Innocence and Hope
The elders confessed they wished to preserve those two qualities which they themselves no longer seem to possess, or at least not in any of their purer forms: innocence and hope. Filled with cynicism about whether they or their children can or even should endure in the modern world, they fled, naively believing they could leave it all behind. But they were not obliged merely to establish their colony, but also to create an entire world containing terrors that the outside world is no longer gullible enough to believe.