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-ABBC- Additional Byzantine-Bulgarian Characters

This mod adds thousands of ( 9000+ as of May 2025 and increasing ) of 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 -mostly Slavic with some Germanic and Turkic origin- that are missing from the game, currently mainly from Balkans and Pannonia and some West Slavs bordering Franks, with an intention to add in the future missing missing Turkic, Finno-Ugric and Slavic tribes bordering the Rurikid realms and some Arabic tribes in service of Byzantine Empire.

Despite the name it doesn't add only Byzantine and Bulgarian characters, the name simply comes from the fact when I first started working on this my intention was to only add missing members for the Bulgarian ruling dynasty (Dulo, Krum, Kometopuli) and add missing members for the families of Roman/Byzantine emperors, especially to show how many of the emperors were connected to other emperors that came before them, as well as adding a few missing families from Byzantine Empire in 9th and 11th centuries and a few missing Slavic tribes that were located within both realms but it went way beyond that adding thousands of characters from various different realms, cultures and families like adding missing members of the Anglo-Saxon House of Wessex, the Visigothic ruling family of Balthes or the Khazar Ashina dynasty or adding some Norse and Anglo-Saxon families from scratch, a more comprehensive(but sadly outdated) list can be found in the Paradox Forums thread:

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



It should be compatible with most other mods since besides adding houses, dynasties and characters and a changes to few existing characters, this really doesn't change anything.

Currently this modifies:

history\

- \characters (besides additions also changes existing characters)
- \titles (makes no changes, only additions)

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.