Marquette

A player-made group of cities which served as a marketplace for the many different players of the server. The main one is located right next to Castle Town.

There are two other locations, Marquette West and Marquette East, which are both located on their respective sides of the world. However due to a lack of support each of them were abandoned in favor of New Marquette

## New Marquette

The New Marquette was first started due to problems with players not using Marquette East and West, and so a plan was made to make a new one, right next to castle town, and support it fully. The project started planning in early January of 2022 and building of it began on the 22nd of January 2022. The process went through the rest of January, into February and was opened to let people start claiming and building on plots on the 6th of February. In April 2023, part of the extension was turned into a public park to celebrate the birthday of NintendoBlackCrisis.

### Contributors

* Ahkryn
* Arcade812
* Gingeh
* Truckojr
* Fambop
* Loufbread
* Starshibe
* Yabi04
* Espen

## Marquette East

Eastern Marquette was derived from the desires of Espen to have an eastern shopping center, and AutumnChimp to have a "Marquette 2.0". AutumnChimp was the founder of Marquette 2.0 in the Old World as they thought Marquette was getting full too quickly. So with the arrival of Hyrule, Autumn wanted to make a second Marquette. And so, Marquette 2.0 was started. The process was slow and... it was very unfinished. When Hyrule released, player Flitwick12 came up with the idea of an Eastern Marquette to go with New Marquette (now renamed Western Marquette). The Eastern Marquette team had chosen a location they liked and spent a few days making the land ready for building. They spoke to Espen about East's location, and he asked for it to be close to Windfall. So, they moved. The process was slow, and everyone hated it. With pressure from the players and Espen, the East team pushed on harder to try and get it ready. When it was finally ready, Espen enabled shopkeepers, and people began to set up. Now Marquette-East has a few shops and a bank but is still mostly unused since many big businesses have settled in Castle Town. It would later be replaced fully by New Marquette.

## Marquette West

Originally called "New Marquette", this shopping area was renamed as "Western Marquette / Marquette West" when Marquette East was started. It is the direct child of the original Marquette, which served its job of replacing Shoptin very well in the Old World. Marquette West is currently larger than East and is located near Rito Village. It is also connected to the international rail line by Marquette-West Station. Much like Marquette East, it didn't catch the attention of many players as well as the fact that Castle Town held most of the shops. It would later be replaced fully by New Marquette.

## Marquette (Original)

The original Marquette in the Old World was created by CubicZirconia, also known as Mystjc, as a replacement for the original shopping city of Shoptin, which had become a mess of ruined shops and "street shops". Cubic worked on the entire first part of Marquette by himself, but other expansions were later created with the help of others. Marquette was named after the city of Marquette in Marquette County, Michigan. This Marquette was the place where the modern egg-based shopkeepers were first used, and where the first custom items on the server were sold.