Gehenazar

The City of Gehenazar, formally known as Atoxa or Gehenna, is a registered city in the USSE in the state of Atoxa. Formerly known as Kestchya. Gehenna was founded in the Year 135 (March 19th, 2022) on the ruins of Kestchya. South of Gehenna is the quarantine zone of the Neihernspried Epidemic, North is the City of Swindongrad, to the east the Island of Amicitia, and the west is the City of Vostroya. Gehenna is known for being the agricultural hub of Atoxa and for its local Cult to Tégo'O of Oxintoism. The town has a darker block pallet and has large townhouses, and mansions lining its streets. Gehenazar is known for being the city where the Atoxa Crisis took place.

Kestchyan Times (58-143)

Before the modern Gehenna existed Kestchya, a penal colony, existed on the valley floor.. It was originally founded in the year 58 (June 6th 2021) by a player named kora789. That penal colony existed there previous to the Neihernspried spore cluster that dropped onto the mountain after its original home in Adamantem was burned. A quarantine zone was set up around the mountain by the People's Army and a research facility was built to research the fungus. The research facility was later abandon for unknown reasons. Most probable cause is that the Neihern flower that sprouted caused the fungus to spread into the facility itself. Soon there after the Kestchya penal colony was abandon as well since its founder kora789 left.

Founding (135-144)
Gehenna was founded in Year 135 (March 19th 2022) after a wave of migrants from another land came to settle onto the ruins of Kestchya. Permission was given from the willing USSE government and the owner of the unused land for the migrants to settle. These migrants would come to call the new city Gehenna after the elder Atoxan who guided them who tragically died after succumbing to illness. Gehenna was the elder among the group and gave them wisdom of the valley so they would thrive here. They told them of a legend of Zaloralon who died on the mountain top suddenly and whose scream scared off the evil spirits of the winter forest to protect the devotees of Tégo'O. So the city would remake the old Oxinto Temple into a Temple to Tégo'O. The City would use its new U.S.S.E resources and with the Gehenna’s religious motivation to quickly build up a moderately dense urban core to expand into the surrounding snowy forest, called by the Gehennans as the Valley of Zaloralon. The Gehennans would also establish their own local government that was open to all members of the town to participate in.

Growth (145-Present)
Before then there was a slight dip in population most likely due to many of the originals Elders of the first wave dying off. The population was rapid enough to cause Gehenna to lose National Assembly representation briefly before getting it back. While the town was initial closed to outsiders the decline in population prompted the town quickly recruit new citizens from outside of the town. Over time population growth rebounded.

In 145 (April 27th 2022) it was discovered that the food supply of Gehenna has been contaminated with the Neihernspried fungus. Not only contaminated but gone unnoticed at least three years as reported by Mayor Magnolia Sweete in a public message sent out to the citizens. It seems however that the fungus, which supposedly has infected the whole town, doesn't have any adverse effects, instead seems to benefiting the town by allowing the wheat to grow better in the winter soil and the sheep to give red wool. During the time of the discovery it wasn't entirely known the full extent or effects would have on Gehenna and its population. As a part of the growing town Magnolia would manage to negotiate a merger with their northern neighbor, Swindongrad who had a dwindling population. At this time the city was renamed Atoxa.

Recruitment would still go on and the town would come to be the second most populated in the USSE for a month. Magnolia Sweet the cities mayor who was also the Commissioner of Development for the city left her post to volunteer in a socialist Civil War in Rathnir in the Republic of Hansa. She would die by bayonet. The city would elect her daughter Aster Cornaro to be Mayor.

Atoxan Crisis (160)
Aster Cornaro having grown up in the royal court of Refuge City didn't appreciate socialism. Not wanting to get money from the government to fund development anymore, alongside a general apathy for the USSE decided to take out a loan of four hundred twenty thousand dollars from the Bank of Manzland, a former rival of the USSE. This loan would be put into a hedge fund that would gain the town passive income to be able to spend on building projects. However the town would need to be held as collateral for the bank in order for the loan to be taken out. After a few years the Commissar's Circle would finally figure out what happened and had talks with the Bank of Manzland. The Bank would offer to sell the loan to the USSE as a way to defuse and tension. However the USSE would demand payment immediately from Aster and remove her administrative status in Gehenna. Aster would be investigated and then exiled for treason for: for giving the town to a foreign power, having a city discord, and for having an illegal city government. Along with Aster most of the town would leave for a town claim given to then by the former leader of the Alodian Federation DJ, which was named Robeleduk. The only remaining citizen would be kora789, the original founder.

Return from Exile (186-Present)
Aster would be lifted from exile and granted access back to Gehenna which would prompt several of the remaining Atoxans to settle back allowing for the town to be remade.