[GR] [MOD] In Heavens Stead: 632 Bookmark and More
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Things are still moving behind the scenes. The release date is set for Christmas, but don't absolutely hold me to that.
Busy week+school left little time for modding last week, hopefully I'll have some time to work on some stuff and get up a dev diary later in the week
Status update, been busy with college work, mostly been working on researching cultures and ideas, I am going on vacation next week and the week after that I have exams, after that I hope t oget some stuff done
Expect a dev diary on the Steppes this evening, I want to fix a few more things and work on cultures some and then I should be in place to write one up
Dev Diary: The Steppes Revisited and More
First off Egypt was worked on extensively today
Now for the main stuff you want to see
This is the new political setup for the 632 start date (Note the orange counties above Sassanids are Sassanid vassals). the Tang blob has broken up making the situation much more fluid, the Hephtalites or White Huns are the Eftal Empire (Eftal is the Persian name for it from what I have read)
As you can also see the Magyars are now present in Alania and have pushed the Alans down to only one nomad county with some Chechen lands and the Byzantines have been put into parts of Crimea as well
So this is the new cultural setup for the 632 start date, Farsi has been replaced with Pahlavi, Pashtun with Bactrian and Indo-Greek and the Indo-Scythian Saka culture has been extended a little bit.
Gepids have been changed to Arian providing a playable Arian start in 632 (Note it will be a Chalcendonian heresy not a Catholic one)
Cultural Map for 632 Bookmark, Hunnic has been added to two provinces, and there is an Alan population and vassal duke tier ruler of the Avar Khaganate. Daco-Roman has also been extended a bit and the out of place Bolghar and Hungarian cultured provinces have been fixed. Circassian has also been fixed to be in all three appropriate provinces
First off Egypt was worked on extensively today
Now for the main stuff you want to see
This is the new political setup for the 632 start date (Note the orange counties above Sassanids are Sassanid vassals). the Tang blob has broken up making the situation much more fluid, the Hephtalites or White Huns are the Eftal Empire (Eftal is the Persian name for it from what I have read)
As you can also see the Magyars are now present in Alania and have pushed the Alans down to only one nomad county with some Chechen lands and the Byzantines have been put into parts of Crimea as well
So this is the new cultural setup for the 632 start date, Farsi has been replaced with Pahlavi, Pashtun with Bactrian and Indo-Greek and the Indo-Scythian Saka culture has been extended a little bit.
Gepids have been changed to Arian providing a playable Arian start in 632 (Note it will be a Chalcendonian heresy not a Catholic one)
Cultural Map for 632 Bookmark, Hunnic has been added to two provinces, and there is an Alan population and vassal duke tier ruler of the Avar Khaganate. Daco-Roman has also been extended a bit and the out of place Bolghar and Hungarian cultured provinces have been fixed. Circassian has also been fixed to be in all three appropriate provinces
Nice to see a more fleshed out East Africa. Are you sure that isn't too many counties though? It looks like it might induce some fairly heavy slowdown.
Slowdown I believe comes from more charecters with more provinces, I have not given these new provinces new rulers.
Did some testing a few minutes ago after verifying the connection between history provinces and landed_titles and performance is actually pretty good considering my version is the buggiest needing its event folder culled significantly
And for the record, my pc spec wise is quite low.
And for the record, my pc spec wise is quite low.
Looks great, very exciting work and I can't wait for this! By the year 632, there would have been no more Indo-Greeks in Afghanistan though. Alexander's invasion was a millennium ago.
There is some evidence that they still existed in pockets, its a bit of a stretch I admit, but its mostly so courtiers appear (Which it seems there were in this time period)
and thanks
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There is a theory that the founder of Chan Buddhism in the late 500's Bodhidharma was a greek from the Persian/Afghan regions.
as he is noted for having Blue Eyes, and Blue eyes are very distinctly not a thing in that area outside of ethnic greeks.
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Blue eyes are very much "a thing" in Central Asia, especially in that period, with fair-skinned, light-eyed Sogdians, Chitrali people, Tochiarians, Yuezhi, Indian, various Indo-Iranian peoples. The idea that these features are exclusive to or necessarily the product of Europeans is wrong. To attribute the creation of Chan Buddhism to a Greek of all people during the heyday of Sogdian and Yuezhi transmission of Buddhism to China is crazy and extraordinarily disingenuous.
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It is a plausible theory (Personally I believe a lot Mahayana Buddhism is influenced by the Indo-Greeks) and Greek script was still being used in this timeframe and I believe I was told 15% of Panjabi DNA is Greek or something along those lines.
Greek stone inscriptions are attested right up until the 8th century in India and Afghanistan.
Actually, they remained for a couple decades more. By 769 they had disappeared, but in 632 they were very much still around.