Better Low Countries
A flavor mod for the Low Countries region.
* New culture setup with two new cultures, Picard and Walloon, as well as a reworked Frisian culture. All three get a new unique tradition. Picard and Walloon have their own separate name lists, though house and dynasty names will still use the French list.
* New title localization for counties and baronies in Dutch, French, Walloon, Picard, Frisian and Saxon for the Low Countries region
* A new de jure setup with Picardy as a separate duchy
* Six new realm decisions. Rulers can decide to unite the Low Countries under a single realm, nibble pieces of the edges as the Frisians and Picards, restore a united Saxony either as a pagan or Christian, or fully integrate Frisia into Lotharingia.
* 14 new special buildings for the Low Countries region and the surrounding area. Some of these are nerfed versions of buildings taken from Europa Magnifica, others are original.
* A new bookmark for 867 with a slightly different character setup. Ubbe Ragnarsson now rules Zeeland (based on the historical theory that he was based in Walcheren before leaving to support the Great Heathen Army) and is involved in his brothers’ wars against the Saxons. Gerulf has been moved to the County of Holland. Three new wanderers have been added as well, including Ragnar’s missing son Fridleif and the legendary giants Ellert and Brammert. Radboud Waldgerszoon, the poorly attested descendant of the kings of Frisia who rules Holland in the base game, has also been turned into a wanderer.
* New coats of arms for the Low Countries, taken from Low Lands Improved.
Currently in development:
* Second half of the story cycle for Ellert and Brammert
Most of the mod’s changes are in the on_action script, so the mod should be compatible with almost every other mod that doesn’t also change the de jure structure of France. However, the Picard unique building might not be triggered if other mods are used due to the overriding of the building list. Two important vanilla files which are overwritten are the list of possible buildings for castle holdings and the historical wars file, so the main mod conflicts will come from there.
* Caspian Mortis from Europa Magnifica for the unique buildings
* Jozef from Jozef’s New Names of the Netherlands for allowing me to use part of his naming structure
* PrograX from Low Lands Improved for allowing me to add his coats of arms
* The Rajas of Asia devs for their invaluable help with debugging
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
