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King of Kings DLC - Qizilbash does not make sense in Zoroastrian country / Eranshahr

Shahyawn · 2023-10-18T19:38:13+00:00

The Qizilbash were famously Shia-supremacist Turkoman soldiers who fought for the Safavids. If one were to convert the state religion to Zoroastrianism and choose to rename the country as Eranshahr and pick the Zoroastrian branching mission tree, the missions still have remnants of the Qizilbash and Persia's Shia identity in the mission tree: The illustration of the Rally the Warriors mission is clearly a Safavid Turkoman warrior and the subsequent missions "Qizilbash Loyalty", "Recruit the Qizilbash", etc. explicitly mention Persia's Shia soldiers. It doesn't make sense to have missions that promote a Qizilbash estate and Qizilbash special unit recruitment when the country literally just turned away from Shia Islam and towards Zoroastrianism (why would there even be a Qizilbash estate in a Zoroastrian country/state??). The Qizilbash special unit texts in the Persia dev diary writes "Qizilbash are Shia warriors of Turkoman origins... As a shia militant force... [they] oppose any anti-Shia sentiment from the state" It make no sense to have missions that uplift and promote the Shia-supremacist Qizilbash especially considering when you just went through a civil war to instill Zoroastrianism as the state religion - the supposed Qizilbash estate and special units would definitely not be loyal to the Zoroastrian state. I'm not saying to remove a good chunk of the missions/brand new estate(s) from the Eranshahr/Zoroastrian Persia mission tree, but I do think it's a good idea to rename the estates/special units and the associated flavor texts that Eranshahr receives. Eranshahr/Sasanian Empire had a multitude of historical elite military branches to choose from: from the Sasanian Immortals (they existed and were a core part of the Sasanian military, they are not exclusive to Achaemenid period Persia - hell, even Pahlavi-era Persia had an Immortal brigade), to the nobility cavalry division / aka Savaran cataphract cavalry, to the Pushtigban, who were the Persian Emperor's personal bodyguards.

Thread starter Shahyawn
Start date Oct 18, 2023

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Content Design Lead PDX Tinto

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Oct 25, 2023

Hey guys! It was a math error on our side while writing the DD. There are 77 missions in total, of which 31 depend on Religion, and 8 depend on Origin. I'll correct it in the DD; thanks for noticing it, and sorry for the inconvenience.

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