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From Cataclysm to Myth

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From Cataclysm to Myth	comment	Hundreds of years After the End, the apocalyptic event that caused the current state of the region/world/universe has become myth and integrated into local beliefs. The surviving version of the tale can be twisted and fragmented, but remains comprehensible to the viewer (or the time-traveler) who knows of the events when they are recited by the Wasteland Elder. More often than not, the time that ended was ours. If done badly, it often hits the audience over the head with the premise. If done well, it can be one of the coolest things ever. This has actually happened, on a smaller scale, with Mount Mazama (nowadays called Crater Lake) in North America; and with the capital of the wealthy Minoan civilization, which they built on a convenient horseshoe shaped island in the Mediterranean. Which turned out to be the crater atop a (temporarily) dormant volcano.note Technically, Thera (on the volcano) was a minor town; the capital was inland in Crete. Still, between the tidal wave and the ash-cloud, trade and agriculture in the eastern Med. took a while to recover, and the civilization never did. Some researchers suspect the same of Estonian folktales and a prehistoric meteorite. It's theorized this inspired the legend of Atlantis. A subtrope of All Myths Are True. Compare Legend Fades to Myth. Cousin to Earth All Along, but a premise or a plot twist rather than a Twist Ending. Compare with Future Imperfect, Lost Common Knowledge, Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair, Humanity's Wake, And Man Grew Proud, and We Have Become Complacent. See also Lost Technology and Pointless Doomsday Device. Examples
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_112decbc	comment	Planet of the Apes: Two variations — the Sacred Scrolls that told of the downfall of mankind, which Zira and Cornelius had access to but most apes didn't (they were taught that apes evolved from man), and the story of Caesar's rise told by the Lawgiver in Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The two have similarities, and editing tried to make them seem the same, but the original story had Aldo saying "no" first-this could have been some sort of later change in the story over the years, if the 'closed circle' timeline is believed, or it could imply that Caesar changed history somewhat from the original timeline.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time is set in a post-apocalypse. The event that left the world in that state is known as "The Great Mushroom Wars". It is shown in one episode and the series finale that the world will be ravaged by a catastrophic war again and that the events of the show fade into myth several hundred years later.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: The Magister Lords of the Tevinter Imperium learned it was a very bad idea to try to storm the Golden City and try to usurp the Maker's power. A Dragon Age II DLC reveals that the story is at least partly true, as they meet an ancient Darkspawn who claims to be one of the Magisters to attempt this and get punished for it, but also claims the city was corrupt by the time they reached it and were infected by its poison. Dragon Age: Inquisition reveals Elves and Humans are similar after all; those face tattoos the forest elves have are actually old slave identification tags. All of the down-to-earth traditions are simply echoes of the civilized elves pushing their slaves into the dirt, before their civilization fell from a war that caused an international incident.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_1be9854a	comment	Sound of the Sky: There was a giant winged creature that fell near Seize on the distant past, but the main religions on the show don't agree on what the creature was and what happened; they only agree on the point that the Fire Maidens saved the day. It is, however, implied to be related to whatever went down in the semi-apocalyptic war against "Them."
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: The Men of Eriador know little about the war between the Elves and their Mannish allies against Morgoth which led to the sinking of the subcontinent west of the Blue Mountains, and their own unclear oral traditions only tell tales of a terrible ancient war which ended in great fires, earthquakes and floods which killed all men who dwelled beyond the mountains.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_223c2a48	comment	Breath of the Wild plays this twice, with the two moments being interwoven with each other. At first, the Sheikah are explained as having created amazingly advanced technology that kept Hyrule safe from any danger. But one King of Hyrule eventually became scared of its advancement and banned it from being used again, leading to most of the Sheikah's few technology to be millennia old. At the same time, there is the threat of Calamity Ganon, which was driven back with the help of the Sheikah's advanced technology 10,000 years ago and sealed by the Princess' divine powers with the chosen Hero's help. When Calamity Ganon's return seemed imminent, King Rhoam decided to have the ancient, forbidden Sheikah creations excavated and be used against him again. It ended badly for Hyrule.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_291daa72	comment	Riddley Walker: The "Eusa Story" — society's main cultural and religious ritual — is a garbled version of humanity's nuclear-assisted downfall in the "1 Big 1".
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_29565801	comment	The introduction to the adventure game Inherit the Earth takes the form of a series of cave paintings, with the narrator explaining how Humans created the various races of Morph — giving them "thinking minds, feeling hearts, speaking mouths, and reaching hands." Before they could teach the Morph the secret of happiness, however, some terrible calamity befell them. Now the Humans have gone — where, no Morph knows — and their furry children can only wonder at the strange things they left behind.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2bf8bd9	comment	Shining Resonance: Legend tells how, during Ragnarok, the High Elves fought alongside the Shining Dragon and the World Dragons to stop Deus and its Dracomachina and Dark Elf minions from wrecking havoc on the world. Except it's later revealed that it was the High Elves who created Deus in order to harness the World Dragons life energy without the Ancient Songs. But Deus eventually grew beyond their control and unleashed chaos. So the High Elves fought to seal Deus away to atone for their transgression, while the Dark Elves fought for Deus still believing they could use its power for themselves.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2c6d1f5	comment	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: The introductory narrative by the Feral Kid. A similar intro-narrative can be found to a lesser extent in The Blood Of Heroes.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2db80c56	comment	Empire of the East: The myths that grow up around Ardneh by the time of the First Book of Swords would certainly qualify. Interestingly, Ardneh brought about the proverbial "end" by making nuclear war impossible.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2de0de5b	comment	The Shattered Sea: The legends speak of elves, who were destroyed in a cataclysm that left behind elf-ruins and magical artifacts with a level of technology far beyond the books' viking equivalent setting, as well as rendering some areas uninhabitable. It's implied in the first two books, and all but confirmed in the third, that the elves were modern or near-future humans and the cataclysm was a nuclear war; the uninhabitable areas are still tainted with radiation. The map in the front of the book bears close similarities to the Baltic sea, with the main countries involved located in Sweden.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2e6be66a	comment	It is unclear how much of the vague, over-the-top legendary backstory of My-Otome is true and how much is just an ignorant dramatization of the real events. The Administar, for example, is definitely something the locals have no idea about (given what Miyu does to it in the end), which doesn't stop them from reciting symbolic poems devoted to the "guiding blue star", supposedly written by the Ancient Astronauts from Earth.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2e79ce7a	comment	The war and subsequent apocalypse in Odin Sphere wipes out practically every person alive at the time. It is read about in what appears to be a series of fairytales by a little girl. The little girl turns out to be the descendant of the few survivors.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_2e97466d	comment	In the Ys series, the miners of Esteria ignored the ancient warnings against mining Cleria, a magic ore that is responsible spawning the demon army that ravaged the ancient kingdom of Ys. Also, the Clan of Darkness, who in their pursuit of knowledge and power destroyed much of their and Eldeen civilizations.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): A variation occurs in "Lithia" as it takes place less than forty years After the End and the accompanying myths have been deliberately created. The teacher Ariel, whose grandmother Hera remembers life before the Great War when men ruled the world, tells the children of the enclave that, in the aftermath of the war, the Goddess unleashed a plague known as the Scourge which killed all surviving males as punishment for their evil.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_3558eaa2	comment	Parodied in the Community episode "Geothermal Escapism", when one of the characters ominously tells the tale of the arrival of the "Now-Now Time", a post-apocalyptic warzone of warriors and bandits that befell the community after the coming of the "Burny-Touch" which made the floors lethal to touch. To put this in perspective, however, what they're actually discussing is the society they've created a couple of hours into a game of Hot Lava which has overtaken a community college, and the world they live in is merely the result of the characters taking a children's game way too seriously. Then again, the characters of Greendale Community College have a tendency to treat everything as Serious Business.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition reveals Elves and Humans are similar after all; those face tattoos the forest elves have are actually old slave identification tags. All of the down-to-earth traditions are simply echoes of the civilized elves pushing their slaves into the dirt, before their civilization fell from a war that caused an international incident.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_3b0464ea	comment	The Chrysalids: The exact nature of "The Tribulation" is never specified, but it's implied to be a nuclear disaster of some kind and believed by the characters to have been a punishment from God.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_3c53ffa8	comment	In Rush's Rock Opera 2112, the Priests of Syrinx cite the pride and frivolity of "the elder race", as exemplified by rock music, as the cause of its destruction. In contrast, the protagonist (and by extension Neil Peart) argues that human pride is to be celebrated, and envisions the eventual triumphant return of the elder race to free mankind from a life of enforced mundanity.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_4cfbcc07	comment	Symposium: Aristophanes recounts a myth about how people once had four arms, legs and eyes, but due to some misbehavior the gods grew angry and Zeus split them in two with thunderbolts — thus separating people from their soulmates or their "other half." The myth is retold almost exactly in a song called "The Origin of Love" in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_526d4c5c	comment	This is the Sand People's motivation for attacking everyone else (who they consider to be 'separating themselves from the soil' with technology), as translated from their oral traditions, in Knights of the Old Republic. They had just started their space-faring era when the Rakatans found them. They enslaved Tattooine, stripping it of resources, and "seeding the stars with penitent, complacent slaves." The slaves revolted, and sabotaged the machines, retreating into underground caves. The Rakata responded by blasting the planet to glass ...which ground into the vast oceans of sand we all know and love from the films.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_531b8f34	comment	Scrapped Princess: It is revealed in the end that the medieval world that the characters live in was an artificial enclave for humanity built on a section of Earth's crust elevated from the rest of the world. Mauser, the deity of the world as well as other mythological characters are actually individuals who lived and fought in the era when humanity was robbed of most of its technology, ostensibly after losing a war against an alien race.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_55145659	comment	In So I'm a Spider, So What? the ancient civilization was nearly destroyed in an apocalyptic war with the Dragons, resulting in the world's energy being stolen and the System created. The Goddess Religion has the most accurate retelling of those events, but even that has been warped.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Silmarillion: The Men of Eriador know little about the war between the Elves and their Mannish allies against Morgoth which led to the sinking of the subcontinent west of the Blue Mountains, and their own unclear oral traditions only tell tales of a terrible ancient war which ended in great fires, earthquakes and floods which killed all men who dwelled beyond the mountains. The Fall of NÃºmenor: As the centuries go by, the chronicles of the Drowning of NÃºmenor gradually morph into tales about an island inhabited by a powerful but arrogant civilization which was mysteriously and suddenly destroyed by a giant wave or some kind of disaster.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has at least 3 apocalyptic events. In the first, the Exalted helped the Gods overthrow the Primordials; in the second the Sidereals used the Dragonblooded to overthrow the Solars; and in the third the Deathlords spread a plague that allowed the Fair Folk to invade — this one would have destroyed the world if not for the not-yet Empress. The first two apocalypses have been relegated to rather inaccurate legends, partly through the efforts of the Sidereals to cover up the truth.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: There was a powerful demon that threatened to wipe out man, but a single wizard defeated the demon and became known as the Wizard King. They became legends ever since. However, it turns out it wasn't as simple as that. The elf tribe was attacked by humans who apparently feared the elves for their great magic power, and the elf elder summoned an ancient demon god in response. The story later became butchered, however, saying that the elves were demons who wanted to control the world instead, and that the demon god was the elder himself. In truth, neither side is very accurate as there's a third side to the story.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Common in Dungeons & Dragons settings, with the eponymous dungeons often being the ruins of past civilizations, many having brought about their own destruction by various means: In Dragonlance, the kingdom of Istar was destroyed when its Kingpriest attempted to rise to godhood. All of Istar was annihilated by a "mountain of fire", while the rest of the world was wracked by rains of fire, earthquakes, and other disasters. The Cataclysm shattered civilization and a few hundred years later, much of history is only known through legend and song. While they were already in decline before Karsus' Folly, the Netheril Empire of the Forgotten Realms considered themselves the greatest magical imperium of all time, and they may have been right (excluding the Sarrukh), building feats of magic unheard of in later eras, creating spells of near-divine power like Proctiv's Move Mountain and Iolaum's Longevity. But the pride of their greatest Archmage, Karsus, "Hubris in the Blood", became their literal downfall — in attempting to claim the mantle of the goddess of magic for his own, he briefly cut off all Toril from the source of magic — causing whole empires to fall in moments, quite literally in the case of Netheril and its flying cities.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_6ce548a1	comment	In The North Remembers, Braavos sinks to the bottom of the sea after a great tsunami hits the city. Arya, after regaining her memories and watching the city's destruction, believes that this trope will happen in effect later on in history.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: In Wind Waker the record of Hyrule's existence and its destruction by flooding is left mostly intact, but it's seen as more of a legend than a historical fact. Skyward Sword also plays with this. It's generally explained that humans used to live beneath the clouds before a war that was so severe the Goddess had to lift them on floating islands into the sky. Later in the game Link is tracing an old song that tells where the Plot Coupons are hiding, and Fi corrects the village elder on the inaccuracies in his oral history. Breath of the Wild plays this twice, with the two moments being interwoven with each other. At first, the Sheikah are explained as having created amazingly advanced technology that kept Hyrule safe from any danger. But one King of Hyrule eventually became scared of its advancement and banned it from being used again, leading to most of the Sheikah's few technology to be millennia old. At the same time, there is the threat of Calamity Ganon, which was driven back with the help of the Sheikah's advanced technology 10,000 years ago and sealed by the Princess' divine powers with the chosen Hero's help. When Calamity Ganon's return seemed imminent, King Rhoam decided to have the ancient, forbidden Sheikah creations excavated and be used against him again. It ended badly for Hyrule.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_76e7de99	comment	While they were already in decline before Karsus' Folly, the Netheril Empire of the Forgotten Realms considered themselves the greatest magical imperium of all time, and they may have been right (excluding the Sarrukh), building feats of magic unheard of in later eras, creating spells of near-divine power like Proctiv's Move Mountain and Iolaum's Longevity. But the pride of their greatest Archmage, Karsus, "Hubris in the Blood", became their literal downfall — in attempting to claim the mantle of the goddess of magic for his own, he briefly cut off all Toril from the source of magic — causing whole empires to fall in moments, quite literally in the case of Netheril and its flying cities.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_76e8ecc7	comment	In the Flash Gordon TV series, planet Mongo used to be a lush, Earth-like world. The current people of Mongo only have vague details of what caused the Sorrow. Their culture was advanced in those days, but they used up their natural resources. So they turned to their moon and found a large supply of a previously-unknown rich mineral. The supply was so vast, they built two new moons as processing stations. Then the mineral supply blew up, with all that stuff raining down on the planet, contaminating it. Only a few million people managed to survive by hiding on one of the artificial moons. After a century, they came down to find a toxic world. By chance, an underground water supply was found in one place, where they built their city.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): It's hinted that ancient myths and legends of the apocalypse and the fall of civilizations such as Atlantis originate in actual acts of destruction the Titans committed upon ancient and prehistoric civilizations. An Easter Egg reveals that before recorded humanian history, a war broke out when Advanced Ancient Humans attempted to enslave the Titans they'd once worshipped as weapons of war, and the Titans fought back, triggering a war, which caused a global cataclysm that decimated the Titans (with the surviving creatures withdrawing into hibernation due to the cataclysm triggering an ice age), and which reduced the advanced ancient humans to scattered remnants around the world; remnants which forgot their origin over many generations and eventually gave rise to the ancient civilizations of recorded human history.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_7f707367	comment	The Space Sim Descent: Freespace has several cryptic cutscenes telling of the fall of an ancient civilization in the style of an oral history — paralleling the assault on humanity by the game's Big Bad. The sequel's opening cinematic retells the apocalyptic events of the first game, and their consequences, in the same way.I remember stories of a glorious civilization... of people with myths of humanity everlasting... and they hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_8c87469c	comment	Skyward Sword also plays with this. It's generally explained that humans used to live beneath the clouds before a war that was so severe the Goddess had to lift them on floating islands into the sky. Later in the game Link is tracing an old song that tells where the Plot Coupons are hiding, and Fi corrects the village elder on the inaccuracies in his oral history.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: Reference is made to the giant Mosk in the First Age who threw lightning and could hit a target anywhere on Earth, waging war on another giant, Merk. Fans speculated (with author Robert Jordan confirming later) that was a garbled retelling of the Soviet Union (capital Moscow) and the US (America-Merk) breaking out into a nuclear conflict with intercontinental ballistic missiles. Only a few more scattered legends of the time are still around, along with some ancient artifacts. However, while this wiped out civilization, humanity bounced back eventually... Then it happened once again with the magitek civilization from the Age Of Legends collapsing after trying to gain a better source for the One Power, which inadvertently opened a gateway to the Dark One. Wars and cataclysms followed, though there is more known about that era as its more recent, plus some people from then get reincarnated and relate some of their experiences.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_94a41eac	comment	The plot of Radiata Stories. Humanity is regularly wiped off the face of the earth by dragons because 'their arrogance pollutes the world'. Scraps of previous civilizations remain and become shrouded in myth
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series has this present with the Dwemer (Deep Elves or "Dwarves") of northern Tamriel. Haughty, egotistic, and very cruel at times, they made mechanical devices, metaphysical theorem, and buildings using technologies and materials centuries more advanced than anything seen since. The Dwemer were very Naytheistic, acknowledging the "gods" that the other races worshiped, but not considering them to be beings truly worthy of worship. (It's said that they would intentionally summon Daedra, even Daedric Princes, just to test their divinity.) They went so far as to try and make themselves gods, and managed to vanish completely, the whole race, every one of them. No one, still living, really knows what happened to them, but one prominnent theory is that they eventually became so powerful and arrogant that they became skeptical of reality itself, and tried to use the heart of a "dead" god to break themselves down into the base elements and then reforge themselves into ascended beings, and either succeeded or got the reforging step wrong. In either case, all that remains of the Dwemer is the ruins of their old civilization, for adventurers, scholars, and looters to pick through. Several cities seen throughout the series are built on top of ancient Dwemer cities (Mournhold) and/or incorporate parts of the Dwemer cities (Markarth).
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: The Long Night, an invasion by a race of elf-like beings called the Others, who plunged the world into a night lasting a generation. Supposedly, it led to the creation of the Wall and the Night's Watch. In the present day, the Long Night has been dismissed as a fairy tale, and nobody is sure whether a generational-spanning night actually happened. The Others certainly exist, however, and are slowly making their way to the Seven Kingdoms.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_9f2fe1ec	comment	In Pugmire, the ancient race of Man is long gone, leaving the various Funny Animals of the setting with a variety of legends and theories of what it was actually like and what happened to it. The dogs of Pugmire tend to favour the version where Man Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence, leaving the dogs as their natural heirs if they can only prove themselves worthy by piecing together the advanced technology they left behind. The Cat People of the Monarchies of Mau, on the other hand, tell a story of a race of favoured servants who treacherously abandoned their feline masters without telling them where the can opener was...
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_a2dee471	comment	In Wind Waker the record of Hyrule's existence and its destruction by flooding is left mostly intact, but it's seen as more of a legend than a historical fact.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_a3f4bb95	comment	By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent BenÃ©t, a short story about a young man, John, describes the past apocalyptic event that ended the "gods" era as "The Great Burning" while describing it with language ("fire falling from the sky", "deadly mist") that is suggestive of bombs, poison gas and or nuclear fallout. In the future, surviving tribal humans believe that the ruins of New York City are really The Place of Gods, where none can go. Notable in that it was written in 1937.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_a4b1b4dc	comment	The Fall of NÃºmenor: As the centuries go by, the chronicles of the Drowning of NÃºmenor gradually morph into tales about an island inhabited by a powerful but arrogant civilization which was mysteriously and suddenly destroyed by a giant wave or some kind of disaster.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_a825da3e	comment	In the Magic: The Gathering storyline, the Thran peoples, the makers of many of the world's most powerful artifacts, were mere legend by the time Urza and Mishra showed up. And then Urza himself was a mere legend (though still alive as a planeswalker) by the time the Weatherlight Saga began. The storyline for the Zendikar block is much the same. In antiquity, the fearsome Eldrazi ravaged the plane and nearly ended it in the process, before being sealed away. Millennia later, they are only remembered as the Kor and Merfolk pantheon of gods and are, ironically, worshiped as lifegivers of the plane.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_b0666b59	comment	The Neverwinter Nights series, which takes place in the Forgotten Realms, makes several references to the fallen empires of the tabletop setting. Details are often loose, but often involve villains attempting to reclaim the forgotten magic and ancient dominions of the old empires for themselves. In Shadows of Undrentide, one of the mages of Netheril survived as a lich, and while he was slain by the Harpers, his apprentice seeks to raise the lost Netherese city of Undrentide and reclaim Netheril's ancient legacy.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_b5e05a50	comment	Cloud Atlas: In the future, a nuclear something or other has destroyed the world. Why? Because the future humans wanted "more".
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_babc3924	comment	Mario & Luigi: Dream Team: Mention is made early on of the cataclysm that caused the Pi'illo Kingdom to vanish far in the past, and that it's still not known exactly what happened. Prince Dreambert provides more details about this once you meet him.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, human history up until and through the war with the Iron Men that destroyed the first great era of human civilization lingers as myth, cultural superstitions, and the occasional archeotech weapon.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, the first time the party reaches the End Of Time, they hear about a great, long dead civilization that could wield magic, but fell due to its own arrogance. Then they travel to the Kingdom of Zeal, 12,000 BC, and see it actually happen.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Played for laughs in the serial "The Mysterious Planet", in which an underground colony of survivors on a far-future Earth renamed Ravalox which has been ravaged by a fireball refer to three sacred texts that are the only few surviving books they have, which govern their lives and their views of the world before the apocalypse, and which are trusted to learned scholars to unpack their meanings. They are, however, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, and a guide to the UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose by 'HM Stationery Office', which is apparently the most mysterious. The Doctor is not impressed. Not played for laughs in the framing story, The Trial of a Time Lord, that contains the above. He rips into the entire basis of Time Lord society for its arrogance and greed in "putting an ancient culture like Earth to the sword to protect a few paltry secrets."
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_c565e657	comment	A Canticle for Leibowitz, a book by Walter Miller, makes massive use of the trope, including references to great metal catapults that threw fire and a Catholic prayer against the curse of the Fallout (believed by a main character to be a horrible incubus).
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_c6220b6e	comment	Lumbanico, the Cubic Planet: Seven hundred years before the beginning of the story, the Lumbanicians burned enough fossil fuel to create a massive Black Cloud which descended upon the planet's surface. The Lumbanicians fled to the mountain ranges to escape from the Cloud and remained in the Aristas several months before daring to return, finding their cities and environment destroyed. In the current era, nobody remembers the location of the passages and tunnels to travel through the mountains, nobody knows what the Lumbanicians found in the Aristas' inner vales, and most of History books are missing important information about the Great Shame.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_ce616005	comment	Power Rangers GPX: Played with. the ancient, 10,000-year-old war that helped set the plot in motion is well-known to elves, but humans have forgotten it. But it's believed that the myth turned into Atlantis.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Zig-Zagged. Technology in the Capitol, After the End, far exceeds what we're capable of now, but the lower Districts are like third world countries. Likewise, some Capitolites are well-educated enough to know about the history of the world Before the Dark Times, but Katniss only has a very vague idea of the Dark Days and the world before Panem.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003), the evacuation of the "original" homeworld of Kobol, which occurred some 3-4,000 years in the past due to a civil war between the humans and an earlier group of proto-Cylons who went on to colonize Earth is vaguely recalled in Colonial history as having happened due to a war between the gods.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_d4d17cca	comment	Uglies: The reason Tally's dystopian world is necessary is because the Rusties did some totally bogus and brain-missing stuff in the past that culminated in environmental and technological menaces they engineered destroying their society.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_d9919dda	comment	Last and First Men: The primitive people of the First Dark Age come to believe that their ancestors, the people of the First World State, were struck down for growing arrogant and trying to equal or oust the gods.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_da02c1ef	comment	The intro of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door talks of this, of old Rogueport as a thriving city of peace and a golden age until a cataclysm struck, as can be viewed here. It turns out the event was due to the actions of the Final Boss.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_dc54ae35	comment	In Dreamkeepers, The beginning of Volume Two and Three has an excerpt from the historical volumes of one Nainso Ziska II, esq., giving a brief summary of the events of the last novel.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_e5a09d95	comment	In Forest Hill, various religions have formed around the expectation that humanity will return.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts takes place on Earth in the late 24th century, nearly 300 years after an event known as The Great Cataclysm or The Coming of the Rifts. The Cataclysm occurred after a minor nuclear exchange in South America during a rare conjunction of supernatural events which caused a psychic backlash that nearly wiped out all humanity. During the period where the game is set, Humanity has only recently begun regaining a place for itself in the world, and the world before the apocalypse is almost entirely unknown, referred to as the Time Before Rifts, the Golden Age of Humanity, or simply the Time of Man. Considering the Coalition States has access to the Great Chi-Town Library, possibly the largest repository of Pre-Rifts knowledge in the world, they could very well be one of the few groups with any knowledge at all of what really happened. Of course, being the Coalition and all, it would be perfectly in-character to suppress such knowledge and spread propaganda that makes it look like magic and D-Bees are to blame.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: Before the age of Man and Machine, the Old Ones created many wonders of steel spires and magic devices, but one day they disappeared. The Nora teach that the Old Ones became proud and turned away from the worship of the All-Mother, leading to her casting them and the Metal Devils down. Other tribes have similar stories. Aloy adventures to discover the truth: It's less humanity as a whole as it was one man. After a worldwide effort to restore the Earth after environmental catastrophe, Ted Faro, one of the architects of that restoration, pivoted his company to military contracts and eventually to autonomous self-replicating war machines fueled by biomatter. He specifically ordered that they be unhackable, as a selling point. But there was a glitch with one of the swarms, and they stopped accepting orders to stand down. Meaning that there was now an endless, unstoppable tide of machines that would devour everything until the Earth was nothing but a toxic rock. By the time the glitch was discovered, it was already too late to stop. A brilliant scientist, Elisabet Sobeck, created Project Zero Dawn and an artificial intelligence named GAIA to re-terraform the Earth after the swarm ate everything, including creating a new human race educated with all the knowledge of mankind's mistakes. It all worked... except for the part where Ted Faro deleted the subsystem that was supposed to educate the new humans, meaning that they were eventually unleashed upon the new world as young adults with kindergarten education.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_f43685a2	comment	Battlefield Earth: The cavemen have forgotten that aliens invaded Earth and destroyed all human civilization 1000 years ago, instead believing that demons came down from the sky because the gods were angry.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 In "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars," the fourth season Flash Forward episode, a thousand years in the future (from the mid-2200s the show is set in, not from now) a nuclear-or-better war which took place 500 years prior has reduced the Earth to a medieval-at-best culture; holy books refer to the main characters and the events of the show, and of the "Great Burn" which devastated the planet. J. Michael Straczynski has mentioned that he knows Canticle well, and while he wasn't directly ripping from it, the situation was too perfect. Interestingly, it seems this is confined to Earth; humans living elsewhere are no less (and possibly more) advanced than the other spacefaring races, and aid Earth with minor technological advances slowly so as not to repeat the errors of the past. "Thirdspace" has the Vorlons doing this in the backstory. They left a warning message should the Artifact of Doom be rediscovered, explaining that "...we committed the First Error, the Error from which all other Error flows: The Error of Pride."
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_f8d75ff5	comment	Mortal Engines: In the original series, it's referred to as the Sixty Minute War and is known to be the devastating conflict in which the Ancients (us) wiped themselves out, but in the prequels starting with Fever Crumb, the same event is called the Downsizing and is believed by many to be the act of the gods smiting arrogant humans and their technology.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_f9742e61	comment	Dragonriders of Pern: The people of Pern were amazed to discover that their ancestors had arrived from another planet. Though by that time, it wasn't even a myth, it was completely forgotten.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_fc8b102d	comment	The common folk of Crystalis have only vague accounts of the end of modern civilization and the subsequent rise of magic and monsters. A few elders and rulers of The Empire, however, know that mankind engaged in a nuclear war that wiped out most of the cities and technology on the planet.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_fe64929a	comment	Divine Blood: Twice. First was the tanar with the KT event being theorized by the silthine. Then it was the war between silthine and tanar that destroyed civilization a second time. Then humans develop and rename the two races Demons (tanar) and Gods (silthine). Current hopes include avoiding a third civilization ending event.
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From Cataclysm to Myth / int_febb8460	comment	NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind opens with a vaguely medieval tapestry showing the hubris and fall of man. However, it is implied later on that their records of the industrial past are basically intact, if a bit threadbare (heh). After all, the society still has advanced technology, even if its resources are stretched so thin that it can't afford to use it much.
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