A Future ArM 6 -- what is ESSENTIAL?

[Berengar]

@Ezechiel357

Considering that there is a whole book called "Transforming Mythic Europe", it is clear to me that the intent was never to freeze Ars Magica campaign in following real history.
It just happened that for X reasons, history did not diverge earlier, to let PCs the possibility to shine and make history.

The background proposes strong forces to oppose the magi, not necessarly overwhelming. Players have to learn to handle them instead of doing head first against them.

Indeed. And there is Dies Irae coming for ultimate transformations of Mythic Europe and the Order, too.

In spring 2014 I tried to summarize the canonical forces at work in Mythic Europe until such times (see https://forum.atlas-games.com/t/the-break-room/102/1 - where losing Mythic Europe in the canon setting was put to a vote):

@One Shot

Ars Magica has a very inspired premise in four parts - refined over its versions:
(1) Most Gifted men are by their nature isolated in society.
(2) The Order of Hermes provides an alternate society for many of them.
(3) To keep this alternate society working, the Order refrained from remodeling the surrounding world - Mythic Europe.
(4) Only with this alternate society stabilized enough to protect its members from each other, the Order now can begin to decide how to influence Mythic Europe at large.

And now let's recall, that the title of this thread is A Future ArM6 -- what is ESSENTIAL?, and that David Chart requested above, to move discussions of alternate settings to the appropriate thread Ars Magica Derived Games?: Ars Magica Derived Games?.

Cheers