How do calamities work, again?

[Ilenya]

Question: do all civilizations that do arise from a calamity become that element, complete opposite or random?

Generally speaking the new civilizations that arise tend to be against whatever the old Civilizations did to 'cause' the Calamity. There's probably going to be a massive anti-war anti-WoMD bias in the end in the 'normal' timeline.