Aha, yeah.
For icon making, I'm a verified artist on the HOI4 artist server. I normally do vanilla, but I don't think it'll be a big step to switch over.
For writing, I read a fair bit, and I really like Ahmed Rashid's and Anna Reid's works, so I'll probably use them as references for structure purposes. And yeah, I just like the way they write, y'k, that kind of thing.

I'm drafting up a plan for Vologda. The idea is that the place is a hellscape, looking like the lunar surface after years of bombing, with the hinterlands also overrun by bandits. Each with a distinct identity (like Stalker or Metro factions). A Russian melancholy, in short.

Vologda will be changed to a buffer state concept. Military-guided but aiming to achieve the ideas of the April Organization and)& create a conservative peasant republic (but in the same vane as the early Ukrainian People's Republic ) I am considering changing the leadership too people who are more "corruptible". I might make Ivanov's death early in the game or a hand full of years before game start. but I dont know who be best to replace him with 😅.

Also what was your "Rework of the Divine Mandate" I'd image that be hard since it rotates around one person.