Photo Source: Unsplash When the Light Began to Fail No one could remember the exact day the Sun began to dim.   There were guesses, of course—charts drawn by astronomers, endless debates in the Council of Solace, folk tales muttered in the market squares. Some said it began when the last glaciers collapsed, when the oceans swallowed the eastern coasts. Others claimed it started centuries earlier, when wars blackened the sky with ash that never truly dispersed. But ask anyone alive, and they...