The Past - A Failed Future?

[Rána Eressëa]

I've often wondered how different it would be for this world if it had already faced a failed future of advanced technology. What if long, long ago a past civilization had reached it's peak of the same technology we're trying to reach now and had a major world war which destroyed everything they created? All this "magic" we hear about in history from the mythological periods B.C. - what if it wasn't magic, but things lost from an old world that they couldn't explain? How do you think that would effect us today if some of that "lost world" surfaced?

Better yet, if our own world faces this someday, do you think the people of the far future would know what really happened? Or would they start from the beginning all over again, with their descendants believing it all to be just myths?

Really makes you wonder about history.