The world that was

Ten thousand years ago the world died, and the greatest civilization the world has ever known was scattered into miniscule groups of nomads trying their best to survive. All knowledge of the time before the fall has dissapeared into legend, facts inseperable from myth, stories of gods walking among the mortal races, and judgements against all living things of crimes long forgotten. But the world is starting to recover, and as great forests once again started to stretch across the surface, people began to settle, and civilization returned. It's been 3.000 years since the rebirth of civilization, and the ruins of a much greater world still lies around us. The campaign is set roughly 10.000 after the fall, the exact time might vary drastically as during the following 7.000 years language evolved and the knowledge of writing was lost, only to be reinvented relatively recently after the resurgence of civilization. The societies looks very similar to the bronze age in the middle east in most places, with fertile lands being the most sought after commodity.