Cult of Buzz Dunder

**The Cult of Buzz Dunder** (AKA Dunderism) is an ancient religion that has been around since the original creation of Rathnir. It follows the original creator of an ancient town: GoopTar, Buzz Dunder. The religion started quickly after the disappearance (and assumed death) of Buzz Dunder. The religion only had a few members for a long time until recently where it had seen wide spread across the north due to the reemergence of Buzz Dunder Jr. and Gregbuscus. Recently the religion had seen extreme persecution forcing the group into hiding.

## The Man Himself

Not much is really known about Buzz Dunder or his "council" besides the few recreation images, no one can find an image of his actual face, although there our rumors a single irl picture of him was sent to the Stoneworks #general chat a long time ago. Buzz Dunder is said to have come from space this is reflecting in GoopTar as most of the town lived in the Blackama Station (named after the first CEO of GoopTar), a giant Space Station that housed over 150 players. The Space Station was known for having giant Redstone contraptions almost all of which were made by Gregbuscus. These contraptions included over 20 Redstone doors, a working Redstone computer and the pin combination to Buzz Dunders vault (only Gregbuscus and Buzz Dunder knew the code).

## Government of GoopTar

GoopTar had always technically been a republic although the only person known to be elected as Head Goop was Buzz Dunder. Underneath Buzz Dunder was his council, Consisting of 10 offices: Chief Engineer, Lord Admiral, Head Honcho, Biggest Bean, Vice Goop, The Pope, Lorekeeper, CEO, Speaker of the council, and Head Plebeian. Underneath the council was a lower office the Plebeian Council, this council voted on legislation proposed by Buzz Dunder and also approves all council members proposed by Buzz Dunder. The Plebeian Council also has a few offices: Head of Cheese Making, Head of agriculture, Head of security, Head of Mining, Head of Human Resources. Anyone could run for these positions, the elections being held by the Head Plebeian. It's unknown who actually held these roles as they were not kept track of, the only known office holders were Gregbuscus the Chief Engineer, Ding Dingus the Pope of GoopTar and Blackma the CEO.

## The Start of The Religion

After months of Buzz Dunder not being online, the Vice Goop took over control of GoopTar, as stated before it is unknown who actually was the Vice Goop but it is clear that he was not a very popular leader as most members of the council resigned including Gregbuscus, in total 78 members of GoopTar had left, Blackma and Ding Dingus being the only remaining members of the original council. While Buzz Dunder was still in office the official state religion was Estabanianism but after Buzz Dunder's disappearance, Ding Dingus started preaching Buzz Dunder as a deity with most members accepting this new religion. However the Vice Goop saw this as a threat to his power and Banished Ding Dingus from GoopTar which only caused even more dislike for him. This Triggered the Great GoopTar Schism, a civil war between those loyal to the Vice Goop (historically known as Goopers) and those followers of the new religion of Dunderism (historically known as Dunders). The followers of Dunderism held their own election to see who would be the leader of Dunderism which ended up being Blackma. The leaders of the Dunderism Rebellion hid in Buzz Dunder's vault with help from Gregbuscus.

## The Great GoopTar Schism

The civil war was the most destructive event GoopTar had ever seen, the once secure Blackma Station (now renamed to Goop Station) was completely destroyed in the middle, leading to each of the two groups claiming one side of the now severed station. The war was decided by one single battle, in which the Goopers bridged over to the Dunders half of the space station and caught them in a surprised attack, most of the Dunders vaulables were burned which lead to the Dunder's counter-attack, the fight lasted for 10 minutes before it was finally decided by the fight between Blackma and the Vice Goop on the bridge. The Vice Goop was completely decked out in diamond armor besides his white leather hat to signify his role on the council. Blackma only had iron armor with a purple leather hat. Even with his great disadvantage Blackma was able to knock the Vice Goop off of the bridge leading to him dying of fall damage. After this battle the Dunders Claimed victory and gave Blackma his new name "Buzz Dunder Jr." Even after this great victory GoopTar had completly fallen, every last piece of the space station had been stripped and stolen, all that really remains of the own is a few floating blocks and an elaborate mine. After this the religion of Dunderism had almost completely died out with its members going underground for the most part.

## Resurgence

Recently the religion of Dunderism has seen a wide resurgence across the north, this has mostly to due with both Blackma (now known as Buzz Dunder Jr.) and Gregbuscus coming back out of hiding both of them wandering around the northern kingdoms, spreading their religion. Recently the new Dunders have attempted to make their own villages (the most notable being Dingtopia and Gooptar the Squeakquel). The religion still has not had a strong centralization and is contained in small local communities with no head of the faith. With its growing popularity it is important to keep track of this religion to see where it may go in the future and what power it may claim.