Once the trio had left the room, it descended into silence.
The elders of the Phoenix family were fifteen in number. Each of them were in charge of a certain territory, and in charge of keeping the members of their territory in line. After all, when the war had befallen the different species, they, who did not have sufficient strength, decided to sit out the war.
This had angered the leaders of the other species, making them estranged. As such, when the shadow beings decided to build the Gate to keep humans from them, they were left out.
There was no information about the other side of the Gate for that very reason. No one was able to open a gate from their side since there was no knowing how the other side of the gate looked like. According to some of the shadow being families that were left on their side of the gate, it was possible that the gate that was forged had created a whole other parallel world.