Did you ever take a look at the names of leaders of Circassia and think that they looked a bit odd? That they have a lot of "tch"s in them for some reason, and lots of "ou"s? Well, I googled a couple of the names one day out of curiousity and discovered that they'd been taken from this list of Medieval Circassian names, presumably after the last time someone complained about the Circassian name files. That would be all well and good, but the list that they're taken from is from a French book, and so they are written up in French transliteration, not English. Hence "Chopchouk", for example, should be rendered "Shopshuk".
I doubt it was bothering anyone else, otherwise someone would have mentioned it on the forums by now, but I wasn't happy with that, so I corrected the transliterations and expanded a lot on the possible names. I don't speak Adyghe/Kabardian etc., so I'm sure a native speaker would be able to improve them, but I'm pretty sure it's a big improvement. Additionally, I bracketed off some of the Kabardian names, so if the devs ever do get around to adding a Kabardia revolter tag (it was a fairly centralised and hierarchical state, unlike the rest of Circassia, was probably the richest area in the North Caucasus apart from the Caspian coast, made a fateful marriage alliance with Ivan the Terrible, and fought several long wars with the Crimean Khanate, so not insignificant) they can just put those in the names file.
As a bonus, it'll more or less get rid of Petrezok being the ruler of Circassia all the time, which he never was in the first place.
P.S. You know what else Kabardia was important for? Controlling the north side of the Darial Pass, which was the route the Russians used in real life to conquer the South Caucasus, but is blocked in the game by impassable mountains. Would be nice if we could get a gap in the mountains between Kartli and Alania provinces to let that be possible, and increase the strategic options available in the region.
I doubt it was bothering anyone else, otherwise someone would have mentioned it on the forums by now, but I wasn't happy with that, so I corrected the transliterations and expanded a lot on the possible names. I don't speak Adyghe/Kabardian etc., so I'm sure a native speaker would be able to improve them, but I'm pretty sure it's a big improvement. Additionally, I bracketed off some of the Kabardian names, so if the devs ever do get around to adding a Kabardia revolter tag (it was a fairly centralised and hierarchical state, unlike the rest of Circassia, was probably the richest area in the North Caucasus apart from the Caspian coast, made a fateful marriage alliance with Ivan the Terrible, and fought several long wars with the Crimean Khanate, so not insignificant) they can just put those in the names file.
As a bonus, it'll more or less get rid of Petrezok being the ruler of Circassia all the time, which he never was in the first place.
P.S. You know what else Kabardia was important for? Controlling the north side of the Darial Pass, which was the route the Russians used in real life to conquer the South Caucasus, but is blocked in the game by impassable mountains. Would be nice if we could get a gap in the mountains between Kartli and Alania provinces to let that be possible, and increase the strategic options available in the region.
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