How Does One Get The German Culture?

[vstreek]

I see that there are decisions to form the Normans, the English, the Portuguese, the Aragonese, and so on...is there a similar decision for the Germans that I'm not seeing?

[Nellvan]

No, doesn't seem to be anything in the files. Some would say there isn't a singular german culture even today anyway ;)

Seriously though, even only looking at the north / northeast (irrc) the demise of the slavic tribes does fit into the game's time period, but the rise of Prussia would occur later, and then there was still some way to go.

[CrUsHeR]

Honestly there is not even a specifically "german" culture today, regional customs and dialects are so different that they sometimes need captions on TV. Everything traditional from the beer recipes to the garbs or folk music are locally so different that they feel alien in other parts of the country.

Only common thing i could think of is the distinguished art like classical music and literature, though that is only for the educated and wealthy upper class. And the clean high german language is almost only spoken in cities. Basically the higher the education and wealth, the more likely that a person speaks high german.



https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Culture

Anyways, apparently there is a "German" culture, but only for dead historical characters. Look under Central Germanic. TBH i'd be curious about who has that culture.

Well the first common understanding of a german language was to my knowledge through Martin Luther's bible translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#Translation_of_the_Bible

Previously people within the empire had similar trouble to even communicate like between modern dutch, swiss and german. Latin, and later french were probably easier at least for nobles and merchants to understand each other. Althochdeutsch in the Crusader Kings timeline was only a written language, and this didn't really change until the 19th century.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_German#Origins

Bottom line: No common language, no common culture.

[VipreRX]

"How Does One Get The German Culture?"

Be French.The Germans have a tendency to spread their culture to France from time to time.

[CAELISTIX]

It's sad that after 5 years only thing you got are hate comments against Germany but no solutions. The true answer is that you have to use ruler designer to revive the old German culture that has been split into North, West and Central Germanic in the middle ages already.

[Kapika96]

Germany's pretty divided culturally, so you have Franconian, Saxon, Bavarian etc. (just like Castilian, Catalan, Galician etc. in Spain).

You could diverge or hybridise a culture, call it German, and spread that to the entirety of Germania if you want though.

[armyissue69]

Pretty easy to make the German culture. I think the best version of German you could have, would probably at least French and Franconian Hybrid and I would prolly splash some Norse in there but Polabian could be fine for the Konni. Anyhoo...just Name your culture whatever you want after you either diverge or hybridize...want some examples?

West German, East German, Central Germanic, Deutsch (german), Deutschland (german nation), Deutsche (german people). I could make names all day.