What's up with the Egyptian female names?

[ZhugeKongming]

I just fired up a game as the Fatimids and was reminded of something silly and anacronistic that has been in CK2 since release: the names list for Egyptian females is padded out with ancient Egyptian goddesses and queens. Seriously, Paradox? You might as well throw in Phoenician queens' names for the Levantines, or Roman matrons' names for the Italians. It's extremely grating to see Arabic-speaking Muslim women named "Bast" and "Nefertiti." Not even the Copts had these kinds of names. And there's no excuse for it, either; you could have just plundered the other Arabic group name lists if you needed additional names, you didn't have to throw in these bizarre anachronisms.

This isn't a major issue, but it does cause me to die a little inside every time I start a game in that part of the world. Please fix it for 1.09.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It's bothered me too. I mean I wouldn't mind if they had a few names as easter eggs, but in fact almost half the female Egyptian names are ancient names. It wouldn't have been that difficult to just copy names from the other Arabic lists.

 

[Jia Xu]

I thought I was the only one who ever noticed this. Whoever did up these names has not done his/her homework. Names related to paganism are absolutely forbidden in Islam. The Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) himself changed the names of Muslims who had names with bad meanings.