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'''''A History Of Ixnay''''' is a recounting of events throughout the history of Ixnay as recalled by Spelf. It is noted for its considerable subjectivity and failure to meet any basic standard for what might be considered a "history". It was started in 2017 by the author but was abandoned and not recalled again until 2019, when the author began working on it. Consequently, it features several different styles of writing and arbitrarily moves between a history of the region generally and a recalling of Spelf's time in the region, specifically. A major addendum was added in 2022 which included numerous factual deficiencies, entire incidents and episodes left out, and other significant problems with narrative, with additions included in 2023 | '''''A History Of Ixnay''''' is a recounting of events throughout the history of Ixnay as recalled by Spelf. It is noted for its considerable subjectivity and failure to meet any basic standard for what might be considered a "history". It was started in 2017 by the author but was abandoned and not recalled again until 2019, when the author began working on it. Consequently, it features several different styles of writing and arbitrarily moves between a history of the region generally and a recalling of Spelf's time in the region, specifically. A major addendum was added in 2022 which included numerous factual deficiencies, entire incidents and episodes left out, and other significant problems with narrative, with additions included in 2023. A post-Map Completion Project write up from 2024 was also included. It is generally the author's intent to provide a neutral point of view and not besmirch the character of any individual person. | ||
=Background= | =Background= | ||
Some of the work originates from an abortive IxMemoir by Spelf began in 2017, when that kind of thing was fashionable and en vogue. He was encouraged by Burg, and it spawned a short lived IxMemoir of Burg's that ended shortly before Burg did anything of import or interest for the region. The text was presented as it was in the final work with later additions within the memoir section itself appearing in italics; all portions after it were written in 2019 and later. Consequently, the work shifts in tone and style beginning with the recounting of events in early 2014; the section "The Beginning" was additionally added in 2019. The various sources of text have been demarcated within this document, with the 2022 recollections and onward forming different sources of text than the original Spelfiad "IxMemoir". | Some of the work originates from an abortive IxMemoir by Spelf began in 2017, when that kind of thing was fashionable and en vogue. He was encouraged by Burg, and it spawned a short lived IxMemoir of Burg's that ended shortly before Burg did anything of import or interest for the region. The text was presented as it was in the final work with later additions within the memoir section itself appearing in italics; all portions after it were written in 2019 and later. Consequently, the work shifts in tone and style beginning with the recounting of events in early 2014; the section "The Beginning" was additionally added in 2019. The various sources of text have been demarcated within this document, with the 2022 recollections and onward forming different sources of text than the original Spelfiad "IxMemoir". | ||
The "source" eras of the documents are maintained below because they themselves are of historical interest; they portray the different views of the author and writing style from different points of time | |||
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==The Beginning== | ==The Beginning== | ||
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Those were dark months, and I remained absent for many of them. We managed to stop the bleeding and began to pick up the pieces, ensuring no members left and that Ixnay would continue to exist. Some former members attempted to poach people, but most remained strong. The absolute worst of Black Thursday had ended by the end of March, but to this day it remains probably the worst day in Ixnay's history. From a personal point of view, I was now fairly isolated within Ixnay. This was the era of randoms becoming regulars for a brief time - "Tits", Akai, and Santh. Slak came around this time and was on-and-off for about four years. Heku and I have our historic differences, and to be frank I never liked Kron. For the time being, I was lacking in any sort of RP/lore partner. This era was functionally an in-between time. On the bright side, Black Thursday arguably gave IxReboot the space to breathe. The community was coming to a shift from "geopolitical roleplay with decent factbooks" to something ''else'' - but it took time to discover what that was. | Those were dark months, and I remained absent for many of them. We managed to stop the bleeding and began to pick up the pieces, ensuring no members left and that Ixnay would continue to exist. Some former members attempted to poach people, but most remained strong. The absolute worst of Black Thursday had ended by the end of March, but to this day it remains probably the worst day in Ixnay's history. From a personal point of view, I was now fairly isolated within Ixnay. This was the era of randoms becoming regulars for a brief time - "Tits", Akai, and Santh. Slak came around this time and was on-and-off for about four years. Heku and I have our historic differences, and to be frank I never liked Kron. For the time being, I was lacking in any sort of RP/lore partner. This era was functionally an in-between time. On the bright side, Black Thursday arguably gave IxReboot the space to breathe. The community was coming to a shift from "geopolitical roleplay with decent factbooks" to something ''else'' - but it took time to discover what that was. | ||
==2024 | ==2024 Post-MCP Boredom Project== | ||
===The Burg Renaissance and Silver Age=== | ===The Burg Renaissance and Silver Age=== | ||
Ixnay puttered along after Black Thursday for several months until The New True Cross, a user I had met years earlier on LineartInc, approached me with interest in joining Ixnay. He came over and we discussed a Venice type idea for him; an insular metropole in northern Levantia with periphery feudal-like holdings on the mainland separate from his primary dominion. After working through some names, he picked Burgundie, and a legend was born. | Ixnay puttered along after Black Thursday for several months until The New True Cross, a user I had met years earlier on LineartInc, approached me with interest in joining Ixnay. He came over and we discussed a Venice type idea for him; an insular metropole in northern Levantia with periphery feudal-like holdings on the mainland separate from his primary dominion. After working through some names, he picked Burgundie, and a legend was born. | ||
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Jakee was a big spiritual leader of the community at this time while Kron and Burg were functionally Ixnay's day-to-day leadership. At this time, we had still retained the NationStates era leadership model, which is to say the founder (me, or Kirav in my stead) analogous to a monarch, the delegate (at this period Burg) analogous to a prime minister, and a vice delegate (Kronata at this period) who functioned as a second in command; he also served as cartographer. Heku at this time was around but had been suitably chastened during the 2016 controversy. Kirav, as ever, was also just sort of around in a sage capacity. Together all of these people formed, effectively, an executive troika that functioned beyond the mere titles retained from the NS era. Democratic selection of officers had long been abolished by my recollection, but may have still been around de jure. | Jakee was a big spiritual leader of the community at this time while Kron and Burg were functionally Ixnay's day-to-day leadership. At this time, we had still retained the NationStates era leadership model, which is to say the founder (me, or Kirav in my stead) analogous to a monarch, the delegate (at this period Burg) analogous to a prime minister, and a vice delegate (Kronata at this period) who functioned as a second in command; he also served as cartographer. Heku at this time was around but had been suitably chastened during the 2016 controversy. Kirav, as ever, was also just sort of around in a sage capacity. Together all of these people formed, effectively, an executive troika that functioned beyond the mere titles retained from the NS era. Democratic selection of officers had long been abolished by my recollection, but may have still been around de jure. | ||
My return inaugurated the usual bickering about who had what authority, the nominal and archaic role of the founder, and such similar arguments. I decided they were probably right and proposed constitutional reform. Basically, the idea was to formalize the executive troika system. Significant work went into this idea, with significant behind-the-scenes negotiating and discussion. The new system provided for an "Executive Cabinet" | My return inaugurated the usual bickering about who had what authority, the nominal and archaic role of the founder, and such similar arguments. I decided they were probably right and proposed constitutional reform. Basically, the idea was to formalize the executive troika system. Significant work went into this idea, with significant behind-the-scenes negotiating and discussion. The new system provided for an "Executive Cabinet". This system had myself as Founder and Kirav as Vice Founder, which had veto and permanent membership. Heku and Burg served as Consuls, who rotated the NationStates office of Delegate every three months. There were two IxNobles, Paul and Kron, who were permanent members. There was an elected member. There were also non-voting members, which were Jakee and Rigo ("IxPetty Nobility") and Helvi, who was invited on an ad hoc basis. There were rules for meeting and quorums. As you can tell, this is an extremely rigid and convoluted system, but it basically gave formal legitimacy to the de facto situation. The Golden Bull was issued formally on July 9th, ending the old offices of the region. | ||
In addition to the great ambition of the OOC reform, there was a large IC agenda to consider as well. A great Lore Council - focused and dedicated forum to resolve 16 major lore issues - was scheduled for July. The items are interesting and worth listing, because they speak to the ambition we had at the time to creative a cohesive lore world as well as how far we would eventually come: | In addition to the great ambition of the OOC reform, there was a large IC agenda to consider as well. A great Lore Council - focused and dedicated forum to resolve 16 major lore issues - was scheduled for July. The items are interesting and worth listing, because they speak to the ambition we had at the time to creative a cohesive lore world as well as how far we would eventually come: | ||
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* Dungeon-master type bot that also controls other IC simulation aspects like the weather – should we adopt these types of bots/simulator mechanisms and, if so, what should the parameters of its function be? | * Dungeon-master type bot that also controls other IC simulation aspects like the weather – should we adopt these types of bots/simulator mechanisms and, if so, what should the parameters of its function be? | ||
* The history of Punth, the history and scope of Punth colonization, and the relation in general of the Punths to the Western world | * The history of Punth, the history and scope of Punth colonization, and the relation in general of the Punths to the Western world | ||
* “[[The Decline of Ix (OOC)]]” and a general conversation about the proliferation of non-democratic regimes, and whether or not to adopt the document formally as lore (this also bears on question #4) | * “[[The Decline of the Ix (OOC)]]” and a general conversation about the proliferation of non-democratic regimes, and whether or not to adopt the document formally as lore (this also bears on question #4) | ||
* The genesis and source of Germanic peoples and the method of their spread throughout the world | * The genesis and source of Germanic peoples and the method of their spread throughout the world | ||
* The history of linguistic groups and some kind of IxIndoEuropean (Levanto-Cronanean?) as well as a clear homeland for those speakers if adopted | * The history of linguistic groups and some kind of IxIndoEuropean (Levanto-Cronanean?) as well as a clear homeland for those speakers if adopted | ||
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===The Spelf Renaissance and Canadian Drama=== | ===The Spelf Renaissance and Canadian Drama=== | ||
On February 13th, 2019, at 12:17 AM, Corumm sent me a TG with a picture of Ixnay's map which had finally removed me as well as a caption of "sad". This was enough motivation for me to stick my head in and do my usual complaining. I decided to stick around, however, for one reason or another. In the previous several months I felt the need for a creative outlet, working on a complicated future timeline of the collapse of the United States as well as lore for a Minecraft server. In this respect Corumm's message came at the right time. I had thought about returning to Ixnay in previous months but the previous drama and fear of attacks on my person had prevented me; this was a good impetus. Additionally, in real life I had settled down socially (having been going out with my now-wife for almost a year) and we had lost politically in real life, meaning I had less high-pressure work to do. I popped in the IRC much to the chagrin of everyone, and I was soon back on the map and contributing. After conversations about modernization, we moved to Discord from IRC in March 2019. I lived as a private citizen during this time, stepping away from founder pretense and being willingly excluded from staff chat. My reappearance helped rejuvenate Levantine lore and generally had brought some interest and intrigue after what I am told was a sleepy 2018. Heku and others generally kept expecting me to follow my modus operandi of dipping out after a few days/weeks, but by this period I had matured significantly and began to treat their criticisms as motivation to do well and surpass them rather than as occasions for rage. Selfishly diverting from the regional narrative, I ended up winning the 2019 Annual Loreward and have won several since; I actually credit my 2017-19 detractors, but I mention all of this to say that I was back and, in many ways, more productive lorewise than I ever had been previously. | On February 13th, 2019, at 12:17 AM, Corumm sent me a TG with a picture of Ixnay's map which had finally removed me as well as a caption of "sad". This was enough motivation for me to stick my head in and do my usual complaining. I decided to stick around, however, for one reason or another. In the previous several months I felt the need for a creative outlet, working on a complicated future timeline of the collapse of the United States as well as lore for a Minecraft server. In this respect Corumm's message came at the right time. I had thought about returning to Ixnay in previous months but the previous drama and fear of attacks on my person had prevented me; this was a good impetus. Additionally, in real life I had settled down socially (having been going out with my now-wife for almost a year) and we had lost politically in real life, meaning I had less high-pressure work to do. I popped in the IRC much to the chagrin of everyone, and I was soon back on the map and contributing. After conversations about modernization, we moved to Discord from IRC in March 2019. I lived as a private citizen during this time, stepping away from founder pretense and being willingly excluded from staff chat. My reappearance helped rejuvenate Levantine lore and generally had brought some interest and intrigue after what I am told was a sleepy 2018. Heku and others generally kept expecting me to follow my modus operandi of dipping out after a few days/weeks, but by this period I had matured significantly and began to treat their criticisms as motivation to do well and surpass them rather than as occasions for rage. Selfishly diverting from the regional narrative, I ended up winning the 2019 Annual Loreward and have won several since; I actually credit my 2017-19 detractors, but I mention all of this to say that I was back and, in many ways, more productive lorewise than I ever had been previously. | ||
There was a mini-reboot during this period spurred on by drunken Kir discussing with Helvi the nature of the world. A still-unresolved Lore Council-era issue was the issue of Germanics in Ixnay and where they came from, and why there were three "white" continents (Sarpedon, Levantia, and the 2015-19 version of Crona). At this time, Crona was different from modern Crona, which was called Punth. Crona had started in 2015 as a place to put more players, and in the reboot it became the home of most of the Germanic and American-style countries of Ixnay. The issue was still contentious as of 2019. Overnight, however, Kir and Helvi had basically come up with the genesis of what the staff would implement: namely, the elimination of Ur-Crona and the relocation of all the Germans to Levantia. This had a couple effects. It created a flashpoint between myself and Helvi/Mont which would play a role in bad relations prior to both of them leaving. It would anchor Levantia as a major center of world lore. It would also alienate Pauldustllah who was being moved in yet another reboot, and he would end up leaving again unfortuately after bad blood between myself and him started. [[Ixnay & The Levantias (OOC)]] was the genesis of much of this reboot, and would become the spiritual successor of [[The Decline of Ix (OOC)]] in terms of big ideas. | |||
My time as a private citizen would come to an end as I was given a loose staff chat role at the pleasure of Heku and Mont, which means I was also often removed from it when drawing their ire. Mont was the formal and official Delegate, holding executive power and day-to-day maintenance of the community. Heku started the Discord, making him owner and having power and leverage (as he had had with IRC) that he didn't really have in any other "formal" office. I am never one to stay out of power dynamics, as it is a personal fault. As far as I understand, Heku and Mont had been increasingly at eachother's throats during late 2018 and early 2019 over many different issues, such that Heku found it difficult to work with him in any respect. Mont and I had our problems as well. These mutual issues actually formed the basis of something Heku and I had never had before: a positive working relationship. Mont had refused to map several requested entries of mine, I think for islands or colonies or something that I don't remember. In any event, this created animosity between he and I which some of the other staff actually agreed with me on. In May 2019, a significant flare up between he and Mont and I and Mont came. We pulled off a major coup. Despite being legitimate Delegate, he was functionally unseated by Heku by merit of his position as Discord owner and myself by merit of my ownership of the NS Region, which still had a little importance at the time. We were both technically private citizens at the time, but this move ended the Canuck Era and put us both back at the top. The new innovation this time was a triumvirate with Burg, who Heku and I both respected. We appointed Insui as nominal delegate and rewrote the Golden Bull to basically eliminate democracy permanently. | My time as a private citizen would come to an end as I was given a loose staff chat role at the pleasure of Heku and Mont, which means I was also often removed from it when drawing their ire. Mont was the formal and official Delegate, holding executive power and day-to-day maintenance of the community. Heku started the Discord, making him owner and having power and leverage (as he had had with IRC) that he didn't really have in any other "formal" office. I am never one to stay out of power dynamics, as it is a personal fault. As far as I understand, Heku and Mont had been increasingly at eachother's throats during late 2018 and early 2019 over many different issues, such that Heku found it difficult to work with him in any respect. Mont and I had our problems as well. These mutual issues actually formed the basis of something Heku and I had never had before: a positive working relationship. Mont had refused to map several requested entries of mine, I think for islands or colonies or something that I don't remember. In any event, this created animosity between he and I which some of the other staff actually agreed with me on. In May 2019, a significant flare up between he and Mont and I and Mont came. We pulled off a major coup. Despite being legitimate Delegate, he was functionally unseated by Heku by merit of his position as Discord owner and myself by merit of my ownership of the NS Region, which still had a little importance at the time. We were both technically private citizens at the time, but this move ended the Canuck Era and put us both back at the top. The new innovation this time was a triumvirate with Burg, who Heku and I both respected. We appointed Insui as nominal delegate and rewrote the Golden Bull to basically eliminate democracy permanently. | ||
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===The Pandemic and Wipe=== | ===The Pandemic and Wipe=== | ||
===The Second Golden Age=== | ===The Second Golden Age=== | ||
=== | ===20th Anniversary and MCP=== | ||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||
[[Category:Museum of Ixnay]] | [[Category:Museum of Ixnay]] | ||