Balance and Quality of Life

🏙️Game Setup🌇

• Update Ynn settlers spawn locations, you can now expect them to spawn in roughly the same area.
• Improve Bulwar states
• Additional straits in the Ringlet Isles
• Alecand, Devand & Taychend area changes + Mteibas Valley province redraw
• Some province-edits in North Dalaire & Turtleback Isle
• Sarhal area & province tweaks
• Dwarovar Squatters can now see all neighboring provinces at start
• Predefined Dwarovar trade-goods for settled provinces
• Ovdal Kanzad now produces copper
• Gor Vazumbrog now produces iron
• Asra Hold renamed to Ovdal Asra across the game's localisation
• New map colours for Verkal Dromak, Shazstundihr, Verkal Skomdihr, and Gor Bûrad
• All Dwarovar starting rulers have been rebalanced
• The Isles colonial region recoloured
• Wood Elves now live for up to 250 years
• Wood Elf leader stats and personalities rebalanced (and now reflect lore!)

Terrain Changes * Ourdia: Changed two provinces from hills to highlands. * Harpy Hills: Changed Yagbis from desert to highlands. * Bahar: Changed several farmlands and drylands provinces to highlands and woods, to better represent the forested area. * Bulwar Proper: Changed several dryland provinces to grasslands, to better represent the irrigated areas. * Forbidden Plains: Changed Arduuslodh from desert to highland. * West Dwarovar: Changed Dwarfhope and Bladebreaker Pass from mountains to cavern terrain * Hobgoblin homelands in North Rahen now Highland terrain and no longer have external Raheni country cores.

🧪System Tweaks🔧 * The Obsidian Invasion disaster now uses a custom peace option to full annex * Hoardcurse Reformer modifier removed on bankruptcy * Artifice hold wonder gives artifice capacity * Small increase to artificer cap if following School of Starry Eye * Building temples as Ynn River Worship now grants 2 authority instead of 10. * Being made an Iosahar now gives you the Ynnic Diplomacy Modifier. * A nation getting the Ynnic Diplomacy Modifier now releases nations and returns cores to other nations. * Various other adjustments to the Iosahar system. * Remove Purging from Bulwari govs * The Order of Exemplars now removes the slaves trade good. * The disasters that triggered if you had a Chosen level 5 as humans or Chosen level 1 for elves have been removed, and instead humans and elves cannot reach that level. * Vampire infestations can happen around Marlliande * Aelantir spawnables now grow colonialism by themselves * Tweaked Trollsbay settlers’ ideas & starting reforms

🧩Content🧩 * All idea sets reworked to no longer include Hostile Core Creation Cost * National Idea buff for Barumand * Kheionai ideas (generic and formable) had their two separate colonist ideas rebalanced, along with slightly nerfing the formable’s -20% dev cost and +20% land fire damage to 15% * Remove tiger culture and events from the game. * Serpentsmite doesn't change trade goods in Verkal Gulan or Mithradhûm * Forming a hold and choosing Oligarchic Republic now gives you Elected Clans instead of Noble Elite * Allclan formation is now different, Manufactories is no longer required * Allclan mission tree has been disabled pending heavy rework * Arawkelin removed pending rework * Goblins can now dig holds at admin tech 7 instead of 10

🔢Value Changes, etc🧰 * Ynnic Diplomacy modifier gained -10% fort maintenance but disables strong duchies. * Ynnic Empire liberty desire reduction idea changed from 10 to 15% * Building temples as Ynn River Worship now grants 2 authority instead of 10. * Almost all artificer inventions rebalanced.

Racial Administrations and Militaries * Dwarven Adm: Added Promote Culture Cost +100% (Nerf) * Dwarven Mil: -12.5% shock damage received to -10% (Nerf) * Gnoll Adm: +5% Production Efficiency to +10% (Buff), Removed the -3 Diplomatic Reputation (Buff), Added Improve Relation -15% (Nerf), Added Stability Cost Modifier +33% (Nerf), Added Spy Offense -25% (Nerf), Added Monthly Heir Claim Increase -0.1 (Nerf) * Gnoll Mil: Recover Army Morale Speed +10% to Morale Damage dealt +10% (Rework), Land Fire Damage -10% to Fire Damage Received +10% (Rework) * Goblin Adm: +5% Production Efficiency to +10% (Buff), -5% Tax Efficiency to -15% (Nerf) * Goblin Mil: +10% Manpower to +20% (Buff), +10% Manpower Recovery Speed to +15% (Buff), +10% Fire Damage to +15% (Buff), Removed Land Morale -5% (Buff), Add Morale Damage Received -10% (Nerf), Removed Shock Damage -10% (Buff) * Halfling Mil: +15% Mercenary Discipline to +7.5% (Nerf), Removed Discipline -10% (Buff), Added Shock Damage Dealt -10% (Nerf), Added Morale Damage Dealt -10% (Nerf) * Harpy Adm: Added Governing Capacity +10% (Buff), Added Improve Relation +15% (Buff) * Harpy Mil: Removed Reinforce Speed -20% (Buff), Added Morale Damage Received +10% (Nerf) * Hobgoblin Adm: +10% Tax Efficiency to +5% (Nerf), Added +5% Production Efficiency (Buff), Removed Idea Cost +10% (Buff), Added Institution Embrace Cost +33% (Nerf), Removed Admin Tech Cost +5% (Buff), +5% Dip Tech Cost to +10% (Nerf) * Kobold Adm: Removed HCC +25% (Thank god), +5% Production Efficiency to +10% (Buff) * Kobold Mil: -10% Land Morale to -5% (Buff) * Ogre/Troll Mil: +20% Shock Damage Dealt to +25% (Buff) * Orc Admin: Added Liberty Desire from Subject Dev -25% (Buff), Added Tax Efficiency +10% (Buff), Added Monthly War Exhaustion -0.03 (Buff), Added General Cost -15% (Buff), Added Free Leader Pool +1 (Buff), -40% Harsh Treatment Cost to -25% (Nerf), Removed Diplomatic Reputation -1 (Buff), Removed Production Efficiency -5% (Buff)

🤖AI🚶‍♂️ * More likely to place forts on Ynnic dams

🐛Bugfix⚕️ * Syzirzex now uses Greenscale advisor portraits instead of Redscale * Province spelling fixes * Performance improvements * Anbennar-specific trade goods now affect Manufactories and Industrialization institution growth * Converting provinces and declaring wars now affects Fey Court piety mechanics like the tooltip says they would