NAJF Scenario

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Some screenies methinks..

Uzbekhs on a rampage. An attempt unite the Mongols?

Byzantines recreating their Empire.

Return of the Abbasid Caliphs to Baghdad

Some Amerindian Tribes.

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Wendish is no german culture. The wendish people were slavs who lived mainly in what is todays eastern Saxony, Brandenburg, Lausitz and Pommerania and were chased down and expelled in many campaigns starting at the end of the 10th. century. But there were already much earlier campaigns since the 8th. century. The remaining wendish people lived without rights and their culture was forbidden etc. It makes no sense to place a wendish culture after that time. Mainly settlers of flamish, dutch, saxon, thuringian and franconian descendent replaced them.

Another failure is the westphalian culture. There was never such a thing like a westphalian culture or westphalian people. They were just saxons.

Anyway, is it just senseless to split up the german culture that way. Since medieval times the people were wandering and mixing and the tribal structure of the germans got lost. I bet no one could tell the cultural differences of franconians and bavarians or of alemmanics and franconians or of saxons and thuringians. To split up german culture that way would only be useful for scenarios that ends 1000 AD.
If you want to split up german culture than use the language differences and create an upper-, middle- and lower german culture. That would have rhyme and reason.

The rationale is to keep a deeper division in the HRE for those holding a large sway of the area and to cut down on the benefits of those who do.

As to your suggestion, yes I had toyed with just keeping it split between Upper German, Middle German and Low German (Low Saxon), but my set up further splits these three language-cultures further into two.

So:

Upper German is split between the western (Alemmanic) and eastern (Bavarian) roots.
Middle German is split between the majority Franconian (western/central) and Upper Saxon (eastern).
Low Saxon is split between Westphalian (a term I use, the more accurate term would be Western Low Saxon) and Wendish (The Wendish in this regard refers not to the Wends, but the practice of calling the Hanseatic towns east of the Elbe Wendish), the more accurate term would be Eastern Low Saxon.

Upper German (Alemmanic/Bavarian)
Middle German (Franconian/[Upper] Saxon)
Low Saxon (Westphalian/Wendish) or (Western Low Saxon/Eastern Low Saxon)

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