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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2972208" data-attributes="member: 19675">Thanks for the quick & thoughtful responses!To Whizbang:Yes, there were lingering aftereffects of the ELE, but the Elves got around THAT by spreading "sentient seedpods" (think of the Minbari from Bab5) that only opened years later, much like redwoods' seeds don't germinate until AFTER a forest fire, etc.  Once the worst had passed, they emerged- though even fewer in number than before the ELE.I could also see that "hothouse" thing be the result of the partnership of the architectural skills of the surviving Mountain Dwarves- thick carved quartz or sapphire lenses over subterranean greenhouses- maintained by their now "symbiotic" partners, the Green Elves.The agrarians would probably have to get through "The Dark Times" by relying upon divine magics like Create Food and Water or effects that produced sunlight, etc.  Thus Druids & nature oriented clerics would have considerable power...  However, such spells are limited, so there would be many who died in the ELE's aftereffects.  Considering the limited resources, some (many) of those deaths would be the direct result of raids.Currently, the ash & debris have settled, so life & civilization is beginning to reassert itself...albeit slowly.As for the Underdark races, I don't see them exerting much power over the surface (but for the occasional slave/food raid)...what I meant was that those are the only POLITICAL powers over the organizational size of a small town.  Thus, only Underdark races would have standing armies, etc.Which, of course, also forces the surface survivors to work more closely together, as you predicted...  I hadn't considered those townships (or perhaps bands of brigands) actually going merc for the Drow or Illithids, though.  That DOES make sense- not only the good and pure would survive- the wicked surely would as well...and they WOULD be the best raiders/enslavers for the Underdark Empires.  NICE!To Mitchbones:  I think any big organized destruction would be more along the lines of a nuclear war scenario...anything the bad guys did, the good guys would strive to conteract.  However, I can see them as opportunists- especially the evil and neutral ones.  Perhaps the Archons rescued a few shining beacons of virtue to the outer planes...perhaps the demons and devils had fun on the surface by touching off skirmishes in the aftermath...perhaps the Fire & Earth elementals just had a BIIIIIG party as earthquakes and firestorms raged, and the Water elementals reveled in the tsunamis...</blockquote>

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