#it doesnt help that it's narratos with different amounts of knowledge in history telling their versions of the story

[dunmeshistash]

Hey! I was wondering if you'd have an opinion on this? It seems to me like the term "Ancients" is used to refer to both the original Ancient Race, and to the very early people after the apocalypse caused by the Demon (likely mostly the long-lived races). For example, Kabru discusses how "The Ancients" conducted experiments around dungeon resurrection on the short-lived races, but by definition these did not exist during the Ancient Race's time - and neither did dungeons as they do currently.

I guess it's similar to how we talk about our own history, like we tend to chunk together hundreds of years together like when we talk about the roman empire (which google tells me lasted over a thousand years)

I think when characters like Kabru and Marcille talk about the ancient civilizations they are talking about the ones who created the dungeons, there is records surviving from that time or else Mithrun wouldn't have known that they sealed the demon inside the dungeons, I think the dungeon experiments might as well have been conducted by those people or by the people who rediscovered the dungeon after the guy wished for everyone to die and those would probably still be considered ancient by present time.

Actually from Mithrun's version of the story I don't even think he knows the difference between those two sets of ancient people, and that's the knowledge the canaries have so it's probably the most complete understanding of ancient civilizations and the demon that the characters have.

Also I don't think Dungeons changed much from back then, mostly they were buried and then rediscovered from what I understand, like these were "ancient dwarven ruins" when "ancient elves" used it as an outpost, they were called ancient 1000 years ago

It's confusing honestly idk

After writing all this I'd chalk it up to the fact all of them have incomplete knowledge of history both because there's forbidden knowledge and knowledge that's only known by the Demon so to them it's all the same ancient civilization?