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If we see the end of the age, that's [[End of an Age]] or [[The Magic Goes Away]]. May overlap [[Here There Were Dragons]], [[Lost Technology]], and [[Pointless Doomsday Device]]. See also [[Death of the Old Gods]], which is when a setting's ''past'' is described this way.
In [[The Middle Ages|medieval Europe]], the preceding [[The Dark Ages|dark ages]] were considered to be this, with Atilla the Hun, historical rulers, dragons, dwarves, and Gods figuring in Gotterdammerung ''[[Nibelungenlied
For alternate visions of the past, see [[Arabian Nights Days]], [[The Dung Ages]], [[Demythtification]], [[Time Abyss]].
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* [[Harryhausen Movie|Harryhausen movies]]: ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'', ''Jason and the Argonauts'' and the ''Sinbad'' trilogy.
* In ''[[Time Bandits]]'', the bandits use a hole in space-time to travel to the Time of Legends, home to all sorts of mythical creatures, and wherein is imprisoned the [[Made of Evil|Evil Genius]]. The implication in the story is that the Time of Legends is not a true historical time period, but rather a kind of [[Pocket Dimension|pocket universe]], only reachable by time-hole.
* ''[[
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''
== Literature ==
* [[Larry Niven]] wrote a book series called ''[[The Magic Goes Away (
* The setting of the ''[[Everworld]]'' book series, although in the modern day, is an alternate universe where all the mythological creatures and deities ''ran away to''.
* The Age Of Legends in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', basically a [[Utopia]] fueled by [[Magitek]]. It [[And Man Grew Proud|didn't]] [[Cataclysm Backstory|end well]].
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* The war 3000 years ago between the Old World and the New. The Keep, the Confessors, the Chimes, Chainfire, the Palace of the Prophets, the Bond with Lord Rahl, innumerable books of magic, constructed spells, the Journey Books, the Towers of Perdition, and even the {{spoiler|antagonist and the ''protagonist''}} are all remnants of that war, brought back as the last smidgeon of that war.
* The age of [[The Gunslinger|The Gunslingers]] in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' and of the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Great Old Ones]] before them. Basically same as the above.
* The Elder Days in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', especially the Great Tales descended from ''[[The History of Middle Earth
* Michael Moorcock's Corum books all open with a 'Time of Myths' introduction, which starts something like "In those days there were oceans of light and cities in the skies and wild flying beasts of bronze..." and goes on to recount this semi-mythical history for a while before an eventual segue into the story to date.
* In ''[[The
{{quote| "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."}}
* Tolkien's Middle-Earth is also one of these -- part of the fiction is Professor Tolkien claiming the [[The Lord of the Rings]] and its related works were translations of long-lost volumes, thus setting the action in a forgotten age of our own world.
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* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''
* In a land of myth, and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy. His name...[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]].
== Video Games ==
* The most egregious video game example is '''named''' ''[[
** Featuring Egyptians, Greeks, and Vikings fighting each other, and later the suspiciously Roman Atlanteans.
* A theme in the video game ''[[Dominions]] 3''; The Early age is an age where magic is commonplace. Mages are stronger, the various races are quite superhuman, and civilization hasn't progressed as far. Fast forward a bit, and the various civilizations have very developped metallurgy and are closer to a 1500s level of technology... and magic has dwindled. The non-human races have interbred with humans, and mages have become weaker.
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** Also into linear time, matter, and the world itself.
* ''[[Okami]]'' exists because of this trope.
* The Kingdom of Zeal in ''[[
* ''[[Titan Quest]]'' is an entire Action RPG about the Greek Time of Myths.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' and, to a much lesser extent ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' are this to ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', with [[The Magic Goes Away|magic going away]] more and more over the course of millennia.
* The ''[[God of War (
* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' seems to take place in this at first, but many of these elements are actually mixed with Science Fiction and actually takes place in the far future, but The elements for this trope are extremely prominent.
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== Western Animation ==
* Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'', which is (very, very) loosely based on the Greek myth of Herakles. To a lesser extent, Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' as well.
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