Title.
A large number of bookmark characters aren't mentioned in tolkien's actual books, so I am curious on what lore they are based on and if it is possible to read it somewhere
To clarify:
-part of bookmarks: be part of a current or new bookmark for their start date with an explanation of who they were historically, what your goals should roughly be and an indication of difficulty.
-story content: events that trigger throughout a playthrough, whether at set times or under set conditions, that either just give some flavor context or buffs to help you roleplay the specific character. (Examples: harald fairhair, robert guiscard, temujin)
My suggestions:
Ashot bagratuni: he comes up a lot of times in "character of the week", he founded a kingdom and united the princes and emirs of the caucasus and he was involved in a lot of complicated conflicts. Should be given story content and be made part of humble origins
Basil I: he literally becomes emperor eight months after the 867 start. It would be nice to have a little content to rp his coming to the throne. He also, together with his predecessor, is completely non-existent in the current version of the game. He helped recapture sicilly for christianity.
Harald fairhair: He already has story content, just add him to fury of the northmen.
Suleiman I. He already is in a bookmark, he is the only one in the adventurer bookmark with no story content, despite having arguably been more historically relevant than the others.
Indonesia has been added to the game, but the amount of counties per square kilometres is far lower than in europe, and historical kingdoms like mataram have been regelated to duchies.
Borneo is larger than the francia empire, but is just a four duchy kingdom.
Mataram is the most egregious, it should be a kingdom. The first picture is roughly the borders of mataram in the 9th century AD and compared it to three of the in-game kingdoms (using truesize.net). The region currently also has two times the population of the Netherlands, so the "low population density" argument that might be fair for borneo doesn't apply.
I have also added comparisons of malukku and tanjungpara to francia.
My suggestion would be adding more counties to indonesia, or at least java. (The current in-game java duchies are all candidates for kingdom tier if you look at population and size)
P.S. China suffers from roughly the same issue, but to a lesser extent.
ETA: Adding kingdoms to java and borneo would make mahjahapit and brunei a lot more interesting