Vlach/Romanian rulers in CK3 still suffer many of the historical inaccuracies from CK2

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It's very interesting and exciting to play as your own culture in Paradox games, to play the historical events your people went through yourself, or maybe you want to achieve what they could not, or maybe you want to take their destinity in a completly different direction altogether, whichever of these, I think all or most of you have played through with your culture at least once.

I am Romanian or Vlach as it used to be called and is called in game and sadly I had a hard time playing with my own culture in CK2, as I found major issues which to me were simply immersion breaking, I'll list some of them below.

1. Incorect representation of culture regarding culture group (Vlachs appear as South Slavic) -> This was something I've seen a lot of Romanians complain about in CK2, but nothing was made about it. And when CK3 came out, the Romanian culture was still listed as South Slavic. I have seen a fair amount of users arguing that the Romanians are listed as Slavic for gameplay reasons, to make the Bulgarians and Kievans not attack them as often, and while I can understand the reasoning behind that, I'd still think that the Vlachs/Romanians would be much better off listed as a "East Latin" group, even if it's an East Latin group that only they are part of.

2. Incorrect representation of culture spread (Vlachs have no presence around Transylvania and Northern Moldavia as they should) -> In the case of Transylvania, we don't have the numbers for 876 or 1066, but the earliest estimation we have, made by American historian Jean W. Sedlar, argues that the Vlachs comprised about 66% of Transylvania's population in 1241 on the eve of the Mongol invasion. While in 1223, a royal charter of the Kingdom of Hungary, confirms a former grant of land from Vlach to the Catholic Church. On that land, the Monastery of Carta was built, which proves that the territory had been inhabited by Romanians before the monastery was founded in 1202. Similar royal charters exist for other locations such as Bihor, Maramures or Turda. So we have an estimation from a modern historian and a primary source about the presence of Romanians in Transylvania.

We cannot know the numbers from 876 or 1066, but a 66% Vlach population in a region with 4 main ethnic groups: Vlachs, Hungarians, Germans and Szekely; is an overwhelming majority. Unless something happened that dramatically shifted the ethnic composition of Transylvania between 876 - 1223, it's safe to assume the population remained more or less the same. The Hungarians arrived in Trasylvania between 876 - 1066, but since with the Hungarians' arrival the Vlachs still made 66% of the population by 1241, its stands to common sense that their number would have been even higher before the Hungarians arrived.

In the case of northern Moldavia, I'm not aware of it ever having a Slavic majority at any point. This period of time doesn't have many records in this part of the world, but as in the case of Transylvania, if we assume that nothing happened in the time periods we have no records of, there's no reason to believe that the Slavs were the majority at anytime. The Kingdom of Dacia included the Dniester river and beyond, they were conquered by Romans and assimilated into the Empire. The Roman administration eventually left but a significant Daco-Roman population remained there. They have been occupied by numerous migratory tribes: Goths, Gepids, Huns, Slavs, Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans, Mongols and Magyars again. For the most part they would be left alone as long as they paid tribute to their overlords, who were mainly militaristic and had little interest in farming.

When the Magyars took Moldavia from the Mongols, they wanted to create a buffer zone between them and the Mongols to avoid further Mongols aggression, as such they used the natives to create a vassal state named Moldavia in 1346 under the rule of Dragos. Eventually, another Vlach noble who came from Maramures, Transylvania, with his people, Bogdan I, who revolted against Dragos and the Hungarians earning independence. During this time, there is no mention of any notable Slavic population living in the northern regions of Moldova, while the Vlachs have been mentioned to live in the region. It's safe to say, that if we assume nothing happened in the time periods we have no records of, northern Moldavia's population makeup between 876 - 1346 shouldn't have changed significantly. Is it a strench? yes. But it is even more of a stretch to assume north Moldavia was mostly Slavic when we have no written sources informing us of such thing. In the mainly Vlach case, we make an estimation of 876 and 1066 based on what we know in 1346. In the mainly Slavic case, it's out of nowhere.

CK2 had even more issues, some of which were fixed in CK3:
- Incorrect Romanians/Wallachian names: a count in Calaras in 867 and 1066 was called "Szilágyi", that's a Hungarian name. And he isn't even in Transylvania, he is in Wallachia in Calaras. You could easily use one of the early Vlach noble families: Farcas, Barbat, Litovoi, Seneslau, Ioan.
- Incorect representation of religion (Vlachs appear Slavic Pagan).
- Too few provinces/ counties to make the zone interesting to play.

I'm happy that some improvements were made. But ultimately, the Romanians/Vlachs are still listed as "South Slavic" rather than something like "East Latin". The Romanians had Slavic influences, but nobody spoke of the Romanians as Slavs:
- Nicolaus Olahus wrote in his work Hungaria that "by tradition the Romanians are Roman colonists".
- Poggio Bracciolini, an Italian scholar was the first to write (around 1450) that the Romanians' ancestors had been Roman colonists settled in Dacia Traiana.
- In 1458, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini stated in his work De Europa (1458) that the Vlachs were a genus Italicum ("an Italian race") and were named after one Pomponius Flaccus, a commander sent against the Dacians. Piccolomini's version of the Vlachs' origin from Roman settlers in Dacia Traiana was repeated by many scholars—including the Italian Flavio Biondo and Pietro Ranzano, the Transylvanian Saxon Johannes Lebelius and the Hungarian István Szántó — in the subsequent century.
- The late 13th-century Hungarian chronicler Simon of Kéza states that the Vlachs (Blackis) were shepherds and husbandmen who remained in Pannonia when the Hungarians arrived.
- The Hungarian humanist Szamoskozy wrote about the autochtonous origin of the Romanians: "the Roman colonists which inhabited the region, living through various wars and tribulations and dispersed by fate, they became the Romanian people."
- Nicolaus Olahus observed that: "The sermons of all the Romanians are from the Romans, as they are Roman colonists: by our work, of great effort, we see their language is mutually-intellgeble with Latin… According to the tradition, Romanians are colonists of the Romans. This is proved by the fact that they have much in common with the Romans’ language, people whose coins are abundant in these places; undoubtedly, these are significant testimonies of the oldness and Roman rule here."

As you can see, the Romanians were not regarded by others as "South Slavs" nor did they regard themselves as "South Slavs":
- Historiograph Johann Lebel attests in 1542 that "Common Romanians call themselves "Romuini"
- The Polish Humanist Stanislaus Orichovius notes as late as 1554 that "these left behind Dacians in their own language are called Romini, after the Romans, and Walachi in Polish, after the Italians"
- Another humanist, who took up residence in Transylvania, the Dalmatian Antonius Verantio, who later would become cardinal and viceroy of Habsburg Hungary, also states in 1570 that "the Wallachians call themselves Romans" and provides an example: "When they ask somebody whether they can speak Wallachian, they say: do you speak Roman? and [when they ask] whether one is Wallachian they say: are you Roman?"
- Jesuit Theology professor Martinus Szent-Ivany cites in 1699 Romanian expressions: "Sie noi sentem Rumeni" (modern standard Romanian "Și noi suntem români") and "Noi sentem di sange Rumena" (in modern standard Romanian "Noi suntem de sânge român"
- The geographer Anton Friedrich Busching writes in 1754 that "the Wallachians, who are remnant and progeny of the old Roman colonies thus call themselves Romanians, which means Romans".
- The Hungarian writer Andras Dugonics in 1801 states: "But those Romans who remained in Dacia mixed their Roman language with the language of the Sarmatians [of the Slavs] and that of the Dacians. Thus a special language was formed, the Wallachian language (oláh nyelv), which is nothing else but a mixture of the Latin language with the Slavic and Dacian language (dákus), and they themselves are today called the Romans (rómaiak), ie rumun".
- The English author John Paget, in 1839, in his book, "Hungary and Transylvania" writes: "the Wallack of the present day calls himself "Rumunyi" and retains a traditional pride of ancestry, in spite of his present degradation."

At no point the Romanians were considered "South Slavs", like they are labeled in the game. Not even by the slavs.

Of course, one of the most common arguments when this was mentioned in CK2 was: wouldn't Vlach people have more in common with their Slavic neighbors than Italians, French, Normans and other members of the Latin culture group?

In terms of language? No. Vlach language would be more similar to Italians, French, Normans. In terms of traditions? it's a mixed bag. The Romanians took some traditions from the Slavs, but at the same time had other traditions like Martisor (from the Romans) that the Slavs never had. Also, the Vlachs were known as mostly shepherds who would pay tribute to whoever was ruling them in exchange for being left alone. The 11th-century Persian writer, Gardizi, described them as "more numerous than the Hungarians, but weaker".

The Romanians did not have a warrior culture like the Magyars and Slavs had at that point. Were known mostly as Farmers and Shepherds.

I'm not angry, I'm not mad at anyone, I'm just sad and dissapointed because I had hopes that in CK3 I could finally enjoy playing my culture but many of the Vlach issues in CK2 remain unnadressed in CK3. The only thing that changed for the better is the province/counties (well done Devs, really well done on that part).

Some of you may ask why I don't make a suggestion post and provide arguments and make an actual case instead of ranting here but so many other Romanians have done and gave arguments so much better than me that I doubt me putting the effort to gather the sources needed will make a difference, so instead my question to you guys is another:

Do you enjoy playing as the Vlachs in CK3?

Do you find Vlachs interesting in game or would you rather play other zones, or even choose other cultures next to them like Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ruthenian due to more variety/immersion/uniqueness/more interesting scenarios? And the last question, do you think Vlachs are where they should be at the moment regarding the issues I mentioned or they need adressing?

A lot of culture have unique events and decisions. I made a suggestion for an alt-history event where you can form the Kingdom of Romania (since that's what they called themselves, were called Vlachs by others) if you manage to own Kingdom of Wallachia, Kingdom of Moldavia and Duchy of Transylvania, but I don't know if it will gain some traction:


The area of Eastern Europe and especially the Balkans does tend to get a bit less attention than Western Europe does, which of course exacerbates the first issue, that Eastern Europe kind of got the shaft. I get the feeling they plan to improve it after release, but that's kind of a cold comfort, since CK2 was released in 2012 and from 2012 to 2023 they only partially fixed some of the issues about the Vlachs. I didn't check, but I think the French were correctly represented from 2012 or at least any major historical inaccuracy fixed by 2015.

About the gameplay aspect of not revolting against Slavic rulers I would actualy love them to revolt and appear on the map at least once, in my many games they never ever spawned and formed independent states as they did in real life, instead they get asimilated by Bulgarian or Pecheneg depending on the start date. Maybe having increased chance of revolt will result in them beign on the map (maybe, being part of an "East Latin" rather than "South Slavic" culture group will make them more likely to revolt against the Bulgarians). Also Ithink it will be healthy for the gameplay having more variety to chose from in the East, having the option to play the single latin culture surrounded by slavs, greeks, magyars will make for interesting scenarios, that is...if others players think the same hence why I asked.

Sorry for the wall of text, thanks for reading till the end those of you who did, have a great day all!

What I am asking for more historical accuracy is simply:
- Make the Vlach culture an "East Latin" culture group. (will be historically accurate and also make them more likely to revolt as they did historically)
- Make all of north Moldavia have Vlach culture (Duchy of Bukovina & Duchy of Moldavia).
- Make some part of Transylvania have Vlach culture (I see that CK3 already has a file for Transylvanian culture; Magyar and Vlach heritage; so either: Make Duchy of Transylvania and surrounding counties Transylvanian culture like EU4, or do something with the Vlach culture, Magyar culture and Saxon culture similar to this: https://forumcontent.paradoxplaza.com/public/753516/1634586519271.png; With Saxons in the south after they are invited, Hungarians in Szekelyland, and Romanians in the Western parts of Transylvania + Banat)
This was Transylvania in the 1910 census: https://forumcontent.paradoxplaza.com/thumbnail/public/753514/1634586312325.png
And this was Hungary in the 1784 statistics: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1cb57d7950539e4dbfe17dca2ac88285-pjlq
We cannot fully know how the population was looking in 867 and 1066, but based on what we know so far, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that anything changed)
- Having something like this formable even if alt-history would be cool and give you something to do as the Vlachs, since they didn't get independence until 1330 and 1346, while the closest thing to a map like that happened in 1600: https://preview.redd.it/etvblfa83nn...ed&s=5e6404c39fe0a2b77c53fe16f9433b7743cfb8a5

I wish I'd be able to do something like this https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/tf4p6h without mods or a superhuman effort. Since I have slavic revolts in areas that historically were populated by Romanians.
 
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My most recent game was playing as the Vlach count of Giurgiu in 1066 and it was actually pretty fun to do. The clash between catholic Hungarians and orthodox Vlach was quite fun given that they both have the strong believers tradition. The Byzantine Empire exploded in that run which made the Balkans have a bit more interesting dynamics than usual as well.

I agree a "form kingdom of Romania" decision would be a cheap way to make it a little more fun, but I did a little working around it by forming a custom kingdom when I held all duchies in both Wallachia, Moldavia and the duchy of Vidin (which is Vlach cultured in game, I don't know if there's history for that). Transylvania and Temes I'm waiting to integrate into the title because I needed the kingdom rank in order to take them from the much more powerful Hungary.

I think it would be nice to see a few more counties be Vlach at game start as well, especially since some of them can be culturally converted rather quickly if a Vlach ruler does not take them.

For what it's worth as well, at some point in the game they changed Vlach to be of "Vlach Heritage" and have "Dacian Vulgar" language (IE a latin based language) rather than being "south slavic" like they were at launch. It might be worth updating your game if you're on PC or keep hoping for the best if you're on Console. As far as I can tell their names-list from which characters get their names generated from is unique as well.
 
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I'm not aware of Vlach being interchangeable with what we now identify as Romanian during this time period.

Vlach's root is a German word for stranger, this eventual turning to meaning something like "shepherd" (for English readers, see Wales). Additionally middle age texts denoting Vlach is akin to texts referring to groups of people as "Greek" or "Latin" and included many other (including slavic) peoples. See

If Vlach are Romanians and not slavs, why not have "pastores romanorum" as they were explicitly listed alongside Vlachs, Slavs, & Bulgarians by Bela?

Additionally if you want to look at current genetic structures, Romanians fall much closer to Bulgarian and south Balkan nationalities (North Macedonia, Albanian, etc.) than to "Latin" groups (Italian, or others).

Culturally the differences are rather small, especially between Vlachs and Bulgars in either 867 or 1066 time periods. Extremely doubtful these differences are meaningful enough to represent an entirely different culture group.

Eastern Europe getting more love would help remove the flatness of South Slavic for all non-Greek Balkans but I don't agree that "East Latin" makes a great deal of sense beyond from a language perspective
 
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I'm not aware of Vlach being interchangeable with what we now identify as Romanian during this time period.

Vlach's root is a German word for stranger, this eventual turning to meaning something like "shepherd" (for English readers, see Wales). Additionally middle age texts denoting Vlach is akin to texts referring to groups of people as "Greek" or "Latin" and included many other (including slavic) peoples. See

If Vlach are Romanians and not slaves, why not have "pastores romanorum" as they were explicitly listed alongside Vlachs, Slavs, & Bulgarians by Bela?

Additionally if you want to look at current genetic structures, Romanians fall much closer to Bulgarian and south Balkan nationalities (North Macedonia, Albanian, etc.) than to "Latin" groups (Italian, or others).

Culturally the differences are rather small, especially between Vlachs and Bulgars in either 867 or 1066 time periods. Extremely doubtful these differences are meaningful enough to represent an entirely different culture group.

Eastern Europe getting more love would help remove the flatness of South Slavic for all non-Greek Balkans but I don't agree that "East Latin" makes a great deal of sense beyond from a language perspective
Vlach is an exonym for Romanians. It's not what the Romanians called themselves, it's what they were called by other people, mainly the Germans and the Hungarians.

They were not the only people called "Vlach", the Italians and Welsh also used to be called "Vlachs" since it merely meant "stranger" in Old Germanic. But eventually, the word took the meaning "Romance-speaker". And by the Late Middle Ages, only the Romanians kept being referred to as Vlach. Here

I don't understand how Vlachs being listed with the Slavs and Bulgarians would make the Vlachs slavic given that Bela listed the people living in the region when the Hungarians arrived.

Vlachs do have "pastores romanorum" so to speak. The original latin text is "quam terram habitarent Sclavi, Bulgarii et Blachii ac pastores Romanorum". Ac can mean both "and" and "meaning". We don't know what he meant since he never came back on "pastores romanorum" after that statement. But we know that the chronicler Simon of Kéza based his own work on that. And in his own work he identified the "shepherds and husbandmen of the Romans" as the Vlachs.

These are by far not the only people drawing the Vlach = Roman equation, as you can see from the list in the OP, that was the consensus at the same. Not even the slavs called the Romanians slavs.

I'm pretty sure genetics =/= culture. We're all a mixed bag. Personally, I think genetics has nothing to do with culture.

As mentioned in the original post, the Magyars and Slavs were regarded as warriors, the Romanians were regarded as Farmers and Shepherds. This is already a very big cultural difference, your main occupation and "what you're known for" being different. The language, again, big part. There are also different traditions and beliefs.

The differences are meaningful enough to make the Romanians a standard deviation from the Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, etc. There's a reason nobody regarded them as "slavs". While they had certain similarities due to slavic influence in the 6th century, ultimately they were as different from the South Slavs as the Magyars.
 
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Perhaps if Eastern Europe would get as much attention as Western Europe does, ethno-nationalist posting wouldn't be a thing.
Yea, voicing that line of thinking never went well for me here...da, hai noroc! I suspect the Balkans in CK3 aren't going to get nearly as much attention. So far, the content has been overwhelmingly western-European focus. The word choice for "vlach" kinda says it all...given that you know, the actual correct endonym "valah" would be so arcane and unrecognizable :rolleyes:.

I don't know that "Romania" in the 'tara romaneasca" should be a thing in this game any more than a formable Yugoslavia should, but that's a matter of taste I suppose. I love the Sunsent Invasion concept, but a lot of people hate it, which is fine.

Haesteinposting and Viking cheese is way more important than handling anything outside of Europe culturally responsibly. Thank God for modders...
 
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I've actually played a bit as the Vlachs in CK3, and yeah honestly I did find them fun to play - lacking a unique objective, sure, but so are most cultures on the map, which is something that'll be improved over time. They have three hybrid cultures in the game files of Dobrujan (Vlach + Turkish), Aromanian (Vlach + Greek), and Transylvanian (Vlach + Hungarian), and the hybrid culture mechanics, plus their position on the map can make them fun to play.

Would definitely still appreciate things like forming Romania, as the weird half-kingdom thing they've got going on feels weird when you consider the monstrously sized Kingdoms on the map such as Germany and England. Also, an objective for Orthodox Christians that aren't exactly the Byzantine Empire wouldn't go amiss.

Something I really couldn't help but notice in your post is your insistence that they should be changed from South Slavic, to which I not only agree, but so does Paradox: They haven't been part of the South Slavic culture group since Royal Court, and are the sole members of the Vlach culture group. They even have a unique level of attention paid to them where the person who made this culture group actually remembered how their internal innovations system works, and didn't leave them without any innovations at the start of the game like they did for Tocharian, which they separated from the Iranian culture group.

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I guess where I stand on your post is: Yeah, I agree, but the game began too far stretched to have detailed content for every region, and to an extent required Paradox to use data they already had lying around from CK2, frustrating as that may be. I hope the Balkans receive some love in a future pack for you, because I'd love to keep playing in the region myself.

P.S. I don't really think this really qualifies as Ethno-Nationalist posting, I've seen what Ethno-Nationalist posting looks like on this forum lol
 
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Nice to hear that. Glad to hear there are people who find the Vlachs fun to play, while I like the idea of being under the Bulgarians/Pechenegs and then rising up, that was the only thing they seem to have going for them and there's other cultures starting in a similar situation. I thought that if I weren't Romanian I wouldn't have played Vlachs, but it's nice to hear other people enjoy playing the Vlachs too.

You could make a case for forming Romania in the Middle Ages being ahistorical, which is true, the closest thing to a union happened in 1600, but then again CK3 is a game about alt-history, not always playing by the lines, and different events happening.

I did notice that level of research and was impressed. They already mention that Vlachs are a hybrid of "Hybrid Roman/unknown slavic in 600" and called their language "Dacian Vulgar" which is essentially a translation to Hungarian writer Andras Dugonics' words: "But those Romans who remained in Dacia mixed their Roman language with the language of the Sarmatians [of the Slavs] and that of the Dacians. Thus a special language was formed, the Wallachian language (oláh nyelv), which is nothing else but a mixture of the Latin language with the Slavic and Dacian language (dákus), and they themselves are today called the Romans (rómaiak), ie rumun".

And all the culture traits they got are on point: Konni Raids, Pastoralists, Strong Believers, Xenophilic and Staunch Traditionalists with Royal Court. It really shows that they read about the Romanians.

I think that "East Latin" heritage would be more descriptive than the "Vlach" heritage "Vlach" culture. Since they were regarded as former Roman colonists by virtually everyone at the time, including Italian scholars.

But I suppose you're right that the game began too far stretched to have detailed content for every region, it will take time. I hope that at least they add Vlach culture in the rest of Moldavia and some Vlach culture in Transylvania. It feels very weird to form Moldavia and have half of it culturally Russian despite being culturally Vlach.

And perhaps with an update, something that makes the Vlachs eventually revolt and form kingdoms of their own like they did. As it stands right now, if you start in 867 the Russian cultured Duke of Bukovina (which historically accurate, they did rule the north of Moldavia for a while) forms the Kingdom of Moldavia which is very weird. He already has enough territory to form the kingdom when the game starts.

I find the ethno-nationalist posting the perfect argument for when you disagree or don't care but lack an argument.
- The Irish are supposed to be Celts not Saxons and all of Ireland should have Irish culture.
- What an ethno-nationalist posting!
wtf?
 
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@LeanLeaf: interesting post. There are more regions underrepresented, even Western Europe is a mixed bag, to keep it small, I can take my native Low Countries as example, Ironically the in this period more populous Southern Low Countries (mostly modern day Belgium) is represented worse than the Northern Low Countries (mostly modern day Netherlands), but I digress.

@NATOaster: and then to think Germany is rather oddly divided and arguably should be bigger, especially in the mid to late game.

I wouldn't be against the option to unite Wallachia and Moldavia into a Romanian kingdom, more contested, especially after the kingdom of Hungary is established, will be Transylvania. In 867 this is different than in 1066, in 867 owned can be enough, in 1066 at the minimum it should be completely controlled and arguably the former de jure liege Hungary should get a casus belli.
Not uniting everyone in a kingdom is not unique, the county of Portucale, wasn't really different from the rest of Galicia, before it formed the kingdom of Portugal and (the kingdom of) Galicia stayed with the kingdom of León (later the Crown of Castille and finally Spain).
 
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Lucky for you, I am one of the fools who dares make modifications to South-East Europe and the Balkans! I'm going to give this all a skim through.

1. Incorect representation of culture regarding culture group (Vlachs appear as South Slavic)
Fortunately, I moved Vlachs into their own heritage group with Royal Court!

2. Incorrect representation of culture spread (Vlachs have no presence around Transylvania and Northern Moldavia as they should)
This much is true and should be changed, particularly Vlachs in Transylvania.

Pannonia broadly has the problem that it is a real hot spot of different people and cultures, but CK's mechanics don't easily model that so the call was made earlier to just represent it all as Hungarian for the sake of gameplay, but I don't see anything wrong with representing Vlach majorities in a few counties.

I don't have executive power to make sweeping alterations to the game, and stuff like this will take some discussion, but I am willing to take a look at it myself.

- Make the Vlach culture an "East Latin" culture group. (will be historically accurate and also make them more likely to revolt as they did historically)
"East Latin" makes more sense than Vlach Heritage I guess, but then in itself it kind of ignores the existing influence of other cultures on the Vlach. Much the same as how we don't define French or Iberian as "West Latin".

- Make all of north Moldavia have Vlach culture (Duchy of Bukovina & Duchy of Moldavia).
I'd have to look into what decided to make it Russian to begin with, but I'm not against changing it if sources seem to suggest it was majority Vlach in our period.

- Having something like this formable even if alt-history would be cool and give you something to do as the Vlachs, since they didn't get independence until 1330 and 1346, while the closest thing to a map like that happened in 1600: https://preview.redd.it/etvblfa83nn...ed&s=5e6404c39fe0a2b77c53fe16f9433b7743cfb8a5
As mentioned in the thread about specifically this topic, I'm really unsure if it's period-appropriate.

Maybe there should be a decision to shift Transylvania into Wallachia/Moldavia if you as a Vlach conquer it, or a Kingdom of Transylvania decision, but I'm not convinced that a new Kingdom of Romania would have been declared in the period, or that they would attempt to claim the mantle of Rome while Byzantium still exists.

I think the solution is maybe some unique flavourisation for Carpathia if it's formed by a Vlach since right now it's very Hungary-flavoured.
 
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I think there's definitely something to be said for "time-inappopriate decisions" but I think cultural Kingdoms shouldn't really fall under this category, even if they didn't exist in the timeframe of the game. Take Greater Armenia, or Bene-Israel for example; neither of these existed in the timeframe of the game, nor at all in the case of the latter, but it's a small decision that makes playing specific cultures more immersive, and I think I'd prioritise that over weird historicity in an already alternative history game.
 
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While I do feel the Vlachs are lacking and need both historicity and potential and should be done better, the fact is, that the biggest inaccuracy in-game about the Vlachs right now, is that there are at all vlach rulers existing, since it would be logical, that the elite in Wallachia and Moldova was Slavic in 867.
After all it was the Slavs of the lower Danube that allied the Bolghars in 681 and in exchange kept their rule over the local lands. Everything else is a speculation. The Ethnic composition of the Lands is unklear and could as well be all Vlach but the local Rulers were certainly not.

The Devs first made the Vlachs of slavic heritage to kind of aproximate that, but because this compromise itself is highly inacurate - there was a backlash and they changed the Heritage to Latin. The trouble with that is that the slavic ruling class does not exist as it should.

There is no good or accurate decision on what to do with the Vlachs. Early medieval Vlach history is lacking in statehood and in sources. I do accept the existence of Vlach Rulers but Romania`s time to shine is not in the CK3 ages
 
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Wow, thank you so much for the thorough response!
Lucky for you, I am one of the fools who dares make modifications to South-East Europe and the Balkans! I'm going to give this all a skim through.
Nice :D
Fortunately, I moved Vlachs into their own heritage group with Royal Court!
I see, didn't pay attention to that, good to know. :D
This much is true and should be changed, particularly Vlachs in Transylvania.

Pannonia broadly has the problem that it is a real hot spot of different people and cultures, but CK's mechanics don't easily model that so the call was made earlier to just represent it all as Hungarian for the sake of gameplay, but I don't see anything wrong with representing Vlach majorities in a few counties.

I don't have executive power to make sweeping alterations to the game, and stuff like this will take some discussion, but I am willing to take a look at it myself.
I presented in the OP maps of how we could look like if we project the future into the past:
https://forumcontent.paradoxplaza.com/public/753516/1634586519271.png; With Saxons in the south after they are invited, Hungarians in Szekelyland, and Romanians in the Western parts of Transylvania + Banat)
This was Transylvania in the 1910 census: https://forumcontent.paradoxplaza.com/thumbnail/public/753514/1634586312325.png
And this was Hungary in the 1784 statistics: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1cb57d7950539e4dbfe17dca2ac88285-pjlq
Since we don't have an ethnic map for 867 or 1066.

I don't suppose you want to read a book for the sake of making some minor changes into a game, but in the small chance that catches your interest or if you need extra sources I recommend: The History of Transylvania, 3 Volumes, written by Ioan Aurel-Pop, Andras Magyari, Thomas Nagler, 2009. It is co-written by a Romanian, a Hungarian and a German historian.
"East Latin" makes more sense than Vlach Heritage I guess, but then in itself it kind of ignores the existing influence of other cultures on the Vlach. Much the same as how we don't define French or Iberian as "West Latin".
But the Italians are listed as Latin and in the same way were a culture with a Latin core influenced by the Ostrogoths and Lombards. I suppose every culture had other influences as well, that's how they became separate cultures. The game would still point to their Dacian and Slavic influences by pointing out the language as Dacian Vulgar and their creation as a mix between Roman and unknown slavic.

There were other influences on the Vlachs, especially slavic, but they were regarded primarily as Romans or descendents of the Romans, "the lost colony".

When they were described in Early Middle Ages works they were either called Vlachs (which originally "stranger" in Old Germanic but eventually the word took the meaning "romance-speaker" and was also used for Italians) or Romans. The 6th-century Strategikon of the Byzantine emperor Mauricius, mentions "Romans" in the territory of former Dacia, the Byzantine historian Theophanes also writes about this subject a little later in 7th century. Even in later records, we have a record saying that in 1213 Ioachim of Nagyszeben attacked the Bulgars and Cumans from Vidin using an army of "Romans", Hungarians, Transylvanian Saxons and Pechenegs. After this, all Hungarian battles in the Carpathian region were supported by Romance-speaking soldiers from Transylvania. Or the Annals of Niketas Choniates saying that the Hungarian king Ladislaus asked the Old Romans (Byzantines) and the New Romans (Vlachs) to fight the Tatars in 1342.

And if you were to ask the Romanians at that time, they still called themselves "Romans". In fact, to this day the Romanians still call themselves technically "Roman" it's just that the language changed. Just like the Romanish people in Switzerland. "Romanish" is still supposed to mean "Roman".

During the transition from Vulgar Latin to Romanian, there were some phonetical changes that modified romanus into român or rumân (the word Romanians used for Romanian), but the original meaning remained the same despite the Roman Empire no longer existing. For example, in 1532, Francesco della Valle accompanying Governor Aloisio Gritti to Transylvania, Walachia and Moldavia notes that Romanians preserved the name of the Romans (Romani) and "they call themselves in their language Romei (Romanians)". He even cites the sentence "Sti Rominest ?" ("do you speak Romanian?" for originally Romanian "știi românește ?") Further, this author reports what he could learn from local orthodox monks, that "in the present they call themselves Romei (Romanians)".
I'd have to look into what decided to make it Russian to begin with, but I'm not against changing it if sources seem to suggest it was majority Vlach in our period.
It's in Crusader Kings 2 as well so it may have been imported from that.
As mentioned in the thread about specifically this topic, I'm really unsure if it's period-appropriate.

Maybe there should be a decision to shift Transylvania into Wallachia/Moldavia if you as a Vlach conquer it, or a Kingdom of Transylvania decision, but I'm not convinced that a new Kingdom of Romania would have been declared in the period, or that they would attempt to claim the mantle of Rome while Byzantium still exists.

I think the solution is maybe some unique flavourisation for Carpathia if it's formed by a Vlach since right now it's very Hungary-flavoured.
It depends in what what you mean period-appropriate, if you mean taking Michael the Brave's union from 1600 and slapping it to Crusader Kings 3's timeline, no I don't mean that. I mean that, in the alt-history event that the Vlachs would have managed to revolt and create their own large kingdom within Crusader Kings 3's timeline, they would have likely called their kingdom "Romania" with no inspiration from Michael the Brave.

Because they already called themselves "Romans" so it's the natural thing they would call their kingdom.

It kind of co-existed in our timeline too. Wallachia got its de facto independence in 1310 and de jure independence in 1330, but just like the Romanians were called "Vlachs" by others but called themselves "Romans", Wallachia was called Wallachia by others but the Romanians called her "the Romanian land".

So between 1310 and 1453, you had "Romania" (the Byzantine Empire) and "the Romanian land" (Wallachia / "Tara Romaneasca" ).

Someone else mentioned in that topic that to avoid confusion perhaps "Dacia" would be more appropriate.

It's not impossible, since Romanians were at the core Daco-Romans, so definetly a good suggestion if you want to avoid confusion, but the reason I think they would name their kingdom "Romania" just like they did in 1859 is because they already called themselves "Roman/Romanian" and were regarded as "former Romans" by others.

But even without the Vlachs, there was no shortage of people who would claim the title "Descendents of Rome" or "Second/Third Rome".
- Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans.
- The Holy Roman Empire
- Tsar from the Bulgarian Empire/Serbian Empire comes from "Caesar" because they considered themselves the successor of Rome. This is because Simeon I declared Bulgaria to be "the Third Rome".
- Moscow became "the Third Rome".
- The Ottoman Empire claimed to have been the successor of Rome after the fall of Constantinopole with Mehmed II being "Caesar of Rome".

The Roman Empire was this cool ancient empire who was ahead of its time and the light of progress for the ancient era, compared to the dark times we live in today (Middle Ages) so everybody wanted to be the successor of Rome or like Rome and steal some of that old Roman glory, confusing? yes, but it was weirdly common.

Lots of countries claimed to be "Rome" even when the Byzantine Empire was still around.

Weirdly enough, the Romanians would probably be the only ones to call the kingdom "Romania" because that's what they considered themselves. And not because it comes with a lot of prestige to be "the real Rome".

(To be fair, it would be super funny to have an easter egg event like:
- "Bro, we are Romans"
- "No, we are Romans"
- "But you just made a kingdom, we are the uninterrupted line of succession from Augustus"
- "But you speak Greek")

It's funny because it's true in a way. Kind of interesting how the situation played out and they took different paths.

The Romanians are the colonists from the Roman Empire after 106 AD, or more precisely what become of the colonists with a mix between the Romans, Dacians and Slavs. After the Roman army and administration retreated in 271 AD the population (about 500.000 according to Roman sources) kept doing its own thing. Meanwhile, the Roman Empire split into West & East, the Western Roman empire broke apart, and the Eastern Roman Empire started using Greek.

This is how you end up with 2 separate people that are essentially "of Rome" but took 2 very different paths.
 
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What I would like most is more romanian first names as I think they were copy pasted from ck2. They don't use romanian diacritics (ă î ș ț â) and still have some hungarian names (ex: Janos). Also some hungarian dynasties carried over from ck2
 
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What I would like most is more romanian first names as I think they were copy pasted from ck2. They don't use romanian diacritics (ă î ș ț â) and still have some hungarian names (ex: Janos). Also some hungarian dynasties carried over from ck2
Diacritics might be limitation of the game, not bad faith. Or have you managed to mod these in, since this wasn't possible in CK II (also for other languages like Polish). Foreign names IMHO can be allowed, if adopted by the ruling class. That's important, since the naming list should include names used by the ruling class during this era. Dynasties is a bit messy, even the Hungarian ones ruling in Transylvania, I agree a few are clearly Hungarian.
 

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Diacritics might be limitation of the game, not bad faith. Or have you managed to mod these in, since this wasn't possible in CK II (also for other languages like Polish). Foreign names IMHO can be allowed, if adopted by the ruling class. That's important, since the naming list should include names used by the ruling class during this era. Dynasties is a bit messy, even the Hungarian ones ruling in Transylvania, I agree a few are clearly Hungarian.
I didn't mean it was in bad faith, they were just copied from CK2 which didn't have support for them. CK3 supports them as I usually rename my heirs , for example Dragoș instead of Dragos . The only exception being 'ă' I think.The new dynasty names added also use them.
Some transylanian nobles did change names and converted to catholicism but that was much later. I think hybrid cultures already model this pretty well. Vlachs in wallachia and moldavia definately should't have hungarian names. Especially if the magyars never conquer transilvanya.
 
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From Crusader Kings III\game\common\culture\name_lists/00_south_slavic file (open with Notepad++; scroll down to Vlach)

male_names = {
Adrian Alexandru Anghel Aron Bajan Balc Barbat Basarab Bogdan Carol Ciprian Ciubar Claudiu
Corneliu Costin Damjan Dan Dragos Dumitru Emerik Florin Franjo Gavril Gheorghe Grigore Iacob
Iancu Ieremia Ilie Ioan Iorghu Iosif Iuga Janos Ladislau Latcu Laurentiu Litovoi Lucian Marin
Mihai Milos Mircea Moise Nicolaie Petre Pirvu Radovan Radu Roman Sas Seneslav Sergiu Simion
Stefan Stelian Teodor Tepes Tibor Tihomir Timotei Tudor Valentin Valeriu Vasile Veaceslav
Victor Vilhelm Vintila Vlad
}
female_names = {
Adelina Adriana Afina Alexandra Alexia Ana Anastasia Angela Arina Christina Clara Dana Ecatarina
Elena Elisabeta Emilia Eufroysina Felicia Floarea Iacoba Ioana Ionela Irina Iulia Maria Monica
Natalia Olimpia Paraschiva Petra Roxana Ruxandra Smaranda Sophia Stana Stefana Stefania Teodora
Tereza Vasilica Violeta Voica Zina

}

There are a few wrong names:

Male:

Damjan -> Damian
Emerik -> Emil
Franjo -> Farcas
Iorghu -> Iorgu
Janos -> Iancu
Milos -> Mihail (both Mihai and Mihail were used, but no Milos)
Petre - Petru
Seneslav - Seneslau
Veaceslav ?? (never heard of it and have a hard time pronouncing it, "eace" doesn't sound Romanian, probably Russian but nothing that was adopted into Romanian; found 2 people with this name from Republic of Moldova on Google, probably of Russian ancestry as one of them, the one on Wikipedia, seems to have Russian citizenship also. Also "vece" is an old word for "toilet" in Romanian, so I doubt anyone would name their kids "toiletslav".)
Vilhelm ?? (no way, Kaiser Wilhelm II was Romanian? joke aside, I think the Romanian Vilhelm is Victor that is already on the list)

Female:

Arina ?? -> Alina (Arina also sounds Romanian but the version I know of is Adina or Alina, maybe Arina is an older variation. Or maybe the Romanian variation for Arina is Irina. After Google; turn out Arina is very uncommon in Romania. I could find Alina as an old Romanian name but no Arina. Found an website saying that "Arina" means "peace" in Romanian, doesn't mean peace, however Alina means "to put at ease, caretaker", which is true, "a alina" means "to put at ease", to comfort someone. Dubious because Arina sounds like it could be Romanian unlike Veaceslav or Eufroysina, but maybe it's just a coincidence. Apparently is a Russian origin name that means "peace", in Russian. Dubious, I'm not excluding it as a possibility, but couldn't find anyone in Romanian history with that name. I'm going to go with Alina at least this one is confirmed).
Christina -> Cristina
Ecatarina -> Ecaterina
Eufroysina ?? (closest thing I can think of is also Ecaterina or Elisabeta but both are already on the list; Googled it, it's the name of a Saint of Kiev, translated as "Eufrosina" in Romanian, but couldn't find anyone actually called Eufroysina or Eufrosina, also doesn't sound Romanian)
Sophia -> Sofia

The ones with ?? are not Romanian names, and I can't think of no Romanian equivalent.

Other names that could be added instead. (Googled medieval Romanian noble houses and checked names of the members to make sure it's a medieval name)

Male:

Andrei
Anton
Calin
Catalin
Constantin
Cornel
Daniel
Gabriel
Gelu
Iordache
Lazar
Luca
Mihnea
Pavel
Silviu
Sorin
Stan

Female:

Anca
Catalina
Doina
Marina
Magdalena
Margareta
Mihaela
Nastasia
Oana
Olga
Stanca
Rada


I'll remake the file with wrong names changed or removed and new names added:

male_names = {
Adrian Alexandru Andrei Anghel Anton Aron Bajan Balc Barbat Basarab Bogdan Calin Carol Catalin Ciprian Ciubar Claudiu
Constantin Coman Cornel Corneliu Costin Daniel Damian Dan Dragos Dumitru Emil Farcas Florin Gabriel Gavril Gelu Gheorghe Grigore Iacob
Iancu Ieremia Ilie Ioan Iordache Iorgu Iosif Iuga Iancu Ladislau Latcu Laurentiu Lazar Litovoi Luca Lucian Marin
Mihai Mihail Mihnea Mircea Moise Nicolaie Pavel Petru Pirvu Radovan Radu Roman Sas Seneslau Sergiu Silviu Simion Sorin
Stan Stefan Stelian Teodor Tepes Tibor Tihomir Timotei Tudor Valentin Valeriu Vasile
Victor Vintila Vlad
}
female_names = {
Adelina Adriana Afina Alexandra Alexia Ana Anca Anastasia Angela Alina Catalina Cristina Clara Dana Doina Ecaterina
Elena Elisabeta Emilia Ecaterina Felicia Floarea Iacoba Ioana Ionela Irina Iulia Maria Magdalena Marina Margareta Mihaela Monica
Natalia Nastasia Oana Olga Olimpia Paraschiva Petra Rada Roxana Ruxandra Smaranda Sofia Stana Stanca Stefana Stefania Teodora
Tereza Vasilica Violeta Voica Zina

}

If there are any Romanians, please double-check if I made a typo or forgot to add a name from above on the list.

In total: 86 male names and 55 female names.

Same list but with diacritics (ă î ș ț â):

(ă î ș ț â Ș Ț)

male_names = {
Adrian Alexandru Andrei Anghel Anton Aron Bajan Balc Bărbat Basarab Bogdan Călin Carol Cătălin Ciprian Ciubar Claudiu
Constantin Coman Cornel Corneliu Costin Daniel Damian Dan Dragoș Dumitru Emil Farcaș Florin Gabriel Gavril Gelu Gheorghe Grigore Iacob
Iancu Ieremia Ilie Ioan Iordache Iorgu Iosif Iuga Iancu Ladislau Latcu Laurentiu Lazăr Litovoi Luca Lucian Marin
Mihai Mihail Mihnea Mircea Moise Nicolaie Pavel Petru Pîrvu Radovan Radu Roman Saș Seneslau Sergiu Silviu Simion Sorin
Stan Ștefan Stelian Teodor Țepes Tibor Tihomir Timotei Tudor Valentin Valeriu Vasile
Victor Vintilă Vlad
}
female_names = {
Adelina Adriana Afina Alexandra Alexia Ana Anca Anastasia Angela Alina Cătălina Cristina Clara Dana Doina Ecaterina
Elena Elisabeta Emilia Ecaterina Felicia Floarea Iacoba Ioana Ionela Irina Iulia Maria Magdalena Marina Margareta Mihaela Monica
Natalia Nastasia Oana Olga Olimpia Paraschiva Petra Rada Roxana Ruxandra Smaranda Sofia Stana Stanca Ștefana Ștefania Teodora
Tereza Vasilica Violeta Voica Zîna

}

Again, if there are any Romanians, please double-check.

And a few family names, good for dynasty generator:
Bucur
Coman
Gâlman
Șolda
Nămescu

Looking at the dynasty names. A lot don't sound Romanian at all. I'll remake the random dynasty names list using already existing names from 14th-15 century:

Some are good so I'll just copy-paste what's on the left, but plenty are not. I'll color the ones changed.

Out of those that are not. Some are clearly not, also are possibly not as they don't sound Romanian. I'll replace them with names from already existing 14th-15th century noble families just to be sure.

(ă î ș ț â Ș Ț) - added too when necessary.

dynasty_names = {
"dynn_Basarab" -> Basarab
"dynn_Dragusin" -> Dragușin
"dynn_Basarab" -> Bucur (Why is Basarab twice? replaced with Bucur)
"dynn_Litovoi" -> Litovoi
"dynn_SelimoviC_" -> Coman ......... (FROM HERE)
"dynn_CsA_ky" -> Gâlman
"dynn_DezsO_fi" -> Șolda
"dynn_Guthi-OrszA_gh" -> Nămescu
"dynn_MarczaltO_vi" -> Mușat
"dynn_Petenye" -> Carp
"dynn_Tibai" -> Hașdeu
"dynn_ZA_ch" -> Negrești
"dynn_Szapolyai" -> Miclescu ........... (TO HERE, are diacritics or combination of letters that don't exist in Romanian.

"dynn_VA_rdai" -> Vărdai
"dynn_ProdaniC_" -> Ferești
"dynn_Odescalchi" -> Bedeu
"dynn_Costin" -> Giulești (Costin is a Romanian name but not a family name, not sure how old it is but it's likely old, however not as a family name, I'll play it safe and replace with something certain. But it is a case of could be but I'm not sure. Never heard of the Costin dynasty but I'm not excluding the possiblity of a minor house. Just checked the name lists, it's already listed as a name. So I'll replace it with Giulești which I know for sure is a Romanian dynasty name because they existed)

"dynn_BA_dA_rA_u" -> Bădărău
"dynn_BA_lA_ceanu" -> Băiăceanu
"dynn_Bosie" -> Călinesti
"dynn_BrA_iloi" -> Brăilor
"dynn_BuS_ilA_" -> Bușilă
"dynn_Calerghi" -> Sighet
"dynn_Callimachi" -> Bârsan
"dynn_Cantemir" -> Cantemir
"dynn_Carianopol" -> Bud
"dynn_Crihan" -> Rațiu
"dynn_Carionfil" -> Mărgărit

"dynn_Cristescu" -> Cristescu
"dynn_Casassovici" -> Brâncoveanu
"dynn_Cesianu" -> Ceșianu
"dynn_ChinteS_ti" -> Chintești
"dynn_Chirescu" -> Chirescu
"dynn_CoteS_ti" -> Cotești
"dynn_CraioveS_tilor" -> Craiovești (NOTE: "Craioveștilor" means "the Craiovești". Such as, if you want to say "Orasul Craiova belongs to the Craiovesti House", you say "The city Craiova apartine Craiovestilor". But the name of the house itself is Craiovești, so I cut the "lor". On the same logic I'll remove the "lor" from Dănești and Drăculești. "Brăilor" is an exception because that was their name.)
"dynn_CrA_snaru" -> Crăsnaru
"dynn_Dinastia" -> Neamț (This one was literally called "Dynasty". Prepare for Lord Lord of the dynasty Dynasty, he has a son named Son)
"dynn_DA_neS_tilor" -> Dănești
"dynn_Diamandy" -> Menumorut
"dynn_DrA_culeS_tilor" -> Drăculești

"dynn_DrugA_" -> Drugă
"dynn_Eliescu" -> Eliescu
"dynn_Emandi" -> Serețchi
"dynn_Filipescu" -> Filipescu
"dynn_Florescu" -> Florescu
"dynn_FundA_T_eni" -> Fundățeni
"dynn_Giosani" -> Gioșani (diacritics here, but didn't change the color when only the diacritics were missing)
"dynn_Golescu" -> Golescu
"dynn_GrA_diS_teanu" -> Grădișteanu
"dynn_Greceanu" -> Greceanu
"dynn_Hagi" -> Hagi (Really, house Hagi? like Gica Hagi? well, could be a nice easter egg, I like it, but if you don't like the easter egg replace it with Mâtniceni)
"dynn_HA_jdA_u" -> Hâjdău
"dynn_Jianu" -> Jianu
"dynn_Korne" -> Moga
"dynn_Lecca" -> Peșteana

"dynn_LereS_ti" -> Lerești
"dynn_Magheru" -> Magheru
"dynn_Marineanu" -> Marineanu
"dynn_Miclescu" -> Miclescu
"dynn_MovilA_" -> Movilă
"dynn_MA_nA_stireanu" -> Mănăstireanu
"dynn_Niculescu_DorobanT_u" -> Dorobanțu
"dynn_PA_cleanu" -> Păcleanu
"dynn_Pisoschi" -> Danciu
"dynn_PleS_ia" -> Pleșia
"dynn_PleS_nilA_" -> Pleșnilă
"dynn_PleS_oianu" -> Pleșoianu
"dynn_RacovitzA_" -> Racovită
"dynn_RA_S_canu" -> Râșcanu
"dynn_Rallet" -> Dejești
"dynn_Rosetti" -> Rosetti
"dynn_RusA_neS_ti" -> Rusănești
"dynn_Savoia" -> Savoia
"dynn_Stoicescu" -> Stoicescu
"dynn_S_oarec" -> Șoarec
"dynn_S_oldan" -> Șoldan
"dynn_TurbureS_ti" -> Turburești
"dynn_UrlA_T_eni" -> Urlățeni
"dynn_VidraS_cu" -> Vidrașcu
"dynn_Yarka" -> Bizereni
}

Left - old one. Right - good. Again, Romanians please double-check if I wrote something wrong. Took me a lot to find all of them.

The Cadet Dynasty names are also bad. But everything in here was also in the list above and replaced, so you already have the list what to replace with:

cadet_dynasty_names = {
"dynn_Basarab"
"dynn_Dragusin"
"dynn_Basarab"
"dynn_Litovoi"
"dynn_SelimoviC_"
"dynn_CsA_ky"
"dynn_DezsO_fi"
"dynn_Guthi-OrszA_gh"
"dynn_MarczaltO_vi"
"dynn_Petenye"
"dynn_Tibai"
"dynn_ZA_ch"
"dynn_Szapolyai"
"dynn_VA_rdai"
"dynn_ProdaniC_"
"dynn_Odescalchi"
"dynn_Costin"
}

If you need some more Vlach noble family names (or names for Cadet so that you won't use names that also exist in Dynasty):
- Turț
- Mocioni
- Șoldan
- Pogănești
- Lupsa
- Dejești
- Chiliman
- Borcea
- Calian
- Vancu
- Motorga
- Sterea
- Vlaicu
- Balș
- Bibescu
- Voicu
- Ghica
- Kogălniceanu
- Văcărescu

TL;DR here!

I know this was long, trust me, it was long for me too, so here is the TL;DR version:

Given Names:
male_names = {
Adrian Alexandru Andrei Anghel Anton Aron Bajan Balc Bărbat Basarab Bogdan Călin Carol Cătălin Ciprian Ciubar Claudiu
Constantin Coman Cornel Corneliu Costin Daniel Damian Dan Dragoș Dumitru Emil Farcaș Florin Gabriel Gavril Gelu Gheorghe Grigore Iacob
Iancu Ieremia Ilie Ioan Iordache Iorgu Iosif Iuga Iancu Ladislau Latcu Laurentiu Lazăr Litovoi Luca Lucian Marin
Mihai Mihail Mihnea Mircea Moise Nicolaie Pavel Petru Pîrvu Radovan Radu Roman Saș Seneslau Sergiu Silviu Simion Sorin
Stan Ștefan Stelian Teodor Țepes Tibor Tihomir Timotei Tudor Valentin Valeriu Vasile
Victor Vintilă Vlad
}
female_names = {
Adelina Adriana Afina Alexandra Alexia Ana Anca Anastasia Angela Alina Cătălina Cristina Clara Dana Doina Ecaterina
Elena Elisabeta Emilia Ecaterina Felicia Floarea Iacoba Ioana Ionela Irina Iulia Maria Magdalena Marina Margareta Mihaela Monica
Natalia Nastasia Oana Olga Olimpia Paraschiva Petra Rada Roxana Ruxandra Smaranda Sofia Stana Stanca Ștefana Ștefania Teodora
Tereza Vasilica Violeta Voica Zîna

}
Dynasty Names:
dynasty_names = {
"dynn_Basarab" -> Basarab
"dynn_Dragusin" -> Dragușin
"dynn_Basarab" -> Bucur (Why is Basarab twice? replaced with Bucur)
"dynn_Litovoi" -> Litovoi
"dynn_SelimoviC_" -> Coman ......... (FROM HERE)
"dynn_CsA_ky" -> Gâlman
"dynn_DezsO_fi" -> Șolda
"dynn_Guthi-OrszA_gh" -> Nămescu
"dynn_MarczaltO_vi" -> Mușat
"dynn_Petenye" -> Carp
"dynn_Tibai" -> Hașdeu
"dynn_ZA_ch" -> Negrești
"dynn_Szapolyai" -> Miclescu ........... (TO HERE, are diacritics or combination of letters that don't exist in Romanian.

"dynn_VA_rdai" -> Vărdai
"dynn_ProdaniC_" -> Ferești
"dynn_Odescalchi" -> Bedeu
"dynn_Costin" -> Giulești (Costin is a Romanian name but not a family name, not sure how old it is but it's likely old, however not as a family name, I'll play it safe and replace with something certain. But it is a case of could be but I'm not sure. Never heard of the Costin dynasty but I'm not excluding the possiblity of a minor house. Just checked the name lists, it's already listed as a name. So I'll replace it with Giulești which I know for sure is a Romanian dynasty name because they existed)

"dynn_BA_dA_rA_u" -> Bădărău
"dynn_BA_lA_ceanu" -> Băiăceanu
"dynn_Bosie" -> Călinesti
"dynn_BrA_iloi" -> Brăilor
"dynn_BuS_ilA_" -> Bușilă
"dynn_Calerghi" -> Sighet
"dynn_Callimachi" -> Bârsan
"dynn_Cantemir" -> Cantemir
"dynn_Carianopol" -> Bud
"dynn_Crihan" -> Rațiu
"dynn_Carionfil" -> Mărgărit

"dynn_Cristescu" -> Cristescu
"dynn_Casassovici" -> Brâncoveanu
"dynn_Cesianu" -> Ceșianu
"dynn_ChinteS_ti" -> Chintești
"dynn_Chirescu" -> Chirescu
"dynn_CoteS_ti" -> Cotești
"dynn_CraioveS_tilor" -> Craiovești (NOTE: "Craioveștilor" means "the Craiovești". Such as, if you want to say "Orasul Craiova belongs to the Craiovesti House", you say "The city Craiova apartine Craiovestilor". But the name of the house itself is Craiovești, so I cut the "lor". On the same logic I'll remove the "lor" from Dănești and Drăculești. "Brăilor" is an exception because that was their name.)
"dynn_CrA_snaru" -> Crăsnaru
"dynn_Dinastia" -> Neamț (This one was literally called "Dynasty". Prepare for Lord Lord of the dynasty Dynasty, he has a son named Son)
"dynn_DA_neS_tilor" -> Dănești
"dynn_Diamandy" -> Menumorut
"dynn_DrA_culeS_tilor" -> Drăculești

"dynn_DrugA_" -> Drugă
"dynn_Eliescu" -> Eliescu
"dynn_Emandi" -> Serețchi
"dynn_Filipescu" -> Filipescu
"dynn_Florescu" -> Florescu
"dynn_FundA_T_eni" -> Fundățeni
"dynn_Giosani" -> Gioșani (diacritics here, but didn't change the color when only the diacritics were missing)
"dynn_Golescu" -> Golescu
"dynn_GrA_diS_teanu" -> Grădișteanu
"dynn_Greceanu" -> Greceanu
"dynn_Hagi" -> Hagi (Really, house Hagi? like Gica Hagi? well, could be a nice easter egg, I like it, but if you don't like the easter egg replace it with Mâtniceni)
"dynn_HA_jdA_u" -> Hâjdău
"dynn_Jianu" -> Jianu
"dynn_Korne" -> Moga
"dynn_Lecca" -> Peșteana

"dynn_LereS_ti" -> Lerești
"dynn_Magheru" -> Magheru
"dynn_Marineanu" -> Marineanu
"dynn_Miclescu" -> Miclescu
"dynn_MovilA_" -> Movilă
"dynn_MA_nA_stireanu" -> Mănăstireanu
"dynn_Niculescu_DorobanT_u" -> Dorobanțu
"dynn_PA_cleanu" -> Păcleanu
"dynn_Pisoschi" -> Danciu
"dynn_PleS_ia" -> Pleșia
"dynn_PleS_nilA_" -> Pleșnilă
"dynn_PleS_oianu" -> Pleșoianu
"dynn_RacovitzA_" -> Racovită
"dynn_RA_S_canu" -> Râșcanu
"dynn_Rallet" -> Dejești
"dynn_Rosetti" -> Rosetti
"dynn_RusA_neS_ti" -> Rusănești
"dynn_Savoia" -> Savoia
"dynn_Stoicescu" -> Stoicescu
"dynn_S_oarec" -> Șoarec
"dynn_S_oldan" -> Șoldan
"dynn_TurbureS_ti" -> Turburești
"dynn_UrlA_T_eni" -> Urlățeni
"dynn_VidraS_cu" -> Vidrașcu
"dynn_Yarka" -> Bizereni
}
Cadet Dynasty Names are also wrong but all Cadet Dynasty Names are also Dynasty Names so use that list.

Extra Dynasty Names if you need (maybe you can use these for Cadet instead).
If you need some more Vlach noble family names (or names for Cadet so that you won't use names that also exist in Dynasty):
- Turț
- Mocioni
- Șoldan
- Pogănești
- Lupsa
- Dejești
- Chiliman
- Borcea
- Calian
- Vancu
- Motorga
- Sterea
- Vlaicu
- Balș
- Bibescu
- Voicu
- Ghica
- Kogălniceanu
- Văcărescu
 
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Everything CK2 is a little burnt. It's par for the course. But PDX has already said in the past that they're not going to copy-paste code provided by the fans anymore. In some ways, it's been the reason why CK2 sometimes doesn't work in the past. They'll be notified (if you're lucky) and do their own research after the resources they think they can spend on this topic. It's not going to be that extensive unless it's deemed important enough.

I'm just informing you of the reality of things. If you want to help them you need to provide them with credible sources from the period or close to it.
 
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Everything CK2 is a little burnt. It's par for the course. But PDX has already said in the past that they're not going to copy-paste code provided by the fans anymore. In some ways, it's been the reason why CK2 sometimes doesn't work in the past. They'll be notified (if you're lucky) and do their own research after the resources they think they can spend on this topic. It's not going to be that extensive unless it's deemed important enough.

I'm just informing you of the reality of things. If you want to help them you need to provide them with credible sources from the period or close to it.
What happened in CK2's development?

Well, the information I took was from Wikipedia:

The issue however, is that not every Romanian noble family is going to be of Romanian origin. Because like in CK3 you can rule over people of different culture. Or sometimes women would marry and their name would be adopted to the new culture.

This is how you end up with names like "Marija Obrenović" despite "Marija" and "Obrenović" not being Romanian names. Actually, she married Miloš Obrenović that's why she is called "Marija Obrenović". Or how "Gregor von Rezzori" is listed as Romanian nobility despite his name clearly not being Romanian even to non-Romanians.

This is where I think being Romanian helps with the research.

It is clear from the dynasty names that the developers attempted to do exactly the same thing I did, find Romanian noble families from the 14th-15th century and put them as randomly generated Vlach dynasty names. However, because they aren't native Romanians they can't check whether a Romanian noble family was actually Romanian or just serving under the Wallachian/Moldavian prince but their origins were different. Such as "Selimović". "ć" doesn't exist in Romanian. This is clearly not a Romanian name. Or "Janos", that's the Hungarian alteration, it's "Iancu". Or small mistakes like "Drăculeștilor" instead of "Drăculești" because "lor" is actually "of the", like the family is called "Drăculești" but if you want to say "the car of the Drăculești" you say "masina Drăculeștilor", but you wouldn't know this if you weren't Romanian. There's no way you would know this is you weren't Romanian.

The Romanian language has no standalone preposition or definite article. Unlike other Romance langauges who lost the case decletions from Latin, Romanian kept the noun case declentions.
English: "I know the history of Europe very well".
Romanian: "Cunosc istoria Europei foarte bine" (I know history-the Europe-of very well)
Italian: "Conosco la storia d'Europa molto bene" (I know the history of Europe very well)

It's very difficult to know these things if you're not ethnic Romanian, which is where I came in with the fact checking in the previous post.

Imagine if you're trying to do a Czech localization if you're not Czech. How are you going to know which words/names are really Czech and which aren't? Even if you find sources, you have to randomly trust in the source, where as a native can tell what is right and wrong from a source.
But then the question goes: why trust me instead? because the very reason I made this topic is because I want more historical accuracy with the Vlachs. I want to play with the Vlachs and it feels like I'm playing with the Vlachs. Why would I add non-Romanian names to the list when my complain (and that of other people in this topic) is that there are non-Romanian names on the list? It goes against everything I did so far. Or modern Romanian names, they will be immersion-breaking. Ok, having a dynasty name named "Hagi" was actually pretty funny (one easter egg is funny, if that was the intended purpose), but how would I, a Romanian trying to play with Romania in 867/1066 feel, if I had modern Romanian names?
"dynn_Hagi" -> Hagi (Really, house Hagi? like Gica Hagi? well, could be a nice easter egg, I like it, but if you don't like the easter egg replace it with Mâtniceni)
It would break all immersion and charm of the game, having modern names in medieval era. Here I am, trying to play with a Vlach from 900 and suddenly there's a name from 2000. Like "Zaraza", "Zaraza" is a cool female name, but what the heck would "Zaraza" do in 900? that name is not supposed to exist in that timeline.

But very good point about the code, copy-paste code from the fans is dangerous. I'll just remake the list without the code:

Middle Ages Romanian Random Male Given Names:
Adrian
Alexandru
Andrei
Anghel
Anton
Aron
Bajan
Balc
Bărbat
Basarab
Bogdan
Călin
Carol
Cătălin
Ciprian
Ciubar
Claudiu
Constantin
Coman
Cornel
Corneliu
Costin
Daniel
Damian
Dan
Dragoș
Dumitru
Emil
Farcaș
Florin
Gabriel
Gavril
Gelu
Gheorghe
Grigore
Iacob
Iancu
Ieremia
Ilie
Ioan
Iordache
Iorgu
Iosif
Iuga
Iancu
Ladislau
Latcu
Laurentiu
Lazăr
Litovoi
Luca
Lucian
Marin
Mihai
Mihail
Mihnea
Mircea
Moise
Nicolaie
Pavel
Petru
Pîrvu
Radovan
Radu
Roman
Saș
Seneslau
Sergiu
Silviu
Simion
Sorin
Stan
Ștefan
Stelian
Teodor
Țepes
Tibor
Tihomir
Timotei
Tudor
Valentin
Valeriu
Vasile
Victor
Vintilă
Vlad
Middle Ages Romanian Random Female Given Names:
Adelina
Adriana
Afina
Alexandra
Alexia
Ana
Anca
Anastasia
Angela
Alina
Cătălina
Cristina
Clara
Dana
Doina
Ecaterina
Elena
Elisabeta
Emilia
Ecaterina
Felicia
Floarea
Iacoba
Ioana
Ionela
Irina
Iulia
Maria
Magdalena
Marina
Margareta
Mihaela
Monica
Natalia
Nastasia
Oana
Olga
Olimpia
Paraschiva
Petra
Rada
Roxana
Ruxandra
Smaranda
Sofia
Stana
Stanca
Ștefana
Ștefania
Teodora
Tereza
Vasilica
Violeta
Voica
Zîna
Middle Ages Romanian Random Dynasty Names:
Basarab
Dragușin
Bucur
Litovoi
Coman
Gâlman
Șolda
Nămescu
Mușat
Carp
Hașdeu
Negrești
Miclescu
Vărdai
Ferești
Bedeu
Giulești
Bădărău
Băiăceanu
Călinesti
Brăilor
Bușilă
Sighet
Bârsan
Cantemir
Bud
Rațiu
Mărgărit
Cristescu
Brâncoveanu
Ceșianu
Chintești
Chirescu
Cotești
Craiovești
Crăsnaru
Neamț
Dănești
Menumorut
Drăculești
Drugă
Eliescu
Serețchi
Filipescu
Florescu
Fundățeni
Gioșani
Golescu
Grădișteanu
Greceanu
Hagi (if you don't like the easter egg replace it with Mâtniceni)
Hâjdău
Jianu
Moga
Peșteana
Lerești
Magheru
Marineanu
Miclescu
Movilă
Mănăstireanu
Dorobanțu
Păcleanu
Danciu
Pleșia
Pleșnilă
Pleșoianu
Racovită
Râșcanu
Dejești
Rosetti
Rusănești
Savoia
Stoicescu
Șoarec
Șoldan
Turburești
Urlățeni
Vidrașcu
Bizereni
The same Middle Ages Romanian Random Dynasty Names list, but sorted in alphabetical order:
Basarab
Bedeu
Bizereni
Brâncoveanu
Brăilor
Bucur
Bud
Bușilă
Bârsan
Bădărău
Băiăceanu
Cantemir
Carp
Ceșianu
Chintești
Chirescu
Coman
Cotești
Craiovești
Cristescu
Crăsnaru
Călinesti
Danciu
Dejești
Dorobanțu
Dragușin
Drugă
Drăculești
Dănești
Eliescu
Ferești
Filipescu
Florescu
Fundățeni
Gioșani
Giulești
Golescu
Greceanu
Grădișteanu
Gâlman
Hagi (if you don't like the easter egg replace it with Mâtniceni)
Hașdeu
Hâjdău
Jianu
Lerești
Litovoi
Magheru
Marineanu
Menumorut
Miclescu
Miclescu
Moga
Movilă
Mușat
Mănăstireanu
Mărgărit
Neamț
Negrești
Nămescu
Peșteana
Pleșia
Pleșnilă
Pleșoianu
Păcleanu
Racovită
Rațiu
Rosetti
Rusănești
Râșcanu
Savoia
Serețchi
Sighet
Stoicescu
Turburești
Urlățeni
Vidrașcu
Vărdai
Șoarec
Șolda
Șoldan
Middle Ages Romanian Random Cadet Branches Names:
Turț
Mocioni
Șoldan
Pogănești
Lupsa
Dejești
Chiliman
Borcea
Calian
Vancu
Motorga
Sterea
Vlaicu
Balș
Bibescu
Voicu
Ghica
Kogălniceanu
Văcărescu
The same Middle Ages Romanian Random Cadet Branches Names list, but sorted in alphabetical order:
Balș
Bibescu
Borcea
Calian
Chiliman
Dejești
Ghica
Kogălniceanu
Lupsa
Mocioni
Motorga
Pogănești
Sterea
Turț
Vancu
Vlaicu
Voicu
Văcărescu
Șoldan
 
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