Musing: Lizardfolk were there first!

Okay, so that's a bit of a misnomer, a lot of the races were one the islands as they were violently turn from the ground during (We Really Need to Agree On A Name For This Event). But it seems the Lizardfolk recovered first.

There was a great length of time after Deminar ripped apart that everyone focused just on surviving. They weren't building towns, crafting airships, mapping the islands around them. They were trying not to be wiped out by rampaging monsters and horrible plagues, hoping there was enough food around, seeking each other out to increase their strength. It was only over time they started settling again, moving back into and rebuilding old towns and cities, clearing the land for farming, creating brand new towns from the ground up. It was as if someone hit the reset button and the intelligent species had to crawl through (albeit slightly accelerated) the prehistory of their kind, reliving the hunting/gathering, foraging, survival eras that came before the "civility" of establishing farms, towns, and trade set in.

I believe, on the Bluestone Isles atleast, the lizardfolk were the first to gather their wits about them, adjust to what happened, and begin to live in their new environment rather then lament about the loss of the old one. Lizardfolk are more shamanistic then religious, so while many species cried out about gods abandoning them and laying down to die, the lizardfolk simply contacted the spirits that remained after the cataclysm and continued on. Lizardfolk are naturally more hardy of a species too, they've been around a while and haven't evolved much (much like crocodiles and alligators haven't either). Therefore the lizardfolk were off naming and mapping out the islands while many other species were fearing for their lives.

Now, on the Bluestone Isles, the humans and lizardfolk live pretty integrated lives, there are no human-only nor lizardfolk-only settlements about. And while the humans, as humans do, claim to be masters of that domain, their survival, crawl from the ashes, and very much so their existence on that island cluster could very well be because the lizardfolk allowed them to survive. Something the humans take for granted.