The Persianate World¶
A player wiki for The Persianate World, a 1337 total overhaul mod for Europa Universalis V that rebuilds the post-Ilkhanid Iranian world from the ground up — its succession, its administration, its demography, and the unworkable political settlement everyone in it was trying to escape.
Abū Saʿīd died in November 1335 and the house of Hülegü died with him. What the base game makes of this is two "hordes" squatting on the map and a generic collapse. What actually happened is one of the strangest political experiments in medieval history: an empire whose army, treasury, chancery, and provinces all survived, but whose sovereignty evaporated, because the one rule everyone agreed on was that only a descendant of Chinggis Khan could reign, and the supply of plausible descendants was running out.
This mod is about that world. Not the collapse as flavor, but the collapse as a system.
Where to start¶
If you have never opened the mod before:
- Starting the game — the 1337–38 setup, the contenders, the Friday khuṭba problem, and what the opening fifteen years actually look like.
- The Erānzamīn situation — the realm-wide succession crisis that frames every Iranian campaign in this period.
If you want to understand the systems:
- The Persianate Sultanate government — the baseline government type and what it does differently from a European monarchy.
- Türk vs Tāzīk — the dyad that runs underneath every other mechanic.
- The Dīwān estate and the Amirs estate — the two replacement nobilities, and why they cannot be treated as one thing.
- Estate privileges — the rivalry pairs and the prerogative violations.
- Government reforms — the Age 1–3 reform tree, with the Age 1 trilemma at its head.
- The Farr Proof of Fortune — the audit on a dynasty that has claimed farr-i īzadī: legitimacy management, apparatus claims, and the four outcomes.
- The Ghāzī Burden of the Sword — the audit on a dynasty that has avowed ghazā: war-credit tiers, the muḥtasib axis, internal campaigns, and the four outcomes.
- The Mazalim court — what the parliament becomes when the political tradition has no horizontal legitimacy.
- The military system — iqṭāʿ, tribes, ghulāms, and why you should not bring a European siege game to the plateau.
Useful links¶
Whose name is read on Friday?