“After being tossed about at sea for a long time, Leif chanced upon land where he had not expected any to be found. Fields of self-sown wheat and vines were growing there. [....] Leif converted the country [Greenland] to Christianity. Afterward he became known as Leif the Lucky.”

- Two excerpts from the Saga of Erik the Red

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added North Atlantic Flavor Pack: From Iceland to Vinland
  
• Added 3 Renaissance, 4 Norse, and 1 Celtic themed soundtracks
  
• Added a few loading screens
  
• Added a lot of new German translations (thanks to Dillo234 again!)
  
• Armies from Silk Road Communities are no longer inheritable
  
• Celtic music now also plays in a slightly broader range in Northern Europe
  
• Reduced chances AI will take decision to Request a Coronoation by the Ọọ̀ni (to prevent spam in the mid to late game)
  
• Uncrowned by Ooni modifier will no longer be given to Baron-tier characters
  
• Baron-tier characters can no longer take the decision to Request a Coronoation by the Ọọ̀ni (to prevent spam in the mid to late game)
  
• Fixed Lop Nur announcement event triggering globally (for TFE and early start dates)
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

Hunza is the name of one of many mountain valleys in the Pamir mountain region in north Pakistan. It is home to the Burusho people (who speak a language isolate), as well as various Indo-Iranian peoples, and it historically was part of various trade routes criss-crossing Asia. The Burusho are also sometimes referred to as the Hunza people.

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Pamir Tribesmen MAA, which is unlockable with either the White Huns or Beyond the Reach of Eagles cultural traditions
  
• Added preset traits to the Timothee Umlaut easter egg character
  
• Children of the Nile decision will now be applied to the Kemetic culture from the recently updated Polytheism Reborn mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2306714537
  
• Decision to Become the Khan and Sultan of China is no longer blocked to cultures of Chinese, Mongolic, or Qiangic heritage
  
• Silk Road Dynasty Legacy is now only available in the land-based Silk Road region for consistency with the Silk Road Communities decision (unless your culture has the Silk Road tradition)
  
• Trans-Saharan merchant spawn is now rarer in the coastal regions of West Africa
  
• Fixed Zhang Yichao not getting Huaishen’s artifacts if he is kept as ruler of Guiyi
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

Igbo-Ukwu is a Nigerian town notable for its archaeological sites, which provide ample evidence for the existence of a complex and artistically sophisticated medieval culture. The oldest known bronze artifacts in West Africa were found in Igbo-Ukwu, dating to as early as the 9th century.

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games. Because changelog is too big to list here, please see the change notes here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/2273832430

• Updated to vanilla patch 1.7.0 "Bastion"
  
• Added placeholder friendship/rival reasons (more will be added in the future)
  
• Mogao Caves bonus now applies to the county holder
  
• Rebalanced Marc’Hegion MAA to scale damage and toughness with era
  
• Tweaked the logic for the Tarim Basin court events to prevent any potential weirdness from courtiers involved in those events
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

• Increased the chances of Jewish courtier spawn in Granada
  
• Fixed Ooni title becoming theocratic government if you feudalize by changing Orisha and potentially causing a game over

If you’re playing on an existing save, and have issues feudalizing as the Ooni or with the Ooni as your vassal, copy and paste the following into console command to fix it:


If you are also playing with Africa Plus, also run this console command as well:

• Tweaked various doctrines of the Orisha faith (aka Yoruba pagans) to be more in line with BAP
  
• Rebalanced the chances of which gift the AI will select to give to the Ooni when requesting a coronation
  
• Added hidden last resort failsafe to remove the Not Crowned by Ooni modifier after about a year in cases it won't go away or reappears even if you already did the coronation or are the Ooni
  
• Fixed issue with several situations where you'll regain the Not Crowned by Ooni modifier even after you did the coronation with the Ooni
  
• Fixed issue where rulers would gain or wouldn't lose the Not Crowned by Ooni modifier when they became the Ooni
  
• Cleaned up code in a few places
  
• Fixed potential compatibility issues with Orisha and Oloku faiths from BAP

(See Above)

“You have been crowned a king, and yet you make good-luck charms; would you be crowned God?”
- Yoruba proverb

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Nıger Delta Flavor Pack: Heirs of Oduduwa
  
• Added 7 African themed soundtracks
  
• Added Easter egg characters from the VIET Events contest winners
  
• Integrated some of BAO by Shatzi for Breton Flavor Pack:
  
  • Traditions: Matter of Britain, Kevaez, and Peurajoù Libr
    
  • Duchy Building: Free Range
    
  • Ability to gift Breton horses
    
  • 5 new flavor events
• Trans-Saharan merchant spawn can now available anywhere in Africa (however, dynasty legacies are still limited to original regions)
  
• More variety for culture and faith of Trans-Saharan merchant spawn
  
• Upon Zhang Yichao’s death, dukes in the Guiyi Circuit will also get claims on the Kingdom of Xia if it exists
  
• Ari Buddhism now starts with the Pali Canon doctrine instead of the Esoteric Canon
  
• Several special buildings’ affects now apply to the owner of the county they’re in, rather than the barony (so that baron-tier vassals won’t get bonuses meant for their liege)
  
• Cantiga and Cantiga de Santa Maria decisions are now available to anyone of Iberian heritage who knows an Iberian romance language
  
• Reduced the costs of the decision to Compose a Cantiga
  
• Disabled a few more decisions for barony tier rulers
  
• Fixed RICE court events potentially bugging from lacking court-related flags in the code
  
• Fixed Chan Buddhism from TIP mod not getting the East Asian canon doctrine
  
• Fixed Dezawist paganism missing a tenet if running with BAP
  
• Fixed Pithipati notification event triggering in regions that don’t make sense
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Vassa decision now costs some prestige
  
• Fixed Vassa decision preventing you from doing other activities if you took it earlier in the year
  
• Added debug event as a way to manually resolve issues with endless activities as a last resort failsafe - console command is “event RICEdebug.0002”
  
• Fixed Galician-Portuguese Lyric tradition being shown (but not pickable) anywhere on the map, instead of only in Iberia or for Iberian cultures
  
• Fixed Coptic culture not getting the Children of the Nile tradition if running RICE with CE
  
• Fixed Harran faith not being in Harran if running RICE with CE
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks

“Como poden per sas culpas os omes seer contreitos,
assi poden pela Virgen depois seer sãos feitos.”
[“As people may be crippled through their sins, so may they
also be made healthy by the Virgin.”]

Refrain from Cantiga 166 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Galicia Flavor Pack: The Way of Saint James
  
• Added 7 Iberian themed soundtracks
  
• Added message about load order if you’re running with TFE (TFE needs to be below RICE in load order now)
  
• Reduced chances AI will take the decision to Compile the First Turkic Dictionary
  
• Changed decision art for a couple East Asian related decisions
  
• Siberian Survivalists and Swahili Contacts traditions are now added via scripted effect at game start to ensure better compatibility
  
• White Hun tradition no longer is available when playing TFE start dates
  
• Removed RICE’s version of Joseph ibn Naghrela and his family from the history files, since he has a vanilla version now (the Granada pogrom event chain remains and is functionally the same, however)
  
• Tweaked starting traits of Joseph ibn Naghrela at game start
  
• Fixed Pamiri culture overriding Hephthalite on the map in TFE and early start dates
  
• Fixed decision to renovate Kassia’s tomb adding its related county modifier to Kharga instead of Rhodes
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

The Wakhan Corridor is a mountain valley that lies between the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. Since ancient times, this remote mountain pass has facilitated the movement of peoples, armies, ideas, and faiths across Eurasia.

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Turco-Hephthalite culture as a hybrid of Hephthalite and Turkish, that appears on the map in 867 instead of the old Hephthalite culture, to clarify confusion arising from my previous usage of Hephthalite
  
• Added Pamiri culture to the Iranian culture group
  
• Added a new tradition, Beyond the Reach of Eagles, for the Pamiri, Burusho, and Peristani cultures
  
• Modified Guanche content to fit vanilla’s implementation of the Guanche
  
• Guanche paganism is now in a separate religion, Guanche, than the other Amazigh faiths (mainly to maintain compatibility)
  
• Renamed vanilla’s North African religion to Guanche (to distinguish them from the Amazigh)
  
• Pray for Blessings of Rain Rain and Benesmen Festival decisions now require the Guanche religion
  
• Removed decision to Unite the Canary Islands, since vanilla has something similar; however, you will still get the relevant county modifiers via event
  
• Rebalanced costs for most feast/festival type decisions
  
• White Hun tradition is now added to the Hephthalites via scripted effect at game start to ensure better compatibility
  
• White Hun tradition will no longer be added to the Hephthalites if playing with TFE or early start dates
  
• Revamped a few decision art (thanks to PinkPanzer)
  
• Activities are separated by flavor pack in different text files in the code
  
• Fixed Ali ibn Asad starting off as a Seljuk vassal instead of being independent
  
• Fixed Cichiciquitzo tradition requiring the unused Guanche heritage - it now requires being Guanche or descended from Guanche culture
  
• Fixed White Huns and Xianbei Scions traditions being unavailable to Hephthalite and Tuyuhun/Qiang cultures respectively
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes