/lit/ - Literature

>>23324798
I've had this one for a while, in a non-descript distant future the last remains of mankind have adapted to live deep underground and feed off geothermal gases that sprout from fissures in their enormous cave systems. They believe that man was pushed away by the gods to the inner earth thousands of years ago and the surface is inhospitable. They worship Fire and the Inner Sun. There are two suns, an outer, false sun which they worshipped in the past, and were punished because of it, and an Inner Sun, which feeds them its energies and warms them with its dark light. The priesthood decides that a select pious few must be sacrificed every few decades in exile as tribute to the Inner Sun-- The exiled travel to the surface and find the surface is not as inhospitable as described, the falselight does not burn their skins, the air doesn't choke their lungs, and while the landscape consists of endless plateaus and cliffs of granite rock, it is not impossible to survive. Small rivers are sparse, but do exist, and around it diminute yet digestible insects live and reproduce. Yet the exiled are forbidden from ever returning, they now only live to fulfill their last mission given before travelling: To roam the land in search of the last vestiges of mankind's Sin and burn it in holy fire. Man's first Sin was adoring the false light of the outer sun and the life that was born from it, it was because of this they were driven inwards. The exiled are sent to the surface to ensure whatever vestiges of mankind still alive above ground cannot flourish. The exiled find the last forest, the last bit of decaying civilization and they burn it to cinder. And this to them is the holiest and most rightful of ceremonies.
I'm only interested in writing Phiolosophy so I'd never be good enough to write this, but it sounds cool in my head. You could alternate the POV of one of the exiled protagonists with one of someone living in one of the camps/towns they will inevitably find and massacre. You could make it into a revenge story, though I don't find that as interesting. Also I once told this story to a friend and he said it was basically the plot of the anime Tengen Toppa Gurenn Lagann.

Can we say if older women have ever been favoured by some men in history? Or are almost all cases of romance in literature involving a younger woman, either by a small or large margin?