Snakegarden

== History ==
=== Founding ===
The island of Snakegarden was first settled by Simulami colonists after their ship crashed on its shores during a bad storm. Upon investigation it was revealed the island used to be home to a settlement of squatters, who had left the place in a horrible state of disrepair. It had been recklessly plundered for resources with no concern for the damage done to the surroundings.
Many of the colonists decided to leave, using what resources were left on the island to build a new ship.
The colonists that remained, mostly elves, decided they could not leave the island in such a state of disarray and began working on healing the wounds of its past. This group was led by LazySnake, who would later officially settle the island’s first and only town.
Others that made up the original inner circle were LazySnake’s sister Val, a Golemeni by the name of RockChan, a miner and fisher named ExtremEnder and a settler named Arachnophile.
=== Second Generation ===
The town's history between the first and second generations is fuzzy and to a degree unknown. What is known is that Lavidol sailed to the city of Snakegarden to see what was in store. Lavidol sent their mayor at the time, Maz. E. Ironhide, to scout it and he found the mayor LazySnake on the island alone. With the promises of protection and tax payments, Snakegarden pledged loyalty to the foreigner and was now under it's protection, and as well became part of the Simulami Empire. After Lazy died, Maz appointed Dr. MeTKiver as the new mayor, changing hands for the town.
=== Third Generation ===
Dr. Kiver led the island well as Maz guided him along, but as time went on Kiver slowly came to disagree with a few of the Simulmai Empire's decisions, to which he decided to leave the town and sail on his own from the island. Before he left however, he took his second hand, Dalek of Labesh, and for a time trained him to become a mayor of the town. Even though he does not run the town, he occasionally visits to see Dalek and Maz, to see how the town progresses and mainly to see the nostalgia he once helped with.
=== Fourth Generation ===
Dalek started implementing buildings such as trash collection center which every Saturday collects the waste from the citizens and the town's projects. In honor of Kiver's mayorship, the Kiver Komplex was built as a library for books to be published and showcased in. However, Dalek disappeared under unknown circumstances during March of 2021, leading Maz to hold control over the island town once again. In September, Dalek was once seen again, unknown how he appeared back. During the week of his return, he was reintroduced to the town by Maz and Kiver, showing the progress of Lavidol, Stormgova, and Snakegarden. After the week, he was reinstated as mayor and continued progress in redesigning a few points of the town, at least in plans and paying overdue taxes. However once again, Dalek disappeared from the town, only this time he last spotted going into the town's mine. 
After a month of the disappearance, Dalek was never the same. He built a few more buildings, recruited more residents, then in a state of alteration he officially gave up his power to rule the island. He moved to the land of Rathnir for a bit, but starting in December of 2022, he returned to Snakegarden with newer and more dangerous ideas. First order of business in this new mindset was the total control of the island and its resources, violating his original message of giving up his term. Dalek tore down the Dulaborist temple that stayed on the island for so long and replaced it with a new temple for Humanic. This effectively killed the religion. Plans Dalek would later proceed with included doing massive excavation under the island and removing the Drakonian forests for benefits. These plans went wayward as Dalek instead setup a wall on Drakonian territory and unofficially claimed it for Snakegarden. From this, there was little to work with no ability to actually mayor. 
Unfortunately, the fourth generation was on its decline. With high citizen inactivity and a disappointed mayor, Dalek quit and moved to Kazkaya, leaving the island unattended. At this point it remains as a town of a little island in the Simulami Empire. 
== Post-Mayorship ==
As the island remained in dead inactivity, in April of 2023, Simulami and Drakkenheim made a deal for Simulami to sell the island to them for 600k. The result was that by the end of April, the island was traded over to Drakkenheim and the island was renamed to Dragons_Essence. However, the unfortunate part of this was that 80% of the island's buildings, whether it be infrastructure, houses, or the temple, was destroyed and flattened. The only remaining buildings remained was LazySnake's castle, the original boat of the first colonists, and a lone house in the corner of the island. Buildings such as the many houses, the Kiver Komplex, then Brewery, and the temple were removed. 
== Sociology ==
Snakegarden was not part of any real culture until the Simulami Elven settlers. These squatters who inhabited it have been named as the Snaki Tribals by the Kiver Komplex researchers. These settlers were mingled with the incoming Lavidolian adventurers, who not only changed the demographic, but the island's works as they officially became Simulami. Since then, little has changed in demographics. However, human and elf ratios have changed as the elves essentially no longer inhabit the island. 
== Religion ==
On it's official founding, Snakegarden was home to the religion of Dulaborism, with it's founder being LazySnake7 himself. The religion has remained on the island since, but has only stayed on the island with no known other towns who adopted the faith. This became it's downfall as outside religions began to wedge into the island, influencing newer residents until the old traditions became problematic. An alpha plan version to change the Dulaboristic temple to a Soleannen one was in the works, it failed due to no follow ups. This bought it time, until it ultimately fell once the mayor, themasterdalek, removed and banned the religion from the island, replacing it with Humanic to have similar statuses to Lavidol. From then on the town followed a foreign faith. After the Simulami-Drakkenheim trade agreement of the island, the religion is in limbo due to the temple being removed and the majority of the Humanic faith population leaving. The faith of the island is assumingly Humanic, but not to a noticeable degree. 
Category:Towns
Category:Simulami
Category:Traveler's Era