Where Did The Ancients Go?

(Aeneas killing Turnus.)

Cosmenosists hope, then believe, that the Ancients went beyond and will return. Several volumes later, Fr Axor hopes that the Ancients had a divine incarnation. He cleverly puts a Christian slant on the mysticism surrounding the Ancients. We would like to know more about his researches.

Meanwhile, the Ythrian Erannath presents a perfectly plausible theory about what happened to the Ancients but it is so understated that we might miss it or have forgotten it by the time we read about Axor. The small, three-eyed lucks or slinkers are found on planets with Ancient remains. Kept as pets, they telepathically amplify their owners' emotions. Tinerans, addicted to perpetually amplified and re-amplified emotions, act like psychopaths. Possibly, the Ancients developed the lucks as pleasure sources but died from their effects.

This theory is not proved but fits the evidence and makes sense so it will suffice as a hypothesis until a better explanation is found. Accepting Aycharaych's identification of the Ancients with the Chereionites also explains what happened to the Chereionites. Meanwhile, however, Axor might still find what he regards as sufficient evidence that there was an Ancient/Chereionite Incarnation.