The world was just like anyone thinks happened, that bing bang hullabaloo, and a bunch of other here's and there's that made Earth and the Sun and Cradle and blah blah blah..
But before the knights even existed, Cradle's inhabitants were still alive. 
The world existed much like it did many years ago, life already thriving into it. But, there was one entity that scared and brought fear into many of the beings.
The Void.
It could twist light into a shadow,
Abolish flame into nothing,
Crumble the earth into dust,
And arise the weakest of souls.
If the future was full of the Void, bringing the pain and fear into the knight's future while they were still weak, how would the future look like? Would we all be searching for other planets because our own were destroyed? Or would we fight valiantly and die the same way?