- Pictish was already in the Gaelic group. Since Highlander had no way of being converted, this meant that you ended up in the exact same situation as in vanilla. The Gaelic group has 2 cultures (Irish and Pictish, Highlander still exists but has no way of spawning). Highlander is the medieval equivalent to Pictish. Historically, the Pictish culture/language of the highlands mixed with Old Irish due to a migration/conquest and created what we would call Highlander. This would be distinct from the Lowland Scots, who changed in other ways. (This is why there are two culture in Scotland to begin with, and why one is Gaelic and one is British). For all intents and purposes, Pictish is Highlander, at least in my eyes. (I am the one who made the change to have Pictish convert to Highlander)
- There is however, one more reason to do this, that is in fact gameplay related. It's because of Primary Nations. All cultures have a Primary Nation, and if that Primary Nation has that culture as their primary culture, then it can spawn as nationalist rebels even without cores. In addition, the converter gives cores to non-existent Primary Nations. If we add Pictish, then Pictish provinces will not have those cores, or possibilities for nationalist revolts.
- This also makes it easier for the other converters, since everytime we add a culture to one converter, we need to add it to subsequent converters.
- If you really want to see Pictish instead of Highlander, then you can go to the converted_cultures_l_english file in the replace folder of the localisation folder of the mod and set highland_scottish to be named Pictish.
