After all, Councillors (admins) shouldn't be the only ones to dictate the direction of the story: we actually prefer if players don't rely on Council to direct the story all the time.
I think that's why this arc of the story has been going so well (in my opinion, anyway). We've had a lot of people contributing their own ideas, and building on others...I'm pretty pleased with how much the Blood Fever stuff has been fleshed out between all of our posts.

As far as the anti-magic thing goes, I think it'd fit in great, especially in Libaterra. Alent wasn't always a magicracy (and it wasn't always Alent, for that matter xD) and I would imagine that there are people that ain't happy about their city being taken over by a bunch of sissy mages. We've done anti-elf, anti-Yamation, why not anti-mage?