I'm still present and engaged to this. Just been busy with the holidays. If anything, a time skip forward would be interesting. Same characters, but older perhaps? Or their children more so? I like what's going on, like a cold war  with all these little flare up conflicts. 

[@MrDidact] I know I have yet to pm you for the Westerlands/Reyne rebels arc, and I will respond to you.

[@kingkonrad] Poor Amber, the world is just so chess boardy.

All in all, I'm in for the long haul, so my first vote is a time skip/fast forward X amount of years, vote 2 is stay the course, yet perhaps reign in magic, explain it as perhaps the over Abundance has subsided now, with powers now fewer and far between.