History Main / DawnOfAnEra

For the [[EvilCounterpart villainous version]], see NewEraSpeech. For the complete opposite, see EndOfAnEra (though the two may overlap; the end of one era means the beginning of the next, after all). For related tropes, see TheMagicGoesAway and TheMagicComesBack.

* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': The end of R2 marks a LighterAndSofter version of Lelouch's plans from CodeGeass. [[spoiler: Megatron's threat of Neo-Ragnarok united the world against him]], and in the FinalBattle, almost all major decepticon players [[spoiler: were killed, turned coat or forced into hiding]]. The world is now being reorganized as a worldwide federation, and the monopoly on violence is being legislated out of existence thanks to [[spoiler: turning all military capacity over to The Black Knights with severe restrictions]]. With the collapse of their enemies, the Autobots now can begin demobilizing, and with [[spoiler: Cornelia bringing up a loss of usable resources thanks to the wars]], an expansion of the human race into space is on the verge of creation. And with the destruction of all [[spoiler: known thought elevators]], the capacity to exploit Geass has been seemingly lost forever.

For the [[EvilCounterpart villainous version]], see NewEraSpeech. For the complete opposite, see EndOfAnAge (though the two may overlap; the end of one era means the beginning of the next, after all). For related tropes, see TheMagicGoesAway and TheMagicComesBack.

* ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' acts as this for its series on multiple levels. [[spoiler: At the end of the game, after spending much of the story[[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] the series' [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo,]] the story ends with Knuckles, Amy, and Tails all going off on their own individual journeys to grow in their own ways, beyond their bonds with Sonic. It also marks the beginning of a whole new storyline for the series as a whole, having dealt with the ancient evil (THE END) that caused the beginnings of the series by causing the Chaos Emeralds to end up on Sonic's world in the first place.]]

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the Pirate King, Gold Roger, ignited the Golden Age of Piracy with his death.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' starts with an EndOfAnAge and ends with this.
** As does ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''. To elaborate, ''XIII'' covers the end of [[spoiler:Cocoon, where fal'Cie ruled humanity]] and the birth of a new human civilization [[spoiler:on Gran Pulse, free of fal'Cie (and particularly Lindzei's) rule]].

** The vanilla campaign of the relaunched ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', ''A Realm Reborn'', ends with the leaders of the Eorzean Alliance proclaiming the end of the Seventh Umbral Era, a five-year-long age of calamity since the original game's ColonyDrop, and the beginning of a more peaceful age, the Seventh Astral Era.
* The end of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' has this and an EndOfAnAge. The age of Greek Myth, with its gods and monsters all dead, is over and the world is on the brink of ruin. Even the Fates are gone. But in his final moments, Kratos released the power of Hope, a power great enough to kill gods, to humanity. The survivors will be able to rebuild civilization free of the gods' influence and as masters of their own destiny.
* The fourth ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' game had this as its CentralTheme. In the wake of the world of Enroth's destruction, those who managed to escape in time to the world of Axeoth must rebuild without repeating the mistakes of the past:

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has an opening crawl in which FirstContact between humanity and the many other species of the galaxy is said to be one of those - yeah, it did start with a short and brutal war, but it was called off quickly, and thirty years later humans and turians are sort of VitriolicBestBuds. Then the Reapers came to ruin everything. The endings, particularly in the Extended Cut, can show another dawn on a much larger scale, if Shepard [[EarnYourHappyEnding really hauled ass]]. The krogan may have started their cultural renaissance, moving beyond brutishness. The quarians and geth may share Rannoch peacefully. [[spoiler: Depending on the ending, the Reapers might be part of it too.]]
* The ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila'' campaign pack ''Age of Charlemagne'' see's the rise of the eponymous King Charlemagne at the very dawn of the medieval age.

* A darker example occurred on the 16th of July, 1945 (at 5:29 AM) with the successful test of the first nuclear bomb at Trinity. It would be followed shortly after by the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki, and with them the Cold War and arms race as the threat of nuclear war suddenly entered the public consciousness worldwide.