How do calamities work, again?

[QT_Melon]

Eh. There would have been a point where the Black Rose stopped affecting people (clearly some were immune anyways) and few enough people fighting that things would have balanced out eventually. I'm wondering what sort of world would have arisen from that? An almost religiously Pacifistic singular nation?

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

[CaesarCV]

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

There's always influence from the calamity itself, but it's not like the civilizations are directly attuned to any particular element. For example, after the calamity of Ice people hid in ice caves during the Umbral Era and eventually mastered Fire Magic, but it's not like they were the 'ice civilization' or anything like that.

[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.

[QT_Melon]

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.

Why would it be anti war though? Black Rose is light aspected? That element is passive and peaceful. Wouldn't it just raise more ruckus?

Ahh to cause it, I see what you mean.

[Ilenya]

Why would it be anti war though? Black Rose is light aspected? That element is passive and peaceful. Wouldn't it just raise more ruckus?

Ahh to cause it, I see what you mean.

Yeah, the lore book has more information on it than I recall offhand. I know they were pretty anti-Empire after the Earthquake, and anti-Black/White Magic after the Flood. I recall one with anti-religion, but I couldn't tell which offhand.