Drew1011 storytime — first-person account of early Wynncraft guild history

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For the first chapter of this story, I’ll begin with where my entire guild history started. HoL.
I had been in another guild before HoL, it’s true.
That guild was called Pirates of Wynn [PoW]
I joined it in early January 2015, when it was a top 10 guild constantly fighting Kangronomicon for the #6 rank. After only a week at most of being in this guild, I went on a hiatus from Wynncraft.
When I came back, it was late May 2015. I saw that the guild had died and left it. That very same day, while asking for help with the Tower of Ascension, I met Kuroi.
After he assisted me with ToA, he invited me to the Holders of LE [HoL]
The guild was in a poor state at the time. HoL’s reputation had never been lower. The guild had gone through multiple scandals, including a duping ordeal that got many members banned.
However, its members seemed blissfully unaware of the disdain much of the community held for them
The guild was owned by a player called SSEEBBYZ, or Seb for short.
Seb was highly inactive, and had given leadership of the guild to yosteric5.
I quickly established a dominant role within the guild and accomplished simple tasks that had been ignored, such as posting a guild thread.
Roughly a week in to being a member of HoL, I met with other members at the Troms throne room in what would later be named the “Secret HoL Illuminati Society” or SHIS for short.
At this meeting, myself and 3-4 other members discussed the state of the guild’s leadership and formulated possible plans to remove yosteric from the leadership position.
We ended up deciding on a simple plan: message Spham, the leader of Kangronomicon, and get her to speak to Seb about removing yosteric as the leader.
Kuroi and I were the ones who would execute the plan. We messaged Spham on the forums. Here’s a screenshot.
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Spham agreed to speak to him, but only if he logged on to Wynn to do it. This presented a dilemma, as he never played Wynn and neither of us knew his Skype.
Kuroi and I discussed the issue for a while, and finally decided that simply speaking to yos might prove to be more beneficial than we thought.
We approached him and made him aware of our grievances with the guild, and he agreed to make us both “Head Chiefs”
This role essentially gave us the power to run the guild in his absence and do what we saw fit.
As the weeks went on, HoL began to gain more respect. Kuroi and myself wanted to gain the friendship of Kangronomicon, so to prove ourselves we would organize regular skirmishes on TNA that in which we would frequently be able to take and hold about 6-7 territories before they pushed us back.
Back then, this was no small accomplishment. Kangronomicon [Fuq] and Nether’s Ascent [TNA] were essentially the Hax of mid 2015.
It was through these skirmishes that we were finally noticed and taken in by Spham as a subguild.
Shortly before this, there was a devastating glitch that made it where Fuq was unable to  attack. To counteract this and keep Fuq in power, HoL and the other subguilds were tasked with taking back any territories that were captured.
During the time of this, HoL far surpassed the other subguilds. We managed to take (and hold) 50 territories before we were finally struck with the same glitch that prevented us from attacking.
50 territories may not sound like a large amount, but this was back when dozens of guilds warred every day, and back before Gavel territories existed.
That amount was almost unheard of back then.
After being struck with the glitch, my mind shifted to other thoughts.
I suddenly became struck with the fear that yosteric would find out about the SHIS and kick me from the guild or demote me
By this point in time, I had been made Co-Leader of the Holders of LE, so I wanted to avoid that outcome at all costs.
I decided that the best course of action would be to message yosteric and tell him myself in an effort to avoid any harsh punishment.
So, I did.
Here’s the exact message I sent, all the way back in 2015
To my utter shock and horror, yosteric demoted me all the way down to recruit. I was Co-Leader of the guild and with a single message he made me a recruit.
I did not have the patience to work my way up the ranks and deal with similar issues again, so I applied to Kangronomicon.
When yosteric saw this, he kicked me from the guild. At this point there was no foreseeable hope of redemption in HoL, so as soon as I was accepted to Fuq, I fully dedicated myself to it.
Less than a week after joining, the glitch finally ended and Fuq could attack again.
That very night I helped take about 5 territories before having to sleep.
I woke up, and Fuq had every territory back. That included all the Ragni territories, all the Nivla ones, all the Detlas ones, all the Ternaves ones, and all the Elkurn ones. In one night.
Because of my constant help in Fuq, and the warring Spham had witnessed when I was in HoL, I quickly earned the rank of captain
I continued helping Fuq for a week or two to follow.
Then, I started speaking to yosteric again. He mentioned that HoL had been down on its luck ever since I had been kicked from the guild.
He gave me an offer: Come back to HoL, and you’ll have the Co-Leader rank again.
After consulting with Spham, I chose to rejoin HoL with my alt account.
For time reference, at this point in the story we’re at September 13th, 2015.
As soon as I joined, I laid down the one rule for while I was in the guild again: No attacking Kangronomicon
This was a reasonable request, as I was a member of Fuq and couldn’t be in two guilds that were warring against each other.
Less than a week later, yosteric began to accuse me of being a Fuq spy.
I didn’t understand this. He knew from the start I was a member of Fuq, and he was fully aware of my “no attacking Kangro” rule.
Yosteric again attempted to kick me from the guild. Since he was technically a chief in game such as myself, he couldn’t kick me.
He messaged SSEBBYZ and asked him to kick me, but Seb basically told him that we were both Co-Leaders and that neither one of us could kick the other.
We attempted to work it out, but it proved useless.
Then, I saw a way out. Seb confided in me that he wanted to sell the guild. I asked him how much and he replied with “5 stacks”.
I asked him to keep that a secret until I could acquire some funds, and he obliged.
I messaged a few people to ask for money. One of these people was Spham. She said that she wouldn’t give me money, but that she’d get her boyfriend, unicorn67, to buy HoL for her.
I was upset with this due to the fact that I wouldn’t gain ownership of the guild, but I settled.
We hyped it up. We told the guild that we were going to have an important announcement on September 22nd.
The day came, and everyone logged on to Wynn to hear the announcement.
Seb told everyone that he was going to give the guild to his “cousin”, AALLEEXX.
This was obviously just Spham’s alt account.
He left the guild and gave it to Spham. The first thing she did was demote yosteric to recruit, and announce that she would be inactive and that I would be the new leader of HoL. She gave me her alt account’s password so that I could promote and demote Chiefs at my own discretion.
I had planned to leave yosteric as a chief. I wasn’t that cruel. I knew he had contributed to the guild and didn’t want to strip him of his achievements.
Drew1011 — 2/22/2018 9:08 PM
However, before I had a chance to inform him of this, he left the guild.
Quite a few other members left too. The “yosteric loyalists” as I like to call them.
Most of them retreated to Validus, and then later to Libertas when Yos created it.
Obviously this exodus left the guild in a poor state. It took weeks to regain our full strength and become a powerhouse. But as always, the guild prevailed through that troubled time and eventually became one of the top guilds.
That ends the story of my early guild career, along with the HoL coup.
The next part will be the beginnings of the HoL alliance with Fuq & TNA, and the early beginnings of Ordo Malleus.
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Throughout the entire first part of this story, Validus [Val] had been a constant presence.
It all started months before, on July 5th, 2015.
After warring in the Jungle, yosteric and myself received a message from a Validus Chief named Tangler.
He was interested in the fact that we had been warring against our future ally, Kangronomicon.
From this message, a relationship with the guild of Validus was born. There were many plans to revolt against Fuq & TNA and bring them down from their role as the two guilds that controlled the map.
Now, I was initially quite interested in these plans.
I had always wanted my guild to be immortalized in history, and what better way than by usurping the top guilds?
But I grew more and more disillusioned with these plans as time progressed.
I ended up believing that Tangler and Validus were all bark and no bite. My forum inbox became filled with talks of strategy and tactics. Of future plans and possible allies.
But no meaningful results ever came about
HoL continued to war as we always had, but our new ally made no difference.
I seem to recall only one instance in which Validus tried to war alongside us.
Tangler was the only one warring, but he crashed after the very first war and didn’t keep trying.
Don’t get me wrong, I still have a lot of respect for him. However, at the time of this story, Validus and him had nothing to contribute to our progress.
After a while, I began to realize that our best chance was with Kangronomicon. I began to organize the aforementioned wars against TNA until Fuq took us in as a subguild.
The day after we became a subguild, I received a message from Tangler on the forums. He had added Spham and myself to a group chat and sent this:
And although it was later revealed that the Ezura (Validus leader) quote was an edited quote that had originated from a completely different subject, this is where I first began to dislike him.
I could lie and say I regret abandoning them to join the enemy I had attempted to bring down, but I don’t.
Perhaps the only regret I have from the entire situation is that I did not notify Tangler or Ezura about becoming a subguild, and left them to find out on their own.
This occurred on August 15th, a day after the relationship with Kangronomicon was created.
It was from August 15th to August 24th that we captured and held 50 territories. It was on the 24th that I was kicked from HoL.
Immediately after being kicked, Yosteric took my plans and threw them out the window. He somehow decided that the guild was better off with Validus than with Kangronomicon, although it’s obvious this only occurred because of a long standing feud between himself and Spham.
From here we can skip over all the way to immediately after I seized control of the Holders of LE, as nothing significant occurred between being kicked and taking control of the guild that I have not already spoken of.
Mere hours after we took over HoL, Spham decided that she was going to quit guilds and give Kangronomicon to her most trusted Chief, Dar_Krusos.
Although my initial reaction to this news was shock, I quickly began to understand why. Not long before this, I cannot recall exactly how long, Fuq surpassed TNA in XP and became the #1 guild. I was online warring with Spham and around 4 others when it happened. It was quite a festive ordeal when it happened.
She had accomplished her goal of becoming the best guild in Wynn. She decided to quit while she was ahead, and I can respect that.
But, I digress.
After seizing control of HoL, it is obvious that my first decision was to again remove us from relations with Validus and become a Fuq subguild again.
I sent a message to Ezura and another leader of the alliance Validus had created, Concordia.
It is here that I first interacted with Ha_Ha_Redstone, someone who would later become one of my greatest friends and allies.
After Spham had given HoL to Kru, I asked him if I could return to HoL with my main account, something Spham had not allowed.
He obliged, most probably because he knew I could be of greater use as the leader of HoL.
I also asked him if we were still to remain a Fuq subguild. He replied that no, we would not be a subguild. We would be a full ally.
He even designated us 9 Nemract territories, and I guarded those territories with my life.
Every morning I’d wake up and check the map. Every night before I went to sleep, I’d check the map. If I had access to my computer and one of our territories was taken, I’d typically notice and have it taken back before 20 minutes had passed.
It was during this time that Concordia began to grow strength. The guilds of Wynn had wised up to the fact that as long as one had the numbers, even Fuq and TNA could be taken down.
I do not remember the full extent of Concordia’s grasp on the Wynn province, but I recall it was significant.
It was significant enough to scare myself and the leaders of Fuq & TNA.
I recall one afternoon where I was sitting down waiting for people to attack HoL, when I began to notice something peculiar. Fuq began losing territories at a shocking rapid rate.
As their ally, it was my duty to help them secure territories that had been taken from them, and defend with less defenses than the original attacker.
This not only allowed them to take territories back much quicker, but it also helped to discourage guilds from continuing to attack, as their territories were taken back twice as fast.
During this time, I messaged the HoL Skype chat and requested help, but I had forgotten about a certain detail.
I was on fall break, a two week break from school that almost nobody else has.
This meant that everyone in my guild who could help me was in school and unable to assist.
As more and more territories were taken, it became obvious that the attack was a coordinated Concordia attack on Fuq and TNA.
Around 3-4 guilds were attacking them, all of which were in Concordia. However, the strongest of these guilds was Validus. Validus had become armed with many new members who had left during the HoL Exodus, and among these were a few of our best warring members.
I warred with Kangronomicon for the extent of the attack, coordinating with their chiefs non-stop to ensure that our defense of Wynn was as efficient as possible.
I solod wars for longer than I ever had. When the dust finally settled and we had repelled the attack, it had been 4 hours of non stop warring.
Here is the aftermath of the attack.
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By the time this had settled, HoL had cemented ourselves for the first time as a powerhouse guild.
After this, we thought the Concordia war was close to being over.
However, it would later be revealed that it was far from over.
The Concordia war would prove to be one of the longest and most brutal that Wynn has ever seen, and would spark the creation of the biggest Mega-alliance of its time, Ordo Malleus.
But I’ll save that for the next part.
Although we may have thought that Concordia was done for, we were quickly proven otherwise.
In the next few days and weeks, territory after territory quickly fell to Validus and their allies.
All guilds that opposed them began to grow a strong hatred for Validus, due to Ezura’s unsportsmanlike qualities.
People such as me that had been fighting them for weeks had already known about these qualities, as we were frequently target of his rude and unfriendly comments.
This became such a widespread issue that at one point there was a plan to collect all these in game comments towards Ezura’s enemies, and report him to the moderation team.
Whether or not this ended up happening is beyond my knowledge, as I cannot remember hearing anything about it
Ezura’s antics ended up being integral to his downfall, as many leaders who so much as took a couple of his territories found themselves on the receiving end of his rudeness.
Despite this, Concordia’s growth and takedown of the remnants of Legio was completely unprecedented and unexpected.
Although they did not reach their peak until later in October, here is a screenshot of the territory map from early October/late September.
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As you can see, Validus targeted  Kangronomicon to its knees, but left alone much of the territory Nether’s Ascent.
Myself and many others suspect this is because of the terribly kept secret that TNA would often make deals with other guilds where they managed to persuade other guilds to instead attack their Fuq, their ally.
It was around this time that Kru informed me I needed to create a council for HoL.
Drew1011 — 2/22/2018 9:18 PM
At the time I was not sure what for. All I knew is that I needed for the guild to choose a Diplomat, and War Commander, a Community Manager, and a Merchant.
The Diplomat and War Commander did exactly what the name suggests, while the Community Manager was to organize and plan events, and the Merchant was to manage guild funds.
I did not fully know what these would be used for, but it was hinted that they’d be part of a new alliance that would be created shortly.
Later my suspicions would be confirmed.
I can’t recall if it was later that day, or if it was in one of the next few days that my Chiefs began to inform me about someone named “PaladinArenos” who was trying to recruit us in to an alliance
Drew1011 — 2/22/2018 9:19 PM
I informed my Chiefs to please give him my Skype and tell him to message me directly, as I was unable to get on Wynn at that time.
If I’m being honest, I didn’t trust them to negotiate an alliance deal on their own.
However, he didn’t message me just then. The Chiefs continued to hold a meeting with him and discuss the alliance that he was offering.
The next night, he added me on Skype and informed him that that coralialia, the Chief who was holding these meetings, the did not have the power to do so.
He responding by saying that Cora had told him she was the guild Diplomat.
However, this information was wrong. She was going to be running for the position of Diplomat, but she had not yet won or been named Diplomat.
I continued to hash out the details of the alliance with Arenos and Kru.
We agreed to be a part of this alliance, but the final list of confirmed guilds in it was not complete.
A couple days later, HoL held our first guild elections.
However, one of them was rigged. The only 3 people running for Diplomat were Cora and two other people who were not active enough to efficiently serve as the Diplomat.
Therefore, I changed the results to make Cora the Diplomat.
This small decision would prove to be one of the most influential decision I’ve made.
Shortly after the election, the alliance was formally created.
It was named Ordo Malleus, and it was created on November 6th, 2015.
I was immediately added to the Ordo leader chat and introduced to the other leaders. There were seven original guilds in the alliance
These were: 
Kangronomicon [Fuq], led by Kru 
Holders of LE [HoL], led by myself 
Ha Ha United [HHU], led by Red
End of Everything [EoE], led by Shadow 
Hack Forums [Hax], led by Dark 
ToastedPandas [TnP], led by Yamipanda & Killerfish 
Sinners [Snr], led by Rani.
Ordo Malleus was created for the sole purpose of defeating Concordia.
It was these leaders who would fight  to make sure that they were defeated and never returned.
However, shortly after the alliance began, so did the drama.
On the very same day the thread was posted, Arenos made the mistake of posting a screenshot of Ezura’s rudeness to the Ordo thread and using it as a call to arms against Concordia.
This sparked a flame war which was quickly ended and cleaned up by the moderators.
In the following days, as the alliance began to wage our war against Concordia, I began to dislike someone being in the leader chat.
To this day, I do not know why he created the leader chat, or why he remained in it. He was a chief of Fuq, and he made it clear that he only wanted the chat to be only leaders when denying Yami’s request to add an “unknown” Chief to the chat.
I grew disgruntled with Arenos’ tendency to order us all around as if we were beneath him.
So, I decided to do something about it. I first messaged Yamipanda and asked her what she thought about Arenos, and discovered that she was on my side.
Next, I added her to a chat with another Ordo leader and made sure they were on our side.
This continued until I was sure I had a majority of the alliance leadership behind us.
After we had a majority, we spoke to Kru about how we felt and requested that something be done about it. The solution was to create a new leader chat. So, we did. The old one with Arenos was renamed “The Board”. It was supposed to be a chat beneath the Leaders and above the council. However, it quickly became very inactive and was almost never used.
It was also around this time that we accepted our first new guild in to the alliance.
This guild was Historical [UEZ], led by 3zPz.
Since I knew their leader and already had a peace agreement with them, I was tasked with getting them to leave Concordia and join Ordo.
I talked at length with him about how Ezura was a bad person, and that he would be better off with us.
I somehow managed to convince him of this, or so we thought.
Now, back to the main story. The Concordia War.
Each guild was designated certain territories to focus, and as long as we actually succeeded in defeating Concordia, we would get to keep them.
Although these territories would later change in minor ways, HoL was given Nesaak and Mining Base the start of Ordo.
We attacked those territories and defended them religiously, and before long Concordia gave up on touching those territories.
Every other Ordo guild did the same with their territories, and it wasn't very long before Concorida lost their grasp on the province.
Aside from a few minor attacks now and again, Concordia was never truly able to make a difference in Wynn again, and Ordo took their place as the top alliance in Wynn.
However, it could be said that Concordia had died days after Ordo was created.
When Historical left Concordia, 3 days after Ordo was created, 3z posted a thread called "Concordia disbanded", and revealed that Ezura had mostly quit Wynn.
And although Ezura commented on the thread and said that it had not been disbanded, that was when most people began to consider the alliance dead.
Over the next few months, many new guilds would join Ordo Malleus, and a few would also leave or be kicked. As the alliance progressed, so did the hatred towards it and the arguments between the leaders. Despite this, it would still manage to toil on for 4 months, eventually meeting its end on March 9th, 2016.
That will be the end of this part, the next part with detail the glory days of Ordo Malleus, with an added portion from @Killerfish detailing the attacks of TheAwakening [Awk]

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After the capitulation of Concordia, the glory days of Ordo Malleus began.
The alliance quickly established itself as the only real power on the territory map.
For a while, no other guild or alliance was able to stand a chance against the alliance.
This of course, caused lots of anger towards the alliance.
Success breeds jealousy, and it was no different in this case.
Immediately after Ordo became the only true force on the map, the anger began to arise on the forums.
The first thread to be created against the alliance was this one:
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/come-join-the-odeus-anti-validus-pact.95402/
It was created by Tangler, the Validus Chief.
This thread brought about some shocking revelations that angered people in both the community, and Ordo Malleus.
In this thread it was revealed that Arenos had tried to bribe guilds in to joining Ordo Malleus. I️ cannot entirely recall if this was true, but I️ believe I️ remember a discussion with Arenos where he admitted to it.
The thread quickly devolved in to a back and forth of Arenos and Ezura sharing these screenshots of each other.
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Drew1011 — 2/22/2018 9:26 PM
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Eventually, this was shut down by the then moderator Mekyr, who pointed out the irony of Tangler reiterating the no drama/flame wars rule on a thread which was obviously started drama and flame wars.
After that thread was locked, this thread was posted by a new account called “TheOrdoSpies”
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Obviously this was an alt account, so the thread was locked and the account was banned.
No mods would ever tell us whose alt account it was, but I️ suspect it was either Tangler trying to scare us, or 3zPz, Historical’s leader.
Obviously (and justifiably), all this talk of spies within Ordo made many of us paranoid.
However, with no real evidence or proof to work with, we were forced to just let it go and wait and see if any proof emerged.
After all this settled down, the alliance continued as usual. No changes were made to how we operated, and we were all fine with it.
The next day a guild called Death Reapers [DxR] applied, but after a vote on their application they were quickly denied.
Fast forward a few more days of the usual, and December 1st was finally here.
That day was an unusually eventful one, with much happening inside the alliance.
The first occurrence was the first kicking of a guild from the alliance.
EoE had been part of the alliance since its inception, but they had never truly been able to become active. They had been given the desert, but they made no progress with it. Other Ordo guilds were forced to pick up their slack to make sure that the alliance owned everything.
We finally tired of this, and a vote was called to kick them out. It was a quick yes, with no real arguing about it.
Their desert territories were given to Hax, who did a much better job of maintaining them.
The next major occurrence that day was the leaving of Historical.
I️ cannot recall if they gave any reasons for leaving, but either way it didn’t matter.
It quickly became obvious that they had not ever intended to stay with the alliance in the long run.
The third thing that happened that day was the creation of the Demon Hunters
This was a boss killing service that Ordo provided in which players could hire a volunteers to help them with fights.
The fourth and final major occurrence of that day was the joining of Libertas, Yosteric’s guild.
We had made our amends and I️ helped him get a spot within the alliance.
I️ cannot deny that it was also a delicious way to stick it to Ezura, who had given Yosteric the funds to create the guild and considered Libertas one of his best allies.
A few days later, myself and a few leaders were added to a chat.
Kru created it and named it “Shadow Government”
Kru stated that this was the highest leadership tier within the alliance. One step above the leader chat and two steps above the board.
Around this time, Yami again asked if she could add her Co-Leader to the chat.
Kru agreed, and Killerfish was added to the chat.
Of course since this was Drew from two years ago, my first reaction was not to greet him, but to make sure that TnP still only had one vote when it came time to vote on things.
With much relief to me, I️ was assured that they still only had one vote.
Although him being added to the leader chat and the Shadow Government seemed insignificant at the time, he would have a massive influence on everything significant I️ did after the collapse of Ordo Malleus.
Again, I️ digress.
A couple days later, Death Reapers again applied to Ordo Malleus. However, this time they were accepted.
We were introduced to their leader, Jaydon. (Now named JaydonTheWarrior).
The next guild to join was grimmcat’s guild, White Wolves. I️ had messaged a while back and tried to convince her to revive her guild and join Ordo.
I️ still do not know if it was me who convinced her to do these things, but I️ like to imagine it was.
It appears that I️ earlier failed to mention the joining of Necronomicon [Feq]. I️ did not write it down on my timeline so I️ did not mention it.
However, they were a subguild of Fuq that was later allowed to join Ordo as a full fledged ally.
However, weeks after joining they still had no territories that had been designated to them.
Their leaders, Roi and Dan made sure to remind us of this often and loudly.
Eventually, I️ got tired of it and approached TnP about possibly donating them 6 territories.
TnP agreed to donate their three Ternaves territories if we donated our three mining base territories.
So we did.
Here are some pictures from the height of Ordo Malleus. In this first screenshot: not only are TnP’s territories perfect and exactly how they are supposed to be, but so are everyone else’s. No territory in this picture is out of place.
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Ordo Malleus thrived during these glory days, and this is the Ordo that I️ choose to remember. Not the Post-Gavel Ordo that was filled with arguments, drama, and toxicity. But the camaraderie of a few leaders working together to subjugate other guilds and achieve total domination of Wynn.
Now is a story by Killerfish about the last true glory days of the alliance, mere days before Gavel was released.
Killerfish [ACES],  — 2/22/2018 9:35 PM
Hello everyone! I'll make this short, but here's a tale I remember of one of the few times Ordo's might was tested by a single guild.
The Uprising of TheAwakening
Over a month after it’s inception, it was a quiet and chilly day for Ordo Malleus. Every guild was performing its daily routine of taking care of its designated territories. Long after the fall of Concordia, the alliance members turned their focus upon other matters different than guild politics, such as the coming of the long awaited Gavel Province. No one had suspected there to be any threat to arise for the great alliance.
They struck at night. A new guild, TheAwakening, began its foothold in Almuj and the desert, taking HackForum’s designated area. At first, we didn’t think them as much of a threat, and left Hax to clean its house of intruders. However, the leaders of Ordo Malleus began to worry as Hax could not hold its own. By each day, TheAwakening’s presence grew larger in the desert. By now, the leaders began planning an assault on TheAwakening in order to push them back and help Hax regain its footing.
When word came out of the plans of the assault to every alliance member, I rallied the war captains of my guild. Back then, I was just the chief and co-leader of ToastedPandas. But even so, I was essentially treated as a leader, and thus allowed to know of the attack beforehand. As our horses galloped us from Detlas to Almuj, we prepared ourselves for hours of fighting under the name of both our guild ToastedPandas and for Ordo Malleus.
As we arrived, we noticed the ensuing battles of Hax and Awk (TheAwakening). I messaged DarkSouls, the leader of Hax, in order to coordinate our attacks. The plan would be for both of us to attack Awk, but TnP would leave minuscule defenses so that Hax could take its territories back twice as fast as Awk could take them. This tactic worked, and both Hax and TnP were able to push Awk back.
For a bit.
The next day, TheAwakening began gaining traction again, starting in Almuj just as they had before. The members of TheAwakening spoke their minds and dislike of of Ordo Malleus, giving way to insults and tension. This fueled the fire of passion that led to more guilds pitching in to help quell TheAwakening.
Eventually within a few days, TheAwakening lost its persistence in its skirmishes upon Almuj. Thus its presence decayed out of existence and memory.
Drew1011 — 2/22/2018 9:42 PM
Thus concludes this part of the story. The next part will focus on the Ordo after Gavel, the Ordo I️ choose to forget. The many problems and ordeals leading up to the fall. Perhaps even the fall itself.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 7:41 PM
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I️ hate to backtrack on the timeline, but here it is a must.
On December 10th, 2016, a couple weeks before where the story left off, a new alliance was created.
It was created from the remnants of Concordia by the traitorous 3zPz
In the alliance contained the ex Concordia guilds as well as many new ones.
Here was their official list:
Historical (UEZ) 
Validus (Val) 
Travellers (TVL) 
TheNoLifes (TNL) 
Super Crafters (SPC) 
Wynn Try Hards (WTH) 
Da Classy Goats (CLG) 
NightStriders (CGO) 
BOOM (BOO)
 Frosted Pants (FPS) 
Omegamine (OMM) 
Silver of Anarchy (SOA) 
IceBlue Team (IBT) 
Artifact (UPZ)
Obviously, this alliance had more guilds than Ordo had at the time.
At first we were concerned for the future of the alliance and worried about what would happen if this alliance began to hold organized attacks against us.
However, they did nothing.
Aside from a few small skirmishes, Vesta barely even existed.
In an ironic fashion, the alliance was officially declared dead exactly one month later on January 10th, 2016.
But that’s enough talk about Vesta. Let’s go back to the main storyline. It was around this time that Spham decided to give me ownership of HoL, as she had completely left Wynn at this point. I️ was incredibly happy, as I️ finally owned the guild I️ had been lusting for since May. I️ thanked her, and we rarely talked after that.
Shortly before the release of Gavel, Killerfish decided to capture the entire jungle which was owned by hostile guilds.
Nobody thought anything of it, and most of us didn’t even notice it.
But then, Gavel was released on December 21st, 2015.
All the territories were locked down and none could be attacked.
This meant that guilds lucky enough to hold territories got to keep them for the duration of the territory lock.
And considering the Jungle territories were the best territories at the time, no guild benefited more from this glitch than the Toasted Pandas.
Here is a screenshot of when this happened:
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The territories remained locked for two weeks after Gavel was released, and in this time TnP shot up to level 51.
This was higher than HoL and every other guild except Fuq, TNA, and HHU (who got to that level due to an unintended glitch).
This angered and saddened myself and a few other guilds, who felt that it unfair that TnP should shoot to that level because of a territory lock.
The leaders of TnP also felt that it was unfair and did not desire these seemingly undeserved levels.
However, nobody could do anything about it other than accept it, so we did.
A week after Gavel was released, Megitsune [Bri] joined the alliance.
They were led by Amaranthe, a leader that has been mostly lost in history.
But those who knew her remember her, and will not let her accomplishments be forgotten.
In the wake of Gavel, it was decided that the alliance should officially close applications since wars did not work, making it pointless to bring in new guilds.
The massive update also gave each leader hope for the future, as our guilds saw activity levels that we had never seen before.
Multiple Ordo guilds saw their entire guild tablist filled up, with the list not being able to fit all the online members.
But alas, this activity would not be sustained forever.
It was in early January that the Hax leader, DarkSoul, was forum banned.
We had all grown tired of Hax and their membership in the alliance.
Not only had they attacked fellow allies accidentally on multiple occasions, but they would also take enemy territories in designated allied territories and defend with full defenses.
The strategy was always to defend extremely lightly when taking a territory for an ally so that they could quickly recapture it.
Because of this, it was annoying that Hax would defend with often times more mobs than the original enemy had defended with.
After Dark informed us of his ban, I️ quickly moved in to the Shadow Government and stated that his ban reflected badly on the alliance.
We were all looking for an excuse to kick them from the alliance, and this was the perfect opportunity.
Yamipanda immediately suggested a vote to kick them out, and everyone else agreed.
If I️ remember correctly, the vote was unanimously (or at least almost unanimous) in favor of a kick.
So, Hax was kicked.
I️ announced it in the HoL Skype chat and then it was announced on the Ordo thread.
That very night, my Head Chief and Diplomat, Coralialia, went in to the massive 100 person Ordo Skype chat with Arenos.
They both complained that I️ did not inform her of the kicking of Hax.
It is still in my opinion that there was no need to. I️ did not understand why I️ should have personally messaged her when I️ knew she would just see it in the Skype chat.
But regardless, Cora and Arenos stirred a large argument in the Ordo chat.
It was one of many future arguments that seemed to indicate the alliance was falling from its once grandiose position.
The argument culminated with Cora briefly joining Kangronomicon, until I️ convinced her to rejoin HoL.
That was the end of that, or so I️ thought.
Cora then left HoL, and I️ believe it was then that she joined The Sebbelonien Plebs [TsP].
She began created a new alliance to rival Ordo, as she had begun to hate both Arenos and Kru.
This alliance was named “Astrafteri Affinity”
I️ do not recall all the guilds in this alliance, but I️ know a few of them.
The ones I️ know were: 
The Sebbelonien Plebs [TsP] 
Blacklisted [BLA]
 Cats and Turtles [CaT] 
Dragons Arise [DsA]
This alliance did not have any significant impact on the alliance that I can recall, but it did cause some tension between the Ordo leaders.
A few days later, alliance applications were opened back up in order to bring in more active guilds to assist the alliance.
It was soon afterwards that, on February 1st, that Megitsune left the alliance.
Amaranthe had become increasingly stressed out over issues inside and outside her guild.
Rather than hand it down to someone, she chose to disband her guild.
And although this dealt a blow to the alliance, it is in my opinion that it was two days later when the alliance first began that tumble down the cliff.
Earlier Arenos had left Kangronomicon and bought his own guild, WynnTheory [WTh].
And on February 3rd, the alliance voted on his application and chose to let him in.
Most of the leaders had grown tired of his antics and begun to resent him, but his application convinced many of them that he had changed.
I️ urged the leaders against accepting it, but my efforts were fruitless.
His guild was accepted, and he was added to the leader chat.
His first move was to create an event with Lightly Toasted Heroes [LTH], a Valkyrie Alliance guild.
This event was to be a bi-weekly nether event.
However, since LTH had failed to get approval from the Valkyrie Parliament, they did not technically have approval to host this event.
I️ believe it was this and a few other minor issues that caused the event to fail and never see the light of day.
Over the next few days, two new guilds would join the alliance.
These guilds were The No Lifes [TNL] and Ultimate Xeons [UXs].
With both of these applications, I️ urged the other leaders against accepting them.
I️ realized that the alliance was growing too large and that the frequency of arguments would do nothing but increase with more leaders being added to the chat.
But nobody seemed to listen, and my fears would prove to be justified.
At this point, the alliance still seemed like it had a future.
But alas, on February 22nd, Yamipanda and Killerfish would leave Ordo Malleus, setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to its brutal collapse.
If you ask me, it was them that lit the match that would engulf the alliance and eventually cause it to collapse.
The day they left was the day before my birthday, but it was one of the worst days for the alliance.
Kru took it as a personal insult, and chose to break his friendships with the TnP leaders instead of maintaining good relations.
He left The Shadow Government, leaving myself, Fishie, Yami, Red, and Rani alone in it.
From then on out, the first four of us used the chat as a glorified gossip chat that still exists to this day.
Regardless, Ordo Malleus would never be the same.
From then on out it was nothing but a downhill fall.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 7:49 PM
The alliance would crumble a mere 16 days after TnP left.
That is all for this part. Next time I️ will tell the story of the collapse and what happened afterwards.
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I️ would like to preface this part with a brief explanation of what I️ have been writing for the past two weeks.
This is not an entirely subjective story, told completely by my opinions.
Nor is this a biographical tale, devoid of any opinions of the author.
Rather, it is a mixture of both. I️ strive to tell a factually accurate story, with no lies or complete falsities. Along with this factually accurate story, I️ interweave my own perspective and opinions, with careful attention as to not make it nothing but bias.
In no part of this story will this be made more apparent than in the collapse of Ordo.   Parts of it will contain my biased perspective. If you ask others who were here, they might give a completely different perspective. But by no means is that proof that the stories I️ tell are factually incorrect.
And with that, I️ begin the sixth part of this story, and the last part of the Ordo trilogy.
The leaving of TnP was a hard hit for many Ordo leaders, especially the oldest ones.
I️ know that for myself and Ha_Ha_Redstone, their leaving was one of the saddest moments in Ordo history.
Over the months their two leaders had become quite close to us, and we counted them among our closest allies and friends.
Sadly, the leaving of TnP also had much deeper and darker implications.
Ever since Arenos had rejoined the alliance, arguing between the leaders had become a much more frequent occurrence.
Naturally, the alliance had unofficially split into opposing factions
These were nothing formal. I️n many cases it was just the leaders who seemed to agree the most. Nobody so much as acknowledged the existence of these factions until much later, when I️ noticed the trend.
There were only two major ones, I️ would say.
The first was the Arenos faction. It consisted of him, the unofficial leader of it, and others within the alliance such as Kru and Rani.
The second was the faction consisting of myself, the TnP leaders, and Red.
Of course, there were others who sided with these two factions at different points. But these were the 6 leaders who always seemed to care enough to join in the arguments and provide their own input.
After TnP left, things went downhill rapidly.
The only person left consistently on my side of issues was Red.
And it showed.
Arguments were no longer even debates, but often consisted of 3 people getting angry at Red and me for simply voicing our disapproval about certain ongoings.
On no day did the tensions rise higher than on February 25th, 2016. A minuscule three days after TnP left.
Remember how I️ said that the Shadow Government had become a glorified gossip chat after Kru left it?
Well, in that chat it came to my attention that Arenos had contacted another guild, Sleeping Knights, about them joining a “sub-alliance” for Ordo Malleus.
You see, the Sleeping Knights had planned to create an alliance with just TnP.
But when they received an offer from Arenos about joining this “sub-alliance”, they accepted.
Why would a massive war alliance ever need a “sub-alliance”? What even is a “sub-alliance”? What did Arenos want to do with it? To this day I️ still do not know.
All I️ know is that it angered me. Greatly.
Not only had Arenos ruined the chances of TnP’s alliance, but he had also gone about this with no approval from the other leaders.
I️ confronted him about it, and he said that he had gotten approval from us.
I️ scrolled up in the chat and found that he had mentioned it once and only one or two leaders even commented on it.
I️ do not understand how he took that as leadership approval. Nor do I️ care. All that matters is that it happened.
After an hour or so of arguing in the leader chat and in DMs, I️ created a new chat with all the leaders except Arenos.
I️ proposed that we kick WTh from the alliance due to Arenos’ habit of doing things without our approval...among other qualities of his.
At this point in time, I️ had never disliked anyone more than I️ disliked Arenos. I️ believe he was the first person I️ ever truly hated.
Regardless, I️ did not get the support I️ was looking for.
The other leaders did not care enough to kick Arenos. Many of them took the easy way out and said things such as “let’s just see how it goes.”
I️ believe that only one or two other people voted to kick, one being Red.
Even more simply abstained from the vote and did not vote either yes or no, something that still bothers me to this day.
Kru came online and told us to chill out. His suggestion was to...send him a message detailing all the things we disliked about Arenos.
I️ had made my issues with him clear many times over, and this, to me, was obviously just something that was supposed to make us think we were accomplishing something.
The issue was dropped, and kicking WTh never again came up in the discussion.
It was around this time that Hax also rejoined the alliance. It appears Arenos re invited them, even though they had been kicked for good reason.
That just angered me even more.
At this point in time I️ was nothing but a ball of stress and anger, looking for a solution to all my problems that did not exist.
Seven days later, it happened.
HaHaUnited left the alliance.
I️ will continue the metaphor that was created by Yami, Fishie, Red, and myself after all this was said and done.
If TnP leaving was the lighting of the match that destroyed Ordo, then HHU leaving was the match being thrown on to the house.
Red has said that he would not have left the alliance if TnP hadn’t, further proof that the collapse truly began with them leaving.
After HHU left, I️ knew it was over. There was nothing left for me in the alliance. My two biggest allies within it had left, and I️ immediately searched for possible outs.
The next day, I️ discussed with my chiefs how we could leave the alliance.
I️ always have a fallback plan, so if I️ was going to leave the alliance, I️ needed another alliance to go to.
Luckily, Ordo had paved me a way out many months before.
In November 2015 I️ had been tasked with bringing the Kingdom of Foxes [Fox] and Imperial [Imp] in to Ordo. Although they did not agree to join, it sparked a friendship with LoveLusting, the leader of Fox.
Although the Valkyrie alliance, a community alliance between Fox, Imp, and LTH, had no true leader, LoveLusting (Ari) was its unofficial leader.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 8:00 PM
So of course when I️ heard that Valkyrie was considering letting HHU in to their alliance, I️ let it leak to Ari that I️ wanted to join as well.
It became increasingly obvious from my conversations with her that if I️ left Ordo, I️ would have a spot in Valkyrie.
But anybody who knows me knows that I️ think things through. Because of this, even my fallback had a fallback.
I️f things with Valkyrie did not end up working out, I️ had secured a spot in Astra through Cora, who was my best friend at the time.
And so on March 9th, 2016, at approximately 5:27 PM EST, I️ took the match burning in the house and poured gasoline on it.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 8:03 PM
All the stress of the alliance that had been weighing down on me was lifted from my shoulders.
After Ordo died, many people began naming me as its destroyer. Did I️ truly deserve that title? To this day I’m still not sure.
Many of these people were happy that I️ had “destroyed” it. Others were not.
I messaged Arenos and tried apologizing and telling him that I️ did not intend that outcome.
He told me that my apology meant nothing. He told me that he would never again see me as his equal.
However, I did not truly care. Being Arenos' equal would simply be a downgrade.
Shortly after this, he left Wynn. Aside from a few random art posts and comments on the forums, Arenos would not make another reappearance for almost exactly a year.
Kru also left Wynn. However unlike Arenos, to this day he has never returned, except to pass down leadership of Kangronomicon.
I️ remained friends with many Ordo leaders, one of which was Red.
In the days after Ordo’s death, it became obvious that we would be let in to Valkyrie.
Never the one to take risks though, I️ had already joined Astrafteri. We would remain there until we officially joined Valkyrie, just in case.
We became more closely acquainted with Ari, who spent much time explaining exactly how Valkyrie was run.
She questioned both of us to make sure we would be a good fit for the alliance.
On one night she asked me a few odd questions such as whether or not I️ had both parents and how many friends I️ had at school.
I shrugged it off and answered these questions, assuming she had good reasoning behind asking.
Finally, it was confirmed that we would be joining.
On March 18th, 2016, 9 days after Ordo’s collapse, the Holders of LE, Kingdom of Foxes, HaHaUnited, and Imperial all gathered at a ceremony in Llevigar.
This is when it was officially announced that we would be joining.
Not too much happened while we were in Valkyrie.
It was a very quiet time.
This is when the guild bugs became unbearable. All of us were riddled with glitched members.
HoL made the effort to become a community guild, but we were too dead for that.
The only activity we had was the many conversations we had in our beloved Skype chat.
A month later, we attempted to fix this with a radical solution.
I️ had become increasingly close to my best friend, Cora. We both wanted HoL to prosper, so our solution was to merge The Sebbelonien Plebs and the Holders of LE.
TsP closed their applications and transferred most of their active members to HoL.
This did not remedy things. The guild had a brief activity spike, but it went down soon after many of these people left.
Along with these changes, Cora became the Co-Leader of HoL.
Sebb himself also joined in as a Head Chief.
All of this effectively killed his guild.
I️ would say that this merger was the single event that put an end to TsP.
Later on, I️ attended the 2016 June Fox awards ceremony.
This event filled me with awe. When I️ saw how seriously people took something as simple as receiving a medal, I️ couldn’t believe it.
I️ longed for something similar.
I️ wanted to be a part of something like that, but my loyalties were with HoL.
Two days later, there was a scavenger hunt Valkyrie event. Red, and Kv, and myself had worked for hours to find random things across Gavel that could be used as the objects to find.
It was after this event that things changed drastically.
A month or so prior I️ had begun dating Cora. After this event she decided that she hated Ari and Kv. She didn’t want me to hang around them or be a part of their alliance. She heavily implied she would break up with me if I️ didn’t leave the alliance. Seeing as Cora and I️ would be meeting up 6 days later, I️ did not see that option as acceptable.
Therefore, I️ approached Yami and Fishie about a possible alliance between us.
They said they would want to do that, as they currently had no true alliance and considered myself a good friend.
We decided that to create a small two-guild alliance that totally wasn’t a rip off of the original Valkyrie.
We laid out the groundwork for it, and the next day I️ sent my leaving message to the Valkyrie Parliament.
Here it is:
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This message had a much more lighthearted tone than the Ordo one, as I️ truly felt bad about leaving Valkyrie.
It was on this day, June 5th 2016, that HoL left Valkyrie to create the Halcyon Alliance with Toasted Pandas.
This alliance would never do much, but it would still serve as an important part of both my personal history, and the overall history of guilds. That concludes this rather short part. The next part will likely be short too.
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I️ did not intend to do this until later but by popular demand, I️ will be retelling the story of how Hax came to control all of Wynn.
This part does not fit in with the current timeline of the story, and is rather more of a standalone.
The rise of Hax was concurrent with the fall of Ordo, and the period of time HoL spent in Valkyrie.
As you know, Hax was one of the Ordo guilds that joined Astrafteri after the collapse.
In Astra their power grew exponentially.
They no longer had a massive list of allies that they could not attack, and had much more freedom in wars.
Before long, many Astra guilds grew inactive or left, and Hax had even more freedom to do as they pleased.
Astra eventually died, but Hax remained. They stayed in an alliance with Libertas, and divided all of Wynn amongst themselves and a few others such as Blacklisted.
Before long, these allies grew inactive as well.
Hax was left as the one truly active war guild.
With nobody to challenge them, they expanded their horizons and engulfed all of Wynn and Gavel.
Although they would occasionally give territories to other guilds such as Paladins United, they remained the most powerful guild in Wynn for longer than any guild.
Even my timelines and knowledge of guild history has its limits, and I️ know no exact dates for any of this.
All I️ know is that Hax began their reign sometime around the summer of 2016. 
It is in my opinion that Hax should not be known as evil for controlling everything.
I️ do not think they set out with this intention. They intended to share the glory with a few allies such as Libertas.
But when these allies fell and new opportunities arose, what were they to do?
The only logical option was to continue expanding and filling the void left by the fallen allies.
I️t was a very specific set of circumstances that allowed a single guild to dominate all of Wynn for a year, and I️ do not believe these circumstances will ever arise again.
The days of a single guild controlling everything are over.
In the end it is up to you to decide whether Hax’s reign should be praised or reviled.
I️ do not see it as either, but one thing I️ can respect is their honesty about what they were doing.
They didn’t try to sugarcoat it. They didn’t try to tell anyone they were trying to make the community better.
They made sure everyone knew all they wanted was to control everything, and I️ can respect that.
That is the end of this part. The next part will likely be short and will detail the rather everything from the uneventful Halcyon to the Valkyrie coup.
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The Halcyon alliance’s intention was to strengthen the already strong relationship between HoL and TnP.
If you ask me, the truth is that it was just created by a group of friends who had nothing better to do.
We laid out the groundwork of Halcyon. It was a fairly simplistic community alliance, much akin to how Valkyrie was at the start.
The alliance had four leaders. TnP had Yami and Fishie as their two leaders, and HoL had Cora and myself as our two.
I️ cannot seem to recall what our plans were with the alliance. It was not a war one so we didn’t do wars, yet we didn’t do the usual community alliance things such as events.
I️ believe that at the time Fishie was the only one who was active in game. Yami might have been too, but in her last few months of Wynn she mostly just sat on that one signpost in deltas.
Nothing significant happened in Halcyon, and it was mostly just...there.
Later on in the alliance’s life, I️ received some shocking news.
The Kingdom of Foxes had been disbanded.
At the time of Fox’s disbandment, Cora and I️ were meeting up for the second time.
Because of this week long meetup, I️ was not aware there was any drama occurring until after it ended.
I️ will not go in to the details of said drama, as I️ was not part of it and have not heard the story from anyone without massive bias.
I️ do not want to give you guys a story based entirely on biased hearsay, so I️ won’t.
All I️ will say is that it ended with Ari disbanding her guild.
That was on July 2nd, 2016.
Roughly a month later, the already dead Halcyon “officially” collapsed.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 8:10 PM
Due to personal conflicts, Killerfish left Toasted Pandas, and Yami didn’t want to continue the dead alliance.
I️ knew that this meant I needed to search for another alliance, so I️ looked to Valkyrie.
After Fox was disbanded, the House of Sentinels [Snt] was created to house the now guildless Fox members.
Misty and Pretzule, two ex Fox members, were its leader and Co-Leader.
Snt had taken Fox’s place in Valkyrie, and the alliance was now composed of Imp, HHU, LTH, and Snt.
Kvmilla left Wynn shortly after Ari disbanded Fox and quit, so Yuno had become the new Imperial leader and the Valkyrie leader.
I️ managed to secure HoL a spot in the alliance again, and on September 3rd, we rejoined Valkyrie.
But as I️ would soon discover, there were problems within the alliance that had made the leaders upset at its current state.
A couple weeks after rejoining, I️ was talking to Ari about these problems when she suddenly suggested that the other leaders and me should coup Yuno and make myself the leader of Valkyrie.
The thought had barely crossed my mind until Ari suggested it, but once she did I️ knew there was no way I️ would stop until it happened.
Apologies for this rather short edition storytime. They can’t all be long tales of epic proportions. Hopefully the next part will be different, as it will detail the Valkyrie coup and the events leading up to the glorious Fox revival.

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A few weeks after Ari suggested that I️ be made the leader of Valkyrie, the wheels were set in motion.
I️ began by messaging Misty, who had already been on board with the plan after Ari suggested it to her too.
At this point, LTH had left the alliance. Thus, Misty and I️ only had to make sure Red was on board.
Considering Red is one of my best friends, obviously he was.
We convened in a group chat and discussed the best way to go about our plan. We decided to start by simply asking Yuno to step down. I️ wrote a message to send to him, made sure everyone agreed 100% with the message, and then had Misty send it.
Here is the message that was sent:
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After this was sent, Yuno responded by declining the offer and telling us that he did not want to. He said to give him more time and that if he did not improve, he would step down. He stated that if we did not like it, we could always leave.
I️ wrote a second message in response, made sure we all agreed, and sent it. That message was as follows:
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In response to this, Yuno began speaking of his experience in the Valkyrie leadership.
He mentioned how this made him the best candidate for leader. He also asked who we planned to make leader of Valkyrie if he stepped down. I️ did not want to answer that question at the time, so I️ didn’t.
He said that if he would no longer be the leader, then Imperial would leave the alliance.
To be truthful, I️ thought he was bluffing. I️ think we all did. None of us fully believed that Imperial would leave.
Thus, I️ drafted a response. In said response we “called his bluff” and continued to push our agenda.
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Immediately after I️ sent this message, Yuno announced that Imperial would be leaving.
He left all the chats and deleted his Valkyrie thread.
Seeing as I️ was the one who would take the leadership role, it became my duty to handle the aftermath.
I️ obtained Yuno’s permission to copy and paste his Valkyrie thread, and posted it myself.
Then, I️ immediately began work on the restructuring of Valkyrie.
At first I️ was incredibly excited to do this. I️ bounced idea after idea off the other Valkyrie leaders, optimistic about the future.
However the responses I️ received from the other leaders became increasingly frustrating.
They did not seem to care about the future of the alliance, and my suggestions were usually met with indifferent responses which implied that I️ should just do what I️ wanted.
Due to this, I️ increasingly cared less and less about fixing the alliance.
I️ began revising the Valkyrie constitution, but only ever got about a fourth of the way through.
I️ could not lead an alliance that did not have the ambition to rise.
Therefore, I️ again lost my motivation.
That would all change about a month later.
On November 21st, 2016, Ari suggested to me that we should revive Fox
She did it in a half joking manner, but I️ was not going to let an opportunity like that slide by.
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It was those 4 messages that would spark an unprecedented guild revival.
Never before had a guild gone down in such a violent and brutal way, yet still come back.
I️ immediately messaged Misty (Pyrias) about it, who seemed open to the idea.
We decided that we needed to bring in one other person to assist us with the revival, so we turned to Fishie.
He seemed the perfect candidate, as we were both good friends with him and he had been trying to decide which of our guilds to join for a while.
He agreed, and we decided that he would be the Viceroy, an important role within the guild equal to second in command.
There was one issue with our plan: The guild itself.
After Ari disbanded Fox, a few rogue Hax members recreated it with the same name and tag.
Unfortunately this meant we had to create a new name and tag for the guild.
So, on November 24th, we created Foxton Legacy [Eon].
Foxton Legacy because Ari’s name in the guild lore was Arianna Foxton, and Eon to represent that her legacy would last an Eon.
Misty became Queen of the Foxes, a title that has only been held by three people including herself. I️ became King of the Foxes, a title that no other has obtained.
The three of us were determined to bring the Kingdom back to its former glory, no matter what it took. However, none of us could have known the hardships that would lie ahead.
Thus ends part 10 of this epic saga.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 8:16 PM
I was chancellor, a role that handled foreign affairs and relations with other guilds.
Misty was secretary, the one who managed the thread and accepted or denied applications.
Fishie was the Justiciar, a role intended to moderate the internal affairs of the guild.
Binary, a member of Imperial that converted when the revival started, was an Advisor to the council.
And lastly, Ari was the designer and handled all the art for the guild.
We got to work on leveling the guild, recruiting new members, and establishing a structure.
However, soon in to the Kingdom’s revival, Ari quit the council and left the discord as the result of a decision we made that did not sit well with her.
Luckily for us, she gave us the art we needed immediately before leaving.
As the revival continued, I began to grow increasingly more displeased with the state of the guild. I felt that my role as chancellor served no purpose considering at the time there were no foreign relations to manage.
As well as that, my decisions were constantly overruled by the council, which never made sense to me.
How can a few advisors and councilmen overrule the decision of the King and owner of the guild?
Nevertheless, there was nothing I could do, as doing anything forceful to assert myself could easily result in the entire council leaving, something that needed to be avoided for obvious reasons.
Later on, near Christmas, the first real disputes began. Misty began to worry that Fox would never achieve what it previously was, and that it was futile to revive it.
I disagreed and held the opinion that as long as we remained motivated and absolute in our decisions, the guild could achieve great things.
She proposed to the council that Fox merge with Snt. All of us would move to Snt. Misty and I would be Queen and King of the Phoenixes.
Even though at the time Snt was far smaller, this was still a massive decision, as the guild still maintained large amounts of influence throughout the community.
However, I decided to fight this proposal. I wanted to remain true to the idea of reviving the Kingdom and bringing it back to its former glory.
After a day of heated debate, we decided to reconvene in five days so that Christmas and Fishie’s birthday could be stress free events.
So, we came back together on December 28th to discuss.
I spoke frankly with Misty personally, and told her that if the guild was causing her stress, she could always just leave and go back to Snt. I was concerned for her, yet I still didn’t want her to drag us to Snt.
She agreed to revoke her proposal of the merge, yet still stayed as Queen of the Foxes.
A week or so later, a short lived guild shop called the Royal Foxen Market was established. Misty ran it and became the guild treasurer while a newer advisor of the council named Arsene took her role as secretary.
Later on, on January 25th 2017, the council approached Misty regarding her recent inactivity and asked if I could be the one to post the Fox thread considering she never updated it.
She agreed, and entered a “temporary” hibernation from all council roles.
Soon afterwards, she told me she would likely step down as Queen. Binary and Fishie also confided in me that they wanted to leave the guild.
None of them seemed too enthralled with the vision of what the guild could become, and decided to leave rather than keep fighting to achieve that vision.
Thus, on January 28th, Misty stepped down as Queen.
She posted this announcement 
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and left the guild.
Soon afterwards, Binary left as well. So did Fishie. So did Arsene.
Arsene was the one I intended to make Viceroy, the one I intended to rebuild the guild with.
He had promised to me that he wouldn’t leave after I informed him some others might be leaving.
Nonetheless, I was left alone in the council. I had to make InvertedReaper the Viceroy. A good member of the guild, but one who was not even in the council.
I slowly began to realize there was no way I could make the guild what it once was, not without the vision of someone who had been a active contributor to the original Kingdom.
Because of this, I decided the best option was to get Ari to reclaim her crown and return as Queen.
I messaged her, and asked if she would do it.
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I may be good a leading a guild, but I am far better at it when I have someone to “make things pretty” as I like to put it.
I can make a guild successful, but I can’t make its appearance and structure professional and appealing. Because of this, I needed Ari and believed she was the best way to secure long term success.
In proper Ari style, I had to pester her about whether she’d come back for a few days, and then finally this happened.
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Never before had a guild related message made me as happy as that one. I was overjoyed at the idea of Ari returning to her throne and leading the guild again.
However again, in proper Ari style, I had to pester her about it for a couple days before the power transfer occurred.
It was on February 7th, 2017, that I stepped down from my position as King and restored the Foxton bloodline to the throne.
I became the Viceroy of the Foxes, the second male one in the history of Her 
Majesty’s Government.
I work best when I set personal goals for myself.
So, I set four goals for myself upon her return. These were: 
1. Serve the most continuous time as Viceroy 
2. Serve the longest total amount of time as Viceroy 
3. Obtain the Queen’s Cross, the highest medal awarded in the guild 
4. Become the most highly decorated Fox member in history.
And as of last month, I have achieved every one of my original goals.
It was these four goals that would become the main driving force behind every decision I made after Ari’s return, be that for better or worse.
We chose a new motto, one fitting of the Queen’s return, and of Fox’s unwillingness to die
“Forever or Nothing.”
It was the idea of the guild lasting forever that gave us the motivation to continue, to create a legacy that would last longer than us.
That idea followed the guild throughout all the trials and tribulations that would follow in the coming year, and eventually elevate the guild to a position it had never achieved before.
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In the days after Ari retook the throne, we began a rework of the guild.
Everything from the guild ranks to the discord itself received a major overhaul in order to streamline the guild and make things run more smoothly.
Along with these changes, Ari and I️ had massive changes planned for Valkyrie. We had hoped to revive the alliance and restore it to former glory. However, a mere five days after the leadership change, the House of Sentinels left the alliance.
Considering HoL and HHU, the only other guilds left in Valkyrie, were already dead, there seemed to be no point in trying to revive Valkyrie at that time.
Therefore, we decided to focus first upon Fox before dealing with foreign affairs.
I️ always do my best work when I️ have competition to compete with. And although there was no true competition at the time, I️ made Snt a mental competitor of mine
Since everyone who left the State Council had joined Snt, I️ decided to see them as competition.
It seemed to make the most sense. At the time were more similar to Fox than any other guild and one of the most successful community guilds of all time.
It is to this mental rivalry that I️ attribute the massive growth and success that Fox would experience in the coming months.
But let’s not get off track here.
As soon as Ari became Queen, we abolished the State Council and reimplemented the Parliament.
Although history states that Her Majesty’s 17th (we continued counting where the old Kingdom had left off) Parliament began the day I️ passed the throne to her, I️ would say that it truly began later, on February 21st.
Up until that point, our Parliament had consisted of simply Ari, InvertedReaper, and myself.
Since the guild was growing at a rapid rate, we eventually saw the need to add more people to the guild’s leadership.
This first Parliament saw the creation of a new system of management known as “Regional Managers”. The guild was divided in to three regions. NA for North America, EU for Europe, and OCE for Asia and Oceania. It originally consisted of two NA managers, two EU managers, and no OCE manager, as there were not enough OCE members to warrant this.
The chosen NA managers were two Fox members by the name of AurumKitsune and Efilim. Both were trusted members of the old Kingdom who had rejoined after the revival. The two EU managers were Antra and Schattentoeter. Although Antra had been a member of the old Kingdom, Schatt had not. Despite this, he would prove to be a wise choice, and currently still holds the position, making him the longest serving regional manager.
Later, the first OCE manager would be a Dafoxey, another member of the original Kingdom.
And shortly after this, the poached Snt member RetiFile would become the third NA manger, effectively placing him at the very bottom of the Parliament.
These early stages of Parliament would do a tremendous job at establishing the new Kingdom.
One of the few major events during this time period was the transfer to a new discord.
When the original Fox discord was created, mistakes had been made that frustrated Ari to the point where she felt the need to completely remake it.
So, we locked the discord and transferred all Fox members to the new one. Later, Ari kicked everyone from it and left.
To this day, I️ am still the only person in that discord and have it saved for archive purposes.
Another event around this time was the planting of the seeds of Arenos’ new alliance.
It all started with an Ordo Malleus reunion that myself and a couple other leaders felt the need to establish after a certain ex Ordo member intended to create their own, but refused to invite over half the guild leaders due to personal bias.
So, we created a reunion server and invited all the ex leaders, even those we did not like.
To our surprise, Arenos ended up joining it.
It was in this discussion that I️ asked Arenos if he could possibly request that the deleted Ordo thread be recovered so that I️ could retrieve dates from it that could be used for my history archived. It proved useful, as many of the dates and minor events during the Ordo parts of this story would have been educated guesses without it.
Later in our conversations, Arenos first began to speak of an alliance he wanted to create.
At the time, I️ had let my issues with Arenos go and no longer resented him for the things that had transpired between us.
That, plus the fact that I️ was incredibly fascinated to see what lunacy would go down if Arenos created an alliance, led me to assist him in the very first stages of its creation.
All he needed from me was contact with a few guild leaders. He had not been a part of the guild community in slightly over a year by this point, and had only recently joined discord.
Therefore, he did not have many contacts or way of knowing how to contact some of his old friends via discord.
Once he had enough people, he began to do his own thing. He invited Fox to join his alliance.
First however, I️ had to speak to Ari. She stated that for us to consider joining he would need to provide her with a short summary of the alliance, its goals, and its structure.
I️ relayed this message to Arenos, expecting a quick response. However, one was never received.
I️ shrugged it off, not truly caring.
Sometime later, Ari suggested the idea of an elected Parliament member.
The basic idea was that the Gentry (Non Nobility/Parliament members) would elect a representative in to Parliament in order to represent their own interests.
Parliament had begun to thin down at this point, with Efilim and Antra having been kicked from it due to inactivity.
So, we were open to the idea.
In April we hosted the first guild election. The two candidates were Whimsicality and Antra. The election was completely one sided, with Whimsy earning 15 votes to Antra’s 3.
The position was given the official name of “Prime Minister” shortly after Whimsy’s election, and would slowly transform over the months in to a community organizer/event planner.
It was around this time that Fox had truly become one of the most active guilds in the game.
On average there were usually around 8-9 members online during the daytime. It was not uncommon to log on and see upwards of 14 members online during the weekend.
Although I️ have no way of confirming this, I️ truly believe that other than Hax, Fox was the most active guild in Wynn at the time.
Here is a screenshot from a month prior to our peak of activity, during the March 2017 Award Ceremony.
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All but two or three people present in this image were members of the guild at the time.
I️ believe this screenshot truly highlights how successful the guild became in the short couple months after the Council Exodus.
The Kingdom of Foxes quickly went from a cause many believed to be hopeless, to surpassing many other guilds in terms of activity and becoming a respected guild once more.
However, this could not last forever. The guild would have its ups and downs over the coming months, but would eventually settle down at a much lower position than it had seen in a while.
End of part 12.
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Shorty after the Prime Minister election, I messaged Arenos and inquired as to what ever came of the alliance he was creating and of the short summary we were supposed to receive.
He told me that he thought we had said we weren’t interested. I’m not sure why he figured that was the case, since I had made it clear we’d consider it if we just had the alliance summarized for us.
I shrugged it off and he sent me a behemoth of a document that was meant to be an explanation of the alliance.
The document called “The Emperial Truth”, and it was one of the most needlessly complex and confusing documents I’ve ever read.
I showed it to Ari, who said to put it to a guild vote.
The vote resulted in a landslide 14-4 decision in favor of joining the alliance, which was called the “Emperium of Wynn”.
We joined, and within the alliance I acted as the leader of Fox, since Ari doesn’t seem to enjoy handling foreign affairs
Fox quickly took up an assertive role within the alliance. Three of the six “judges”, which were basically just alliance moderators, were members of our guild.
This was likely due to the fact that at the time we were still one of the most active guilds in Wynn.
Unfortunately, 13 days after joining the alliance, everything went downhill.
It all started when a certain member of the alliance named Down randomly went off on Arenos for telling him to get some work done.
I tried sticking up for Arenos and telling Down that he shouldn’t do that. He told me that he was having a bad day. I said something along the lines of “I get it but a bad day isn’t an excuse to yell at people”.
And with that, the conversation died.
Until a couple hours later when Rani popped back in and got angry at me for saying that a bad day isn’t an excuse to get angry at people.
From there the argument quickly went downhill, and culminated with the Kingdom of Foxes guild being insulted out of nowhere.
Fox is a proud guild, and many members see their fellow guild mates as family.
Therefore, the guild was quite unhappy with this insult.
They took to the general channel and began showing their support for the guild by defending the guild and doing the typical Fox salute
This worsened the issue, especially once Down and Rani began deleting messages from Fox members.
They began telling us we should leave and saying the alliance would be better off without us.
So, we left.
The actions of those few within the leadership of the Emperium were widely criticized, even by members of the alliance.
There was a secret discord for planning that was created by a disgruntled member named Mitsukitten, where the only goal was to “Coup Down”.
He extended the invitation to me, where I told him that I could not personally support his plan, yet said I didn’t have any problems with them doing it.
However, it all became unnecessary as shortly afterwards Down left the alliance after uncovering an infamous “shady and immoral” story about something Arenos had done a year earlier.
After leaving, the Kingdom went back to the isolationist principles that had been held for so long.
On June 2nd, 2017, the KoF celebrated its third birthday. This was celebrated with the second award ceremony since the revival.
We met at the Llevigar beaches and distributed awards to deserving members.
It was here that I achieved one of the four goals I set for myself upon Ari’s return: Obtain the Queen’s Cross. It is the highest award that can be obtained in Fox, and including myself the only other people who have obtained it are Princess Kurumi and Misty, both of which received it before the guild was disbanded.
Here are two screenshots from the event:
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Unfortunately I had to leave before the second screenshot was taken, so only four members in it were dressed in uniform.
It was around this time that the guild began seeing a massive drop in activity.
You can only keep guild members active with nothing but grinding events and award ceremonies for so long, especially when incoming applications drop to almost zero.
The next few months were nothing but inactiveness.
So much so that the only event listed on the official guild timeline in this period of three months was Whimsy’s re election as Prime Minister.
Activity levels had dropped to zero, nobody truly cared about wanting to make the guild active again, etc.
I became incredibly bored to the point where I would later find entertainment in messing around and running for leader of the Emperium, which for some reason even non-alliance members could run for.
Yet there is no time for that now, and the Emperator election will be detailed in the next part.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 9:20 PM
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The Emperium discord had become one of my favorite places to hang out.
You see, when somebody dislikes me I purposefully speak more in their presence just because it aggravates them.
And nobody disliked me more than Rani and Arenos.
Thus, it was enjoyable to converse in their alliance discord.
One day, Arenos announced that there would be an election for Emperator since he no longer had time to run the alliance.
For some unknown reason, even foreigners who were not a part of the alliance were able to run for this position.
I hardly cared about the alliance, and was simply looking to have a fun time.
I wrote a literal essay as my application, for no reason other than I could.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rOpJpRaw93ZGOKiMGpSJ1DFRMBDEqDLydO2q3zOP8O0
After applications were closed, there were a mere three candidates.
These were Nitro, Josh (now known as ElegantDeath), and me.
Nitro is a younger member of the Wynn community, and many viewed him as immature.
One of the events that had given him this image was the time he spammed the Emperium discord with his alt account as a “test” to see how people would react.
This led to the now infamous spam meme, drawn by oniyan:
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Josh was a well respected member of the Emperium, and to me he was the obvious winner.
Therefore, I had to get sneaky in order to have a chance at winning.
I managed to convince Josh to drop out of the race and support my candidacy.
In exchange for this, if I won I would ensure he won the position of Community Leader.
So, he became my campaign manager.
The election cycle began with a debate styled after a presidential debate.
Most people agreed that I was the clear winner of said debate, but it still did not put me far enough ahead.
Whereas I was an outsider who was barely known to much of the alliance, Nitro had been working closely with its members for months, becoming acquainted to many of the voters.
It was one of the most needlessly long elections ever, with an entire week devoted to the vote itself.
The election was incredibly close. Far closer than anyone could have predicted
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 9:27 PM
I spent all my time messaging alliance members and requesting that they vote for me, and if need be explaining to them why they should vote for me.
Unbeknownst to me, someone I thought I had convinced to vote for me, Angry_will, was secretly working as Nitro’s campaign manager.
He had garnered most of the votes Nitro received, and kept the race as close as it was.
The biggest lead one of us ever obtained was only a 5 vote lead.
At the end of the week, the vote was an astoundingly close 30-31, with Nitro as the winner.
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And although it would later be revealed that the vote had been rigged in Nitro’s favor, I was still disappointed at the fact that I lost to him.
Shortly thereafter, Arenos quit the alliance and abandoned his position as “Shadow Advisor”.
Nitro started an election for SA, and obviously I ran. I won in a landslide.
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Around this time, at home in the Kingdom of Foxes, issues were beginning to develop.
There had been increasing tension between a few members of Parliament and me.
I felt as if they were being disrespectful, and as if they did not respect the higher authority within the guild.
One incident in question was when I was randomly and for no reason falsely accused of wanting to rig an election to ensure Whimsy would not be re elected for Prime Minister.
Another such incident was when an application was denied for absolutely no reason.
The guild was dead and starved for members, so we were excited when we received an application.
To this day I still believe it was denied due to the fact that he was a friend of StarBerri, Whimsy’s opponent in the election, and they did not want him voting for her.
When I questioned why it was denied, they only told me it was “classified”.
To me this was a clear violation of the chain of command within the guild, and was the final straw.
That night, I demoted four members of Parliament. The first two were for disrespect and insubordination while the last two were simply for inactivity.
The next day, Ari and I decided to have Fox rejoin the Emperium of Wynn.
I was already the second in command of it, so it seemed the logical step to have Fox rejoin it.
However, many guild members were upset with this change.
It caused a significant amount of members to join and form their own guild, KingdomPhoenixes [Phx].
The Kingdom of Phoenixes was created by Aurum, and she ruled it as Queen. The second in command was Whimsy, who was a Princess within the guild.
Phx being created was the start of a new era for Fox, as many of the inactive members within Fox left the guild to join Phx, allowing for, in my opinion, more opportunities to grow.
However along with this splinter, tensions and hostility quickly grew between Fox and Phx, causing much drama in the coming months.
The hostility between Fox and Phx would also prove to be the single most important cause of Fox’s transformation from a purely community guild to one of the top War guilds in the community.
Drew1011 — 2/26/2018 9:34 PM
However, that’s for next time. The transformation and shift within Fox will be detailed in the next part.

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The friction between Fox and Phx began as nothing more than a mutual dislike that many members of each guild had for members of the opposite guild.
However, as the time progressed it quickly grew in to more.
One of the most severe issues that Fox members had with Phx was that they had completely copied the structure of Fox, without so much as asking a respectful “is this alright?”
Although for me, the biggest problem I had at the start were eight simple words on the Phx thread. 
These eight words were “Started from a few descendants of crumbling Kingdom...” 
I thought it was the ultimate disrespect to publicly state in a matter of fact way that your old guild was “crumbling”, especially when it was not.
Ironically, it was this statement that would once again lead to a massive revival within the Kingdom.
I took it upon myself to prove that Fox was not crumbling, and in doing this, eventually sparked a massive shift in the culture of the guild itself.
At the time however, I had no clue how I would revive Fox. I had learned how difficult it can be to keep a guild alive on nothing but events and community, so I knew I’d have to change tactics.
But it wasn’t until later that I found the solution.
It all began on a night when the leaders of Phx came in to the Fox discord and passively aggressively told us to update our thread and remove all the members that had left.
Fishie called them out on their passive aggressiveness, and Whimsy confronted him about it in DMs.
She denied that it was anything more than “helping out a friend with their thread” although anyone who saw the messages could tell that was not the intention.
After this confrontation and the resultant argument, Whimsy broke her Snapchat streak with Fishie.
I know this seems irrelevant, but bear with me.
Fishie took this streak breaking personally and it made him quite angry.
At the time he had his account in TnP, although it was still completely dead.
We were sitting in a call one night when Fishie started ranting about the argument and the broken Snapchat streak.
You must remember that this was shortly after the fall of Hax, and thus the map was a total mess, completely full of the guilds that had banded together to take them down.
One of these guilds was Phx.
When Fishie concluded his rant, he decided that the best way to vent his anger was to attack Phx.
He yelled at me to war too, although I did not wish to attack Phx so as not to cause further drama between our guilds.
So he attacked the Phx territories near Detlas and Nemract, while I tried to attack a territory belonging to a guild I had never heard of before named DogsAmongUs [DAU]
Immediately after taking Ternaves from DAU, I received a message from someone I only faintly recognized.
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I was not entirely sure who he was or what he meant, but I would later come to find it was him who had organized the alliance that brought down Hax.
Wars were still incredibly broken at the time, but Fishie seemed to have better luck than me.
In the time it took me to capture Ternaves, he had taken roughly eight Phx territories.
It was roughly 3 AM at this point, so I decided to go on to sleep and war more tomorrow.
Drew1011 — 3/4/2018 1:59 AM
When I woke up, I saw that Phx had gone for the one Fox territory before any others...something I saw as disrespectful considering I went out of my way to avoid warring against them.
Later on, as the drama between Fox and Phx grew, we started to notice that Aurum seemed annoyed at some of the things her guild members were saying and doing.
This was soon confirmed, as one night Aurum randomly messaged me and told me I was right about a few things.
We both apologized for things that had happened between us and had a long conversation.
It was this night that led to us being friends again, and it was also this night that led to Phx leaving the alliance that took down Hax, War Syndicate.
Sometime after our conversation, Aurum expressed her desire to rejoin Fox. So, she handed the guild to Josh and came to Fox.
She helped me do a few wars and then we both went to sleep.
The next day Whimsy and Tnt, the unofficial leader of War Syndicate, discovered Aurum had left the guild and joined Fox. 
Whimsy was angry about the fact that Aurum had not told anyone about this, and Tnt was angry about the fact that Aurum had joined a guild that was actively warring against their alliance. 
Aurum decided to head back to Phx, so she took back the Owner rank.
Tnt had been telling Phx that Aurum betrayed them, and wouldn’t give Aurum her roles back in their discord even after she took Phx back.
Because of this and a few other things, Phx left War Syndicate.
It was after this incident that Aurum and I both realized we didn’t particularly like their alliance.
So in mid October, a proposal was put forth.
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Drew1011 — 3/4/2018 2:06 AM
Aurum sent me this screenshot from the Phx Parliament, and from there we began a discussion about creating our own alliance, since the Emperium was completely dead at that point.
It was Fox and Phx that cofounded it, with Spr (the guild Fishie had made) being the third guild to join, and Snt being the fourth.
From there we would grow our alliance with the sole purpose of bringing down War Syndicate.
But that shall be detailed in the next part.

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We immediately got to work at recruiting new guilds for the Coalition.
At first, we simply contacted friends who owned guilds and asked if they’d be willing to join.
One of these friends was DarkSoul, the leader of Hax. He was one of my oldest allies, as we had been in Ordo together.
I knew that Hax still had the potential to be one of the best warring guilds, and I also knew that War Syndicate was terrified of them.
I spoke to Dark, and he said that he was busy and did not know when he would have the time to revive Hax, but that when he did have the time, he would most certainly help us deal with War Syndicate.
Later on, we resorted to recruiting any guilds that we saw war frequently, such as Immortalish, a guild that we saw attack the jungle a few times.
Before long, it was a sizable alliance with many guilds.
I knew that to accomplish our goal, the Coalition needed to survive at least until Dark was able to revive Hax.
The main factor in growing our alliance was the fact that the War Syndicate had given us over 100 territories on a silver platter.
They had a rule where they would not attack the province of Wynn at all, aside from a few free-for-all territories.
Thus, they divided Gavel amongst themselves, and we divided Wynn amongst ourselves.
This shortsighted territorial gift on the part of War Syndicate would prove to be one of, if not the main factor of their downfall.
For a brief period of time, I was almost singlehandedly carrying the alliance.
Not only was I the only person warring for Fox, the guild in Coalition that at the time consistently had the most territories, but I was also warring for a few other guilds as well.
I was also the one doing 90% of the wars for Spr, as Fishie was the only one in the guild and he had given me access to his account to war with.
Dwicey, the leader of one of the newer alliance guilds, Hall of Fame [HoF] had done the same, and I warred quite a bit for them as well.
A few others had also given me their accounts, and at one point I counted up the territories the Coalition owned, and well over half of them had been because of me warring with multiple accounts.
This was before the “no warring with other accounts” rule came about, so I was not breaking any of the rules.
However, when Pretzule messaged me and informally advised me not to war with multiple accounts, I listened, and from that point on I did not.
Drew1011 — 3/22/2018 3:10 PM
Luckily, many of the guilds finally began to war, with their leaders and members spending dozens of hours making sure that the Wynn province remained under our control.
Thus, Pretzule asking me to stop was not a huge loss.
At this point in the Coalition’s history, a few of us in the bigger guilds had become fed up with the smaller guilds that could not take their territories.
For a brief moment, we even considered kicking out most of the guilds and keeping all of Wynn to ourselves.
If this had been done, Wynn would have been divided between Fox, Phx, Snt, HoF, and Feq (if they chose to come with us). 
The first four would have had an even 24 territories, and Feq would have had roughly half that, since although they did a better job of claiming their territories than most guilds, they were still practically dead and took forever to do it.
Here is a map of what it would have looked like, with blue being Fox, Red being Snt, gold being HoF, orange being Phx, and pink being Feq
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However, this idea never made it farther than a single night where we quickly dismissed the idea, as we knew we would be unable to accomplish our final goal and also did not want to abandon and betray the smaller guilds in the alliance. 
It was on November 23rd, 2017 that the Coalition first took control of every territory on the Wynn mainland. This is what the map looked like at that time.
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For comparison, this is what the map looked like shortly before the Coalition was founded.
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Everything the Coalition did before the Wynnter War was all in preparation for it.
One of our greatest weapons was information, and the one who supplied this information.
A mysterious person within War Syndicate, known only to the rest of the Coalition as “Mr. White” was secretly supplying us with information for months.
This supplier was none other than the leader of the War Syndicate guild known as DsO. He was unhappy with the alliance, and therefore aided its opponents every step of the way.
Eventually, he left his guild and quit the community, leaving a new mysterious figure to be our supplier, whose identity will remain a secret.
We continued to fight for the province of Wynn until a few events made us realize it was time to launch our invasion.
The first was Fantasy [Fux] switching sides to join the Coalition.
They were one of the best warring guilds in War Syndicate, yet decided to switch sides.
This was a massive blow to their alliance, and absolutely crucial to the events that followed.
The second event was the Fantasy invasion of Corkus.
At the time, Corkus was owned by Paladins United [PUN], a guild who had made a pact with War Syndicate in order to keep their beloved island.
Fantasy and the allies that helped them made quick work of PUN, as at the time they were half dead, still in the beginning stages of their revival. 
Drew1011 — 3/22/2018 3:17 PM
This was the first true test of our strength, as before then we had only fought tiny and unorganized guilds with no reputation.
The third and final event was the joining of Hax. It was winter now, and Dark finally had the free time to revive his guild.
Once Hax joined, we knew it was time to strike. Our guilds outnumbered theirs, and we finally had the strength to take down War Syndicate.
In the days leading up to the war, this is what the Wynn map looked like, with Blue being Fox, Red being Snt, Pink being HOS, Hot pink being Feq, Purple as HoF, Orange as Phx, green as Smd, dark red as TOH, dark green as Two, Cyan as LEF, and gray as ffa territories. 
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It was on December 21st, 2017 that we would finally launch our invasion. Somewhat ironically, this was HoL’s third birthday, and the third anniversary of the release of guilds.
At the time of the declaration of war, these were the guilds on each side.
Coalition: 
DeathReapers [DxR]
Dishonored [TOH]
Fantasy [Fux]
HackForums [Hax]
Hall of Fame [HoF]
Hippies of Snuggles [HOS]
House of Sentinels [Snt]
Immortalish [Smd]
Kasai Shinrai [Two]
Kingdom Foxes [Fox]
KingdomPhoenixes [Phx]
LE Flowers [LEF]
Necronomicon [Feq]
Serpentem Empire [SNK]
War Syndicate: 
Beasts [BST]
BuildCraftia [BCr]
DogsAmongUs [DAU] 
Sins of Seedia [SDU]
Titans Valor [ANO] 
Tranquility [PaT]
The Divine Swords [DsQ]
TheOldKeepers [Tok] 
As you can tell, this war would be massive, and until recently, a larger war than any that had ever occurred.
Despite its scale, the winner would be fairly obvious after a mere day, and the final blow would be dealt a short 4 days after its start.
However, the event causing the war and the war itself will both be detailed in the next part.

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The Gavel Invasion was one of the most consequential events that I have participated in on this server.
Although it was a complete and total landslide victory, it ushered in a new era in the community. One of fast paced wars, rapid territorial changes, and extreme rivalries.
However before we can get in to all that, we must examine why the war began.
The war was inevitable. Once Hax joined, Coalition was planning a strike, although there was no definitive date yet.
Then, an opportunity arose. Tnt tagged me in the War Syndicate discord, and this exchange of words happened.
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We took this as a declaration of war, and we knew had to make the first strike.
We immediately tagged everyone in the alliance and told them to invade Gavel.
The original announcement does not exist any longer, yet I still have the one from the Fox discord here:
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After this announcement, we all crowded in to the voice channel of the Coalition discord, creating this massive call:
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Here is a picture of the territory map shortly after the announcement was made:

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The war began. It was frustrating. Wars were still fairly broken at the time, and there was maybe only a 33% chance at most that they would work.
Somehow, Coalition was luckier than War Syndicate in this respect, leading many to falsely accuse jp of rigging wars in our favor.
However, persistence was the true determinate of the war.
One of the earliest events of the war was when Paladins United [PUN] joined the Coalition. We had been attempting to invite them for a while now but never saw their owner, Olinite, online.
This changed though, and someone connected me with him over discord. I spoke with both him and Slayne, the one doing most of the warring for PUN.
Although they were (understandably) hesitant to join considering we had taken Corkus away from them a mere days prior, their history with Hax and their disdain for War Syndicate led to them joining.
This was the only addition to our roster during the war.
Halfway through the first day of warring, we became concerned with how slow the fighting was happening. It had been somewhere around 3 hours, and we had only taken around 10 territories due to the many glitches.
This frightened a few of us, and we passed a vote to offer WS a ceasefire until wars became less glitched.
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However tnt never responded, so the warring continued.
By the end of the day, we had realized that a ceasefire was unnecessary. A leader counted the total amount of territories, and 44 Gavel territories had been captured by Coalition.
This war was extremely lopsided. We had anticipated ferocious fighting considering how cocky many within War Syndicate had been, yet in the end only two of their guilds consistently fought back.
BCr and SDU were the main two guilds fighting back throughout the war, with roughly half their guilds barely even attacking back.
BCr was targeted the most heavily throughout the war, since many guilds such had personal grudges against them.
SDU was a problem and gave us heavy resistance in the canyon. To deal with this, on the second day we ordered as many guilds as possible to target them until they stopped, and it worked.
They had grown tired of being some of the only ones warring to defend the alliance, and requested that we let them move to the jungle.
Getting as few WS guilds as possible warring in Gavel was the goal, so we let them capture the jungle with no retaliation.
From this point on, aside from a few minor skirmishing from guilds like DsQ and BST, the war was just a sweep.
If I had to choose one single person to credit with the success of the war, it would be Thunder. He warred with multiple guilds, (REMINDER: THIS WAS NOT AGAINST THE RULES AT THE TIME) and between those guilds achieved probably somewhere between 100-150 territories between them.
For most of the war, I was busy Christmas shopping during the day and therefore unable to war until night time. I coordinated what I could through discord, while Thunder no lifed wars.
Two days in to the war on December 23rd, three guilds became annoyed enough with War Syndicate to leave the alliance entirely. I saw this as the final blow to the alliance, and knew that it would never exist again in the same way that it had.
On the 24th, the remaining members of War Syndicate abandoned Gavel entirely and moved their focus towards Wynn, taking up the territories that we had left behind.
This is what the map looked like after Gavel had been completely taken:
Drew1011 — 5/20/2018 11:49 PM
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Here is a video that shows the progress of the war. However, it has not been fully updated with every screenshot I have from the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcpv3Luzlbg
YouTube
Ari F
drew wants to call it the great war
We had initially planned on doing what they had done and letting them hold these territories, but we had all just seen how terribly that had gone for them in the end, and none of us had any desire left to allow them a slice of the map.
On Christmas Day, with Gavel fully subjugated, our banners turned towards the province of Wynn, and we fully completed what Coalition had set out to accomplish: the complete destruction of War Syndicate. By the end of the day, all 349 territories on the map were owned by Coalition guilds or those we had truced with.
And so it came to pass that 67 days after the planning had begun, victory had been achieved.

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In the days after our historic victory, we had much to resolve. Going from owning half the map to owning the entire map is no small transition.
During the process of dividing up the map, two guilds left. Necronomicon left because they felt that they were getting the short end up the stick. However, I believe this is far from the truth
Necronomicon had only taken a single territory in the entire invasion, yet we were giving them all of Llevigar. This was 20+ territories, which I think is more than fair.
It is in my belief that they did not read the updates on the map and thought they would be stuck with just their 9 Nemract territories.
Another guild left too. Hippies of Snuggles had become fed up with the fact that they would not be getting very good territories, as they had not contributed a single war to the invasion. They argued that wars were broken and took forever to get to work, but the other leaders argued that we were all facing the same problems.
Soon after, they left as well.
However in the aftermath of the war, a new ally was picked up. AscendedKitten (Catherine) of Imperial had begun warring and making great progress. We started a vote to let them in, but it failed. Soon after a second vote began, and they officially joined the Coalition.
With the territory divisions finally complete, the alliance was looking steady and secure. 
However we made one extreme mistake and did not divide up the province of Wynn. In Wynn, Coalition guilds could attack enemies, but not allies. (This oversight would come back to cause major problems for the alliance, and eventually be the main reason for its demise.)
With all of these events over, we looked toward a long and prosperous future.
Only a few days later, early New Year’s Day, a counterattack began. The remnants of War Syndicate were able to take 40 territories from HackForums before we finally put a stop to it.
One curiosity of this attack was SDU. They broke their peace treaty with the Coalition and assisted the ex WS guilds in attacking Hax. After the attack was done, Coalition guilds attacked the Jungle and brought SDU back down to 0 territories.
The timing of this attack led to many joking that while Coalition was out partying, celebrating New Year’s Day, and sleeping, War Syndicate was attacking.
The next week was calm and business as usual, with no real threats to the alliance.
Then on January 11th, the Coalition discord was deleted. This is not an incident I would like to go into detail about, but after it was deleted, I made the new discord and the alliance frantically worked to get it in working order.
Soon after in mid January, Fantasy left the alliance and began mercilessly attacking the Fox canyon territories. The reason for this was in my opinion pure miscommunication. Early in the month Viaire had asked if he could have more territories than just the two air temples that he had initially asked for, and I told him that I would see what could be done when the next map was pushed. By the time the next map was in the works, I had forgotten about this interaction and thus Fantasy was given no extra territories.
Viaire believed this to be some sort of personal attack against him and that I purposefully did not give Fux any more territories.
This miscommunication is the main cause of what we have taken to calling “The Trench War”, a reference to the slow, laborious, and often inconclusive nature of the fighting in the trenches of World War One.
Viaire began targeting every one of our assigned territories and defending with only one mob. This was back when wars were broken and took many tries to get a working one, so you can imagine how infuriating it was to wait upwards of 15 minutes just to kill one mob.
Ironically, this war helped Fox in the long run. Since Viaire was only defending with one mob, anyone could do these wars. Even those who were low leveled and did not have a good build
It is what caused two of our best warrers, BlueFire and Goden, to first begin no lifing. At the time, Blue was somewhere near level 70. Goden was level 100 but had a glass cannon build that couldn’t usually solo, but could solo the one mob defenses that were being used.
Another interesting result of this war is the “no warring with alts” rule. During the course of this war, two alt accounts and alt guilds were used in order to triple the strength of Fantasy. This did not go unnoticed by the mods, and they eventually stepped in to declare alt warring unfair and against the rules.
Eventually, the war ended. After almost a week of constant warring and many stressful days, Viaire had grown tired and decided to stop.
It was relatively quiet for the next few weeks. Not much happened. Then, RetiFile decided to insult IceResistance, the ANO leader. Ice’s response to this was to break the treaty he had with Fox and to get all the guilds he was allied with to attack Fox. This was nicknamed the “fettuccine” treaty, a joking reference to the time Ice did the same thing to HoF and it was nicknamed the “ravioli” treaty due to the treaty name’s passing resemblance to the word “Ravioli”
Fox was assaulted nonstop by multiple guilds, the strongest of which was Feq, due to Nyam’s ability to no life wars. Every day, we would be brought down to 0 territories, yet by night time we would reclaim them all. Aside from a few times at its toughest, it is the popular opinion of those in Fox who warred that support from Coalition allies was minimal, and that we were mostly on our own. Eventually, the fettuccine guilds began to slow down, and Feq became the only one still attacking. But even this began to slow down, and we were allowed a respite. However, this respite ended under terrible circumstances.
There had been a few more developments. Phx (back under Aurum’s leadership) left and then rejoined Coalition, and when they rejoined they wanted good territories considering they had been the Co-Founders of the alliance.
Drew1011 — 7/11/2018 9:51 PM
HoL was also revived and in Coalition, as I had given it to Thunder when he found himself guildless. This created quite a space issue. 
My initial solution was to finally get around to dividing up Wynn. I suggested this idea, and even drew up a few maps. The end result of dividing up Wynn instead of letting the big guilds monopolize it would be that Hax would lose roughly 35 territories, PUN would lose about 20, Fox would lose about 17, and Snt would lose 5. It is in my opinion that Hax and PUN opposed the idea simply because they did not want to give up territories to smaller guilds that needed it. My reason for believing this is that both Hax and PUN seemed relatively receptive to the idea until someone pulled up the statistics that showed they would lose territories.
I had been growing increasingly irritated with Hax over the last few weeks, as they would often act like they were objectively the strongest guild and far stronger than Fox, despite the fact that even then the war log showed that Fox did more wars with them.
Them opposing the idea just added to that.
But nevertheless, I dropped the idea and didn’t mention it again. The next day, Catherine messaged me and mentioned how much she wanted to divide up Wynn. I told her to start a vote if she felt that way, and she did. The end result of the vote was a clear yes in favor of dividing Wynn.
So, I redrew the map MULTIPLE times in order to please everyone. Here are the final maps, the territory totals, and the list:
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Hax: ~64
PUN ~50
HoF: 38
Fox: 36 
Snt: 36
Imp: 32
Fuq: 25
Phx: 24
LEF: 20
HoL: 19
ERN: 17
SNK: 9
Smd: 3
After finally reaching a map the vast majority could vote yes on, we announced it.
Within an hour of announcing the map, on February 16th, 2018, five guilds left Coalition. 
Hax, PUN, Snt, Fuq, and Emorians [ERN] left and made their own alliance combined with Fux and Feq. They attacked the rest of the Coalition, and had the map before the night was over. 
What angered me the most about this wasn’t that they left, it was that none of them even attempted to work it out. Many have claimed that multiple attempts were made to fix the issues they had with the alliance, but this was completely false. 
Drew1011 — 7/11/2018 9:56 PM
Snt never made a single attempt to contact me and talk it out, all they did was vote no to dividing Wynn. They didn't even make a remark in the leader channel, they just voted.
PUN made a few negative comments in leaders, but only offhand remarks such as “dividing Wynn is a bad idea.”
The Hax owner made a single similar remark as well.
The only thing that could be considered an attempt to reconcile their issues was a brief convo I held with the Hax Co-Leader. They explained why she thought dividing it was a bad idea, and I explained why I thought it wasn’t. The convo was brief and ended when they changed the conversation to another topic.
Aside from these, there was only one other attempt and it was when the PUN and Fuq leaders sent Killerfish, my own best friend, to talk to me about the issues. 
I was not aware they had directly sent him, and was under the impression he’d just heard them talking and decided to message me.
By the time I was done talking with him, he completely agreed with what I was saying.
There were no straightforward and direct attempts to solve the issues beforehand by messaging me and working it out. It just didn’t happen, and that’s what I was never able to understand
But nevertheless, this was not something we could take lying down. We had to find a solution, we had to fight. It was best summarized by someone a month later: “We warred not because we wanted glory, but because humiliation was too high a cost”.
I immediately came up with an unorthodox solution and proposed it to the remaining leaders: that we merge with the remnants of War Syndicate. There were no other viable allies, and it was the most logical option. I messaged Super, the BCr Co-Leader, but he seemed relatively unresponsive.
A short while after that conversation, Simplyinfinity, the SDU Leader, messaged me and said they would agree to a merger. 
We began discussing how it would work, and laid the foundation for the war that was to come, and the alliance that was to come.
Drew1011 — 8/30/2018 5:10 PM
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At first, our makeshift alliance had no name. We were simply a few leaders sitting and talking. The name “Federation” began as a joke, considering Coalition had also been named just by being a synonym for alliance, I joked we should do it again with the name Federation, but people liked it and it became our name.
We began to organize and copied the exact same structure that Coalition had, and then set our sights on the map. There were small skirmishes, but at the beginning nobody had the morale to attack, and nothing truly organized happened.
The fighting began with a lone chief from HoF. Her name was Snowythewolf. She had remembered the leaders of ERN speaking about their low bank in Coalition, and made the decision to begin attacking their Llevigar territories. She fought for countless hours, and was able to hold her own for quite some time, warring so much that the leaders of THI had to join HoF to war for the night so that she could sleep. 
I began warring for Llevigar as well on the night of February 17th, and continued until about 3 AM the 18th. When I went to sleep, Llevigar was firmly under the control of Emorians. Curiously however, I noted that despite going bankrupt, they were still defended with the full 1000 mobs, and seeing as this was before the mob update, this cost roughly 2.5k emeralds per defense. 
When I awoke around noon of the 18th, I checked the map and noticed that almost the entirety of Llevigar was firmly under Federation’s control, and received news that Emorians was almost totally bankrupt.
I immediately logged on and began warring for these territories, and many Fox members came to assist me. From the pain of the betrayal, Fox adopted a strong rallying cry. “Death to the avaricious!” would be yelled at the onset of every single war, a phrase that Simon (Fishie) had said in the heat of the moment and was quickly embraced by the rest of the guild.
As soon as I logged on, warrers from many different Federation guilds began messaging me to ask where they should attack, and before long I was essentially coordinating the entire war effort.
This was an exhilarating job, and one of the most stressful yet enjoyable things I have done on Wynncraft. I will not go too far in to the tactics used in this war, as I do not wish for enemies to copy them to great effect.
Needless to say, they were efficient and worked perfectly.
One issue with this war was the rapid expansion of Federation. It was to the point where we could no longer keep up with what guilds were truly on our side of the conflict, and we could only guess. Before long, Federation had ballooned into at LEAST 22 guilds, fighting 7 of the strongest guilds Wynncraft had to offer.
Soon however, I began speaking to Viaire. We discussed the events for a while, and suddenly out of nowhere he asked me if he could apply to Federation. We struck a deal, he would defect from AA (The enemy alliance, also referred to as Hax & Co.) and join us in our efforts, so long as he got his favorite canyon territories that AA had granted him as well. 
The leaders believed this was a completely fair trade considering it would give us a massive boost to wars and be a massive blow to AA’s war efforts.
We let him in, and Fantasy immediately began targeting Hax.
By the time I stopped warring, roughly 15 hours after I had began, it was somewhere around 3 AM. At this point, Federation controlled all of the swamp, all of Llevigar, all of the Dark Forest, all of the Light Forest, and was slowly encroaching on the canyon. When I went to sleep, we were warring in Aldorei, and Hax had started attacking back. I hoped that it would all be fine when I woke up.
When I awoke the next morning, I found that Iceblue Team [IBT] now owned most of the light forest and Aldorei. I credit the quick success of the war to IBT’s hard efforts throughout the night. If they had not been there, much of our progress would have been lost while we slept.
We continued fighting all throughout the day, and by the night it was practically confirmed that we had won. Most guilds had given up, and we were simply wiping them. At the very latest hours of the 19th, Snowy announced it was time to attack Hax. At the time they held 111 territoires. Less than 10 hours later, they had none.
Next it was simply a cleanup. The war was won, now all we had to do was finish taking out PUN and guilds like BLA that had managed to rise to the top of the leaderboards out of pure chance. They were not Fed so AA did not attack them, and they were not AA so Fed did not attack them. They were a low priority target for both alliances and thus they sat at #1 on the leaderboards for roughly a day.
Drew1011 — 8/30/2018 5:17 PM
After the cleanup was done, the entire map was firmly in the hands of Federation. Three days after the Civil War had begun, Federation had won the map.
The next few weeks went as could be expected, a few guilds such as Snt and PUN continued to target guilds, their most famed victim being HoF. They relentlessly targeted the Corkus territories HoF had been assigned. Due to poor bank management, HoF went completely broke quite soon. Along with this, many of their best chiefs and captains left the guild and as a result they would struggle for months to recover.
The alliance went fine for a few weeks, despite being former enemies we mostly managed to get along. We held the map firmly and securely. But then disaster struck: the mob update.
Beginning almost as soon as the clock struck midnight and March 1st began, Hax & Co. began attacking Gavel. We quickly discovered that there had been a mob update and that they were using broken defenses that the vast majority of players were unable to overcome. I was unable to war at this time, but as an example of how bad it was, I am told that Fox threw 10 members in to a war and only 2 or 3 of them survived.
For the first day of this struggle, I was extremely busy with real life things and was unable to help out with any of it. As a result, Tnt was the one that was organizing the war efforts, and his strategy was to do nothing but target Snt.
The day after, when I was able to log on and help out a lot, many guilds were subscribed to this tactic of targeting Snt. I attempted to convince them that it was a bad strategy and would accomplish nothing, but they would not listen.
The next morning, March 3rd, after he realized he was making no progress, Tnt finally agreed to let me coordinate the warring, and as a result of the alliance no longer following his target strategy, the map quickly began to fall to Federation. We made great progress, and by the 5th, the entire map once again belonged to Federation.
The next few days were nothing but a slew of good news for the alliance. On the 7th, Slayne messaged us asking for membership within Federation. We quickly reached an agreement and PUN was let in to the alliance. We also received word that many Snt captains were leaving and joining PUN, which was now our ally.
Then on the 12th, Snt officially left AA and after briefly trying to join Federation, changed their minds and went back to a neutral community guild.
Fuq also slowed down their war efforts, and they mostly stopped warring.
At this point, AA was no longer a real threat to the Federation and I would say it was around this time that the war officially ended, with a decisive Federation victory.
The map was secure, the alliance was stronger than ever, and we had no true organized enemies left. However, this peace and quiet was the perfect breeding ground for old rivalries and resentments to remerge, and the alliance would soon go through it’s most unstable and volatile period in history.
Drew1011 — 6/20/2019 1:02 AM
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(Help I’ve run out of images someone please give me ideas I’ll accept practically anything over this egotistical excuse for a chapter header)
Aside from its final days, early Federation was the most unstable point in the alliance’s existence.
The first 2 months of an alliance’s lifespan are always the most crucial, it is in that time that empires are either forged or smothered. And Federation was no different.
The first indication of trouble came before AA retook the map. BCr, who did not participate in the first battle whatsoever, decided that they were unhappy with the territories they were designated.
They were given half the swamp, more than generous for a guild whose contributions so far amounted to absolutely nothing, not even a single territory. SNK was given the other half.
Tnt decided that the correct way to go about getting better territories was to simply claim the rest of the swamp for himself.
Therefore, BCr attacked SNK’s territories, stealing their lands from them.
At the time, there was not much I felt I could do about this incident. The alliance was fresh and fragile, and many of the ex War Syndicate guilds were still loyal to Buildcraftia.
To punish or kick BCr would mean the alienation and possible loss of those guilds, and that would certainly mean the premature death of Federation.
So, nothing was done. SNK was dead anyways, it was a small price to pay. But if you give an inch to someone, they’ll take a mile. And Tnt was no different.
After the second and final defeat of AA, it came time to assign territories again.
We in Fox had noticed how terrible the Sky Islands we had assigned ourself were, and thus wanted the north canyon back.
So we asked SDU, who had previously been given north canyon, and they agreed to take mid canyon and give us the north.
Then Tnt demanded the Sky Islands. Everyone knew how useless they were compared to the rest of canyon, so nobody else particularly wanted them.
At the time, I assumed that Tnt also knew how bad they were but simply assumed they were a step up from the swamp. However it became alarmingly clear that he did not.
Soon he began to rant and rave about how we had tricked him, how we knowingly gave him terrible territories.
The absurdity of this wasn’t lost on anyone. How could we have tricked him when he asked for them and all we did was agree? It was ridiculous, anyone with a brain could see so.
Despite this simple truth, Tnt continued his ranting and raving and eventually decided to “fix” the problem himself.
At the time of the incident, there was a vote in progress to make Molten Heights FFA. This vote was almost definitely going to pass with the necessary 2/3 majority, yes. However the vote was not concluded. By rule, Molten Heights still belonged to Fox.
However, Tnt decided to take it upon himself to  attack those territories, which at the time were still assigned Fox territories. To make matters worse, Tnt also attacked Entrance to Rodoroc, one not even included in the vote! One that was always going to remain assigned to Fox.
When confronted about this by Ari, Tnt simply doubled down. Instead of defusing the situation, he began ranting about how he was just doing what was fair, getting the xp he needed, et cetera.
Ari took this as a declaration of war, and a quick Coalition of guilds that already hated BCr was formed.
In a matter of minutes, BCr’s Sky Islands were being swarmed by Fox, Imp, PUN, and The Hive [THI].
While all this developed, I was asleep. I woke up to this absolute disaster unfolding, and immediately jumped on damage control.
Despite how Tnt has historically seemed to blame me for this incident, I was the one who woke up and immediately got Fox and its allies to stop attacking BCr. 
As soon as the attacks stopped and the 
Molten Heights vote was officially concluded, peace was returned. However, it was an extremely fragile peace.
Drew1011 — 6/20/2019 1:09 AM
We quickly began hearing reports that Tnt was attempting to form his own alliance, and soon these reporters were confirmed by multiple people with screenshot evidence.
He was amassing a new alliance, and from the looks of the guilds he had assembled, it was a definite threat.
He firmly believed that all of the ex War Syndicate guilds would join his new “Centurion” alliance and forsake Federation, and considering how new our alliance with said guilds was, we too had reason to believe this a possibility.
And despite guilds such as SDU and Fux claiming neutrality to us privately, we were still suspicious and on edge.
However it quickly became obvious to us that most of these guilds he claimed were joining him were in fact not. Guilds such as Snt and Angelic, even ex-War Syndicate guilds in Federation. All of these guilds Tnt had claimed to be on his side, yet in private each and every one of them essentially told us that they had never once agreed to such a thing.
With this information we realized that Tnt was not nearly as much of a threat as we had previously thought, but we were still unsure how to best deal with the situation.
With this Cold War slowly building in the leader chat, it had to come to a head eventually. And on March 30th, it did.
Once again the curse struck, and I was asleep when everything happened. But I will do my best to retell it from what I heard.
Early in the morning, another argument broke out. I don’t remember what it was about. After this, Ari apparently decided that the best course of action was to simply ask the other guild leaders whether or not they wanted war or to deal with Tnt.
When almost every other leader said that they were perfectly fine with how everything is, a simple vote to kick BCr was created.
The vote was standard except for an addendum that nobody would be forced to war against BCr since many guilds in Federation were still friends with Tnt and didn’t want to kick him if it meant they’d have to fight.
Drew1011 — 6/20/2019 1:17 AM
Another unnecessary fact I feel needs clarifying due to the sheer amount of historical revisionism it’s gone through: Tnt will claim that he left Federation, and while this is technically true, he simply pulled a Nixon. The vote was 100% going to end with him kicked, he simply left everything before the vote finished so that he could tell everyone he wasn’t kicked.
With Tnt finally gone, Federation entered one of its most prosperous periods. The next few months were fairly stable and easily some of the least drama filled in the alliance’s history, despite growing opposition from Tnt’s new alliance and its countless splinters. However, in my opinion the sheer havoc he was able to wreak from the inside was far more of a threat than anything he was ever able to do from the outside. It is a minor miracle that the alliance survived its first few months, and many more such miracles would have to occur before the alliance would finally succumb.

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The next few months ran smoothly. For the most part, the alliance had no major issues. There were arguments, of course. Guilds left. Guilds were kicked. But for the most part, it was peaceful. Federation had established itself as the dominant force, and the enemy alliances Tnt kept forming were too weak and splintered apart at every chance.
I could make some attempt to drone on and on about this time period, but it has been almost 3 years at this point, and my memory of everything other than significant events has almost entirely vanished. Instead, I will cover the highlights. The most interesting and memorable events. 
Early in April, Thunder had become far too addicted to watching anime to effectively continue his ownership of HoL, and he informed me that he would like to leave Federation and go inactive. He first informed me of this on April 1st, and since I trust no man on April Fool’s Day, I told him I would ignore him until he told me the same tomorrow.
Truth be told, I knew he was serious. I just loved having him as a close ally, and he was the only person I have ever trusted with ownership of HoL. I was hoping he might sleep on it and reconsider, but he didn’t. Once again HoL was returned to the dirt, cold and dead.
In mid-May of 2018, it became clear that we had a spy within Fox. Viaire, somehow, was trusted by Tnt. Viaire had no loyalty to him, yet Tnt constantly trusted him with information that Viaire would then merely turn around and tell me. At one point, I received word from Viaire that Tnt and his lackeys were planning to attack us on a specific day. I turned around with this information and informed three key groups that I had influence over: 
-The dragoons
-Parliament
-the Valkyrie command channel
Shortly after, I received another screenshot from Viaire shown here:
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wherein Tnt was angry Viaire was a “snake.” He had received word from a spy in one of those channels that I had warned them about an impending attack, but we were not yet sure which channel it was.
I brainstormed with Ari for a moment about where the traitor was before I came to a realization. Tnt specified the phrase “Be on the lookout.” I looked back at my warnings to each channel, and I immediately noticed that the only channel which I used that wording was the Dragoons channel. Bingo. The spy is one of our very own.
ApolloNox became our first suspect, as he was one of the newest members of the Dragoons and most of the others had months or even years of built-up trust and loyalty behind them. That led to this now legendary screenshot:
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However, with no hard evidence, there was nothing we could do to accuse anyone. Until Tnt slipped up. He sent this screenshot, a screenshot clearly from the spy:
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I then went and using discord search, found screenshots that every member of the dragoons had sent. Ruling out the people with an iPhone made it clear that a member named Vised was our primary suspect. I discovered a screenshot he had sent which had a practically identical toolbar at the top. Not knowing much about Androids, I asked a friend who had an android what the likelihood of these screenshots being from the same person was, and she said almost 100%. Bingo again.
We confronted him. He claimed it wasn’t him. We said we would continue going after other dragoons then. He broke and admitted it was him. He said he had only done it because being so dominant was boring and he wanted to have more fun by supporting Tnt and shaking up the war scene. He was removed from the guild. That was the end of the great spy hunt. 
A month later, I was awarded my second Queens Cross. I am still to this day the only Fox member that has achieved this great honor twice. It is one of my proudest accomplishments on Wynn, and it always will be.
At the end of July 2018, I awoke to some drama. My girlfriend had been involved on some kind of argument in the Federation discord, and although I am still fuzzy on the details, it became clear that everyone blamed her for the fallout afterward. A vote was started to kick her guild. She left the alliance before it could complete. I broke up with her immediately after this. There were issues in the relationship, just as any, you can imagine. But for the most part looking back, I believe I made this decision primarily because I saw my own girlfriend as an inconvenience to my plans for Wynncraft.
That is how hopelessly addicted to this game I was. If you ever catch yourself doing something half that insane, quit playing Wynncraft last month. 
Another month later, late June, and we received word that two guilds in Federation were planning to betray the alliance. Hall of Fame, owned by Whimsy, and Verinian Trials [ViT], owned by Zor. They had become discontent with the alliance and believed they were being bullied or harassed by it or something like that. They would leave on June 25th, join whatever the current opposition alliance was at the time, and destroy Federation. 
Ironically, we only received advance notice about this because of Vised. He was good friends with Whimsy, and in his exile, he had gone to HoF and obtained a high ranking position. Along with other personal reasons, betraying Federation did not sit right with him, and so he contacted Goden and informed him of their plans.
They planned an alliance event beforehand so that all their members would be online and ready to attack, and as soon as it ended they announced their betrayal and left.
The truly hilarious part, that still leaves me laughing maniacally if I think about it today, is that Goden in his foresight had also prepared our members. He had one squad stationed in Nemract, where the HoF territories were. And he had another stationed in Rymek, where the ViT territories were. The split second they announced they had left, their territories were annihilated. They were dead before they knew what had happened.
They had been so supremely confident that this plan would work, and it came crashing down immediately.
Drew1011 — 2/1/2021 7:18 PM
Just the night before, Whimsy had messaged me about our friendship. She had made sure that no matter what happened in Wynncraft, we would still be friends. I told her yes of course, Wynn won’t change that, and she agreed.
Immediately after her plan crashed and burned, she blocked me and left Wynn again.
That would be the last significant betrayal Federation would experience until its death. The next few months of its life were turbulent at times, and my new life as a college student proved more important to me than Wynncraft. I would slowly grow disinterested in Wynn, and the amount of miracles to save the alliance that I could pull out were numbered. After a while, even Federation had to die.