Help me with this "What if"

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by D10

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.

So there is no 'state cult' at all in the Roman Empire? That seems like quite a break for the Romans. It seems to be a recent development in your timeline. How did that work out? Why did the mages not simply install their own state cult, be it Sol Invictus, a Gnostic heresy, some kind of Neo-Platonism, etc.?
It looks as if the Roman Republic was in some sense revived. There is no Emperor now? Removing the office of the Emperor would remove what had become a central feature and focal point of the state religious apparatus in Roman civilization, the Imperial Cult.







What I need to know, and this is vital: was Constantine ever Emperor? Did he issue the Edict of Milan and go on to sponsor the Council of Nicaea?
Or was Christianity never the official religion of the Empire in this timeline?