-ABBC- Additional Byzantine-Bulgarian Characters

This mod which originally started with the intention of adding missing members for the Bulgarian ruling dynasty (Dulo, Krum, Kometopuli) and add missing members for the families of Roman/Byzantine emperors, and showing the connections between earlier emperors (hence the name of the mod) has gone way beyond that, adding thousands of ( 16850 + as of 13 June 2026 and increasing ) historical characters and known connections between historical characters, as well as adding a few legendary people, adding speculated connections and implementing various theories regarding historical people. Besides these it also adds hundreds of fictional people to represent various tribes missing from the game.

In addition to this, it adds several new bookmarks ( currently only the period of Latin Empire and all are works in progress)

Forums thread:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/mod-abbc-additional-byzantine-bulgarian-characters.1607409/

Currently Currently (19 July 2025 UPDATED 18 October) future plans are:

* Finishing adding all the families with 2 or more entries in PBW (one of my three major goals after the release of Roads to Power) – This is very close and was hoping to be done with it before August but had other things come up and now I have other priorities, will eventually get to it. –

* Adding missing families from England post Norman conquest with Medlands as a source (Was one of my three major goals after the release of Roads to Power) – Was planning on continuing after finishing PBW but low priority now that I also intend on adding more start dates.

* Adding missing families and family members from the period PLP covers (Was one of my three major goals after the release of Roads to Power) – I may still do some work and occasionaly indeed do but with there being no start date at all from the period PLP covers, this is no longer a major goal I plan on accomplishing. As much as I enjoy it, this is not a good use of my time for content for the mod since they’ll never be seen by players.

* Improving historical accuracy for the Byzantine Empire through the title histories using information I have so far – was planning to start this after the AUH releases but already started. – As far as my notes were concerned, I was mostly done with it but with my intention to cover the Latin Empire with new start dates, also went beyond that.

* Bringing families I’ve added (or added members to) so far all the way to 1240. The latest start date I currently plan on adding for certain is 1239/40 but I also consider shortly before/after Latin Empire loses Constantinople in 1261. – Late 1239 is also added, it still has a lot of refining to do though, starting with borders of Mongol Empire

* Border adjustments to improve historical accuracy for Byzantine Empire and some neighbours. – Plan is to add new kingdoms, duchies and counties where necessary, moving counties, duchies and baronies around. I have already started adding duchies and kingdoms and moving counties around but I won’t get to moving baronies and creating new counties until most of the other work is done and certainly not until AUH releases

* Adding new start dates, I’ve already added some and intendi to add more, see Start dates suggestions for details

* Removing portions of the map. – Will certainly not start it until AUH releases and having no idea on how to do it, it may even be months after that or I may ultimately decide to not do it. I plan to remove most of Africa excluding North Africa, removing most of India excluding Northern portions, removing most if not all of all the additions that comes with AUH. Intention is to keep CK true to its name, removing all the areas irrelevant to the game that are just more map to paint.

It should be compatible with most other mods unless they change history files for titles and characters.

Currently this modifies:

history

– characters (besides additions also changes existing characters)
– titles (it used to be new additions only but there are now changes and soon it will be changed extensively)
common
– dynasties (makes no changes, only additions)
– dynasty_houses (makes no changes, only additions)
– coat_of_arms (makes no changes, only additions)
– legendslegend_seeds0_legend_seeds.txt
– landed_titles (makes no changes, only additions)

In the future it will also modify (addition of new files only)

common
– dna_data

If you are a modder and would like to spice up your own mod with some more historical characters, you are welcome to use this mod in part, or more preferrably (due to changes done to already existing characters) in whole, just give credit where due. No need to wait for express permission as long as you post here.

Special thanks to @Symmachus for providing me with many sources that were otherwise unavailable to me.

Thanks to @egichch for helping me solve the localization problem that bugged me for a good day.