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>Why does Japan have a hard on for this concept?
Because not only it is a Very interesting one It is also presente in many mythologies around the world.
The greeks for example believed in a Golden age of Men, in which we cohabited with God and daimons and lived long lives.
The twist here is that now that we know the looks of a hhperadvanced civilization, It is no longer Magic, but technology, but the way we progressed into the iron age (the common age of mankind) was by our own sin in both.
Japanese games tend to incorporar e mythology and gnosticism really well on their games. Most narratives of kill-god are really gnostic in conception, and generally tend to mix with mythological histories retold.
And well, this is a concept that has appeard in some older D&D modules, só It is not japan exclusive as well... Wizardry also did this in a sense with its space travel narratives after 6