Pwn

*This article is about the Third Era citizen. You may be looking for **Dap**, a redstone engineer of the Fifth Era.*

## Pwn

* Dragonhollow
* Halfast

## General Details

### AKA

* PwnrdViaMCNerd
* mfranzs
* gosuq

### Era

* Third Era
* Eighth Era

## Ranks and Titles

* Commander of the Rough Riders
* Veteran

## Affiliation

* Rough Riders
* Northham Preservation Society
* Discord
* Halfast

**Pwn**, also known as **Pwnrd**, was a veteran of Dragonhollow's Third Era who operated as a mercenary in the Northham Wars and founded the Rough Riders. He later lived on Halfast.

# History

### Early Activities

Pwn arrived in Northham via airship on 3E:8.

He built a simple hovel out of cobble fencing adjacent to the capital, which he slowly expanded over time into what would become Pwn Place. As the Tower Defenses erupted in downtown Northham, he constructed a fortified minaret from which to do battle with his foes and store his accumulated loot.

Eventually he raised a taller nether brick tower with walls covered in cascading lava, housing an array of farms.

A skilled warrior, Pwn offered his services as a mercenary after war quickly broke out across the Northlands. He carried out a number of missions for the Dragonslayers, most notably hunting Zen after they put a bounty on his head.

Though he did not publicly vote in the Golden Apple Referendum, he did enter the discussion to defend the right to construct gold farms, a proxy issue that became hotly contested during the Third Era.

He hosted the Extreme Spleef Tournament on 3E:71, winning first place himself.

### Egg Larceny

    Pwn executed a daring heist on Dragonstone, stealing the dragon egg of Lorcan right out from underneath the Dragonslayers.

Attempting to save face, they called on the goddess Eris to punish him for his apparent sorcery, but his methods were legimate and broke none of her edicts. They then demanded that she produce a replacement egg in the interest of fairness, to which her only reply was the gleeful cackles echoing off their stone brick walls.

Pwn brazenly displayed the hijacked egg to the public at his residence, a very visible reminder of his embarassment of the Dragonslayers. In retaliation, they added him to their kill-on-sight list of enemies.

### Rough Riders

With the Northham Wars raging across the land, Pwn founded a new faction called the Rough Riders and recruited newcomers and the unaffiliated. They ebentually abandoned neutrality in favor of joining the fight against the Dragonslayers and began recruiting warriors.

After the war the Rough Riders took advantage of the power vacuum left in the wake of the Dragonslayers' banishment by preying upon lesser groups such as SugarColas and the Noble Royals but occasionally crossed swords and matched wits with the Organization for Unified Chaos and The Fabled.

They remained influential throughout the Third Era.

### Elite Deviance

Despite being members of the Justice League, E1ite and Nut were also members of Pwn's Rough Riders. As a result, there was a loose alliance between the two groups.

However, all that changed when E1ite gave Pwn a tour of the League's castle headquarters, the Hall of Justice. After item frames in their storage room turned up empty, E1ite accused Pwn of stealing valuables and vilified him to the rest of Dragonhollow. The two came to blows the next day, with E1ite emerging the victor.

Without consulting the rest of the faction, E1ite announced that the Justice League had declared war on the Rough Riders and that Pwn was kill-on-sight. He responded by secretly infiltrating the supposedly impregnable Hall of Justice by constructing a two-hundred meter dirt pillar and launching himself into the castle courtyard inside a boat. While he died in the process, Pwn was able to utter arcane words imbued with ancient power by Eris and set his home inside their walls as he fell.

As a final act of revenge, he posted instructions on how to replicate his method in the forum so all of Dragonhollow could gain entrance to the Hall of Justice.

E1ite's clanmates immediately denounced his actions and repudiated the idea that the Justice League was at war with the Rough Riders. Bloodwrath privately contacted Pwn and the two men were able to reach a diplomatic solution, resulting in Pwn removing the infiltration instructions and friendly relations were restored. Unfortunately, it was too late to prevent the Dragonslayers from learning the trick, and Spud was able to once again penetrate the fortress.

The peace did not last. When VideoGameDragon fled the League's warriors and joined the Rough Riders, they demanded that Pwn give him up. Pwn refused, having granted VGD clemency, and the two factions returned to an open state of war.

### Final Weeks on DH

On 3E:121, SugarDeww reported that Pwn's iron farm had ruptured and was infesting Northham with iron golems, arguing that it was causing distortions of time in the vicinity and requesting that either he or Eris take immediate action. Pwn responded promptly, installing several fixes that he felt would solve the problem. Not long thereafter, Nut discovered that it was actually Terry's farm causing the distortions. As a result, the Archpriestess Azureila began enforcing a new edict from Eris that forbade the existence of any such farm within five hundred meters of Northham that lacked an auto-kill mechanism, a policy that Pwn fully endorsed.

    Pwn joined the Northham Preservation Society and aided in efforts to beautify the areas in and around the capital. To do so, he created a massive metal tree statue constructed of iron and gold blocks.

On 3E:179, he unveiled his greatest creation, a giant man-made mountain near Northham named Pwn Peak.

Pwn disappeared just weeks later. He was not among the diaspora that fled the desolation of total war and made their exodus to Cabbage, nor did he return to Dragonhollow following the Dark Age. He was never seen on the planet again.

### Halfast

Many years after his departure from Dragonhollow, Pwn became curious whether the community was still together and came across a copy of the Dragonomicon, which pointed him in the direction of the faster-than-light communications network Discord where he was able to reunite with old faces from Dragonhollow.

On 8E:256, he set foot on the surface of Halfast and was bestowed the rank of veteran. He constructed a vast industrial complex and an automated item shop.

# Gallery

Pwn with Oz and Zerg at Tox's CabinPwn Place at nightHeads-up displayJack takes a selfie in front of Pwn's statueJack takes a selfie in front of Lorcan's eggZombos congegrate at Pwn's front door