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'''[[Nodwick]]:''' Virtually none... Magic has supplanted technology, and the secretive nature of its practitioners has resulted in most knowledge becoming lost. We're a feudal society, wars are common, and there's the monster problem. [[Medieval Stasis|Plus, constant conflicts between the gods ensure that little philosophical progress is ever made]].<br />

'''Zorion:''' You people must drink a lot.<br />

* The ''[[Halo]]'' universe, of course, had the highly advanced Forerunners, who were forced to activate their Halos and destroy themselves and all sentient life in the galaxy to starve out the Flood.

** There's a great quote in Halo 2 from one of the Halo [[A Is]] that demonstrates the amount of time that passed:

* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' has Those Who Came Before, a shadowy group mentioned in the first game that the Knight Templar claim that all human technology is reverse-engineered from. {{spoiler|The second game reveals that they are a powerful race that once existed on Earth and created human in their own image. They were defeated however, when humans revolted against them and won because of their sheer advantage in numbers. Both factions were devastated, however in an apocalyptic event. Gods and goddesses in world religions are distorted memories of these people.}}

* This is a cornerstone of the most fundamentalist elven religions in [[The Elder Scrolls]]. In The fundie basis of elven religion, it holds that reality is a prison that souls are trapped in by the trickster Lorkhan when he bound his fellow greater gods to form the Mundus, but was tricked in turn and killed. In more Man-based religions, it's held that the pre-creation divinity state was the prison, and the mundus is a proving ground in which to transcend beyond the original gods, with Lorkhan (or "Shor" as he's known to the most [[Rated "M" for Manly|manliest race of men]], the Nords) deliberately failing to do so himself in order for all else to "know how ''not'' to fail". In [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]],the Thalmor, a [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|nazi analogue]] that seized power in Summerset Isle (the ancestral home of all elves), is attempting to unravel all of reality in some mad scheme to return to pre-creation divinity. How? Throughout all the previous games, several pillars holding reality together were destroyed or otherwise depowered (Numidium, Red Mountain, White-Gold Tower), and reality was basically being held together by reverence and worship in the first known person to have undergone such apotheosis: Talos. The Thalmor have banned worship of Talos to undo reality.