The key thing here is that when it sucks for people in the First Age, it sucks much more than it does in the Second Age. Sure, maybe nobody dies of cholera. But in the Second Age, entire cities aren’t transformed into living crystal or squid-monster. As bad as the Perfect is, he is much nicer than …
How Solar Rule Actually Went
The actual history of the First Age went like this: Solars win! Yeah! Hey, let’s genocide and enslave every nonhuman race because FUCK NONHUMANS! Autochthon: Uh…. BYE NOW! (pop) Gaia: Holy shi… I mean… I must look for the Shining Answer. Love you Luna, later! (fly into the Wyld) Hey, let’s all fight each other …