As far as Dai Wenquan is concerned, "Lord of Mysteries" still has a small flaw, at least the handling of this point is not satisfactory, and it needs to be revised when it is broadcast as an anime version in this world.
This flaw is the name of the era. If the prehistoric era is not included in the original book, history is divided into five eras, namely the Era of Chaos, the Era of Darkness, the Era of Cataclysm, the Era of the Gods, and the Black Iron Era.
The Age of Chaos is also divided into the early and middle stages. The Dark Age is the budding age, the Age of First Glory of Fire and the Twin Age. The Catastrophic Age is the age of glory and the age of disaster.
The Fourth Age of the Gods is relatively complicated, and has gone through the Age of Strife, the Solomon Dynasty, the United Empire, the Four Emperors and the Pale Age.
The fifth Black Iron Era in which the current protagonist Klein lives, although it spans a thousand years, does not have various eras to distinguish like previous eras.
From the perspective of Klein's era, it is not incomprehensible to divide history into so many eras.
But from a historical perspective, this distinction is somewhat deliberate, because the era itself has no meaning, but it is the artificial definition of distinction that gives them the distinction of being called.
And in different times and places, everyone's names for the eras will be different, and it is impossible to have this kind of unified planning beauty.
Therefore, in the "Lord of Mystery" anime in this world, Dai Wenquan modified the details of these scraps to make the era division of "Lord of Mystery" more realistic.
Of course, these era divisions cannot be revealed to the audience and the protagonist in the first season of "Joker". They are gradually revealed as the plot develops.
It's just that compared to the original book, the anime version of "Lord of Mysteries" in this world, Klein has to spend more energy to understand the era names.
After all, after this round of modifications by Dai Wenguan, in this world's "Lord of Mysteries", not only does Klein's time period exist, but there are also various names for past eras, and past eras also have different names for the past.
But Klein should be able to understand this. After all, he studied history in university, and he must be the most aware of these twists and turns.
In addition, Klein's status as a history student has also caused a lot of complaints on the Internet. The general idea is that he is forced to study history if he is poor.
This is not discrimination, but a very real problem in the 19th century, and "Lord of Mysteries" roughly corresponds to the 19th century on earth, that is, how can you learn history if you are poor?
History, like art and philosophy, was an aristocratic profession in the 19th century, or at least a profession that only a family with a sufficient income could study.
Based on Klein's family situation in "Lord of Mysteries", studying history is a choice that was made only because of the pain in the head, and it is very likely that he will fall into the trap halfway.
Especially in societies like the United Kingdom and the United States, in the preface of a doctoral thesis that Zhong Shanze read before traveling through time, the PhD candidate said that in order to survive, he had to work in a nursing home while studying.
Of course, Zhong Shanze can actually understand this kind of behavior. Historical scholars are always linked to Cthulhu. Chun Chun is just for the later plot service, and some plots are still linked to Klein's profession.
So let’s get back to the topic. In this world’s anime version of “Lord of Mysteries”, the first division of eras was during the Age of Fire in the Dark Age, by the ancient gods of the metahuman camp. Made.
Of course, at that time, they were only anti-human gods, not pan-human ancient gods. After all, the emergence of the definition of "ancient" meant that new gods had been born, at least at that time there were still no gods.
Because the metahuman camp has a higher degree of civilization, they feel the need to sort out the past history so as to better serve the present.
Especially in the ancient era of the Dark Age, language is magical. By naming the current era, their combat effectiveness in certain situations can be improved.
Although the main purpose of their gathering was to form a pan-human alliance to fight against the gods of non-human alliances, dividing eras was just a side note.
This meeting of the metahuman gods divided the era into the old era and the new era, which corresponded to the era of chaos and the era of darkness.
If you think about it, you will understand how it is possible for those meta-human gods to call the era they live in the "Dark Age"? So their name is "New Era", a brand new era, symbolizing their bright future.
Since the gods only gave birth to spiritual wisdom in the "New Era", they know very little about the old era. Even if they know some knowledge, they cannot talk about it in front of the public.
So there is no need to discuss the era division of the Old Era (Chaos Era), you just need to know that it was the Old Era before that.
For the new era they created, they divided it into three eras: the past "Era of Germination", the ongoing "Era of First Glory of Fire", and the "Era of Glory" that will eventually come.
At this time, the propaganda of the meta-human camp is that with the cooperation of all the ancient meta-human gods, they will be able to defeat the non-human ancient gods and lead everyone to a better future and new era.
Therefore, they define the current era as the "Era of the First Shining of Fire", that is, when the flame of light is just burning.
When the non-human gods are defeated in the future, the fire of Chu Yao will burn throughout the world, so that beautiful era is called the "Glory Age".
Then there was the well-known betrayal, which led to the fall of the ancestor of the blood race, the Destruction Wolf and the Alien King, and the meta-human camp collapsed.
The expected glorious age did not appear. After all, the first brilliance of fire was just the first brilliance and failed to illuminate this cruel world.
The "Era of the First Glory of Fire" was replaced by the "Era of the Five Tribes", that is, the age when the five major ethnic groups dominated the world: giants, dragons, phoenixes, elves and demons.
Yes, this is not the "Twin Era" that was later defined. In that era, the five major ethnic groups' self-perception of the era was the "Five Ethnic Era".
Although among the five major groups, the giants and dragons are the most powerful, they do not have the ability to completely suppress the other three groups.
The reason why it later became the "Twin Age" was actually not because of the strength of giants and dragons, but because of their contribution to mankind's extraordinary path.
In the end, it was only after the ancient sun god awakened from Chernobyl and swept across the old world that the era came close to the title known in Klein's era.
