Talk:Age of Dark/@comment-1025093-20140911221245/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190720193325

Technically it's a lie that it's the Age of Fire.

To be specific, the Age of Fire, is the age of everything after whatever world-shattering event happened to disrupt the Grey Age of equillibrium into Disparity with the igniting of the Fire.

The Age that has been occurring since at least Gwyn and Co's defeat of the Everlasting Dragons is the Age of Light.

The Age of Dark will also occur during the Age of Fire, since it will still not be the Grey Age. The whole system, since it was disturbed from the Grey Age, is like a pendulum, or several pendulums, swinging back and forth with measurable periods. Life and Death have a short period for humans, and a much, much longer (but apparently not infinite) one for the "gods". Light and Dark on the other hand, possibly due wholly or in part to Gwyn's interference with the natural course of the universe (the "first sin"), have a much longer period. Because the system is already in motion, only an outside or phenomenal interference of the sort that ignited the First Flame could have any hope of stopping the oscillations of Disparity, so it is almost certain that another Age of Light will follow the Age of Dark.

The real danger here is that if the Age of Light is held onto for long enough, forever slipping gradually back to equillibrium, they could actually cause the Age of Grey to resume by dispersing or fully merging the effects of the disparate and opposed pairs of the Lord Souls.