I just searched up “monaspa aoe2” hoping to find the official render with red coloration, and this is what came up:
Red circle is the official render; purple circle is my mockup from a few years ago.
I now understand why people were confused seeing my user blog posts on the wiki about a Caucasus expansion back when TMR first leaked. I seemed to have predicted it pretty well, and considering my updated concept came out maybe about six months before the real thing, it looks a lot like some kind of insider info.
Fortunately, I don’t think I’ll have to worry about that with my Oceania concepts, because no one other than me really wants it to happen or thinks it will.