BMC Minecraft Lore

The Brazilian's Mapping Chat Minecraft **Lore** is a fictional rationalization of all events that took place across the 10 Minecraft servers hosted by BMC: Cumania, MCEarth 1, Minecrosia, MCEarth 2, Old Mediterranea, Folban, Cave Cumania, Mediterranea, MCEarth 3 and Orbis. It was written primarily by Americana with the intent of connecting the histories of all servers into a single timeline and depicting their worlds as real, functional constructed worlds.

## Orbis

Orbis is the only one of the six worlds to achieve native multicellular life, and around 6.5 million years before the Conjunction of the Spheres, a branch of the Homininæ subfamily was formed, the Lughai. Described as slightly taller than humans, with grayish skin and longer and sharper nails, living mostly in trees and vertical locations, but not exclusively, possessing a basic knowledge and usage of bipedalism. They first appeared in the mountainous jungle in between modern day Puebia and Caelum, but soon migrated to other wooded areas in the south.

Meanwhile, the ancestors of humans first appeared around 3 million years BCS, evolving between the transitions of the savanna and forests south of Orbochsia. They started fairly worse than the Lughai due to living in open places where animals would hunt them easily, but that also forced them to adapt and be innovative, creating and using basic tools made out of wood and flint around 500 000 BCS, thus, conquering the savanna. The Lughai, having longer nails, had a harder time to create tools, but they were able to form a primordial version of a canoe, using the widely available vines, plant's fibers and wood, exploring the immense and long rivers that start in the south, such as the Columbia, Colorado and Mississippi, even reaching the shores of the island of Númenor in Almaren.

The first contact between humans and Lughai was around 200 000 BCS, with relative friendliness despite the natural aggressiveness of the latter against other animals. The human toolmaking and Lughai shipbuilding knowledge spread to the other, allowing both to expand severely to the entirety of Orbis during this period, with humanity reaching the fringes of the cold north due to their easier climatic adaptation and living in hostile environments, and the Lughai the coasts of Kofinneia, Ennaught and Beringia, with difficulty in savannas and tundra due to their natural habitat being a warm and rainy jungle. Soonly after the world was mostly conquered, each of the two species started the creation of weapons focused on killing each other, not common animals. The first known case of interspecies murder happened in northern Mesopotamia around 100 000 BCS, with the humans expanding into already inhabited Lughai territory, worsening the already bad relations they had.

However, due to being much more ancient while still adapting to human technology, the Lughai were the first out of the two to have organized societies and civilizations during the final years of 50 000's BCS, mostly around big bodies of water and dense jungle and forest. Meanwhile the humans were still living mostly as hunter-gatherers, with their biggest social environment being their own families and smaller clans.

### Civilizationem (50 000 BCS - 22 000 BCS)

The first Lughai civilizations sprung up in river valleys, such as the Anduin, Columbia, Colorado, Mississippi, Morava and Wabash, which were heavily wooded until the rise of said civilizations, which begun a process of construction of mostly vertical villages and towns, while the surroundings would be open plains for two purposes: agriculture, which had only recently been discovered and practiced, and leaving no defense for humans attacking and other races of Lughai migrating to the new urban environment.

Lughai society develops a dualism between the elements of Fire and Water, each always fighting the other, but never being able to extinguish, renewing and fighting back the other element. Eventually that belief transforms into the equilibrium and foremost consensus of both, that being Earth and nature. However, one specific culture diverges from that, the Anduin valley culture, which believes that Fire is inherently superior to Water and will eventually triumph, once that happens, Water will become useless and only an obstacle to further progress. Some cults of Fire also develop into sun worshipping, but that stays secluded to smaller sects in the countryside and lesser advanced Lughai populations around the Anduin.

Southern jungle cultures start to war against each other, while the Wabash and Lower Mississippi occasionally enter conflict, but favouring trade and intermixing instead of warrior culture. The Anduin remains isolated from the other Lughai cultures, having much more contact with humans than them, which leads to the highest amount of conflict ever seen until then between the two warring species. With the eventual demonizing of Water by Anduin cultures, the shipbuilding techniques and sea expansion gets forgotten and prohibited by local rulers and chiefdoms, with the only route for continued expansion being deep into human territory in the western savannas, which are also the driest environment in Orbis, leading to holy wars for the conquest of these lands.

The first kingdoms started to appear around 25 000 BCS, with the biggest and most powerful of them being located on the modern day lands of Peten K'uhul, Sardinia, Pesh and Puebia. The Anduin, Lower Mississippi and Wabash cultures only organize into proper realms around 2 000 years later, with their main centres being the island near Balakeria in Indiana, and the Hilsjeckian outpost of Argonia, and finally the only one with a known name, likely an exonym from latter historians, the Kingdom of Snagathrakum, meaning literally "slave bringers". As the name implies, with the yearly wars against humans in the interior of the continent, the Anduin culture developed into a human-slavery centered society, with gigantic zones of hunting deep inland, and when finished, massive caravans bringing whole families and clans to sell in the Anduin valley.

Becoming the first empire in history wouldn't save it however, Snagathrakum fell not even a full millennium after it began due to multiple reasons, such as slave revolts, sea raiders from other Lughai cultures, and mainly, the rise of another kingdom from the Anduin culture, this time centered in the island of Almaren, the Kingdom of Ghâshdurb. Meaning "reign of Fire", possibly an endonym from the now even more radical anti-Water beliefs that developed in the area, with the most important of these being the new three holy augur titles, passing down by with the death of the last and the acclamation of a new virgin woman, representing the pure and original state of it's element or subject, those being: Yrrhedes, the augur of harvest; Niya, the augur of Fire; and finally, Lilit, the augur of war. These 3 women would have astounding influence in the society and government of the kingdom of Ghâshdurb, and for the future of the entirety of Lughai-kind.

### Dominatus (22 000 BCS - 7864 BCS)

Around the turn of the millennium, other few select animals and creatures also obtained certain levels of intelligence, akind to ant and bee hiveminds, such as the Orboch race of cows in the far west, or the lineage of Cockus the Elder, a rooster who was worshipped by a local lower Mississippian Lughai community and declared as king of that village, until it's destruction by the actual realm's army, leading Cockus to organize his own realm in the mountains by gathering other chicken, eventually leading to the creation of many dynasties in the far future.

Snagathrakum fully fragmented into local estates and slave-capturers ruling their lands and surrounding communities through tyranny and iron hand, until the invasion of the southern half of the empire by Ghâshdurb, quickly seizing the profitable human-hunting zones in the west, this time not selling for the estates and towns of the Anduin valley, but the capital nearby the temple of Angrenfane, erecting the second largest city in the world, behind only Shrærawedd in the island of Peten K'uhul, which had a population of half a million by end of the 22nd millennium BCS.

However, the constant fighting and contact with the Lughai expansionists in the north and west, many human groups started to migrate into other weaker Lughai states in the south, mainly into Mesopotamia and the Colorado river, also adapting and learning their technology and techniques, taming the first wild horses and using hit-and-run tactics against slavers and bandit groups, which proved exceedingly effective. One of these nomadic horse cultures, the Originis, started to migrate south in direction to Shrærawedd, leading most of their people with the army, including women and children. The reaction of the lesser Lughai kingdoms was of utter despair and chaos, the capital went into disarray and many fled to the dense jungles where horses were useless, while others started massive animal sacrifice in order to appease the gods, yet nothing stopped their indomable march towards the city, their only hope was a relief force.

Ghâshdurb attended the call to arms from Shrærawedd, considering this a threat to it's entire existence, if humans were able to cohesively organize, slave raids and the conquest of the savanna would be summarily annihilated from existence. Due to their despisal of anything related to water, they decided to move slowly but surely by foot through the cliffs of the coast, leading tens of thousands to die in the continuously besieged metropolis, not having access to food supplies other than the few times of the day when troops wouldn't notice them fishing in the surrounding lake. After a year of non-stop marching, the exhausted and absolutely raging army of Ghâshdurb arrives into the outskirts of Shrærawedd just in time when the Originis had broken through their walls, and instead of charging the main army, their went for the human camp, full of the women and children of the migrants.

The Originis army immediately fell back to defend their people who were being massacred and put into chains the moment a Lughai go their hands in someone. Though dismounted, with their horses still being in their camp, they charged the relief force, and were soundly crushed by the vastly technologically superior Ghâshdurb army. Forth goes the third highpriest, Lilit, the augur of war, condemning and cursing the entirety of the Originis people to be enslaved a year for each of those they caused the death in that city, that being around 100 000 Lughai citizens, women and children, old and young, none should be spared from the anger of the Fire for attacking the biggest and proudest city in the world, turning wonders into ruins! Thus, they sent the tens of thousands of Originis people back to the temple of Angrenfane, the iron sanctuary, and summarily sacrificed a fifth of those in the altar. Such acts of barbarity and religious fanaticism had never been seen before in any place of Orbis, yet it would soon become the standard.

Though one can wonder, with such a big and imponent city laid open for them, and equally with such a big and powerful army in the front of it, why not take it? The three auguries discussed the morality of that, and soon concluded that they were water heretics, and thus, had to submit through force or quill to the eternal flame. Sending their ultimatum to the governants of the city, it was refused as an outrageous demand from an outrageous and babaric people, describing Ghâshdurb "as animalistic as the humans who tried to murder us", quickly followed by a swift and clean occupation by the Ghâshdurb forces of the city, and then, the whole realm.

Rule in the Colorado valley wouldn't be easy with commands leaving from a temple hundreds of miles away, and thus, with alliances and accords done with Missisippian kingdoms, the reorganization and final conquest of the valley was completed by the end of the century, with the enslaved humans in Mesopotamia being given as spoils of war to the allied kingdoms in exchange for tributes in the form of soldiers for the occupied zones. Ghâshdurb wouldn't stop expanding yet, for a punitive expedition against sea raiders from the Wabash valley resulted in the conquest of the same, and further conquest of the savanna lead them to reach the hellish mesa, where human resistance in the form of mountain guerilla intensified, permitting for the slavers to only seize control of the coasts, some previously held by other Lughai kingdoms of Moravan origins.

By the late 21 000's BCS, Ghâshdurb had entered a dim period, with the Emperor being overshadowed by the auguries recently acquired authority during the many military campaigns, almost leading to a civil war between the loyalists and zealots, and certainly weakening the state, allowing neighboring realms to seize many of the conquests previously established, causing even more civil disorder and discontent. Eventually, the auguries turn victorious, dethroning the current Emperor and setting a line of ever-weaker puppets in the throne, eventually being fully abolished with the creation of the Archpriestdom of the White Flame, Ninquëdeith, and it's new capital centered around the Great Iron Temple of Angrenfane.

The first order of business was to completely and utterly finish the ever-growing human resistance, with all campaigns for the reconquest of the lost lands to other Lughai kingdoms cancelled, and entire wars of extermination and genocide being waged in the west and north, which had been previously overrun by humans during the semi-anarchical period of Ghâshdurb. By precisely the year 21 000 BCS, the entire mesa, savanna, jungles and plains had been cleansed from human freedom and independence, their last bastions in Orbis being the snowy tundra of the north, hellish terrain for the Lughai, and runaway slave camps in the east captured by other kingdoms.

## Historical Characteristics

### Destroyed

333 ACS (surface)
666 ACS (core)

Cumania was the second world to be colonized by Almaren. Like all the others, the planet was devoid of any kind of multicellular life; however, being in its star's habitable zone and having an atmospheric composition similar to that of Orbis, due to the activity of bacteria in the oceans, it was suitable for colonization.

The climate of Cumania gave it three distinct biomes upon Almaren's arrival. The regions just south of the equator were largely desertified, forming two distinct deserts: the Sahara Desert and the Zerrikanian Desert. An additional desert existed, unusually, far to the north - the Nubian Desert, formed due to extreme climatic conditions at the northern end of the Thanedd Sea. The polar regions, albeit poorly documented, are permanently frozen due to lack of solar incident. And finally, the rest of the planet was composed of a vast rocky landscape. It was to these regions that Almaren brought fully evolved plant life, which spread worldwide across the span of a few millennia. The result was largely in accordance with what was expected by Almaren scientists - a concentration of rainforests around the equator and tundras to the north and to the south, with savannas surrounding the deserts and particularly mountainous regions being inhospitable to vegetation.

The original Almaren settlers formed a group known as the Cumanians, which, by the time the portal was closed and contact with Orbis was lost in 1000 BCS, had split into nine distinct branches; the Cumans continued inhabiting the region around the former portal; the Punics settled the rainforests north of the equator, while the Waterians spread to various biomes south of it; the Pontics and Elamites dominated the western continents; the Boreans spread to the northern plains and mountains, the Nubian Desert and parts of the Zerrikanian Desert; the Saharans and Zerrikanians settled their namesake deserts and the Ysians lived in the Brokiloni Forest and the northeastern taigas.
After centuries of decline due to the fall of Almaren and the difficult adaptation to self-sufficiency in a newly-vegetated world, Cumanian civilizations began rising anew in the 0th century BCS.

### First Civilizations (53 BCS - 0 ACS)

The Cumans had founded the first known nation in the world, Cumania, by 53 BCS. Located inland and surrounded by the Brokilon Forests, the Kerrack Swamps and the Zerrikanian Desert, the village of Old Cumania was an important center of trade. However, the Cumans sought to spread their influence to lands unknown, and thus ventured west across the forests towards the sea. The first expedition, known as the Odyssey, was undertaken in that year by two merchants, who reached the Cuman Sea and crossed it, eventually reaching a new land inhabited by Punics. There, they made contact with the natives, traded with them, learned their language and decided to found a state of their own together with them: Carthage, with the explorers serving as co-consuls and Byblos, their new settlement, as the capital.

The Cumans continued launching expeditions. In 52 BCS, they founded the trade outpost of New Cumania on the coast and ventured far beyond the Odyssey, spending many months at sea before reaching yet another continent, founding the settlement of Ekrosia. Their voyages also influenced others - the Melonians, an Ysian people living to the south of New Cumania, founded the New Columbia Colonial Corporation to conduct trade with the Cumans. Soon, New Cumania would replace Old Cumania as the world's main trade hub, making the latter's population decline and the settlement eventually be abandoned.

However, the NCCC faced early challenges: the Mertonians, a Waterian subgroup inhabiting the nearby desert, organized as the state of Merton and attacked their settlements at the delta of the Oxus River, leading to the Oxus War, the first recorded war in Cumanian history. The Melonians fought back, and after two years of war, the Mertonians were expelled south, where they established themselves as New Merton. In 51 BCS, Cuman explorers in the far west reported finding a kingdom named Elam, founded by its namesake people. Additionally, another adventurer from Old Cumania repeated the Odyssey and founded New Suceava with the local Suceavans. At the same time, the Cuman colonial authorities in Ekrosia were overthrown, and the colony declared independence. There was also a poorly documented Ekrosian attempt to colonize the southern Cuman Sea, but it appears to have been short-lived.

In 50 BCS, the three Waterian nations of New Merton, New Suceava and Ekrosia confederated as the Water Empire. The new union quickly came to clash with Carthage for dominance over the Cuman Sea, causing a colonial race. In that same year, Carthage founded Sidon, to the south of its home island; the following year, fearing Ekrosian expansionism, Elam submitted to Carthage as a vassal, reforming as Tangier three years after. Also in 49 BCS, one of Carthage's co-consuls died while in an expedition to the island's jungles; thus, the other consul declared himself Emperor, officially forming the Empire of Carthage. The NCCC also entered an association agreement with Carthage in 48 BCS, and a Carthaginian expedition down the Oxus River in 47 BCS saw the Zerrikanian city-state of Tingis conquered and its population enslaved.

Tensions continued growing between Carthage and the Water Empire. In 49 BCS, Carthaginian forces raided the port of Ekrosia, allegedly to protect the Elamite coastline from sacks; and in the following year, together with the NCCC, the port of New Suceava was briefly blockaded. When Carthage conquered Tingis, a dispute over the nearby Holy Lake - considered a shrine for the Waterians as that is where, according to legend, they broke off from the Cumanians before heading west - nearly led to war as expedition forces engaged, but Carthage ultimately withdrew from the Lake and ceded it to New Suceava.

In 46 BCS, however, the Ekrosian contingent of the Waterian expedition raided Tingis on its own. The local garrison completely destroyed the incursion, but Ekrosia responded by declaring war in the name of the Water Empire. The Mertonians immediately defied this by declaring neutrality, not wishing to risk another defeat at the hands of the NCCC; and the Suceavans, outraged at not being consulted by the Ekrosians, declared war on them instead, later expelling them from the Empire.

The Duke of Ekrosia, who had departed with his army to Carthage immediately after the declaration, was unaware of the Suceavan betrayal; thus, the small garrison he left at the capital was quickly overran by the coalition, and it was sacked. The Duke eventually did land in Byblos, much to the Carthaginians' surprise, and set fire to its port. His army was quickly defeated, but he managed to escape to neutral New Merton and towards the Zerrikanian Desert, where he attempted to mount a resistance before being hunted down and executed by the NCCC and the army from Tingis. Retribution towards Ekrosia itself also came, as the Carthaginian occupiers completely destroyed the city and massacred its population. At the war's conclusion, Ekrosia was annexed by New Suceava.

The rise of further civilizations was recorded by 45 BCS, with the establishment of Brighton, north of Cumania, and of Three Stars, in the southern Zerrikanian Desert. The Stellarians were said to be a Borean people, the only one known south of the Cuman Sea. Contemporary accounts describe the Kingdom as vast and powerful, having conquered the city-state of Cannastra to the far south in the same year, expanded to the north through the desert by 43 BCS and even crossed the Oxus by 42 BCS, with expansion down the Nile and the conquest of the city-state of Shedet having been attested by 39 BCS. This brought it into odds with New Merton, which itself had founded the southern settlement of New Morden in 45 BCS. The Stellarians are also the source of the first descriptions of what laid to the east of the Oxus, with expeditions to the Kithezian city of Hannu and the Zerrikanian city of Ofir being launched in 42 BCS.

Historical from the next decades are more scarce. It is known that the Pontarians migrated to the far north and established the state of Pontaria by 43 BCS, and that Three Stars continued its campaigns; notoriously, they sacked the New Cascadian Republic in 22 BCS and, in 13 BCS, launched an invasion of New Merton, capturing New Morden and besieging New Wimbledon for several years, with the city only resisting due to continuous New Suceavan aid. However, in the first decade before the Conjunction, the nomadic Zerrikanian peoples to the east of Three Stars began migrating into the Kingdom *en masse*, bringing further instability to a nation already strained by the long war against the Waterians. Ultimately, by 0 ACS, the Kingdom collapsed entirely, and the Spartan people that had spearheaded the migration took over, sacking the cities and establishing their own state, Sparta.

### The Conjunction (0 ACS - 241 ACS)

The Conjunction of the Spheres, which saw the destruction of Minecrosia by the Gwendeith Ordo, directly affected Cumania. Several peoples of Minecrosian origin, such as the Redanians, the Tamoyoans and the Grestians, suddenly migrated into the world. The Redanians, known in Cumania as the Temerians, immediately raided Pontaria from the north, desperate for food in a foreign world.