Yolatol

Yolatol, recently renamed Salisbury, sometimes known by its name under the Ellysian Empire as Nordinbad, and sometimes nicknamed Snowflakia is a settled ruined city in Northeastern Eldham. It is currently a part of the Confederation of Anarchist Communes. It was also the subject of the first battle of the Second Coalition-Ellysian War.
== History ==
Yolatol, or as it was than known, Nordinbad, was founded as a city for the Ellysian Empire by a player whom went by the name of Geister, or Ghost Buster. The city was established on a mountain and surrounded by tall walls with a castle in the center. Below the mountain, there were small houses for citizens of the city.
During the Second Coalition-Ellysian War, the plan for the Garxeto Assault as drafted by Xeroise Ronango'O established that Nordinbad would be the first place that would be attacked. Players went to Nordinbad by boat and landed in the nearby village of Damaranth before charging up the cliffside and to a closed entrance of the city in the Southeast corner of the fort and castle atop the mountain. After about fifteen minutes of nonstop chanting and pillaring, the war officially started and ladders were placed up the city walls and Coalition forces got in. The city was entirely undefended as the Ellysian Empire refused to send troops and the few that intended to fight didn't out of cowardice.
The city was captured again in the Siege of Atta as a part of the war and the claim to the land was dissolved. It was than renamed Yolatol by the USSE who controlled Zone Three, the zone the city was in.
The former Mayor of the city, Geister, was banned for hate speech soon after the war.
Later, the city was assigned to the CoAC along with the rest of the territory given to them, becoming the first and largest city in the Confederation. Although De Facto it was ruled by the CoAC, for about a month, due to a map reading error, it was De Jure controlled by the Duchy of Yuvaria, until the mistake was noticed and amended peacefully.
== Etymology ==
The name Yolatol comes from Lo'Oi and was adopted by Coalition forces from the USSE. It mean's Dead Man's Mountain and is in reference to the cowardice of the Ellysians at the battle and the multiple fallen Coalition soldiers who died from fall damage at the fort during the Second Coalition-Ellysian War.
The name Nordinbad is of unknown origin.
The most dominate nickname for the city is Snowflakia, in reference to how the Mayor of the city would call people "snowflakes", and the nickname is meant to mock the Mayor by calling him a snowflake.
The name Salisbury is of foreign origin, its original meaning lost to time, but it is speculated to simply mean something akin to "camp" or "temporary settlement" in a tongue of a nomad tribe, some of whom ended up founding the CoAC and Salisbury.
== Features ==
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== Gallery ==
File:Cew2.png|The famous image of charging Coalition forces running towards the Southeast gate of Nordinbad's fort during the Second Coalition-Ellysian War. The image was used in the announcement of the Coalition's victory.
File:Nordinbad2.png|A screenshot of a handful of Coalition forces sitting outside Nordinbad waiting for the war to start after running up the mountain during the Second Coalition-Ellysian War. Note the flying admin watching the event go down by the city wall.
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