List of Genocides on Stoneworks

This article is a list of genocides conducted on the Stoneworks Minecraft server. Being a history simulator, Stoneworks has moments where player communities brutally suppress and destroy each other. We wish to record and respect the historical memory of players who were violently displaced and forced off of the server. 
The term "Genocide" takes on a very specific definition due to Minecraft characters respawning, it is not as simple as the mass killing or ethnic cleansing of a community of players. The term "genocide" here applies to the highest form of destroying a community on the server: taking and plundering a community's land claims, erasing their culture and identity, displacing its players, and causing many to leave the server entirely. The perpetrators of these events may be considered in-game war criminals.
This page is for recording actual events in the server's history, however, entries may be written in its lore context. For example- StoneyStoner really used commands and tools to kill many Rathnirian villagers after removing their ability to spawn and trade, but this event is recorded in its lore framing.
== Definitions & Disclaimers ==
==== Technical Definition ====
In this context, the term "Genocide" denotes a single event or process where one group forcibly expels another group off their lands and causes many of the victim players to leave the server (retirement / character death). These events are often the most emotionally traumatic events for players and communities on the server. 
An event like this should only be considered a genocide if: it has 30+ victim players, OR it upends / destroys an entire group of 10+ players, AND the victim group are not newbie squatters. You cannot genocide squatters, because they have not yet created a community
An event is not considered a genocide if it is a result of inactivity, staff punishment, or a group fracturing itself apart.
==== Disclaimers ====
The use of the term "genocide" here does not mean to cheapen the horrific trauma and impact of real life atrocities, but serves to emphasize these acts as the most extreme form of violence in our history simulation game. Defense or celebration of real genocides and their perpetrators is strictly prohibited on Stoneworks. 
While it is appropriate to out-of-character condemn overly aggressive or excessively metagaming play styles, players should not be toxic to the perpetrators of these "genocides". These events are only disruptive to online digital communities, and the strength of their psychological harm is a proportional to players' attachment to their in-game communities/nations. Many players have reported that undergoing these stressful simulated-traumatic situations have fused their groups into inseparable friendships, who remain friends regardless of their presence or history on Stoneworks. 
==== Entry Formatting ====
Each event should be written with the following:
The Name of the Event (subheading 2)
* Victims- real life number and list of remembered usernames
* Perpetrators
* Dates
* Historical reasons and context
* Links to wiki pages and resources
* Notes
== Rathnir ==
==== Emen's Genocide of the Villagers ====
* Victims: Hundreds - Thousands of Villagers in Rathnir
* Perpetrators: StoneyStoner
* September 20 - 25, 2020 (Late in the Jagdasian Era - 0 TE)
* StoneyStoner (also identified as the demonic "Emen" by the Villagers of the Makerist faith) was the first player to leave the collapsing Jagdas into Rathnir. He disabled villager breeding and trading, and then murdered hundreds of them personally. He used leads to tie hordes of hostile mobs to himself and sweeping over all of Rathnir's land "like a cloud of villainous destruction". He kept several villager librarians alive as captive slaves in order to record their mythology and oral history in The Player's Book. StoneyStoner claims to have acted on behalf of three gods that told him he needed to clear the native villager population from Rathnir in order to make room for the incoming Jagdasians, but this story is strongly contested. After this, the low population of remnant villagers went into hiding in Rathnir's caves and wilderness, until approximately 250 TE, when they began forming larger communities on Rathnir and Eldham, much to the annoyance of StoneyStoner. In 319, after a long saga of questing during the War of the Comet, the Villagers were able to obtain a Paxian Bow that could kill StoneyStoner, and the Villager Twerkish killed him at the Battle of Evermore Bridge.
* StoneyStoner, Villager Lore, War of the Comet, Makerism
==== Poaching of the Turtlonia ====
* Victims: Turtlonians of the Isle of Tessel- 7-10 people, Grandpa_Boob, AProfileName, 600Cows, Ham62, Scooter961, RipeSack, ThePit_, etc.
* Perpetrators: the first Etscharien Empire
* September 30 - October 9 2020 (1 - 3 TE)
* The first conflict in Rathnir's history broke out between Turtlonia and Etscharien due to their polar opposite political-religious views. Etscharien's political identity of its Divine Emperor was dependent on sun-god worship, while the Turtlonians worship a void god. The proximity of their capitals and competing religious views led to war, and the Etschariens defeating and annihilating the Turtlonians and annexing their island.
* Turtlonia, The Turtle Wars, Gruhism, the Final Turtlonian War
* This story was StoneyStoner's first Minecraft video on youtube channel- here
==== Ryzani Republican Pogroms ====
* Victims: Dwarves of Erebor and Nebskoslavians
* Perpetrators: Leaders of Ryzan, ___Thinker___ and ___Athos___
* December 2020 - April 2021
* Sporadic violence in the unstable Ryzani nation often led to the multiple instances of displacement and expulsion of minority groups in Ryzan. This period was extremely turbulent for Ryzan and saw ethnic hatreds arise, especially because many of these minorities saught independence, and were blamed for the conflict.
* History of Acts of Violence in Ryzan (Erebor and Nebskoslavia are the only two that fall under this page's definition, and were perpetrated by Ryzan.
==== Rextown Massacre ====
* Victims: 10-20 players in Rextown: Turtlekingcam, Spaceman220, Cyberminer1201, Vortex879, LudwigsSword, Stimar, 6Glizzy_guzzler9
* Perpetrators: Republic of Bardonia and some Trillium allies
* January 6, 2021
* Rextown and Bardonia began conflicting in chat because the Bardonians found Rextown to be scummy and annoying. Things escalated when Rextown scammed a beloved player, GreenTomato5, out of 15,000$. GreenTomato5 declared war on them, and Rextown besieged his home of Yanren. Players BacktotheHub and Dex_Og showed up and killed the Rextopians, and then rallied their nations to attack their home in Rextown. After defeating them at their home, they pillaged the town and literally buried it under dirt and gravel. The Rextopians soon fled the server until making a brief, but ill-fated resurgence the next summer. 
* Rextown, The Netherite War, Bardonia
* The prevailing political attitude after this was that the Rextopians deserved it, even in the polarized world preceding the Trillium war, due to their edgy humor and scamming of GreenTomato5.
==== West March Genocide ====
* Victims: ~ 30 Citizens and leaders of Ryzan
* Perpetrators: Unicornboi, Third Bardonian Empire 
* July 2021
* During the height of Bardonian imperialism, the Prophet invaded and subjugated their neighbor of Ryzan. Bardonia set up a puppet government with Ryzani collaborators and suppressing nationalist resistance from the southern Ryzanis and northern Nebskoslavians. In that suppression, many players were killed and expelled from their homeland.
* West March War, Third Empire of Bardonia, Tsardom of Westreach, Free Ryzan, History of Acts of Violence in Ryzan
==== Aetherian Genocide ====
* Victims: 15-20 Aetherians
* Perpetrators: Chevkri Government, Areus Government
* November 5th - December 3rd 2021
* As the regional state of Umbria was replaced by Areus, and the land was placed under a government hostile to it's native population, the Areusi intended to genocide the Aetherians and replace them with their own people, creating settlements and expelling locals out of those areas along with undertaking massacres that were highly publicized in the land of Gigney. This oppression until the Northern Uprising.
==== Rohelian Genocide ====
* Victims: The Rohelians, a region/province/independent kingdom of Kartek- 30-40 people, Vashonn, Axpa, SupremeLordTito, MAKji, Legokiller, etc.
* Perpetrators: the Kartek Caliphate
* January 7-8, 2022 (117 TE)
* After a series of civil wars and invasions, Kartek became a society dominated by mistrust and violence. During the final of many periods of regional fracturing, Kartek supported Loic's side of the weighty conflict in nearby Viodoxa, Loic's March of the Exiles, and the Rohelians supported the other. After Loic's side won the second battle of Viodoxa City, the Karteki attacked Rohel's largest city at Moonburg. After winning the battle, the Karteki exiled the vast majority of Rohelians southeast to the land of Ecclesia, leaving only 4 citizens behind in Moonburg. After this, they attacked and looted the city of Portusburg, expelling a few other citizens there. This event became a contributing factor to the later continental Kartek-Ecclesia war
* This story is recorded in StoneyStoner's video here
==== Kharakese Genocide ====
* Victims: Kharakeseler & Shender Encan peoples (roughly +10)
* Perpetrators: Berkan,Erdin Warendrop, Caeli, James West (Volandian/Chalonese Puppet)
* Dates: April 20, 2022-July 2022
* The Kharakese & Encan peoples lived side by side in the Altepetl of Kharakesestan in peace until the arrival of the Chalonese. The Chalonese were a barbarian tribe of human supremacists that squatted in Aurlurnor before being driven to Huitca. Seeing potential, Warendrop, Duke of Volandia, welcomed them with open arms and invited them to stay. The Khan of Kharakesestan tried to make peace with the Chalonese at first, until being rebuffed by Phunter as he was a bigot pagan that hated all religions except for Lux and he despised the Kharakese for their “savage” orcish ways. As relations worsened, both Phunter and Warendrop conspired against the Kharakese and their community behind the backs of the Khan. Waren, not caring about Chalonese bigotry, used them as a tool to harass the Kharakese and fan the flames between the two, especially considering that Huitca was collapsing. The Volandians abused the trust of the Khan as he lay dying & that of Vizier Ushmadand before putting a pretender on the Throne that was loyal to both Chalon and the Volandians. Motivated by a hatred of the Orcish and religious practices of the Kharakese, the Chalonese launched a genocidal campaign against the Kharakese and the Encan people, driving them from the Holy Land of Kharakesestan. The Chalonese, renaming themselves to Berkan, further cemented their grip on the Holy Land by getting the aid of the Caelites. Caeli, emboldened by their hatred of the Huitca and those that cast their lot with them, sent longboats to secure Kharakesestan and prevent the Kharakese who weren’t massacred in the initial invasion by Berkanese/Chalonese forces, from returning home. With the majority of the Kharakese people either slain or driven off through repeated Chalonese harassment prior, Caeli and her allies despoiled the land and salted the earth. Surviving Kharakese would hold a grudge on Caeli and Berkan until the end of Rathnir, launching raids from the North on horseback to avenge their fallen people.
* Links to wiki pages and resources
* Notes: Surviving Kharakese left for realms unknown or fled North to Bradecblight and tried to rebuild. The Encan people were destroyed wholesale, with the Encan Shrine and brewery completely demolished.
== Eldham ==
==== Ellysian Genocide ====
* Victims: members of the Ellysian Empire- 10-20 people, Thas, Runik, Miho, Valerion, D_Loaded, ujustgoteezed etc.
* Perpetrators: Eldham's Second Coalition under player Viewed_: Regnum Drakaes, USSE, Drak Yamar, Rodinnbrok, Avaria, UK Plagatea, Mercurian Republic
* June 20-22, 2021 (67 TE)
* Initially resulting from the Ellysian Empire's large and strong territorial claims of Eldham's northeast, a coalition of 5+ nations defeated them in war. Ellysian leadership soon after broke the original war treaty, and its leader made transphobic comments against one of the leaders of the first coalition. Viewed_ then rallied a coalition of 7+ nations to attack Ellysia once again, which ended with the community's dissolution, exile and banning of some of its leadership, and carving up of its territory. Small wars and skirmishes with Ellysian remnant groups followed, but they were soon driven out as well. The near entirety of the actual division of Ellysia and following policy of ethnic erasure was planned by Xeroise, intending to completely drive transphobes off the server. The only survivors were those who agreed with Xeroise to leave, forming the country of Taernsbia.
* This was the first major conflict in Eldham's history. The prevailing political attitude after this was that the Ellysians deserved it, supposedly for their territorial aggression and bigotry.
==== Expulsion of the Uraki Goblins ====
* Victims: ~20 goblin minority players in Canaan (Binklebottom and Lymedisease)
* Perpetrators: The "Cave Jews" of Canaan
* June 2021
* The leaders of Canaan gave ultimatums to a few Goblin towns in southwestern Canaan to join their religion of "Cave Judaism", after they refused, a war broke out where the Canaanites attacked the Goblin towns, looted, and burned them. The Goblins were forced across the sea and founded the first few towns in the swamps and forests, naming it "Urak" out of hatred for the "Cave Jew" Canaanites.
* Uraka
* The resettlement of the vestige goblins was the foundation of the Uraki culture, and later the Uraki Imperium
==== The Kuniri Massacres of Santos ====
* Victims: 10-30 victims (over two million in-lore)
* Perpetrators: Colony of Newkunir
* June 21st, 2021 - July 21st, 2021
* In the aftermath of the Invasion of Santos millions of Santonians were viciously attacked and slaughtered by Kuniri Colonists who massacred roughly thousands a Day. Meanwhile Sjankächa Imperium (Michael Imperium) attempted to keep the war effort going which was met with zero support by the International Community, instead the Kuniri Government gave the people of Santos reservation land far west and with the alternative being certain death, they took it. However their Journey was also met with hardship as the Santonians weren't give any protection by the Kuniri Government who allowed Soldiers to kill and rob Santonians who crossed their camps which led to many of them traveling at night or journeying off by sea for better lands. By the end of it, around two million Santonians were massacred with their bodies soon turning to dust the Kuniri Government attempted to hide all traces of the massacre after the Santonians settled into the Reservation Land.
====Great Humiliation of the USSE====
*Victims: 35-50 USSE citizens and communists, thousands in-lore.
*Perpetrators: The Kingdom of Anglunia and Colony of Newkunir
*July 8th - Early August, 2021
*In the aftermath of the Kunir War, territory previously belonging to the United Socialist States of Eldham (USSE) was divided and colonized by Vanakunir and Anglunia. As many as fifty-sixty players, including nearly the entire population of Kiurtrog, was displaced and forced Westwards into Ljordmir. Settlements including Garkogorod, Fort Morskoy, Laria, Crosotex, Kestchya, and Vostroya were completely abandoned. Crosotex, Fort Morskoy, and Garkogorod became outright ghost towns for most of the continued history of Eldham, while only Laria and Vostroya would be resettled after the land was taken back by the United Socialist States of Eldham roughly a month later. Only around a dozen USSE citizens from prior to the war remained active after the genocide and partition, it is very roughly estimated that the nation may have had around seventy citizens prior to the war.
====Koro Genocide====
*Victims: 10+ Koro players, and almost all Koro characters in-lore
*Perpetrators: The Confederation of Garxijos, chiefly players Buoyo and Robras
*September 30th - November 3rd, 2021
*Korosechev was a state created within the CoG by player crooser64 on September 6th following a public vote of approval utilizing the acquired land out west to create it. After creation, Korosechev gained an extremely strong identity and expressed it's desire for independence; with some states such as Gyeoul expressing support, but a majority of states being extremely opposed to. This lead to a gradual decline of Korosechev through systemic exclusion in society and the larger economy, until eventually an unconstitutional vote was held to dissolve Korosechev into government land without consulting the state government or it's citizens. Some protested the vote, but a majority supported it. The Koro players refused to acknowledge this, and the military was called into blockade and curfew the state capital of Orbiztan while soldiers hunted down remaining players. After this the genocide was largely over, with the land being taken and distributed among other states and Korosechev being completely written out of all records and documents, while the only remaining Koro player went into hiding.
*Koro Genocide
*Although the genocide was extremely successful, a fully independent Korosechev would later reappear following the Confederation's collapse only 2 months later and eventually going on to eclipse it's pre-genocide state in terms of players.
==== Drakaen Genocide in Valreach ====
* Victims: 15+ players in the nations of Valreach, Catania and New Yoake (famously: Delta, DJ, Zoot, The_Air_Ocelot, Angel, Random)
*Perpretators: The Valreach Imperial Realm and the Empire of Simulami
*June 26th - December 16th, 2022
*Following a final vote in the Drakaen Könbtrybund, the pan-drakaen confederation was dissolved and its members, Amarillo, Arthholds and Valreach became fully indepedent again. King Vix of the High Kingdom of Valreach, the nation in the Drakesland with the highest amount of ethnically Drakaen players decided to find a new overlord. Without agreement of the Government and Prime Minister at the time, he seeked a vassal agreement with Simulami. Several regions, the most pro-Drakaes ones, that had opposed the dissolution of the Kontrybund rebelled against the King. A Civil war followed, which ended with a loyalist victory with the help of Simulami and its allies. What followed was a full campaign by the Valrean government against any Drakaen heritage or trait. Several people were exiled or left Eldham. This wouldn't stop at Valreach. With the Valrean Awakening and Vixoism (later Solen Mandate) Valreach threw more campaigns to establish an ethno-state in the east of the Drakeslands. The first to fall was Catania, where the citizens preferred to raze their cities before seeing them under the Valrean banner. Most of the remaining Catanian players left or seeked a ban. Lastly, the exiles from the Civil War that gathered at New Yoake to assemble a new Kingdom were harrassed for months until a final ultimatum against their new union with Amarillo, The Twilight Empire, made them leave. Valreach took the state of New Yoake and declared that Valreach was a sole ethnicity, and began a process where they rewrote their history to eliminate as much as they could of their Drakaen heritage.
*Valreach Civil War, Twiligt Empire crisis, Valrean Awakening, Solen Mandate, First Dennouncement.
*The diverse region that was the Drakesland before June 2022 ended up in a perpetual polarised breach between the west and the east. Some players that were kicked of Valreach and Eldham ended up returning months or over a year later to other regions of the Drakesland. From the original Valreans that founded the nation, only perpetuator Vix was left after the previous events.
====Furry & Manzlander Genocide====
*Victims: 30-35 members of the Vulperium, anti-communist Manzlanders killed or displaced
*Perpetrators: The Eldham Alliance- Eldham Union (USSE), Scylding, Shirokaneza, Sylvania, Velerin, Paragon, Simulami, Ulfaeng
*August 11 - September 24 2022 (171 - 182 TE)
*The Eldham Alliance formed out of a complex web of geopolitical relationships and a series of grievances against the Vulperium. The alliance declared war on the Vulperium, most directly over their province of Manzig, which had raided the USSE, initiating a brutal war. After 4 battles, Manzig was captured by the USSE. The city of Manzig and the surrounding infrastructure of the region was completely destroyed by the Vulperium; causing Manzlanders to be expelled. Eventually, Vulperium's financial backers refused to finance the war any further. The Vulperium saw a great depopulation after this conflict, but was able to persist due to their dedicated (albeit diminished) leadership. Eventually, the Manzlanders returned to owning the town of Manzig as a historical site, still as the war-brutalized husk of its original town.
====Series of Lethean Purges====
*Victims: Over eighty residents of Kiurtrog, Kazkaya, and Kolssonafell who were suspected of being Xeroists/communists are killed or displaced. Many thousands of victims in-lore.
*Perpetrators: Realm of Laria, Manzland, and Sylvania
*October, 2022 - March 16th, 2024
*After the anti-communist revolt against the United Socialist States of Eldham by Lethe of Laria, over a dozen suspected communists or sympathizers with the USSE are expelled or killed by the anti-communist dictatorship in Laria and the Isle of Kiurtrog. Belongings were stolen by the Larian regime. Further expulsions and murders happen in Sylvanian Manzland of the Kolsson people and suspected communists there. Though largely bloodless, over five dozen people are displaced from Kazkaya and forced to flee into other cities and have their belongings stolen by the Sylvanians. In all of these places, the native languages were suppressed, signs of non-Sylvanian national identity were erased, and more. These lost territories were liberated in the Liberation War by the USSE, placing an end to the genocide. In the aftermath of the genocide, still-existing homes and belongings were repatriated to those who had been expelled. A little under a dozen people who were not in these areas during the genocide left the server outright after the chaos the Purges brought, frequently citing toxicity and stress.
==== The Iris Mariae Genocide ====
*Victims: The population of the City of Alzaria
*Perpetrators: The Imperial Archonate of Sylvania, by executive order of Archon Sanctus Andromache Xi (Luxsoria/SeperiorXi) and Archon Bellus Balerion Von Praestegia (Botilov).
*Late Summer 2023
*Initially conspiring to revolt from Sylvania and take as much land as they could in the process, the City of Alzaria had gathered a coalition against the Imperial Archonate and planned to death war the nation and divide up the land in the aftermath of a revolution. Their plans were leaked to the Sylvanian Archon Sanctus Andromache Xi, who vowed to take revenge on the nations involved. Alzaria attempted to surrender when their leaders fled the city in fear of retaliation after their plot was uncovered, leaving the population terrified of what was to come. Archon Andromache agreed to meet with them and discuss the terms of their surrender, seemingly amicable towards the population of the city and sympathetic towards their situation. Despite this, she ordered the entire population to be executed for "blasphemy against Nox and conspiracy against Lux." This led to a complete genocide when the Cult of Nox and the KSKD violently slaughtered the population, destroying the entire cultural and religious history of Alzaria in the process. The city fell into ruin afterwards and remained populated by nothing but rotting corpses until the end of Eldham, with Archon Andromache explicitly banning any revival attempts.
==Abexilas==
===The Genocide of Lettredieus in Levan===
*Victims: 10+ Arglesian citizens, hundreds in-lore.
*Perpetrators: Levanesse
*8th July - 13th July 2024
*t_blud is the leader of the Lettredieuity religion. As their religion grew in prominence, followers of Lettredieus faced escalating hostility, mockery, and anomisity from those who opposed their beliefs. This culminated in a coordinated campaign of violence and systematic oppression aimed at eradicating the Lettredieus presence. Authorities within Levan forcibly removed the Lettredieus from their homes, destroyed their places of worship, and sought to erase their cultural and religious identity. Many Lettredieus suffered violence and forced displacement, leaving the continent of Talasi, and founding a new city of Lettredius