Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-25936766-20160817124320

BenRG wrote: There is some indication that human civilisation on Remnant goes through cycles of development, growth and extinction and a die-back to hunter-gatherer barbarism. Remember back in Players and Pieces? The big fight occurred in a ruined city at least as large and sophisticated as Vale; all reduced to ruins like Mountain Glen would millennia later. That was almost certainly a ruin from the previous Cycle to the current one. I see no indication of any cycle. All I see is the remains of cities or kingdoms that did not last as long as the 4 Kingdoms, and fell long ago. Given how old the ruins look compared to current Vale, I say it's just proof of "a fallen kingdom from long, long ago", not a proof of any cycle of figurative death and rebirth.

Also, from the ruins we saw in the Emerald Forest Arc, what says it's "as large and sophisticated as Vale"?