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- replace Aquitaine (we already have Francia and Neustria) by a Norse realm (there are interesting bloodlines) to give an "Old Gods" dimension. I would personally recommend Svend of Dynasty [1100494] as his bloodline history and Sowilo (norse mixed with Sol Invictus) are very LI-ish, while he already has the Ambitious trait defined, making him a strong candidate for hotspot.

Ah yes... the descendant of Canute the Great. Yeah, either him or the Ragnalling king of Beornice, since Ragnar Lodbrok is also very representative of this.

- introduce either in the Diadochii or the Roman bookmarks one of the Graeco-Roman characters located by Futuregary in Africa to have the Eastern African showcased by at least 1 option. Concretely we have Erythrea (Indohellenic) or Erythrea Adalia (Roman). Ruler would require a bit of build-up and maybe a bloodline reminding where the hell they do here.

The Roman bookmark is already topped off, but the Diadochi... we could remove either the Emperor of India from there or the king of Baktria from the Persian bookmark and add one of those, possibly the merchant prince of Erythrea.

Similarly I will need to build up a bit the rulers selected for the two Eastern bookmarks. "Kashgarid" dynasty for the last real Chinese ruler, really? In spite of all my sympathy for my IRL Uygur friends, here in LI Kashgar is indeed under strict Chinese rule. By the way any input for the name of this "dynasty" by someone knowledgeable on China would be welcome.

I guess that his dynasty name would be Zhao as well, since in LI these guys (The Zhao Chinese of Kashgar) are migrants fleeing from the Qin unification of China, and the clan name of the kings of Zhao was... well, Zhao.
 
I guess that his dynasty name would be Zhao as well, since in LI these guys (The Zhao Chinese of Kashgar) are migrants fleeing from the Qin unification of China, and the clan name of the kings of Zhao was... well, Zhao.

So the Shan dynasty doesn't rule China? The Shan that descend from Shan-Da Huang-Di, or The Alexander (as a title)?

Did you expand the China timeline, or did I miss something?
 
So the Shan dynasty doesn't rule China? The Shan that descend from Shan-Da Huang-Di, or The Alexander (as a title)?

Did you expand the China timeline, or did I miss something?

Futuregary was in charge of (re-)writing the history of China. It mostly goes as IRL unti Antiochos III the Great invades China during the uprising against the Qin that would later form the Han dynasty. He establishes the Seleukid Chinese Satrapy of Antiocheia Estate with capital at former Chengdu, which coexists with a much smaller Han dynasty to the east.

Later on, Serindia and India invade the Han during a popular revolt. Serindia also conquers Korea and southern Japan. Alexandros II Anitekos, ruler of Serindia dies, and one of his sons inherits the new Sino-Hellenic empire of Archeserika, which, much like the Ptolemies, has the ruling dynasty going full-on native, even more so that the Greeks in Egypt, adopting local royal temple names and mixing Hellenic customs with the local ones (e.g. a state-run "divine philosophy" derived from Confucianism and Socrates' teachings). Eventually, they become more Chinese than Hellenic. Some lasting traces of Hellenistic culture remain though.

The Three Kingdoms period occurs as IRL, but this time it is more as a reaction against the Hellenistic rulers, jump-started by the Yellow Turbans (whose descendants, BTW still exist in the 1066 scenario: the small Han Taoist state at the easternmost border).
Long story short; it's fought by roughly the same contenders, all of them local Chinese governors/warlords ( Under Greek names, for example, Cao Cao is "Zosimus". Lu Bu is still Lu Bu though. ).

The end is different though, basically, Cao Cao, Sima Yi and the rest of Wei/Jin are thrown out of the picture early in the game, the war is mostly Shu vs Wu vs the remnants of Wei commanded by Lu Bu, who latter on forms his own faction out of the remnants. Liu Bei captures Alexandria Eschate (Capital of Archeserika) and dethrones the Hellenistic rulers, but is defeated by a joint coalition of Zhou Yu (who wishes to avenged Sun Jian's humiliating death at Liu Bei's hands) and Lu Bu.

Liu Bei is defeated in personal combat by Lu Bu, who allows him to live. They sign the Treaty of the Yellow River, which divides Archeserika into three kingdoms, with Liu Bei getting the Southwest, Lu Bu getting the biggest slice; the heartlands and the capital and Zhou Yu getting the Northern lands + the satrapies of Korea and Japan, territories he renames "Hekatonkheira" in honour of Sun Jian (His Hellenic name was "Tychon Hekatonkheiros").

He didn't write much further about China than that, other than the Xiongnu tribes were pressing against the newborn Hekatonkheira with some success.
 
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