The main struggle of Old Cumbria's waning days is captured in praise poems to one of their kings, Urien Rheged. 'Lloegr-men (Englishmen) know him, as they will report: death's what they get and pain a-plenty.' It's a glorious impression he's left behind, but there's something mournful behind the martial swagger: King Urien was among the last Romano-Brythonic rulers still resisting the Anglo-Saxons. This article really does mean no injury to members of mentioned religions and cultures, whether they absorbed others or were themselves consumed. And many people strive to keep their traditional ways alive or to light anew the lost flames of diverse lifeways. It bears mentioning that few cultures and religions are truly 'gone.' Many old ideas live in modern peoples and modern faiths.
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Crusader Kings 3, in its own specific, lurid way, forges little connections between modern gamers and lost peoples of the medieval past. Countless small faiths and cultures have been consumed over the centuries some peacefully absorbed, others at sword's tip. The strong prey on the weak the majority prey on the minority. If Crusader Kings 3 teaches anything, it's that both history and humanity can be horribly cruel. The stories of civilization and CK3 are so often of powerful men securing offerings to the bloodthirsty altars of power and glory.
