Clearly, something changed and plunged the country into chaos.
However, it’s known from the intro that"wars" are what brought the world to ruin.
Only a few people seem to have any knowledge of the past.
This indicates that people with the Gift were used as weapons of war, even then.
It’s possible that their destructive potential magnified the casualties, speeding up the collapse of society worldwide.
The Gift is transferred to people via the Meridian Chamber, which was built 500 years ago.
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As the show acknowledged, that’s around the same time the Cataclysm happened.
Theoretically, this could be a coincidence, butthe bloody history of the Giftmakes that scenario extremely unlikely.
(Aramis Knight), who traverse a post-apocalyptic world set 500 years in the future.
Into the Badlands follows Sunny (Daniel Wu) and M.K. (Aramis Knight), who traverse a post-apocalyptic world set 500 years in the future. Premiering in 2015, Into the Badlands was created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and aired on AMC until 2019 when its third season came to a close.
