The history of cantr made by the characters

[jarco]

Today is a happy day in Cantr. We are 10 years old.
This of course means there is a lot of history in Cantr. At the time of things happening we can't always talk about these things at the time (CR).
But I think this is a good time to tell those stories. A time to talk about the history of Cantr.

So what do you have to share? Who influenced the Cantr history the most (from your or you chars perspective)? Who will you remember for doing or being something? What adventures have you seen, read or lived in Cantr? What events will you remember forever?

Don't forget the CR in your answers. If things still can influence current events they should probably not be here or they should be written in a way that they are not in violation of the rules.

[Doug R.]

I think the rise and fall of tribe Blackrock, Noniwrok's subsequent social destruction in the aftermath of the war, and the resurgence and return of the tribe to Noniwrok, welcomed by many of their former enemies, is a story of epic proportions, worthy of a Homer-esque tale.

I had a character involved in their leaving, a man that chose to avert risk in order to remain home with his wife and not go to war, ignoring the pleas of his friend
Captain Andur O'Shan of the Kwor Seafarer's guild. He was wracked with guilt at his cowardice, and had Andur perished in battle, probably could not have lived with himself. What made it more interesting was that Andur and his my character's wife were played by the same player, so he was being pulled in two opposite directions by the same person. Too bad we'll never get to hear that player's account of it. He's long gone from Cantr.

I also had a character involved in the Blackrock's return to Noniwrok. I was personally disappointed in the lack of a war, having missed out on the first one, and regretted it. The break-away group of guardians gave the tribe some problems, but nothing on an epic scale, though I was proud my character was instrumental in catching them. However, seeing the pathetic state of the island post-Blackrock, it made sense that a war wasn't in anyone's interest. I mean, who from the early years of Cantr could imagine Karnon as a ghost town?

In the years I've been playing, I've also become acquainted with many people. Some of those people became my enemies. Some of those people became my friends. And though most of those friendships have faded with lack of contact or gone into a dormant "Facebook" status, I met my best friend through Cantr (best after my spouse), and if that's the only good thing that my time here has yielded, it was time well spent. (I guess this last bit is off topic, but it fits the sentimentality that I'm feeling).

[oddedd]

*bump*

I wanna hear more of these!

[pyrphoros]

Though I've quit playing Cantr, I'd like to write several lines here. I played a historian character, and from digging all those old dusty notes in Klojt-Akypor area, I think the history of the region was dominated mainly by five things:

1. The rise of Klojt as a great great city
2. The rise and complication of Xanthe and New Xanthe
3. The massacre of Akypor area by The Emerald
4. The great sleep (or whatever it was) - I wonder, could this massive sleeping sickness had any connection with the real-world economic depression?
5. And the last thing, which so much inviting my imagination, was the Heaven's Tavern production of damn lots of free bikes that was still rolling on the road long after their time

Other minor things that I found recorded in those notes were cults, religions, conflicts, betrayal, friendships, and love - so much love in the air.

And for the personal part, the fake-slave-rape-slavish and all the grand drama incident in A.F.N. was the very beginning of life of the historian.

All in all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANTR!

[kaloryfer]

please do share the stories
on all my characters in polish zone i stumble across the ruins from time to time
i really love reading notes and checking abandoned towns

[Black Canyon]

When I think of cantr history, I think of the whole MacGregor/ Krif/ Drojf area and intriguing dynamics that existed for quite some time. My character was only witness to a snapshot of that time and was not around for the collapse and downfall of that "era", but I think it deserves some note.

I agree that Tribe Blackrock and the conflict with Karnon and developments in that area were pretty significant events as well.

I'm sure that some of our older characters have some stories to tell The Pok area I have always found interesting, but I'm not sure how much is actually recorded. I still have some very old logs from back when. I could be wrong, but I believe that Oenone is still around? (which actually blows my mind)

[Bowser]

I have Stone knight stories, Blackrock stories, stories about the first settlers on Sring Sri (we call it that because at the time Sring Sri was the spawning point)

[oddedd]

Tell tell then bowser!

[Bowser]

I think the rise and fall of tribe Blackrock, Noniwrok's subsequent social destruction in the aftermath of the war, and the resurgence and return of the tribe to Noniwrok, welcomed by many of their former enemies, is a story of epic proportions, worthy of a Homer-esque tale.

I had a character involved in their leaving, a man that chose to avert risk in order to remain home with his wife and not go to war, ignoring the pleas of his friend
Captain Andur O'Shan of the Kwor Seafarer's guild. He was wracked with guilt at his cowardice, and had Andur perished in battle, probably could not have lived with himself. What made it more interesting was that Andur and his my character's wife were played by the same player, so he was being pulled in two opposite directions by the same person. Too bad we'll never get to hear that player's account of it. He's long gone from Cantr.

I also had a character involved in the Blackrock's return to Noniwrok. I was personally disappointed in the lack of a war, having missed out on the first one, and regretted it. The break-away group of guardians gave the tribe some problems, but nothing on an epic scale, though I was proud my character was instrumental in catching them. However, seeing the pathetic state of the island post-Blackrock, it made sense that a war wasn't in anyone's interest. I mean, who from the early years of Cantr could imagine Karnon as a ghost town?.

I played Buff Blackrock. The Karnon Navy chased the reamaing Blackrocks after the war. They found Buff in Burgeo. The Captian of the Navy and his wife cornered Buff. Buff flirted with the wife a bit and somehow escaped on a tiny boat. He sailed half dead for years until he found Naedell. She nursed him back to health and they built a bigger boat. They sailed for many years trying to reach English speaking big islands but the map he used was not to scale so it took forever. On the trip, Buff Blackrock inducted Naedell into the tribe.
The docked to a town with Hematite and they made the elder head of the Blackrock Clan. As years went by, Buff and Naedell grew the tribe and finally got rid of the "leader" He either died or we killed him, I forget. The clan grew and flurished and then Buff finally died. I killed him off because his story was over according to me. So the moral of the story is, the Blackrocks were driven out of Karnon, Buff survived the genocide. Naedell found him. He inducted her and they came to the English continents. Buff died but Naedell decided to return to the original Blackrock Forest. I had two other characters that where imprisoned by the Blackrocks but thats another story

[Bowser]

Buff was not a major member of the tribe, he was a scout. He went into towns as a spy and did other behind the scenes work. When he was in Blackrock Forest, he was usually locked in prison because he pissed off the leaders with his sexist jokes. I think it's funny that now we all associate Naedell with the Blackrocks. She is a great tribe member and leader but this outcast of mine inducted her as they fled from Burgeo. Another funny thing was in the Games thread of the forum, we played a mafia game about the Blackrock/Karnon War and the end result was Buff winning and sailing away. Awesome

[Mitch79]

As I recall Jadon was leading Longinazy forest east (blackrock forest on treefeather) at the time. We wanted to restart the tribe there, so we started recruiting here and there until Naedell finally decided to ask Jadon himself to join. She slowly gained his trust, Jadon made all his guards there a part of the tribe whether they liked it or not (I think that's when one of them left and ended up in Moku north for years). Eventually Jadon's wife convinced him to run with her. I think she didn't trust Naedell or something at the time, so Jadon and his wife packed up everything they could take and moved to Seatown. Years later, Naedell got word from Jadon who wasn't happy in Seatown, he'd murdered his wife and brought back her wedding band as "proof" in hopes of gaining Naedell's trust and wanted to come back. By then Naedell had the support of everyone in the forest for stepping up where their old leader had betrayed them and taken off with everything. Those were certainly interesting years to play out.

[Black Canyon]

I played Buff Blackrock. The Karnon Navy chased the reamaing Blackrocks after the war. They found Buff in Burgeo. The Captian of the Navy and his wife cornered Buff. Buff flirted with the wife a bit and somehow escaped on a tiny boat.

I had totally forgotten about that.

[Doug R.]

My character briefly met Buff a few years before he died. Probably one of the skeeviest characters I ever met. She thought he was going to rape her. (and all he was doing was being nice).

[Estaar]

Any Blackrocks left alive?

[Doug R.]

Haha. Quite a few.