I'm not focussing too much on the detailed dates, but I think this setting could mix pretty well with the Burrowers Wars scenario...
In general, I'd expect high presence of feys, trying to "educate" the young humans to respect and live on the land without plundering it, but rather keeping it. I'm sure that you read the Tall Tales etc. so you have a fair idea of how feys would do it, mostly in a fairly subtle way. NEUTRAL influence. The Burrowers (see all the related threads on this site) will use mostly dreams to influence the men. CAOTIC influence. I have no idea about who may give a LEGAL influence in this scenario... :oops: do you want 2001 Space Odissey black monolith concept to incarnate in the Black Spire? it may be an option... (this may be the influence that pushes for technological advancements...)
Possibly the result of these influences is that humans didn't put technological advancements ahead of magic, but they developed alongside...
I have my personal opinion that all other races don't have a strong concept of territory and borders (so all non/semi-humans roam around freely) and that the "borders" concept comes from the Burrowers Wars and it's mostly endorsed by humans / proto-humans (I wrote this in one of Havards Burrowers Wars threads).
I think that fantasy worlds, almost by definition, are NOT evolutionistic. There are jumps ahead and then backwards, more or less direct divine intervetions, etc. No continuous improvement at all. Blackmoor develops technology, true, but NOT as a result of its own evolution, but mostly by reverse engineering the artifacts found in the City of Gods, that is an extra-terrestrial ship that crash landed "by chance" near Blackmoor. If it landed in the Afrdhi, Blackmoor would have NOT developed technology, of course and if instead of having a spaceship crash landing we'd had an extra-planar lovecraftian being, Blackmoor would develop in a completely different way. After the Rain of Fire, all the Technology is gone and we're back from space travel to burning coal.
I hope that some of this makes at least a little bit of sense for you...
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