Shattered Earth

– iSorrowproductions

A cursed alternate timeline where the Earth is fractured into hundreds of nations from the past, present and future. Large nations have been torn apart and empires have shrunk to the brink of extinction as new nations rise to claim their power.

This mod alters the Nov 11th 1444 start date to basically 1356; hundreds of nations have been released and have gained independence, most revolter nations have likewise gained independence. Some nations have been subjugated; either because they’re released through events in vanilla, or to prolong their survival. No custom nations have been added, all nations on the map exist in vanilla and can form either through revolts, events or decisions. In total, 192 extinct nations have been given 620 provinces.

This mod

• doesn’t require any DLC and should be compatible with all DLC.
• is compatible with most other mods; however if your other mods alter already existing provinces, it’s most likely not compatible.
• is not Ironman-compatible.
• will most likely slow down your game as many new nations have been added.

This mod is heavily inspired by Shattered Europa by Neprut, which is basically this mod for 1.17. Huge credits to them!

Some nations have not been added. Apart from the obvious formables like Roman Empire, smaller formable nations like Kurland have also been left out.

The new world has been left alone for dynamic play, however if you wish for new world colonial nations to be added, I recommend Colonial Nations Released by edix.

Many nations have glorious National Ideas or certain cultural ideas, if you wish for more nations to have unique ideas, I recommend National Ideas Expanded by Silver Knight of Anor Londo.

As this is mostly just a for fun, let’s see what happens lol type of project, if you know more about history than I could find in the local files, do let me know if something should be changed.

Feel free to use this mod in your own work, however a shoutout would be appreciated 🙂

— 1.5 (1.29) — Current version

• Cleanup of borders for Finland, Oirat, Dzunghars and Buryatia.
• Astrakhan now has a core on owned province Astrakhan.

— 1.4 (1.29) —

• Rebranded to Shattered Earth from Fractured Earth to avoid confusion with Leonidas’ mod of the same name.
• Sokoto is now on the map, owns the only province required to form them.
• Bukhara has been added in Central Asia.
• Provence now owns Maine which leaves one less exclave in France.
• Sibir has received a few uncolonized provinces that they historically owned.
• Changsheng has received Guangxi for cultural reasons. In the same spirit, Hainan has been given to Min.

— 1.3 (1.29) —

• Released nations have had all their provinces cleared of previous cores. This has two benefits:
  • Larger nations like Ming previously started with cores on all of China and could thus easily reconquer all of her lost land within a short period of time, defeating the purpose of the mod.
  • Previously helpless nations like Wales will no longer be annexed within a few months of the game.

  Provinces without ownership change like Maine have been left unchanged.

• Minor fixes related to images and cleanup in files

— 1.2 (1.29) —

• Serbia now owns core province Skopje
• Albania now owns the full Albania area
• Glorious Byzantium now owns her cores previously in possession of Ottomans

— 1.1 (1.29) —

• Jerusalem now owns and controls areas Palestine and Transjordan
• Tonkin added to the map, owns her 1444 cores
• General screenshot updates

— 1.0 (1.29) —

Initial