[atul]

I haven't yet managed to get too much into the game, but I do like at least some of the changes. LA Ulm having the iron priests hunt down all mages they can find while secret sect forms behind their back sounds good, never got the Black Forest's "we've got this secret order and... um... secret order" stuff.

And the new/old ways controversy in several of the EA nations (Ermor, Sauromatia at least) is a nice way of separating different magics too. IMHO, of course.