Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
Meanwhile the Ancients were defeated by a sound.
A sound that warped the very laws of reality, causing their creation magic to go out of control and create the terminus beasts.

Like, imagine if one day a sound emanated from our planet and then suddenly the laws of thermodynamics fell apart, gravitational forces all just reversed, cement became as soft as water, etc. You think any civilization is going to easily beat or recover from an event that basically attacked the very foundation of their existence? The Ascians basically used creation magic for the foundation of their existence, it's pretty easy to see why their very foundation being destroyed beneath them and turned against them would cause an apocalypse. Saying it was just 'a sound' is a massively extreme underestimate.

Also, I'd have to go back and look through text, but I'm 100% sure the game describes the Amaroutians as a 'star-spanning civilization'. They more than likely had many, many cities across the globe. Just when terminus beasts start showing up everywhere, it's hard to do a "gondor calls for aid" when everywhere is being attacked by the same threat. Like if an apocalypse were to ever strike our planet, every nation would probably be worried about itself rather than trying to call for aid.