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The fact that, when playing as Saint, The Echo referred to as 'Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets' says "How many have been consumed so far? Were we the tenth civilization, or the thousandth?" implies that the Ancients were not the first civilization to be brought to ruin by the Void Fluid. This may be supported that, in the background of the Void Sea, there are countless Void Worms that the player never gets to interact with. Basically, there were Ancients before the Ancients. Also, 'Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets' normally says the following: "So down into the depths you go as many others before you, drawn to the void again and again, an endless drip drip drip. Much like these tunnels and caves that amuse me so. The bones of forgotten civilizations, heaped like so many sticks. Did they dig too deep, or not deep enough? Fools. We were right to drill straight through them!" This means that the civilizations that came before the Ancients might've failed to ascend, and that they died out before they figured out how to do so. -🤓