I haven't forgotten about this.
I'm just not sure how to write about the creation of this region in an impartial manner...how to convey that I resigned from the top position in another region and renounced my Citizenship in the only region I'd ever been a part of because that region's Delegate had spent the previous week claiming he was going to leave the region at some point in the future because of me, attacking my honour and character, portraying me as a bully and distorting things that happened to make it appear that way. Noting that I tried time and time again to resolve the issue that he supposedly had, pointing out correctly that nobody was the saint in this, only to be ignored or heaped on. I particularly loved the part where after "resigning" he was given six days to withdraw his resignations, while I was demasked within an hour of my own resignation. And how do I impartially note that as far as I'm aware, he was never as much as censured for pulling this shit? That he intentionally wasn't named in any official release regarding my departure for his "protection".
I think you guys can see how I may have issues writing a bland, impartial history on that like you'd see in a history textbook.
In fairness, the creation of this region wasn't a bland affair, at least not for me. There was a lot of emotion...sadness and anger over what happened, also, but also nervousness about starting a new region. There was a time when we only had 12 nations, and 3 or 4 of them were mine. There was no guarantee that Wintreath would work out at all, much less work out in such a short amount of time. If Wintreath had failed, I honestly don't now if I'd still be in NS, so I had a lot personally at stake in this.
After creation, our first month was probably focused on growth. Wintreath was founded 10/17 and we started recruiting on 10/26. I think it first became apparent that we could be a success during the Halloween zombie apocalypse event, where we cured all our infected, left our borders opened, and went from 56 to 99 nations in three days. I would say our second month that just ended was focused on government building...we've had our Constitutional Convention, the Hvitt Riddaral really became organized and started operations, and Charax really got our FA department going. Oh yeah, and treaty with Lazarus, which is our first-ever treaty. Let's not forget we got our legislature in place and our first-ever elections. I think with Butterspring's Wintropolis RP this was also the first month we started having some unique regional culture.
Into month three and we've already had our first response to a foreign crisis, the coup in Osiris. We're also ratifying our Constitution and refocusing on improvements to this website...who knows what else our third month will bring?
This isn't really a document, just some notes on our history. The portions I'm able to be more impartial about.
