 On the other hand, a detail in the lower right of "The Consummation of Empire" shows two children, maybe brothers, fighting, one clad in red and the other in green—the colors of banners of the two contending forces in "Destruction," which thus might depict a foreshadowed civil war.The children, now men, are shown, with one having finally prevailed over the other but seemingly in contemplation of the heavy price paid.The fifth painting, "Desolation", shows the results decades later.