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==History==

[[File:Pavia Initial Claims.png|left|thumb|Pavia's Initial Claims on CivMC, established on the 3rd of June 2022]]

On the 3rd of June 2022, many Pavians set off into a brave new world to search for their forever home. Their Graces, paagf & Creepi0n both found themselves lost in a river in the - , + quadrant for over an hour, whilst Cissonius of Braemar was sailing the vast middle ocean hoping for a sight of land. Duke of Windermere, Gobblin, was exploring southern regions across jungles and marshes hoping to wander into the supposed promised lands.

In the afternoon of the 3rd, the Dukes of Pavia unanimously approved Pavia's Initial Claims and post them into the Pavia discord publicly.<ref name=":8">{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=BritishWanderer|sender=Danny|url=https://discord.com/channels/523673816698978313/957406624950157352/982286652233887775|text=3rd of June 2022 [with accompanying claims image]|date=June 3, 2021|access-date=August 10, 2021|channel=cartography-office|server=The Principality of Pavia}}</ref> The Bureau of Semiography posted an updated, illustrated, and more detailed map of the claims on the 4th.<ref>{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=hitobashuru|sender=hitobashuru|url=https://discord.com/channels/523673816698978313/957406624950157352/982585390995230770|text=4th of June 2022 [with accompanying claims image]|date=June 4, 2021|access-date=August 10, 2021|channel=cartography-office|server=The Principality of Pavia}}</ref>

The peoples of Pavia originally settled inside of a cave at the northern tip of Auldmarche, quickly extracting resources out of the cave walls and establishing storage rooms, as well as living areas. However once the Bureau of Architecture decided to construct the foundations of the Pavian capital on the western coast of the greater landmass, it was collectively agreed to move to a cavern closer to the site.

The Pavian Tribune was the first firm to set up since the settlement of the cave, publishing their first article on June 5th. On the 11th of June, the great hole of Pavia came to host its first commercial property, a Topington shop which sold cobble, andesite, and prismarine. This shop was a popular hit and sell out frequently for the period that it was in operation.

'''Quiet Isle'''

Merely 30 minutes later, snitches spotted wiz_cheese boating around the western shoreline of the Pavian mainland, assuming that he was looking for a new spot the Pavians ignored these pings. However, these pings were a sign of things to come, as eventually the Lucassio Island snitches lit up with sightings of mr cheese yet again at the Island that he had just griefed. As Hito & British were in the area, they quickly made their way back to the north island and upon being spotted by wiz, he boated away from the island. Hito and British began a pursuit in their own watercraft, beginning the first coast guard chase in Pavia. Immediately after hearing of the commotion, Gobblin got into his own vessel and joined the chase successfully. Wiz_cheese performed evasive maneuvers and at times, eluded the three pursuers in the vast western ocean. The hunt for them and the pursuit of their vehicle lasted almost 18 minutes before coming to its fatal end. The pursuit was written about in the Pavian Tribune and was one of it's first public articles.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/june/04/you-will-not-make-pavia-home-coast-guard-stood-up-by-crown-prince/</ref>

The Bureau of Architecture under the leadership of the Duke of Winderemere, Gobblin and the Duke of Vetranio, paagf, would break ground on the Townhall construction site on the 5th of June. Citizens assisted in flattening and terraforming vast tracts of land in preparation for the construction of the townhall. This terraforming was completed the following day and efforts would commence on the bricklaying.

The Town Hall was finally completed on June 23rd 2022, marking Pavia's, and most likely the server's first megabuild.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/vito3i/a_townhall_big_enough_for_the_whole_town_pavias/</ref>

''Main Article: [[Lyrean Community]]''

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WO6pSvD6x1yyppbvApGt8DnP949F0lUR3PvB4IRHxpY/edit|date=July 23, 2022|access-date=July 29, 2022|channel=announcements|server=The Lyrean Community}}</ref> It also introduced and pushed for the adoption of the Lyrean Community Resolution 1, a resolution condemning the obby-bombing of non-military targets and binding all community members to help clean up obby grief should an LC member fall victim to such attacks,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wh21gm/lyrean_community_enacts_resolution_against_obby/</ref> shortly after it, on its own, condemned the obby-bombing by Rhode Island on the Estalian 0,0 trade hub (cf. [[Estalia-Rhode Island War]]).<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wderv6/the_principality_of_pavia_condemns_rhode_islands/</ref>

''Main Article: [[Elysian Pact]]''

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''Main Articles: [[Estalia-Rhode Island War|Estalia - Rhode Island War]], [[Pavian Theater]]''

The newly elected Crown Prince, Gobblin I was barely 24 hours into his reign when the Estalia - Rhode Island conflict broke out on the 24th of July. The Principality's initial reaction was that of concern over potentially being dragged in via the defensive clause in the Elysian Pact,<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/july/25/estalia-rhode-island-conflict-threatens-elysian-pact-members/</ref>the Pavian government recognised that it was woefully unprepared to defend itself from raiders and the like, especially as Estalian fighters would be distracted by the on-going war. The newly appointed diplomat to the Elysian Pact & Rhode Island, Duke of Bedford BritishWanderer, engaged both parties to express Pavia's neutrality and wish to remain uninvolved, this wish seemed to be respected by Capri of Rhode Island and by Estalia with their assurance to not invoke the defensive clause of the Elysian Pact.

On July 26th, the Pavia Tribune reported on a battle that occurred just 200m off of the western coast, the ensuing battle resulted in a Rhode Island causality. The Privy Council immediately sent their diplomat, BritishWanderer to demand answers from Estalia for this usage of Pavian land to further the conflict, as a result of these conversations, Estalia promised to avoid using Pavian territory to conduct military strategy going forward in the conflict. Rhode Island also contacted the Pavian Government for answers the same evening. <ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/july/26/conflict-strikes-close-to-home-with-body-found-in-tunnel/</ref>

[[File:Pavia Grand Central.png|thumb|Pavia Grand Central in the City of Pavia. This structure marked the completion of the townhall complex, and was built quietly and without fanfare during the turbulent times as Pavia was unsure if war would come to it's shores.]]

The Coast Guard apprehended an obby bomber and murderer who wreaked havoc in the city of the Grand Imperium on August 11th, taking his pearl back to the 'trainstation' bunker.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/11/coast-guard-apprehends-international-fugitive-wanted-for-serious-crimes/</ref> This pearl took up the current prison population up to 2, joining UnholyOutlaw in the [[Jargon|spike]], who was pearled by BritishWanderer for raiding SPQR.

In the early hours of the 1st of August, reports would come in that Estalia's 0,0 infrastructure, shops and statue were obby-bombed by Rhode Island militants<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wdckwm/rhode_island_obby_bomb_break_00_signs/</ref>, this marked a turning point in the war where controversial actions in war became more commonplace. The Principality of Pavia immediately sought to condemn these actions and urged that all countries should join in calling for a worldwide commitment to rule out any destruction of civilian infrastructure whilst continuing to call for a strong and durable peace between both countries in a post by Duke of Bedford, BritishWanderer. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wderv6/the_principality_of_pavia_condemns_rhode_islands/</ref>

[[File:Terminus - Pavia.png|thumb|Terminus Vault in Pavia. Photo by ArtificalDriver]]

In the early hours of the 17th of August, five Rhode Island fighters faced off against a contingent of Estalians and Titan fighters in SPQR lands, with one causality on the Rhode Island side<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/15/allied-forces-defend-sqpr-vault-against-rhode-island-attack-attempt/</ref>. This further pushed the conflict towards Pavia's borders. After this skirmish, Rhode Island fighters were spotted snitching various portions of Pavia's landmass, and scouting the shoreline, once again breaking the instructions to remain out of Pavian territory.

The leadership of Rhode Island changed once again on the 17th of August leaving Danirague in-charge of the nation, shortly after assuming sole leadership, they made a formal declaration of war on Pavia and it's allies public.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/17/rhode-island-declares-war-on-pavia/</ref> <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wqvgbt/the_olive_branch_is_no_longer_extended/</ref>Immediately following this post, Rhode Island fighters then bombed travel infrastructure connecting Pavia with its allies and re-entered Pavia to place more snitches.

Rhode Island fighters subsequently decimated Pavian builds and lands with the spread of reinforced obby across the landscape, bombing indiscriminately. Although Pavian Coalition fighters attempted to catch them off numerous times, they continued to return throughout the evening and pile up obsidian, with some pillars of obsidian reaching 13 blocks high. Estalian forces attempted to put an end to the obby bombing, engaging in small skirmishes with Adderral & RonPaul in the north-west of Pavia, however to little effect as the obby bombings would continue until the north was littered with obsidian.

When cleaning up obsidian on the western shoreline during the late evening of the 17th, Duke of Braemar Cissonius was set upon by 4 Rhode Island fighters, Cissonius was over 400m from the vault and without any reinforcements. He successfully kited back to Terminus, whilst a joint force of Estalian and Pavian fighters gave chase to the Rhode Island attackers, the Estalian portion of the defense force chased the assailants nearly 300m into the western ocean.

In the early hours of the 20th of August, reports came through to Elysian Pact high command that SPQR infrastructure was under assault by a contingent of Rhode Island forces, made up of Adderral, HOODRATSLAYA, RonPaul & Dollaz. Estalia took the initiative to assemble a sizable force of fighters from Pavia, Jorvik & Estalia to counter-attack RI in SPQR, led by S4NTA & Gregy165 and supported by BritishWanderer, Gobblin, Quinndolin, Stardarkness, thejkh, tomyy789. Upon the Estalian response force's arrival into SPQR, the Rhode Island fighters promptly fled west thought by the Estalian force to be fleeing back towards their home country. However, the Rhode Island forces would loop south by 2000 metres and land on the shores of Pavia which was left virtually undefended with most of the present Elysian Pact pvpers in southern SPQR, Walkers from Estalia engaged in a 4v1 clash in the fields of Pavia whilst the Elysian Pact force made it's way back down south, attempting to cut off any potential escape by the Rhode Islanders. The Rhode Island combatants, having successfully baited the Elysian Pact forces north and now back south, took flight back west towards Rhode Island before any causalities were realised.

Following on from the initial Call to Arms by the Principality of Pavia<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wr2bzv/a_call_to_arms_from_the_principality_of_pavia_and/</ref>, on the 21st of August, the Duke of Bedford renewed his call to arms in a new Reddit post, stating that, despite continued attacks by Rhode Island, "Pavia, the Principality, and our Coalition of allies remain standing strong, successfully holding the Lyrean front against all odds." BritishWanderer dubbed the group consisting of Pavia, its allied countries as well as individuals who help it as the Coalition or the Pavian Coalition.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wu7dt1/the_pavian_coalition_calls_for_your_aid/</ref>

The 28th of August would see another incursion by Rhode Island, TheKingCacti pushed into Pavia himself and ultimately overextended resulting in his pearling by Estalian fighter, S4NTA. <ref>https://i.imgur.com/SV5Cgb2.png</ref>It was another week until the next incursion by Rhode Island into Pavia took place. In the early hours of the10th of September, Adderal rushed into the bedrock area of the Terminus Vault and attempted to break entry pressure plates and doors on the west side of the vault before quickly retreating upon response by Pavian and Estalian fighters.

The incursion by Adderal would be followed up on the 11th of September, with a large contingent of Rhode Island fighters returning to Pavia. The Rhode Islanders created an attack tunnel which ran from RI claims to the Pavian Vault, using this tunnel to remain undetected by snitches and coalition fighters, they quickly broke city bastions around the western claim and destroyed multiple vault bastions at bedrock. Upon the realisation of the attack, Estalia quickly mobilised 10 of their fighters to counter the offensive, and engaged in combat. The tight spaces and broken bastions, allowing Rhode Islanders to place reinforced blocks of their own, resulted in the loss of JKH, an Estalian fighter. Rhode Island withdrew as a group with the pearl back to their home country.

A copycat attack would take place on the 13th of September by Rhode Island, with Adderral, Ez2clutch, CostcoFruits and Hangoverd storming the bedrock of the Terminus Vault, however the attackers would quickly be repelled by a large cohort of coalition fighters, with the skirmish leaving minimal damage to Pavia.

The 17th of September began with an attack on Pavian soil led by Dollaz and joined by CostcoFruits and MrFlipkin, they bored a tunnel south of the Town Hall and laid an obsidian trap below the surface. They were quickly set on by Pavian & Estalian fighters, led by Walkers & Gobblin who routed the Rhode Islanders back to their country.

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The Crown Prince, BritishWanderer III, was 22 days into their reign when the war was declared at an end on the 17th of September.<ref name=":7" /> The end of the war would bring about a moment of stark reflection for the Pavian peoples, the shores still awash with reinforced obsidian and pitfall traps. What followed was an immense clean-up act, with Gobblin of Windermere leading the clearance of the beaches of obsidian, and Cissonius of Braemar reconstructing the Pavian bastion network. BritishWanderer III would declare 'Victory Day' of the 17th a national holiday to be celebrated every year as apart of the national holidays decree<ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DbOKc1hJA5kC2qfrTPvpSeLijiIHPF2A/view</ref>.

The Wanderer Period Post-War is defined as lasting from the end of the Rhode Island Conflict on the 17th of September until the death of BritishWanderer III on the 15th of October.

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The election of Creepi0n I on the 15th of October marked the first time Pavia had a monarch not of Gabonese origin, and the first non-Wanderer or non-Gijahr to hold the throne.

On the 19th of November, Pavia hosted its first '[[Farley wars|Farley War]]' an series of sportive war games, first done on [[Civcraft 2.0]], named after an ancient player of [[Farley50]]. The Pavian farley war was a success, with over 20 people in attendance the competitors enacted multiple team-based fights in iron armour equipped with stone swords.

''Main Article: [[Finite War|The Finite War]]''

The introduction of the refugees into the Pavian community arguably marked the beginning of globalisation of the Principality. A majority of the citizens, and the bulk of residents within the City were now either dual citizens or refugees. These citizens bought with them their culture, wealth and activity which boosted Pavia to heights previously unseen, refugee labour was instrumental in a number of construction projects and assistance in excavating defensive infrastructure and was of a general great benefit to Pavia.

Creepion I passed away on December 3rd, with his cause of death being disclosed as "poisoning by an unknown source”. Creepion enjoyed the joint-longest reign of any Crown Prince up to this point with a reign length of 7 weeks. He was remarked as 'The Diligent' for his economic reforms and conservative policies in which he enacted effectively and efficiently, reorganising the entire economy of the principality. House Von Thusis redefined the powers that the Crown Prince maintained over the Pavian economy, and continued to centralise the nation.

With the death of Creepion I, and no deemed successor in place, the Privy Council would elect Gobblin II as a stable and trusted candidate to take ahold of the Pavian mantle. The immediate issues of Gobblin's reign was that of the Finite War and its increasing potential of consequences for the Pavian state.

''Main Article: [[Finite War|The Finite War]]''

With the situation having been stagnant for a month at this point, and the leader of the Temporal Isles held by an officially non-participatory party in Icenia, and later [[Arsenio Pact]], the war officially concluded on December 11th, 2022 and a ceasefire between Temporal Isles and Arnen was called.

''Main Article: [[Four Hour War]]''

After PhysicsGamer's release in an agreement which did not involve Arnen, dredd_kiji and ErrorL chased PhysicsGamer, attacking and killing him in Pavia. Following diplomatic pressure by Icenia and others, the pearl was released, but a war declaration by Pavia, Imperial Federation, the remainder of the [[Elysian Pact]], Temporal Isles, and Valyria spelled the destruction of Arnen in the [[Four Hour War]]. Kallos annexed Arnen's territories after dredd and Docker were pearled the next day, and dredd_kiji and DockerImage were sentenced to 2 months pearl time and reparations for damages both to PhysicsGamer during the initial killing in Pavia and to other parties involved.

===== The Bureaucracy of Paagf I =====

===== Reinvigoration of the Principality =====

===== Anniversary of Pavia =====

==== Reign of Emperor BritishWanderer I ====

==Duchies of Pavia==