Isu

Those Who Have Come Before are the beings who created the Pieces of Eden and the other ancient artifacts like it. Exactly how long ago they lived is unclear, but their technology is far beyond anything man has created alone by the 21st century. If what Warren Vidic claims is true, almost every major technological advancement of the last Millenium has been achieved by reverse engineering their technology. If the claims of the Templars are true, the Pieces of Eden were created thousands of years ago and were responsible for every major miracle, in effect, at least in the Templars eyes, disproving the existence of God. What exactly they were or how they died out or vanished is equally unclear. The idea of the ones who have come before could be based on the ancient astronaught theory, where alien life visited the earth or the legend of Atlantis. Their technology is apparently easy to operate as even Al Mualim who presumably didn’t know how the Piece of Eden actually did what it did, was able to wield one with ease. Curiously they programmed the Piece’s of Eden to each display the locations of the others presumably when they are damaged, though why this was done is unclear.