Help me with this "What if"

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Originally Posted by combatmedic

I do like the work you are doing with alternate history and magic.


Replacing Islam with a mage-focused religion strikes me as pretty cool.



Since your Christians use magic but keep it within certain limits, maybe Raidran's new philosophy appealed to mages who felt that the Church was needlessly limiting their true potential?

Summoning and binding djinn, maybe?

Yes that was kind of the idea behind it, the concept is that in that region where islam was born, there were tons of pseudo magicians, but in this case they really were mages, and installed a sort of the basis for a magic centric world view before the religion itself came.

The Roman empire is at great odds with the christian world since their declared themselves a non religious organization and basically rejected the pope's power, as such, it is in a much better position to receive wizard refugees from from europe, but there are many havens for mages in this Raidranic, if you wanna call it that way, part of the world as well, which only serves on increase their power as a society.

You could say theres 3 axis of magical power in the ocident, Rome, The Church and the Caliphates, both kinds of elves would stay away from this theather, for their own reasons and would not contribute for the economy or knowledge of the world as a whole, as these 3 powers did.