The predictions were announced, but no one listened. The warning whispered in the ear of the people will not have had the desired effect. No one prepared. Neither the leaders, nor the inhabitants, cloistered in their peace far too good to be real. Blinded by the stability installed in recent years, everyone believed that it would last, far from bad language and dark predictions. The era of miseries that some people readily rename the era of peace begins in a maelstrom of incidents which erupt without warning but which were nevertheless so predictable. The mistakes of the past are undeniably repeating themselves. Each new era brings with it a lot of grief and the consolations are only temporary.
