Adventurers of Advena chronicle

"... The survivors in the Heartlands quickly learned that the racial divides of old would not serve them then and there. They had to work together, and the strongest groups were those that shared in their talents and expertises. They sought out the few lands that had survived the ravages of fire and ice, or the precious growing places that had since begun to recover. They built new homes and new towns together. All save for the elves who had already withdrawn from the affairs of the worlds millenia before, and the orcs who chose to keep to the life of wander." - A History of the Heartlands, 726 AL