Alright, so enough has been updated that I'm thinking I'll end up doing a new thread. Well, actually, I'll do two new threads.
What I'm thinking is one version of SoR will be set slightly earlier, during the dark age that followed the fall of Nimeria and during the following Sarvanian colonization; Sarvanians and Akhadians will mostly be the same as in this version (albeit with updates/fixes of course, possibly earlier weapons, and the Akhadians will be more pagan), but there'll be earlier versions of the Rovalians (as they would've been in the time of the Old Rovalian Empire), Vodish and Bremans (who will both be outright pagan tribesfolk), Demerians (much more Nimerian), and Agerans, and no Velaise (they came about later). The other will be set after the rise of the Akhadians; the Agerans, Demerians, Rovalians, Bremans, Velaise, and Vods will be the same as in this version (albeit with updates/fixes of course), but the Akhadians will be a series of sophisticated, genie-enslaving sultanates in the tropical biomes while the Sarvanians will have largely been driven into the desert and reduced to barbarism, their djinn allies now largely having either abandoned them or been enslaved by the Akhadians.
I'll also have some music sets (no soundsense thing, just alternate song_title and song_game versions) for each version of each civ, to mix and match as you like. I've got most of the music sets made, except for the Demerians. And also right now the Velaise and Bremans just use a generic Theodish set.
Does this sound like a good idea, or is this dumb and should I just do the mod as presented? Like I do admittedly have basically a full update well and ready.
EDIT: I'll go ahead and upload that, then do this... thing.