Development history of the Azdateverse

The development history of the Azdateverse encompasses the genesis of the universe and is not to be confused with the timeline that covers the events of the in-universe history.
The Azdateverse has its roots in the Azdate Pact's Roleplay that began in 2018 which was and still is a roleplay game played by the Azdate Pact's members. In the Roleplay (short: RP, hence the designation of the Azdateverse as "das RP" in the Azdate Pact), every member impersonates a nation and simulates its politics, trying to expand the country through diplomacy and/or warfare. In the past (until early 2021), this roleplaying took place mainly in the Azdate Pact's discord through conversations where the member used their countries' flags (or a similar looking ones) and English text to roleplay. This was similar to how a conversation would take place in a typical mapping video.
In the beginning, the roleplay was based on OTL, with predetermined changes like Atlantis (Zarexium), meaning that the countries' didn't have an alternate history before 2018/19 and if they had these were just some small backstories to make some events of the RP possible or more realistic. In fact, most events took place in a relative short amount of time, for example in 2019 Italy was roughly like OTL's Italy however in 2020 it had already formed Rome (encompassing Italy, France, Romania, Portugal and Spain). This, of course, didn't make much sense, so the Azdate Pact, especially Cody and Zarexium, began to retroactively change the history of the RP to create a more realistic scenario for the creation of Rome, amongst other events. Nevertheless, these changes only included a small part of the world, mainly the players' nations and in most instances members like Jugo, Patceran or Zarexium just imported the history of their countries into the RP from their own series or Mapperdonia.
Throughout the roleplaying age of the Azdateverse, most events happened to achieve a goal (e.g. reunification of Rome) or because of disputes over territories (like Malta, Gibraltar or Friuli). Most of these disputes became soon known as crises and formed the backbone of the Azdateverse lore. To this day, most of the happenings of the roleplaying age are an integral part of the Azdateverse lore as most of them were either adapted identically or with some adjustments to fit the currently established lore. Major events that were adapted into the lore are the Friuli and Gibraltar crises, the Helvetian and Black Sea Wars, the 2020 terror attacks and more. An event that didn't make it into the currently established lore is the Malta Crisis due to timeline and lore issues and the Azdate Pact forgetting about it.
The currently established lore (CEL) is the current state of the Adzateverse. Due to the Azdateverse being a work in progress, the CEL is prone to retcons, irregular reworks of the lore that change the history or events of the Azdateverse. This means that the CEL of March 2021 differs greatly from the CEL of December 2021 which again differs from the CEL of December 2022 and so on and so forth. CELs, usually recorded by dated maps, do have names and can be seen as versions of the lore (e.g. "Azdate 31.12.2023 (nervige Weihnachtsmusik)" is the latest CEL). In the Azdateverse and the Azdate Pact in general, changes to are made unanimously and if not possible by majority decisions via voting. The Azdateverse and AP are therefore consensus democratic.