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===The Burg Renaissance and Silver Age===

The beginning of ~~Lore~~.

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 was fundamentally rebuilt in 2016 in both personnel and mission. Burg was an instant hit and became one of the key active members along with Kronata and Jakee. This period saw a reorientation away from the geopolitical competitive RP style that had dominated 2014-2016 and a new focus on creative writing and "deep lore". In this sense, Burg is responsible for the invention of lore itself. While we had some creative writing in the form of factbooks and eventually IIWiki entries, it was still peripheral. However, Burg's arrival and Jakee's maturity inaugurated an era in which creative writing and worldbuilding became the main activity of Ixnay. It was the full culmination of the changes made during the reboot, but with the reboot drama far behind us and the right personnel in place. Collaborative and shared lore between countries, which had only been done experimentally by Latin and I and then others, became the order of the day, creating the first concepts of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. This was the beginning of Ixnay's "Silver Age". The cast of characters was different and somewhat more ornery than the Golden Age, but activity was good and hopes were high. Kronata, as Vice Delegate, was more or less the indispensable man of the era, serving under Heku while being cartographer and major activity driver in the region.

From this period until 2019, my reliability as a narrator will significantly decline, not only qualitatively but in terms of actually knowing what was going on. I had a big meltdown in August 2016 due to my perceived loss of position. Due to my inactivity, which had stretched back to January 2016, and all the events surrounding Black Thursday, Heku had become the primary leader in Ixnay. I felt that I had basically become a second Kazomal, surpassed and overshadowed of a next generation. It was ugly, but I basically told Heku that he could have the leadership and that I was basically going to just step away. Of course I didn't really mean it, it was something said in a fit of emotion, but it - combined with personal life developments - basically ensured that I would not be an active member again until 2019.

Due to potential improprieties in Heku's part, I was briefly recalled in late 2016/early 2017. I arranged a deal by which Heku would step down as delegate after an eventful 9-month run during which time he had brought us back from the brink and that Burg would become overall asset manager for Ixnay. To some extent, this restored balance as it had taken Heku down a small peg, giving me enough of a reputational leg to stand on to return later.

===Second Departure===

[[File:Map Update 72617.png|thumb|right|300px|A July 2017 map typical of the Burg era, just after the second departure.]]

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 ===The Burg Renaissance and Silver Age===
-The beginning of Lore.
+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 was fundamentally rebuilt in 2016 in both personnel and mission. Burg was an instant hit and became one of the key active members along with Kronata and Jakee. This period saw a reorientation away from the geopolitical competitive RP style that had dominated 2014-2016 and a new focus on creative writing and "deep lore". In this sense, Burg is responsible for the invention of lore itself. While we had some creative writing in the form of factbooks and eventually IIWiki entries, it was still peripheral. However, Burg's arrival and Jakee's maturity inaugurated an era in which creative writing and worldbuilding became the main activity of Ixnay. It was the full culmination of the changes made during the reboot, but with the reboot drama far behind us and the right personnel in place. Collaborative and shared lore between countries, which had only been done experimentally by Latin and I and then others, became the order of the day, creating the first concepts of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. This was the beginning of Ixnay's "Silver Age". The cast of characters was different and somewhat more ornery than the Golden Age, but activity was good and hopes were high. Kronata, as Vice Delegate, was more or less the indispensable man of the era, serving under Heku while being cartographer and major activity driver in the region.
+From this period until 2019, my reliability as a narrator will significantly decline, not only qualitatively but in terms of actually knowing what was going on. I had a big meltdown in August 2016 due to my perceived loss of position. Due to my inactivity, which had stretched back to January 2016, and all the events surrounding Black Thursday, Heku had become the primary leader in Ixnay. I felt that I had basically become a second Kazomal, surpassed and overshadowed of a next generation. It was ugly, but I basically told Heku that he could have the leadership and that I was basically going to just step away. Of course I didn't really mean it, it was something said in a fit of emotion, but it - combined with personal life developments - basically ensured that I would not be an active member again until 2019.
+Due to potential improprieties in Heku's part, I was briefly recalled in late 2016/early 2017. I arranged a deal by which Heku would step down as delegate after an eventful 9-month run during which time he had brought us back from the brink and that Burg would become overall asset manager for Ixnay. To some extent, this restored balance as it had taken Heku down a small peg, giving me enough of a reputational leg to stand on to return later.
 ===Second Departure===
 [[File:Map Update 72617.png|thumb|right|300px|A July 2017 map typical of the Burg era, just after the second departure.]]

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