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SoH 0.8c - 05/15/12
- Updated to version 6b of Shaytana's Better Looking Characters Mod.
- Updated to version 1.4 of Syren's Culture Buildings Mod (Liege+County version).
- Removed Prince of Wales and Dauphin of France as honorary titles as neither trigger was working correctly.
- Added better king and emperor-tier titles for Bulgarian, Serbian and Rus' rulers.
- Added better baron, count, duke and king-tier titles for Greek rulers.
- Added better baron and count-tier titles for North Germanic rulers.
- Added better count-tier titles for Gaelic rulers.
- Lowered the MTTH for the spread of English and Scots culture.
- Moved the duchy of Hereford back to the de jure kingdom of Wales.
- 'Promoted' the Great Seljuk Empire and Ottoman Empire to proper titular empires.
- 'Demoted' the Kalmar Union to a titular empire.
- Re-added Galicia as a de jure kingdom consisting of the de jure duchies of Galicia and Asturias.
- Swapped Mauretania and Andalusia so that the latter is now a titular kingdom instead.
- Added, corrected and linked up a large number of names in cultures.txt
- Fixed a few more 1.05e bugs reported in the bug forum.
- Tweaked the male patronyms for Anglo-Saxon and Scots characters.
- Added Harald Hårdråde's claim on the kingdom of Denmark.
- Changed a few duchy colors.
SoH 0.8b - 05/09/12
- Updated to version 5c of Shaytana's Better Looking Characters Mod.
- Moved the duchy of Hereford to the de jure kingdom of England.
- Revamped cultures.txt
- Changed a few kingdom and culture colors.
SoH 0.8 - 05/08/12
- Updated to version 1.4 of Syren's Culture Buildings Mod.
- Updated to version 3.3 of Syren's Nicknames Mod.
- Added a few new coats of arms courtesy of Arko and Keanon.
- Fixed cb_types.txt
- Tweaked landed_titles.txt
- Fixed a few more 1.05e bugs reported in the bug forum.
- Women now become barren at 45 again but you are still notified of pregnancies after three months instead of six.
- Added a better character information tooltip courtesy of Cetan.
- Vassals can no longer attempt to depose their liege unless they have a minimum of -50 relations with them.
- Raised the Holy Roman Empire's crown authority from minimal to low.
- Renamed Irish to Gaelic.
- Merged Irish and (Highland) Scots culture into Gaelic.
- Added (Lowland) Scots culture to the 'west_germanic' group.
- Further revamped the Norwegian/Scots/Saxon/English culture setup.
- Added a new event chain to introduce Scots culture in the kingdom of Scotland if English culture exists -- it should fire for Norman, Saxon and Gaelic characters.
- Changed a few German provinces to Frankish.
- Changed Nice to Occitan.
- 'Promoted' Cornwall to a de jure kingdom consisting of the de jure duchies of Cornwall and Brittany.
- Moved the county of Hedmark to the de jure duchy of Østlandet.
- Moved the county of Savo to the de jure duchy of Karelia.
- Corrected the historical kings of Scotland.
- Revamped the 1066 Anglo-Saxon setup to give the Godwins a slightly larger power base.
- Removed the titular Anglo-Saxon duchies.
- Eadgar the Ætheling is no longer duke of Wessex -- as cool as it was to have him elected king quite often!
- Removed the 'infirm' trait from Wladyslaw I Herman.
- Added the 'bastard' trait to Bernard, son of Pépin of Italy.
- Added Cristina of Wessex, youngest sister of Eadgar the Ætheling.
- Added Giric, king of Scots.
- Hugh of Alsace's father is now correctly Lothaire II and not Lothaire I.
- Corrected some names and dates for some more characters in the history files.*
- Added, corrected and linked up some more names in cultures.txt, including renaming some characters accordingly.*
- Changed a few kingdom and culture colors.
- Other miscellaneous things I forgot to write down :em:
SoH 0.7e - 05/04/12
- Incorporated Shaytana's Better Looking Characters Mod.
- Added better count and duke-tier titles for Welsh and Rus' rulers respectively.
- Removed the kingdom of Sicily from the de jure Eastern Roman Empire.
- Further revised the creation/usurpation triggers for all de jure kingdoms in landed_titles.txt for more sensible outcomes across the board.
- Updated cb_types.txt for the 1.05e hotfix.
- Fixed a few 1.05e bugs reported in the bug forum.
- 'Demoted' Mauretania to a titular kingdom -- its former duchies are now de jure parts of Africa and Andalusia.
- Agnatic-Cognatic Succession can now only be implemented if a realm has medium, high or absolute crown authority.
- Added, corrected and linked up some more names in cultures.txt
- Changed a few kingdom and culture colors.
SoH 0.7d - 05/02/12
- Fixed the invasion_cb bug introduced in the 1.05e hotfix.
- Added the relevant dukes of Epirus as despots (kings) of Epirus as well.
- Chios and Lesbos are no longer ever part of the sultanate of Rum.
- Lowered the Eastern Roman Empire's crown authority from absolute to high.
- Separated Scots dynasties into Highland (scottish.txt) and Lowland* (english.txt) with Gaelic and English names respectively.
- Corrected some names and dates for a lot of characters in the history files.
- Added the 'legit_bastard' trait to Cospatric of Northumbria and changed his father to Uchtred the Bold.
- Added, corrected and linked up some more names in cultures.txt
* Currently the houses of Balliol, Bamburgh, de Brus, Douglas, Dunbar and Stewart -- this is to represent Anglo-Scots/Anglo-Norman culture in the South.
SoH 0.7c - 04/29/12
- Tweaked the formation criteria for Bosnia and Trinacria.
- Lowered the threshold for independence wars to medium crown authority.
- Substantially boosted the Baltic Pagans -- they are now a far greater threat and should take several coordinated campaigns to wipe out.
- Normandy's provinces now start with Moats and Squire Lists.
- Added the 'legit_bastard' trait to Geoffrey Plantagenet.
- Ældgyth of Mercia is now correctly of the House of Hwicce.
- Women now become barren at 50 instead of 45 and you are notified of pregnancies after three months instead of six.
- Tweaked the starting army sizes for William the Bastard and Harold Godwinesson.
- Corrected some names and dates for a few Anglo-Saxon, Scots and Frankish characters in the history files.
- It should now take considerably longer to convert provinces to your state religion.
- Revamped the Norwegian/Scots/Saxon/English culture setup.
- Renamed West Germanic to Anglo-Norman.
- Moved Scots culture back to the 'celtic' group.
- Changed Scots culture from 'englishgfx' to 'celticgfx'.
- Added the 'sdatter' female patronym for Anglo-Saxon culture.
- Added, corrected and linked up some more names in cultures.txt
- Changed a few culture colors.
SoH 0.7b - 04/27/12
- Converted the SoH mod to the new 1.05d hotfix.
- Updated to version 1.3 of Syren's Culture Buildings Mod (Liege+County version).
- Updated to version 3.0 of Syren's Nicknames Mod.
- Added a few new coats of arms courtesy of pothkan and Keanon.
- Added better baron, count and duke-tier titles for North Germanic and Norse Pagan rulers.
- Vassals can no longer start wars of independence unless they have a minimum of -75 relations with their liege and the realm has high or absolute crown authority.
- Re-added Frisia as a formable titular kingdom.
- Renamed Castillan to Castilian.
- Renamed the Timurids to Timurid Empire.
- Renamed the Cumans to Kipchak Khanate and changed its adjectival form to Kipchak.
- Fixed a couple of characters in italian.txt who were over 150.
- Changed a few Hungarian provinces to be German, Serbian (Slavic) and Vlach.
- Further tweaked the Norwegian/Scots culture setup.
- Slightly extended the initial spread of Nestorian Christianity.
- Added, corrected and linked up a large number of names in cultures.txt
SoH 0.7 - 04/26/12
- Updated to version 2.9 of Syren's Nicknames Mod.
- Corrected a few examples of English-culture characters existing in 1066.
- Corrected the historical kings of France, Germany, Italy, Arles and Lotharingia.
- Significantly improved the requirements to raise crown authority -- it is now much more difficult to centralize your realm.
- Added Prince of Wales and Dauphin of France as honorary titles.
- Added a load of missing culture-specific ruler and consort titles.
- Added, corrected and linked up a large number of names in cultures.txt
- Brittany is now exempt from the 'de jure county' casus belli type -- this means France can't declare war on an independent Brittany without another valid reason.
- The AI should now switch their primary title to their most important kingdom (for example Castille instead of León and Rus instead of Poland).
- The Varangian Guard are now an Orthodox religion Holy Order based in Byzantion.
- Significantly boosted the size and troop diversity of the Varangian Guard.
- The Frisian Navy is now based in Friesland.
- Moved Catalan culture to the 'latin' group.
- Renamed Basque to Navarrese and put it into its own 'basque' culture group.
- Increased the number of troops provided by the Warrior Cult building so as to make Pagans more poweful.
- Added Alania, Bosnia, Candar, Eretnid, Karaman and Trinacria as formable titular kingdoms.
- The Eastern Roman Empire now has Agnatic-Cognatic / Primogeniture succession (largely for balance reasons as this will help avoid endless ruinous civil wars).
- Tweaked the Norwegian/Scots culture setup.
- Changed a few county/duchy/kingdom and culture colors to better highlight border contrast.
SoH 0.6e - 04/23/12
- Updated to version 0.2 of Peuri's Little Portrait Mod.
- Updated to version 1.3 of Syren's Culture Buildings Mod.
- Updated to version 2.8 of Syren's Nicknames Mod.
- Muslims can no longer declare Jihad on Monophysite, Nestorian or Zoroastrian rulers. [FIXED for 1.05c]
- Corrected several examples of 'the Peaceful' nickname being incorrectly given as 'the Peaceable'.
- Reverted to 0.5's localization of the 'Hotspur' nickname.
- Added 'the Glorious' as a new nickname.
- Added Eadweard the Exile's nickname.
- Added Æthelstan the Glorious' nickname.
- Corrected Louis the Child's (7949) name from Lothar to Ludwig in german.txt and several dates of Frankish / German kings.
- Added some missing Frankish characters added in the 1.05 patch.
- Added Gruffydd ap Llywelyn as historical king of Wales in k_wales.txt -- this also gives his children a claim on the kingdom of Wales.
- Replaced the kingdoms of Aquitaine, Bavaria, Brittany and Frisias' history files with dummy files.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine is now suo jure duchess of Poitou until 1185.1.1 and duchess of Aquitaine until her death.
- Richard the Lionheart is now duke of Poitou from 1185.1.1 so he is of equal rank to Prince John after he becomes titular duke of Meath.
- Completely revamped Hungary, Croatia, the Balkans and Armenia.
- Revised the creation/usurpation triggers for all de jure kingdoms in landed_titles.txt for more sensible outcomes across the board.
- Set all empires and unique realms to 'primary = yes' in landed_titles.txt (though I am unsure if this modifier currently works).
- All English and French de jure duchies now have Agnatic-Cognatic / Primogeniture succession; newly-created duchies will form with these as standard.
- Added a number of formable titular kingdoms and empires with specific criteria.
- Added all kings of Abyssinia as titular emperors of Ethiopia as well.
- Added all kings of France as dukes of Valois as well (d_valois was always vacant so this is a good way of representing the Frankish royal demesne).
- Added the relevant Byzantine emperors as kings of Nikaea as well.
- Added coats of arms for the new titular kingdoms and empires courtesy of pothkan.
- 'Demoted' Jerusalem to a titular kingdom -- its former duchies are now de jure part of Syria.
- Replaced the titular duchy of Genoa with a kingdom-tier title (like Venice has) and corrected all Genoese vassals accordingly.
- Renamed the Empire of Abyssinia to Ethiopian Empire and changed its adjectival form to Ethiopian.
- Renamed the Ottoman Turks to Ottoman Empire.
- Renamed the Seljuk Turks to Great Seljuk Empire.
- Renamed the kingdom of Burgundy to Arles and changed its adjectival form to Arletian.
- Renamed the duchy and kingdom of Nikaea to Nicaea and changed their adjectival form to Nicaean.
- Renamed the duchy and kingdom of Leon to León and changed their adjectival form to Leónese.
- Renamed the duchy of Portucale to Porto and changed its adjectival form to Porto.
- Renamed the kingdom of Castille to Castile.
- Renamed the duchy of Castilla to Castille.
- Renamed the duchy of Sevilla to Seville.
- Renamed the duchy of Dauphine to Dauphiné.
- Renamed the duchy of Savoie to Savoy.
- Renamed the duchy of Toscana to Tuscany.
- Renamed the duchy of Lombardia to Lombardy and changed its adjectival form to Lombard.
- Changed the adjectival form of Genoa to Genoese.
- Changed the adjectival form of the Holy Roman Empire to Imperial.
- Added the 'brave' trait to Robert of Gloucester.
- Added the 'diligent' trait to Robert of Gloucester.
- Added the 'brilliant_strategist' trait to Robert of Gloucester.
- Added the 'envious' trait to King Stephen.
- Added the 'kind' trait to King Stephen.
- Added the 'tough_soldier' trait to King Stephen.
- Added the 'arbitrary' trait to Empress Matilda.
- Added the 'wroth' trait to Empress Matilda.
- Added the 'chaste' trait to Empress Matilda.
- Added the 'brave' trait to Henry II.
- Added the 'genius' trait to Henry II.
- Added the 'skilled_tactician' trait to Henry II.
- Moved Norman culture to the 'west_germanic' group.*
- Normandy now remains Norman culture after 1100.
- Renamed all instances of Stephan to Stefan for German characters.
- Renamed all instances of Stephen to Stefan for German characters.
- Renamed all instances of Hugues to Hugh for Norman characters.
- Renamed all instances of Raymond to Reimund for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of Lothair / Lothaire to Lothar for German characters.
- Renamed all instances of Rudolph to Rudolf for German characters.
- Renamed all instances of Guy to Gui for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of Raymond to Reimund for Frankish characters.
- Added, corrected and linked up a large number of names in cultures.txt
- Corrected some names and dates for a few German, Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, Norman and Norwegian characters in the history files.
- Removed Geoffrey Plantagenet's claim on England now that he can use his wife's.
- Changed a few county/duchy/kingdom and culture colors to better highlight border contrast.
* Mr. Capitalist suggested this on the forum and I'm going to test it as a balance measure.
SoH 0.6 - 04/18/12
- Converted the SoH mod to the new 1.05b patch and hotfix!
- Incorporated Peuri's Little Portrait Mod.
- Updated to version 2.7 of Syren's Nicknames Mod.
- Temporarily removed Syren's Culture Buildings Mod until he has updated it for the 1.05b patch.
- Removed the de jure liege changes for the duchies of Brandenburg, Meissen and Holstein.
- Removed 0.5's Danelaw setup as on balance I think Anglo-Saxon culture already represents a melting pot of (Old) Saxon, Celtic and Norse culture.
- Titular duchies are no longer formable.
- The titular kingdoms of Galicia, Navarra, Cyprus, Byzantium, Naples, Nubia, Rum, Tekke, Venice and the Latin Empire are formable with specific conditions.*
- All members of Hugh the Great's house of Vermandois are now direct Capetians and not their own dynasty.
- England now has Elective succession law until William I and Primogeniture thereafter.
- Revised all mercenary companies so as to better balance mercenary availablity for various religious and culture groups.
- Applied a number of temporary fixes from the forums until a few things are hopefully fixed when 1.06 is released.
- Completely revamped the British Isles, France, Iberia, the Holy Roman Empire, Sicily, Poland, Lithuania and Russia!
- The kingdom of England now consists of the de jure duchies of Northumberland, York, Warwick, Norfolk, Bedford, Kent, Gloucester and Cornwall.
- The kingdom of Wales now consists of the de jure duchies of Gwynedd, Deheubarth and Hereford.
- The kingdom of Ireland now consists of the de jure duchies of Ulster, Connacht, Leinster and Munster.
- The kingdom of France now consists of the de jure duchies of Toulouse, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Poitou, Anjou, Normandy, Orléans, Champagne, Valois, Flanders, Brittany and Burgundy.
- The kingdom of Germany now consists of the de jure duchies of Saxony, Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Thuringia, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria and Austria.
- The kingdom of Italy now consists of the de jure duchies of Verona, Lombardia, Modena, Ferrara, Toscana, Spoleto and Sardinia.
- The kingdom of Sicily now consists of the de jure duchies of Benevento, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily.
- The kingdom of Denmark now consists of the de jure duchies of Skane, Sjaelland, Slesvig and Holstein.
- The kingdom of Poland now consists of the de jure duchies of Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Mazovia, Silesia, Pommerania and Prussia.
- The kingdom of Lithuania now consists of the de jure duchies of Lithuania, Livonia, Polotsk, Courland and Samogitia.
- The kingdom of Rus now consists of the de jure duchies of Bjarmia, Hlynov, Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Moskva, Smolensk, Chernigov and Volhynia.
- Merged a number of duchies across Europe; all 'missing' duchies still exist as titular duchies.
- Added Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria as titular duchies for a more accurate Anglo-Saxon setup.
- Eadgar the Aetheling is now titular duke of Wessex and a vassal/ally of Harold Godwinesson until the Norman Conquest.**
- Linked up Carloman / Karloman in cultures.txt.
- Checked and revised all names in saxon.txt and linked up / added some Anglo-Saxon names in cultures.txt.
- Renamed all instances of Eustace to Eustache for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of Sibylla to Sybille for Frankish characters.
- Fixed a few instances of Frankish and Norman characters having incorrect spellings of their names.
- Renamed the duchy of Österreich to duchy of Austria. [This has also since been changed in the 1.05 patch]
- Renamed the Byzantine Empire to Eastern Roman Empire and changed its adjectival form to Roman.
- Eastern Roman Empire now has Elective / Agnatic-Cognatic succession.
- Added a new (fourth) empire called the 'Kalmar Union' consisting of the de jure kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
- Added a new (fourth) imperial kingdom called 'Lotharingia' consisting of the de jure duchies of Holland, Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine.
- Geoffrey Plantagenet is now a vassal of King Stephen as both duke of Normandy and Anjou.***
- Changed a large number of county/duchy colors to better highlight border contrast.
* If these work as intended and prove successful and fairly well-balanced I shall add more with each new version.
** Not really accurate but it means he is now playable as the male heir of the house of Wessex. He already has a claim to the throne.
*** Though Anjou should be part of France this is a balance change which means he can now call other English vassals into any potential war against Stephen.
SoH 0.5 - 04/09/12
- England now has Agnatic-Cognatic succession after the Norman Conquest.
- Fixed a case of one of Henry Beauclerc's bastards being considered legitimate.
- Edith Dunkeld (Henry Beauclerc's first wife) is now correctly Scots instead of Irish.
- Moved a few characters to their correct culture files.
- Added better duke, king and emperor-tier titles for Persian rulers.
- Zoroastrian bishops are now called Mobeds, their bishoprics Temples and can also marry.
- Changed the adjectival form of Brittany to Breton.
- Changed Devon (29) from Anglo-Saxon to Breton culture until 1200.
- Implemented the Danelaw in East and South-East England by changing several provinces to Danish culture until they become English in 1100.
- Similarly, changed several provinces in North-West England to Norwegian culture until they become English in 1100.
- Added Artaxšaça, Darayavauš, Haxamaniš, Kambujiya, Kuruš, Sogdianus and Xšayarša as Persian names.
- Renamed all instances of Lothair to Lothaire for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of Mathilde to Matilda for English and Norman characters.
- Renamed all instances of Matilda to Mathilde for Frankish characters.
- Fixed a few instances of Frankish and Norman characters having incorrect spellings of their names.
- Added Baldwin as an English name.
- Added Hamelin as an English name.
- Added Jasper as an English name.
- Added Lothair as an English name.*
- Added Chlothar as a German name.
- Added Carloman as a Frankish name.
- Added Pépin as a Frankish name.
- Linked up Lothair / Lothaire / Lothar and Clotaire / Chlothar in cultures.txt.
- Women can now become spymasters.
- Muslims can no longer declare Jihad on Ethiopian / Persian (culture) or Zoroastrian / Monophysite (religion) rulers.
- Monophysites and Nestorians are no longer considered heretics by the Orthodox Church.
- Extended the spread of Monophysite and Nestorian Christianity until their historical conversion to Islam.
- Doubled the MTTH for all culture-change events.
- Renamed Russian to Rus'.
- Renamed Pommeranian to Wendish.
- Renamed all instances of Eadward to Eadweard for Anglo-Saxon characters and removed Eadward from cultures.txt.
- Tweaked the names of several Anglo-Saxon characters in saxon.txt and fixed/added numerous Anglo-Saxon names in cultures.txt.
- Added a new (third) empire called the 'Muslim Caliphate' consisting of all de jure Muslim kingdoms between Al-Andalus and Mesopotamia.
- Revised the creation/usurpation triggers for all de jure kingdoms in landed_titles.txt for more sensible outcomes across the board.
- Lowered the fertility rate of characters with the 'homosexual' and 'inbred' traits to 0.5.
- Normandy and Anjou are now independent during the Anarchy.
- Merged the kingdom of Wales into the kingdom of England; Wales still exists as a de jure kingdom but must be formed in-game (like Ireland).
- Merged the duchy of Bourbon into the duchy of Auvergne; Bourbon still exists as a titular duchy.
- Merged the duchy of Berry into the duchies of Anjou and Orléans; Berry still exists as a titular duchy.
- Replaced the kingdom of Wales' history file with a dummy file since it has been merged into the kingdom of England.
- Replaced the duchy of Bourbon's history file with a dummy file since it has been merged into the duchy of Auvergne.
- Corrected the history files of several French counties by changing their lieges.
- Corrected a few broken female consort title names.
- Moved the county of Tours to the de jure duchy of Anjou.
- Moved the county of Vendôme to the de jure duchy of Anjou.
- Moved the county of Bourges to the de jure duchy of Orléans.
- Moved the county of Vexin to the de jure duchy of Valois.
- Moved the county of Gévaudan to the de jure duchy of Toulouse.
- Moved the county of Genève to the de jure duchy of Dauphiné.
- Moved the county of Corsica to the de jure duchy of Genoa.
- Changed a few county/duchy and culture colors to better highlight border contrast.
* I just think it's a really cool name.
SoH 0.4b - 03/26/12
(Special thanks to Syren for his great mini-mods and permission to include them herein).
- Incorporated Syren's Nicknames Mod.
- Updated to version 1.2 of Syren's Culture Buildings Mod.
- True Cognatic Succession can now be implemented if a realm has high or absolute crown authority.
- Assassination attempts now cost 200 gold instead of 50.
- England now has Elective succession law until William I; Gavelkind until Henry III; Primogeniture thereafter.
- Re-added the kingdom of Sicily to the de jure Byzantine Empire.
- Added King of the Romans, Prince-Elector and Peer of France as honorary titles.
- Added a few missing bookmark descriptions.
- Geoffrey Plantagenet and all four of his children are now English.
- Geoffrey Plantagenet now has a claim on the kingdom of England once he marries Matilda.*
- Renamed all instances of Stephen and Etienne to Étienne for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of William to Guillaume for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of Henry to Henri for Frankish characters.
- Renamed all instances of Guillaume to William for Norman characters.**
- Renamed all instances of Henri to Henry for Norman characters.**
- Moved a few wrong-culture characters to their correct history files.
- Added 'the_handsome' nickname to Geoffrey Plantagenet.
- Added the 'fair' trait to Geoffrey Plantagenet.
- Added the 'diligent' trait to Geoffrey Plantagenet.
- Added the 'ambitious' trait to Geoffrey Plantagenet.
- Added the 'trusting' trait to King Stephen.
- Added the 'deceitful' trait to King Stephen.
- Added the 'arbitrary' trait to King Stephen.
- Added the 'misguided_warrior' trait to King Stephen.
- Added 'the_hammer' nickname to Edward I.
- Added the 'wroth' trait to Edward I.
- Added the 'cruel' trait to Edward I.
- Added the 'brave' trait to Edward I.
- Added the 'ambitious' trait to Edward I.
- Corrected the history files of several Iberian counties and duchies by changing their liege to the king of Castille-León after 1230.9.24.
- Changed a few county/duchy and culture colors to better highlight border contrast.
* This is so he can attempt to usurp Stephen in his wife and son's name, which he was previously unable to do.
** Technically Norman names should follow the same syntax as Frankish ones, but I just wanted to help differentiate the two cultures a little more.
SoH 0.4 - 03/15/12
- Incorporated Syren's Culture Buildings Mod.
- Added coats of arms for Burgundy (duchy and kingdom), Epirus and Nikaea courtesy of pothkan.
- Slightly lowered William the Conqueror's starting army size and raised Harold Godwinesson's so as to give England more of a chance.
- Moved Saxon culture to the 'north_germanic' group.
- Moved Dutch culture to the 'central_germanic' group.
- Moved Scottish culture to the 'west_germanic' group.
- Changed Scottish culture from 'celticgfx' to 'englishgfx'.
- Renamed Scottish to Scots.
- Renamed Saxon to Anglo-Saxon.
- Renamed Galician-Portuguese to Galician (the name was too long, and (Old) Galician is still more accurate than Portuguese).
- Tweaked a number of traits.
- England now has the Gavelkind succession law until the reign of Edward I.
- Corrected England's history file by adding its pre-1066 monarchs (I've separated Eadward from Edward to avoid numbering issues).
- Corrected the history files of several French counties by changing their liege from the duke of Gascogne to the duke of Aquitaine.
- Moved the county of Foix to the de jure duchy of Toulouse.
- Removed 'the Affable' from the list of triggered-only nicknames (so it can now appear like any other nickname).
- Added the 'greedy' trait to Henry III.
- Added the 'misguided_warrior' trait to Henry III.
- Added the 'scholarly_theologian' trait to Henry III.
- Added the 'crusader' trait to Richard the Lionheart and Edward I.
- Added the 'homosexual' trait to Richard the Lionheart and Edward II.
- Added the 'skilled_tactician' trait to William I, Edward III and Edward the Black Prince.
- Added the 'wroth' trait to Edward the Black Prince.
- Corrected the birth and death dates for Edward the Black Prince.
- Added Sibylla as Queen of Jerusalem in place of Guy de Lusignan (he was only king jure uxoris).
- Added several new bookmarks with descriptions.
- Replaced the kingdoms of Anatolia and Hellas with Epirus and Nikaea respectively.
- Replaced the duchy of Gascogne's history file with a dummy file since it has been merged into the duchy of Aquitaine.
- Changed Cornwall (31) from Welsh to Breton culture.
- Changed a few county/duchy and culture colors to better highlight border contrast.
SoH 0.3 - 03/11/12
- Added a coat of arms for Castille-León courtesy of pothkan.
- Merged the kingdoms of Castille, León and Galicia into the (new) titular kingdom of Castille-León after 1230.9.24.*
- Added the kings of León as kings of Galicia from 1071.2.1 until 1230.9.24.
- Changed the kingdom of Finland's formation criteria.
- Changed the kingdom of Galicia's capital to Santiago (157).
- Changed the kingdom of Castille-León's capital to Toledo (197).
- Moved the duchy of Prussia to the de jure kingdom of Poland.
- Moved the duchy of Cherson to the de jure kingdom of Trebizond.
- Moved the duchy of Edessa to the de jure kingdom of Syria.
- Changed a few county/duchy colors to better highlight border contrast.
* There will be some monarch naming issues with this for the moment, but it should still work fine.
SoH 0.2 - 03/09/12
- Added coats of arms for Cumberland, Anatolia and Hellas courtesy of John Forseti.
- Changed Cumberland from a titular to a de jure duchy.
- Cumberland now de jure consists of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
- Northumberland now de jure consists of the counties of Northumberland and Durham.
- Moved the county of Warwick to be a de jure part of the duchy of Oxford.
- Renamed Portuguese to Galician-Portuguese and added it to Coruna (156) and Santiago (157).
- Renamed the emirate of Arabs to emirate of Arabia.
- Renamed the kingdom of Al-Andalus to kingdom of Andalusia and changed its formation criteria.
- Changed the kingdom of Andalusia's capital to Sevilla (182).
- Renamed the kingdom of Brythonia to kingdom of Wales.
- Wales now de jure consists of the duchies of Gwynedd, Deheubarth and Hereford.
- Moved the county of Nice to the de jure duchy of Provence.
- Moved the county of Chalons to the de jure duchy of Burgundy.
- Moved the duchy of Brittany to the de jure kingdom of France.
- Moved the duchy of Burgundy to the de jure kingdom of France.
- Moved the duchy of Cornwall to the de jure kingdom of England.
- Merged the duchy of Gascogne into the duchy of Aquitaine; Gascogne still exists as a titular duchy.
- Split the kingdom of Byzantium into the (new) kingdoms of Anatolia, Hellas and Trebizond; Byzantium still exists as a titular kingdom.
- Removed the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Syria and Sicily from the de jure Byzantine Empire.
- Added the kingdom of Georgia to the de jure Byzantine Empire.
- Renamed queens consort to queens; princes consort to kings; empresses consort to empresses.
- Added 'the Affable' and 'the Apathetic' traits.
- Removed 'the Careless' trait.
- Renamed 'the Ironside' trait to 'Ironside' and improved its French, German and Spanish translations.
SoH 0.1 - 03/05/12
- Changed Galicia and Navarra from titular to de jure kingdoms.
- Added Italy and Burgundy to the Holy Roman Empire as imperial kingdoms.
- Changed the Holy Roman Empire's capital to Innsbruck (359).
- Changed the kingdom of Italy's capital to Pavia (234).
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Kind of sad it's not gotten the "credit" it deserves though, heh. I noticed one minor thing anyway: The scottish culture that erupts eventually is called "Scots" rather than "Scot", or something. "Scots" sort of sounds wierd for me since it makes it sound as if in pural. 
