User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Dust is not magic/@comment-75.162.241.195-20130719191854/@comment-7472785-20130720084249

"The intro says:"man born from dust".So, dust created mankind, not the other way around."

That, to me, seems to be an allegory. The way I understood the intro was that Mankind was extant, but in danger of being annihalated by a hostile environment. Only after the discovery of Dust, or the invention of its application(s), did mankind prevail and grow.