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Manic's Southern Portraits

Welcome to Manic's Southern Portraits, the unofficial sequel to Manic's Northern Portraits that alters the portraits of the various Southern European/Mediterranean cultures. No more low-res, potato-faced Italians!

This mod affects the faces used for all cultures in the Byzantine (including Gothic and excluding Assyrian), Iberian and Latin (excluding French, Occitan, Norman and Outremer) culture groups. They all use recoloured Frankish, West Slavic and South Slavic faces in various different combinations while the Goths use recoloured German faces.

Most affected cultures continue to use their original selection of outfits, hairstyles and beards. Goths now have early, mid and late-game outfits. Early game, they use Frankish clothes and Byzantine headgear while in the mid and late game they use the full corresponding Byzantine set. Italians also use a modified set of Muslim beards.

Beards for the Iberian portraits have been adjusted slightly to better fit the new faces but are essentially unchanged. They're not perfect, but they're certainly a lot better than they otherwise would have been!

Along with new faces come new child portraits (previews above) for all affected cultures which have also been made utilising child portrait assets from more recent portrait DLCs.

French and Occitan characters now use Early Western European clothing in the early game.

This mod should be compatible with the Northern Portraits mod and can be run alongside this one. In future, I might consider releasing one big 'Manic's Portraits' mod that incorporates all the changes into one file.

So long as it doesn't alter the same portrait files, this should be compatible with most other mods.

This mod is savegame and Ironman compatible.

Things you can expect to be added to the mod in the future:

• Late Normans use Byzantine clothes - The case has been made to me before that the Normans should use Byzantine clothes in the late game. They persisted the longest in Sicily (both in game and in life) and Siculo-Norman artwork regularly depicted their rulers dressed in clothing that is heavily influenced by Byzantine styles. As they have usually been culturally enriched by the locals in England (or France if Willie's conquest fails) by the 1200s, their new clothes likely wouldn't look out of place when the late game graphical era kicks in around this time. When it comes to changes, I'll likely try to combine elements from both cultures, instead of just assigning them Byzantine clothes.
  
  
• Early game outfits for more Mediterranean cultures - Gothic and Coptic cultures don't use early game Byzantine clothes for whatever reason. Similarly, there are no early clothes for French and Occitan, making them look like smartly-dressed time travellers in the Charlemagne start date. The Iberians don't have any early clothing either but, probably because they use less garish colours, it doesn't stand out as much. Regardless, I'd very much like to give all the aforementioned cultures access to early clothing.

Here's a shameless plug list of some of my other mods that I'd recommend to anyone wanting to give the southern European cultures a little more flavour:

• Manic's Byzantine Units - Adds new unit designs for all cultures in the Byzantine culture group for the mid and late-game. Designs are inspired by real-life artistic depictions of historical armour and weaponry.
  
  
• Manic's Iberian Units - Adds new unit designs for the Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese and Visigothic cultures for the early, mid and late-game. Designs are inspired by real-life artistic depictions of historical armour and weaponry.
  
  
• Manic's Italian Units - Adds new unit designs for the Italian, Sardinian, Dalmatian and Basque cultures for the early, mid and late-game. Designs are inspired by real-life artistic depictions of historical armour and weaponry.

For those who experience issues with the Steam Workshop and want some alternate download options, a .zip version of this mod can be downloaded HERE[www.dropbox.com].

To install, simply remove the two items from the .zip folder and place them in your CK2 mod folder.

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If you want to use all of my portrait mods but hate all the clutter in your launcher, I recommend using Manic's Portraits instead.