Sovdal

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The island on top of wich its built is called Erenfeldt.

Sovdal is also the head city of both Noxist culture and religion. It is also the capital of Noxnorr.

Paleo-Sovdal or Aftonsal:
Aftonsal in Noxist means "The house of Afton". This referes to the myth of its creation. The myth says the paleo-noxist who were nomadic peoples were driven out of the southern regions by hostile cultures. They followed Luna's star North. It is said that on the winter solstice, Roris, the divine leader of the nomadic Noxist tribes guided her people to Errenfeldt wich she took by force from the undead. And so Aftonsal was created. The paleo-noxist built a gigantic temple in the island wich they dedicated to Afton, and he in return swore to protect them and took Roris as one of his own, converting her into a godess.

Sovdal:
The legendary DarkBlade_T2 is said to have found the ancient ruins of Aftonsal on the 25th of September of 2020 guided, just like his ancestors by the light of Luna's star. He congragated his fellow Noxist brothers who called themselves The Dreamers and together they rebuilt Aftonsal into a safe haven for Noxist culture. They renamed the city to Sovdal, wich in Noxist means "City of sleep".

History
The 25th and 26th of September saw the creation of a group of players called the sleepgang. On the 26th they managed to get the entire server to sleep. This angered some people who declared themselves antisleepgangers. Amongthem was the aclaimed terrorist WhiteTrucker.

DarkBlade_T2, the original sleepganger invited his fellow sleepgangers to create a town for their group. Three players, Kiwirion, Multi7O and julijajo responded to his call and started a pilgrimige to the Northern world border. Their travels were interrupted by none other than WhiteTrucker who repeatdly killed them everytime they got close to DarkBlade_T2's house. Finally, after a few hours of persisting they all managed to get together in a vanilla village. WhiteTrucker's attacl persisted for the rest of the day, killing, robbing, sacking and killing animals in the process. After a few encounters the sleepgangers managed to make the terrorist flee and construction offically started. The town was offically claimed under the name of Sleep Town. The 27th mostly consisted on demolishing the village and gathering materials and also so the inclustion of Aristot73 into the city.

On the 28th Sleeptown changed to Sovdal, and its inhabitants changed from Sleepgang to Noxists.

That day a military and economic alliance was forged with the Eastern city of Rhodinite. The alliance was called the Helmanji confederation, a combination of Helmia (Western continent) and Khanji (Eastern continent).

From then on the city saw the construction of the mayoral palace completed aswell as the creation of the grand temple and the arch road and a few parts of the wall.

On the 4th of October the change from Towny to Lands took place wich saw the destruction of both Sovdal and Rhodinite due to a bug. Both cities got absolutly ruined. Sovdal managed to pull through but Rhodinite's leader ChaosConDX never logged on again. Thus the Helmanji Confederation dissolved.

Sovdal started to get more citizents after the switch. The new players were considered citizents while the founders of the city called themselves The Dreamers and served as a council to the mayor DarkBlade_T2.

The 7th of October the Dreamers private storage room got raided wich due to frustation led to a seizing of construction and the creation of the neighbouring city of Marleon by Kiwirion.

On the next few days construction was restored and Sovdal started to grow considerably.

The 17th of October a decree was published wich abolished the mayoral and Dreamer power and isntead replaced it with a council democratically elected by the citizents. The decree also established weekly taxes to all citizents.

The 20th of October saw the expultion of two traitors to the city and henceforth will be remembered as Traitors day and celebrated every 20th of each month.

The 23th of October Sovdal's old city was offically finished.

Religion and Culture
Sovdal is the center of what is called Noxnorr, a family of towns and keeps in Helmia wich currently consists of Marleon and Sovdal. All Noxnorr towns share the Noxist culture and religion.

Currently a majority of Sovdals inhabittants belong to the Noxist culture and religion. This means honoring the six gods and sleeping. Other religions and cultures are accepted within the walls, but non Noxist temples are prohibited inside them.

The city houses both the grand temple, a common building for all six gods, aswell as the ancient Aftonsal, a temple dedicated to the diety of Dark, Afton. All Noxists pilgrimige to the temple once in their life time wich has made Sovdal an important tourist destination. Most citizents have their own private shrines and the Aurorian bell is often rang to symbolize the end of the night.

Economically Sovdal is a trading hub for most of the Northern cities. Its harbour is often bustling with foreign merchants who bring goods from neighbouring cities.

The city also religiously prohibits Werewolves within the walls and actively supports the Aurorian Order.

Government
Sovdal is governed by a council formed by five players, each one of them handles specific aspects of the city.

Currently they are assaigned as follows:

Head Priest: Kiwirion

Masters of Diplomacy: DarkBlade_T2 and julijajo

Master of Coin: DarkBlade_T2

Masters of War: Aristot73 and Mr.Meeseeks69

Master Architect: Julijajo