The world has since gone through many iterations, each one known as a Cycle. The Cycles of Lacrysia are always marked by a complete and total collapse of society typically due to some manner of apocalyptic event, and the deaths of each god in the pantheon, from which their divinity returns to a single source known as the Divine Flame. It's not known how the Divine Flame came to be, but at each Cycle's end, the divinity each god borrowed from the Flame returns to its source, killing the host in the process. This Flame then resides somewhere on Lacrysia until it's claimed by a surviving mortal, who becomes the first of the nexy Cycle's pantheon. They shed their mortal name and become known only as The Warden.