumed them. Now, others walk this world...