the mushrooms spawed on the detridus of the great battle, and with that, the time of the skybeasts had ended,  the demons shrank into the abyss and the accendants where sucked onto their mouintian and the earth was left to the last childer of the gods, the elves and the orcs.  the elves flowerd in the forrests. they sang to the trees who rememebered the past and so they became wise.   the orcs lived in the mouintians and the hills,  caves where their shelter, they hinted and warred and becae strong.  but the mushrooms grew, they pushed back the forests and cloged full the caves, their guardians an ainchent race, the duegerwho came from the planet, from the depths which no histories record.  and so elves and orcs both, allied and attook the dueger in their tunnels, but such a price was high, for the fungus was a deadly and plauged foe.   in pact with demonic powers from the abyss, the last dueger, seeing their doomarrange the colapse of 4 of the 5 great mushrooms, and under them vast leigons, almost the entire populations of orc and evlish peoples where trapped,  and the few that did emmerge where changed through the curse of the fungii and the primevil magics of the demons,  elves that emmerged became known as hobgoblins, and the orcs as humans.    in the new and vast mushroom free world these peoples thrived, claiming for themselves, the humans, the lowlands which they farmed, and the hobgoblins, the chasems of the dueger where they rejoiced in the newely mallable fungus.

but it was at this time that the orcish thrived.  they recovered quickest from the fallingand rememeebred and improved their old knowleadges.   gone for a while where the old rivarlries and they in their knowleadge of earth and stone built great fortresses and cities on the mouintians.  they felled lumber and mushroom both for their projects.   enslaved, they had, the few remaining dueger that had not flead to the sanctuary of the last great mushroomand over the generations these slaves became free and where known as dwarfswho shared and learnt from the orcs in the ways of stone and went back underground to learn the ways of metels

humans also began recovery quickly, thou the hobgoblins and the elves where little heard fromin this era.  humans too felled vast swathes of forrest.  they built towns in numbers unimaginable and traded, but their blood was flawed with the poisons of the fungus, they died after scant 50 years and their elders heald little knowleadge,  but about their travels they visited dwarfish outcasts and from learned the secerets of iron, stone from orcish, writing from the elves, but the secerets they longed for most, no elder race would give to them, the secerets of magic, at the heart of human power in the first city by humans called Greyhold in the land that would become the impirum, in fire they disciovered their first spell.  the entire city was destroyed in a blazing uncontrolable inferno, a priest escaped  ArchFirra,  he formed the cult of firra and waged war against the orcs,  much of orcish civilization was crushed in that war but the orcish would not revil their magics.  the elves where more sneaky when they where attacked,   they gave humans the dread magic of necromancy, the fire priests found they coldnt not use this necromancy,  but others could and so a schisim occoured amoungst humanity,   those who use the fire spell, and those who use necromancys