Asgarth

“	FlyingPokemon: the fish bowl map where we crowded spawn and had never ending war between lex and jrod<BR>Tox: the one with Retro's spawn dong, Lex's castle town, and the ETERNAL CHAOS wither<BR>Jrod: fish bowl map?<BR>Jrod: why you call it that<BR>HyperSilence: that was spawn<BR>Tox: because Shark's spawn was a bowl of fish<BR>Sharkberries: Spawn was a fish bowl thing<BR>Jrod: ahh i getcha now lol	”
 	—Residents remember Asgarth 	—Residents remember Asgarth
Asgarth, also known as the Fish Bowl map, came to prominence during the Eighth Era when it became the first region settled on Halfast.
Asgarth was a vast land filled with bees and pillagers, its large biome wilderness only gradually conquered and exploited by a number of factions and settlements that allied with and fought against each other through war, trade, and competitions such as Halfast Survivor and WeekEnds.
=History=
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Following the fall of Dragonhollow, HyperSilence created a colony on the distant world of Halfast. Using the faster-than-light communications network Discord, he broadcast an open invitation for all Dragonhollow refugees to accompany him in building a new home for the years to come. They settled in the land of Asgarth. A rampant infestation of angry pillagers made early life difficult.
Zen broke ground on the river town of Koan, providing an XP farm, fishing hut, and graveyard for the community. Alec settled there and built a hobbit hole. Not far downriver, Sharkberries and Boo built Iolanthe, home to fisher folk. 
Jrod defeated the ender dragon Starsmoke.
An unknown thief stole many of Zen's personal belongings, leading Hyper to greatly extend the time taken for claim deeds to expire. At the same time, he made a survival kit available to all residents.
Despite Hyper's reminder that it was never intended to be a direct continuation, many veterans considered Halfast to be the spiritual successor to Dragonhollow. Others such as Wiz and Gabault were disappointed that person-to-person combat was prohibited.
During this period Halfast struggled to find its own identity and emerge from the long shadow cast by Dragonhollow, ultimately awaiting a time when the world became more comfortable with the balance between past and present.
Sharkberries began an ambitious effort to renew interest in Halfast and grow the community, beginning with word-of-mouth efforts via Discord and the construction of the Camillia city-state, which would eventually became the planetary capital.
Inspired by his efforts, HyperSilence made it possible for anyone in the universe to reach Halfast and launched a promotional campaign designed to convince newcomers to visit the planet. He collaborated with Shark in the creation of the Fish Bowl, a new entrance point featuring parkours and random teleportation into the wilderness.
Ranks were reestablished and perks were added for citizens and veterans. Rules governing combat between residents were changed to be less restrictive in order to appeal to a wider audience without compromising the agency of those wishing to abstain. 
HyperSilence chose Jinx, Zen, Sleekit, Tox, and Sharkberries to serve in his new ruling hierarchy as Arbiters of Halfast, charged with upholding the values of Halfast and issuing punishments when necessary.
To ease the struggle of his residents, Hyper introduced a number of quality-of-life improvements including the GPS, variable lighting, and a Bee Breeding Kit.
To encourage and regulate single combat between residents, a number of dueling arenas were built beneath the Fish Bowl.
Jrod and the Scylfings were the planet's primary threats, murdering newcomers and veterans alike, until the return of Greywatch offered refuge and the promise of resistance against deadly banditry. This led to the inception of Eternal Chaos, an alliance of convenience between former foes Alec and Jrod. The rivalry between the two organizations came to dominate the landscape of the Eighth Era.
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By popular demand and in collaboration with the magician Lilac, HyperSilence reinstated the Survivor event by hosting Halfast Survivor, pitting his residents against the elements and each other in a battle over who could survive the longest. Alec was the first victor, claiming Phantom Armor that made him unseen to monsters he encountered in the wild.
On 8E:333, warriors gathered to do battle against a fierce ender dragon and each other in the first WeekEnd event with Eternal Chaos securing the lion's share of the loot. To prevent a recurrence their foes allied against EC during the second WeekEnd, but future WeekEnds saw the community put aside their adversarial differences and work together to defeat the dragons.
When both WeekEnds and Halfast Survivor came to an end, Halfast's zenith of popularity inevitably came to an end. Despite a redecoration of the Fish Bowl and a radically altered Nether that promised never before seen materials and environments, the decline continued until the world became a vacant memory of better days reminiscent of Sleepy Hollow.
=Points of Interest=
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Picture	Place 	Architect 	Notes
 	Fish Bowl 	Sharkberries, HyperSilence	Entrance point for Asgarth
 	Camillia 	Sharkberries 	The capital of Halfast
 	Dueling Arenas 	Sharkberries 	A series of combat arenas
 	Halfast Graveyard 	Zen 	A residential cemetery
 	Raptor Isle 	Fancy Raptor 	A tropical wood-and-stone mecca
 	Edge of Chaos 	Eternal Chaos 	A fortified barrier
 	Iolanthe 	Boo, Sharkberries 	A fisher folk village
 	Hobbit Hole 	Alec 	A hillside habitat
 	Nico's Interior Design	Nico 	An interior décor shop
 	An Ode To My Cock 	Retro 	A fully erected phallic monument
 	Greywatch Hold 	Greywatch 	The settlement around Castle Skywatch
 	Iram 	Seudo 	An underground city of quartz
 	MFZ 	Zerg 	An industrial nexus
 	Koan 	Zen 	A river town
 	Castle Town 	Bruhklyn 	A tower and temple complex
 	Silo 	Retro 	A cylindrical underground residence
 	Seudoble Accomodations	Seudo 	A beachfront dacha
 	Sandbox 	Dap 	Dapton Solutions R&D testbed
 	Nicosia 	Nico 	A flower forest estate
 	Arctic Air 	Sharkberries 	An airship to the tundra
 	Hallowshean 	Sleekit 	A chain of floating islands
 	Amaranthine 	Immortal 	A forest cottage
 	PEE YOUR PANTS 	Bruhklyn 	just do it
 	Kenshin Castle 	FlyingPokemon 	A walled estate atop the Sakura Peaks
 	Windbreaker 	Tox 	A hot-air balloon
 	Altēc 	Alec 	An undersea temple
 	Valkenburg 	Knights of Ishtar 	A stone castle
 	Reivers Rest 	Sleekit 	A tower house of the Overkingdom
 	Vibe Town 	Vibe Town 	An oasis village in the deep desert
 	Toadstool Thicket 	Nico 	A cozy mushroom house in the forest
 	North Island 	Eternal Chaos 	A floating island
 	Co-Op Castle 	Panda, Tohbeh, Jinx 	A mountain fortress
 	Zombie Corner 	Azureila 	what are you doing in my swamp
 	Morningthaw 	FlyingPokemon 	A snow-covered city-state
 	Castle Skywatch 	Lex 	Headquarters for Greywatch
 	Gentleman Pigman 	Getz 	A well-dressed gold farm
 	Hyperion Hills 	HyperSilence 	A half-assed home
 	Jungle Jaunt 	Sharkberries 	An airship to the jungle
 	Myrkviðr 	Scylfings 	A lake town
 	THE CUBE 	Jinx 	A giant stone cube
 	SHOP! 	Pwn 	An automated gear store
 	The Basmati Province 	Boiled Rice 	The ringed nexus of the Rice Empire
 	Tree of Eternity 	Jrod 	gee i'm a tree
 	Mount Gream 	Starsgream 	An mountain manufactory
 	Empyrean 	Absurd 	A city of high-rises
 	Tox's Cabin 	Tox 	The teleporting home of Tox
 	Eternal Flame 	Eternal Chaos 	A forge and hall of oaths
 	Koningsmuur 	Kingkauw 	An inexplicable wall
=Gallery=
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File:2019-08-16_12.35.36.png|Alec is hunted by pillagers
File:2d.png|An ender dragon loose at the Fish Bowl
File:2020-04-15_22.48.04.png|Lex and Jrod battle in the Asgarth skies
File:ec.png|Jrod unleashes eternal chaos
File:hallowshean.png|Sleekit poses in front of Hallowshean
File:SPOILER_unknown.png|Shark and Boo have fun with bees
File:cef23.png|A guardian infestation at Irem of the Pillars
=Behind the Scenes=
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The following is out-of-universe information about real-world Halfast.
	HyperSilence: i have no idea what to call the last map lol<BR>Tox: Asgarth it is!<BR>HyperSilence: lovely	
	—Tox names Asgarth 	—Tox names Asgarth
Asgarth—better known as the "Fish Bowl map"—was Halfast's first map, hosted from July 17, 2019 to July 18, 2021. It was whitelisted until October 18, 2019, when the server opened to the public.
The map initially ran on Java Edition 1.14.3 and was upgraded several times through Java Edition 1.16.5.
The server spawn was initially at the town of Koan, but in preparation for the public grand opening of Halfast, Sharkberries collaborated with HyperSilence in designing a new spawn known as the Fish Bowl.
PvP was prohibited upon launch but later enabled by popular demand, though players had the option of toggling it for themselves at any time.
There was no world border.
Because HyperSilence only purchased server hosting for a year and wasn't sure if there would be enough interest in Halfast to justify future maps, he never gave the first map a name. When he named the second map Midgard, Tox retroactively named the first map "Asgarth", an alternative spelling of Asgard, home of the gods in Norse mythology. However, the community came to call it the "Fish Bowl map", after its iconic Fish Bowl spawn.
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