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-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 ( 9650+ as of 15 July 2025 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 -mostly Slavic with some Germanic and Turkic origin- currently mainly from Balkans and Pannonia and some West Slavs bordering Franks with intention to add more in the future.


Forums thread:

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



Currently (19 July 2025) future plans are:

* Finishing adding all the families with 2 or more entries in PBW (one of my three major goals) - This is very close and was hoping to be done before August but may take longer

* Adding missing families from England post Norman conquest with Medlands as a source (previously one of three major goals) - Was planning on continuing after finishing PBW but put on hold for the moment

* Adding missing families and family members from the period PLP covers (previously one of my three major goals) - 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

* 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. No idea when I'll be finished adding what I have though progress is good.

* Adding new start dates - I was hoping that since CK2 had a wide range of start dates, it would be carried over to CK3 and there wouldn't be much work but I was mistaken, this may take weeks or even months but I still plan on adding new start dates, with possible candidates including but not limited to late 8th century or early 9th century ( 780s or early 810s or 830s), early 10th century (920s) early 11th century ( Late 1010s or 1020s), 13th century (For Latin 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

* Removing portions of the map. - Will certainly not start it until AUH releases and having no idea on how to do it, it may be weeks after that or months 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.









Future plans as of July 2025 will be edited here soon.




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)
- \legends\legend_seeds\00_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.