Suggestions for the upcoming 1.23 update

[Trin Tragula]

Greetings,

As the Middle East is getting a "facelift" I wanted to suggest that some name errors should be fixed as well.

The province of "Tehran" e.g. should be renamed into "Rey" because Tehran used to be a tiny village in this region until 1776. The main city in this region for centuries used to be Ray thus the province should be called "Ray" not Tehran.

As far as I know Rayy was destroyed almost entirely by the mongols and ceased to be a place of importance after that point. There's some evidence of a bit of presence there again in Timurid time as a military installation but as far as I know not much more than nearby cities. If you have access to references that say something else I would love to see it so we represent the place better
Teheran on the other hand was already said to be counted as a city by observers during Timur's time.

What I also wanted to suggest is to the strenghten the formable nation of Persia by giving the "Persia region" more rightful cores like:

Khuzestan (of which culture should be Persian and not "Mashriqi")
Zaranj
Birjand
Sabzevar
Mashhad
Bojnord
Merv
Herat
Hormus
Bahrein

Most of these are already included in the decision to form Persia in the release version
There will be no Persian cores at start in 1444 anymore, it is now a country that must be formed. Instead most of these have regional revolters that can form Persia (which then will get permanent claims on all of it, just like all other unifications in the game).

Another suggestion is to remove the Iranian culture group of "Khorasani" and replace it by Persian since Khorasani is not a language but Khorasan used to be a historical Persian speaking region from where many famous Persian poets and sholars originated from like "Rumi", "Omar Khayyam", "Ferdowsi" etc.

Khorasani is a culture in the game, not a language, and it is part of the Iranian group which a formed Persia will be a cultural union for. This is true in the release version of the game and it will be true in the upcoming patch.
The game does not model languages at all. Only cultures.
I would also say that it is not strange to claim that Khorasan had a somewhat different character than western Persia. More so than the difference between say Shiraz and Isfahan.

there never was an independet country called "Khorasan".

It is very conventional to refer to the countries in this era that were centered in the geographical region of Khorasan as Khorasan. There are no nations in this game, only countries or states, and Khorasan was certainly one of those many times.


As for Khuzestan, as you can see in the dev diaries there is no longer any one province called Khuzestan, instead it is an area made up of more than one province.