The 1st Realm

**The 1st Realm**, also known as **Kellogg's Realm**, was the first Minecraft multiplayer realm the League of Mothers would make. Due to much fun occurring on it, it would start a trend within the group to regularly create multiplayer realms and servers to play. It is remembered quite fondly as one of, if not the best world made (though mainly due to nostalgia). It was created by Kelloggs on the 15th - 16th of March 2019. As said, it would start a trend where most LOM members would use up their free month of Minecraft Realms to host a world. However, doing so would prevent most worlds from existing for over a month, ending fairly soon (until members started to actually get some money). Nonetheless, the realm felt as if it lasted much longer than it did, becoming an iconic part of LOM lore.

**The History**

    Once creating the realm, Kelloggs and Rusty would spawn in a dark oak forest and would create a small little outpost at spawn for people when they'd join. Later on during the same day, Elyag and Shmexi would join the world. The four of them would each craft a boat nearby and set sail to find a place for them all to build. They literally just sailed around the corner of the island and settled upon a plains hill. Over time, the settlement would take shape, with Kelloggs calling for it to be named. Although both somewhat disagree on who trully gave its official name, it is mostly agreed upon that Kelloggs came up with the idea of it being named '**Ian Town**', named after one of the players who settled the land first. However, Elyag came up with the idea of its official name being called '**IAN IAN IAN IAN IAN IAN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN**', with a sign over the entrance of the town bearing that as its title, with the town's symbol being two diamond hoes. Sometime later, the infamous RoxyVelma and the lord of trolling himself KB would join the realm, though would settle much further away from the island, (now named 'Ian Island') and would move onto the mainland of the world. The late member of the LOM, Weeb (not actually dead btw) would also join the world and settle in Ian Town, making a Japanese inspired build, a wooden pagoda on the ocean next to the island. This build would inspire the other members of the world to create impressive builds. These included: Shmexi's castle, Elyag's Arena/Colosseum, Kellogg's bridge to the mainland and RoxyVelma's viking inspired long house, with Rusty updating the core part of Ian Town. For a while, the server felt very much alive and thrived. However, like all Minecraft worlds, they eventually come to an end, in this case quite literally.

Though the exact causes for the realm coming to its end are jumbled up and controversial, there are multiple reasons for why it did. One of the most infamous of these being where Rusty would strike out and kill the Ender Dragon on his own. Most of the members were quite annoyed Rusty had done it by himself, hoping they'd all go do it together. Rusty was apologetic about it (even still to modern day), and although some of the members were a bit distrustful of him for a while, most of the realm would forgive him. Another reason was due to the server having the gamerules of 'keep inventory' and 'TP' on. Whilst at first it was fairly helpful, it made the idea of dying or travelling nothing to be particularly scared about and so there was no feeling of danger for losing your items or levels, losing a big part of what makes survival mode what it is. It also created a problem where players who had a more trollish mindset would constantly attack and fight each other, with an example being RoxyVelma, creating what he called an "assassins guild" in order to kill unsuspecting players if people had "paid him" to do so. Whilst at first it was quite funny, over time it did get a bit irritating, with eventually the only person who would order for people to die being from Shmexi. Despite this, Elyag created the arena so it would calm down much more, which it did. But still, there was never any feeling of great worry about dying, as ironic as it sounds. Another reason was due to there being no space for people to build in Ian Town. Although now looking back, there probably was room, but it made both Kelloggs and RoxyVelma move away to create their own builds. Due to the previously stated problem and wanting to build something epic in secret, Kelloggs would move a few thousand blocks away to try and work on his project of the Greek inspired Acropolis. However, it would never be done and would become an iconic trait of his, where in most realms he'd try to create it but would give up every time. However, probably one of the main reasons for its demise would be near the server's ending. After nearly a month of it being active, RoxyVelma would persuade Kelloggs to perform an act of trolling with him. They would both partake in some tomfoolery in attacking the bases of KB, hidden not far from RoxyVelma's abode. Then they'd blow up and grief the majority of Ian Town, putting the blame onto KB and legitimately fooling the members that it had been him, resulting in Elyag and Shmexi going on a manhunt for KB. Rusty however would side with KB, knowing something wasn't quite right. They would go thousands of blocks out, creating the first hidden base, another infamous/iconic trait which would follow mostly Rusty throughout the following realms and servers to come. Eventually, Kelloggs and RoxyVelma would fess up, seeing that people were getting genuinely annoyed about it all.

In conclusion, the realm would end on a bittersweet note. Though it had ended in carnage and a little bit of trolling, it had also been a great world and one of the only ones that felt like there was a sense of proper community, a trait that would lose itself from the following servers for quite some time. Nonetheless, the realm is still highly regarded by the League and overall seen as a nostalgic period for those who were on it. Later realms and servers would try to emulate the good things about it due to its lasting legacy. It would be followed by The 2nd Realm, created by Elyag.

Sometime after Rusty's Second Modded Server, this realm and world was set up again briefly for a group of LOM members to battle it out, mainly doing some sort of version of Minecraft manhunt. Many sky-towers were built on the Island of Ian Town to escape the hunter, making the world look even more of a mess.