Community Founders

### Rykurock:

Rykurock (Ryku) has been with the Kingdoms community since its inception. He joined the development team, and became the first admin, in the first iteration of Kingdoms; Kingdom: Leyton. He officially became the head admin (and first Head Admin of the Kingdom Community) of the same server towards its end.

Following the end of Leyton, Ryku remained active in the development and release of the second iteration of Kingdoms, Kingdom: La'Arn. He remained as the head admin and developed the map, as well as helped orient large segments of the direction of the server. Ultimately, when the project came to its swift conclusion following its release, Ryku helped lead development of Kingdom: Dark Ages in conjunction with the other staff members.

In Kingdom: Dark Ages, Ryku once again developed the map, and helped up until the launch of the server. After server launch, Ryku slowly lost interest and faded into the background of Dark Ages, eventually relinquishing his role as Head Admin, and subsequently his adminship. Nearly a year into Dark Ages, Ryku eventually became more active in the community and launched the Alyria project; a proposed expansion to Dark Ages. However, after a month of leading development, Ryku once again had to switch priorities to real life matters.

Ryku still maintained contact with the Alyria project, but it had largely stalled after his departure, and the eventual departure of the build team over a month later. Several months once again went by where Ryku maintained a minimal level of contact with the Dark Ages server, but ultimately returned once again, this time much more permanently to aid in the finishing of Alyria and to reassume a more active role as an admin of the Dark Ages staff team.

However, some of Ryku's more active involvement wasn't as well received by members of the staff team, particularly following Dan's granting to Ryku the co-ownership of the Kingdom: Dark Ages server. After several key differences emerged in administration style within the staff team at Dark Ages, a crossroads emerged, and Ryku opted to instead lead up a new project, this time with himself as the sole head. Taking some disillusioned members from the Dark Ages server, Ryku began the Kingdom: Enlightenment server. The 4th major iteration of Kingdoms.

### DantheTechMan:

DantheTechMan (Dan) is the owner of the Kingdoms Community and was the owner of all three iterations of Kingdoms prior to Enlightenment. When the idea of Enlightenment was initially thought out, Dan found it exciting and agreed to grant his support in the development. While Dan has long had IRL matter to attend to, he has consistently participated in conversations regarding around the project and helped in facilitating its advertisement and development.

### Cardinal\_S

Cardinal\_S (Cardinal) was another long-time staff member of the Kingdoms Community, first joining the staff team on Kingdom: Leyton. While Ryku and Cardinal had not always been on the same page in the past; as events in Dark Ages unfolded the quickly found themselves sharing a similar mindset. While Cardinal was initially skeptical of Enlightenment and worried of its impacts on Dark Ages, he ultimately made the decision to participate in its development.

### MasterMetaphor:

MasterMetaphor (Meta) was a player on Dark Ages, and had become disillusioned by some of the events within the Dark Ages community. When Ryku first had an idea of starting a new server, Meta was one of the first individuals that Ryku began to coordinate with. The Discord server was established shortly thereafter, and Meta remained an active member of the development of the server since. Meta was also the first staff member granted adminship in Kingdom: Enlightenment, and proved to be an indispensable part in the development of the server.

### Dexz\_Longtail:

Dexz\_Longtail (Dex) was a long-time community member of the Dark Ages server and a member of the Build staff. Dex became disillusioned as the target of a lot of the events on Dark Ages, as well as when his position on the staff team came into question. Ryku had taken the side of Dex in many staff disputes, and the situation revolving around Dex was one of the key factors in the eventual decision to develop Kingdom: Enlightenment. Dex proved indispensable in his building ability, and headed the entire efforts of the Enlightenment development team in the building on the server. He also helped out greatly in the establishment of some of the general lore on the server as well.

### **AcquiredCheese:**

AcquiredCheese (Cheese) was a player of the Dark Ages server, and also one of the first people that Ryku initially expressed his frustrations with. Cheese has assisted in the administration of many minecraft servers in the past, and as one who shared the same vision as Ryku, was approached to form the final pillar of the foundation of the Enlightenment development team. While Cheese wasn't as active in the initial stages of development due to IRL priorities, he still remained a participant in many staff discussions and in forming the framework of how the server would operate.