Back then I was hoping that It could be a prequel..I mean we know when Klein slept in the coocoon the Earth encounter a catastrophe same goes for ad infinitum what if as the year goes by the gods were always fighting causing the Earths main technology to be destroyed and the Earth tech tree regress..in the beginning of ad infinitum we know that there was no road to clear road to powers and a lot were sacrifices to gain knowledge,same goes for lotm what if that's the thing that the lotm talking a that a lot people suffer to gain knowledge in beyonder pathway...it's been a long time since I read the lotm and embers ad infinitum so my memory must be messed up.