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Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand actor and film director. His work on screen has earned him various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. Crowe was born in New Zealand, spending ten years of his childhood in Australia and residing there permanently by age 21. He began acting in Australia and had his break-out role in Romper Stomper (1992). He gained international recognition in the late 1990s for his starring roles in L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Insider (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing the title role of Gladiator (2000), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Further acclaim came for portraying real-life mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001). Crowe then starred in several films in the 2000s, including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), American Gangster (2007), State of Play (2009), and Robin Hood (2010). Crowe has since appeared in the films Les Misérables (2012), Man of Steel (2013), Noah (2014), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Aside from acting, Crowe has co-own the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006.
The world stops on the American day of Independence, 1999. Upon the river of Padma, in the Bengali region, a devastating battle is fought between the kuei jinn and the newly-awakened antediluvian of the Ravnos, Zapathasura. For three days it rages, and kills, until the intervention of the Technocracy with neutron bombs destroy the bodhisattvas covering the skies with clouds. Weakened by the fight and the blasts, the eldest Ravnos succumbs. That is where the canon ends. ⠀ The End of Man India detects the nuclear blasts, and reports come in of the complete destruction of Rahsahi. Two million dead, there could be no question of the cause in their minds. The small-scale exchange of nuclear weapons between India and Pakistan quickly spills over into China, Russia, and onward. There is no restraint, there is no consideration of de-escalation or loss of civilian life. The effect is total, nearly half of the global population disappears in a flash. People are crushed in their home, flash-fried if close enough or caught in the firestorm as the flames engulf every flammable structure. Then the true dying begins.
