Virothen

Creation
Virothen is a city created in the Bardonia region around 2 years ago. To indicate the center of the new town, the people constructed a beacon as a symbol of culture and hope for the group of people who founded Virothen. Much is still unknown about the first years of the town.

Viro-Anfangese War
It had its first and only war with a squatter town with which it fought over resources and overall land area. This neighboring town was called Anfang. The Virothenians obliterated Anfang with brutality and ease, as they watched their hopes shatter into more depressing attempts at war. After the obliteration, it was a clear Virothenian victory. Once its citizens were forced to evacuate and its mayor obligated to hand over the claim to Virothen’s founder, MadCyrus, the mountain that once separated both towns was torn down to symbolize unity between the victors and the newly conquered lands.

Post War
After this outstand victory, Bardonian officials encouraged Virothen to become a Bardonian city considering its proximity to other regions. This means that the small city state was recognised by a larger empire due to their strength and resilience of the warriors and citizens who inhabit it. When the brief period of passive persuasion ended their mere ‘suggestions’ were turned into threats. Those threats included the destruction of Virothen or the forced evacuation of its 6 player population. 3 weeks after the Viro-Anfangese war, a player by the name of Stranger J appeared in the city’s Centre with a small armored militia, giving Virothen’s population an ultimatum; ‘join in 3 days or war will be our mean of persuasion’ he declared. And so they did, Virothenians became Bardonian citizens, but unrest in this growing city was building up.

Period of Economic Growth and Development
Virothen’s first attempt of independence came not so long after Stranger J and his crew showed up. This endeavor towards self-rule went nowhere as the Bardonian army outnumbered the Virothenian-assembled militia 6 to 1. After this failed attempt further integration of the city into the Empire was tried. Virothen started building, expanding the now called ‘Old Town’, where the first building was constructed, from the plateau down towards the valley. A 60 block-tall statue of an eagle, the god of the Aethochronist religion, was built as a centre point for all the housing to be built around. Simultaneously, a humble workforce of 8 citizens was massed to destroy all remaining Anfangese structures, including housing and cafeterias. This was made so MadCyrus, together with gutigonzalo, Stealthyninja009, h0lah0la and arrowshooter888 could build a casino (which is now known as Clover Casino) on top of the abandoned town.

Period of Expansion
After this stage of economic growth and overall city development came the period of expansion. Virothen’s mayor started claiming surrounding land to control coastal areas so ports could be built and economic activity enhanced. As the ocean is 700 blocks away a puppet city by the name of Tompurcia was founded on the coast, with Paajumaljo being its first and only mayor. 50 blocks away from Tompurcia, Virothen claimed the city of Steinbourg, a walled city which oversaw Pajumaljo’s city, helping to control, defend and establish a greater iron fist over the puppet city. The relations between the newly created polis and Virothen worsened as months went by, but rebellion was prevented after a meeting between Paajumaljo and MadCyrus in the Virothenian controlled city of Steinburg, where a new trading agreement was created and ratified so Tompurica could thrive under Virothenian control.

Absorbtion of Novus
The expansionist period finalised with the absorption of Novus (another neighbouring city) into Virothen. When this last city was under Virothenian domain, the Bardonian Autarch Abrewt stepped in, straining Virothen’s economy so it had to give up all the chunks claimed during the territorial growth era (this included Steinburg and Novus), thus Virothen reduced its size to its current one.

Second Virothenian Rebellion
Witnessing their city being denigrated and besmirched, the citizens took it upon themselves to return to those past glory days, thus the Second Virothenian Rebellion began. During this second attempt Virothen actually achieved independence, as the Bardonia fractured into small breakaway states, all of them short-lived ones, including Virothen, which was reabsorbed into the Empire 1 week after its collapse.

Peace
Once Virothen was fully integrated again, the peaceful era begun, where new players joined and good relations with other cities were established. After the joining of Virothen to Bardonia, the city saw a moment of peace and growth. In those weeks there had been built a part of the dock and we saw new people joining. Anyways the main problem of Virothen continues to be the low population. This is also the period of the councils first meetings.

End of Peace
After this period, the first expansion plans started to form. One of this was the claiming of Steinsburg. In the weeks our major LordCyrus went on vacation and PetrusBu became the leader of Virothen for a few days. He was a new player and he was desperate not to loose the war so he asked help from Bardonia. It was a bad idea: Bardonia did not approve the war and when the chancellor Shanks discovered it, the war has been deleted and Shanks joined Virothenian discord to control the future actions of the Virothen.

Third Rebellion
Some times after the Steinsburg event, Virothen joined a secret alliance of cities in Bardonia born to gain the independence of those cities from Bardonia. Unluckly, the day before the decisive battle, the secret alliance crashed because of some problems and as punishment for Virothen, JakeTheeDogg became major of Virothen for 1 month.

Miska's Robbery
In the days under JakeTheeDogg's "governement" the Virothenian citizien Miska2011 stole some stuff from different houses. After an epic fighting he has been arrested by PetrusBu and Reinout but he escaped and has been banned from Stoneworks for 1 month. This is when PetrusBu pronunced the famous phrase "My friend died at page 11" (at page 12 of miska's diary there was the proof of his robbery).

Fourth Rebellion
At the end of JakeTheeDogg's month, Reinout, with the approvation of LordCyrus, made a plan to secede from Bardonia to join United Crowns of Syltor. The planned day for the seceding was 25th october, the day of the end of Jake's governement. But Bardonians understood Reinout's plan and kept Jake until Virothenian citiziens talked with Shanks and Unic0rnb0i, but only obtaining another month with Jake. Sad for the result of the rebellion, Reinout left Virothen.

Villesian Era
In the meanwhile,New Dorasterrock seceded from Bardonia, like Lundrues. So PetrusBu contacted Wrenbee (the major of ND) while MadCyrus was organizing a new nation with the leader of Lundrues. The 13th december 2022 Virothen and Lundrues united into Villesia with Russia and LordCyrus as premiers and PetrusBu as first minister. Heard this new, Reinout rejoined Virothen. But Bardonia born from ashes again and menaced Villesia if it wouldnt have joined Bardonia: so 31st december 2022 Villesia dissolved and joined back Bardonia.

Nasayu's Era
Just before Villesia, a new player named Nasayu ( IGN Xochicoatl) joined Virothen. In a short time, he started the big project to build a new market. The new market was as big as all Old Virothen and this gave popularity to Nasayu. In the meanwhile PetrusBu became less trustwhorty because of anger moments against Bardonians. He almost got Virothen destroyed for insinuating Virothen would secede. Bilal became more important as citizien too. So PetrusBu started a campaign of works until he announced its redention. He did all what he could to correct his past mistakes, and started working to help Nasayu on the project.

The Stagnant Period
While Nasayu was working hard on the Marketplace area in West Virothen, Petrus started to work on his own district in East Virothen. But there was a problem: Virothen needed more citizens, and Cyrus suddenly dissapeared. So Petrus and Nasayu collaborated on getting more citizens for the town. After much effort, they managed to make the town grow. On February, Nasayu became mayor of Yuzhen, so he had to leave his project inocmplete. The Market Area is still incomplete.

The Annunor Province
Virothen and Yuzhen started to grow after much effort. Once a squatter, Virothen was now a big city with a high quality of life. In some months, it gained lots of new citizens and became more important inside Bardonia. So, the leaders of both cities met and talked about the possibility of making a province together. Today, the Annunor Province, (named after the Annunor River) is a symbol of the friendship between Yuzhen and Virothen. Together, Virothen and Yuzhen are home to a big portion of Bardonian citizens.

The small colonial adventure
Some weeks before Villesia, PetrusBu proposed to create a colony in another land. LordCyrus approved the idea but it has been realized later, because of Villesia events. The new colony was in the north territories of Nandor Confederacy and its name was previously New Virothen and then Summerfort. In the beginning, the leader (viceroy) of the colony was Nasayu because of PetrusBu's dark age. Nasayu was busy with many projects so PetrusBu started to build the colony himself, until he got the title of viceroy. Not a lot of time after, Oshotty (leader of Nandor Confederacy) discovered the colony and started to negotiate with LordCyrus. The negotations haven't gone well and Virothenians has been forced to leave the colony. Some of them decided to stay and defend the colony, lead by Reinout/Deman and PetrusBu. They organized an average army but when they talked to Oshotty to declare independence, they discovered a anti-squatters pact signed in Syltor Summit. So they've been forced to leave the colony forever.