This discussion is stupid pants. Like all the other SJW crybaby posts around here that call for more inclusion and diversity, which blemish what should be a gloriously based game.
Let's shut everyone up with a pretty simple bit of research you can all do yourselves. Ready?
Load up the game. Look at the map.
WHERE are you going to fit your "african based" faction? Going to squeeze them in with the Aserai? You want a whole new continent added, even further away from the core imperial lands? All for a faction, that quite frankly, few people are going to be interested in playing as?
I really think some of you have no idea just how much work goes into the core systems of a game like this, let alone what an undertaking it would be to add an entire new faction to satisfy your ideals of representing every color of the rainbow in every piece of media you happen to come across.
I bet you've never played Mount & Blade.
Pretty simple, you can all do yourself. Ready ?
Have a look at M&B map.
WHERE are you going to fit the Sarranid ? Going to squeeze them in with the Khergits ? You want a whole new land add... oh wait, that's exactly what they did with Warband....
And since we are here, we all know between you and me that the whole area between the Khuzaits and the Aserai is very sparse, maybe it's intended by design and I get that, but could host a whole faction with ease. ( given they don't modify at all the map )
I don't know what to think about your conclusion, this topic is pretty much a " what if " suggestion type, I think your mind is a little bit lost if you see a rainbow of ideals on that suggestion.
Do you review anything you write before you hit the post button? Adding something for no other reason than its not being represented anywhere else is the exact definition of political representation.
Nordic tribes exist in this game in the form of the Sturgians. Even if you want to split hairs and say that they are not really nords and we need a faction that is plainly named nords, the geography is already right there and it makes sense in the context of the game.
Adding a whole new continent is not the same as having another race of nordic people in the snowy part of the map. Your comparison is pretty dumb.
Think before you type. This isnt your liberal college classroom where you can spew whatever sounds nice and people wont hold you to task. Some of us are actually thinking adults and fed up with all the SJW crap.
Not quite.
Sturgians are based on Eastern Nords / Scandinavians, the so called Varangians that settled on modern-day Ukraine and Russia ( edit : around the modern day Baltic Countries before, obviously ) , and blended to the Slavs tribes to put in short, creating Kiev afterwards.
Lore-wise the "true" Nords come from another land outside of Calradia if my memory serves well.
Truth has been spoken.
