Golden Age

Not to be confused with Golden Age of Ethras.

The Golden Age is a legendary era in the lore of Urnud, invoked as an idealized, “lost” past. In accounts from the Daban Urnud, it is cited by Gan Odru when explaining how a former Gan interpreted ominous visions as glimpses of a mythic Golden Age.

Context and Usage

• A later Gan recounts that his predecessor received visions of devastation—robed clergy slain, churches torn down, books burning—and, drawing on Urnudan legends of a Golden Age, believed he had been shown scenes from that idealized past. Those scenes are now understood on Arbre to align with the event known as the Third Sack.
• The belief that the visions related to a Golden Age informed a strategic decision on the Daban Urnud to alter course in pursuit of the perceived source of those messages.

Characteristics

• Functions as a mythic yardstick or ideal within Urnudan culture; no formal periodization or institutions have been described.
• Referred to as “lost” and “mythic,” emphasizing its status as tradition rather than documented history.

Current Understanding

• Within present narratives from the visitors, “Golden Age” serves mainly as cultural context explaining how Urnudan leaders framed what they took to be ancestral signals. Subsequent interpretation on Arbre relates those visions to known historical calamity rather than to an Urnudan past.