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Rurik's Russia

Thank you for the bug report.

The title is "Play as leader of a united Russia", having all of Rus at game start is the main feature of this mod. It is the only thing that cannot change.

The other features are minor, the religion features are what i think leads to the CTD, i might just remove them.

When I open the religion window with any follower of slav religion, I experience a CTD. Also, I think a fully formed empire of russia is a bit too much, and giving Rurik the title without the land would be better (he could wage war to obtain what is rightfully his).

Thanks, yea, "Plays as leader of a united Russia in the 869 bookmark", it is already united.

The conversion decision is on top of the vanilla reformation events, for maximum compatibility with the vanilla game and other mods.

If anyone notices bugs, please report them.

I liked the conversion event (would be awesome if you manage to integrate it with the pagan reformation events somehow, but I presume, it's a difficult task), but, it seems, I wasn't attentive enough and didn't realize that with this mod you start playing at the Viking age with Kievan Rus (Gardariki) already formed, also with Rurik as a ruler. I rather thought that I would have a chance to form one by myself, like with addtional subjugation CBs or something.
Thanks anyway.

I think it would be cool to see Sassanid persia, but internally divided between Nestorians, Zoros, and Buddhists. Have zealous members of the dynasty following each of those religions. They were all there historically, and if Islam hadn't taken over, they would've fought over the region.

Good ideas. Persia is a strong ancient nation/empire that under one or another name exists to this day. When doing BK's breakup of the caliphate, i had doubts about breaking up persia but didnt know what else to do with them and broke it up into de-jure duchies like everything else, for consistency. I have had plans of adjusting the 867 scenario in BK:R and offering a more advanced version of that alternate world, one where some of 769's small duchies expanded into bigger realms, this can also include a strong Persia in 867. I like the survival of the Sassanids idea.
As for religions, i feel if its Persia, it should be mostly about Zoroastrianism, with a healthy mix of all kinds of other religions.
Ill try to come up with something nice, probably in the coming days / weeks.

"feel free to suggest" Well, when using your two existing mods together, Persia seems oddly out-of-place with how normal it happens to be. I wouldn't mind a mod to make the region more different. What if the Sassanids never fell? What if Persia was nestorian? Both? Something to make it seem less like vanilla Persia.

@EnderDragonFire i just realized that you are using my mods in a completely unintended, unconsidered, untested way, i was so busy with the 769 scenario for BK that i never even realized what i created for 867.
A middle east that is free to take with a strong jewish presense. Strong jewish Khazaria right next to that, willing to take its share. And a huge Rus that can switch any religion including judaism.
As you see im open for all kinds of crazy alt-history and very-much-history ideas, feel free to suggest. Next up will be a simple Radhanite Trade Route mod similar to the Varangian one.

Yes, while technically and ideologically related, they offer a completely different playing experience. Better to have both mods than just one, the more the merrier.

@Gefilte Your mod is good too, it's just not quite what I was looking for. His mod has a much stronger Alt-history than your mod does! Your mod is much more beleivable and limited, wheras his mod makes Judaism quite a powerful map presence, esp. in the Viking Age with the Khazars as well as Juedea. Different mods for different goals.