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## Betrayal and the twenty days of Vanir
− In late 2021 The Mage Legacy and TheNoLifes turned on their Valhalla allies - friction visible from August, erupting into open war in December (5,359 territory exchanges that month){{cite:territory-exchanges|December 2021 territory exchanges}}. Both were excluded when ten Valhalla guilds reorganized as [[Vanir]] on 28 November 2021{{cite:chronicle-records|Chronicle alliance and event records}}. Vanir lasted twenty days: on 18 December [[Emorians]], Nefarious Ravens, IceBlue Team and [[Avicia]] left and it collapsed; [[Niflheim]] officially dissolved the same day{{cite:chronicle-records|Chronicle alliance and event records}}. Khaos's war against the ex-Valhalla guilds - its opponents known as 'the Pineapple Pact', a name never written down at the time{{cite:cameron-oral-history|Cameron (TAq veteran) oral testimony, fact-checked against map data}} - peaked in January 2022 at 500-800 territory exchanges per week and faded to nothing by mid-July{{cite:territory-exchanges|Khaos war volumes, Jan-Jul 2022}}.
+ In late 2021 The Mage Legacy and TheNoLifes turned on their Valhalla allies - friction visible from August, erupting into open war in December (5,359 territory exchanges that month){{cite:territory-exchanges|December 2021 territory exchanges}}. Both were excluded when ten Valhalla guilds reorganized as [[Vanir]] on 28 November 2021{{cite:chronicle-records|Chronicle alliance and event records}}. Vanir lasted twenty days: on 18 December [[Emorians]], Nefarious Ravens, IceBlue Team and [[Avicia]] left and it collapsed; [[Niflheim]] officially dissolved the same day{{cite:chronicle-records|Chronicle alliance and event records}}. Khaos's war against the ex-Valhalla guilds - its opponents known as the Pineapple Pact, a name never written down at the time{{cite:cameron-oral-history|Cameron (TAq veteran) oral testimony, fact-checked against map data}} - peaked in January 2022 at 500-800 territory exchanges per week and faded to nothing by mid-July{{cite:territory-exchanges|Khaos war volumes, Jan-Jul 2022}}.
## Cucumber Company and smtn elf
− The 2022 realignment merged the ex-Valhalla and ex-Khaos worlds into [[Cucumber Company]], formed for guild Season 5 - 'our first season being a part of the new Cucumber Company war alliance', wrote [[titan-times|Titan Times]]{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol1|vol. 1, 8 May 2022}}. Season 5 ran from 3 March to 2 May 2022{{cite:wynncraft-wiki-gg-wiki-guild-seasons|season table, Season 5}}. Its 14-guild roster, posted to [[the-forum-megalist|the forum megalist]] on 26 June 2022{{cite:thread-278112-p08|p8 #160, TherapueticLiz, 26 Jun 2022}}, was the last public alliance roster ever; the megalist's alliance section was deleted twelve days later{{cite:thread-278112-p09|p9 #161, Sg_Voltage, 7 Jul 2022}}. At the start of Season 8, which began on 12 September 2022{{cite:wynncraft-wiki-gg-wiki-guild-seasons|season table, Season 8}}, 'Cucumber was archived. The new alliance name is called Smtn else' - the same newsletter recording Gang of Fools having 'left and betrayed the alliance' and welcoming [[Paladins United]], [[The Simple Ones]] and TerraLune{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol6|vol. 6, 12 Oct 2022}}. Renamed 'smtn elf' for Christmas 2022 and never changed back{{cite:cameron-oral-history|Cameron (TAq veteran) oral testimony, fact-checked against map data}}, the super-alliance was crowned - satirically - 'unquestionably the greatest super-alliance of 2023' that February{{cite:https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/306790/|Wynncraft forums thread 306790, 17 Feb 2023}}. In spring 2023 busted moments and [[Idiot Co]] joined{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol9|vol. 9, 25 Mar 2023}}. Meanwhile the community layer turned over: as [[Hestia]] declined, the leaders of [[Titans Valor]] and Empire of Sindria founded [[Adonis]] around May 2022 as its effective successor{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol1|vol. 1, 8 May 2022}}.
+ The 2022 realignment merged the ex-Valhalla and ex-Khaos worlds into [[Cucumber Company]], formed for guild Season 5 - 'our first season being a part of the new Cucumber Company war alliance', wrote [[titan-times|Titan Times]]{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol1|vol. 1, 8 May 2022}}. Season 5 ran from 3 March to 2 May 2022{{cite:wynncraft-wiki-gg-wiki-guild-seasons|season table, Season 5}}. Its 14-guild roster, posted to [[the-forum-megalist|the forum megalist]] on 26 June 2022{{cite:thread-278112-p08|p8 #160, TherapueticLiz, 26 Jun 2022}}, was the last public alliance roster ever; the megalist's alliance section was deleted twelve days later{{cite:thread-278112-p09|p9 #161, Sg_Voltage, 7 Jul 2022}}. At the start of Season 8, which began on 12 September 2022{{cite:wynncraft-wiki-gg-wiki-guild-seasons|season table, Season 8}}, 'Cucumber was archived. The new alliance name is called Smtn else' - the same newsletter recording Gang of Fools having 'left and betrayed the alliance' and welcoming [[Paladins United]], [[The Simple Ones]] and TerraLune{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol6|vol. 6, 12 Oct 2022}}. Renamed 'smtn elf' for Christmas 2022 and never changed back{{cite:cameron-oral-history|Cameron (TAq veteran) oral testimony, fact-checked against map data}}, the super-alliance was crowned - satirically - 'unquestionably the greatest super-alliance of 2023' that February{{cite:thread-306790|Wynncraft forums thread 306790, 17 Feb 2023}}. In spring 2023 busted moments and [[Idiot Co]] joined{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol9|vol. 9, 25 Mar 2023}}. Meanwhile the community layer turned over: as [[Hestia]] declined, the leaders of [[Titans Valor]] and Empire of Sindria founded [[Adonis]] around May 2022 as its effective successor{{cite:titantimes-github-io-vol1|vol. 1, 8 May 2022}}.
Under the super-alliance the crown circulated among its own members - The Aquarium in Season 5, KongoBoys in Season 6, [[Avicia]] in Season 7, The Aquarium again in Season 8 - and then stopped circulating. Avicia won Seasons 9 through 13 without a break, from October 2022 to August 2023{{cite:wynncraft-wiki-gg-wiki-guild-seasons|season table, Seasons 5-13}}, a run that begins inside smtn elf and ends after it.
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