Several Realms, most notably the Sassanid and Parthian Empires, are missing. The Deccan Empire will appear only in the last possible start date (The Hundred Years War) in 1337. The successor Mongol Empires of the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate and the Chagatai appear at the end of 1227. Borders seem to change the day before the start-date of a bookmark (or before the start date of the vanilla time-slider), so- for example- the Byzantine Empire retains it's Iron Century bookmark throughout the reign of Basil II and right up until 1066. The Mongol Empire appears on the map when starting after 1206 and may also spawn as a horde from 1210 if playing from earlier start dates. The further I went back in time, the more Realms shrank and/or just flat-out disappeared, with the Byzantines being one of the last to go (in the first and second centuries AD it's basically just Constantinople) fittingly enough, though, the Roman Emperors are coded as Byzantine. With Umbra Spherae, only the Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties are depicted as having land of their own at the later end of the time-slider, the Ming should have risen up and overthrown the Yuan in the late 1300s, but didn't for some reason, and Wang Mang, the Eastern Han, the Three Kingdoms, the Jin, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Sui are entirely absent from the earlier starting dates. I had both Umbra Spherae (which adds Greenland, Vinland, more of west Africa, China, Korea, and Japan) and Any Time Any Place (1 AD to 1453) loaded, and I noticed several details regarding how the map interacted with the time-frame:
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