Talk:Ancient Civilization/@comment-73.212.35.64-20170422035601

The summary given here is way off. We have two ancients here, building what is presumably the ancient gateway, one holds a torch, the other holds a staff. the Staff embraces the power of the shadow and ascends to rulership, while the torch shuns its power and seemingly abandons both the Staff and its people, notice how the underlings are all facing only the staff. The shadow power, predictably, goes bonkers, but everyone is using it, some even seem to be worshiping it. When the staff is in some form of trouble, the torch uses their power in some ultimately mediocre display. Now in the final panel, we have the Staff who is still alive, not the torch. Look at the helmets, notice how the torch's helm is broken and hollow. he sits the throne and weeps over his dead civlization.