Talk:Keshik (Age of Empires II)/@comment-94.114.73.205-20191116212459/@comment-2003:DB:F709:7F1C:8144:E6C8:B574:E96F-20191219151728

I tend to agree (->"no reason"), but rather because of the fact, how many other civs are still missing from the game, that may deserve consideration, before all these Turkpeoples (Bulgarians & Kipchaks) and Tatars (=Mongols; Tatar actually was their etonym until the royal family made their historians retroactively change that. They were called "Tatars" everywhere they appeared; esp. in China, which has the oldest record on behalf of that.)

PS: To be a bit more accurate, though: the "Tatars" in game rather seem to pertain to the turk people which got swallowed up in the mongolian horde and took on their old Etonym for themselves, when they tried to recreate that conquest generations later (so even more turk people! - because there were no turks in the game to begin with!). If, however, they are solely to be identified with the Timurids, they, again, are a doubling of already existing civs (in game) as the so calleds "Indians" are actually just the Moghul*-empire, which roots back to the Timur just as well.


 * ) in case that sounds a bit like "Mongol" - well: shucks! - that's no coincidence, either...