Vasque City

Vasque City, also referred to as just Vasque and formerly called New Armenelos, was the capital city of the Aragan Empire, located in the state of Maryland in and around the real-life Netherlands. It was the third oldest city in Earth World and was one of the most influential cities of its time, especially during later editions. The city was founded by TL as the capital city of Aurania on April 29th, 2015, starting a long history of griefs, rebuilding, abandonment, revival, and overall changing hands between nations and leaders. The latest mayor of Vasque City was Wolfkall during Earth World Mark VII.

Founding (EW1)
On April 27th, 2015, on the first day of the first Earth World, players TL and KKAP co-founded Aurania, originally a neutral, isolationist nation "located in a far away place". However, due to having trouble reaching the place they wanted to settle, they ended up lived vagrantly without a settlement for a while. Two days later on April 29th, TL would finally settle down in the Netherlands; he began construction on a grand capital for the nation, originally called New Armenelos. On the next day, April 30th, Aurania would dig out a large tunnel from New Armenelos to the Happy Hungry Kingdom (HHK) located in North America. AquaAsdf joined Aurania sometime after its founding and presumably lived in Vasque City.

Another player, Extra, joined Aurania sometime during the beginning of the world and on May 1st, he renovated New Armenelos, making it become the largest city on the server during this time. After KKAP left Aurania to join the Praetorian Empire and TL temporarily left the server to "focus more on mapping", Extra would take over leadership of both Aurania and its capital city of New Armenelos. On May 12th, just two days after, TL would return to the server and coup Extra and put himself back in charge of Aurania and New Armenelos. After realizing that KKAP and Asdf left the nation, TL reformed Aurania into the Kingdom of Vasquemia — making himself king in the process — and vastly downsized his nation, letting go all of its colonial holdings. He also renamed New Armenelos to Vasque City, which stuck as the name of the city until this day.

On May 20th, Extra began construction on the "Great Wall of Vasquemia", which surrounded the entire old city of Vasque; on the same day, the population of the city grew significantly. Construction on the city continued smoothly henceforth, and between June 6th–7th, Extra would finish fortifying the gate of Vasquemia, with the final result having a fort and a watchtower defending the city within. He also planned to construct two more towers, although it is unconfirmed if these towers were actually built or not.

On June 10th, 2015, just under one month after the reformation of Aurania into Vasquemia, a deal between TL and the leaders of Praetoria, batboy1999 and FedexCrafter, was reached, in which the two nations would unite, officially renaming themselves as the Vasco-Praetorian Empire, while with it still being called Praetoria informally. The Kingdom of Vasquemia was turned into the Cohort of Vasquemia under this deal and TL became the co-emperor of this new union along with batboy1999. Previously TL had interest in joining Praetoria after returning to the server on May 12th but was initially declined; this time his ambitions were marked successful. Just one day after this on June 11th, another deal was made between TL and Happydance9, leader of the nation of Breton: that Breton would join the Vasco-Praetorian Empire as an autonomous cohort. These two events essentially made Vasco-Praetoria the most powerful and dominant nation of the server and TL decrees the same day that "all non-Vasco-Praetorians... will be purged". Vasque City would play an important role in the new nation it was apart of, being proclaimed the administrative and financial capital, while Lyvonis remained as the military capital. Construction was still rampant in the city, with the walls being improved and reinforced around this period. On June 13th, a further agreement was made between TL and Happydance9, with it clarifying that Happydance9 would rule all the territory in Breton and northern France as ruler of the Breton cohort. Later the same day though, Happydance9 would break this agreement by claiming the Kingdom of England and thereby leaving the Breton cohort. Issues would be resolved the next day though when TL managed to bring Happydance9 back into the agreement. In addition, the split was finally formalized between the Unorganized Territory of France between the Breton cohort in the north and the newly formed Unorganized Territory of Occitania in the south. On June 21st, the large Vasco-Praetorian capitol building in Vasque City was finished, with Extra building the foundations and walls and Java_Sea building the roof during the process. Construction on the city begins to slow down after this point in tandem with the city becoming less relevant as time went on. Earth World ended on July 15th, 2015 with Vasque City starting to be headed in a darker direction.

Abandonment (EW2–EW3)
Vasque City was left mostly abandoned during Earth World Revived, with TL looting the valuables he left behind there on the first day before starting a new nation: the Holy Bulgar Empire, Extra and Asdf going inactive on the server, and KKAP joining and founding other nations. One day after the start of the world on July 24th, 2015 Happydance9 would found the nation Duitsland within the walls of the abandoned city, with him being king of the nation. Four days after that on July 28th, Happydance9 offered TL the vassalization of Duitsland by the Holy Bulgar Empire, to which TL accepted as it was an opportunity for him to regain control of the city he originally founded. When the Holy Bulgar Empire collapsed due to massive griefing of its capital Pliska and other cities by Dusty_Exaliber on August 2nd, Duitsland was subsequently let go as a vassal, once again becoming a fully independent nation. Despite Vasque City being in the hands of Happydance9, he did very little maintenance on the city — if at all — and he presumably went inactive sometime during the month. The city continued to deteriorate over time due to griefing, with it never being tended to properly. On August 30th, the final day of Earth World Revived, the End of the World Party occurred and was mostly based inside Vasque City; heavy griefing and PvP thus occurred, although the former was undone due to the world download being saved beforehand. The world ended after this, with the host Monsoonjr99 switching the world accordingly.

Vasque City was still left in ruin by the time Earth World Revived Revived launched on January 16th, 2016. No nation had bothered to claim the city throughout the beginning of the world; instead, it was for the most part left to the Auranian Corps di Imperia, a Zombie Pigmen NPC faction that per lore was led by General Tvilius. This would change though, as on January 25th, the Stravian Heiter Reichspublica claimed the eastern half of Vasque City. This claim would be disputed by the Hylivian Order, when they went ahead and claimed the entire city. After a brief debate between the two nations on February 11th regarding whose claim was legitimate, Hylivia was found to be the real ruler of the territory. Vasque City was then promptly designated as a trade post city within the nation along with New Canterlot and Istra. After TL joined the Hylivian Order on February 22nd, he heads back to Vasque City and starts rebuilding after being relatively abandoned for nearly two worlds straight. On February 26th, just four days after, Asdf griefed Vasque. After being denounced as a terrorist by Hylivia, Asdf went ahead and demolished all the wooden buildings in the city and replaced them with more durable cobblestone ones. In response, TL denounced Asdf and his friend Extra, returned to his roots and once more pledged full loyalty towards Hylivia and the Harinian culture, and converted to Treeism. Vasque City was once more left in ruins by the time Earth World Revived Revived ended on February 29th, 2016.