Cosmic Caracalla

Crusader Reynauld

Squat with a Grudge

## Appearances

### Appears in

Season 2 (As Toga Time)Season 3 (As the Texan Republic and Texan Vietcongese Texas)

Season 4 (As Gnome Empire in Sweden)

Season 5 (As Gnome Empire in France)

Season 6 (As the Gnoman Empire in France)

Season 7 (As the Western Gnoman Empire in France)

Season 8 (As the Gnoman Republic in Italy)

Season 9 (As the Gnoman Republic and Gnoman Empire in Italy)

Season 10 (As the Gnoman Empire in Italy, then the Gnoman Empire in France)

### Debut

Season 2

*"Sex and communism is temporary, gnomes are forever"*

*"Real Chads don't need to put down others because they already know they're the best."*

*"Disdain for Plebs"*

Cosmic Caracalla is the current owner of the International Warfare & Economy Role Play server, and is the third and fifth owner of the server. He is known for reviving the server following the 6th Season Coup, reforming the server into a Republic, and putting Gnomes as the server mascot.

In addition to managing International Warfare and Economy Role Play server, Cosmic Caracalla owns his own personal server *Realm of the Gnome God*, a community hub for Gnomes with a Gnoman Empire roleplay.

Link to Realm of the Gnome God: https://discord.gg/DkeUGxp

## Early Roleplaying

Cosmic Caracalla, then known as Squat with a Grudge, first spoke the International Warfare and Economy Role Play server on July 16, 2020. This is also likely when Cosmic Caracalla first joined the server as he has a tendency to say something in a server the day he joins. This puts Cosmic Caracalla's entrance at the very end of Season 2, a few days before Season 3 began. While Cosmic Caracalla was first very inexperienced at the roleplay, often playing passively as seen in Season 3 and 4. During Season 2, Cosmic Caracalla played as the Toga Republic, and didn't take the roleplay very seriously. Cosmic Caracalla's first independent nation was the Texan Republic (Jokingly called the Texan Vietcong Republic after he colonized North Vietnam). During Season 3, the Texan Republic was overshadowed by GabrielRGOrdaz's *Third Mexican Empire* which became much more powerful than the Texan Republic. However, during Season 3 Cosmic Caracalla often posted Gnome memes, petitioning the owner, Preston, to add Gnome emojis. This constant petitioning would finally succeed and in Season 4, the emojis :Gnome\_1: :Gnome\_2: :Gnome\_3: and :Gnome\_4: would be accepted, with :Gnoem: and :GnomeTaco: being added later. During the final days of Season 3, Cosmic Caracalla would make a decision that would change the face of the roleplay forever. He decided to make Gnome Supersoldiers, the spiritual ancestors to the modern day Gnomans. These Gnome Supersoldiers would attempt to take over the world, but would fail and in a desperate gamble, the leader of the Gnome Supersoldiers would use a time machine to reset the world, leading to the events of Season 4.

During Season 4 Cosmic Caracalla would play as Gnome Sweden and managed to stay neutral the entire game, claiming all of Sweden, Norway, part of Estonia, and most of the UK. Other than that Cosmic Caracalla was not involved with the season despite talking in the server daily.

During Season 5, Cosmic Caracalla, now a map maker (and an extremely angry one at that) would joined two days late as France. Within those two days, nearby countries such as Germany, Spain, and even Italy had already taken parts of France. Despite this, Cosmic Caracalla was able to convince (whether through threats, diplomatic appeals, or claiming territory in nations that claimed French territory) his much more powerful neighbors to pull out of France. From there, Cosmic Caracalla would colonize Estonia, Luxembourg, Belgium, part of the Netherlands, Northern Italy (who's player left), and had a colonial empire. By the end of the season, France (called the Gnome Empire, the direct ancestor of the Gnoman Empire), was one of the major world powers, and had one of, if not the most GDP in the world.

Somewhere between the beginning of Season 5 and 6, Cosmic Caracalla would watch the youtube series *Unbiased History of Rome* and would become a major fan, putting characters in it as his avatar, and incorporating the Chads that appear in the series as Gnomes, forming the Gnomans. In the short lived and controversial Season 6, Cosmic Caracalla would play as the Western Gnoman Empire (Based in France or Italy), and despite the Season lasting only half a month, would take all of Italy, France, Northern Spain, Tunisia, and surrounding Northern Algeria, meaning he would be the only player able to colonize the land there unless someone started their own nation there, which would be surrounded by a much larger power.

However, Caracalla's (Who by Season 6 had changed their name to Flavius Aetius) victories were short lived, as an unstable and volatile climate resulted in nearly all the staff being demoted and a new team brought in. Caracalla, having been made a moderator a few hours before the change, strangely kept his position, although he stated he planned on resigning immediately, as he believed the new staff team would be dysfunctional at best and a catastrophe at worst. It is known that Caracalla was dming Preston at the time, and while most of the conversation is private, Caracalla urged Preston to reconsider his actions as he believed what Preston was doing would only lose him friends and hurt him in the long run. Caracalla, having been through a similar route before in his own rp (years ago) knew first hand what was going to happen and was determined to prevent it from happening again. However, what nobody expected was Preston deciding to demote the old staff and leave the server. When Preston offered the server ownership to Rev, it was refused. However, despite Caracalla's protests against it, he was made owner of the server.

## Cosmic Caracalla's Ownership and the Gnoman Renaissance

Unfortunately, the damage caused by the server instability was great. Many veterans had left, didn't want to roleplay anymore, or just simply were done with the whole ordeal. Server wide, many believed the server was over, and some suggested that the entire server be archived. While at first, Caracalla did indeed try to get things going, he failed, and many believed that there was no saving the server. At one point Caracalla was going to delete the server, but a server wide backlash convinced him otherwise, and he put the fate of the server to a singular poll. When most people voted to revive the server, Caracalla said he wasn't sure he would succeed, but he would try his best. He completely redid the staff, and brought in new members of the staff, and tasked them with helping fix many of the problems the roleplay had. At the behest of the staff and server, Caracalla would prematurely end Season 6 as too many people had left for the season to be viable. To that end, Season 7 was announced, which would take place immediately after World War 1.

In addition to resetting the roleplay, Caracalla was able to convince most of the people who had left during Season 6 to rejoin, but was unable to convince many of them to roleplay. However, Caracalla's staff team brought in much needed new blood into the stagnating server, and many of the people he brought in are staff today.

During Season 7, Caracalla would play France as the Western Gnoman Empire, and formed POG (Provinces of Gnome), an alliance that encompassed many of the former territories of the Gnoman (Roman) Empire. However, besides occassionally entering international politics, Season 7 had some problems with a mostly passive Russia and a Germany that was constantly harassed by its neighbors whenever it tried to do anything. This resulted in France being able to keep its colonial possessions by the end of the Season.

During Season 8, a 2020 rp, Caracalla would play as the Gnoman Republic. Caracalla was mainly focused on school and grades and besides taking Tunisia, Algeria, Albania, and diplomatically annexing Greece, would play little role overall. Again, Caracalla created the POG alliance.

During Season 9, another 2020 rp, Caracalla would play as the Gnoman Republic before reforming into the Gnoman Empire. Suprisingly, Caracalla would play extremely aggressive, immediately attacking Tunisia and Algeria before taking Libya. From there Caracalla would once again annex a collapsing Byzantium before taking part of the Serbian Empire. Allied with Germany, Caracalla was intently focused on restoring his old Gnoman Empire borders, which often brought him into conflict with Germany and even other nations as he often had to deny them territorial expansion, something which greatly displeased Germany. It came to the point where Germany threatened to leave POG after Caracalla was able to diplomatically annex England while they were at war with the Gnoman Empire, Russia, and Germany. However, Caracalla was able to annex Spain (played by Jew Man) and conquer France with the help of Germany. By the end of the Season, The Gnoman Empire and Germany were titans of the world, and together arguablly formed the strongest alliance in the server history.

However, more server instability had been growing. During Season 7, Preston had rejoined the server and wanted his ownership back. Caracalla worried that Preston might delete the server if he did (which Preston had said he would when he was extremely stress). Caracalla was willing to part ownership at first, and even made Preston an admin just to make sure everything was alright, but after Preston banned two people without approval, was demoted for admin abuse. After that, certain parts of the community refused to view Caracalla as the legitimate owner, and constantly argued with him to get him to give up his ownership. This led to Caracalla becoming more and more distant from the server, and despite banning some of the people for harassment, was convinced to unban them under the promise they wouldn't harass him (which they did). This constant back and forth argument over the ownership of the server, along with Caracalla's increasingly becoming distant to the server because of it, caused a sizable portion of the community to become dissatisfied with him as owner despite his accomplishments. Eventually, Cosmic Caracalla was given a list of proposed changes the group wanted. Caracalla rejected two outright stating he didn't think they were possible to implement or he didn't agree with them morally, agreed with two and suggested they get an admin to propose the changes, and stated the rest were feasible, but needed some working on before they should be proposed. This angered the group, who wanted Caracalla to accept all the changes, but it only caused Caracalla to leave the group chat. Later that day, Caracalla would discover there was a conspiracy against him. After outing the conspirators, he decided to be lenient in his judgement, and only banned the leader of the coup attempt.

Sadly, Caracalla was too late, and the coup had already gained momentum. About an hour later Caracalla was given an ultimatum by the server admins (many being around since Preston was owner and having been kept around by Caracalla) to give up his ownership immediately to a server admin. Caracalla asked to be given time to think, and was only given 20 minutes. For Caracalla, he saw two options: Give up the server power and everything he had built, which wouldn't be so bad. He was already considering retiring for a while, and had been secretly preparing Rev, his co-owner, to become owner. But in Caracalla's eyes, Rev had been complicit, if not part of the staff coup, which was unacceptable, both morally and logically, as Caracalla had been preparing Rev because Caracalla thought Rev would be able to respect the ownership, even if Rev and Caracalla disagreed on an issue. The other, less preferable, option was to demote the staff, restructure the server, and start right back where he had begun his ownership. Caracalla knew this would just lead to a massive backlash, one that might even permanently kill the server this time. However, just as Caracalla was about to give up his ownership, an idea struck him.

During the first server coup, many of the old staff had made their own discord to regroup, and ideas of a republic that was controlled by elected staff had been proposed, but ultimately rejected as discord's format didn't allow for it. However, if an owner was able to simply not control the server, it just might be possible. Coincidentally, it also lined perfectly with his other goal he had wanted to do for a while, staff reforms. During his time as owner, he had allowed the admins to propose changes to the server and vote on them, but they never proposed anything before demanding Caracalla's resignation. This had to change, and so, Caracalla made decision in 15 minutes.

## A New Republic

Caracalla's response to the coup was swift and brutal, but necessary to the long term survivability of the server. Every single staff was demoted besides the GMs and Map Makers, since they needed to keep the roleplay running. The only person spared of the staff purge was East Coast, who had given a weeks notice to become active or be demoted, and Caracalla thought it wouldn't be fair to demote him after he had just been given a warning. From there, Caracalla announced his changes to the server. A republic would be installed in which moderators would run for admin and be elected by the public. The admins would hold moderator applications and vote on them, and both admins and moderators could propose changes to the server, with moderator proposals being voted on by the admins if they passed. Caracalla would host the first round of moderator applications- with over 20 people applying- and sort the applications into a tier list based on quality of the application that he used to decide the new staff team. Many of the staff members were added due to these applications. Finally, Caracalla announced he would be retiring on February 1st.

Caracalla would oversee the rest of Season 9 without incident, and the new staff team was able to manage well enough on their own. On February 1st, Caracalla announced he was retiring a day early, and would no longer be moderating the server, as both his will and ability to do so were at an all time low. Sadly, despite Caracalla willingly abdicating his power, certain sects of the server still mistrusted him, and demanded he give away his ownership to an admin again. This upset Caracalla to the point where he gave ownership to his friend Jew Man and left the server.

After leaving the server, Caracalla would focus on his personal server, *Realm of the Gnome God,* and create a Gnoman Empire roleplay starting in the year 117 AD. Caracalla would occasionally ask people in his personal server about news of the main server, but appeared to be disinterested from rejoining. A few days later, however, Caracalla would rejoin the International Warfare & Economy Role Play server, stating that he kept getting complaints about the server while he was gone, and at that point he might as well not have left the server. Caracalla then gave Rev some tips on reviving the server, before playing as France in Season 10. He had previously played Italy in Season 10 before he left, but decided to change countries with his return.

Since then, Jew Man (who has never wanted to be owner, stating he hates the server and community with a passion) has given Caracalla ownership of the server, and Caracalla continues his retirement, more than happy to allow the staff to run the server instead of him.

## Trivia

* Caracalla is a fan of Dovahhatty, and has stated his show inspired him to combine chads and gnomes to become Gnomans
* Caracalla often hides Gnome Child, a character from Runescape, in his pfp.
* Caracalla claims to follow the religion of Gnoman Paganism, but this is unconfirmed.
* Caracalla is the first player to legitimately form the Western Roman Empire in a Season after controlling nearly all Western Roman Empire territory.
* Caracalla is also the first player to legitimately form the Roman Empire in a Season after taking control of most of the Mediterranean outside of Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Syria, and Lebanon. (Pope themobb1 had tried to create Rome, but was instead left with 3rd Rome, in which he only held onto Wales, Cornwall, all of Italy, Constantinople, and a joint union of Russia with JL.)
* Caracalla is a gamer, and plays Runescape.
* Caracalla holds a deep hatred of Goblins, the mortal enemy of Gnomes.
* Caracalla singlehandedly brought Gnomes to prominence in the server and got them to be the server mascot without becoming staff.