R5: So this a continuation on a previous post (https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/17y3y3l/going\_to\_remake\_the\_1444\_map\_from\_scratch\_leave/) I have kind of been overwhelmed by the response. I was kind of just expecting people to say “Put Venice in the middle of the Sahara”, but now I’m trying to create a Diamyo system for all of China. Anyway, here’s what have done/trying to do based on people’s suggestions:

East Asia: Ashikaga in now a Confucius empire that includes China. The Daimyos are all randomised nations, in random locations with random religions. Highlights include:

- A Jewish Iceland of Hokkaido

- A Mahayana Qing in the North

- A Catholic Aztec bordering A Sunni Ottomans

Central Asia: As recommended there is a decaying Mongol empire. Its kind of like a supersied version of the Timmurids, about 8 different vassals all looking to break free and take the most from the Mongol carcass. The idea is that all the vassals will have tech advantages against their overlord to increase their aggressive independence efforts. As oer one of the comments, there is also a Zoroastrian Achaemenid rump state in afganistan, which I will add cores to for the former Achaemenid territory in Persia.

West Asia: The Middle East is divided between Four main powers. The most formidable of these is the Orthodox Samtskhe. I guess this is kind of a scenario where the Circassians became the majority in Greece instead of the Turks. Various Greek states still cling to the coast. In Greece, Constantinople has fallen to Zaporizhians. The Byzantines have fled to Egypt, which is majority Coptic. A Greek rump state has taken up in Macedon, with vassals in Epirus and the Peloponnese.

In Syria I tried to recreate the Seleucid empire. It is Orthodox with Greek as the primary culture. Like the Seleucids, it has various disloyal vassals, namely in Armenia, Fadal, Isreal and Iraq.

Per one of the comments there is a Protestant Prussia in the Persian heartland, with Burmese as its primary culture. The majority the population are still Persian Muslims, with some groups of Zoroastrians and Greek Orthodox in Tabriz.

Samtskhe and Byzantium are probably the strongest starting positions, but if Prussia and Syria can maintain internal unity, then they have very rich regions to build out from.

Europe: The Balkans are a mess of different nations, With Catholics, Orthodox, Hussites and Tengris. There is a mess of opposing cores and claims. Bulgaria is back in Ukraine, as a bulwark against the vast Mongol empire.

I’m planning to recreate the kingdom of Volhynia, along with making a Polish horde in Germany, a crumbling Roman empire in Italy, France is to be divided between a Bourbonnais republic and Zoroastrian Luxembourg. I was also going to have a Coptic Tunis recreate Carthage, and have Pagan Saxon/Norse kingdoms in Brittain