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Orinnari joined after the [https://old.reddit.com/r/worldpowers/ /r/WorldPowers] community Minecraft server shut down. He found himself playing the server more than WorldPowers itself, so a friend from the subreddit - ([[DarkyDu]] -) suggested [[CivClassic|CivClassics]]. He joined the server and after some local chat exchanges, settled in [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/westeros/orin-settlement/ Westeros] just above, ''and fifteen blocks below'', contemporary [[Anburon]]. He planned on building a small house with a large basement, but quickly lost interest in the server and covered the basement hole.

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 [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.

Orinnari decided to move to the [[Commonwealth]]'s then unnamed capitolcapital 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.

[[Fadedsoul]] invited Orinnari to join him is Strassburg, a German -themed borough 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].

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 then Orinnari spotted the empty peninsular south west of the Capital District, which 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, after exploring and theyfinding did,it andto that'sbe howa [[Southshire]]roofed-forest was foundedbiome. [[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.miraheze.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.

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 - something 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, minorly griefing, and minorly 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.

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 canals though without the prohibition on bridges. The reconstruction resulted in the bank and factory building being being sacrificed and moved respectively. It is also when Orinnari rebuilt his home.

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.

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 making, however Orinnari quickly found himselfbecame frustrated by [[ThirdOfFive]]'s inexperience and tendency to insist upon solutions that either wouldn't work or would cause more problems than they solved. After a spat in which [[ThirdOfFive]] created a crude knock-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 founded the [[Ashelor|Kingdom of Ashelor]]. Since [[dBeatzx]] left with Orinnari, [[ThirdOfFive]] began spreading the lie that Orinnari had poached [[dBeatzx]] and was therefore a traitor.

On 28th January 2019, Orinnari received an invitation from [[bgbba]] to join [[Yoahtl]] on [[CivEx]], which after some exploration he accepted. Orinnari built a home reminiscent of his original residence from [[New Yoahtl City|NYC]] and suggested the name "Adobe Forge" for the factory room since it looked like the Adobe logo from the minimap. [[CivEx]] would however effectively die by the end of March 2019 due to badan admin public relationsannouncement incorrectly stating the lie that the lifespan of the server would only be about three months.

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]]) to the city.

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, 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 in motivation in the rest of the group.

Orinnari switched focuses between [[Yoahtl]] and [[Bloom]] pretty regularly, but on 23rd July 2019, Orinnari was a councillor for [[Yoahtl]] and suggested a structured mechanism for proposals which included the ability for the council 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 standing [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] citizen, who went on to characterise Orinnari's entire personality and contribution to [[Yoahtl]] as being a busybody councillor 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 voter.

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. It got to the level of intolerability, and afterAfter [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] had mentioned exploring old [[Ashelor]] for nostalgia's sake, they both sought to reclaim [[Ashelor]].

Following the secession of [[Ashelor]], 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.