Timeline

This is the current timeline of the entire history of the ShadowMare\_ SMP, from its creation, on the 5th of November, 2021, and until its last edit, 7th of June, 2023.

# Information:

The ShadowMare\_ SMP was created by the YouTuber with the same name, ShadowMare\_, on the 5th of Novermber, 2021. It started as a typical Survival Multiplayer Server, but, being a server between the members of Shadow's community, made mostly of people interested in geography, histrory and geopolitics, it turned into a semi-roleplay server, in which periods of casual survival gameplay get mixed with roleplaying episodes, usually (at least recently) recorded or streamed on the ShadowMare\_ YouTube Channel. The roleplay character of the SMP started with the forming of the first country, Norvichia, marking the beginning of Season I.

### Season I (5th of November, 2021-23rd of December, 2021)

#### Beginning

It all began with some people, coming from the woods covering a hill. They saw the mountains surrounding them and thought it was the perfect place to start a civilization, and the first one, there. This is how, on the first day, the Norvihic Tribe (later known as Norvichia) was formed. Ruled by ShadowMare\_, it rapidly expanded, both on the mountain zones and on the hills from their west.

In response to these, and due to the fact that not all people wanted to be ruled by her or to live in this country, people began to flee to the bottom of the mountains, starting from the 9th of November with the first house, and continuing to grow in size as more and more people would come, until the Republic of The Hill (shortly RoTH) was formed, ruled by Kerbalista. Similarly, a player known as SadScotsman, in his typical fashion, isolated from society, going on a nearby mountain peek, vis-a-vis from the main one, and started building settlements, houses, and finally, the best cow pen in existence. The process of construction and evolution of this country that is known as Neodrachia (or OG Neodrachia for context) began on the 8th of November. Following the expansionist route that ShadowMare\_ was taking, and due to Neodrachia's wish to remain independent and isolated from the outside world, rarely accepting foreigners merely as tourists or visitors, the Crown, as she would be later called, she decided to build walls surrounding to country, similar to the ones that marked where the Norvichian civilization ended.

#### Rise of tensions

After the building of the first Norvichian Castle, in which the future Crown would live for the short period of peace, the history and progress of the known world and of all countries and societies would be changed by the first obstacle on Shadow's expansion and dream of uniting the mountain chain: the existence of Neodrachia. Considering this, the two leaders met in a Norvichian tower from which you could see both countries and started discussing the future. Scots envisioned a world in which all countries could coexist and live in peace and harmony and wanted nothing but a good life for his place, himself and his animals (notably the Sheep, the cats and Sir Quavers), meanwhile Shadow saw nothing but the interests of her country and the great wish of uniting all people under one banner, even if they liked it or not, if they wished it or not.

With the final words "Give Neodrachia or we declare war", fearing for his life and the life of his animals, realising how destructive a war on Neodrachian territory would be, Scots decided to cede the land and become a citizen of the newly proclaimed Kingdom of Norvichia, on the 13th of November, 2021, with ShadowMare\_ as the Crown of the Kingdom. Subsequently, Neodrachia would become an autonomous region of Norvichia, but it's autonomy was questionable.

By coincidence, a player known as Amarok (Oten\_Iruama/Amauri\_Neto), created a real Anarcho-Capitalist tax-heaven country on the other side of the mountains, opposite of RoTH, named Ancapia. In the times marked by the rise of capitalism in most of the countries, with resources such as iron, gold and diamonds being used in the RoTH and in Norvichia, and also being accepted universally as valuable and worth accepting and using as a form of pre-money, countries acted in different ways. The RoTH, having a growing population, shops were created, in which things such as bread, cake and fish (so, mainly food) were sold, Norvichia started building houses and putting them from sale, and later would adopt the first non-resource money, known as the Norvichian Crown (NC for short), and start taxing its citizens, while Ancapia just existed based on the idea of Capitalism.

Tensions between Norvichia and the RoTH (also known as "the conflict between the Kingdom and the Republic") escalated, with acts of vandalism sparking from both sides. Small thefts turned into breaking into people's houses, which turned into griefing, killing people who found themselves on the wrong side of the border and, finally, it culminated into the burning of the first Norvichian Castle, on the 17th-18th of November, 2021. Although it was found out that behind this attack there was a player named Senif2764 (or Alejandro), a well-known enjoyer or anarchy and chaos with a past in stealing or even bombing/burning both houses in the Republic and in the Kingdom, it did nothing but rise tensions between the two countries. After his house got burnt and his items stolen, in revenge for his acts of terrorism, he fled to the RoTH, which accepted him with open arms and refused to let Norvichian soldiers arrest him on foreign soil, revealing his backing from the Republic, Norvichia began expanding into the hills, coming closer and closer to them and threatening with war if the protection they gave to those that did harm the Kingdom wouldn't be revoked. They were now seen as the final left obstacle in Shadow's way to unite, not just the mountain chain, but the entire known world at the time.

#### On the brink of a civil war

Kerbalista was an underestimated leader, seen as weak and unable to do politics or coexist with Norvichia. Despite that, he realised that the only way to defeat a country much greater in size and power is to make it collapse internally. As such, using the fragile situation created by the addition of the taxation system, he encouraged people to riot and ask for a democratic vote to show the real wish of the people. After initial repressions from the Queen, she finally accepted people's demands and held a vote.

The vote would be held by JoeMany, and it would be the first democratic voting in the history of the SMP. Although initially, the Crown wanted to let people say if they were cool with the status-quo of the Kingdom, some more radical came up with a challange for the monarch: an alternative! "Down with the Kingdom! Up with the Republic!". Joemany and Senif2764, secretly backed by the RoTH, decided to run as contracandidates, promoting communism as a better ideology for the country. The questionable uncertain status of the way the vote would work was topped by the fact that all people, despite of their nationality, were able to vote. This was unacceptable, but Shadow let it slide, as she was already getting more and more unpopular. The outcome, swayed by the growing population of the RoTH, those opposing the Crown, those that simply hated Norvichia and those that truely belived in communism as a better alternative, was clear: Down with the Kingdom! Up with the Republic!

Initially, Queen Shadow refused to cede the power, arguing that the country was built mainly by her hand and with her resources. Finally, after realising she was alone into this, she accepted Semif as the new president and joe as vicepresident of the newly created Republic of Norvichia.

#### The fall and rise of Norvichia

The communist leadership proved itself to be incompetent by starting as a semi-puppet of the RoTH, and failing to be either a continuation of the post independent Norvichia or a peaceful country, allied with their neighbours.

Queen Shadow expected herself to get the castle rebuilt and a nice residence and was deeply shocked and angered by the response of the leadership: 'Everybody's equal! You have a house already! You'll be like any other citizen." This was unacceptable by the Crown, which decided to pack up and leave. After trying different places, she found a place in the RoTH, which accepted to take her in as a privileged citizen. This final event, cause the already weakening relationship between the newly friend republics, because of the wish to be independent, to break down. Lacking support, allies and people, as most fled away, so lacking power, the fall of Norvichia began.

Firstly, Neodrachia declared independence and were unopposed. Then, Switzerland was next. Anarchist movements and later partisans would take over the left populated places, the mountain parts. Seeing the eminent downfall of the Republic, Shadow decided to publicly condemn the Alejandro leadership, improve relations with Switzerland and even getting a house there and recognizing Neodrachian independence.

A second vote was held, which would decide the faith of the country. It was decided that, if the Crown gets more votes, the Kingdom would get restored, but if the Republic would get the majority, Norvichia would remain a Republic forever and Queen Shadow would never get into politics again.

"But... what if it's a tie?", said Shadow.

"Then we'll split it up", answered Alejandro.

The vote was held, same as before, and the votes were clear: 50% for Crown, 50% for the Republic. The country was to be split up! But how?

A north-south separation would be decided, in which the Kingdom of Norvichia would get the south, being nicknamed Souvichia, while the north would go to the Republic of Norvichia, simply called back then Norvichia. The border would go from the walls of the RoTH straight to the nearby cascade, where it'd meet the mountain. On the top of it, it'd be split on the door from the walls of Neodrachia, so both countries would get access to the neighbouring country without having to transpass. The split was made! It was time to show which side was better!

As the status-quo changed, Alejandro became more and more cautious, leaving behind his dream of uniting the country, wishing just to lead whatever he had left, while Shadow became more and more confident in her power and wished to reunite Norvichia.

Evolution: While the North remained undeveloped, with no remarkable changes and its inability of fighting off the Anarchists, the South took a new approach. As they couldn't rebuild the mountain buildings destroyed by the anarchists, because spending resources into an abandoned zone which was half claimed and controlled by Switzerland anyways would've done nothing but sour relationships with the neighbours, all national resources went into a new project: a new city, on the hills, at the bottom of the mointains, alongside the border with the RoTH. It'd consist of the zones, the residential one, full of houses that'd be a lot cheaper and easily affordable for the general public, and the Royal one, with a private garden and a huge castle, the biggest building season I would ever see. Due to better relationships with the neighbouring countries, the Norvichian Crown, which stopped beimg used in the communist period, became a somehow recognized currency of exchange in more countries, especially Switzerland, RoTH and Neodrachia. Flow of goods and resources and a common currency led to the Kingdom being able to rapidly industrialize. The work of a great architect, vicktor\_, the mastermind and hand behind the castle, helped with the rapid rise of the Kingdom. Partisans were also pushed away from the lands of the Kingdom, and after attacking some zones from Neodrachia and Switzerland, they moved to the Republiс, which became an anarchy state.

On the 23rd of Novermber, a third and final vote would be held, because of the deteriorating status of the Republic. With the majority approval of all the nations and with the resignation of Semif, the Crown won the vote and reunited on the 24th of Novermber, 00:00. The last Republic Banner would be removed and Kingdom flags would fly again on the north soil.