The Story of Ancient Debris

===Netherite and the Cult of the Wither===
It was in the time after the nether had been created, and not long before it was going to be corrupted by Herobrine, that our story begins. Netherite back then was found inside netherrack, and was much easier to find than it is now. You didn't even need to combine it with gold to make an ingot of it! So, our story starts with a strange group of skeletons called the Cult of the Wither. They worshipped Herobrine, and did everything they could to serve him. As a ritual, they would cover every one of their own who came of age with Netherite dust. So the Cult of the Wither lived normally for a few hundred years, until their own god came and killed most of them.
===Herobrine and Ancient Debris===
When Herobrine came and corrupted the Nether, he was careless, and killed most of his own followers. The others had the Netherite dust scraped off their bodies by Herobrine's harsh winds, and it flew through the air for a long time, eventually settling and turning into what is now called Ancient Debris. The remaining members of the Cult of the Wither turned into Wither Skeletons, and were left to roam the Nether Fortresses. 
But what about the bits of Netherite that were in the netherrack, you might be thinking. Well, when Herobrine moved around the landscape of the Nether, the bits of Netherite that were in there split into such small bits of Netherite that they were unnoticeable, and may even be inside the netherrack that you have walked on yourself! 
So the remaining pieces of Netherite turned into Ancient Debris, and were left to be mined by piglins, players, and whoever else would stumble upon them.
Note: This story was partly inspired by this video, which had another idea of how Ancient Debris came to be.
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