MurgaGame

MurgaGame is a Signore in the Sorligstan city of Not Venice, and also serves as the city's Buidling Guild Master. He has had a storied career in many different governments and has seen many changes happen to his homeland in his time. He has served as a Baron, a Senator and now as a Thane under Frostmarch

Now that Tortuga has once again claimed the lands of Soriligste as part of their pirate empire, Murga currently struggles to find a place for himself in this new order.

Early life
MurgaGame was born in the slums of Not Venice, in the far eastern quarter of the city. In the early days of his childhood, Murga had to contend with a dangerous environment. At that time, the eastern reaches of the city were underdeveloped and neglected, with large areas in a state of abandonment or semi completed builds. His dwelling was small and cramped compared to the other citizens of the city, who lived in the more densely populated and richer corners of the western districts.

However when he reached his later teenage years, an opportunity presented itself not just to reinvigorate the neighbourhood he grew up in, but to also elevate his own position. Tired of the delipidated surroundings of his home, Murga presented a building plan to Starlord, the mayor of Not Venice. Working off of old development plans Murga had found in the city archives, he proposed to fix the eastern slums by demolishing abandoned buildings, levelling out uneven land and, most importantly, constructing a wall around the eastern district to fully protect it from the outside world. Starlord approved of the plans and once he had seen the work that Murga had done, appointed him the title of Master of the Builder's Guild.

Beginnings under the GUS and Tortuga
For all of his formative years, MurgaGame lived under the rule of the Grand Union of Sorligste. This period of time was largely peaceful as experienced by Murga, with the only major political event of his young life occurring when he accompanied the GUS militia to the rebel fortress of Thedour-Ra, in the ill-fated Kerfuffle of '21.

It was not much longer after this that Murga became a Guild Master, effectively a political position in the Not Venice government. His early days in helping run the town were mostly building focused, helping new settlers find and build homes, as well as organising the farmers outside the city walls to the south.

When Murga became a young adult, the GUS suddenly collapsed and all its land was absorbed into Tortuga. Being only a Guild Master, Murga had very little say in the matter and although the prospect of living under the rule of pirates was at first troubling, he eventually saw that very little would change, and the peace he had experienced as a youth would continue. His building efforts continued as well, with major projects including the construction of a full city wall around the northern areas of Not Venice and an expansion to the docks in order to attract Tortugan business to the town. Under instruction from Starlord, Murga also oversaw the design and construction of one of the city's largest builds, a Hippodrome, which despite taking a great deal of time and effort was finally finished.

Tortugan withdrawal and creation of Sorligsta Serenus
Much in the same way the GUS was gone without warning, one day Murga awoke to find that Tortuga was also withdrawing its power from Sorligste, preferring instead to downsize it's bulging empire and return to their pirate roots. Left to their own devices for the first time in years, the people of Not Venice now had to form their own government and look after themselves. The highest ranking members of the city, including Murga, decided to name their new land Sorligsta Serenus, and continue much in the way they had before, adopting a policy of relaxed independence, with little to no ambition to expand instead focusing on bettering the land they already owned.

The Ato Crisis and creation of Serevos
Not long after the creation of Serenus, Murga and the other leaders of the new nation were presented with a proposal from their neighbours to the west, the nation of Norvos. They wanted to purchase the lands south of Not Venice. At the time Murga was reluctant to agree to the deal, deciding that it was better to keep a hold of the land that they had, so when a vote was called he voted against selling the land.

Not long after Norvos came back to the Serenus government again with a higher offer for the land purchase. This time, much more context was given for why Norvos wanted to own the land so badly. It turned out that another nation, also born out of the Tortugan withdrawal, Ato, was threatening Norvos with invasion. The Norvos people wished to buy the land so they could bolster their defences against the intending invasion. With this added context, Murga and the other leaders of Serenus offered a counter proposal to Norvos. They would merge their two nations to form one united country, doubling their effective military strength. The argument for this move was that if Ato invaded and absorbed Norvos, Serenus would have a potentially hostile neighbour right on their doorstep.

Murga worked first hand with the other leading members of Norvos on the deal, and even came up with the name of the new nation himself; Serevos. In Sorligsta Serenus, Murga was just a guild master, but now under Serevos, he threw himself fully into political and nation building life. He debated fiercely with Norvosian members for the creation of a new flag that equally represented both peoples of the new nation. He drew up plans for grand building projects with the builders of Norvos and Port Leon, inviting their best talent to create great works in Not Venice. He also, with the help of the Port Leon citizens, began to create plans for the cities of Not Venice and Port Leon, the most prosperous city in Norvos, to merge to create one large city. Early proposals would have named the new city Emerald Bay, and Murga began construction of a grand palace on a mountaintop between the two cities as a way to kickstart the project.

Leveros
Perhaps the biggest shock in Murga's life came when, without any warning, a coup took place in Norvos. The group declared that they were renaming the nation to Leveros and demanded the abdication of the dual monarchs, kings castie and starlord, citing a failure of leadership. Murga game was infuriated by their actions, stating that "if this group had any problems with how the nation was being run then they should have voiced their concerns, before resorting straight to force". Serevos as yet had no standing army and was thus, unable to repel the coup and so it was that Serevos fell, Castie and Starlord resigned and The Empire of Leveros was founded. Murga, deeply saddened by the events of the day, took to drinking himself into a stupor in Port Leon and nearly drowned in the town square's fountain. On the morning of the next day, Murga packed his things and travelled north, into the mountains above Not_Venice, saying to his friends that he needed time to evaluate what to do with his life, now that the nation he had helped found had imploded.

In his exile in the mountains, Murga came across the ruins of the old planned capital of the nation of Soumere. A perfect spot for a town, Murga vowed that if the political situation in the region ever stabilised he would found a town here (this would later be the location of Sentinel), otherwise he would remain in exile. It was not longer before envoys of both sides of the crisis came to him. Counter-revolutionaries urged him to join their side, promising a restore to order and justice for the wrongs done. Members of the Leveros government also visited him, promising power and renown throughout the lands for their new empire, which Murga could be a part of. Murga was deeply distrustful of the Leverosi, he wished to have nothing to do with those that would take part in coups and subterfuge, if it was so easy for them to do it once they could easily do it again. Murga neither lent his full support to the counter-revolutionaries, worried that their efforts would fail when faced with the apparent might of the Leverosi military.

Murga, as it turned out, was wrong to be doubtful of these counter-revolutionaries. Barely a week after the Leverosi seized control, the counter-revolutionaries launched their offensive, surrounding the house of the new Port Leon governor. Murga watched from a distant mountain top, he could see the fires catching in Port Leon. When the fighting was over the Leverosi had fled and a new government was being formed. It would be a few more days before Murga decided to come out of exile, but when he did, he was offered a position in the new government thanks to the connections he had there

The Grand Sorligste Federation
The Grand Sorligste Federation was established not long after the withdrawal of Leverosi forces. This new nation was a joining of Serenus, Norvos and Ato and was led by those who had risen up against the coup. This new nation was to be founded on the promise of democracy, and would have a congress with elected senators representing the wide variety of regions. Thanks to Murga's previous work as a Baron for Serevos he was offered the position of senator for the mountain region north of Not_Venice, where he had spent his exile. It was here that he was instructed to settle a town so as to secure proper land claims for the GSF, so Murga decided to build a town amongst the ruins of the old Soumere capital; he named this new town Sentinel.

Murga took part in many of the votes held in GSF congress, including the planning for the brand new capital that was to be built for the fledgling nation. Sadly, many of these democratic plans were never meant to be as a resurgent Leveros purchased land right on the GSF southern border, vowing to use this area as a jumping off point for an invasion. Murga agreed with the other senators at this regrettable situation; the GSF was still far too young a nation to have a proper military to wage a defensive war. While Murga was not privy to the plans that followed, he would later support them. The GSF would merge all its land with the neighbouring nation of Frostmarch, the hope being that the older nation of Frostmarch, with all its treaties with other nations, would dissuade Leveros from invading.

Frostmarch and Tortuga again
Very little changed for Murga with this new government. His position as senator was swapped for thane and development for his town Sentinel would continue. However, he still spent much of his time in Not_Venice, the town of his birth and it was here where he suffered, like many of his fellow countrymen, the savagery of the Leverosi aggression. Unsatisfied with being cheated out invading the GSF, Leveros resorted to terrorism and bandit raids, with Not_Venice being one of their primary targets. Murga himself was assaulted in the town hall, when Leveros bandits burst into the room and began slaughtering the attendees. Following this event, Murga and other high ranking members of the old GSF, went to protest outside the walls of the Leverosi stronghold. A peaceful protest; fishing. The Leverosi descended upon them and once more took to slaughtering, Murga himself was once again wounded. Eventually these tensions would rise to the point of Frostmarch preparing to invade Leveros, to put an end to their aggression once and for all. However before this could take place, a deal was struck wherein Leveros would agree to cease their banditry against the people of Frostmarch.

In the time that followed, for Murga it felt as if some semblance of peace had finally returned for him. He began to focus once more on building Sentinel, built in the Valdic style of his new nation. Apart from having to deal with a few rowdy squatters around his new mountain home, Murga took a step back from political life to focus on his passion, building. It was during this relaxed period that Murga heard of threats of invasion from the nation of Lorent. Murga was not surprised by what happened next, as it had happened to him so many times before; Frostmarch folded and became part of Tortuga.

The Not_Venice City Walls and Defenses
The first project that gained Murga notice was his work on the city walls of Not_Venice. Over the course of time he extended the town boundary further north, enclosed by large stone walls and dotted with watchtowers.