@Gaypow it's really refreshing to see a CK2 person talking about Zoroastrianism and it's not goddamn xwedodah memes. It was the first really dualistic religion I was familiar with, and though I'm not *really* a religious dualist I think there's definitely some value in it. (I think sometimes people mix it up with mind-body dualism and heard that was Bad, and then just dismiss the whole thing.)
Definitely they kept some ideas alive that give everything a different flavor.
@Gaypow I really just like the wild way people romanize old Persian, all the words are just wildly fun to write, haha. It's shallow but especially for someone into onomastics it's fun
@Gaypow Have a soft spot for these folks too, from when a historian of like mind assigned them to me in undergrad Byzantium class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Turkic_Khaganate
Had to sit there reading Latin to figure out even who they were supposed to be really, at the time this article was like literally one paragraph.
@Gaypow But I think some of it as well is a sort of subversive impulse to boost cultures we mostly hear about through outside, hostile sources. If you go back earlier than CK2 I devour stuff about Carthage for the same reasons.
And if only we had enough information about the sea peoples to write a history from *their* perspective, dang would that be cool. Though that's probably not a singular culture, modern writers went further lumping them together than Egypt itself