A New History of Midgard?

[Steve Kort]

The asteroid struck the world south of Midgard and presumably on the continent of Kalamar.  A score or so of smaller asteroids struck the Midgard continent.  One, striking in southern Midgard, caused a massive earthquake, the land mass upon which the great Southern Imperial Preserve stood, sliding into the ocean within minutes.  Scores of ancient cities crumbled or were completely destroyed. 

Worse was to come.

Following the destruction by Gift and Boda engineers of the last Imperial Preserve in the month following, the skies darkened and an almost endless winter descended on the remaining people.  For five years they struggled to survive made worse when the Blood and Fire descended upon the few remaining Gift enclaves, putting them to the fire.  With their remaining forces too scattered to offer any effective support, the other One True God religions could only look inwards all the while owing revenge.  Thus the remnants of the Gift Religion accepted the offer from the Getham Family to join with them. 

It is into this world, a world of competing factions and shifting balances, that you now find yourself.  The Imperials, their Preserves gone and many of their Forts battered, are in decline.  The Boda and Roder Families struggled in the post asteroid strikes to hold on to what remained of their own holdings (albeit the Boda took out several smaller Imperial towns early on).  The remaining One True God religions have stabilised what they have but are yet to exact their promised revenge.  As for the Blood and Fire, their forces still range from their fortress of Fanglan.  Providing support to their other holdings and descending with wrath and fire upon unbelievers.

I like this idea but go a bit further mention what I said in another post.

This is why I would place the game 60-100 years in the future after another meteor strike, which could have even been religiously motivated like the destruction of the followers of Moorlock.  Explaining the non-existance of the Blood & Fire and Serkenar in the game.  Also further feeding the Banner as religious zealots of the One True God.  Their need to stomp out those of any other faith to prevent this from happening again,  as the One True God struck done the defilers.  This then makes any Heretics a major threat and whether you officially create the Cult of the Dark One as an active faction or the unknown forming faction that the Banner is looking to stomp out.  Rumors of Hidden Shrines and stuff will keep them running all over the place.

While everyone suffered leave the Imperials as the big major enemy invaders of this land.   They are taking resources from this vital land and sending it back to the Homeland only further upsetting people in this land.  This keeps things as a continuing story of midgard not an alternate world of midgard.  If your going to completely redesign the world and the history then simply build a completely new world and call it something new do not say your bringing midgard back.  Minor modifications are one thing but completely redoing things leaves no value in calling it midgard.