Norvos

Norvos (Soumerian pronunciation: [ˈnor.vɔs, ˈnɔrvɔs]) was a former Norvian city and capital located in the region of Norvos, southeast of Lumaire, west of Port Leon and north of Atopolis. It's center was situated on top of a mountain surrounded by forest, it had a lower part which was divided from the center by a river and was situated on some plains east of Lake Aintland. It had a population of over a hundred for a short period and was one of the most populated cities of Sorligste of its time. The city was the administrative capital of the Jarldom of Norvos and the Captainship of Norvos.

Founded in the Spring of 71SMP, it began as a religious town as well as a logging town. The city is notable for its lack of historical buildings. The two oldest buildings being the cental fountain and the castle, with the rest having been built afterwards.

GUS
The city was founded on July 7th 2021 by Vistulicus when he thought the taiga could've been a profitable place to set camp. Later people joined him and the small lumbering settlement expanded into a fortified town with big stone walls and many other structures.

On the 11th of July 2021, as IslandANZAC, a citizen of the town, was exploring west, he met a man from a town named Ederan. The town offered the Norvian lots of gifts, and the two towns quickly became close friends. Soon IslandANZAC and Vistulicus began planning a way to gain independence from the GUS (Grand union of Sorligste) along with Ederan.

Soon after the Norvians were informed that their help was required to defeat an insurgent town in the west, which happened to be Ederan. Quickly a plan was formed to turn on the GUS at the battle, and with the help of their allies in Ederan, they would declare independence for themselves. However this didn't happen, because at the battle, the GUS attacked the Ederans before the war was supposed to begin, leading to confusion within the Ederan's ranks and ultimately a loss. However this did not stop IslandANZAC from killing two GUS soldiers who had split up from the rest of their force on the way back. Despite the plans to rebel against the GUS, Vistilicus had still sent one of its most trusted citizens, Iann Emil, to cause damage in Ederan by breaking chests and placing lava in the unclaimed areas.

Soon there was a lot of disruption within Norvos, and an almost civil-war stance as half of Norvos were resentful towards Vistulicus for not leading the Norvians into battle against the GUS soldiers. This ultimately caused a few members to leave with Island and settle elsewhere, but they would come back in the future. A meeting was organized between HighKing_Castie, IslandANZAC and WillAtomic. It was decided that the Norvians that had left Norvos, would support Castie in a rebellion and would place Castie in-charge of Norvos, as Castie was also irritated by Vistulicus's actions but was still in Norvos at the time. Although this also didn't occur because the leadership of the town was given to HighKing_Castie after Vistulicus was murdered by an unknown assassin. The Norvian government made no efforts to find the murder and simply went on with Castie as the new ruler of the town.

After the removal of Vist from leadership, Castie immediatly started claiming land around the town to increase its size and ability to protect itself as some parts of the towns walls were left unclaimed due to Vistulicus' corruption and incompetence.

Tortuga
Soon after the build up a new town called Atopolis sprung up and began imediate diplomatic contact with Norvos and Norvos willingly sent them a lend lease of 30 diamonds which to this day still remains to be repaid, the towns first major build up began with a new area of farm land and a giant wall to guard the Northern part of the farm land from bandits and raiders, then a new town was started across the river called Laila which quickly became the towns cultural hub, adding into it a great library and many religious buildings aswell as a grand citidel, the town is currently in the process of becoming a province in a way to secure there land from incursions from Atopolis and other smaller towns

Independent Norvos
On 10/09/2021, TheSexyCanadian proposed indepenence for province of Norvos to the captain of Norvos, Jayant2K. On 17/09/2021 Norvos became an independent country after buying it's independence from Tortuga for $200,000.

The city of Norvos saw rapid growth during the months of August and September. But as soon as the main recruiter started the town of Port Leon not too far away from Norvos, the population started to drop. In November, hardly anyone was left in Norvos and the city reached a population of 5.

After the Kingdoms of Sorligsta Serenus (Italian't) and Norvos merged into the Commonwealth of Serevos on 11/10/2021, the city of Norvos continued to decline whilst Port Leon continued to grow. In the mean time the cities of Argadon and Magna Pollum had started to grow too.

On October 31st the commonwealth was couped by a group that renamed the nation to the Empire of Leveros. With the help of our former rivals from the neighbouring Republic of Ato, we managed to liberate Serevos and merged the nations into the Grand Sorligste Federation. A democratic nation which saw a lot of new hopes and dreams arise among the Norvians, Atoans and Italian'ts/Serenians. Sadly the city of Norvos was extinct in terms of population at this point and it remained like that.

Frostmarch
On November 25th it became clear that the remainders of Leveros managed to get the full support of Uldarash to invade the GSF, so the Head of State made the rational decision to save every town without being conquered. The GSF let itself be annexed by the friendly nation of Frostmarch. Frostmarch now owned almost the entirety of Sorligste, so to make sure that it could all be controlled they let the rulers of Norvos, Ato and Serenus rule their own areas as jarls of jarldoms. Since December 2021 the current people in charge of the town are discussing how to revive the once great city of Norvos.

In mid February 2022 Jay and Lindorm had started with rebuilding the city in a better way.

Culture
Norvos is hardly a culturally rich country, yet it can definitely be considered very religiously diverse, with over 5 religions being worshipped by the locals, though most Norvians are atheists. During the construction and terraforming in February, a lot of underground rooms were discovered. Apparently Norvians had a hobby of making hidden rooms.

Economy
The Norvian people mine or fish for their money, besides that trees, animals and crops are farmed to sell to other towns. There is no tax, however on 10/09/2021 there was a one day $200 tax to extract some money out of passive members before kicking them from the town. On 09/09/2021 Norvos decided to accept a deal from the emperor of Tortuga, TheSexyCanadian, to buy independence for the entire province for $200,000. They started mining a lot to increase the city balance from the usual $60,000 buffer to $260,000 to have money ready for upkeep and the independence purchase. On 11/09/2021 the Norvian city balance reached $274,000 and soon after went back below $200,000 when independence was paid. The upkeep for Norvos which got enabled in early September sucked out the money that Castie and Jay put into the Norvos nationclaim with 12k to 14k a week. During the revival of Norvos, Jay decreased the amount of chunks which brought the upkeep down to 10k a week.

Religion
The town is secular, allowing all religions. Currently, the Fesdrosian religion has a temple there along many other. On the 2nd of September a new religion was founded with the addition of the Benth church in Laila. The neighbouring cities have Kadasisim, Potatoism and other religions.

Geography
Norvos is a town situated on a plains and a taiga biome. It's surrounded by mainly taiga, plains, forests and wooden hills, which makes it the perfect location for a lumber town, though it made defending the town slightly harder on the sides with forests. The city has a dry river running across it and a lake to the west. Further west of the lake there is a large desert that recently has seen some settling by Norvos.The city is divided into districts, there are 3 small ones and 2 big ones. The small ones are the city center, the lake district and the outer main city. The big ones are the agricultural district and the desert district (or Laila). The outer main city consists of the military district, the trading district and the hobby plot district.

Government and politics
Since Castie became mayor in mid July, the position of mayor never has been an electible position. Norvos was still small at the time he became mayor so he made the people that stayed with Norvos Lord's, a Lord was able to deposit/withdraw money, (un)claim land and invite/kick members to the town. Norvos worked with the positions of Lord Diplomat and Lord Commander. At the start of August, the population started to grow decently with an effective recruitment campaign initiated by a new recruit called Jayant2K. In a week the population had grows from 7 to 16 members and around that time the mayor decided it became time to make Lord diplomat electible and add a new electible position called Lord Trader. The population boom continued and the population reached 25 members a week later so a new electible position called Lord Agriculture was added. When August reached it's end it was time for new elections. The population had reached 56 members at this point in time and a few small towns were settled by Norvians, so a lot of new positions needed to be added.

As of the 27/08/2021 an election was held by Mayor Castie, the election was to decide the town name to NorvosXLaila with a vote of 100% sticking with the old name. For a few minutes the town was "NorvosXLaila", During the event many memes were made in favour of the original name. On 02/09/2021 Mayor Castie held an election about whether the townhall should be moved to the citadel in Laila or the townhall in Norvos should get an upgrade. Once again the people of Norvos voted against their mayor's plans.

After the events in October and November in which the city of Norvos went from the dominion of Tortuga to the kingdom of Norvos to Serevos to Leveros to the GSF to Frostmarch, the city had been totally depopulated for a couple of months. In mid December, the thane of Norvos and the jarl of Norvos decided to work on reviving the city.

Drug Activity
As of the time of updating the wiki, there is only one known supplier of drugs, stinkypoo06 is currently the only drug dealer with decent stock for a new dealer. Currently, the only person who has tested any drugs in Norvos is Noobatorian3301 who tested Meth. Only 3 members know of the current Meth Lab location. Also if reading this, buy drugs from Stinkypoo06 he sells pretty good drugs. With prices so low, it feels like you're getting away with something. There are rumors that the Leon family is running huge drug operations in Norvos.

Conflicts and alliances
On the 25th of September, Tempo tried to grab power after no one listened to his proposals. He tried to kill HighkingCastie but other norvians ganged up on him. The day after, there was a heavy crackdown on anyone with plans for improvement for the town that didn't like the slow pace of development. Emillianus, the city planner, left hours before the king banned him from Norvos and made a new town in Tortuga called Leon Island named after his best friend from Norvos. Later on the 26th of September a trial was forced to strip Jayant2K of his power, it eventually succeeded and his lord role got removed as well as the right to run in the next election cycle.

On the 25th of September, on the 1st birthday of Rathnir, Aldovir and the kingdom of Norvos celebrated a new alliance.