Viatorem

Introduction and Founding
Viatorem was founded a player by the name of Bups, with help from a few trusted friends. Bups had been travelling Rathnir, living in camps and inns along the road, searching for a home. Whilst travelling through Haven he came across the ruins of a village which had been destroyed during a war, it was situated within a jungle and the dense terrain would work to the townspeople’s advantage is they were ever to be attacked. Work started on the town, and Viatorem was born.

Early History
When exploring the ruins the travellers came across a large tree, signs at its base labelled it as a “Holy Tree” but its previous owners had fled the village. Camovado (Bups) decided to become the new caretaker of the magnificent tree, using it has a spiritual place to store the many great works of literature and knowledge that he had collected on his long journeys. Camovado and his friends began building up the town around the tree, building over the ruins of the old village.

Camovado was deeply invested in his collection of books and religious texts, and he was always looking to expand his already expansive collection. He would find help in the form of a librarian by the name TheRussianTanker, who was the owner of the Vostoky library in Sparwood. More good fortune came to Camovado when he won a massive lottery and dedicated it all to his rapidly growing collection of literature, and even paid authors to write him new books to further diversify his collection.

Town Growth and Expansion
As life in Viatorem continued, the library also expanded. It was around this time that a player by the name of Ewatomi assisted in the intricate construction of the interior of the Viatorem library, many famous people visited the library as word of its massive collection spread far and wide, attracting some of the highest echelons of society to its vast reserves of literature.

A new era dawned for Camovado and his friends when they crossed Haven's Heart to found Viatorem's sister city, Viator. Camovado, Uhtred, and Speedy all set off together to found the new city. The historical texts remaining in the Viatorem library claim that a powerful spirit took a liking to their project, and used their powers to manipulate the earth and spawn strong birch trees around the building sight, giving them a large pool of resources.

Viatorem entered in to a golden age, tourists heralded from every corner of Rathnir, coming to see the famed works in the library

Downfall and Recovery
Ironically, Viatorem's prosperity would become the bane of their existence. With so many people travelling the roads around the city, bandits became more and more common. A few months after the start of the city's golden age, a group of bandits would overwhelm the city's defenses and the librarians and townspeople fled to Viator and other neaby towns (OOC: Viatorem library owners went inactive for a bit). Once the threat had passed, the inhabitants of the once vibrant town who where brave enough to return did so, returning to their homes in a city that had been brutally sacked. The library had been heavily damaged in a fire and its catolouge of books had either been looted or burned.

Camovado was heavily discouraged by this, and his friends would later recall he walked among the rubble alone with his thoughts in the aftermath, picking up scraps of his famed book collection. However his friends would console him, and with growing confidence he began to rebuild and improve his library, spending his remaining fortunes on restoring its former glory.