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}}'''Pythius''', also known as '''Pythius_''', '''Pythius_Df''', or previously '''Darkflame[826]''', is a Civ player, [[Jargon#Oldfriend|oldfriend]], anarchist, and [[Mery]] person currently found on [[CivMC]] after having previously played [[CivClassics 2.0]] and the [[Civcraft]] line of servers. Beginning his Civ career with a brief stint on [[CivCraft 1.0]], Pythius really found his calling for politics after joining [[CivCraft 2.0]] soon after its launch and founding the small town of [[Little Latvia]]. Serious in its statecraft but with a playful culture and community, Little Latvia would be twice annexed during some of Pythius's frequent bouts of inactivity throughout 2013 and early 2014, first by the [[Civcraft Socialist Coalition]] and then by [[Churchill]]. Pythius returned to Civcraft for good in the spring of 2014 and declared Little Latvia independent once again. For the rest of 2.0, Pythius playedwould mostlyplay casually,only stayingvery withinrarely Littleand Latviadid forso itsmostly roleplaycasually politicswhen andhe building projectsdid. Soon after declaringBefore itshis independenceinactivity, Pythius hadensured Little Latvia joinjoined the [[United Provinces of the Plus Plus]] alliance, -of which Churchill and many other of Pythius's neighbours were a part- as an independent state.

When 2.0 ended and [[Civcraft 3.0]] was announced in January 2016, Pythius became active again and took a much more active role in the [[U3P]] community than he had in 2.0 andas well as helped thoroughly plan its successor nation, [[Endeavour]]. It was there in Endeavour where Pythius completed his ideological journey from right to left libertarian and sought to make his ideas a reality in his home nation. Pythius's attempts to apply his ideals within his community would constantly pit him against his ideological rivals, continuing from Endeavour on 3.0 to [[Provincia]] on CivClassic in the summer of 2017. Pythius won out there, but it was a Pyrrhic victory, as most of the Threepers had gone inactive along the way. Nevertheless, Pythius continued to develop the capital city, its politics, and his nation's connections with neighbouring ideological allies, most notably [[Pripyat]]. After the Nazi Bombing of Threepton in mid 2018, Provincia went essentially entirely inactive, leaving only Pythius and his friend and ideological counterpart [[Ninjajackh12]] to keep the lights on.

Pythius joined 2.0 sometime around the very beginning of the server, making his first post on r/Civcraft within the first week of the server's launch.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1f1hhe/chat_bug/</ref> It was within these first weeks in the spring and early summer of 2013 that Pythius founded a farming community in the deep +,+. Pythius worked aloneon this settlement with two IRL friends for a while until being joined by Ave3ng3d7X, better known as Bane, a player from 1.0 who was looking around for a new home at the time. The pair decided to seriously develop their small settlement and found the [[Republic of Little Latvia]] around it, based off a popular meme at the time.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1g5mph/what_is_the_inside_joke_of_latvia_and_potatoes/</ref> Pythius and Bane acted as ''de facto'' diarchs of the new republic and continued its statecraft, forming friendly relations with the newly founded town of [[Churchill]] a mere 300 blocks away from LL. Bane also helped put LL on the map with his popular radio show that presented the news from across Civcraft every week.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1fwibx/bane_talks_civcraft_news_podcast_pilot_06072013/</ref> Little Latvia thrived through the early to mid summer, becoming a cute little town and popular destination between the [[Civcraft Socialist Coalition]] and the nearby town of Overwatch.