-Book of Sacrifice-
Forbidden within the Holy Nation.
An ancient scripture from an unknown author:

"The great father Chitrin was betrayed by his children; broken by their sins and their lack of faith. And so the great father's powers diminished and calamity erupted; but only when the lands began to swallow themselves did the children plead for help. Only at a time desperation and fear, did their devotion burn it's brightest.

But the great father was pure and forgiving, so he sacrificed himself for his beloved children. To give them a new chance at life, he cleansed the planet of it's sickness. But the task was too much, and Chitrin was split in two reborn, one of light and one of dark.

-Mass Extinction IV-

A super weapon or sizeable destructive force could have been well within the ancient's capabilities and would explain the significant loss of land. Too much power was the ancient's downfall - when civil war and internal discontent finally hit them, the result was devastation by their own hands.

Were the skeletons the sole master race? I doubt it, the theory of skeletons being the dominant inhabitant is thwarted by the fact that they did survive: Why did they not rebuild their empire? One explanation: Perhaps the memory loss is responsible for this, a last resort defensive maneuver made by their enemy, the ancients seemed intelligent enough to devise such a radical psychological weapon after all.- Idad

-Cultural Groupings and Evolution-

How did our current cultures come into being and is there relation to the ancients? Evidence suggests the existence of lesser tribes which may have survived the mass extinction due to different genetic makeup to the ancients. However whether their existence coincides with the timeline of them, we cannot confirm.

And what about the differing characteristics between our present races? Environmental evolution is a likely cause of our rather drastic changes in appearance to one another, or even mutations from the industrial remains of the ancients. We share the same main features to suggest we share the same roots at least.

As for the ancient master race, given the advanced level of technology used by them, it's a very real possibility that they were not from our lands but in fact an alien race of settlers in search of new natural resources. Our, then, primitive ancestors would have been powerless to repel the invaders from their homelands, but instead lived at a neutral distance from them. Whether alien or simply a whole new life form to us, the level of brain power they possessed was something beyond our own physical means.- Idad

-Okranite Theories in Relation to Findings-

The Okranite scripts, although rather eccentric, are some of the oldest legible texts salvaged to this day and may offer a useful insight into the history of the ancients.

The most notable point of their teachings is that of the enemy: The demon 'Narko' and her skeletons. Was Narko in fact the leader of the skeletons and Okran an ancient human who managed to save the few remaining survivors from destruction in a battle between the two sides?

This still does not explain the malice for other races, other than a simplistic fear of those who are different. The most plausible explanation would be that non-humans were born from the lesser tribes of the time which the ancient humans warred with. These tribal societies would have been seen as inferiors incapable of grasping advanced concepts and thus feared as contaminating their pure blood.

-Scripture of Radiance Vol1&2-

"Born out of the darkest depths of the world came Narko, the Shadow.
She sought to erase all that is good, if not for our saviour Okran.
Both battled for millenias in the skies until light overcame dark.
Narko was restrained, absorbed into the Lord Okran's being.
But, alas, Narko The Deceiver's defeat was not the end.
While both fought their war in the skies, split in two once again,
Narko's spawns were ravaging our world, created out of hate and malice.
Against mankind, her Dark Agents were hurled."

Holy scripture written by the Holy Lord Phoenix I:
"In our darkest moments came the brightest light, the Phoenix. Okran had sent us his champion, one that would restore our faith and banish the Shadow.
Phoenix came with the everlasting Sacred Flame, the promise that Man would once more live free.
He saved us from both shackles and beastiality and united as one with the Holy Bindings. One by one, the Dark Ones were now slain by the blade of our restored faith. When Narko's minions were subdued and Narko herself banished deep under the earth."