Board Thread:Advice from Ashy, the "Competent Zeref."/@comment-30807545-20161013104945/@comment-24384232-20161013172921

YO YO YO WHAT TIME IS? VOID TIME!!! Yes I'd imagine that the world of Fairy Tail had a very rich and complex understanding of magic. Is it no wonder that we have magic's such as Arc of Time, Arc of Embodiment, Tree Arc, and all those other wonderful Lost Magics.... oh... lost.

See I've always been an advent that the Dragon Civil War did more than bring about the extinction of the Dragon race (assuming that is even true, considering that Dragons had the ability to freely mindrape the human race... which all things considered is a huge plot element I'm looking at), but humanity lost pretty much all of its history and knowledge of magic.

Modern fairy tail magic is probably the most watered down, sub-species, of sub-species to exist. Despite the proliferation of mages, humanity is technically for the purposes of knowledge and understanding wise, in a Magic Dark Age. We know God Slayers exists but there are no mentions of any war with the gods, but we do know what happened to many of them. They hid. They are in hiding, or they're followers are lost or gone.

The world of fairy tail appears to undergo this cycle of destruction when it concerns magically powerful species, the gods, the dragons, and we have no idea what came before. I cannot even imagine living in a world where the earliest remnants of all human history are seemingly gone just shy of 400 years ago. That's terrifying. That is the complete and utter collapse of just all human civilization. Ponder that for a moment.