Tacozim

Tacozim is a player who was lurking around in the discord in late december 2020. His first experience on the server wasn't notable, he didn't understand how anything worked so he just walked around for a while, what is to be noted is that he constructed a few "religious" buildings out of dirt before he left, hoping to create a new-religious movement in Rathnir; this of course never happened and the buildings were ignored and destroyed. After this he went inactive for some time, but later he invited his friend JustRoobs to Stoneworks and together they joined the UBSR in around march 2021, thus begun Tacozim's time on the server.

The UBSR Era
Tacozim and JustRoobs had came to a nation in a dire situation. The UBSR had just engaged in a war they were thoroughly defeated in, and the capital represented more of a warzone than the center of any nation.

They formed the L.P.E (Leadership, Power, Expansion) party and started campaigning. They were very loved by the people and promised international expansion and integral development. They were very successful in their campaigns, which later led to Tacozim achieving the elected position of Defense Commisar.

Later Tacozim and JustRoobs found out that they were favoured by Gamersgaming (former leader of the UBSR) and the Politburo as the next ruling party of the UBSR. These plans did not come to fruition as the election times were far away and after some inactivity from Tacozim, JustRoobs quickly became inactive. After this, Tacozim also dissapeared for some time.

Tacozim is mostly noted for constructing the Duragrad Arena, helping create the Duragrad Armory and his biggest project; the creation of Point Zim.

As said before, he did serve a term as official defense commisar of the UBSR but later as he became inactive he lost the position.

Infrastructure Plans


Although Tacozim was the Defense Commisar, he very much interested himself in the nations infrastructure.

Tacozim and JustRoobs put it ahead of themselves to fix the dire situation the UBSR was and centralize the nation. Tacozim mostly worked on repairs and roads during this movement.

He had many hopes for the UBSR to become a great power on the stage of Rathnir and him and JustRoobs did present fairly aggressive foreign policies.

A Proposal of some infrastructural plans were made to the Politboru and most of them gave positive reactions to the plan, although action was never taken to finish the project and only the road connecting Shellport and Morsakya was ever finished, and this was also built by Taco.

After some time after this, Tacozim became more and more inactive and almost thought about quitting.

On June 23rd Tacozim decided that it was time to "rejoin" Stoneworks and he officialy returned on that same day. On his return he was still part of the UBSR; and decided to start working on some roads

"Point Zim" was a road-center built to connect the southern parts of the UBSR; it gives the cities of: Duragrad, Luscovy, Certaria, Stadt and Morsakya Bay access to one another in a big road-center. Point Zim is an intersecting road which has improved the travel times of the south and ease of access to the other towns.

Tacozim announced plans to build a fort, to further protect the strategically important Zim, but this never happened due to lack of funding.

The left image shows how Point Zim looked like when it was first established, and how it currently looks like (updated 2021-06-25). To the right is an image of Tacozim's former plans for expansion of Point Zim and the construction of the SRR/SRN (Southern Ring Road/Southern Ring Network).

Cyrillian Era (current)
After contributing to the UBSR, Taco started getting inactive again. He was still a formal member of the UBSR but he hadn't been playing on Rathnir. Once the UBSR got absorbed into Viodoxa he completely stopped playing on Rathnir, although he didn't revoke his citizenship. He had plans though, plans to establish a nation in the new world of Eldham. And so he got Robin to return and they founded the nation of Cyrilla in late june.

The journey to the homelands of Cyrilla wasn't easy though. Tacozim had been shipwrecked on the northern island of Mushroominica during his voyage to Eldham, and didn't see any opportunity for him to get away from the island. This was until the god Shevia in the religion of Mushroomism blessed Taco with a spruce boat. After witnessing these events he decided to start practicing the proto-religion of Mushroomism, and these gods showed him the way to the place that would eventually become the city of Cyron.

When the gods had guided him to the place where he would create Cyron, he was the next day greeted by hostile signs from other players around the area. Even though this was the perfect place for a nation to be born, Taco decided to avoid all of the conflict and move north where he would establish Cyron the very next day. The lands which would later become Cyrilla was owned by Velithangka;

and after negotiations with their leader, Look the Nuuk, they agreed to the borderlands painted in purple; and so the nation of Cyrilla was formally announced and declared with Cyron as it's capital.

The city of Cyron was slowly being built up by the mouth of the river Flor and the Cyronian walls were constructed to protect the coastal city.

A few days later Taco and Robin would find a sign with Draphonaris' discord on it. Taco later contacted Draphonaris, but he wasn't able to talk about what he wanted to communicate due to a massive war between Skjoldbrodir and Lemuria taking place; so that would have to wait.

Upon hearing these news about the war Taco and Robin decided to spontaneously join the assault on Skjoldbrodirs capital, getting loaned gear while preparing for the assault and hoping to get written history in the progress. The Cyrillian people were a disciplined and warrior people being hardened by their Mountanous surroundings to produce perfect warriors. The Cyrillians fought very well during the battle and were some of the last players alive before the entire Lemurian army had gotten thoroughly demolished, the destruction of the Lemurian army was mostly due to a pre-empative call for retreat which lead to major confusion during the battle. The Cyrillians could of have retreated and kept their gear in the late stages of battle, but they decided to honour their tradition and thought that "dying with honour is more important than living without it". Taco is noted to have charged in to a group of approximately 8 mercenaries as a last stand and holding his ground until the numbers finally overwhelmed, getting many hits in due to the confusion. Robin has stated that he fought off four attacking mercenaries before the numbers caught up to him as well. These two fights were some of the last fights in the battle, basically fought when the battle was already lost, but these men would not let their honour run away with them from the battlefield.

The Lemurians were after this phyrric defeat forced to give up all of their land.

But on the morning after this battle, Tacozim had been informed of some important news. It seemed that Robin had developed Limurian sympathies after the battle, and had talked to Draphonaris earlier in the morning about plans for Cyrilla being annexed by Lemuria. Now, Taco had woken up very late due to having to stay up during the fight the day before and hadn't been asked or informed about any of this information. Taco felt a sense of panicking, deals had already been made behind his back and he did not want to give away the country he had worked so hard to create and legitimize, but alas, he understood the situation and did the best he could with the circumstances.

Tacozim hopped into a call with JustRobin and after discussions, he finally complied. Saying something along the lines of: "Robin- Listen. I'm only doing this for you. I do not want a foreign power in our lands, especially one which takes our lands without blood being spilt. Due to them outnumbering us tenfold, the country of Bibshmibbia threatening us and you being the person who made these deals, I will comply, but not without heavy demands."

Taco and Robin had a close relationship, but Taco still felt a sense of betrayal. Being forced to give away his pride and honor without a single thing he could really do wasn't a good feeling, and the other option which would be going to war over this would just humiliate Tacozim. The city of Cyron would've been tainted forever if this war actually took place.

After this discussion Taco contacted Draphonaris, willing to become an autonomous vassal, but only under certain circumstances.

Now, Cyrilla was not really fit for heavy negotiations at this time. Cyron, the only city in Cyrilla and capital, had a population of two people and Robin had already basically sold out the country behind Tacos back, so he did what he could at that point.

His demands were clear and simple, the demands were the following: - We would like to become an autonomous state and work as a vassal.

- I (Tacozim) would like to remain leader of Cyrilla.

- We would like further help with unification of the island, and be promised to be granted further lands                              -                                                                                     on the island while it is unifying; not demanding any lands from the future Limurian capital site.

- I (Taco) Would like to become a officer in the Limurian military, especially against Bibshmibbia.

What he would've demanded would probably been sort of a union, where the countries monarchies would have equal say and etc, but this wasn't possible due to the tough situation Cyrilla was in; and with a threatening Bibshmibbia to the east they really didn't have a choice. Cyrilla did not have any place for real negotiation at this point.

So Taco was surprised to see that Draphonaris accepted these demands, due to the extreme weakness in Cyrilla as a country.

And so on 2021/07/12, Cyrilla became a vassal under Limuria. Cyrilla and her ruler Tacozim was/were the last native kingdom and ruler to run a country in the island of Zamots; showing fierce resistance but finally falling under all of the pressure. But as stated in the demands, Cyrilla is still a country, allbeit a vassal state under Limuria still ruled by Tacozim.