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The History of England

What this mod does, in short: it fixes the pre-867 history of England. Just England.

The slightly longer version: this mod

1. Gives the historical ducal titles to their relevant holders in the relevant years -- mostly. The characters in question typically already exist. There were a lot of judgment calls.
2. Where the relevant characters don't exist, I create them. The created characters are historical -- mostly. Sometimes I had to invent people to get it to work.
3. Where those characters needed titles and dyntasties, I added those. Basically that means that there are now titles without holdings for the Petty Kingdoms of Lindsey and Sussex, and those royal families now exist -- or existed. They're both totally dead by 867.
4. Finally, I creatively assigned counties to both ruling and non-ruling members of the relevant royal families. The idea was reasonability and continuity with gameplay rather than historicity or accuracy.
5. This leads to the one real (but relatively minor) gameplay change. Burgrehd now has to deal with a couple more vassals. This probably doesn't make a difference, because he was way over his domain limit anyway. But there are so many Mercian nobles floating around in 867 -- something that's not true of any of the other kingdoms -- that I just didn't feel right giving them their ancestral lands.

What this mod doesn't do:

1. Modify any existing characters. No house assignments are fixed, no historically-well-document mothers now visible on their character screen, no dates are corrected. Modifying character history requires rewriting a lot more files and would make the mod much less compatible. *Most* of the problems that remain aren't really noticeable.
2. Change anyting about Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. I have ambitions to maybe do the first two at some point. But not for now.

Finally, this mod should be compatible with pretty much anything that doesn't modify history/title/k_england.txt. It's not quite compatible with *anything* that doesn't modify that though. Conan1001's excellent Dynasty and House Conversion, for example, modifies the houses that I'm trying to assign new characters to. It shouldn't cause any crashes, but the two won't play nice. (Also, you know, total conversions. For obvious reasons.)