Hel of Dim Forest

== Bio ==
Hel of Dim Forest was the most successful province in the history of utopia. The province was played by Queen Diana in the Kingdom Ragnorak (10:9) on the World of Utopia server in Age 10.
Below are Hel of Dim Forest's stats at January 13th, 2001 (2:00 GMT), after the province had taken many attacks and shrunk from its earlier size of around 140k acres. 
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The Province of Hel of Dim Forest (10:9) as of January 21 of YR11	The Province of Hel of Dim Forest (10:9) as of January 21 of YR11	The Province of Hel of Dim Forest (10:9) as of January 21 of YR11	The Province of Hel of Dim Forest (10:9) as of January 21 of YR11	The Province of Hel of Dim Forest (10:9) as of January 21 of YR11
 Race 	  Human 	 	Soldiers 	  1,425 
 Ruler 	  Queen Diana 	 	Swordsmen 	  0 
 Land 	  81,854  	 	Archers 	  396,046 
  (1,188,138 defense)
 Peasants 	  22,699,458 	 	Knights 	  5,664,150
  (28,320,750 offense), 
  (22,656,600 defense)
Jobs 	  1,588,962 	 	Thieves 	  561,648  
  (6.86 per acre)
Utilization 	  110% 	 	Wizards 	  33,631 (95%) 
  (0.41 per acre)
 Money 	  511,272,547gc 	 	War-Horses 	  2
 Food 	  5,282,529 bushels 	 	Prisoners 	  0
 Runes 	  81.306 runes 	 	Off. Points 	  28,322,177
  (346.01 per acre)
 Networth 	  100,603,292
  (1,229.06 per acre) 	 	Def Points 	  23,846,163
  (291.33 per acre)
Diana identified that the fame system gave for fame for attacks based on relative land size and thata province could use raze attacks (which in age 10 destroyed buildings) to increase their fame without growing in land. The fame system system also had no tiers or caps; each 500 fame gained beyond the initial 1,000 gave +2% population, +2% military strength, +2% income, +2% thievery effectiveness, +2% magic effectiveness, +1 vote for monarchy. Diana selected a human province which in age 10 had double bonuses from fame.
Hel of Dim Forest started the age by razing provinces around her size, with some growth up to 1,000 acres. Due to her increases in fame she was able to raze larger provinces, causing even larger fame gains. She continued this approach until she had enough fame that she could raze any other province on the server four times. While still at 1000 acres the province had approximately 2 million networth and around 200,000 fame. This fame gave the province +5016% bonuses to population, income, military strength and magic and thievery effectiveness.
With these bonuses in place Diana switched to focus on growth, exploring and attacking provinces larger then her, until she had outgrown all the other provinces on the server. Once out of range she focused solely on exploring. At peak size the province had around 140,000 acres, and passed 100 million networth; the only ever province to break these two landmarks.
Diana's approach was considered novel and some thought it was abuse to use game mechanics in this unintended way. Mehul deliberately programmed a bug into the game code, meaning provinces lost troops biased towards the number of troops defending. At peak size the province had over 600,000 archers, and near to 6 million knights, so from this point she lost huge numbers of troops for each failed attack on her, even smaller failed attacks.
Soon other top provinces realised that using this bug they could bring down Hel of Dim Forest's defense and around two weeks before the end of the age a campaign grew among the top 100 for provinces to send 1 soldier attacks against her. The rest of the top prov's (including Skrazhttps://discord.com/channels/398211456174260224/401802780483911691/1165498619810549792 on 03/04/24) started sending bounce attacks at her until they could break her defences. Hundreds of attacks were launched against her on a daily basis, with each one killing thousands of knights. The province's networth began to drop and other kingdom's attempted to get as many provinces as possible to attack, to lower the province's defense.
The second largest province that age, Hully, had copied the same strategy to build fame and grow in size like Hel of Dim Forest. The two provinces did have an NAP agreement between them, however once Hel of Dim Forest was attacked to within range of Hully he launched a surprise attack. His offensive bonuses were similar to those of Hel of Dim Forest, due to similarly large amounts of fame and he acted at the chance of gaining acres and possibly overtaking Hel of Dim Forest.
Hully's attacks were the largest Utopia had seen, the first attack was for over 16,000 acres, the second was for 9,000 acres, the third 6,000 acres and the fourth 5,000 acres. Overall, 36,000 of attacks were made on Hel of Dim forest in under 5 minutes, with over 100,000 fame transferred. 
Diana realised that to make the attacks Hully had effectively suicided, leaving his province with minimal defense. She and her kingdom mates retaliated, rocketing one of the provinces to finish twelfth in the fame charts as a result of the fame gains from the grab. Other provinces and Kingdoms noticed Hel of Dim Forest's sudden loss in acres and Hully's suicide and followed up with more attacks on Hully, taking many of his acres and much of his accumulated fame. 
Hel of Dim Forest was untroubled for the rest of the age. The other provinces who may have been within her reach, Dream of Rain particularly, who ended up top of the fame rankings, did not attack her. Hel of Dim Forest explored back some of the lost acres and spent most of the rest of the time recovering and rebuilding her province. She ended the age top of the chart for both networth and land, and fourth for fame.
== Achievements ==
* highest province land - 140khttps://discord.com/channels/398211456174260224/401802780483911691/682395693654212648 on 03/04/24 acre peak
* highest province NW,
* highest NW/A ever (at over 1000 NW/A)
== Associated Kingdoms and Alliances ==
Ragnorak
== Controversies ==
Hel of Dim Forest was one of the first leading provinces who didn't finish the age at her peak networth and land. The deliberate bug Mehul is the only known time that game mechanics have been intentionally altered by the developers to alter the outcome of an age. Without the bug it is unlikely others would have been able to bridge the vast lead Diana had created between herself and other provinces and she would almost certainly have explored away into the distance, and reached 150 million networth, maybe even 200 million.https://web.archive.org/web/20021223125843/http://www.avidgamers.com/honourandvalour/hv.age10.html on 03/04/24