Xoran

Xoran is an administrator on PridelandsMC. He has had a long history on the server, joining all the way back in 2017 during the time of the Psblyyyy Realm when it was a small, informal realm, not even having its own discord server, and has remained an active user of PridelandsMC throughout it's history as one of only two people to do so, the other being the owner, Mac Guy3135.

He is notable for having an absolutely archaic ultra generic 2015 eboy skin which he had for 5 years. He finally replaced it with a skin he made on the 5th anniversary of him getting the skin.

## Xoran

### Join Date

Sometime in 2017 (original realm)31st of July, 2018 (discord server)

## Origins

The story of Xoran as a member of the server first started when he joined the discord server of a meme YouTuber called grandayy. There, he met Mac, and eventually joined a server he advertised on his YouTube channel about the kids' cartoon The Lion Guard, out of curiosity. From there, he joined the realm associated with that server, and when it recieved its own discord server during the First Mac Realm, he mostly migrated there, becoming less and less active on the original server. He became a moderator on the 4th of Febuary 2019, when Noot Noot, a player of the old days who has since left, did not submit a moderator application himself. He was promoted to administrator less than two months later, on the 29th of March, 2019.

The first notable endeavour he started was on the 11th Mac Server, where he, frustrated by the build style and building restrictions at Thneedville/Claraville, created his own base quite close by, named Port Hoxha after Enver Hoxha, communist dictator of Albania, who Xoran admired for his brutal crackdowns on religion. Unlike Thneedville, which was a base that could be joined by invitation from the owner, Clara, only, Port Hoxha was an entirely public base which anyone could join. Despite the open settlement policy, the only somewhat active person to join him there was Zolletir, who he would go on to base with again on the subsequent 12th Mac Server, instead of going to the Staff Base, as he wanted a quiet place to base and didn't like bases which prioritized automation over aesthetics.

On the 12th world, he decided to build the East Road, a cobblestone and chiseled stone brick road running directly east from spawn. With some help from Mac Guy3135 and Zolletir, he built it out to five kilometres from spawn, where he stopped building the road. He based in an unnamed town made from jungle wood and stone with Zolletir as at the time, he was one of the few people who did not distrust Xoran due to his political views.

In world 13, he initially lived in Large Bases, before moving out and creating New Hoxha, a base inspired by the original Port Hoxha, as well as the unplanned buildstyles of the 4th and 5th worlds. Like the original Port Hoxha, it was entirely public.

## Politics

Xoran has some somewhat infamous political viewpoints. Most notably, he has historically been extremely islamophobic, and while he has mostly stopped hating the religion itself, he still absolutely does not like most Muslims and would not strongly object to the islamic world being nuked, due to how culturally conservative the area is. He also advocates semi-fascistic policies and authoritarianism, viewing democracy as a weak system that easily falls victim to populism and is incapable of doing long-term projects, and seeing human rights as a general guideline that should not be followed to the letter rather than an absolute ruleset, though he utterly despises most fascists for being too far right. Despite of this, he still considers himself first and foremost a leftist due to his progressivism and left-wing economic beliefs.

Despite of his political extremism, when push comes to shove he almost always sides with free speech over political correctness, and has often defended people holding conservative viewpoints, at least compared to the rest of the staff team.

He is quite politically volatile, changing opinions regularly, and was until a year or two ago a member of the alt-lite, a far-right belief system. Remnants of this can be seen in a lot of his opinions, particularly regarding geopolitics.

## Relations with other members

Xoran considers several members of the community to be his friends. Mac, due to the long time they've known each other, is quite good friends with Xoran, who considers him his absolute best friend. Xoran generally has good relations with most members of the staff friend group, with the notable exception of Clara who he had a somewhat strained friendship with.