Trivia / Crusader Kings II: Game of Thrones Mod

• April Fools' Day:
  • When the modding team released version 0.4.1 on April 1st, 2013, with the subtitle of The Eastern Continent, players expected the long-anticipated Free Cities of Essos. What they got was...Europe.
    • The patch notes didn't help matters, since the descriptions mostly matched aspects of the books' canon.^note Take note of the first letter of each sentence.
  Lands of the Eastern Continent added across the Narrow Sea.^note Actually Europe.
  Over 900 new provinces. ^note From the vanilla game.
  Lots of new titles: New duchies, kingdoms and empires. ^note See above note.
  Invasions of savage horse-riding warriors from the East. ^note Mongols from the vanilla game.
  Tens of thousands of new characters. ^note Technically true...
  Republics: Added the Free Cities. ^note of Venice & Genoa.
  Optionally, you can play as the rulers of the Free Cities if you own The Republic DLC.^note Technically true...
  Lots of new cultures. ^note Technically true...
  Look out for ruthless slaver civilizations! ^note Technically true, if you include the various Islamic empires, such as the Abbassid, Ummayad, Fatimid, and Ayyubid Caliphates, Mamluk Sultanate, and Kwarizim Shahdom, as well as various pagan civilizations like the Vikings and pre-Christian Kievan Rus, as slaver civilizations.
  Unleashed new monotheistic religions with fanatical followers. ^note Technically true...
  • April 1st, 2014: A Game of Thrones... for Europa Universalis IV. The kicker? It works.