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Portraits and Ethnicities Expanded is now known as Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded.
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A few months back, Xangelo known for his great unit packs in previous PDX games such as Imperator Rome, Europa Universalis had set forth in Crusader Kings III wanting to bring vast diversity to the world, eventually uniting with Celticus, known for his works over on the Total War modding communities. Months would go by as we slowly but surely added dozens and dozens of Ethnicities to the world of CK3.
Today I wish to announce the development and progress of Portraits and Ethnicities Expanded
Portraits and Ethnicities Expanded looks to revamp all the current Ethnicities of the world, along with adding many new ethnic groups across the world that we felt were unfairly not included; often making late-game CK3 consist of characters map-wide, more or less looking the same in the end. We also look to add various cultural clothing, patterns, headgears, and hairstyles to help us more accurately represent these ethnic groups as they would.
Within this mere announcement, we would like to show you what we have, as I feel images sometimes speak more than words, especially in this case, but for note, what is shown below is not the whole extent of what we have to offer, and is just a random selection of such - it is also to note that as we add more and lean closer to a release any of the following are mere previews and are subject to change visually, localization-ly. Hope you like the images!
New Ethnicities / Edited Ethnicities / Ethnicity Variations.
And these Ethnicities aren't only for males either, all of these ethnicities were handcrafted for both sexes. (Most screenshots above were the only male for the sake of not needing to possibly censor, I'm not sure PDX's rules on such on the forums.)
Animations of some templates!
A reminder that all is subject to change as this is a work in progress, with further development of hair and further ethnicity templates, much can change.
European Blonde Template #1
European Dark #1
Med Greek Template #1
Northern Blond Template #4
Italian Template #2
Turkish Template #7
Turkish Template #8
Indian Template #2
Persian Template #6
Arab Bedouin Template #1
Portraits
Now, what's the "Portraits" section of the name? Well, that's where we dive into making various cultural clothing, patterns, headgear, and Hair for the people map-wide.
Custom Hair!
The Evolution of Chainmail
For those playing on high-quality settings, it might have been easy to spot the poor quality of PDX's chainmail on some of the otherwise great models throughout, so currently some of those have been upgraded also.
Various Portraits from around the world, including some ethnicities, new patterns, some custom models (like the kettle hat above), and more! (What isn't custom, is just vanilla CK3, to show how well everything blends).
And finally, that is all I have to show off today, and that was a LOT of stuff shown!
If you wish to follow progress, I'll post it in many other discords also but the first and best place to follow progress, help with historical sources, talk with the developers of P&EE is over on our new discord!
DISCORD
Crusader Kings III Mod Coop
I hope everyone has a great day! - UberEpicZach, Crusader Universalis | Kingdom of Heaven Lead Dev.
Portraits and Ethnicities Expanded is now known as Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded.
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A few months back, Xangelo known for his great unit packs in previous PDX games such as Imperator Rome, Europa Universalis had set forth in Crusader Kings III wanting to bring vast diversity to the world, eventually uniting with Celticus, known for his works over on the Total War modding communities. Months would go by as we slowly but surely added dozens and dozens of Ethnicities to the world of CK3.
Today I wish to announce the development and progress of Portraits and Ethnicities Expanded

Portraits and Ethnicities Expanded looks to revamp all the current Ethnicities of the world, along with adding many new ethnic groups across the world that we felt were unfairly not included; often making late-game CK3 consist of characters map-wide, more or less looking the same in the end. We also look to add various cultural clothing, patterns, headgears, and hairstyles to help us more accurately represent these ethnic groups as they would.
Within this mere announcement, we would like to show you what we have, as I feel images sometimes speak more than words, especially in this case, but for note, what is shown below is not the whole extent of what we have to offer, and is just a random selection of such - it is also to note that as we add more and lean closer to a release any of the following are mere previews and are subject to change visually, localization-ly. Hope you like the images!
New Ethnicities / Edited Ethnicities / Ethnicity Variations.








And these Ethnicities aren't only for males either, all of these ethnicities were handcrafted for both sexes. (Most screenshots above were the only male for the sake of not needing to possibly censor, I'm not sure PDX's rules on such on the forums.)
Animations of some templates!
A reminder that all is subject to change as this is a work in progress, with further development of hair and further ethnicity templates, much can change.
European Blonde Template #1


European Dark #1


Med Greek Template #1


Northern Blond Template #4


Italian Template #2


Turkish Template #7


Turkish Template #8


Indian Template #2


Persian Template #6


Arab Bedouin Template #1


Portraits
Now, what's the "Portraits" section of the name? Well, that's where we dive into making various cultural clothing, patterns, headgear, and Hair for the people map-wide.
Custom Hair!





The Evolution of Chainmail
For those playing on high-quality settings, it might have been easy to spot the poor quality of PDX's chainmail on some of the otherwise great models throughout, so currently some of those have been upgraded also.

Various Portraits from around the world, including some ethnicities, new patterns, some custom models (like the kettle hat above), and more! (What isn't custom, is just vanilla CK3, to show how well everything blends).





And finally, that is all I have to show off today, and that was a LOT of stuff shown!
If you wish to follow progress, I'll post it in many other discords also but the first and best place to follow progress, help with historical sources, talk with the developers of P&EE is over on our new discord!
DISCORD
Crusader Kings III Mod Coop
I hope everyone has a great day! - UberEpicZach, Crusader Universalis | Kingdom of Heaven Lead Dev.
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