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+# Alt History Mod - Additional/Modified Cultures
+# Minimal viable version — name lists to be expanded later
+
+# Northern Han (北汉 — Jianzhou + north of Yangtze)
+northern_han = {
+	color = rgb{ 180 150 50 }
+	religion = mahayana
+	heritage = heritage_sinosphere
+	language = language_mandarin
+
+	obsessions = { tea }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Wei Jian Ming Hao Zhong Liang Cheng Yong Kai Feng
+		Guang Jun Shi Wen De Xian Zhi Ren Bo
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Mei Lan Ying Xiu Hua Fang Yun Qing Li Zhen
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Zhao Qian Sun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang Feng Chen
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Zhang Liu Yang Huang Wu Xu He Lin Guo Ma
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Zhao Qian Sun Li
+	}
+}
+
+# Southern Han (南汉 — south of Yangtze, including Vietnam/Burma Song provinces)
+southern_han = {
+	color = rgb{ 200 170 60 }
+	religion = mahayana
+	heritage = heritage_sinosphere
+	language = language_mandarin
+
+	obsessions = { tea }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Wei Jian Ming Hao Zhong Liang Cheng Yong Kai Feng
+		Guang Jun Shi Wen De Xian Zhi Ren Bo
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Mei Lan Ying Xiu Hua Fang Yun Qing Li Zhen
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Zhao Qian Sun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang Feng Chen
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Zhang Liu Yang Huang Wu Xu He Lin Guo Ma
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Zhao Qian Sun Li
+	}
+}
+
+# Mongol-Rus (蒙古罗斯 — Great Khanate ruling class)
+mongol_rus = {
+	color = rgb{ 80 100 50 }
+	religion = volga_orthodox
+	heritage = heritage_slavic
+	language = language_east_slavic
+
+	obsessions = { meat }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Batu Temur Mongke Berke Tokhta Jani Nogai
+		Ivan Dmitri Vasily Pyotr Mikhail Alexei
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Olga Anastasia Maria Tatyana Borte Khulan
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Bat-Noyon Tumur-Bek Orda-Beg
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Batov Temurov Ordynsky Nogayev
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Bat-Ogedei Bat-Jochi
+	}
+}
+
+# Novgorod Rus (诺夫哥罗德人)
+novgorod_rus = {
+	color = rgb{ 100 120 80 }
+	religion = orthodox
+	heritage = heritage_slavic
+	language = language_east_slavic
+
+	obsessions = { meat }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Alexander Yaroslav Mstislav Vsevolod Dmitri Andrei Boris
+		Nikita Pavel Fyodor Grigory Semyon
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Olga Maria Anna Yelena Sophia Daria
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Posadnikov Tysyatsky Boyarin
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Novgorodsky Ilmensky Ladogin
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Rurikovich
+	}
+}
+
+# Ukrainian (乌克兰人 — emerging identity)
+ukrainian = {
+	color = rgb{ 50 100 150 }
+	religion = volga_orthodox
+	heritage = heritage_slavic
+	language = language_east_slavic
+
+	obsessions = { grain }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Taras Bogdan Ostap Dmytro Mykola Petro Ivan Oleksiy
+		Stepan Hryhoriy Vasyl Andriy Maksym
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Oksana Halyna Daryna Iryna Kateryna Nadiya
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Khmelnytsky Mazepa Doroshenko Sagaidachny
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Shevchenko Kovalenko Bondarenko Tkachenko Melnyk
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Khmelnytsky Doroshenko
+	}
+}
+
+# Mongol-Magyar (蒙古马扎尔人 — Hungarian Plain)
+mongol_magyar = {
+	color = rgb{ 130 90 50 }
+	religion = volga_orthodox
+	heritage = heritage_uralic
+	language = language_ugric
+
+	obsessions = { meat }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Bela Arpad Temur Batu Istvan Laszlo Janos
+		Mongke Sandor Gyorgy Miklos
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Ilona Borte Erzsebet Margit Katalin
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Bat-Magyar Arpadov Turul-Beg
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Batfi Arpadfi Kunfi Magyarov
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Bat-Arpad
+	}
+}
+
+# Illyrian (伊利里亚人 — unified South Slavic)
+illyrian = {
+	color = rgb{ 100 130 170 }
+	religion = orthodox
+	heritage = heritage_slavic
+	language = language_south_slavic
+
+	obsessions = { meat }
+	traditions = { }
+
+	male_common_first_names = {
+		Milos Dusan Lazar Vuk Marko Branko Nikola Petar
+		Stjepan Ivan Josip Ante Franjo
+	}
+	female_common_first_names = {
+		Milica Mara Jelena Katarina Ana
+	}
+	noble_last_names = {
+		Nemanjic Brankovic Lazarevic Kotromanovic
+	}
+	common_last_names = {
+		Petrovic Jovanovic Markovic Nikolic Horvat
+	}
+	dynasty_names = {
+		Nemanjic Brankovic
+	}
+}