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Changes:

• The game rules for AI behaviors are now split by continent for clarity.
• Adjusted starting armies and ponypower of Great Lakes countries.
• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:
  • Changed a national spirit icon.
• Katzennia:
  • Kattail now gets yeti blimps and gunship armament with the armored airships focus.
• Qaylidi Dervishes:
  • Reduced bonuses from "Defender of the People" trait.
  • Made it a little harder to get white peace with Thundaria.
  • Made first two Masaska military focuses mutually exclusive.
• Thundaria:
  • Improved starting science base, lowered starting literacy.
• Zar-Hay:
  • Alwani revolt now sets its capital in Timbucktu.
  • Adjusted visibility of coring decisions.
  • Focus to declare war on southern Great Lakes is now also available after 1st of January 1010.
• Zongo:
  • Changed some focus icons.

Fixes:

• Fixed new awards being blocked by custom difficulty settings.
• Fixed a placeholder war decision giving free compliance cores to Zar-Hay.
• Fixed capitulation quotes for Thundaria, Gyzwindids and Stormland not appearing after the civil war.
• Dragon's Gate strait access fixes.
• Griffonian Republic:
  • Fixed visual issues with a dynamic focus.
  • The Grand Duchy of Cloudbury will become a Nominal Vassal of the Griffonian Empire rather than an Integrated Puppet.
• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:
  • Fixed a focus bypass in the communist tree breaking the mechanics.
  • Fixed broken cosmetic tags and events in the communist tree.
  • Fixed some focus filters.
• Lan Kir:
  • Fixed issue with award icon.
• Les Meridiennes:
  • Fixed duplicate ship icon.
• Macigena:
  • Fixed placeholder war event triggering when it shouldn't and giving free compliance cores to Zar-Hay.
• Qaylidi Dervishes:
  • Removed redundant mutually exclusive.
  • Fixed missing airplane technologies in a focus.
  • Fixed Inter-Pact trade national spirits being available even with Pact members no longer existing.
  • Fixed issue with a Masaska event so you can't queue the other choice before selecting an option.
  • Fixed borders of Zar-Hay puppet in the communist path.
  • Fixed Shared Futures focus requiring mutual justification if Great Lakes unifier gives into demands.
• Zar-Hay:
  • Tried to fix Zanda Dongo joining the communist revolt.
  • Fixed bypass for Abyssinian focus for the communist path.
  • Abyssinian focus for the communist path no longer triggers an event for you if you own Panthera.
  • Cleaned up a focus bypass tooltip.
  • Fixed Azkhai's abdication event not having an event option in a tiebreaker scenario.
  • Fixed harmonic path permanently losing Cult of the Sky Stallion national spirit.
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes.

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This update SHOULD be save compatible with 2.6, but some fixes will require a new game.

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The Storm King, the Founder of the Storm Kingdom, the Uniter of Yetikind, the Conqueror of Zebrica, is dead. Now vultures fight over what remains. Four ambitious yeti warlords have claimed the Horned Crown and are locked in a deadly struggle to seize the Storm King's inheritance for themselves. Ibyz Icepaw is one of these yetis, a Field Marshal experienced in both war and running an occupation from her work in the Zwahile. Having suddenly come out of retirement to throw her might into the ring and save the Rainband from greedy kleptocrats and madyetis. Seeking to build a kingdom her kind deserves and prove to the rest of the continent there is more to yetis then just mad conquest. It's up to Ibyz to see if she can fulfil her promises, especially as the more she focuses on achieving her goals the more the zebras of the Zwahile expect their overlord to not forget their compliance doesn't come for free.

In the ruins of their fallen Queendom, the hyenas gather under the guidance of Fahamka, the Great Teacher of the Qaylidi. Having carefully waited and watched ever since their homeland burned under the Storm King's advance, they ready themselves to strike and finally reclaim what is theirs. Their past was one of oppression and cruelty, their present is one of enslavement and struggle, but the future will be theirs to shape. And to the Qaylidi Dervishes, that is all that matters.

Far to the north, the war drums echo. After the Storm King destroyed the Imperial Mazwi, the Great Lakes are much like a burned down forest. Green sprouts are breaking through the ashes, growing quickly to seize the new opportunities. The Kingdom of Zar-Hay is one such sprout. Their royal family is missing, but an ambitious regent has taken the reins of leadership and has a plan to ensure his homeland will never be enslaved ever again. A plan that is meant to turn Zar-Hay into a mighty nation, strong enough to withstand any invader. A plan to create another empire to replace the Mazwi. After all, what was once divided, must unite.

New focus trees and content for:

• Icepaw Military Directorate
• Qaylidi Dervishes
• Kingdom of Zar-Hay
• Stormland Regency (Civil war only)
• Gyzwindid Realm (Civil war only)
• Thundarian Magocracy (Civil war only)

Additions:

• New country selection screen.
• Yeti racial technologies.
• Hyena racial technologies.
• Four new awards.
• Re'emite Enclave modifiers in some Great Lakes states.
• Eye of the Storm and Ziani cityfall events.
• Event to capture the Buckure gold mines from Imperial Mazwi.
• Great Lakes and Yeti newspaper headers.
• Great Lakes and Yeti medals.
• Great Lakes and Qaylidi Dervishes infantry equipment icons.
• Yeti pre-gunpowder weapon and tank icons.
• Added some victory points in the Great Lakes and Rainband.
• Hippogriffia:
  • War Plan Plutonium event if Posada neighbours a supremacist Storm Kingdom.

Changes:

• Various small changes to south Zebrican states.
• Adjusted starting armies of Great Lakes countries.
• Increased opacity of custom map modes.
• Griffonian Republic:
  • Ongoing Reconstruction Progress is always active.
• Mazwi:
  • Starts unable to recruit units, can unlock recruitment through a generic focus.
  • Changed starting party popularities.
• Mozzi:
  • Now gets access to generic raiding decisions.
  • Starting national spirit gives a surrender limit bonus.
• Polar Bear Communities:
  • Now loads a generic tree when puppeted.
• Qaylidi Dervishes:
  • Redrawn portrait for Fahamka.
• Twizanyika:
  • Is now Hyena race.
• Zongo:
  • Ruins of Tampuk are renamed back to Tampuk when the Tampuk line is finished.

Fixes:

• Fixed a province breaking frontlines.
• Fixed Twilight Theory and Evil Diarchy not interacting correctly.
• Fixed terrain of some provinces.
• Dread League:
  • Fixed the country being randomly annexed out of nowhere.
• Equestria:
  • Fixed wrong gender of a Solar Empire general.
• Quaggatai:
  • If Colthage signs a peace while being in a civil war, the other participants in the civil war will now peace out as well.
• Yakyakistan:
  • Fixed Ghenikhan purge focus.
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes.

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This update IS NOT save compatible with 2.5.1.3.