Reconciles the ~30 inconsistent heritage proposals from the 6-sector #1016
content pass into one canonical cultural_specialization heritage vocabulary
(47 values). Key reconciliations: norse_compact->nordic (un-fuses people from
faction), spanish_iberian+spanish_hispanic->spanish, brazilian_portuguese+
lusophone_frontier->brazilian, italian_northern->italian, afrikaans_cape->
afrikaans, french_provencal+french_canadian->french. No compound values; one
token per system (blends take dominant heritage or the cosmopolitan activity
value).
Maintainer decisions (2026-06-01): keep ALL values distinct (no lumping —
welsh/afro_brazilian/cape_malay/xhosa/luxembourgish/konkan all retained);
keep empty-but-complete slots (yoruba/hausa/hungarian/persian/turkic). Fills
the Middle-East gap the pass exposed: arab/persian/turkic added even at near-
zero current usage so the canon is complete.
Logs the southern-African overrepresentation (~25/300, afrikaans=15) as a DLC
content-rewrite rebalancing task (#1019) rather than lumping the taxonomy.
Migration note included: 4 already-shipped hero cultural values use old suffix
forms (afrikaans_cape, french_provencal, italian_northern, norse_compact) and
will be renamed in the culture-write pass when _CULTURAL_HERITAGE is replaced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>