Age of Vikings and Fanatics: Total war

[Ranika]

If I may, I'd like to recommend some revisions to the Irish/Scottish faction descriptions slightly, mostly correcting errors in time tables. We know now that Celts inhabitted Ireland far earlier than the 1st century BC (more likely the 4th century), and the Scots weren't from a tribe called the Scotti, that was a Roman-British name for all Gaels which just meant 'pirates', and was adopted as a Brythonic term for the Scots (since they were in close contact with them, and were the most well-known Gaelic tribe). The Scots didn't call themselves Scots for some time; it was eventually adopted from the Strathclyders (who were Britons under their rule). They also came from a kingdom called Ulaid, which was a small kingdom in Ireland (in eastern modern Ulster, which was only later called Ulaid as a whole), consisting of several tribes, and the 'invasion' of King Fergus is mythical; Gaels had inhabitted the lands of Dal Riada for centuries. King Fergus did fight the Picts though, but probably over land rights; the presence of Gaelic houses in Argyll from the 1st century BC onward disproves the idea of an 'invasion'. In Ireland, the claims of Normans to the Irish throne never actually materialized until after the 1100s had begun. From Clontarf into the early 1100s, Ireland, while still disunified, was experiencing a period of more peaceful quasi-unity, and the high kingship actually experienced legitimacy (the high kings were successfully collecting homage from MOST kingdoms), but no high king since Brian ever had the strength (or maybe just no motivation) to push for stronger unity.