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{{Infobox person|image=Orinnari.png|caption=Orinnari|citizenships={{flag|Icenia}}|known_for=Being the puppet-master of Civclassic.|main_residence=|first_civ_server=[[CivClassic|CivClassics]]|known_iterations=[[CivClassic|CivClassics]] </br>[[CivEx: First Light]] </br>[[CivRev|CivRevolution]] </br>[[CivMC]]|reddit=[https://www.reddit.com/user/Kroolista/ Kroolista]|languages=English|discord=dioxain|custom_personal_info_data1=Father of Phantoms}}'''Orinnari''' joined [[CivClassic 2.0]] in July of 2017 having played no prior iteration. He's a sporadic developer and currently a citizen of [[Icenia (CivMC)|Icenia]].
{{Infobox person|image=Orinnari.png|caption=Orinnari|citizenships=[[Ashelor]]
 
[[file:Yoahtl_Flag.png|20px]][[Yoahtl]]
 
[[file:Nyasaland.png|20px]][[Nyasaland]]
 
[[file:Adinaflag.jpg|20px]][[Adina]]
 
[[File:Southshire Flag.png|20px]][[Southshire]]|known_for=Sperging|main_residence=[[Yoahtl#New_Yoahtl_City|NYC]]|first_civ_server=[[CivClassic|CivClassics]]|known_iterations=[[CivClassic|CivClassics]] </br>[[CivEx: First Light]]|reddit=[https://www.reddit.com/user/Kroolista/ Kroolista]|languages=English|discord=Dioxain#2968|custom_personal_info_data1=Only remembers that which was said in an argument.}}
 
=Orinnari=
 
Orinnari joined Civclassic in July of 2017 having played no prior iteration and currently has citizenship of Yoahtl, Ashelor, Southshire, Nyasaland, and the Commonwealth (maybe), but resides in Yoahtl and Ashelor, which is a town of Yoahtl.
 
==History==
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===Joining===
 
Orinnari joined after athe [https://old.reddit.com/r/worldpowers/ /r/WorldPowers] community Minecraft server shut down. He found himself playing the Minecraft server more than theWorldPowers meta gameitself, so a friend from the subreddit, ([[DarkyDu]],) suggested [[CivclassicCivClassic|CivClassics]]. He joinedinitially thesettled serverin and[[Westeros]] after some [[Chat#Mechanics|local -chat]] exchanges, settled [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/westeros/orin-settlement/ here] just above, ''and fifteen blocks below'', contemporary [[Anburon]]. He plannedplanning onto buildingbuild a small house with a large basement, but quickly lost interest in the server and covered the basement hole.
 
===The Plantation===
 
[[File:Old-commonwealth-district-map.png|thumb|District map of the Commonwealth showing The Plantation, Strassburg, and Southend.]]
 
[[File:Old-commonwealth-district-map.png|thumb|District map of the Commonwealth showing The Plantation, Strassburg, and the unclaimed area that would become Southshire.]]
Not long after, [[DarkyDu]] suggested joining him in the [[Commonwealth]] where he owned the area known then as The Plantation, now known as Arran. Orinnari accepted and began levelling out an area of roofed forest along the south western coast. This was until [[SirCrowley]] raided the [[Commonwealth]] on 17th June 2017. At the time not much could be done but logout and hope he got bored before doing any significant damage, however everything Orinnari owned was stolen or despawned.
 
Not long after, [[DarkyDu]] suggested joining him in the [[Commonwealth]] where he owned the area known then as The Plantation. Orinnari accepted and began levelling out a small area of roofed forest along the south western coast. This was until [[SirCrowley]] raided the [[Commonwealth]] on 17th June 2017. At the time not much could be done but logout and hope he got bored before doing any significant damage, however everything Orinnari owned was stolen or despawned. Orinnari then attempted to make an underground base in the hopes of steering clear of any future raiders while still remaining close to population centres. This however fell flat within a day or two when he discovered how [[RealisticBiomes]] was preventing his farms from growing.
===Hidden base===
 
Orinnari decided to move to the [[Commonwealth]]'s then unnamed capital for more protection and integration with the community. But on 20th June 2017 he bore witness to and was the victim of an episode of [[MiloY]], who had grown angry at his fellow countrymen for surpassing an unclear boundary and so began to destroy any and all such property surpassing that boundary. This lead to a feeling of alienation since the first week or so of playing had been so unfruitful.
Orinnari then attempted to make an [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/commonwealth/underground-base/ underground base] in the hopes of steering clear of any future raiders while still remaining close to population centres. This however fell flat within a day or two when he discovered how RealisticBiomes was preventing his farms from growing.
 
===Commonwealth capitol===
 
Orinnari decided to move to the [[Commonwealth]]'s then unnamed capitol for more protection and integration with the community. But on 20th June 2017 he bore witness to and was the victim of an [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/commonwealth/miloy-incident/ episode of MiloY], who had grown angry at his fellow countrymen for surpassing an unclear boundary and so began to destroy any and all such property surpassing that boundary. This lead to a feeling of alienation since the first week or so of playing had been so unfruitful.
 
===Strassburg===
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[[File:Miloy-manor-bridge-strassburg.png|thumb|MiloY's manor and its bridge to Stassburg.]]
 
[[Fadedsoul]] invited Orinnari to join him is Strassburg, a German -themed settlementborough within a snow biome. He accepted though he did not like the snow biome, nor the build style restrictions of [[Strassburg]], so he built a [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/commonwealth/strassburg-house/ cliffside house] and a staircase to it, both of which largely remain intact. Soon after, [[StrPlatinum]] joined him in Strassburg after his own experiences with [[MiloY]]. Additional drama occurred when [[fadedsoul]] decided to remove a bridge between [[MiloY]]'s manor and Strassburg. That being said, after a frank and earnest discussion of politics, Orinnari and [[MiloY]] came to respect each other even if they didn't agree, and [[MiloY]] unexpectedly appeared in Strassburg territory, taking a huge risk in doing so, to return Orinnari's items that were taken during the [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/commonwealth/miloy-incident/ boundary issue].
 
Additional drama occurred when [[fadedsoul]] decided to remove a bridge between [[MiloY]]'s manor and Strassburg. That being said, after a frank and earnest discussion of politics, Orinnari and [[MiloY]] came to respect each other even if they didn't agree, and [[MiloY]] unexpectedly visited Orinnari, a not-insignificant risk, to return the items taken during the boundary issue.
 
===Founding Southshire===
 
Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] decided to search for a place to settle a new borough on 25th June 2017, as while they both appreciated [[fadedsoul]]'s hospitality, they didn't agree with [[Strassburg]]'s direction. A few potential areas were explored but Orinnari then Orinnari spotted the empty peninsular south -west of the Capital District, nowwhich later became known as Southend. They[[StrPlatinum]] explored and after finding itacquiesced to be a roofed forest biome, Orinnari's practically begged for thempleas to settle there, andafter they did,exploring and that'sfinding howit [[Southshire]]to wasbe foundeda roofed-forest biome. [[StrPlatinum]] suggested calling it "Niro" ("Orin" backwards) however Orinnari suggested "Southshire", a play-on name of [https://www.wowhead.com/zone=6170/northshire Northshire] from [https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ World of Warcraft], since it was south of [[The Commonwealth|Westminster]]. Orinnari then laid out most of what is now known as the [https://civclassic.mirahezecivwiki.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Southshire.png Downtown Area]: the roads, the river, the train station and underground rail tunnel, the bank, the farms, the plots, and the factory building.
 
===Harassment from a mercenary===
 
On 2nd July 2017, Tabby, a [[Commonwealth]] citizen, hired a bounty hunter to pursue an alleged griefer named [[DurianSmash]]. [[DurianSmash|Durian]] had been given a plot within [[Southshire]] after being driven out of the capitolcapital - which mirrored the experiences ofsomething Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] could sympathise with - but was interpreted by Tabby as [[Southshire]] protecting and perhaps even funding an unrepentant griefer. [[Zayshi]], the bounty hunter, arrived at [[Southshire]] and started behaving ominously, checking chests, minorminorly griefing, and minorminorly harassing. Tabby warned that Orinnari might "try stuff" if [[DurianSmash|Durian]] was captured, and [[Zayshi]] soon went rogue and attacked Orinnari and attempted to break into his home.
 
===Southshire's reconstruction===
 
On 10th July 2017, after Orinnari had visited the [[The Commonwealth|Commonwealth]]'s capitolcapital, he took a liking to the canal design and began a reconstruction of [[Southshire]], replacing the dirt -bank river with a network of canalscanal though without the prohibition on bridges. The reconstruction resulted in the bank being sacrificed and the factory beingbuilding being sacrificed and moved respectively. It is also when Orinnari rebuilt his home.
 
[[File:Southshire-pre-rebuild.png|thumb|Southshire pre-reconstruction]]
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=== The third councillor ===
Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] had been the only two members of the councilCouncil, a body created by Orinnari to decide things together, or at the very least keep the other informed on any decisions made. Around mid July 2017 a new player called [[SamuelV]] joined [[Southshire]] and immediately showed a skill for building. After a few days, Orinnari and [[StrPlatinum]] both decided to extend an invite to [[SamuelV]] to join the councilCouncil. This would lead to the start of the [https://civclassic.mirahezecivwiki.org/wiki/Southshire#Building_Era Building Era.]
 
===mrmamizoupie===
 
Around the 15th August 2017, a [[Southshire]] and [[Commonwealth]] citizen known as [[mrmamizoupie]] was pearled. The people of [[Southshire]] (also known as Southshians<ref>https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/southshire/immigration-reform/</ref>) were naturally outraged that a friend and citizen had been pearled within and removed from [[Southshire]] territory, particularly when there was at the time seemingly no rhyme or reason. Information was slowly released over the next day or two. On 17th June 2017, Orinnari stated [[Southshire]]'s position:
 
:"Mami commited crimes abroad, but then he became a citizen of [[Southshire]] and therefore the citizen of the [[Commonwealth]]. Now, I have been told that the [[Commonwealth]] does not intervene in cases of extradition in cases where someone has been pearled for crimes abroad, however, [[Southshire]] does intervene, and because he was a [[Southshire]] citizen and pearled in [[Southshire]], we feel we have a right to a say and to block extradition. However, we can be overruled by the [[Commonwealth]].... so we need a ruling over whether Mami can and will be extradited."
 
[[MiloY]], who then seemed to chair the [[Commonwealth]]'s response to this matter, agreed with Orinnari's interpretation of the law and brought up precedent made in previous iterations of civ, that the [[Commonwealth]] traditionally does not prevent extradition. The conversation was then taken into relevant channels and voice chats where the [[Commonwealth]] gathered its most trusted citizens to rule on the issue and taking [[Southshire]]'s voice into consideration, but ultimately voted to allow the extradition.
 
However a new issue arose: the [[Commonwealth]] had been operating under the assumption that the pearl was held by [[Southshire]], and [[Southshire]] believed the opposite, and so when a vocal minority within [[Southshire]] began to conspire to break [[mrmamizoupie]] free and that the pearl wasn't being handed over, the [[Commonwealth]] assumed that [[Southshire]] had gone rogue. It turned out however that the pearl's owner, [[ThePayman]], wanted his own set of demands met before relinquishing the pearl. The [[Commonwealth]] managed to talk [[ThePayman]] down from these demands since an agreement had already been made and would otherwise create an international incident.
 
On 19th August 2017 when the situation was resolved and [[mrmamizoupie]] was going to be tried ([https://soundcloud.com/user-62544271/justice-discord-8-18-2017-10-24-59-pm-2 listen here]), Orinnari felt extremely exhausted since he had dedicated several days to this issue and the conversation surrounding it was extremely toxic and boiling over. Orinnari had received accusations and verbal abuse which he was woefully prepared for.
 
===Oakhurst's creation===
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[[File:Oakhurst-southend-government-building.jpg|thumb|Oakhurst's government building and Orinnari's manor]]
 
[[Oakhurst]] was an area within [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/southshire/land-claims/ Southend] that Orinnari had been building in for about a week or so since his house was at the time was dead centre of [[Southshire]https://civwiki.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Southshire.png Downtown] and didn't like the sheer amount of snitch pings from passers-by. After the [[Trial of mrmamizoupie]], pearl situationOrinnari was resolved,exhausted Orinnariand annexedwanted theto land,get therebyout creatingof Oakhurst,the andspotlight thenso steppedstood down from the councilCouncil, inannexing an[[Oakhurst]] attempt to get out ofin the spotlightprocess. [[Oakhurst]] was intended to behave like the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc City of London] and even created the title of "Lord Mayor" to cement that connection. [[Oakhurst]]'s creation didn't receive any resistance from the councilCouncil at the time since Orinnari co-founded [[Southshire]] and they felt he had the right to claim some land for himself.<blockquote>As other things are happening right now, I will keep this short and to the point. The peninsular that I have claimed has now split, legally speaking, from Southshire. It will not become another borough, nor is it claiming independence from the Commonwealth. It is becoming something akin to The City of London, not to be confused with London. And as such, I hereby formally rescind my councilCouncil member status, and any roles that included or implied. I will transfer ownership of the Citadel groups of Southshire, as well as the website's GitHub repository. I am formally dissociating myself with Southshire in order to live and build on my own, to be left alone.</blockquote>[[File:Oakhurst-southshire-view.png|thumb|View of Southshire from Oakhurst]]
 
===Returning to Southshire===
 
Orinnari's proclaimedstated desire to dissociate from [[Southshire]] did not last long. When [[JC]], Orinnari's successor, decided theto step down on 28th August 2017, Orinnari knew this could be an opportunity to rejoin [[Southshire]]. He knew that his stepping down was a moment of weakness, that after a week he had rested and recovered and was willing to rejoin the councilCouncil ifshould they wantedwant him back. HisThe problem however was that, bywhile theOrinnari timewas hetyping contacteda message to [[StrPlatinum]], theyan hadelection alreadywas announced. toOrinnari thebegrudgingly [[Southshire]]decided discordto thatrun theas replacementa wouldcandidate, beknowing decidedhe bywould electionprobably fail.
 
During the discussions of Orinnari runningsome forcandidate councilquestions, [[Charlameme]] brought up athat potential conflict on interest becausesince Orinnari was the leaderowner of [[Oakhurst]], an autonomous territory of [[Southshire]], and was running to become a councilCouncil member of [[Southshire]], thusthere could be a conflict of interest. Thus after some hours of negotiation and agreement, the following deal was struck:
 
{{Quote
|text=As I am unable to simultaneously hold the position of Councillor and Lord Mayor of Oakhurst, this is my statement on how that would be resolved. If elected, the autonomous district of Oakhurst, where I am the sole resident and owner of, will be encapsulated into [[Southshire]] proper. All Oakhurst laws, building codes, criminal codes, and other miscellaneous government enactments, will be placed on hold, to no longer be legally binding or enforceable. The land of Oakhurst will become my personal private property within Southend, with all the protections that includes under law. Oakhurst shall remain in this state until such time where I leave, or are otherwise removed from the council, whereby Oakhurst returns to its previous state and I am reinstated as its sole owner and leader.
 
It should be noted that this statement only becomes binding once the council votes to legitimise it, and then being elected into the council. If only one of the two occur, or happens in the wrong order, the statement becomes null and void. It is also not my intention for my statement to set a precedent, instead I would ask to keep any future agreements on how to resolve conflicts of interest on a case by case basis.
}}
 
That kind of negotiating rejuvenated Orinnari's drive to be a legislator, but he also knew he wasn't a people person, which made the inevitable loss of the election even more impactful. He ran not as a John Doe, but as a co-founder, as a previous councilCouncil member, as the builder of [[Southshire]], as a writer of its laws; he knew he wasn't popular but hoped that people would elect him on his ability rather than on popularity, but he ended up losing disproportionately to Callum.
 
===Oakhurst's boroughification===
 
The complete and total loss of the election lead Orinnari to believe he wasn't welcome and that if he ever wanted to legislate again, he'd need to do so elsewhere, and so when the Oakhurst Agreement became null and void, Orinnari decided to focus on but also 'boroughify' [[Oakhurst]], to put it on the same level as [[Southshire]]. He figured that if he could build and rebuild [[Southshire]], he could build [[Oakhurst]] just fine. However, opinions of [[Oakhurst]] and Orinnari immediately began to sour; the boroughification was considered another tantrum, a power grab, an attempt to screw [[Southshire]] over. It drew the ire of [[Dr_Oracle]], the then owner of [[Southshire]]'s branch of [[Empty Promises]], though this was resolved when Orinnari sent him [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/oakhurst/oracle-essay/ an essay] detailing [[Oakhurst]]'s history.
 
[[File:Oakhurst-plantation-plans.png|thumb|Oakhurst construction plans in The Plantation]]
 
An example of hostilities between Oakhurst and [[Southshire]] was when Orinnari lobbied for a rail connection between the two boroughs and was met with scorn because to them it seemed ridiculous to have a rail that short, though it turned out to be roughly the same length as the rail from [[Mount Augusta]] to the Jewish Quarter, [[Mount Augusta]].
 
Hostilities between Orinnari and [[SamuelV]] reached a peak, so in early October 2017, Orinnari decided to dismantle [[Oakhurst]] and cede the land back to [[Southshire]] in order to moverelocate elsewhere. At first Orinnari returned to The Plantation, even going so far as to reconstruct the government building, but this was later abandoned as large swaths of the land was reinforced to [[DarkyDu]]'s groups. [[Oakhurst]] was then relocated again to an island just north of The Plantation, now known as Shen. The island however was small and Teal-cliff'd, thus required loweringrequiring it to be lowered down to sea level to make it usable. But the move itself from [[Southshire]] turned out to be a mistake as not only was Shen isolated geographically, socially, and infrastructurally, but also because the [[Commonwealth]] also refused to recognise it as a borough. This became a very inactive time for Orinnari.
 
===Returning to Southshire, ''really this time!''===
Orinnari remained a citizen of [[Southshire]] and would often submit proposals to [[Southshire]], but he only fully returned towards the end of November 2017. Though server activity was at an all time low due to the [[Somber War|The Somber War]], where Orinnari and [[cinzar]] (the then Chancellor of Southshire) would often be the only players online. They both decided to stage what was effectively a minor coup of the Council to reinstate governance in [[Southshire]]. At first they decided to keepleave the Constitution of Southshire as isunchanged, but soon after began submitting petitions ([https://old.reddit.com/r/CivSouthshire/comments/7l6w1g/petition_22_changes_to_and_interpretations_of_the/ example]) to amend and interpret the Constitution to fit more in line with how the government actually worked. A few weeks later however [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/southshire/bulletins/government-reform.html the government was reformed] in an attempt to return to a simple three -person councilCouncil without abolishing the Constitution entirely, but this ultimately failed. [[Southshire]] had always been lacking in law enforcement, particularly by its own government officials, but with the reformation this became more acute where, for example, citizenships were granted and stripped without regard to the law. And so it was decided by the Council on the 14th January 2018 to [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/southshire/bulletins/constitution-dissolved.html abolish the Constitution], using it only as guidelinesa guideline, and reverting fully to the three -person councilCouncil. This however was controversial as it was seen by some as a nuclear option to prevent [[tvman]] from running in the next election. During this time, Orinnari rebuilt the house he once had at the centre of the citydowntown but within the Dark Oak District in the northern part of city.
 
===Yoahtl accession===
 
Becoming a town of [[Yoahtl]] had been a semi-serious meme within [[Southshire]] for quite some time. On 13th January 2018, serious talks began between [[Southshire]] and [[Yoahtl]] to become an autonomous town. These talks were leaked, which caused some drama within the obstinate, meta-bound citizenry, but negotiations were productive and a treaty was drafted.<blockquote>After votes and negotiations, [[Southshire]] has decided to secede from the [[Commonwealth]] in order to join [[Yoahtl]] as an autonomous town as described in [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/southshire/ascension-of-southshire/ this document].
 
If we were going to transition to [[Yoahtl]] we wanted to do it properly, and so we devised three steps to complete before pushing the button and making the change.
 
#'''''Receive and invitation from Yoahtl via their own processes.''''' We did not want to first secede from the Commonwealth and then find ourselves in the position of having to wait or possibly being denied, which would cut ourselves off from all federal protection and infrastructure.
#'''''Negotiate with the Commonwealth to discuss permission and concerns.''''' We wanted to make sure that our plans were acceptable to the Commonwealth as to not create an international incident, our primary concern being land.
#'''''Conduct a vote within our local government.''''' We wanted to make sure that we did actually want to go through with this, and so the entire government - the Council and deputies - were required to vote, and only if the vote was unanimous would we make the transition.
 
#'''''Receive and invitation from [[Yoahtl]] via their own processes.''''' We did not want to first secede from the [[Commonwealth]] and then find ourselves in the position of having to wait or possibly being denied, which would cut ourselves off from all federal protection and infrastructure.
#'''''Negotiate with the [[Commonwealth]] to discuss permission and concerns.''''' We wanted to make sure that our plans were acceptable to the [[Commonwealth]] as to not create an international incident, our primary concern being land.
#'''''Conduct a vote within our local government.''''' We wanted to make sure that we did actually want to go through with this, and so the entire government - the council and deputies - were required to vote, and only if the vote was unanimous would we make the transition.
 
All three conditions were met, and so we made the transition.</blockquote>On 14th January 2018, [[Southshire]] officially became an autonomous town of [[Yoahtl]].
 
=== "Inventory Checking" ===
On the same day that [[Southshire]] joined [[Yoahtl]] as an autonomous town, Orinnari travelled to [[Yoahtl#New Yoahtl City|NYC]] for the first time. TheHowever, serverthe lag was laggingexperiencing likedebilitating crazylag andspikes largewhere groupsswaths of people werewould beingtimeout kickedand from the server at the same timedisconnect. Orinnari was kickedtimed-out twice while on the rails and rode past SouthernBloc along the way who was standing to the side of a rail. After aanother kicktimeout, SouthernBloc was ahead of Orinnari though travelling slowly, so Orinnari caught up fast. After another kicktimeout which effected them both, Orinnari went to his minecart but so did SouthernBloc, seemingly not noticing nor caring about their minecart up ahead. SouthernBloc prevented Orinnari from continuing his journey, forcing Orinnari do try and move past them, and then prevented him again. Orinnari used his axe to one hit his minecart, but SouthernBloc attempted to take the minecart at the same time, causing them to get hit, which was used as justification to kill Orinnari to "inventory check him", stealing all of Orinnari'shis items and his minecart. Orinnari still has claims against SouthernBloc for what they did.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/7sg5sp/my_side/dt56d0h/</ref><ref>https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1-26-18-we-talk-to-bgbba-about-current-conflicts-dramas/id1294943390?i=1000400764199</ref>
 
===Settling in Yoahtl===
[[File:First-yoahtl-shop.png|thumb|Orinnari's NYC shop]]
Progress in [[Southshire]] was slow and Orinnari's attempt to reset his sleeping pattern alienated him from the goings on in [[Southshire]], and it appeared like the population wouldn't truly recover. Orinnari decided in late February to early March 2018 to move to the new capitol, NYC. However he was almost immediately accosted by [[TheOrangeWizard]] for building a property on NYC island but outside the city trench. Orinnari quickly dismantled the property in fear of being thrown out and created a slim shop within the trenched city. This shop quickly grew in size however when 1) [[SgtSoda]] agreed to trade his plot for a larger one in the south eastern part of the city,; and 2) also when [[Feathercrown]] ceded a small area to Orinnari to square out the plot,; and 3) when the oreOre exchangeExchange was moved from under his plot to allow for a basement.
 
Even with the plot's expansions, it was still dwarfed by [[5point0]]'s mansion, [[Fort Ruina]], and [[SpiderString]]'s brewery,. andAnd so he found it perplexing how [[TheOrangeWizard]] would continuously bring up and refer to Orinnari's plot size with anmore edgethan a little scorn. When [[TheOrangeWizard]] was speaking with someone else and their plot, he brought up Orinnari's plot and its size. That moment was when Orinnari realised that [[TheOrangeWizard]] was not going to let it go and would continually dangle this issue in front of him and anyone who'd listen. HeAnd so he decided around mid June 2018 thatto he couldn't live inleave [[Yoahtl]] anymore if he would continuously face this level of toxicity.
 
=== Returning to Southshire, ''really really this time!'' ===
[[File:Southshire-view-from-south-island.png|thumb|View from the South Island property]]Orinnari returned to [[Southshire]] for a short stint of a few days. The previous [[Oakhurst]] land was already occupied and even then the bridge was being used as a freetree farm and so blocked the original sought -after view. He instead attempted to build a house at the top of a mountain on South Island, but this fell flat as the path to reach the house was laborious, the biome was ugly, and the build space too awkward for him to work with.
 
=== Moving to Bloom ===
Orinnari found himself in a frank discussion with [[ComradeNick]] on Mumble where he expressed his feelings of aimlessness, that his return to [[Southshire]], or a potential return to the [[Commonwealth]] or back to [[Yoahtl]] felt like a step back rather than moving on. [[ComradeNick]] pointed Orinnari towards [[Bloom]] as it was a new nation and most of its inhabitants were newfriends from [[towny]], so Orinnari could delve into integrating and developing them as a civ -nation. He became a citizen of [[Bloom]] on 24th June 2018.
 
Orinnari's shop (later christened as "Forward Settle") would soon kickstart [[Bloom]]'s economy as it brought XP and enchanted diamond tools to the market. He also quickly took interest in [[Bloom]]'s parliament, which while elected did not have the same issues that plague[d] nations like [[Mount Augusta (CivClassic 2.0)|Mount Augusta]] and [[Icenia]]. After a particularly devastating raid on his shop that was never repaid, Orinnari withdrew from his business and focused more on local politics: he would later introduce many new laws into [[Bloom]] including trademarks, date standardisation, a ban on the phrase "hub" in official contexts, as well as several improvements to [[Bloom]]'s Constitution.
[[File:Orinnari-bloom-ashford.png|thumb|Ashford's location, size, and purpose]]
In an attempt to restart his business, Orinnari claimed a portion of [[Bloom]]'s eastern territory to becomeestablish a farming district called Ashford. It would be segmented into different farming sections with the most important and first completed section being the tree farms, where the land was expanded into the river to allow for the growth of spruce trees. But he quickly discovered that he wasn't a power farmer, nor had motivation to create farming bots, so he kept to political matters from the safety of his bunker home within the borders of Ashford. Towards the end of 2018 Orinnari disbanded Ashford in favour of rebuilding Forward Settle within [[Bloom]]'s capitolcapital.
 
=== Founding the Kingdom of Ashelor ===
[[File:Ashelor-first-borders.png|thumb|The Kingdom of Ashelor's borders]]
In November 2018, a player named [[ThirdOfFive]] became a citizen of [[Bloom]]. At first they gravitated towards each other as they both had a great enthusiasm for law makinglegislating, however Orinnari quickly found himselfbecame fatiguedfrustrated by [[ThirdOfFive]]'s inexperience and tendency to insist upon newfriendy solutions that either wouldn't work or would cause more problems than they solved. After a spat in which [[ThirdOfFive]] created a closecrude replicaknock-off of Orinnari's shop, insisting on his right to do so, and stating that Orinnari should feel flattered, Orinnari and [[dBeatzx]] left for greener pastures on 6th January 2019 and foundfounded themselvesthe in[[Ashelor|Kingdom theof +,+Ashelor]]. Since [[dBeatzx]] left with Orinnari, [[ThirdOfFive]] began spreading the lie that Orinnari had poached [[dBeatzx]] and was therefore a traitor. Orinnari successfully negotiated the land from the [[Free Territory of Kropotnia]] on 8th January 2019 with a treaty called the [https://ashelor.cc/static/KropotniaTreaty.pdf Treaty of Mutual Recognition].
[[File:Aleh-ashelor-meme.png|thumb|Meme of Ashelor by Aleh]]
 
=== CivExReturning to Yoahtl and Bloom===
On 28th January 2019, Orinnari received an invitation from [[bgbba]] to join [[Yoahtl]] on [[CivEx]], which after some exploration he accepted. [[dBeatzx]]Orinnari hadbuilt alreadya becomehome somewhatreminiscent inactiveof andhis sooriginal whenresidence Orinnari andfrom [[Alzdadog|Aleh]]New movedYoahtl over to [[CivExCity|NYC]], Ashelorand wassuggested effectivelythe putname on"Adobe hold.Forge" Onfor 17ththe Februaryfactory 2019room insince ait spurtlooked oflike activity,the [[dBeatzx]]Adobe attemptedlogo to revivefrom the Ashelor by negotiating to become a state ofminimap. [[BloomCivEx]], however this was quickly prevented by Orinnari due to fears of interference by [[ThirdOfFive]] and other Members of Parliament, though this sadly made [[dBeatzx]] go inactive again. CivEx would however effectively die by the end of March 2019 due to badan admin public relationsannouncement incorrectly stating that the lifespan of the server would only be about three months.[[File:Civclassic-civex-timeline.png|border|center|frameless|900x900px|Timeline]]
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After [[CivEx]] died, Orinnari followed [[Yoahtl]] back to [[CivClassic]], moving back to NYC as well as placing an alt back in [[Bloom]]. Soon after NYC went through a reconstruction period, undoing the damage that [[TheOrangeWizard]] did while he was Alcuahtl (leader of [[Yoahtl]]).
=== Returning to Yoahtl and Bloom ===
After [[CivEx]] died Orinnari followed [[Yoahtl]] back to [[CivClassic|Civclassic]], moving back to NYC as well as placing an alt back in [[Bloom]]. Soon after NYC went through a reconstruction period, undoing the damage that [[TheOrangeWizard]] did while he was Alcuahtl (leader of [[Yoahtl]]) to the city.
 
In February 2019, the O.R.I.N. rail was completed in [[Bloom]], standing for Overland Rail inIn the North.
 
In May 2019, Orinnari, [[iOminous]], and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] began constructing a new city in [[Bloom]] called New Haven, a successor to [[iOminous]]' Haven city, a trenched city in a northern territory of [[Bloom]]. The idea was to create a larger and closer version that could fit more citizens and be directly connected via rail. [[ThirdOfFive]] soon joined in to help in its construction, but also began proclaiming that New Haven would be the new capitolcapital of [[Bloom]], despite the numerous protestations of the rest of the group. It was a particularly tenuous situation since Orinnari had spearheaded the blocking of legislation that would have've privatised the government's vault hole. If they thought that legislation would be forced through to move the capitolcapital to this new trenched city to which they might not have access to, it could have shut the entire project down. However, when [[ThirdOfFive]] was told categorically that New Haven would not become the new capital, he dropped out of the project, which caused a quick spiral -downwards inof motivation andin thereforethe progressrest of the group.
 
Orinnari switched focuses between [[Yoahtl]] and [[Bloom]] pretty regularly, but on 23rd July 2019, Orinnari was a councillorCouncillor for [[Yoahtl]] and suggested a structured mechanism for proposals which included the ability for the councilCouncil reject blatantly populist or meme worthy proposals subject to any restrictions imposed by the Chief Justice of [[Yoahtl]]. But this wasn't taken well by [[Tigen]], a long timestanding [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] citizen, who went on to characterise Orinnari's entire personality and contribution to [[Yoahtl]] as being a busybody councillorCouncillor coming out of the woodwork to accumulate ever more power, who thinks players are dumb and aren't worthy of power, and is a shy dictator who's no longer forcing the indignity upon others of having to pretend he's anything but. Orinnari was completely taken aback at the level of spitefulness and vitriol since it came from nowhere and was completely unprovoked, and so he decided to step down figuring that he would not tolerate such behaviour from a work colleague or a friend and so shouldn't be expected to tolerate it from a voterconstituent.
 
=== Reattempting Shen ===
[[File:Shen-island-expansion-design.png|thumb|The plan to expand the island of Shen]]
Soon after Orinnari stepped down from the councilCouncil in [[Yoahtl]], he sought out an external project to focus on and remembered Shen, the island that was used for [[Oakhurst]]. He asked the Ashelor people[[Alzdadog|Aleh]] to join him however they didn't seem interested since they sensed thatperceived it wasto Orinnari'sbe a personal project, rather than a group project. HeOrinnari wanted to expand the size of the island, transforming it from a small sliver into something more respectable and workable. However the sheer scale of the project worked to demotivate Orinnari, especially since he was determined to fill in the expansion rather than leave it as a shell or hollow island. The expansion plan was soon abandoned, but managed to commission [[alzdadog|Aleh]] to design a bridge to connect the island to the mainland for rail purposes.
[[File:Shen-bridge-design.png|thumb|Shen's rail bridge design]]
 
=== Returning to Yoahtl, ''really this time!'' ===
Orinnari shifted his primary focus to [[Yoahtl]], given that he had made promises to limit the ambition of Shen, and that [[Tigen]] had disappeared again so there was no longer a source of drama in that respect. However, around the beginning of September, both [[Sventhar]] and [[SpaceVolcano]]'s toxicity became quite acute, so much so that within the next month, [[Sventhar]] would be sued twice ([https://discord.com/channels/278045721742147586/348687557455904778/626478546289688607 <nowiki>first [settled outside of court]</nowiki>] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/CivYoahtl/wiki/judiciary/cases/aki_v_sventhar_oct_2019 second]) for toxicity and harassment. After [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] mentioned exploring old [[Ashelor]] for nostalgia's sake, they both sought to reclaim [[Ashelor]].
Returning perhaps isn't the right word since Orinnari hadn't left [[Yoahtl]], but was just focusing something outside of [[Yoahtl]]. Nonetheless, Shen seemed more and more like a secondary project, a place to build farms or some sort of weird attraction rather than it be a new home or town, especially since [[specificlanguage]] had made Orinnari promise it wouldn't become like another [[Southshire]] or another Oakhurst. His focus naturally fell back towards [[Yoahtl]] since [[Tigen]] had disappeared again so there was no longer a source of drama in that respect.
 
===Problems with the Salisbury Gazette===
However, around the beginning of September, both [[Sventhar]] and [[SpaceVolcano]]'s toxicity became quite acute, so much so that within the next month, [[Sventhar]] would be sued twice for toxicity and harassment. It got to the level of intolerability, and after [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] had mentioned exploring old Ashelor for nostalgia's sake, they both sought to reclaim Ashelor.
Following the secession of [[Ashelor]] from [[Adina]], on 20th March 2020, the [[The Salisbury Gazette|Salisbury Gazette]] published a heavily one sided and propagandised article about the recent dispute between [[Ashelor]] and [[Adina]] selectively using more dramatic quotes which deliberately left out discussions from voice chats and other channels, as well as curiously going out of its way to mention Orinnari's and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]]'s narrow defeat in the recent [[Adina|Adinan]] elections, which could imply certain untrue things to readers. Orinnari posted a [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/flnlse/salisbury_gazette_ashelor_leaves_adina_after/fkzozwn/ rebuttal] to the article's subreddit post, but it was then that he began to view the [[The Salisbury Gazette|Salisbury Gazette]] as a tabloid rather than a prestigious and unbiased news source.
 
===Founding the Admiralty of Wesbury===
=== Restarting Ashelor ===
[[File:Wesbury-Civball.png|thumb|Wesbury's civball. It was even used in the world civball map.]]
When Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] sought to reclaim Ashelor, they quickly found that in the year since its founding and subsequent abandonment, the territory was now owned by another: the [[Adina|Federation of Adina]]. It was lead by Kaly, who didn't take to Orinnari whatsoever given his [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] citizenship, even going so far as to call him a "Yoahtl agent." However, the other citizens of [[Adina]] were amenable to the idea of Ashelor but only as a territory of [[Adina]]. Orinnari hoped he could work his way towards gaining Ashelor's independence like he did with the [[Kropotnia|Free Territory of Kropotnia]] though over a longer time span, however, disaster struck during negotiations.
On the 10th January 2021, Orinnari sought a new project. [[Ashelor]] was firmly established but was quickly fading into inactivity. [[Ashelor]] had the disadvantage of being remote so that travel to and from other nations took an inordinate amount of time. Nor did [[Ashelor]] have any neighbours, allies, or foes. Once people had built their houses there wasn't much left to do. [[Slushhi]] became the last bastion of activity, so once he decided to take a break, the last few who logged in here and there went dormant too. This issue was compounded by the increasing popularity of [[Icenia]] with its promise of juicy drama and government positions, but also the launching of [[Devoted Hell]]. Either way, Orinnari felt it would be inappropriate to start making changes to [[Ashelor]] without the consent of the citizens and so began considering a small project nearby to other nations and so founded a new nation: [[Wesbury|Admiralty of Wesbury]].
 
===Returning to Southshire, ''really really really this time!'' ===
Under the [[Adina|Adinan]] constitution, autonomous territories are allowed to request opt outs of federal law, so as part of the negotiation process Orinnari read through [[Adina]]'s federal laws and noted any concerns. One concern was communal storage, the remedy for which was exempting Ashelor from that law on the basis that Ashelor would not have access to [[Adina]]'s communal storage and vice versa. Another concern of Orinnari was that of Koric Law, which appeared to be a set of religious doctrines that imposed some odd restrictions in the context of minecraft such as: the prohibition of the mutilation of dead bodies, the prohibition of TNT'ing trees, state protection of burial grounds, state protection of foetuses, etc. This is not to say that there weren't any aspects relevant to minecraft or agreeable to Orinnari, far from it, he very much respected the right to be free from discrimination for example, but such things would already exist within Ashelor's constitution. The request for an opt out however was interpreted by Kaly as a slap in the face, a fundamental insult to the very fabric of [[Adina|Adinan]] society, and so broadcast this to [[Adina]]. [[ImperatorMendes]] then acted as a mediator, offering Ashelor the compromise of being subject to Koric Law but under a strict system of Judicial Review, that only qualifying cases would be accepted, and Ashelor begrudgingly acquiesced.
On 7th June 2021, Orinnari glanced at [[Southshire]]'s Discord server, noticing a lot of recent activity, most notably [[RoboRik]]'s proposed redesigns of the downtown factory building. He rushed down to [[Southshire]] to see if it had been built, or whether anything else had been built since the last time he had been visited and that's when he found himself in a conversation with [[cinzar]] who then invited Orinnari to build a house, but was later given permission by [[StrPlatinum]] to claim most of [[Oakhurst]]'s old territory as private property. [[Cinzar]] insisted however that the [[Nymph]] Embassy ought to remain. However, Orinnari successfully negotiated the deed to the land in return for manually relocating the embassy and its items to the opposite side of the canal, effectively reclaiming all of [[Oakhurst]]'s former territory as private property. [[StrPlatinum]] then spontaneously granted [[Oakhurst]] autonomy, returning it to its original form back in 2017.
 
===Relinquishing Ashelor===
On the next issue however - defence - Orinnari and Kaly clashed again, and it became clear that neither liked nor trusted the other. Orinnari feared that this would become the ongoing relationship with the federal government, that it would always be hostile and at odds with Ashelor's wants and desires. Orinnari made the decision on 12th September 2019, two days after negotiations started, to relocate Ashelor to the eastern coast of Dithmarschen, [[Maltovia]]. The exact location and borders of Ashelor were negotiated on 7th October 2019 but only revealed a month alter on 3rd November 2019 to prevent any invitation of raiders.
Orinnari had been the Lord Protector of [[Ashelor]] since 30th December 2020 when the Royal Prerogative was re-instated with a few minor changes as the Lord's Prerogative, hinting at a Cromwell-esque republic which was ''totally'' not a Monarchy. But [[Ashelor]] was growing increasingly inactive. On 3rd February 2021, Orinnari suspended the election cycle due to lack of interest. Later, on 17th May 2021, Orinnari suspended the need for citizens to register to vote and the need for proposals to be seconded. [[Ashelor]] became so inactive that [[Icenia (CivClassic 2.0)|Icenia]] effectively occupied and annexed Old Bloom, however this was instigated by Truckman, a [[Bloom|Bloomean]] and [[Ashelor]] citizen, so the only issue was the [[Icenia (CivClassic 2.0)|Icenia]] didn't consult with or inform [[Ashelor]]'s government. Wanting to move onto other projects, Orinnari passed on the position of Lord Protector to [[7misun]] on 5th July 2021.
 
=== Moving"PSA toOrimmari Nyasalandisn't me"===
On 13th September 2021, a new account joined Civclassics named "[[Orimmari]]", clearly a gimmick account of Orinnari. Made somewhat unsettled by this, Orinnari posted a few notifications to various discords that the account was not an alt and shouldn't be given groups. On 11th October 2021, after someone in global chat wondered how Orinnari could've joined without having logged out, he felt it best to be more active in disassociating himself with the gimmick account: this however backfired, causing interest and memery, including from [[Wingzero54]] (the admin of Civclassics) himself. As this continued, two days later Orinnari tried being more personal by making a subreddit-post explaining the gimmick account, how it made him feel uncomfortable, how the characteristic similarity of the gimmick account posed an inherent risk to security and privacy, etc, but this also backfired: the community feasted gleefully on his vulnerability. While this was spiralling, Orinnari got a good piece of advice from [[bgbba]], which led him to an idea: to make it seem like he switched to another account. He used a script to re-nickname himself in all civ-related discords and used a [https://github.com/MCCTeam/Minecraft-Console-Client headless client] to afk on his alt account, Remcompti. Shortly after, the account "Remcomptii" appeared, which amused Orinnari , though he was also somewhat disappointed that the imitator didn't go for a more meme-worthy corruption like "Remcumpti". With that said, Orinnari's opinion of the community was lowered by the whole affair.
Around 24th December 2019, Orinnari went on a spree of joining Discords linked on the [https://ccmap.github.io/ ccmap], one of them being [[Nyasaland]]'s. The community seemed very active and welcoming, which was a surprise since he thought they were inactive or kept to themselves as his only interaction with [[Nyasaland]] had been their shop in [[Bloom]]. He was also drawn to them by the mutual liking of the game League of Legends, and would often watch streams of the game in voice channels. His intention was to move Ashelor to [[Nyasaland]] in hopes of it being more active and populated. By 30th December 2019, he had terraformed and constructed the canals, though the area was not independent or even autonomous, since the area was on [[Nyasaland]]'s main island and they were newcomers, but [[Nyasaland]] nonetheless accepted the idea of it being its own thing and not necessarily complying with the aesthetic of the town. It however became quickly apparent that a mutual liking for a game was not a substitute for the kind of affinity that smooths group dynamics when he often found himself treading on eggshells around certain longstanding members. He didn't want to cause upset or make waves, but this often meant double checking everything he said, writing disclaimers before writing anything political, and being extremely specific in conversations, which quickly became tiring and outweighed the benefits of staying, especially since playing League of Legends with the others meant playing on North American servers, thus having very high ping.
 
==="Dereliction: Ashelor's statehood of Adina "===
On 1st October 2021, [[Okx]] declared the independence of [[War in Dumnonia|Dumnonia]], a new one-man nation comprised exclusively of [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] territory. Two days later, [[GDAN12]] filed a lawsuit against [[Okx]]. Since [[Okx]] did not trust [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] courts to be fair or unbiased, he vowed not to show up to court. At first, Orinnari offered himself as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae amicus curiae] to give a second opinion on the numerous charges laid against [[Okx]]. However, [[SpaceVolcano]], the High Justice of [[Yoahtl]] and the judge presiding over the case, was insisting on a standard trial without an absentee defendant, so Orinnari became [[Okx]]'s defence lawyer. On 9th October 2021, Orinnari used [[Ashelor]] in his opening statement as an example of a technically unlawful secession being nonetheless perfectly acceptable. Half an hour later, [[GDAN12]] posts a dereliction request of [[Ashelor]] to the [[Unified Map Project|UMP]]. In the next three weeks, [[GDAN12]] would argue repeatedly for [[Ashelor]]'s dereliction. When confronted, [[GDAN12]] claimed to hold a general opinion against inactive nations holding claims, and yet to date [[Ashelor]] remains [[GDAN12]]'s first and only dereliction request to the [[Unified Map Project|UMP]]. When Orinnari suggested that [[Ashelor]] should become a protectorate of the [[CCCP]], [[GDAN12]] reacted poorly, arguing that newfriends would be unduly prevented from settling there and keeping the area claimed is wrong no matter how small [[Ashelor]]'s claims are.
On 10th January 2020 Ashelor was griefed for the second time within the span of a week by [[seanfpa]] and [[xVANCEx]]. Seeming that Orinnari was spending a lot of his time in [[Nyasaland]] and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] was largely inactive, Orinnari decided to offer Ashelor as a state to [[Adina]] so that they could use the land for farms and such should Ashelor be abandoned. But over the coming days and weeks, this would never happen since Orinnari was already growing distant from [[Nyasaland]] and instead becoming more involved with [[Adina]]. Ashelor's accession to statehood also brought with it the federalisation of a version of Ashelor's Habeas Corpus laws. [[Adina]] passed the "Ashelor Integration Act" on 17th January 2020, and Ashelor responded by passing the "Recognising the Ashelor Integration Act" on the same day. On 24th January 2020, Ashelor passed "Integrating into the Republic of Adina" which officially transitioned Ashelor into a state of [[Adina]].
 
===Southshire's trans-flag drama===
Around the beginning of March 2020, both Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] found themselves more active and so made an effort to be more involved with [[Adina|Adinan]] affairs, however, the cultural divide between Ashelor and [[Adina]] became more and more apparent, particular when Orinnari ran as a judge candidate on the principle of separation of powers: that the judge should - in their official capacity - be limited to judicial affairs. This as well as Orinnari's proposal to make the National Assembly more transparent clashed with the unwritten conventions of [[Adina]] thus framing Orinnari as an outsider. It was surprising then when Orinnari and [[pamaxwell]] tied and were brought into a private room and asked to choose between deciding the winner through random chance, or allowing the National Assembly to vote. After a short discussion, they both decided with the National Assembly vote since Orinnari didn't want to set the precedent of choosing winners randomly. Orinnari was not surprised however when the National Assembly chose the incumbent who campaigned on extrajudicial promises.
(CW: transphobia)
 
On 13th November 2021, [[cinzar]] asked in government channels who had made a diamond reinforced trans flag. [[StrPlatinum]] responded that the flag belonged to a former [[Southshire]] citizen and was being protected since it kept getting torn down, to which [[cinzar]] admits that that was him. Orinnari asked [[cinzar]] to stop molesting the flag to which he questioned why he'd "support enabling a mental illness." Orinnari kept an eye on the Skynet relay and noticed that after [[cinzar]] logged in there was noticeable damage to the flag, though admitted that it could have been prior damage that he didn't notice. [[Cinzar]] responded that it wasn't him.
=== Ashelor's secession from Adina ===
On 24th February 2020, [[ImperatorMendes]] approached the government of Ashelor with a proposition to build a vault within Ashelor's red desert. Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] immediately had concerns, mostly to do with its proximity and the implications that would have on the town of Ashelor, but also what it would mean in terms of borders, since it would mean a dramatic reduction in Ashelor's already small land claims. After some research into [[Adina]]'s laws to figure out the specifics of how a land transfer would occur, he found that there wasn't anything specific pertaining to land jurisdiction with the exception of the "Ashelor Integration Act" which stated that Ashelor would retain its borders, thus implying that those borders meant something. This was backed up by the fact that [[Adina]] was ''requesting'' Ashelor for the land rather than acquisitioning it, thus implying that Ashelor could in fact refuse.
 
On 16th November 2021, Orinnari reported that someone named [[RKFalcon88]] had been caught on snitch logs griefing the flag. [[StrPlatinum]] confronted [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] stating that continued griefing would result in pearling. [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] responded by echoing [[cinzar]]'s transphobic arguments. Orinnari and [[RoboRik]] said that the flag was a protected historical site and should be left alone. [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] responded both that he'll clear the grief if the flag is replaced, and that the flag will continue be griefed until it's replaced.
On 25th February 2020, Ashelor passed "Land Negotiations with Adina" which empowered the Governor - an newly formed governmental role created under the requirements of statehood of [[Adina]] - the power to negotiate the desired area of red desert with [[Adina]], thus negotiations began. At first there were discussions of a land exchange, but Ashelor quickly stated that a land exchange should be mutually beneficial, that it shouldn't be land area for land area but rather useful land for useful land, but that caused that line of negotiation to end pretty quickly. [[Adina]] then bragged about having sold [[Phylon]], an area they had recently been gifted, to [[Odresh]] ([[Odresh-Phylon Conflict|uuuh]]) for 192 diamonds. This inspired Ashelor to suggest a land purchase and while [[Adina]] understood, they felt it wasn't within their budget.<blockquote>"yeah i totally get why you guys do want to be compensated, we just may have to move location if it is too pricey"
The next day, [[cinzar]] vetoed a build project of [[RoboRik]], stating that it "has blocks that does [sic] not fit the theme". This perplexed Orinnari since [[Southshire]] had never had nor enforced a theme before. Orinnari and [[RoboRik]] suspected that the veto came in large part as a retaliation for the flag drama, though [[cinzar]] and [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] rejected this notion. When [[StrPlatinum]] okay'd the project, [[cinzar]] and [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] decided to unilaterally secede [[Bonita Springs]] from [[Southshire]]. [[StrPlatinum]], who had been openly critical of [[Yoahtl]]'s handling of [[War in Dumnonia|Dumnonia]], allowed the secession without objection.
 
On 24th November 2021, a [[Bonita Springs]] embassy(?) in [[New Yoahtl City]] was trans-flag bombed and covered in signs with progressive messaging. Two days later, on 26th November 2021, a number of [[IMC]] citizens invaded [[Bonita Springs]] with the intention to perma-pearl [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] and level the settlement, using the internal [[Southshire]] flag drama as justification. After Orinnari received frantic cries for help from [[Bonita Springs]], he and [[RoboRik]] began lobbying for the withdrawal from [[Bonita Springs]] and the cessation of violence. It was decided internally not to offer [[Bonita Springs]] reentry into [[Southshire]] - and thus under the protection of [[SATO]] and the [[UDF]] - since this would likely be seen internationally as active support for [[cinzar]] and [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]]'s blatant and unapologetic transphobia.
- [[matanic]], President of [[Adina]]</blockquote>Ashelor came up with the price of 64 emerald blocks, but after some discussions of a zero-interest payment plan, [[Incentives]] offered to pay bill in full himself, so it seemed like construction would start in a matter of days.
 
=== The murder of Civclassics===
On 14th March 2020, which was only two days after the elections in [[Adina]] (thonking), the mood suddenly changed when [[matanic]] sent Ashelor a rather scathing message which stated in no uncertain terms that the government of [[Adina]] was disappointed with the request for compensation; that they understood that Ashelor (supposedly) didn't feel [[Adina|Adinan]]; that other states do feel [[Adina|Adinan]] and thus would give up their land if it were them; that Ashelor should start acting like a state; that Ashelor doesn't deserve to be a state; that if Ashelor citizens wished to exercise their [[Adina|Adinan]] rights then they should act like [[Adina|Adinans]]; that [[Adina]] will be "clarifying" its laws to give powers to the federal government to be able to take land from states without asking.
On 17th November 2021, Civclassics went down for approximately two days for unknown reasons. A couple of days after restoration (21st November 2021) [[Wingzero54|Wingzero]] published an announcement in the Civclassic Official Discord going into detail about the server downtime:<blockquote>Things are winding down on CivClassic. I am closing the Bug Bounty program as I was singehandedly managing the program and will no longer be doing that. I will not be implementing any more changes and will generally not merge any code requests unless they are needed to fix issues. The server being down was because the automatic payment failed and only one person has access and did not notice. It simply took several days to get around to setting it back up. The issue was not a lack of funds. Regarding modmail, I have been handling 99% of it and going forward if your modmail is not of high importance I would not expect it to get answered. That all being said, Kira is down and I'm not fixing it right now and there's nobody else to do it</blockquote>This announcement was ominous enough for people to assume the death of Civclassic but Orinnari was unconvinced. Given that Civclassic development had been lethargic for months, he didn't consider that aspect of the announcement as news. He didn't consider however that the failed automatic payment not being due to insufficient funds was foreshadowing [[TealNerd|Teal]]'s intentions. On 24th November 2021, [[TealNerd|Teal]] made a subreddit post titled "[https://old.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/r0rsys/end_of_the_year_party_121821_at_1800_utc/ End of the Year Party 12/18/21 at 18:00 UTC]" to send off the year with an in-game party. People began to suspect that this event was an End of the World (EOTW) event and rumours began to spread. On 8th December 2021, [[TealNerd|Teal]] made another subreddit post titled "[https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/rc370p/through_the_roof_n_underground/ Through the Roof 'n' Underground]" which fawned over the success and longevity of Civclassics while also stating in no uncertain terms that Civclassics will come to an end and will not return for a third iteration. Orinnari responded with the following comment:<blockquote>'''THIS IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY'''
 
It beggars belief that you would do this, Teal, that you would post what is now evidently clear an EOTW event over two weeks ago [https://imgur.com/N0e7tVn and letting rumour run wild] only to come back acting all bashful, praising Civclassics' longevity as if you aren't holding the pillow over Civclassics' proverbial face. For anyone not in the know, Teal effectively abandoned Civclassics in all ways but one about three years ago, same as Bagi. These two have categorically refused to cede full control over to their successors, insisting on keeping such things as the Patreon funds, the domain name, and the OVH instance (the actual server itself), etc, to themselves. This is why whenever something goes incredibly wrong, which happens a few times a year, we have to wait until Teal or Bagi fixes it, because we are literally unable to do so ourselves. This is also why they're still listed as owners in the sidebar... because they are.
As you can imagine this wasn't taken well, but civil discussions began nonetheless about how to transition Ashelor to a different type of territory within [[Adina]] that granted more autonomy. However they were soon made privy to the fact that [[Adina]] was updating its constitution so that autonomous territories would no longer get voting rights on the federal laws they'd still have to follow. This was seen by Ashelor as a blatant attempt to coerce them into handing over the land as a good little state would, or to accept a form of self-imposed and federally enforced isolation from [[Adina]], giving credence to the idea that Ashelor wasn't really [[Adina|Adinan]]. It was also not lost on Ashelor that the federal government could, in theory, pass legislation requiring Ashelor to relinquish the land anyway, so in an abundance of caution, Ashelor pursued independence.
 
It also begs the question on who was included in this admin team decision. Was Teal and Bagi included? Was Maxopoly? Wingzero? Civclassics, for all intents and purposes has no administration whatsoever, and this is in large part due to frustrations from the subsequent admins in not having full control.. but why should they decide? Teal promised that Civclassics will remain alive for however long it has funding, effectively ceding the decision over to the playerbase.
=== Salisbury Gazette ===
On 20th March 2020, the Salisbury Gazette published a heavily one sided and propagandised article about the recent dispute between Ashelor and [[Adina]] using more dramatic and selective quotes which deliberately left out discussions from voice chats and other channels, as well as curiously making sure to mention how Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] [closely] lost the election, which could imply certain untrue things to readers. Orinnari posted a [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/flnlse/salisbury_gazette_ashelor_leaves_adina_after/fkzozwn/ rebuttal] to the article's subreddit post, but it was then that he began to view the Salisbury Gazette as a tabloid rather than a prestigious and unbiased news source.
 
It's entirely possible for Wingzero to take a backup of Civclassics and restore it onto a new server with a new domain and a new Patron, it's been discussed many times, but he's decided not to do this in light of Teal's intentions. Indeed, I've just asked him whether he'd allow someone else who wishes to keep Civclassics alive to restore a backup onto a new server, he said no. It's worth noting that Wingzero since (and before) his post withdrawing all active administration from Civclassics has been playing around with creating an alternative civ server of his own.
=== Ashelor's first execution ===
On 20th March 2020, a player by the name of [[MrWiggles|Mr__Wiggles]] entered Ashelor and began breaking chests. Still skittish over the raid in January, Orinnari called in reinforcements. [[Onederful]] from [[Adina]] offered to help. [[Mr Wiggles|Wiggles]] was pearled and [[Onederful]] was compensated for his troubles. It turned out that [[MrWiggles|Wiggles]] thought that Ashelor was abandoned because while wandering around for a few minutes, he didn't see any activity. Orinnari only noticed the raid because he was up late and AFKing in his home. [[MrWiggles|Wiggles]] was then sentenced to five days exile pearl, as well items known to be taken from neighbours in similar raids confiscated and returned. However, in Ashelor's laws, someone who is sentenced to pearl time must be ceremonially executed. [[MrWiggles|Wiggles]] was executed by guillotine on 25th March 2020. ([https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/ashelor/wiggles-execution/ Watch here])
 
Civclassics is not dying comfortably of its own accord because players are disinterested, Civclassics is being killed by its admin team.</blockquote>Orinnari felt more than a little betrayed given his contributions to Civclassics' code base, feeling like it had now gone to waste; that the admin team were sacrificing Civclassics in furtherance of their own prospective civ-server projects. [[Wingzero54|Wingzero]] in particular had ruminated about and even began working on a civ-server project of his own. To Orinnari, the idea that [[Wingzero54|Wingzero]] had agreed to shutdown Civclassics knowing that his server would be a likely replacement felt macabre to say the least. Most of the community however did not share Orinnari's outrage.
=== Ashelor's township of Yoahtl ===
The general decline of Civclassic saw a reduction in players in and around the +,+ often leaving Orinnari AFKing for days on end without seeing someone at all. With his continued and ongoing citizenship of [[Yoahtl]] and their reasonable though mostly meta-bound activity convinced Orinnari to offer Ashelor as a non-autonomous town of [[Yoahtl]] via the [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/ashelor/yoahtl-treaty/ Treaty of Terestai], signed 7th August 2020.
 
On 17th December 2021, on the eve of the EOTW event, [[CivMC]] was announced with the subreddit post titled "[https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/riqf4c/what_is_civ_a_prelude/ What is Civ? - A Prelude]". [[CivMC]] is [[Wingzero54|Wingzero]]'s soon to be released civ-server.
=== Bloomification of Ashelor ===
A little over a month later on the 11th October 2020, Orinnari convinced many of the [[Bloom|Bloomeans]] to migrate to Ashelor, spawning a large set of law and treaty changes including secession from [[Yoahtl]], though not for any hostile purposes but simply as a means of self-determination as the circumstances had changed from the accession. Indeed within a week, Ashelor had gone from one active citizen to sixteen. Among the many changes to Ashelor was the abolition of the Royal Prerogative, which put Ashelor's laws into disarray, requiring many proposals through the Citizens' Assembly to piece Ashelor's laws back together in a form that the [[Bloom|Bloomeans]] consented to. The day after (12th October 2020) [[Slushhi]] was elected as Prime Minister, and soon after came the beginnings of the trenched city now known as Denver, the new capitol of Ashelor, the idea being that the city would offer reasonable security to all citizens who resided within it, thus avoiding some of the issues that open planned cities often fall prey to.
 
On 18th December 2021, Orinnari repeatedly asked [[TealNerd|Teal]] during the EOTW event what will happen with the remaining funds from Civclassics' Patreon, all of which he refused to answer. While some players included mentions of the funds in their speeches, the general atmosphere mirrored the lack of outrage and spurned Orinnari for being a "killjoy".
=== Founding the Admiralty of Wesbury ===
=== Start of CivMC===
On the 10th January 2021, Orinnari sought a new project. Ashelor was firmly established but was quickly turning inactive again. Ashelor had the disadvantage of being remote so travelling to and from other nations took a long time. Nor did Ashelor have any neighbours or allies or foes. Once people had built their houses there wasn't much left to do. [[Slushhi]] became the last bastion of activity, so once he decided to take a break, the last few who logged in here and there went dormant too. This issue was compounded by the increasing popularity of [[Icenia]] with its promises of juicy drama and government positions, but also the launching of [[Devoted Hell]]. Either way, Orinnari felt it would be inappropriate to start making changes to Ashelor without the consent of the citizens and so began considering a small project nearby other nations. He noticed the sickle shaped area named [[Brodre]] on the map, where upon visiting discovered was abandoned to the point where the reinforcements were so decayed as to break on the second hit. On the 26th January 2021, Orinnari officially published the preliminary borders of the newly found nation: the Admiralty of Wesbury.
[[File:Spikey-ice-find-++-quandrant-sotw-exploration.png|thumb|Cool find during SOTW exploration.]]
Orinnari was torn over whether to join [[Southshire]] or [[Yoahtl]] for [[CivMC]]. At first, he resolved to do both, focusing more on [[Yoahtl]] and then, once established, splitting his time between them. However, it soon became clear that there'd be little to no opportunity for legislature-roleplay in [[Southshire]], nor would there be the nostalgia of [[Oakhurst]], nor the enjoyment of the roofed-forest biome. During this time, [[GDAN12]] had blocked Orinnari's access to [[Yoahtl]]'s SOTW channels for not being solely-allegiant to [[Yoahtl]]. The [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] government begrudgingly gave Orinnari access to those channels when [[bgbba]] put his foot down. However, given the allegiance-pedantry, Orinnari compiled a custom version of [[MapSync]] that would [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leecher_(computing) "leech"] from [[Yoahtl]]'s [[MapSync]] server. That said, Orinnari still chose to share his map explorations with the SOTW channels. However, Orinnari was not aware of the equator-poles world generation and explored south until he reached snow, then travelled west, resulting in nothing else but ice and snow.
 
[[Yoahtl]] first settled in the -,- quadrant, so Orinnari travelled there, but Yoahtl soon relocated away from historically belligerent nations, something that many people spurned as paranoia. However, the relocation paid off when those nations, unsurprisingly, started the [[Generic War]].
=== Joining Icenia===
On 16th June 2022, PandaPandel asked Orinnari to be her lawyer in a case she was making against [[Gamer Time69|Truck_Man1234]] for petty griefing. He refused at first, not wanting to get involved in internal [[Icenia|Icenian]] drama, but he accepted after hearing the defence's intended argument: that the Court had no jurisdiction since the crime happened when there were no de-jure laws or constitution. The trial began on 25th June 2022. The Court sided with Orinnari on 30th June 2022, stating that the Court had jurisdiction and that [[Gamer Time69|Truck_Man1234]] was guilty.
 
And while the trial was plagued with drama and unrecused judges, Orinnari was surprised by how his lawyering was welcomed and praised. This stood in stark contrast to [[Yoahtl]] where law-roleplay and trials are an ordeal only barely tolerated, and any suggestion by Orinnari was met with immediate ridicule and scorn:[[File:Typical-example-of-yoahtlan-attitude.png]]
 
In addition, [[Yoahtl]] was becoming more and more zealously controlling of its citizens. On 11th July 2022, Orinnari left [[Yoahtl]] for [[Icenia]], becoming a [[Bloom|Bloomean]] once again.
=== The Buttsecs War===
On 6th June 2023, Orinnari was AFK'ing in his shop when he alt-tabbed to see [[Ez2Clutch]] running to [[Raeders]], killing and pearling him. [[Ez2Clutch]] then spotted Orinnari and started breaking into his shop. Orinnari asked [[Ez2Clutch]] to leave but to no avail. When it seemed like [[Ez2Clutch]] was using fast-break hacks, Orinnari collected his wealth and /logged out. During a lull that Orinnari mistook for an all-clear, he started to repair his shop, but that was quickly interrupted by the arrival of [[chosentwicelol]], who ran into Orinnari's shop and began breaking-in in the exact same place and way as [[Ez2Clutch]] had, and since there had been little opportunity for his reinforcements to mature, Orinnari had mere seconds to /logout, which he only just managed. Later on, Orinnari was able to ugly-patch his shop and move his wealth to [[Vault#Whole Foods (Icenia)|Whole Foods]].
[[File:Chosen-orinnari-anyway-see-u-next-iteration.png|thumb|chosentwicelol implying that Orinnari will never be able to play again]]
On 11th June 2023, there was a full-scale attack on [[Vault#Whole Foods (Icenia)|Whole Foods]]. Prior to this, Orinnari had spent most of his time there either AFK'ing within the central glass room of the ground bunker, or fishing one of the surface-lakes behind a protective wall. During another mistakenly perceived lull, Orinnari logged in to secure his wealth, finding the griefed to all hell, which took precious time to climb through. Moments later, [[chosentwicelol]] came charging down to pearl Orinnari, but was waylaid by that same grief long enough for Orinnari to /logout. [[Chosentwicelol]] then mentioned Orinnari in the [[CivMC]] discord saying ''"anyway see u next iteration"'' which indicated to Orinnari that he was likely logboxed and would never be let out.
 
On 12th June 2023, [[Drekamor]] asked whether Orinnari had used his [[OTT|One-Time Teleport]] ([[OTT]]). He was confused at first, since that's usually a mechanic for newfriends, but [[Drekamor]] quickly explained [[OTT]]'s issues and suggested the idea of using [[OTT]] to escape from [[Vault#Whole Foods (Icenia)|Whole Foods]]. The [[Security Enhancement Coalition|SEC]] quickly verified with the admins that this was legal, finding out that it was since [[Butternut County|Butternut]] had already used this exploit to teleport-in reinforcements to a fight.
[[File:Chosens-see-u-next-iteration-logbox.png|thumb|The "anyway see u next iteration" logbox Orinnari was trapped within before OTT'ing out.]]
Orinnari and at least four others were able to escape that day, and many more in the following days, which caused quite a stir. Despite the elation of having made a wily escape from [[Chosentwicelol]], he was nonetheless appalled by the exploit and would put aside [https://blog.protonull.uk/2023-05-12-gpl-drama/ his licensing principles] to [https://github.com/CivMC/SimpleAdminHacks/pull/70 fix the exploit].
 
On 13th June 2023, [[Gwua]] and Orinnari exchanged some slam poetry. <blockquote>"We don't kill buildfriends", clearly a lie, as your pursuits to kill me shall belie. Yet you repeat this nonsense, thinking you're sly. I honestly don't know why you want me to die.
 
- Orinnari</blockquote><blockquote>my bad, i didnt realize, caught me by surprise, but im still bustin up your bastions with all of my guys
 
- [[Gwua]]</blockquote><blockquote>Ah well, those bastions were destined to go, you also tried to logbox me with SRO, but as with everything, it goes to show, how Whole Foods will always be better than Trader Joe's.
 
- Orinnari</blockquote><blockquote>alright alright, you got some pretty good lines, but this chair im sittin in has got a nice wholesome shine. chris left it nice and warm and i found a lot of corn under the desk
 
- [[Gwua]]</blockquote><blockquote>Someone should tell PhysicsGamer that you're sitting in his chair, for didn't you appoint him Governor, I could swear, but he wont even meet you with a glare, because he doesn't even have a pair.
 
- Orinnari</blockquote>On 14th June 2023, Orinnari was challenged in voice-chat to write a [https://np.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/14971o1/evacuate_icenia_city_evacuate_bloom_vault/jo44f7x/ slam-poetry comment] on the recent [https://np.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/14971o1/evacuate_icenia_city_evacuate_bloom_vault/ “Evacuate Icenia City! Evacuate Bloom Vault! Evacuate Bloom!”] post.
 
On 19th June 2023, Orinnari sparked some controversy by comparing a screenshot of a homophobic slur used by [[JuniorTide]] to the negative impacts the war has had on LGBT players in [[Icenia]], saying in part: ''"that slur didn't make me feel anywhere near as belittled or unsafe as being repeatedly and personally targeted."'' Orinnari felt that the screenshot being spread around for all to see for war-propaganda purposes was dishonest given their stated position that the slur was inherently hurtful to see and had no place whatsoever in the civ-community. Orinnari had a [https://np.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/14dmrh4/rip_the_gay_bunker/jos9ilb/?context=7 back and forth] with a seeming [https://np.reddit.com/user/NotHostileIntentions throwaway account] where he elaborated on this. This was apparently not received well by [[Butternut County|Butternut]]:
[[File:Bewsiej-mad-at-orinnari-philosophising.png|alt=Bewsiej pretending that Orinnari is unhinged]]
 
 
On 28th June 2023, the Reluctance vault fell and Orinnari fled to an isolated location. On 1st July 2023, Orinnari requested that he be allowed to return to [[Icenia]] unharmed on the condition that he turn himself in if given a sentence. Orinnari had been repeatedly told he wasn't important and shouldn't expect a long sentence. Nonetheless, this request was granted and Orinnari returned to his shop.
 
On 3rd July 2023, Butternut posted sentences. Most sentences ranged between a week or two to a month or two. However, Orinnari received the third-longest sentence given: three months. As a result, Orinnari felt extreme vindication in what he had argued in that [https://np.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/14dmrh4/rip_the_gay_bunker/jos9ilb/?context=7 back and forth], that [[Butternut County|Butternut]] only cared about the aesthetic of fighting homophobia while directly and unflinchingly mistreating queer people. His sentence being so long while having contributed comparatively little to the war also caused controversy. Orinnari believes that his sentenced was likely spearheaded by [[chosentwicelol]] and so was unlikely to be negotiated down.
[[File:Orinnari-pearled-by-XxTBxX3276.png|thumb]]
On 4th July 2023, Orinnari travelled to [[Vault#Whole Foods (Icenia)|Whole Foods]] to turn himself in, but when [[PhysicsGamer]] appeared on radar and seemed to be trying to intercept him, he jumped to his death, not wanting to be pearled by a [[Temporal Isles#Secession from Icenia|secessionist]]. Orinnari would later travel, as instructed, to [[Butternut County|Butternut]]'s vault, the [[Nuthole]], to turn himself in. He was pearled moments later by [[XxTBxX3276]].
 
On 5th July 2023, Orinnari began to truly appreciate how obnoxious and buggy the [[RandomSpawn]] experience was in the Nether. After [https://discord.com/channels/912074050086502470/952314898317189120/1125915354330316931 joking about this] in the [[CivMC]] discord, [[SoundTech]] said he'd appreciate any fix to it. Since [[RandomSpawn]] was one of the few [https://blog.protonull.uk/2023-05-12-gpl-drama/ correctly-licenced] civ-plugins, [https://github.com/CivMC/RandomSpawn/pull/15 he submitted a fix] within the same day.
 
On 20th September 2023, Orinnari was released three weeks early alongside [[JuniorTide]] and [[ChrisChrispie|President ChrisChrispie]].
 
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