Sorray

_Sorray_, or simply Sorray, was a builder inhabiting the United Socialist States of Eldham. They are most well known as the most contributing architect in the city of Laria, or as it was than known, Port Crelov. They published a lengthy book telling about the "Pun War" and constructed a statue called "The Builders" within Laria before taking an indefinite leave from the server after the Kunir War.

The Start of an Adventure
Sorray has joined the server on the sixth of June, 2021, when Eldham was young, the grass greener and air fresher. They immediately made a small base in snowy tundra, before being offered to join the USSE. Sorray wasn't interested in the political side of the server, so she has accepted the invitation. As a builder, she wished to find a town to settle in, but not many of them have caught her eye. At first, Sorray thought about joining the city of Staroslav(Crosotex), the biggest city at the moment, but eventually one of the newer towns have gotten her attention. Port Crelov, young town on the big island of Téntalo... It's the future place of fond memories and new friendships, where people felt right at home.

Building Port Crelov/Laria
Sorray was the third citizen who decided to join the town. Founder of the city, KatoLeAsian, was kind enough to give her own plot of land, where she could build herself a house. A medieval mansion was soon built, overlooking both of the already existing living houses in the area. But Sorray wasn't satisfied with her work, so she went directly to the mayor to discuss future expansion of the town, slowly but surely, they made their plans, combined their building styles in an attempt to destroy the possibility of ruining the town by two totally different architecture styles.

The land of the island was hand-terraformed, seawalls were raised, free housing and public places were built, the future of the town was bright. But when Sorray was giving finishing touches to the defense wall, which will soon separate the "Old City" and the "New City", yet again, she wasn't satisfied with the city scale. People loved the town already, but something was missing, so she went back to work. Kato wasn't too happy with expensive expansion of the now-city, but still decided to continue building with her, the action which she appreciated.

After building the defensive walls, the new and more ambitious project has appeared - building the New City. Big farms near walls were replaced by vast marketplace, player housing was placed and the start of the main Market District started bringing colors into the city. Sorray has build the Great Library and the Evergreen Cafe, not mentioning player housing. The city was truly alive, and it was the place where she met people like Kato, DeathByCannabis, Pietri and Quintus(QD), wonderful builders who took part in the city building.

The dark times
"For the more in-depth view go to page The Kunir War."Everything happened really quick, the declaration of war, which escalated from small misunderstanding to full blown massacre. Sorray, as mentioned above, wasn't interested in any servers politics, so when the war announcement was received, she wasn't worried. The main fight was about to happen at the Vanakunir capital, and her PVP skills are... well, not impressive.

But world had different plans. The war got postponed several times, and when the final date was set, everyone thought the fight is still going to happen outside of the USSE. But in the last hours, the fight was moved to Laria(The new name of the city). The city was unprepared, too complex for a fight. Preparing to the worst, Sorray has gathered all of her stuff, and left the city before the main battle was about to start.

In the end, battle was lost and city went to Anglunia, who decided to buy it from Vanakunir. At this point, Sorray had to leave the server, and war only made it quicker. Taking an indefinite leave from the server, she was hoping someone will continue her work, but unfortunately, it never happened. The city was standing dormant for the long time.

The Return
After some time(3 weeks), Sorray has returned to the server, just to find the city unchanged. She always wished to complete the "project", so she went to find her building buddies. Some of them still resided in town, others left the nation completely, while others had to leave the server as well. It took some time, but the building team was back together. Back together, the building has continued, adding the whole new part of the city.

The new walls of the New City were raised, complex apartment buildings were built, as well as public spaces, like a new park, a new shop and an Embassy. Not to mention city barracks, stables, blacksmith were built. In the progress of building the inside parts of Laria, new players started building outside of the wall, creating a cozy countryside with farms and traveling carts.

Laria was officially finished, to the point where you couldn't place any more buildings on the island. And with that, Sorray's job was done. The fire of revival slowly died down, and Larian group of main builders slowly went different paths. Laria was the biggest project for Sorray, and she never thought it will be finished, but it was. Now new cities have appeared in the USSE, new builders are creating history and beauty, and all what Sorray can do is to be proud of her work.

After Work
When Laria was finished, Sorray had to become mostly inactive because of real life matters. Sometimes she joins back on the server to look around or to resolve some problems, but never really participates in regular server activities. Outside of her work in Laria, you could find Sorray's buildings across the USSE. She has built the "Blue Orchid" cafe in the new sprouting city of Kazkaya, added details and care into the same town, and with help of several people made Crosotex ruins.

Also you can read her book "Pun Wars" which was created to tell about an event that happened in Laria. The copies of the book you can find in the Larian Great Library or in the hands of USSE citizens. The book contains puns, wars and pun wars.

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