The initial advertisements for "Exalted" placed the Age of Sorrows as the pre-history of the old World of Darkness. However, once the game was released such connections became uncertain: names and themes from the World of Darkness line run throughout the material, but rarely in a way that suggested a direct connection between one and the other. Meanwhile, some oWoD supplements also supported this; the Hunter Apocrypha gave a vision of the past that said that Hunters gained their power from the broken shards of the souls of great heroes of a lost age, which seems to suggest that Hunters carry fragments of Solar Essences. Likewise, the "Kindred of the East" supplement gave a structure of the Wheel of Ages (mirrored in "Exalted" first edition books as the Ages of Man) that seemed to accommodate the integration of "Exalted" and the classic World of Darkness, the former the first and second age, and the latter being the fifth age.