Christianity Besieged 1444
Countries currently with mission trees: Venetia, Bayt Allah, and Iskandaria
The Roman Empire struggled and failed to hold and maintain the Levant and Anatolia, and survive united until 1334. With no Byzantine Empire at its throat, the empowered Sassanids fought back the Islamic Caliphates and cultivated a massive realm for Manichaeism to grow, struggling against the rebellious remnants of the Pontic Empire and instead expanding towards India.
Meanwhile, the Roman Empire’s intolerance towards Christianity creates an entirely new and hostile world for the Christians of Europe, and when they finally fell to the Turkic invasion, most of these new Italians shed their old Roman and Tengri Gods to convert to the rationalist sect of Alsababi Islam. The Germans meanwhile synthesize the traditions of their old Gods with the Hunnic-Gothic tradition into a more centralized model in reaction to the encroaching Romans in the 10th century, leaving the loosely organized but vast Kingdoms of Germania as an echo of their struggle. Can you manage to keep Christianity alive throughout this era of change?
More lore info available here[docs.google.com]!
Pretty much my goal for this mod was to make an extremely divergent but still plausible alt-history. Names, religions, legends, and cultures have evolved differently in more deep and nuanced ways than I find possible within the realm of possibility of the vanilla game experience, and I try to express this wherever possible. This is still in a fairly early stage of development but I can say fairly confidently it’s starting to come into its own. Been such a blast building it and still got a long ways to go.
Discord channel here: https://discord.gg/7Zby2ah
Test build can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307599419
CREDIT:
-Extended timeline mod, I poached a lot of their religion stuff and some province localisation.
-AtlasTheTitan for being instrumental in the early success and cleanup of the mod!
-Slowpoke and their Inuit Model Improvement Mod for adding some much needed flair to the Inuit nations!
-Muscle Dog/Julius Caesar for help with provinces and events, such as the Croatian Settlement event chain!
-Pelior/Dracaric for helping with an absolute ton of flags, wealth of gameplay ideas, and being a great resource on Slavic etymology and Germanic history!
-Papa Smoke for being an insane help with religion, lore, design, flags, icons, and being an instrumental resource for Abrahamic theology!
-Big Juice for helping with a ton of leader names!
-Pascal for helping with Roman and Saxon history, flag help, and helping layout the Mediterranean update!
-Danwar for a lot of writing, helping with Roman Empire history, Armorica missions, & being incredibly helpful in the community!
-FearlesCriss for designing a Bayt Allah mission tree, a ton of culture shift events, and providing a wealth of other valuable feedback!
-Pagaes for designing the layouts for awesome upcoming mission trees for the Ut Dimissi, British minors, Bretony, & Alexandriyya!
-Master Yoda for providing some awesome help with Turkish etymology!
If I missed you or something you did and would like it credited or removed, please let me know.
And a special thanks to everyone else who is 1) really helping make this mod come alive and/or 2) helping me tie all the loose ends I inevitably forget and miss on the road of solo overhaul mod development. Y’all the MVPs. Though I really do appreciate every last one of you gamers diving into this extremely strange timeline.
I highly recommend using a flag banner mod in conjunction with this mod to improve the look of the flags, though it’s ultimately a matter of preference.
FINISHED CONTENT (post-release)
Check the change notes for the robust list of changes in each update!
1.3.2 – Mediterranean Update Part II
1.3.1 – Mediterranean Update Part I
UPDATE 1.3 – Mediterranean Madness Update (Completed in 1.3.3)
UPDATE 1.2 – Buffrica Update
UPDATE 1.1 – Emperor(s) Update
UPDATE 1.0 – Nahuatl Nonsense Update
UPDATE 0.9 – Indian Insanity Update
0.8.2 – LOL Update (Lots of Love)
UPDATE 0.8 – It All Goes Full Circle Update
UPDATE 0.7 – Double Doom Update
UPDATE 0.6 – Ethiopia Bullies Egypt Update ):
UPDATE 0.5 – Why are Armenia and Persia Allied And #4 and #5 Great Powers Update
UPDATE 0.4 – Chaos in the Balkans Update/Business As Usual in the Balkans Update
UPDATE 0.3 – I Have An Idea Update
UPDATE 0.2 – Some Actual Content Update
UPDATE 0.1 – The Update Where the Mod is Released Update
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Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
