OT: The ambiance and setting (part 3)

[Omnirizon]

here is a decent example of what I'm looking for in pulling nations into this 'post-LA' age of 16-17 century settings. I chopped it together by simply doing a bit of research on England's Early Modern History. It segue's almost seamlessly with LA Man. Most nations should do this since a lot of LA is drawn from the trends of their historical counterparts leading into the 1500's (for example Man's declining magic).

			'Man' : "The feudal kingdom of Man has lost all magic of \
			earlier ages, even the holy orders of priests have been \
			abolished.  A parlimentary house has ascended and decreed \
			the Orders of Supremacy which grant a monarchy, rather than \
			a pretender and priesthood, soveriegnty.  In the new bifurication \
			of power there is tension between monarch and parliment. \
			Politics and philosophy rather than the theology and magic \
			now dominate discourse.  Research suffers under the presence \
			of any magic latency.  Outside theology is particularly \
			conflicting in Man's territory.  Man's dominion is effectively \
			their political philosophy, and its leadership and people \
			have the same religious zeal of old in spreading it.",

My intention with Man and a lot of other nations is to portray the eclipse of religion by politics and philosophy as not a stagist historical epoch, but simply the replacement of one 'dominion' by another. the new spreading of modernity and revolution and then onwards into colonialism is part and parcel of the classic dominion spread. Get it?

Magic for man isn't so much gone as it is being reimagined. The text above implies it is gone, but that's not exactly what I have in mind. I'm more thinking that the way man thinks about magic is changing with their politics and philosophy. basically, the effects of a magic scale might be completely reversed to reflect this.

I hope this clarifies what I'm imagining a little.