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matti posted:It's the "Dark Age" ending (named so because the game was made by a bunch of libertarian freaks in Texas). Original Poster. I’ve never watched dark age before despite playing this game since 2001. Ends with a Khalil Gibran quote though. The Prophet used to be one of those books all the hippies had. The most famous quote from the book / Khalil is this: “And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” the implications of quoting Khalil Gibran are going to fly n over most folks heads :v
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To be clear Helios all the way.
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Typo posted:in North Africa the area was absolutely devasated by the Vandal invaders, but in Italy the Ostrogoths more or less took over the functionalities of the old Roman state and kept the old Roman civil institutions around, and that lasted until the Eastern Roman Emipre's attempted reconquest devasated the region. I also think there is a strong argument to be made that the social / economic organization of the “dark ages” was also clearly just a continuation. It’s still very much a society organized around the choices made by Diocletian and Constantine (and Aurelian on the military side).
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