Question about Culture Shift

[Mannisks]

I've seen a Lombard United States, which had a monarch with an Italian name, so now I'm wondering if culture shifts makes the monarchs have different names? Has anyone experienced this?

That wouldn't be all illogical, and very cool.

Edit: Oh no, wrong forum! I'll have to make this thread an AAR before anyone notices...

Question about Culture Shift: A Question Thread AAR answering its own question

Chapter I: The Question

Ottoman Empire, october 1399. Ruled by Bayezid I, a monarch with a distinctive turkish name. At this time, Bayezid knew nothing about the future destiny of his empire, its sole purpose: Answering the question: "Do culture shifts make monarchs have different names?"

Alas! Turkish was the almost dominant culture of Bayezid's empire. Too few greeks!

To answer our question, this decision will have to be passed.

Ah! A greek minor! Allied with the most greek country in the world!

Chaotic wars with nearly all the empire's neighbours soon follow.

Then rebels attack and defeat my army in Achaea, a setback.

But soon after, the Timurid Empire asks for peace. No more war in the not very greek Anatolia! Great!

 

[Mannisks]

Chapter II: The Answer

The ends justify the means, so I sell some of my Turkish provinces to my vassal Karaman.

And behold! Greek becomes the dominant culture!

...and soon afterwards the primary culture.

The culture shift happens in the middle of a battle between the Ottoman army and Greek patriots. Suddenly, they all put down their weapons and stop fighting, as they realise there is no need to fight. How wonderful. If only the rest of the world could realise the same thing, there would be no wars.

The Answer of the whole AAR is made clear some months later:

He has a Turkish name! So the answer is NO.

 

[Monnikje]

This is great! I really like how you turned the quest for your answer into an AAR. Well done!

 

[comagoosie]

:rofl:

Most unusual (non-)AAR ever. I must say that this was fun to read and informative.

 

[Enewald]

Agrees with goosie.

We need more aars like this one. :rofl:

I think the monarch names are in the country file, so a specific country can only have the names that are in that file.

In CK it was all about the culture...

 

[aHuman(oid)]

Now if only all question threads were answered like this. :rofl:

 

[unmerged(92044)]

Colonial nations have their culture and state religion set to their capital province and their monarch/leader names set to those of the nation they revolted from, IIRC.

 

[t0m]

This should get an award

 

[germanpeon]

I think a better question would be: Do the Greeks minors who have Catholic Lombard governments have the option to shift culturally? I have seen certain Greek minors culturally assimilate to Lombard after converting to Catholicism, but never the government.

 

[unmerged(92044)]

I think a better question would be: Do the Greeks minors who have Catholic Lombard governments have the option to shift culturally? I have seen certain Greek minors culturally assimilate to Lombard after converting to Catholicism, but never the government.

The AI never culturally converts, although the player can as those nations.

 

[Mannisks]

Colonial nations have their culture and state religion set to their capital province and their monarch/leader names set to those of the nation they revolted from, IIRC.

But I think there are monarch names in the files also for countries like the United States and Canada? I'm quite sure I've seen US leaders with typical american (president) names, revolting as I played.

Edit: I'm glad you all liked my AAR!