"It was all right by the typical standards, I think. A lot of teasing, as I'm a miserable hunter. But I wasn't going to learn what I needed to learn by staying - and men of my subspecies tend to leave home as soon as they're of an age where they can fend for themselves. Keeper of the Moon men don't lead tribes or even stay with them, they just mate and move on." It sounds strange to some, but he finds the idea of having a father around a strange concept in turn. "And there weren't. The era after that lasted a long while."

The event that ended it... well. He lived through it. So did many others. But many didn't and some places were forever changed.

How to explain? "... They opposed me and my fellow Scions. They wanted to make the world as it once was, and rejoin all the shards with the Source. But it would have killed everyone on those worlds... so we couldn't let that happen. One by one they opposed us, and one by one they fell."