Yes, where there's not enough characters defined to fill out all the baronies/courts/etc. the game generates random ones to fill in the blanks.
Progon dynasty? Serbian culture?!
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They keep proper records for Kings, Dukes and important Counts, for example, but it would be murder to say they ought to track every random courtier in Europe (and utterly impossible). So yes, if there aren't characters to fill out the court and positions they're randomly generated according to the culture.
If that is the case, then why didn't Paradox just add the correct culture of the Progon dynasty and the province of Dyrrachion?
I'd imagine it's because it'd be a one-province culture. Small cultures often get abstracted away in paradox games. (Though Albanian made it into EU3.)
The problem with picking a single culture for the Progons or Dyrachion is is simple: historians don't all say that the were Serb.
What seems to have actually happened is that everybody knew both Albanian and Serbian, but nobody (except modern nationalists) even claims to have any idea which language most of these people used at home.
As for the Vlach:
Keep in mind this is not a cultural simulation. It's political. And being Latin-culture group in the Balkans is gonna have the gameplay consequence that a) everybody hates you and b) you hate everybody. Since historically it doesn;t seem like the Bulkgars were more willing to rebel against a Vlack lord then a Serb (or vice versa) Vlach has to be generic Balkan culture group, which means Southslavic.
Nick
What seems to have actually happened is that everybody knew both Albanian and Serbian, but nobody (except modern nationalists) even claims to have any idea which language most of these people used at home.
As for the Vlach:
Keep in mind this is not a cultural simulation. It's political. And being Latin-culture group in the Balkans is gonna have the gameplay consequence that a) everybody hates you and b) you hate everybody. Since historically it doesn;t seem like the Bulkgars were more willing to rebel against a Vlack lord then a Serb (or vice versa) Vlach has to be generic Balkan culture group, which means Southslavic.
Nick
For sake of playable content, is ok this way. After all, there's no such thing as 'pure' slavic, latin, germanic or whatever culture. France, Spain, Germany, Italy, England should be in different cultural groups after such logic. As for accuracy, we can't claim 'pure' latin culture. We're a mix of latin, slavic and greek (byzantine) culture, with add-ons from whatnot, germans, turks, mongols or what other migrations found suitable to trespass our lands.
As for the game, I, for one, am thankful that we have such great variance of choices, 15 years ago all you could find was ww2, some6-7 nations game and England feudal stuff.
If the culture of your irl province is not reflected in your expected manner ingame, maybe its time to reconsider who you really are. :unsure:
Because it never existed in the games time period or even near the games time period, and the lands that make it up are bothe part of the De-Jure France and HRE respectively.