Skippy the Gnome

Origins
Skippy was born in the first ever year of the first ever world of Paxia, with no mother nor father. One

could say he simply... spawned there. In the cold tundras he grew from a mere child to a hardened man, fighting wolves for his right to exist and living off sweet berries. What brought him there? He would not know until the first world was no more. When it was destroyed, he floated in the void for many decades, and there he met his true father. Ag'leyth, a being of pure knowledge, had created Skippy in an effort to experience the world through the eyes of someone who could touch, feel, smell and taste things like a mortal would, and for this reason Skippy was cursed to never truly die, instead he would respawn where he last slept, as if it was all just a dream, or a nightmare.

Paxia
In the first world of Paxia Skippy lived as a wild man, not so different from wolves. But indeed there were other intelligent beings around, and eventually he found a villager and artist known as Thainara. They both eventually fell in love, but Skippy found out he could not have children. Thainara created the portrait that you can see in this page of Skippy, and the clothes that he uses were made by her. Eventually, the world of Paxia was destroyed by the anger of a great many gods, but, cursed by immortality, Skippy survived.

Jagdas
Skippy woke up in the wold of Jagdas in the middle of an ocean and for many years he lived as a nomad, stricken by grief from the loss of his world. After 5 years, he attempted to commit suicide by forcing himself off the world border, but... well, he just woke up from the nightmare again. Seeing that he was here to stay, he decided to turn the nightmare into a dream, and sought out lands to build his house.

Bellow a peacefull green hill, there was a hole. In this hole there was a home, the home of a man named Skippy. Raising his sheep and cows, he was finally at peace... but then, with fire and brimstone, the world of Jagdas was destroyed. Once more he roamed the void.

Rathnir
He woke up again, in the world of Rathnir, near what would become the city of Urnu-Arrack. There were people there, the people of Yimmu-Audal, but seeking peace once more Skippy fled to a distant Mesa biome. After many years the biome was discovered to be gold rich and multiple wars were fought over it, the Golden Wars, in which Skippy participated as a mercenary, seeking out conflict in a desperate bid to stop his raging boredom that comes with immortality. After years of constant fighting the new world of Eldham was discovered and Skippy would start a new life there.

After many weeks of travel by boat, he arrived at a small city known as Venishire, and there he settled, making frieds along the way. Noticing the ruins of the land, he stated to piece together the existance of an ancient race of short people that called themselves the Maddrakkii that looked suspecioulsy a lot like Skippy and worshipped a god named Ag'leyth. In the name of said god theiy enslaved and sacrificed what they called lesser races, such as ice elves, goblins, trolls, orcs, ogres, giants and many others. In the common tongue Skippy named this race the Forest Gnomes, and sought out to translate their language and start their civilization again, this time in a proper way.

It just so happens that he became a leader of the nation that he was living in, previouslly known as Rabanshire, now known as Phoenia, and to acomplish his goals he sought out more power. Teaming up with players Tidesingerr and Firedragone he started to plan a coup, with its base of operations situated at the newly built fortress of DolGuldur, that Skippy was ordered to build by his dictator Tunder_.

It turned out that Tunder_ was becoming afk and willingly gave out ownership of the nation. Long story short, Skippy crowned himself King and set up the Republic of New Phoenia, aka South Phoenia.

Chancellor King
Skippy now had ultimate power inside his nation of Phoenia, being both chancellor and King, albeit the Senate still had a say in the running of the nation, and Skippy himself did not wish to abuse his power. Indeed, he lead the nation for 3 months, leading it in, and later out, of the Clown Wars . When the time came for Skippy to no longer hold ultimate power, the elections hapened, and Tunder_ won fair and square. The gnome gave up his office, and the transfer of power was peaceful and uneventful, but Skippy was still the King.

Marriage
In the morning of the 3rd of August the chancellor and queen of the nearby Kingdom of Anglunia visited the phoenic capital of DolGuldur, claimed land of Skippy himself. Although this was not the intent of the visit, it ended up on a marriage proposal by Skippy to Queen Elyani Taygen-Blizun of Agnlunia (player QCoffee) who, blushing, accepted. Later that same day the cerimony was held at the meadhall of Myrtle.

Colapse
Phoenia had Colapsed. Over his long time as King he had seen chancellors come and go, and he needed once more to become Chancellor-King, ultimate ruller, more akin to an emperor, and thus break the constitution blatantly, a document so holy to him that he had sworn to uphold. And thus, Skippy gave up on Kingship, rather than break his oath. He installed his dear friend and fellow Machine Cultist RageOFire as the new and legitimate king, but it was no use. He had no true authority, and the new chancellor, Abbejohn, was disliked thorougly. As such, Phoenia, without the pillar to hold it that was Skippy, colapsed into a mess of city states. Soliana had become independent, and later was vasalized by the nearby Kingdom of Anglunia. Rapture, built by the hands and with the money of Skippy to be the future capital of Phoenia, was ciezed by player Astapf and his band of rebellious goons, looted, and then ciezed again by the nearby Swamplands, previously aslo part of Phoenia. One way or another, Skippy lost a lot of money in the exchange, for indeed he had dreams of making Rapture into an independent city state, with the support of nearby Zamotz Union, who had taken control of the remaining Phoenian territories and made them into minor provinces. DolGuldur, the fortress-city that Skippy had built, was now controlled by the suposed king RageOFire.

Without DolGuldur, without Rapture, without the crown, his wife had died through an assasination attempt, Skippy foud himself quite lost. So he followed where his kin was: the dwarves. Indeed, Skippy was not a dwarf, and truly he wasn't actually a gnome either, but to live near those who are similar to him would bring him great peace. So, he moved to where some Phoenians had migrated long ago... The great underground nation of Varn Torum.

Life in the Underrealm
After a very welcoming tour of the capital of Khun Drakhar by his friend Lossi, a Botan of Varn Torum, Skippy moved to it, using a wagon he bult himself, dragged by two forest trolls he had paid. Sadly, before they arrived in the city, the two trolls slipped while fighting over a piece of pork and fell into a deep river, and drowned. Skippy, being tiny and weak compared to such massive beasts, could do nothing to help, but was secretly happy that he did not need to pay them anymore, for he was very close to the city. The wagon was later stationed inside the city to serve as Skippy's shop named Gnomish Wagon, from which he sells various products, and keeps changing said products, the most recent ones being Netherite Ingots and amethyst related blocks and resources.