KarlosGeek

KarlosGeek is the founder and Emperor of Bedrock and Alltidvinter, having created both on May 29 and May 30 respectively. As a Valkea that survived the Doom of Obsidiana he can be anywhere between 10.000 and 1.000.000 years old, but any number is an estimate as he "lost track of time" after surviving the disaster.

## Backstory

### Life in Obsidiana

KarlosGeek was born on Obsidiana centuries before the disaster, being son of the ruler at the time. Because of how Obsidiana's politics worked, he wasn't guaranteed the throne, but was one of the many possible candidates. He was introduced to the Iceborn religion at an early age, but wasn't a very religious person. It was at one of its schools that he met his closest friend, Assurdirapal.

While KarlosGeek was being raised to become the next ruler of Obsidiana, and was taught politics, economics and other valuable lessons for a great ruler, Assurdirapal rose the ranks of the Iceborn to the highest position of High Priest. He was also considered to be a prodigy, learning things way past his own age and advancing quickly in academics.

However, there was an obstacle in its path to becoming ruler of Obsidiana, the current ruler: his father. Unlike the previous rulers of Obsidiana, he was a staunch absolutist that put down rebellion after rebellion, revolt after revolt, unable to adapt to the changing environment of Obsidiana, as its population began to demand for more representation in the government, some even fighting for democracy and a republic.

Despite being a tyrant, he was very proficient in ice magic and ruled with an iron fist as the military and the Iceborn priests still supported him. For the common man, it all seemed hopeless. For KarlosGeek, he would need to be deposed at all costs.

### Doom of Obsidiana

However, everything changed when the Doom of Obsidiana happened. The priests, known to be very calm and polite, went crazy and mad, and soon after all magic users were weakening rapidly, with some no longer being able to perform magic. Soon enough everyone fled the city to other parts of the world, turning Obsidiana a ghost town.

Before it all happened though, Assurdirapal approached KarlosGeek, despite the rules and traditions of the High Priests tolding not to. In private, he told him that he knew about his plans to dethrone his father and rule over Obsidiana, but urged him not to. Using the hardest and most exhausting spell, he was able to show KarlosGeek a glimpse of the future and the upcoming disaster.

"If you wish to survive, I know of a place where our unusual biology could thrive without any lasting effects on your health. People are fleeing to random places without purpouse, and they will likely die out there, but there's nothing we can do about them. What's important is that we stay together: I reunited some of my closest and trustworthy friends, as well as a group of strangers, so we can start anew in this new place. You can be the ruler of our clan in this new settlement, where we'll keep our traditions and culture intact."

Despite everything, however, KarlosGeek refused. He felt as if he would be losing his title as nobility and wouldn't be of much help to this new settlement. Instead, he traveled alone to the many different biomes around Obsidiana, meeting people and making friends along the way.

He knew that his father's mistake was his resistance to change and inability to adapt, but he also saw Obsidiana's mistake of being a closed society that was very agressive to outsiders. Contrary to popular belief, everyone no matter which species had good and bad people, and they all had different ways to deal with them.

From traveling around the world, he learned about many different cultures, religions and species. Despite this, however, he always felt empty and devoid of happiness. He felt as if he abandoned his dreams of ruling an empire as glorious as Obsidiana, and that hurt him as deeply as not being able to save his people.

### Birth of Bedrock

Despite his friend's warnings, he came back to the place where Obsidiana once stood. Now the buildings made of snow and ice had melted and the town was in ruins. Any form of literature in ice carvings was lost forever, and the only things he knew about his own culture and religion were now nothing but distant memories.

While exploring the surroundings and going deeper into Obsidiana's deepest caves and tunnels, he felt as if something, or someone, was calling out to him from deep below. With weird feelings and sounds getting stronger and louder, he finally reached the deepest part of the world, prevented from continuining by an unbreakable rock.

Near this unbreakable rock, however, he would create the earliest version of what would become the Voidborn religion. Remembering about the Doom of Obsidiana, he came to the conclusion that their banished god had actually survived in the void, but was unable to contact its followers as they fled the town to high mountains and the only places cold enough for them to live. He felt that, in the deepest parts of the world, it was still possible to hear their god's wispers and feel its magic, although nowhere near as strongly as in Obsidiana.

Upon leaving the cave into the surface above, KarlosGeek decided that he would create Obsidiana again, but this time the town would not only welcome outsiders, but would be a bastion of peace and prosperity. It would be a great town like Obsidiana, but as strong and everlasting as Bedrock.

## Biography

### The Adventurer (1st Period)

Having created **Bedrock** at the center of the snowy biome, he also created in the next day the nation of **Alltidvinter**. Being alone, he dedicated his time to plan out the city as well as reform its political system. Resources were gathered as the town grew in numbers with its first Sovereign being appointed, **Mr\_Jamonn**, on May 30, 2021.

However, being a two citizens town resulted in a very slow progress considering buildings and low attractiveness to immigrants, so **KarlosGeek** decided to be the one to kill the Ender Dragon and have the only Dragon Egg in existance, causing the End Rush as the nations of Akrinou and **Cukur** didn't want to lose their position as superpowers.

After a hard battle with the Ender Dragon and the leader of **Cukur**, **LatroDR**, **KarlosGeek** managed to give the last hit and took the Dragon Egg. On his trip to The End, he also traveled to End Cities to collect powerful armours, tools and shulker boxes. However things began heating up as the leader of **Akrinou** at the time, **B2As**, felt more and more threatened by **Alltidvinter** as the day passed.

Setting aside their rivalry, **Alltidvinter** and **Cukur** made a secret agreement to come to each other's aid in case of a declaration of war from **Akrinou**. Together, they would be able to hold a chance against **Akrinou'**s superior manpower.

That didn't matter for much longer, however, as the Home-Biome Schism happened shortly after, and both **Akrinou** and **Cukur** fell into disarray. Akrinou would later split into Kyusoku and Cantonia, later forming Sunset.

With its main rivals defeated, **Alltidvinter** experienced a period of growth and prosperity that was abruptly ended with the beginning of the 2nd Period and Trostau's Golden Age.

### The Builder (2nd Period)

With **Trostau** growing to be much larger than **Akrinou** and **Cukur** at their peak, **KarlosGeek** felt constantly threatened by the "joke-threats" of Trostau's Deputy Tsar, **kraugel13**. Despite calling themselves a peaceful nation, they used their vast manpower and influence to exert power way beyond their borders.

The threat would soon be over when **KarlosGeek** proposed a Non-Agression Pact between **Alltidvinter** and **Trostau** on June 9, 2021. After a lot of efforts, relations between the two nations were so great that trade became very profitable to **Alltidvinter**, so much so that **KarlosGeek** decided to begin a very large construction project that would significantly reduce travel time between them: The One Canal.

The One Canal was a massive project that took many (real life) weeks, situated in the unofficial claims of **Akrinou**. **Akrinou** had given permission to build the canal and a guarantee free-pass to **Alltidvinter** for its construction, if it ever were to tax ships going through it. The canal also serves as the main connection between the East Sea and West Sea.

After many weeks without any activity, **KarlosGeek** would appoint KingOfTower as the second Sovereign of **Alltidvinter** on June 15, 2021.

### The Frail (3rd Period)

With the rise of **Sunset** and the towns of **Kyusoku**, Jordbruk and New Ratburg, **KarlosGeek** felt increasingly worried that Bedrock was falling behind as all his efforts were focused on building the canal instead of developing its city. After negotiations were made with the Emperor of Sunset, schwealer, the canal construction was passed to **Sunset**, but **KarlosGeek** and **Alltidvinter** would still take credit for it, as it was already in its finishing phase.

When he returned to **Bedrock**, he found it to be in decadence after many of the new immigrants were dissatisfied with the town's progress compared to the rest of the world. When **KingOfTower** renounced from his position as Sovereign and left, due to his unfulfilled need for anarchy, **Alltidvinter** reached its lowest point.

With only three members left in the nation, **KarlosGeek** would later appoint **SirFortune\_** as the third Sovereign of **Alltidvinter**. But now, with KarlosGeek's efforts focused on **Bedrock** and all of its aspects (administration, economy, politics, diplomacy), the town and nation's development began to speed up.

In a short matter of time, the first layer of Obsidian of the Castle Walls was ready, as well as a large portion of the Inner Walls. This was considered a personal achievement to him, a sign of what the future held for his town. However, rumors were spreading that **Alltidvinter-Bedrock** was a weak nation, destined to fail just like its old rivals of **Akrinou** and **Cukur**.

At that moment, KarlosGeek was at its lowest point, feeling ashamed of his failure to turn the nation into one worthy of respect. But it is in the deepest moments and in the darkest of times when the Vinterians are at their strongest.

His determination, the determination that brought to the world The One Canal, the greatest canal ever built, would not fail him. An unwielding desire to push forward no matter the odds, to outlast the storm and not flow down the river's current, kept him strong even at its lowest point.

He would later contact his close friends in **Sunset**, **Trostau** and **Anarchy** about their views on **Alltidvinter** only to be surprised by their kind words. Even when all hope seemed lost, when the world seemingly turned its back to him, kindness still thrived as if nothing ever happened.

What everyone agreed on is that **Bedrock** has the potential to become a massive town, even if the walls, still considered a crazy idea, are never finished. It was considered by many to be the most powerful nation after **Sunset** and **Trostau**, and one of the large nations influencing world politics.

Its main weakness was said to be the lack of citizens, but that would change with the arrival of the town and nation's newest member, **HELM\_**. His proactivity to help brough together all citizens of the nation to work together in the Castle Ring, skyrocketing the overall productivity and finishing the Castle Ring in record time.

Although this spike in production greatly improved the nation's situation, the rumors still circled around **KarlosGeek'**s head as ghosts in a haunted house. The desire to get new members and become a powerful nation faster was affecting its mental health, as this was something out of his control.

After seeking the advice of the God of the Abyss, he was told that his mind had the right intentions, but was walking in the wrong path. If the arrival of new citizens was out of his control, then his best course of action should be to make the best of what little he had. Quality over quantity should be his mindset from now on.

This recent encounter would also lead to a reform on the **Voidborn** religion with the beginning stages of **Altum Tenebris**, a holy book of sacred scriptures that would contain all the knowledge obtained by its followers, but carefully encrypted as to not fall into the wrong hands.

**KarlosGeek** would also start at this time the construction of the largest building of Alltidvinter-Bedrock, the core of the empire: the Forbidden Obsidian Castle. Its estimate size alone could rival that of entire cities, but such a large project would take a long time.

Althought all these reforms were good to revitalise the nation, they would soon prove to be their downfall. Attempts at militarizing its players with Protection IV Netherite Armour came to a halt when **KarlosGeek'**s balance went dry after buying too much Netherite for a high price.

His revitalised confidence would later turn to pride, and pride to disaster. Knowing that **Sunset** would later split into three, he started to draft war plans to take advantage of the newborn nations that would be born from it. A deal was made in secret where **Jordbruk** would join **Alltidvinter** before the war, but the plans were leaked and **KarlosGeek** would see himself between a rock and a hard place when **Kyusoku** declared war.

With little hope of winning and with his citizens being anti-war, **KarlosGeek** would surrender shortly after the war was declared, which further convinced the other nations in the world of **Alltidvinter'**s true power: none.

In a desperate attempt to keep his pride and reputation, **KarlosGeek** decided to face the might of **Kyusoku** alone. He rode his horse to the ruins of Cantonia and later to Kyusoku, killing **llbby** in a surprise attack. **Inflatious** would later come to her aid, and both would make him return to **Bedrock** crawling, barely able to talk.

### The Stubborn (4th Period)

Without his reputation, his pride and his friends and allies (**HELM\_** left the nation), **KarlosGeek** would again seek for advice with the God of the Abyss, only to be met with more hardship as it said:

"Quality over quantity. Those still are my words. But you were quick to twist them in your favour instead of taking your time to truly understand them. I expected this from a non follower, but you are the Deepest Prophet, the leader of the Voidborn. You shouldn't have done what you did. The world is not ready for my words yet, and you are no exception."

Once he heard those words, he had a realisation. He had betrayed his closest ally, his God, his people and the fundamental ideology of **Obsidiana**, **Bedrock** and **Alltidvinter**. With nothing left to lose, and no longer trusting his own judgement, he would reform **Alltidvinter** into the **Commonwealth** and give out power to a council.

The council's first debate would come in the form of the **Commonwealth'**s ideology and its core concepts. This would be solved with the creation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth.

The following debate was about the nation's new foreign policy and stance in the world. Despite siding with Isolationism at first, **KarlosGeek** would later change its mind in favour of Collaboration. To rebuild the nation, its reputation, rekindle old and forge new alliances would be a challenge, but **Bedrock** is a town known to take large scale projects head on and persevere where other would quit.

Despite still having a light at the end of the tunnel, it seems like things will never be the same for **KarlosGeek**. Now only a shadow of its former self, an empty shell barely capable of empathy, his hopes for the future barely made it out alive. He would only find solace at this time in writing Altum Tenebris and continuing the construction of the Inner Ring and the Forbidden Obsidian Castle, as he would no longer hold all the political power and solely responsible for the nation's decisions.

After a very long time spent only writing Altum Tenebris, KarlosGeek re-emerged from the depths of the world to find the world much different than he remembered. Everyone was quiet and every nation was peaceful, a very different reality from that of the war that ravaged the world when he dived deeper into the Voidborn.

Goods news soon arrived to him in the form of SumeRandomPotato offering to make a new town and join the **Commonwealth**. Alongside KarlosGeek he went and founded **Nordfjord**, a town north of **Bedrock** in a choke point in the West Sea. The town was developed to be a fortified town and act as a military base in the West Sea, with a massive wall with a single gate controlling the flow of ships and separating the sea West Sea into the West and Northwest Seas.

However bad news soon arrived in the form of the formation of the **Northern Lights**, a new nation comprising of the former **Commonwealth** towns of Deepslate (now Winterguard) and Nordfjord, as well as merging with the **Void Republic**. The town of Adua (now Stonebrick) was also invited to join, but they refused.

The formation of this nation was seen as a provokation by KarlosGeek, but despite showing interest in, he did not declare a war on them, knowing that **Lunos** would intervene to defend them or prevent them from making significant gains in said war. War was not necessary, however, as the **Northern Lights** began to weaken by themselves.