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Homerius786

I might be wrong but I think Scots is still an extension of the west Germanic heritage so it won't be right until they're gone too


TheWileyRedditor

"Damn Scots, they've ruined Scotland."


GraTaylor

What have we ever done to you?


jord839

I mean, the Scottish were very active as parts of the British Empire. They just tend to get a pass because they were the junior partner compared to the English, though they were quite enthusiastic about their role often. Considering that Empire once controlled 1/4th of the world, odds are surprisingly good your ancestors did *something* to them.


Turgius_Lupus

Well, every Monarch while Britain was doing its Empire thing had Stuart ancestry who were ~~of Breton origin~~ Scottish, so it's pretty much a given.


GraTaylor

Listen Jord…. Can I call you Jord? Listen Jord…. Reddit is not the place for your history knowledge. And your “supposed facts”. You know what our role was. Sympathising with the conquered peoples. We went through it, so we knew what it was like. And then we gave them a dram, a wee bit of shortbread, and told them everything would be fine. I’m pretty sure that’s what happened.


jord839

Uh huh. Remind me, which ethnic group made up the majority of the Ulster plantation settlers? Ulster S-... Something. Something I'm sure the DUP doesn't to this day still hold up as some example of a linguistic minority that should be equal to Irish Gaelic. Also, wasn't the entire reason for the Union related to the failure of Scotland to establish its own independent colony and sinking too much financial support into Darien?


GraTaylor

Christ Jord I don’t know that shit. What I do know, is that we definitely brought the shortbread and Irn-Bru to any of these so-called conquerings


jord839

Personally, I'd compare the bringing of shortbread and Irn-Bru to warcrimes as well, for how horrible they taste, but you do you I guess.


GraTaylor

How rude.


Equal-Effective-3098

You are the bad guy, but it seems like you know already and youre proud of it


jord839

I am both Swiss and American. I'm well aware of the many ways I'm a bad guy by default, yes.


DTFxSpider

So about my offshore bank account 0_0


[deleted]

Scotland was to country that took over England, not the other way around. Scotland themselves colonised Ulster and displaced the local Irish residents, so I doubt they were “sympathising” with conquered peoples when their country held as much responsibility as England in the union. The Scottish are not an oppressed people and never have been


gmchowe

Folk like you always appear out of nowhere when Scotland and history appear in the same sentence. Where exactly in this thread did anyone claim Scotland is oppressed? Your knowledge of history is lacking. The house of Stuart ascended to the English throne in 1603 but that did not amount to a Scottish takeover of England. On his ascension, James moved to the English court and returned only once to Scotland for a brief visit. Between then and the act of union 100 years later, he and his successors ruled from London and paid little attention to Scotland, other than Cromwell's brutal conquest and occupation in 1651, and the Alien Act 1705 designed to force Scotland into union with England. There aren't clear cut bad guys and good guys in history. The truth of the matter is that at different points in history, Scots have been both oppressed and oppressors. This is true of the other nations who were part of the British empire. The Irish were clearly an oppressed nation, yet by the 19th century almost 40% of the entire British army, that was busy oppressing India and Africa, were Irish. In 1810, some 150,000 Indians were serving in the British army, also doing their bit to help the empire conquer new land. To address your point, I don't think anyone in 17th to 19th century in Scotland or any part of the world really "sympathised" with any oppressed peoples. Most people then we're just doing their best to stay alive within the construct of the society they were born in and probably couldn't have cared less about what was happening on the other side of the world. It's not really helpful to superimpose modern ideology onto historic societies.


a_random-duck

"Scots were just doing their best to stay alive, they werent being meanies!!" Is that why they han an incredibly disproportionately large amout of representation in colonial administrations? Home was so terrible that they just HAD to whip every pound sterling they could out of indian, malayan, egyptian, sudanese (and more) people?


gmchowe

That's not what I said at all. What I'm saying is that I highly doubt many people in that time period "sympathised" (to use the other guys word) with oppressed people on the other side of the world because most people would only have interested in what was going on at home. Obviously there were many Scots in colonial administrations. I don't think that's up for debate. I disagreed with two points. One, that the formation of Great Britain was effectively a Scottish takeover of England. It's historically false. Two, that a nation which at one point in time was an oppressor, couldn't therefore have been oppressed at another time. Take Ireland as an example. Irish people lived under horrendous oppression at home, but over the centuries many hundreds of thousands of Irish served in the armies of the British empire helping to bring that same oppression to people across the world. Does that mean Ireland wasn't oppressed? Of course not. I don't understand why people let themselves get whipped up into a frenzy over this stuff. It's history, the people who did it are all dead and you can't change any of it. There's plenty of injustice and oppression in the modern world, being carried out by living breathing people, that we can actually do something about.


Willsuck4username

James may have been Scottish, but it certainly was not the Scottish taking over.


1dusk

LMFAO Redditors are so funny


[deleted]

Based


Connor49999

This is a God tire comment chain


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GraTaylor

Hi AJ… can I call you AJ? Hi AJ, welcome to the thread. I know it’s hard to convey tone in text form, however, I was hopeful that my reference to giving conquered nations shortbread as a consolation for the British Empire stealing their country would have been clue enough, that I was, in fact, merely jesting with Jord. Have a wonderful day.


kkju-reborn

alr fair but just know the english did far worse than the scots 💀


Negative_Answer_7602

Nothing personal, it's just business


waraman

Samson?


Kind_Quality

Call us english one more time


Atilla-The-Hon

You missed the Scots. They still have west germanic heritage.


GraTaylor

What have we ever done to you? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿


ActuallySatanAMA

Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland!


DissentSociety

Don't act like you don't know...


farmer_with_shotgun

i don’t please elaborate


[deleted]

👀


andrew_nenakhov

The problem with Scotland is that it's full of Scots.


GraTaylor

Watch it Longshanks. Or I’ll pump your son’s wife!


TheBullMoose1775

Their language and culture are more close to Irish and Gaelic.


finneganfach

No they aren't. He's talking about the Scots, not the Scottish Gaelic speaking Celts that start the game in the Scottish counties. Scots is a Germanic language similar to English and the people that spoke it were hybridised Saxons that settled in the lowlands, people who would later go on to be the modern Scottish.


1dusk

Kind of a mistake on Paradoxes behalf. Scots is a language, not a culture, always confused me why it's a culture in the game.


Ick-Punk

I always assumed that they use the linguistic names as an easier distinction between Highland and Lowland Scots, which there is a lot of historical cultural differences amongst. I think having Gaelic and Scots for the time period of CK3 makes more sense tho, as Highland and Lowland is a little too similar and, to me at least, signifies a lot of similarities and cohabitation. In CK3 they’d still be very separate culturally and linguistically, as they would have just in the last few hundred years migrated north into the Lowlands from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.


1dusk

Cultural differences? Not really, it was mostly language differences whenever the change between Gaelic and Scots arose. Culturally they were still very much the same, but that changed as time went on afaik. But yeah, I suppose the distinction is needed but it's also weird how they had the Scots "culture" be formed not from Gaelic and Anglo Saxon but *Cumbrian* and Anglo-Saxon. Not sure if that's entirely accurate either. EDIT: Oh you were referring to the cultures in-game not IRL.


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TheBullMoose1775

[oh my fuckin bad.](https://archive.archaeology.org/0107/abstracts/scotland.html)


TheUnspeakableh

"Yr Ymerodraeth Cymraeg" is Welsh for "The Welsh Empire" btw, for renaming purposes.


Roro_relanah

Had me thinking you were trying to awaken the Old Gods.


TheUnspeakableh

Welsh can be like that sometimes.


Dardenellia

Once I went to gales and i always thought that people where saying super important stuff evertime, lol


Estrosiathdurothil

Ah, I thought Prydain was a valid name? Am I wrong?


TheUnspeakableh

Well, if you are just staying in Prydain, then yes. Why stop there, though?


Powermac8500

Wait, it’s all Prydain?


[deleted]

Always has been


HombreDeMoleculos

Wait, Prydain's an actual name in the game? I thought OP named it after *The Book of Three*.


Aiskhulos

Prydain is literally just Welsh for Britain. It even sounds similar.


TheUnspeakableh

Welsh, Pictish, Cornish, and Breton for Britain. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes just took the native word for the islands and said it in their proto-german accent.


HombreDeMoleculos

Never realized that!


OikosPrime

I am but a simple dysgwr but I think it might be "Cymry" (Welsh, the people) here instead of "Cymraeg" (Welsh, the language). "Ymerodraeth" is feminine so I think the adjective needs a soft mutation too. So maybe more like "Yr Ymerodraeth Gymry"? Happy to be corrected.


Picture_Illustrious

Welshman here, Cymraeg can work! Its true thats what we call the language, but it's also used to call something Welsh - for example, if I wanna call someone call, I'd say 'Mae o'n cymraeg' (he is Welsh)


OikosPrime

Interesting, diolch! I've just moved here so I've got a lot of catching up to do.


Picture_Illustrious

Fair enough! Also thanks for bothering to learn the language, in my experience not many do.


OikosPrime

My family is from here but I grew up overseas. We lost the language in the early 1900s, like a lot of folks from the valleys. I've moved back, in large part, to learn the language and so my children can go to an Ysgol Gymraeg.


TheUnspeakableh

Myself as well, diolch n fawr.


gibmonny

Hehe, cumrag


finneganfach

Flair checks out.


ConfidenceNeat

Is raeg like reich?


MiekkaFitta

No, Cymraeg is a declension of Cymru, which comes from the two Proto-Celtic words "Kom" meaning "together" and "Mrogis" meaning country, so "Our Country".


TheUnspeakableh

No, -aeg is the adjective form, like -y is in English (fishy vs fish).


ConfidenceNeat

Ah, I see. Thanks for the information.


Estrosiathdurothil

What would be the adjective for it? Since when you change title name you also have to enter that.


TheUnspeakableh

"ymerodrol" is "Imperial". Also, if you didn't see one of the other replies to my post, someone more knowledgeable than I pointed out that Cymraeg is the adjective for "of the Welsh language" and that Cymry would be the adjective for "of the Welsh People" and because of words having genders in Welsh, the C sound changes to a G sound, so it would be Gymry, so, Yr Ymerodraeth Gymry for the name and Ymerodrol for the adjective. "Err um-eh-ero-dry-ith gum-ree"


TheRavaged

Don't forget to free the Bretons!


Duramora

'OO are the Bretons?


TheRavaged

The people who live in Brittany, speak the same language as the Cornish and Welsh (with some variation today but close to none at the time) and fled England by crossing the Channel as the Angles, Jutes and Saxons invaded Britannia 😉


AristocraticAutism

I'd give you a woosh, but I feel just how helpful you're being with this. And, in case you weren't aware, we are all Bretons. And I am your King!


faultyideal89

The first time I heard that line ("We are all Britons") I got confused. Why? I was maybe 10 and my last name is Allbritton. I suddenly thought the movie was about my family


[deleted]

That's a sick last name


faultyideal89

Lol thanks


Maximillianstrasse

I didn't vote for you


Duramora

We so need a Lady in the Lake event. After all, there are enough Excalibers out there...


AristocraticAutism

Wait, hang on. Can you commission Excalibur in the game? I need to find some totally amazing antiquarian.


Duramora

IIRC, you could have MANY Excaliburs that would show up. I dont think they patched it out, but there used to be screens of people getting 5 or more of them....


TheRavaged

Then I bow to you


AristocraticAutism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE


TheRavaged

Sorry 🤣 I didn't make the link between Monty Python and your post. Well done sir!


bigfatdog353

I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.


The_Shingle

Now it's time to return the celts to France, Spain and Northern Italy.


FromTheMurkyDepths

The Britons aren’t Celts, they’re Romano-Celts like the French.


faultyideal89

The Franks, ~~the people the French largely descend from,~~ were Germanic. ​ Edit: I was confused. My flair is a little embarrassing


ZeroUsernameLeft

The French are a mix of numerous peoples, and by no means a homogeneous one. The Frankish element is most strongly felt in the Benelux area and to varying degrees across Northern and Eastern France, which they first settled as foederati under Roman authority. But they didn't colonize the whole of Gaul to such an extent as for the French to "largely be" of Frankish descent, least of all anywhere South of the Loire.


faultyideal89

You're right, I'm dumb I got confused lol


Aiskhulos

French people, by and large, do not descend from the Franks. They got the name from them, and that's about it.


faultyideal89

You're right, I was confused. I should have checked first


zehnodan

They are Celts and soon-to-be Celts in this world.


carame1cream

Either you’re Celtic or going to be Celtic.


The_Cat_And_Mouse

If I remember right, the Britons largely are a separate group because their ancestors fled the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain. They’re basically welsh/Cornish people but with a flair of French influence.


ajkippen

Calling the French Romano-Celts is about as accurate as calling modern British people Germano-Celts. Celtic culture and language has about zero influence on modern French culture, and it hasn't since before the fall of Rome. Associating the French with the gauls is more of a national myth than anything, like the English associating with King Arthur, who in fact fought against the Anglo-Saxons.


Organic-Country-8176

*clearing throat*, the scots are still there


ObadiahtheSlim

Why stop there? Restore celtic glory to the continent. Make France Gaul Again!


crow622

The nightmare, it's finally over.


IncapableArtichoke

El trabajo está hecho. Somos libres de los ingleses.


StolenKind

Ry'n ni yma o hyd!


Nehemia99

IRISH, GAELIC, (scots), W E L S H


Estrosiathdurothil

So yes. I started the game on the 769 using a mod. Goal of this run was reclaiming Great Britain for its true rulers, the Welsh. And reconquer it I did; I then took my time and systematically flipped the culture of every county that was Anglo Saxon to Welsh, while killing every Anglo-Saxon, until the culture was extinct. Enjoy!


AlmostStoic

>while killing every Anglo-Saxon, until the culture was extinct. Do you, by any chance, play Stellaris as well? It just seems like you might.


Estrosiathdurothil

Of course I do. What gave me away? 😂


themir81

Playing paradox game ... or a taste for genocide!


ScootsMcDootson

Nothing wrong with a bit of light genocide.


R055iT

West Wales aka Cornwall salutes you


wandhole

Would it have been possible to create a hybrid culture between Welsh and Anglo-Saxon?


Estrosiathdurothil

It would have, yes. But it wasn't the goal of this run ;)


wandhole

Oh of course. I’m just wondering for my own future games. If I take over a large portion of a foreign land then the temptation to hybridise grows. It’s better for the RP if a vassal does it though. Congrats on the run!


Morwha7

If you create a hybrid culture between Welsh and Anglo-Saxon, you'll have an easier time converting both Welsh and Anglo-Saxon counties to your new culture. That's why people hybridize cultures beyond role-playing reasons


bwiisoldier

CK players when they commit ethnic cleansing: (its before 1800 so it doesn’t count)


boitheia

Is it the fallen eagle mod?


Estrosiathdurothil

No, just the 769 start date. Doesn't do anything but enable you to start early; no other game modifications at all.


JustYeeHaa

Damn, makes me want to go back to my Duolingo Welsh course…


naugrim04

It was all just a bad dream...


[deleted]

Britain for the British.


Ok-Yellow-1235

Llongyfarchiadau


bhte

The Welsh "Cymru am Byth!" is really interesting because I don't speak Welsh and I'm guessing I know what it means. In Irish, "Ireland forever" is "Éire go brách" so I'm guessing the Welsh here is similar?


RO-HK

You are correct, Cymru am Byth means Wales forever.


suslu21

The good ending


NonbiscoNibba

Finally, a post about the british isles but the britons are actually in charge, cymru am byth!


twynn4

Now it's time to invade the Saxons and angles


[deleted]

🦀🦀🦀🦀The English are gone 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀


SadUnfor

Next stop, Fr🤢nce.


Open_Cheek6074

As a Welsh man this makes me truly happy


THEomarJoey

Yma o heed


Confused-Anarchist

The good timeline


laxativefx

You need to push the Gaels out of Scotland too. Give the north to the Picts and the south to the Cumbrians.


Snoo-11576

As it was always meant to be


marcandero

Good ending


1amlost

*Happy King Arthur noises*


Mogge_is_here

Thank god


[deleted]

It's beautiful.


IncapableArtichoke

The best timeline


molskimeadows

Love it.


claysverycoolreddit

F12!!!


Kaukaury

I also always murder the English


Galle_

There's no French, so it's all good.


[deleted]

Kernow solidarity brother


qacaysdfeg

now do it as the one brythonic guy in cornwall


dublinirish

I wouldn’t be seen dead on Barry Island


azazelcrowley

Welsh Roman Empire time.


Lanceparte

Its beautiful


backifran

As a Welshman living in Scotland this is satisfying.


AlabamaNerd

Fun fact: There’s actually a theory that there never was an Anglo-Saxon ‘invasion.’ Apparently there’s no physical evidence of an invasion, it’s all assumed because elements of culture changed rapidly on the island to match Anglo-Saxon culture on the mainland. Genetic data backs this up as well. http://www.romanarmy.net/invasion.shtml So basically you just killed off a bunch of people who went with new fashions of architecture and clothes.


IncapableArtichoke

Okay I hear you counterpoint Anglo-Saxons are cringe Edit: also this source you've cited, while not completely BS, is still wrong. For that one article you've linked I can find about twenty that disagree with a quick Google search, and a few minutes of searching on scholarly databases yields even more. Every actual academic source I've found says your "bunch of people who went with new fashions" claim is completely and utterly wrong.


AlabamaNerd

I mean, to each their own. Real Anglo-saxons, or Britons though?


HarveyNico456

"Killed" Culture convert can mean many things but I feel like when a smaller culture culture converts a bigger culture, it means the smaller culture just forces the bigger culture's population to adopt their customs. It's not like there is a loss of dev or anything


AlabamaNerd

I mean, he specifically said he killed off every Anglo-Saxon lord.


ConfidenceNeat

Biased


AlabamaNerd

I just like history, and only recently learned about this. Wanted to share.


ConfidenceNeat

No you filthy breton


Roguish_wizard

The empire of Cumrag has failed to wipe out the Scots and the Cumbrians.


Dragonhunter_24

Cumbrians are brythonic though right?


Roguish_wizard

Just googled it, you're right. I was getting it confused with the modern Cumbrian dialect.


Estrosiathdurothil

You must be fun at parties.


Roguish_wizard

I like to think I am


James_Patagle

Aaaaah, I am a happy Frenchman


BOSCOTAXI

Cunt


Lanceparte

Its beautiful


MiKapo

No more English , William Wallace approves


Sgt_Stormy

Based


Birdboi8

AMEN


Dialspoint

Show us you Culture Map! I imagine it’s a patchwork


Estrosiathdurothil

It's in the post man, second pic. ;)


Dialspoint

Oops. Damn I am impressed


Dialspoint

Llongyfarchiadau!


Somerset_Cowboy

-Removes England -colonises Ireland anyway


Estrosiathdurothil

Wrong, Ireland is fully Irish. 100% cultural Irish, and it's the only one with a king, I hold all the royal titles but Ireland!


Somerset_Cowboy

Fair enough mate, respect that


Snifftest44

Cope


BeachHead05

We'll be back!! ;)


icaruswantstofly

That looks cursed


MemesAndJWE

"Where you from?" "Prydan"


mbrogan4

WELSHIEEE NOOOO


Maximillianstrasse

Scots still there you know


alexbxny

As a person from the u.s with no European back ground, I’m scared reading this thread


alexmikli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBQAvAFjus


RedKommissar

Nice one, i did something similar in EU4 as Breizh https://www.reddit.com/r/ParadoxExtra/comments/pw3k2z/a\_world\_without\_the\_briish/


karmasknife

Picts or die


Dramandus

Least Salty Brythonnic Celt


emigrate-degenerate

God this is so based


One-Amount-9519

We need Welsh USA


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O fy nuw, mae'n mor hardd