01-15-2020, 05:30 AM
True... up to now. But we were also talking about redeveloping the history of Midgard. What if the Imperials weren't so much like military conquistadors, but just another group of general expansionists spreading more like crabgrass? 
Then everyone isn't banding together to keep out invaders, but they're just each trying to stop local encroachments and keep them from their doorstep? Then there's not so much of a reason to band together to "kill them or die", is there? Then they're more like another "foreign family" that need to be out-competed rather than wiped out at all costs, right?
Do you suppose that you could come up with a historical version (perhaps like this, perhaps not) that doesn't make them such overwhelming bad guys and yet they still maintain some military advantages (or whatever you want to come up with as advantages in their redesign)?
Then everyone isn't banding together to keep out invaders, but they're just each trying to stop local encroachments and keep them from their doorstep? Then there's not so much of a reason to band together to "kill them or die", is there? Then they're more like another "foreign family" that need to be out-competed rather than wiped out at all costs, right?Do you suppose that you could come up with a historical version (perhaps like this, perhaps not) that doesn't make them such overwhelming bad guys and yet they still maintain some military advantages (or whatever you want to come up with as advantages in their redesign)?