However, per the commentary of multiple developers, the connections are deliberately tenuous, allowing players to be free to treat it as a prehistory or as its own world as it may suit their individual game. The similarities between "Exalted" and the new edition of the World of Darkness are even weaker. The Second Edition seems to imply that its story is the prehistory of our "own" world on its back cover, but this idea is not explored in any depth past that book; while the last book of Second Edition would posit a modernized world with the Exalted, it was clearly a technologically advanced version of Creation – the world of "Exalted" – rather than Earth.