Unfortunately, the power of the first flame did not last forever. As time passed, the power of the flames began to fade gradually, and the power of the "King Soul" possessed by Gwen and the others also began to dim at the same time. Several characters who possessed the title of "God" in the First Fire War became the first line of defense against the recession.

However, these characters did not get together at this point, with Nit returning to the giant's graveyard after the war to live in seclusion, and Heath the Scaleless becoming a "mad researcher" at some point, and eventually really driving himself crazy. Left behind to face the slowly approaching Doom, only the witches of Gwen and Izaris remained.

The wise witch tries to use her "soul" to create a new first fire, but her experiment turns into a great tragedy, and the "new first fire" she creates gets out of control, devouring her, her daughter, and her followers, mutating and twisting into a "hotbed of chaos", and her son becomes a "demon that continues to fester".

The situation was already critical, and the Sun King Gwen heroically chose to sacrifice himself, distributing his worldly power to his own heirs, and some of the "royal souls" to the other four kings. In the end, he threw himself into the first flame that was about to be extinguished, and once again burned the flame, and he became an empty shell that had lost his "soul", wandering in the land of the first fire for many years. Flash Dance

The "fire" burns the power of the "soul", and only by using the "soul" as firewood can the "fire" continue.

The Age of Fire was thus prolonged for a considerable period of time, but it also brought with it a side effect, which was the undead plague. The Undead Plague allows all people to live forever, and even if killed, they will be resurrected in nearby flames. This sounds like a good thing, but every resurrection takes away a part of the patient's consciousness, which is the "soul".

Those who lose all the power of their souls will become walking corpses and attack sane soul-wielders with a desire for souls, much like the monsters of the Eternal Night Plane that are now dominated by the forces of darkness. The undead began to appear all over civilization, and the rulers responded by arresting them all and putting them in the "House of the Undead".

In the years that followed, the power of the flame and the "king's soul" continued to weaken. And those kings who possess the power of the "King Soul" assigned by the Sun King Gwen also choose to throw themselves into the initial fire that is about to be extinguished again and again, and continue the flame. Eventually, all the "King Souls" that could be burned were extinguished, and the world entered the Dark Age, which resembles the plane of eternal night.

But fire and darkness are a cycle, and the embers left by the first fire of the previous generation in the dark age will flourish again at some time and for some reason, and the world will once again enter the age of flames. This repetition is the fate of this world.

But in one cycle, the world was invaded by another powerful foreign force. The rulers of the time tried to gather all their forces to resist, but ultimately failed. So they decided to forcibly divide the whole world.

Some of the "fire" was taken away from the divided world to become the charismatic realm, and the other part of the original civilization was not much involved with other "fire" to become the magical realm. The wizarding world had an accident at the time of its separation, causing it to split into more and more fragmented planes. Eventually, the remaining part has been completely eroded by an alien force, and that is the plane of eternal night. A world where all the "fire" has been taken away, and all that remains is the afterimage of the "fire".

The powerful alien forces in the plane of eternal night are also recorded as "old gods", and I don't know if they are the same concept as the "old gods" in the mouth of the crazy goblins and the "old gods" in the dream world of Xiri. Judging from the current situation in the Eternal Night Plane, the forces of the "Old Gods" should have already withdrawn, or it is likely that they have lost interest in this world before they have fully entered this world. Because the "Old Gods" had not yet fully appeared when the world was divided, and there were not many traces of the "Old Gods" in the Eternal Night Plane now.

When the world separated, most of those powerful people chose to stay in the more intact Divine Grace Realm. This was followed by a long cycle of alternating flames and darkness. The tall humans of ancient times gradually disappeared, and the original "dwarves" increased massively and became the main body of the new world.

However, the powerful ancient humans in the Divine Grace Realm have found a way to live forever after a long period of research. Based on some ancient research, they changed some of the rules of the charity realm as a whole, turning themselves into certain beings with the nature of primordial fire. They draw the power of their souls from the beliefs of the "New Humans" in the hope that they will be able to keep their sanity forever even in the Dark Ages.

It is these props that the ancient humans control the rules of the world, and they are fused into one by the last remaining part of the ancient humans. But now it seems that the plans of these ancient humans are still unsuccessful, and it is true that they can basically remain eternal, and it can also allow these "people" to draw "souls" from faith to generate reason.

The intellect that can be produced is not their own original intellect, but a new body of thought. In fact, the ancient humans have long since perished, leaving only some shells and the mental aggregate of the "new humans".

The change in the rules of the world has made it possible for any concept that is believed in by many ordinary people to gather the power of the "soul" to form a new aggregate of ideas, which is now called the Civilized Divine Residence. The wizarding world did not have these changed rules, so there were no civilizations. Maybe the gods couldn't have imagined that they were just a byproduct of some kind of rule change.

Even the City of the End doesn't know where the divided "First Fire" is, but it's likely that the legends know that maybe the crisis they're dealing with is also related to the "First Fire". But countless accounts show that the darkness is coming and that all attempts to stop it will fail.

Unknown history wants to understand history, but once the truth is known, there are more troubles belonging to those who know. Anyone who knows that sooner or later this world will experience destruction, rebirth, and reciprocation, will not be happy.

Moreover, Ciri has been frequently exposed to the concept of "Old Gods" lately, which gives him an ominous premonition. Perhaps destruction and rebirth are just the normal laws of this world, and the "Old Gods" are the real threat.

This is not unfounded, all the information related to the "Old Gods" represents destruction, destruction without rebirth. And in front of the "ancient gods", no power has been found that can match it. Even those powerful existences in history can only resist slightly, and have no power to fight back at all.

The strength of all those who fight against the "Old Gods" only determines the speed of destruction, and cannot affect the final result!