
The last chieftain of the Ripuarian Franks, Sigobert the Lame, joined forces with Clovis I, who rallied the Franks against the Alemanni and reunited the Frankish tribes. The Ripuarians, given an impetus towards social unity by the Roman-administered city, were increasingly relied upon to provide protection for the empire, serving as a buffer against the more warlike tribes to the east. In 310 AD, the Emperor Constantine had a bridge built across the Rhine at Cologne to facilitate trade with them. Beyond being an annoyance, the Ripuarians were among the most peaceful of Rome's neighbors. Primarily a pastoral people, the Ripuarian Franks lived in small settlements and homesteads along the west bank of the Rhine, supporting themselves by fishing and hunting along with the occasional raid on Roman holdings. This brought a split in the Franks into the Ripuarian Franks (the first group) and the Salian Franks (the second). In the 3rd Century AD, some Franks raided Roman territories along the river, while others migrated into the empire and settled in Gaul. More information and the first previews will come very soon, so stay tuned for that.The Franks were a tenuous confederation of Germanic tribes settled in a strip of land along the right bank of the Lower Rhine, the border of Rome in Germania.

In this thread I intend to post the progress towards the release of a Migrational Era mod for CK3.
