A New History of Midgard?

[Davin]

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.

If you can come up with some different conflagration that will take the Imps down to everyone else's level, that seems reasonable.  But that also seems difficult to manage in some ways.  For one thing, I'd rather not have the Imps being everyone's worst nightmare, so I don't see that I can let them be so powerful (as a group) as they were in the past.  Perhaps you can come up with a reasonable explanation for this?

I agree that I don't want to create an entirely new game -- that would rather defeat the purpose.  That's one of the reasons I suggested using the same base factions as before.  But I don't have a problem with a little bending of reality -- I think (and hope) that the players would go along with a few changes in the interest of making it a more enjoyable game.  All we've really been talking about so far is adjustments to the behavior of factions and the history (or future) that explains those behaviors.  That doesn't really sound like "a whole new game" to me.  I'm trying to keep it as close to what the players (as a group) want and still be fun and playable.