I don't know. It happened generations before I was born. I've been out into the Silent World and- heard and read a little about when it all changed, I guess, but that doesn't mean I know the answers.

[ That is the thing, about the world collapsing all around you, and confusion and death and communication being cut off. No one really knew how it had happened. There isn't a neat story with all the facts that can be taught to future generations. Just... one day one world, and the next, a different one. ]

I just know that - we only survived because the gods protected us. They- [ SHOULD HE SAY 'YOU', THIS IS SO WEIRD, he is telling this story to a god, and yet not one of the gods who had intervened in his own world... ] -saved us from complete destruction.