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The Forgotten

Are you tired of Dacia being Greek?
Of Scythia having Seafaring heritage?
Of Pontus not being Pontic?
Be tired no more!

This mod expands on the content of various regions of the map that either lack flavour or are outright weird.
It's meant to be close to vanilla, so you won't see stuff you might expect from larger overhauls like new units, trade goods, an expansion to the map, etc.

The mod includes:

• Two new military tradition trees based on the principle of "narrow adaptability" - you can embrace tradition trees from many other cultures, but will only get one tree rather than both
  
• 20 new heritages
  
• Two new unit model sets
  
• A few more minor changes

Compatible with 2.0.2 Marius
Probably requires all the DLC for the unit models but should otherwise run fine without them.

Try unsubscribing and resubscribing first if the mod doesn't work for you!

The Balkan region now has its own military tradition tree, shared between the Illyrians, the Dacians and the newly split off Thracians.
They can embrace Italic Tribe (but not Roman), Celtic (but not Britannic), Persian Rural (but not Persian) and Greek (actually both) traditions.
Cultural Heritages were added for countries with Thracian, Dacian, Illyrian and Getian primary culture. Country-specific heritages were added for Dardania and Odrysia.
Dacians and Thracians get their own new unit models while Illyria uses Iberian models.
Dacian culture has been split into two new groups, a Dacian group for the "core"-Dacians north of the Danube and a new Thracian group for those south of it.
Neither the new tree nor the Thracian models will be used by Lysimachus Hellenistic Thrace at game start.

Iberia got its own military tradition tree. Iberians intially will only have access to the Iberian tree, while Celtiberians have access to both it and Celtic - but have lost access to Britannic traditions.
The Iberian tree leads into Italic Tribe (but not Roman), Celtic (but not Britannic) and Punic (but not Numidian) traditions.
Cultural heritages were added for the whole Iberian culture group and one each for countries of Carpetanian, Celtiberian (culture, not group), Cantabrian, Asturian, Callaecian, Celtician, Lusitanian, Vettonian and Vaccaeian culture. Country-specific heritages were added for Turdetania and Arevacia.

Pontus got a fix to make it the Greco-Persian hybrid it was always meant to be.
The "Embrace Graeco-Pontic traditions" event now adds Pontic as primary culture and Cappadocian as accepted, while while also giving access to Persian traditions - so now you'll have both them and Hellenic traditions! You can decide to stay Cappadocian to play as an un-hellenized version of Pontus.
This also means that after you move the capital to Sinope, you will have access to the "The Hospitable Sea" mission tree.
You will still have to integrate Paphlagonian culture manually.

Scythia and Sarmatia have received their own heritages and now have gender equality enabled.

I've removed Messenia from the Arkadian League because it annoys me when I play Sparta.

This actually changes quite a lot, way more then I anticipated and the way modding on Imperator works, this inevitably means that maintaining maximum compatibility to other mods is very hard.
First, the obvious: no, it does not work with Ironman.
It will not work with anything modifying heritages. It should work with new unit models as long as they're not defined for the cultures I modified. It will probably not work with anything modifying those cultures in general. It should work with localization mods, but obviously won't be localized for those languages. It should theoretically work with mods creating new traditions, but there might be weird, undesired overlaps.

It has been tested and should be compatible with the following:
- Bloodlines 2.0
- various "Console enable"-mods like this one
- Always Show Christian / Gregorian Date
- Better UI

If you know any good mods you'd like to see integrated because they're otherwise incompatible, tell me in the comments and I will see whether I think it's a good fit and hit up the creators to ask them for permission to include their content. If you use any popular mods that happen to be compatible, you may also mention them and I'll add them to the list above.


PLEASE REPORT ANY BUGS YOU FIND IN THE COMMENTS
Be as concrete as possible and make sure it's not caused by another mod or lack of DLC.

PLANNED STUFF:
- Germanic military traditions and heritages
- and more!


A big thank you to the following fellow creators who let me use their work:
RivtalDM for allowing me to use the military traditions from Gladio et Sale. Check it out for a more comprehensive overhaul of the game!
Conqueror for the new unit models for Dacia - You can find the entire updated Old World Armoury here!
Graf Nepomuk for allowing me to port all the amazing unit models from Call to Arms: The Ancient World

Additionally, I want to thank all the members of the Imperator Mod Coop for helping me with my numerous questions and for having a gigantic list of modding resources so I wouldn't have to dig for all of them in the gamefiles myself. :)