• Added some artificery missions and rewards to Gnomish Hierarchy, Kobildzan and Konwell
  
• Artificery-path kobolds have new trade good-changing missions
  
• Busilar ideas and traditions, Ravelianism idea added
  
• Dartaxagerdim now starts as Old Sun Cult
  
• Gerudian NIs
  
• Harpylen and Siadan ideas
  
• Ravelian-related missions for Konwell
  
• Probably way more stuff
  
  
  World and Naming
• A bunch of custom insults have been added for various cultures and religions
  
• Aelantir province names completed
  
• Bulwari and sun elves last names
  
• Bulwari names for goblin provinces in Bulwar
  
• Cliffs of Ruin (aka that big circle in Aelantir) need a passage to be built to be crossable
  
• Coal distribution across the board
  
• Dokanto and Shofa start as vassals of Cheshoshoanta
  
• Lorent, Bjarnrik and Gnomish Hierarchy Colonial Nation names for all of Aelantir
  
• Lots of dynamic names added, from Kheionai names for South Aelantir to Gnomish names
  
• New unit types across the board, from Gerudia to the Ynn
  
• Redrawn a few provinces, like the Khenak in Businor
  
• Regnal numbers for remnant hold rulers
  
• Sea province names across the board
  
• Starting rulers for various countries like wood elves and adventurers
  
• Startup screens added for core regions
  
• Various countries in Cannor start with accepting elves in their lands
  
• Ynn river is impassable, can only be crossed at the dams
  
  
  Monuments
• The Castanorian Citadels are now monuments (though still work for those without DLC)
  
• The Cheshoshi Bone Citadel
  
• The Boek totem-shrine Dobondotimveb
  
• Marrhold Tunnel, Ruin-Rim Passages, and the Runefather’s Maw added as canals
  
• More to come!
  
  
  Systems. THE BIG STUFF.
• Artificer Capacity and Invention system
  
• Black Orc Trophy system for conquering holds
  
• Buildable Castonath Wonders for each district of the city
  
• Castonath Patricians now occupy Castonath, limiting control of each district until dealt with
  
• Escanni Wars of Consolidation, allowing Castanor formation and a War for the Dove Throne
  
• Great Conqueror, optional mechanics to give you a late game challenge
  
• Harpies Roosts
  
• Malacnar Battleking mechanics
  
• Peace treaties for ending racial purges
  
• Reworks for the Harimraj Court (disaster currently disabled)
  
• The Cliffs of Ruin Rim in Aelantir is now impassable until you build lifts, stairways, and other conveyances
  
• The Trials of Castan now have an original succession system with CYOA style event chains for certain trials
  
• Vampire Estate and spreading system
  
• Vampire ruler feeding and more flavour events that can end up with you being outed as a vampire
  
• War vs Evil CB, allowing you to depose outed evil rulers like Witch Kings, Liches and Vampires
  
  
  
  
  Religion
• Corinites now uses a modified Karma mechanic + events
  
• Death Cult of Cheshosh gets tribal dev for having Autonomous Vassals
  
• Fey Court religion events
  
• High Philosophy school adjustments
  
• Jadd now uses Fervor mechanics
  
• Ravelian Society, a society of enlightened minds will spawn after the Crimson Deluge
  
• Ravelian religion with our own spin on Catholic mechanics, which will appear mid 16th century
  
• Ravelians can challenge the Empire of Anbennar’s official faith after passing all Ravelian Debates
  
  
  
  Balance and Quality of Life
  
  
  Game Setup
• 1.31 feature Concentrate Development is disabled for balance reasons (aka Dwarven Holds)
  
• Adventurers and Settlers of Aelantir bookmarks are now more informative (including information on what spawnables can be formed and when)
  
• Aqatbar Overclan replaced with Marblehead (in the future Aqatbar will return as the formable)
  
• Bayvic is Urban terrain
  
• Changed gnoll culture names
  
• Crothan is a Free City
  
• Dwarovar Adventurers no longer have vision on Cannor
  
• Female Corinite, New Sun Cult and Jadd rulers can now be Defender of the Faith
  
• Made Lake Taspasu in the Ekyunimoy Mountains into an elevated lake
  
• Monsters can no longer get Lilac Wars veterans
  
• Moved Glademarch province to Daravan’s Folly region
  
• Moved Marrhold to Cannor from the Serpentspine
  
• Pioneer’s Guild, Iron Hammers, Flung Head starts have been moved to fit new migration gameplay
  
• Re-enabled vanilla Defender of the Faith events
  
• Silvermere -> Marches trade node reversed
  
• Split various tech groups that exist in Haless and Cannor up (e.g. Eastern dwarves)
  
• Trade node colours in Aelantir revised
  
• Trade nodes in Gerudia and surrounds revised
  
• Wine Lord reform only gives production to Wine provinces
  
  
  Game Setup
• 1.31 feature Concentrate Development is disabled for balance reasons (aka Dwarven Holds)
  
• Adventurers and Settlers of Aelantir bookmarks are now more informative (including information on what spawnables can be formed and when)
  
• Aqatbar Overclan replaced with Marblehead (in the future Aqatbar will return as the formable)
  
• Bayvic is Urban terrain
  
• Changed gnoll culture names
  
• Crothan is a Free City
  
• Dwarovar Adventurers no longer have vision on Cannor
  
• Female Corinite, New Sun Cult and Jadd rulers can now be Defender of the Faith
  
• Made Lake Taspasu in the Ekyunimoy Mountains into an elevated lake
  
• Monsters can no longer get Lilac Wars veterans
  
• Moved Glademarch province to Daravan’s Folly region
  
• Moved Marrhold to Cannor from the Serpentspine
  
• Pioneer’s Guild, Iron Hammers, Flung Head starts have been moved to fit new migration gameplay
  
• Re-enabled vanilla Defender of the Faith events
  
• Silvermere -> Marches trade node reversed
  
• Split various tech groups that exist in Haless and Cannor up (e.g. Eastern dwarves)
  
• Trade node colours in Aelantir revised
  
• Trade nodes in Gerudia and surrounds revised
  
• Wine Lord reform only gives production to Wine provinces
  
  
  Systems
• Changing military can be more easily done without swapping your racial administration
  
• Coffee no longer spawns in Aelantir for Ruinborn unless they have embraced colonialism
  
• Damestear is temporary for holds
  
• EoA starts at Religious Peace before League War
  
• If you have your capital outside the Serpentspine and don't own a hold the Serpentsrot is less penalizing
  
• Nations that start with a mage get randomized spells
  
• New level of racial pop integration, Primary, which avoids the Culture Convert malus
  
• Old spawned rulers have the proper age
  
• Pop-ups for your mage estate spells expiring
  
• Revised how magic study results on the backend
  
• Revised orcish duels
  
• Revivable rulers like liches and vampires got long-lived events
  
• Tooltip is shown when wanting to switch racial admin/military so you can tell what you get without needing to swap
  
• Ynnic Barge System QOL tweaks
  
  
  Content
• A bunch of Grombar fixes and tweaks (including tradition changed from sailors to tax, Crovis’s revolt made into an Independence War)
  
• Quality of life improvements to the Rianvisa
  
• Reflavoured technocracy factions to fit the new systems and lore
  
• Revivable rulers like liches and vampires now get long-lived events
  
• Rulers that can revive like liches have their stats restored
  
• Split Crimson Deluge malus to be light or heavy depending on where the province is
  
• Subcontinents and cultures recolouring
  
• Technology descriptions stripped of any real-world references
  
• Witch Kings are more common
  
• Workaround that makes it so lich and vampire dynasty names persist

My friends. This is the largest update for Anbennar yet.

• Chivalric kingdoms of Escann like Adenica and Castellyr can only be formed by adventurers who have the “Escanni Administration” reform
  
• Cyranvar ideas buffed
  
• Demonsterization now gives lots of government reform progress, and is less expensive
  
• Discipline nerfed/changed to another modifier in multiple idea sets
  
• Dwarven road dev cost increased from +10% to +30%, but repairing the rail gives -10% and upgrading it gives -20%
  
• Exploration Ideas give Adventurer Estate loyalty
  
• Hoardcurse is less cheesable
  
• Long-lived races have reduced republican tradition malus for re-election
  
• Lowered Halfling Military Mercenary Discipline to 15%
  
• Minor dwarf religion value changes
  
• Nerfed Privateer efficiency
  
  
  AI
• Adjusted AI centaurs and AI aggressiveness
  
• Dwarf more likely to Expel Orcs and Goblins in Holds
  
• Jaddari no longer always declares war on Sareyand
  
• Made it so AI will debase less, reducing their debt long-term, which increases aggression
  
• Prevented Krakdhumvror from colonizing east
  
• Redid AI weightings for purges/expulsion
  
• Triunic colonies now convert culture and religion
  
  
  Bugfixes
• Adjusted starting vision to fix "Naval Range" bug, as well as AI not rivalling on Day 1
  
• All nations now start with crownland at 30
  
• Can no longer give away Obsidian Invasion spawn point to avoid the disaster
  
• Fix Chendhyan-cultured provinces having no native population
  
• Holds can now be sped up and slowed down by events again, thanks to LoStack
  
• Linux/Mac crash fixed for estates casting magic
  
• Made it so homunculus familiar helping magical study applies to all magic schools
  
• Magic results are now actually random
  
• So many things, you cannot even imagine
  
• Various Lake Federation bugfixes
  
  
• So many more things, you cannot even imagine
  

Its only 1.30.5 compatibility unfortunately :^)

The next update will be released shortly after Leviathan. If you'd like to play it early, see our discord (links in the mod description)

• AI can no longer get Lotus Blood Rebellion
  
• Added Raj Ministries to static modifiers
  
• Anbennarized uncolonized native units
  
• Blackhand missive Magharma Bugfixes
  
• Centaur Formable decision visible from start
  
• Changed some terrain types in southeast Salahad
  
• Custom trigger tooltip for United Fed Mission
  
• Federation Religious War now handles Faction Leader dying off
  
• Fixed bug with event pictures
  
• Forming Roilsard no longer kicks you out of the empire
  
• Krakdhumvror ideas
  
• Maqet ideas
  
• Natives now have appropriate units and can revolt in the FP
  
• Nerat is a boy again
  
• Rebalanced war reduction national idea modifiers across the board
  
• Removed Tugund Darakh mission state edict requirement
  
• Revised gnoll culture names
  
• Reworked Jaddari harpy march event to fit with Demonsterization
  
• Skurkokli mission fix
  
• Stopped Prahbi and Sepati losing their reform when claiming Raj
  
• Toarnen ideas
  
• Troll Military not has -30% not -50% force limit
  
• Various loc fixes for Lake Federation
  
• Zurkanrek starts as Fed Leader not Vahjevgiiv

This is an absolutely massive update, with lots of new content across the board - so there may be a lot missing here!

• Added three urban provinces to the Ynn, and they start with an “Urban Decline” modifier
  
• Amlharaz decision for Aul-Dwarov to release all of the Dwarven Holds as a special subject type, and get unique bonuses from internal politices
  
• DLCs unit models for Cannorian units if you have the proper DLC
  
• Dynamic provinces names for Ynnic cultures
  
• Expanded Mission tree for Grombar
  
• Flags for the nations in the Deepwoods
  
• Ideas for Amacimst, Brelar, Malacnar, Stantirhalas. Decision for Malacnar to adopt Stratocratic Administration
  
• Ideas for Asraport
  
• Ideas for Larankar
  
• Ideas for Minaran Temple
  
• Ideas for Pearview
  
• Island nation of Maqet added next to Zokka, has cores on Zokka’s vassals
  
• It is now possible to have a half-elf heir if the parents are right
  
• Jaddar, Slaughter at Rottenstep, and Naegol’s Invasion loading screens
  
• Karashar formable for Black Orcs invading Bulwar
  
• Localization for the Emerald Orcs
  
• Marines now available to Eborthíl, Ovdal Tûngr, Nathalaire, Themarenn, and Verkal Dromak
  
• Mire Maw - Ogre country in the Serpent’s Vale with missions
  
• Missions and partially revised ideas for Arpedifér, Oktíkheion, Degakheion, Ormam, Kherka and Lokemeion
  
• Missions for Amildihr and Orlazam-az-Dihr
  
• Missions for Beepeck and the Small Country
  
• Missions for Bjarnrik
  
• Missions for Busilar
  
• Missions for Istralore
  
• Missions for Konwell
  
• Missions for Pearlsedge
  
• Missions for Rubenaire
  
• Missions for Sareyand and Phoenix Empire
  
• Missions for Sarisung
  
• Missions for Urviksten
  
• Monstrous nations can now start a process of “Demonsterization” where they can lose the Monstrous Nation modifier, removing the opinion malus with civilized nations
  
• New Sun Elven units to differentiate from Moon Elven units
  
• Olavlund formable in Gerudia
  
• Old Dookan religion for non-Green Orcs
  
• Portraits for Gnoll advisors
  
• Provinces names for Larankar, Taychend Proper, Ynn subcontinent, Broken Sea, Forest of the Cursed Ones and Dalaire
  
• Revised missions and civil war disaster for Sugamber
  
• Reworked missions for Gawed
  
• Trials of Castan mechanic for Castanor and Black Castanor
  
• United Kheionai formable
  
• Verne and Arannen are now re-formable for any country with the appropriate culture
  
• Zokka now starts with two vassals to its south
  
  
  Balance Changelog
• Changed Eordand and Taychend from charters to colonial regions
  
• Cultures of conquered adventurers in Escann now change to their Escanni variants in the third age
  
• Eastern European gfx for Ynn River nations
  
• Giant’s Manse is now possible to claim from the Gerudian mainland
  
• Goblins and Kobolds are now able to dig holds at admin tech 7 rather than 10
  
• Migratory ruinborn tribes now start with vision of their home regions
  
• Nerfed Magical Forts - it now gives +1 Fort Level and +150% defensiveness
  
• Nerfed Nimscodd and Portnammer artificer national idea
  
• Powerful Mage ruler now become general via Decision
  
• Restricted tributaries to Gnolls, instead of all monsters
  
• Revised Alenic Reach setup to fit new Grombar stuff
  
• Revised Dwarven Reclamation age ability
  
  
  Notable Bugfixes
• Aelnar mission “Racial Supremacy” no longer converts provinces to noreligion, but Soise Vio instead.
  
• An Orcish Regency Council can no longer be challenged to a duel
  
• Build cost and time for digging system is now actually accurate
  
• Dwarven Adventurers can no longer spawn in holds, which could spawn unintended trade goods
  
• Fixed a river not connecting near Vareynn
  
• Fixed case where countries in the Lake Federation would randomly become an observer, ascending into the void
  
• Fixed edge cases where the Crimson Deluge was affecting countries it shouldn’t have
  
• Fixed harpies being able to raid their overlord
  
• Fixed some stray province pixels
  
• Made the Shining Circle / Beggaston adventurer a livelier shade of yellow.
  
• Renamed South Dalairey area into South Dalaire, renamed North Aelantir region into North Ruined Isles.
  
• Spiderwretch no longer gets money when Asraport spawns
  
• The Orcish Slavery in Aelantir event should no longer spawn when you already had the corresponding modifier from the decision
  
  
  Broken Functionality due to 1.3
• Due to Paradox changing AI’s colonization priorities, adventurers now colonize straight away rather than wandering around! To negate this we’ve done a quick solution of preventing the adventurer country AI from colonizing in the first 3 years
  
• Spawn_rebels no longer takes size higher than 3, so disasters like the Rianvisa and those in Dwarovar are much easier now ☹
  
• Add_construction_process no longer works on building, which breaks events that affect the duration of Digging Holds
  

Fixed critical issue that would cause game to crash if you get blockaded and have minus income

• Added a kobold tribe in the Dwarovar, the Darkscale clan (WIP)
  
• Adventurer and Mage Estate Privileges
  
• Adventurer and Mage Estate new and overhauled estate events
  
• Adventurer and Mage Estate unique agendas
  
• Area names in Dwarovar
  
• Coltin Purchase Event
  
• Damerian Blue’d the HRE interface!
  
• Escanni Wars of Consolidation events, akin to Italian Wars
  
• Event to make Renaissance spread into Bulwar easier
  
• First set of unique mercenary companies for Anbennar
  
• Flags for Wood Elf Clans, Tluukt, Goblins in Escann, Harafe and Noruin, rest of Eordand, Urviksten, Hasr
  
• Government Reform: Wine Lords for lorentish monarchies, Unbound Commoners and Skaldhyrric Order for Gerudians
  
• Great Work for Bulwar: Dredge the Old Canals
  
• Harpies and Gnoll republics get female rulers
  
• Ideas for Arg-Ordstun
  
• Ideas for Asraport
  
• Ideas for Hehodovar (wip)
  
• Ideas for Sareyand
  
• Ideas for Shazstundihr
  
• Improved colormaps for world map
  
• Insyaa’s northern Barrier Islands overhaul
  
• Kheionai Deathwind events (WIP)
  
• Leechmen now worshio the Leechfather
  
• Localization for Caamas Missions
  
• Localized Ovdal Kanzad Ideas
  
• Localized Wood Elf, Ekhan and Ynnic Ideas
  
• Localized more event chains for our Hunt of the Seven Cities equivalent
  
• Mage Tower building
  
• Merc companies
  
• Missions for Caamas
  
• Missions for Er-Natvir
  
• Missions for Harpylen
  
• Missions for Ovdal Kanzad (minimal flavour text)
  
• Missions for Tuathak
  
• More provinces and areas named in
  
• New icons galore! Icons for all our religions and new icons for mages and artificers estate
  
• New trade good distributions in Aelantir (for example, Cocoa in Harafe)
  
• Privileges for Adventurers and Mages Estate with new Privileges and Overhauled Events
  
• Reflavoured new imperial reforms to fit the setting
  
• Reworked Raj Decadence – it now uses a new Raj Ministries estate (WIP)
  
• Religion Kalun Mask (WIP) for Harafe Ruinborn
  
• Spawnable countries are now tied to their origin country. For more information there’s a new bookmark.
  
• The Elder Pact: being the emperor of Anbennar as a long-lived race will now have its consequences
  
• The Elder Pact: being the emperor of Anbennar as a long-lived race will now have its consequences
  
• Trade Company regions as per 1.3
  
  
  Balance Changelog
• Added more urban provinces in South Aelantir
  
• Adventurer Mission final mission give a bonus that nullifies the admin efficiency malus
  
• Changed add_stability commands to add admin if your stability is full
  
• Create Wards spell now has an additional option to target provinces where your ruler is leading troops
  
• Dwarven military modifier changes
  
• Esmari tradition from 5% to 15% manpower recovery and 10% heir to 50% heir
  
• Fixed issues allowing Starborn and such turning into Duskers
  
• Harpies and GNolls can recruit female generals without ideas
  
• Heirs and Consorts now get the Immortal/Long-lived Trait
  
• Hold specialization can handle Incense
  
• Integrated minority text color is now teal instead of blue
  
• Kobolds and Goblins can now dig holds sooner
  
• Leechdens is now an Inland Sea
  
• Marrhold no longer counts for event that makes dwarves switch to Ancestor Worship when they own a hold
  
• Purge warband is now disabled for AI due to instability
  
• Remnant dwarves less likely to pick Balgar ancestor bonus (as Balgar is a surface dwarf)
  
• Renaissance no longer spawns in Venail to ensure renaissance spreads well in Cannor
  
• Renowned text color for magic skill level is now teal instead of blue
  
• Reshuffled kobold starting cores to be more consistent
  
• Reworked Zokka-Jaddari war events
  
• Technocracy Faction influence gain Rebalance
  
• War Wizards can no longer be recruited easily. They now have a chance to appear if you have the ‘Battlemage Academies’ privilege
  
  
  Notable Bugfixes
• A whole host of quality of life fixes
  
• Added more mountain wastelands to allow country color to take them more often
  
• Azka-Sur ruler starts as Surani
  
• Countries that use Church Power now use correct alerts
  
• Disabled lich magocracy event firing if you don’t have mages estate
  
• Fix for missions that use random_owned_province for rewards multiple times, but do not have a limit to prevent selecting the same random province twice
  
• Fixed various provinces having multiple winter types
  
• Isobel of Isobelin fame is now currently a woman
  
• Mteibhar correctly gets their group ideas
  
• Oak Monarchy and Estates General no longer compatible
  
• Prevented vanilla Glory Road event from affecting WIP empty provinces
  
  
  Broken Functionality due to 1.3
• Due to Paradox changing AI’s colonization priorities, adventurers now colonize straight away rather than wandering around! To negate this we’ve done a quick solution of preventing the adventurer country AI from colonizing in the first 3 years
  
• Spawn_rebels no longer takes size higher than 3, so disasters like the Rianvisa and those in Dwarovar are much easier now ☹
  
• Add_construction_process no longer works on building, which breaks events that affect the duration of Digging Holds
  

• A whole host of fixes
  
• Telgeir Missions
  
• Marrhold Ideas
  
• Verkal Dromak Ideas
  
• Made various High Philosophy schools hate each other
  
• Dwarven Adventurer missions localized
  
• WIP overhaul to adventurer/aelantir spawnables - they are now tied to specific nations (primarily their origin nation)
  
• Double fixed Orc Slavery spam
  
• Very WIP unwritten version of our Hunt for the Seven Cities
  
• Dwarves can get mages again
  
• Orthodox advisors should no longer appear
  
• Buffed Great Dookan Orcish Soul
  
• Fixed religious group acceptance for adventurers
  
• Ovdal Kanzad Missions (WIP)
  
• Fixed issue where some dwarovar countries didnt start with armies
  
• Pelomar Missions localized
  
• Brasan gets a Renaissance institution event to help spread in Bulwar
  
• Spawnable adventurers now get a bonus depending on their origin's development
  
• Spawnable adventurers take in their origin's tech level

Hotfix for AI spamming accepting and rejecting orc slavery

• New Blademarches Succession - only those who can wield [Calindal, the Gleaming Blade] can be worthy of rule!
  
• Vanbury Guild, Calasanni Trade Company and Deranne Trade Company Flags
  
• Auto-colonization events for Deepwoods external gladeways if for some reason they arent
  
• Siege Magic Dominate To Surrender spell revised and now works, its also know Legendary Enchantment not Renowned
  
• Siege Magic spells added to spell lists for more visibility
  
• Added events that can kill a lich by destroying their phylactery at their capital
  
• Orlghelovar loc fix and minor buff
  
• Imperial reform modifiers are now in english instead of hre german
  
• Changed how harpy raids via The Hunt religion works, it now works over distances and can allow overseas raids
  
• Digging through underground layer events are now flat costs
  
• New cavern of interest events
  
  
• Just lots of fixes by Aeriic essentially
  
• Fixed issue where forts were counted as obsolete
  
• Various dwarovoar fixes
  
• Akalates cannot choose states general due to interface issues
  
• Added royal marriage incompatibility to the new races