Editing Notes from Freedom City setting for Man'O War (section)

===AFTER THE FLOOD===
Although remnants of the Atlantean and Lemurian civilizations survived the Great Cataclysm, they were scattered and isolated. The Serpent People were driven underground and to the netherworlds by the sinking of Lemuria, where they have remained ever since, except for occasional forays to the sunlit world. Ancient human heroes fought the savage Serpent People and their corrupt sorcerers.
Humanity fell back into barbarism and the Golden Age of Atlantis vanished into legend. Sorcery retreated into the shadows, where it has remained, perhaps because of some human racial memory linking it to the Serpent People and the doom of Atlantis. For thousands of years, humanity struggled slowly back up the ladder of civilization. There were heroes and villains in those ages, some gifted with abilities beyond those of ordinary mortals, but it was not until the modern era that such people became widely known as anything other than legends.