Anarchy

“	"That’s right, we’re turning the world upside down and letting anarchy reign supreme."	”
 	—HyperSilence announces Anarchy 	—HyperSilence announces Anarchy
Anarchy was a period of lawless turmoil in Novigrad on Halfast at the end of the Eleventh Era.
No rules or regulations were enforced. All land claims were dropped permanently. Dark sorcery was permitted, including the ability to see through walls and fly through the air. The chance of aBloodmoon rising at night was much higher.
Anarchy lasted for 36 days.
=History=
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	TraumaticWheel: Are you gonna be participating in the actual anarchy btw or just documenting?<BR>Tox: depends how thorough the kaboomers are<BR>Tox: sometimes if you want something done right you gotta do it yourself<BR>TraumaticWheel: I would love to see this haha<BR>Tox: It'd be a shame to let what may currently be the largest private	
	—TraumaticWheel and Tox discuss Anarchy 	—TraumaticWheel and Tox discuss Anarchy
thumb|330x330pxLate in the Eleventh Era, the Eternal Fire began to flicker and burn out. HyperSilence, the Heirarch of Halfast, announced that the Eternal Flame was beginning to flicker
 he was planning to move the community to the land of Majora. On 11E:657, he and his Arbiters of Halfast abandoned Novigrad entirely and the land descended into lawless anarchy.
Residents prepared for the coming calamity in their own way. On behalf of the Knights of Ishtar, Kingkauw personally destroyed their treasure at the Sapphire Spires of Sagacity and Emmey Cube to prevent them from falling into enemy hands, while he assigned TraumaticWheel and Henry to destroy evidence at the East Arch outpost and other important installations. TraumaticWheel freed the many creatures and animals in her town of Ilium to give them a chance to escape before raiders and bandits arrived. Tox destroyed Zerg's creeper farm in the Archipelago—by far the best source of gunpowder in Novigrad—denying vandals a plentiful source of TNT in the hopes of slowing structure griefing with all land claims gone. Furthermore he transferred every book in his personal collection at Amanita Rock to a hidden vault near Novigrad Library for safekeeping.
With their own holdings secure, the Knights of Ishtar sent agents deep into enemy territory, with TraumaticWheel descending upon Aukstoja and the Nexus to destroy most of the treasure in the Unbroken Chain, while Kingkauw ventured to the far reaches of Novigrad to do the same at Jrod and Kush's base at the northwest corner of the border. The brothers retaliated by raiding the Sapphire Spires and Emmey Cube, only to find that the Knights had already preemptively them. To survive the chaos, KOI retreated deep beneath the snow-capped eastern mountains into their underground fortress of Axon, a tactic that Jrod and Kush criticized even as they relentlessly searched for the dwarven city to no avail.
A number of mediocre mages arrived in Novigrad to test their supernatural abilities but none made permanent dwellings. Minor damage was done to builds including Ilium, LaBook, and various Temples of Ishtar.
Anarchy added a new twist to Novigrad Survivor, with previously prohibited methods of obtaining days now legal. Many constructed secret pools of flowing water or similar devices to circumvent the idle detection magic put in place by Lilac, launching a race to "bob" for victory. The top five finishers received the permanent title of "Anarchist".
TraumaticWheel dealt a final blow to the Overkingdom by defanging Beithir and removing his stinger, allowing Dadinzolo to slay the weakened dragon and its primordial sibling Snib before blowing up their towering nest. 
Nevertheless, the expected widespread devastation never came to pass, as the majority of residents had already departed for distant Majora. After KushBandit was named the final Top Survivor, the remaining natives bid the land farewell and Novigrad was lost forever to the annals of history.
=Gallery=
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File:2024-08-01_10.43.39.png|Aftermath at the Korner
File:2024-07-31_20.57.51.png|Henry destroys loot chests at Aukstoja
File:2024-07-31_20.57.58.png|TraumaticWheel prepares to blow up loot at Aukstoja
File:2024-07-31_21.02.35.png|Aukstoja brewery in chaos
File:Screenshot_2024-07-31_at_8.58.27_PM.png|More Aukstoja anarchy
File:Screenshot_2024-07-31_at_9.00.57_PM.png|Aukstoja enchanted books strewn about
File:Screenshot_2024-07-31_at_8.58.13_PM.png|Henry's work here is done
File:2024-07-31_23.12.57.png|Emmey Cube treasure scattered
File:2024-07-31_23.29.03.png|Emmey Cube enchanted books cover the floor
File:Screenshot_2024-08-15_at_1.19.55_PM.png|There will be no mercy
File:Screenshot_2024-08-10_at_4.12.53_PM.png|Mountain Temple damaged
File:Screenshot_2024-08-15_at_1.17.26_PM.png|Temple-on-the-Isle destroyed
File:Screenshot_2024-08-15_at_1.22.33_PM.png|Beithir's death throes
File:Screenshot_2024-08-15_at_1.31.14_PM.png|Fire rages at Cap's house
=Behind the Scenes=
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The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.
	"I'm planning to put the server into anarchy mode for a month, in case you need to make any last minute screenshots of things. but I will backup the server before doing so lol"	
	—HyperSilence gives Tox a heads up on Anarchy 	—HyperSilence gives Tox a heads up on Anarchy
While players waited for Halfast Season 5 to begin with the new Majora map, HyperSilence took the old Dragonhollow tradition of dropping claims and blowing the map up with TNT before a reset and went even further, putting the Novigrad map into so-called "Anarchy Mode".
Inspired by anarchy servers like 2b2t, Anarchy Mode eliminated most existing rules with two notable exceptions: "toxicity" as defined by Hyper and anything that could potentially crash the server were still prohibited. All player claims were removed, access to the Nether and End was disabled, and Bloodmoons were considerably more frequent.
Despite brief confusion from several players over whether Halfast was becoming an anarchy server temporarily or permanently, the event generated interest among those seeking new challenges on a map that had existed for nearly two years.
Anarchy began on August 1, 2024 and ran until September 5, 2024.
HyperSilence indicated that Anarchy Mode could return to future maps.
Category:Events