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This game is full of anomalies.

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I am playing as Zoraster Persians and only just formed the Empire. Now to expand enough to face off versus the Mongols. That's not the weird part however.

First time in all my Charlemagne games where Francia formed. Not exactly HRE but no gavelkind bordergore.

Even weirder is this gem, the Sultan of Egypt.
 
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Those childrens' portraits look kinda shady. If that Sultan doesn't have a lover, I suppose there's some WoL adultery going on.

The first two kids are probably from a previous marriage.
 

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The wife looks much younger than the sultan and she's not his first wife either. Chances are he got widowed and remarried and the original wife was Ethiopian.
 

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I find the sultan of independent Egypt less and less rare these days.

Forming Francia I've seen twice and both times it felt like watching a unicorn.

But Mongols, the standard horse lords of 769 you mean, surely you don't mean the actual Mongols? Not at that date.
 
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Yeah I meant in preparation to face off vs the Mongols a few hundred years later, as they're almost scripted to attack the Kingdom of Persia. Declares war and ruins the AI who sits there almost every time.

But in this game it means me. =(

I was extremely surprised Francia formed. It was good though, as usually I play Christian and am the only power keeping the Umayyads from just running over Western Europe.
 
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You can see from the little left pointing arrow on his wife's portrait that she's not his first wife. Nothing odd there, or her being black in that neck of the woods. Lots of black nobles of that denomination there.

"Sultan" is the Egyptian ethnic king title, regardless of religion. It's the same as Turkics being "Khan" even after converting from Paganism.

But yeah, it is unusual that the Muslims have lost control of Egypt. My guess is that you're largely to blame for that, having smashed them in Persia :)

Oh, and you can check his previous spouses in Ironman, even after he dies. Just click on the previously mentioned little arrow on the current wife's portrait and it will show the previous one. It's possible the kids were from a pre-conversion sub-wife (which won't show up doing this), but the Sultan doesn't have "Sympathy for Islam" so he was probably raised Miaphystite. If the kids were bastards it will say on their own character sheets.
 
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I wish, haha.

I wasn't really following, but what really happened was all the Miaphysites first got wiped by Muslims, then the first decadence revolt occured. I also grabbed independence, but had to swear fealty again as I wasn't strong enough to swim in a sea of holy wars with just the Kingdom of Persia.

The King of Egypt broke free as well, and some time later he somehow lost to a Miaphysite host claim (or revolt....somehow) for Egypt. Then as the second decadence revolt hit and all the Muslim Emirs south of Egypt got independence, Miaphysites and Monophysites alike retook everything.