The 2nd Realm

**The 2nd Realm**, also known as **Elyag's Realm**, was the second Minecraft multiplayer realm the League of Mothers would make. It was created by Elyag around the 7th of August 2019. Unlike the first one before it, it would last beyond a month due to the members forgetting to do 'the End'. Many of the failures of the last realm were taken into account during the span of this one, with a changing of certain rules and allowances to give it more of a survival feel such as turning off 'keep inventory' and 'TP'. Though in hindsight, it is somewhat believed there was too much worry of trying not to be like the original realm, as there were many elements that did make it good. However, after doing The End, not much else was done and thus it came to an actual end. Though, unlike the bittersweet ending of the previous realm, this one generally felt far more relaxed and safe to play on, whilst still having its moments of chaos that have arguably not been seen since.

**The History**

Once starting the realm, Elyag would spawn in a dark oak forest. This would confirm Elyag's greatest fear that he is in fact cursed with only ever spawning in a dark oak forest biome in every world he ever makes. Later on Rusty, Shmexi and Joker would join, eventually settling not far north of spawn on a hilly plains biome. The other members such as Kelloggs and RoxyVelma would slowly come on, with the town taking shape and being named '**Ian Town II (:Electric Boogaloo)**'. It was made a priority that the town was not to have any walls around it, unlike in the original Ian Town from the first realm. It was believed the walls made it very difficult for newer players to want to come live inside, or for the original members to make their houses any bigger. Events such as a horde of falling chickens descending from the sky, with it's last survivor being named 'Council', a figurehead of the town who would decide your fate if you'd messed up, would become an iconic part of the realm. Also during the start, there was a skirmish between RoxyVelma, Shmexi and Rusty which resulted in a large dirt and stone tower near the settlement. Though many of the residents of the town wanted to keep it as a reminder of what happened, Kelloggs desperately wanted to tear it down, but was alas told he couldn't. Similar to how the first Ian Town was made at its start, there was an almost unintentional building pattern of all of the resident's residents, mainly using cobblestone and dark oak wooden planks. Eylag's house would be styled like a viking longhouse. Shmexi would create a house, bearing certain similar vibe to the one in the first Ian Town, referencing a certain fascist government in 1930s to mid-1940s Germany. Joker would create his house on stilts over the beach and looking onto the ocean, with Rusty creating the largest of the houses and making an almost mayor's office sort of build. Kelloggs would create a lighthouse for his residence on the northern edge of the town. However later on he would move to an island north of the town and would build his own wonder 'The Gayet Lighthouse', a mock build of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria. Though after it was built would try to move again and work on another project, but couldn't decide where to build it for a long time. At some point, KB, the lord of trolling himself, arrived on the world. He still had vengeance to what had happened to him and his builds on the last realm and would make it his mission to find and troll the other members bases when he deemed it appropriate. Due to this and the fact that people wanted to move away and build their own homes and bases, the members of Ian Town II collectively agreed to blow it up in style (somewhat), with Kelloggs even recording the video and putting it on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DgQSfM4yk&t=13s, Though as Elyag's stated, it was rather "anticlimactic". After the destruction of the town, the members built their own builds further away. Shmexi would build a large base on the surface of the ocean. Elyag would make his house on an island northwest of Ian Town II with a large nether portal inside of an arch on the cliff side. Kelloggs would begin work on his second attempt at building the Acropolis of Athens, north of the island where he put his lighthouse. However, it would once again come to nothing more than a small temple-like building and nothing like the actual real thing. It's believed Rusty once again made an underground bunker base and it's unknown if RoxyVelma made a base or not. Joker would make a fancy half hidden base underneath a big tree in the dark oak forest and KB would over time create perhaps the most tedious but best build of the world with his underwater/ocean base, alongside building an impressive village that almost resembled a large town with large cobblestone walls.

As the server was coming to its eventual end, the members were to make sure Rusty would not go do major dungeon raids and end bosses all by himself. A team of Rusty, Elyag, Kelloggs and RoxyVelma would venture out into the ocean to do (for some of them the first time) an ocean monument. As stated in the introduction, the server came to an end with the players forgetting that they hadn't done 'The End'. Though Elyag would actually pay for one more month, he himself did not join the group of Shmexi, Kelloggs and KB to fight the Ender Dragon. Rusty was most likely unavailable to join at the time but was also fine with not joining after what had happened in the previous server. Kelloggs would once again record his adventure in slaying the Ender Dragon, getting the final blow with one of his arrows (though missing many shots in the process). The footage of the fight would be put on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW4xYIgU5O4&t=26s. After completing The End there was a sense of not much to do, even though Elyag had bought the world some more time. Though Kelloggs would now and then attempt to fix his acropolis style build, he lacked a great deal of motivation to work on it. Another thing that scared him a great deal was when KB and Rusty found his base that he made sure was fairly obscured to find, covering up his nether portal. A long time after the realm came to an end, Rusty would later admit they used X-Ray to find Kellogg's portal and vowed to not use something like that again. Still, Kelloggs was worried to do anything, especially as KB was threatening to troll his build for payback after the last world. Thus the realm came to a conclusion. The realm is remembered overall as a fond experience, though in hindsight, Elyag has said the world felt like it was at a slower pace compared to the previous realm. As stated earlier, there was too much fear of letting the failures of the first realm affect with this one. As such there was an emphasis of doing everything together rather than doing things individually. Nonetheless, it is still remembered as one of the best realms the League has played on.