First of all, I would like to say that I really enjoy paradox games and I'm thankful to paradox studios, and I know many non-Caucasians will not relate to what I write, but this is not meant for disrespect, sorry if I sound rude in any way.
But I must, as a fellow Adyghe (Circassian), say, that in almost every paradox game, the Caucasus is wrong and it always bugged me (
I even made a EU4 mod aiming to improve the Caucasus). I don't blame Paradox here, it is an insignificant region compared to other regions, but I personally have met a lot of Circassians, Chechens, Georgians, Dagestanians, etc. that play and LOVE these games, and, to give an example from EU4, seeing the Chechen medieval states of Durdzuketia and Simsir not existing and simply replaced by Avaria, who are a smaller ethnic group who was not even a state in Chechen region is frustrating.
We are not asking paradox for anything huge like custom events and extremely detailed provinces. All we want is, excuse me because this will sound a little bit rude, not getting everything wrong. All we want are names of our historical countries represented with their correct leader.
I know many will say "Well, show a source that isn't Wikipedia!" we can, and I have given sources to people that say this on many occasions, and they simply say "This is not a trustworthy source!" and I am sorry to inform, that is what Caucasus history is about. There are no Oxford articles about our history. It's mostly old books, written by people who have visited the Caucasus, or based on writings of several neighbors. Caucasian history, especially Circassian and Chechen, is mostly a mystery, and underexamined. But I assure you, trusting sources we can find that say Inal Nekhu, who is a very famous prince, was the leader of Circassia around 1444 is more trustworthy than whoever this made-up "Petrozok Petrozok" person is (I have been told by a friend that he was a prince of Zichia, A Circassian-Abkhazian princedom that is not related to 1444).
Thanks for reading.
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