Realm XV

Realm XV (3 February 2021 - 3 March 2021), or more commonly known as Realms Reborn? was the 15th Realm in the total realm series.

Background
After another abrupt ending to the previous Realm, Aman decided not to make anyone more because it was a waste of money for him if no one would even play. However, somewhere near the end of January, Tarun asked for another Realm to be made. Aman not wanting this, quickly denied because of the fact that Tarun would most probably be on for a day or two then not play anymore. However, when Tarun said he would pay for the Realm, Aman accepted because then it would be in Aman's favor after all. After he made it, he invited previous players and a new set of players who had previously played, but truly shined in this Realm. They were Aman, Tarun, Chris, Fardeen, Shaniel, Timothy, Owen, Saiyan, Shawn, Shiva and Derrel.

Beginning
The following might be slightly inaccurate because of the fact that this page was finished long after this Realm had ended.

When the Realm started, many were wondering how it would play out. Aman had hoped a community Realm so they could play together and get to know each other's playing style much better, but Tarun disagreed. Not wanting to argue with Tarun since previous things he had done, Aman just agreed with him and moved on. Most of the players started doing their own thing, Aman & Tarun started a small mine which would stand until the end of the Realm and found diamonds and made the Founder's Pick. When coming up, it was apparent that a lightning strike hit and many skeleton horses appeared, causing certain chaos. After this issue was sorted, few of the members got skeleton horses. It had also become clear that getting food was very important because in this Realm food scarcity was bigger than any other Realm before due to the many players this time. They started making a simple, yet effective vertical structure which would grow wheat. This became the primary food source for the first few days. On the second day, Aman had made by far the most progress. He had a chest filled with stacks of wood, cobblestone and other building materials for his base. He also had some cows and sheep gathered with the help of Fardeen whom would stay with Aman because he played Minecraft again after struggling to download it. However, after logging off, something strange happened. When it was time to play again at night, Aman noticed that many of his things were stolen out of his chests. His bed was also taken, along with his smoker, blast furnace and crafting table. His cows were slain and his sheep were roaming around everywhere. Aman was so angry that he wanted to kill everyone in the vicinity, but he didn't. He and Fardeen decided to try another time, and gathered resources once again. Chris also became angry because someone had stolen stacks of iron out of his chest. He left and didn't play for a few days. During this time, the others worked on a canal which would lead to the ocean and Saiyan had angered Derrel in a way that made him leave and never return. The next day, however, would be one of the worst days in the Realm. This would start a saga of unfortunate events.

Fortress Incident
On the next day, some things happened what are currently unknown, but it also later involved Tarun and Aman traveling a very long distance. When Aman came online later to go back, he lost track of where he needed to go, and Timothy was of no use helping him, so he decided to travel through the Nether as a shortcut in order to get to their portals faster. Because he didn't want to risk his diamond pickaxe, which was the first diamond pickaxe in the entire Realm, he stored it inside of a chest near the other portal, hoping to get it back one day. When Aman did come home, he went offline and relieved he got home. Not too long later, Timothy showed on Discord that his base, the fortress which he had spent a few days back building had been exploded and covered in obsidian. This obsidian had also been used to cover his chests outside and also the gates of Shaniel's walls. Timothy lost all of his motivation to play, because he didn't want to do everything over again, and so did Owen. Aman was dedicated to find out who did this, because not only did they do that to Timothy, they also fully destroyed all of Aman's secondary progress, which angered him severely. He also moved his secret chest somewhere else to prevent the person from digging around and finding it. After piecing two and two together, they came to the conclusion that it could only have been Shaniel, but he claimed to not have a diamond pickaxe to mine for diamonds, and he pointed to Shiva because he grinded alot and Aman, because he had the first diamond pickaxe. Aman explained the story of how he had to get home and abandon the pickaxe, which the others didn't quite believe. Aman, now upset, decided to abandon his entire area for the rest of the Realm, because he had spent so much time working and his area was grieved two times, with Shaniel later being revealed to have been stealing from him all along, which could've greatly upset him if revealed then. After Aman had helped Timothy with rebuilding his fortress, Timothy got motivated again to start playing and Aman also had replanted his crops.

Isolating the Community
Shortly after all of these griefs had happened in the community area, there were several concerns regarding safety of people's bases and loot. To reclaim what they had lost, the group decided to do a community strip-mining session together. During this time, Shawn had managed to play Minecraft with us via connecting with his laptop to play the desktop version of the game, although in a more glitched state to do so continuously. Saiyan also expressed interest in playing on his computer, so he asked Shawn to help him because he couldn't do much on his iPad. When the mining session was finished, there was an increase in the ore supply, especially iron. After this, Shawn had started constructing his base in a hill nearby the dock area. He made some crop farms and animal farms, while having been warned about the thief. Now feeling unsafe, Aman left the community area and travelled across the ocean with Tarun and Chris, who were also eager to leave. Fardeen also followed, because he was formerly living with Aman and had no other place to stay at. They had made a semi-functional space inside of a cave wall and settled there for the time being. Because of the fact that we didn't tell Shaniel directly about it, he got mad and decided to also make his own little secret base area, which at the time only Fardeen knew about because he was walking around the area trying to find Aman's. Now that the main community area didn't have many people living there anymore, it became a silent location and the griefs seemingly stopped. Most of the events that happened during this time have either been forgotten or have been mixed up. What is known is that Shaniel supposedly inadvertently had brought Saiyan to Aman's secret base location, claiming that he was following him, diminishing the trust between Aman and Shaniel further. Aman also told him to never visit their secret base again, because of the risk that Shaniel was imposing at this point. To travel between locations, Aman set up a Nether portal connection and also later started using riptide tridents to travel. By this point, the only ones living in the community area were Timothy, Shiva, Shawn and Saiyan (Owen's activity was questionable).

Nether Fortress Expedition
Somewhere before the next events, an expedition to find the Nether Fortress was inbound because the demand for safe storage was increasing by day. Before this was happening Shawn had a little issue with Steven which would later be important. The group tried to find a safe way of accessing the lower area of their Nether, but it was at first difficult because of the many ghasts and skeletons present in the soulsand valley. When they did manage to find a way down, it remained rough to go down. They were constantly fighting with the ghasts and skeletons in the area, until a few of them started constructing a bridge above the lava which would serve as the foundation of their tunnels. While Timothy had to leave relatively early, the rest of the gang decided to venture forward into the unknown. Something which happened too many times for comfort, people fell into lava and required saving. Victims include Aman, Shiva, Saiyan, Derrel, Shawn x2 and Tarun x3. First in the beginning portion and in the later portion. Chris later came online demanding retribution for Steven, who had been killed for being annoying and not knowing the full story, he became mad and eventually left after burning all of his stuff in lava, never seeing Chris in this entire Realm again, sort of anti-climactic. After traveling approximately 1100 blocks in the Nether without finding anything and Aman calculating that they took an |_|-turn, they decided to head back, without finding anything. Aman did manage to find two pieces of ancient debris, which he hid until he was capable of taking them. Aman decided to search for the Fortress on his own because the others weren't really making an effort and he was thinking of selling the coordinates for a certain price. After finding it he sold the coordinates to Shaniel, but Shaniel complained about it because Aman had supposedly given them to Tarun for free, but in actuality Tarun found it due to his own nosiness. This eventually led to him being lost there and Shiva and Saiyan trying to find him. Shiva fell into lava and while trying to save them Saiyan and Tarun also fell into the lava, making Aman rescue them. When all was done they retreated to their respective bases.

A Growing Business
Because of certain griefs and thefts, many were starting to run low on resources very fast to recover from all of this, especially after the Fortress Incident. Tarun had his own source of income near the community area, a place that only Saiyan had known about until a few days later in this Realm. From his source he managed to make some profit by selling things such as enchanted books and valuable items to willing buyers. One of his biggest investors was none other than Shiva, who had by far the most resources and was willing to use a bunch to make himself a more powerful figure, because he wasn't the most capable in a fight and especially not a sudden one. He also used these resources to gain the attention of those who needed them in exchange to protect him from an attack or do assassination attempts. While the action of selling goods from one to another was ever growing, some decided to open shop. One of these was a collaboration between Shawn and Timothy, who were selling armor and weapons for a cheap price. They made their shop to the right of Aman's former lands. Tarun also expressed interest in making his own shop and expanded his business from just selling enchanted books and rare items to more common items like wood, which didn't come at a cheap price. Now it wasn't only Shiva which was investing in these offers, but others like Saiyan as well. Aman also attempted to start his own shop and built it, but forgot what he was supposed to sell afterwards, so he used it as a storage of sorts. The business activities continued successfully for the remainder of the entire Realm.

Fire Incidents
While all of this was happening, most of the other things in the Realm went smoothly. Shawn did have a small incident with some of his name tags going missing, but that was more or so a minor inconvenience. Chris still hadn't come online since the incident during the Nether expedition, so only Aman and Fardeen were using the secret hideout that they had made prior. Tarun wasn't staying with them anymore and only came occasionally for some resources. He was now staying near his base, to access his shop easier. During one of these days, Aman, Shaniel and Tarun were going to do something, and Shaniel wanted to explore to the north, near Chris's house. He told Tarun to follow him there, but when they came over there they found Chris's house engulfed in flames. They managed to save most of the house, and Tarun quickly asked Aman to speak in private. Suspicion of this strange griever had switched to Shaniel for multiple reasons. One of these was that Shaniel had asked Tarun to follow him to Chris's house very eagerly. Secondly because there were signs by the crime scene that were written in a way that Shaniel usually does. Shaniel continued saying that they didn't have any proper "proof", so their claims were invalid. Aman and Tarun decided to rebuild some of the burned down house, with some other help from Shaniel and Timothy. After the continued doing what they did, they kept this event in mind for a while. Another event similar to this happened awhile later, this one being a tad more severe. This time they had burned several places, the most impactful being the dock. They also burned Tarun's shop and Saiyan's house, who was previously already having issues with it being raided and partially destroyed, probably because he resided in the center of the community. Tarun became angry at this and didn't bother rebuilding it. He did try to find the person behind all of this with Aman, but there were many loose ends so they stopped doing so. Aman was angry that the dock was burned not because he had built it, but because it cost so much wood, which was now wasted. Saiyan also decided to stop rebuilding his house as well and decided to just stay at Tarun's secret base, which only he knew about at the time. It was much later revealed that the one behind these sets of incidents, beside the burning of Chris's house, was Fardeen. He claims that he did it because he wanted to make the Realm more "interesting", while the only thing he did was create more confusion surrounding this mystery griever.

Difficulty Constructing Farms
It became clear that this thief/griever had effectively damaged the activity in the Realm, and this was seen in the major period where almost no one was playing. During this time many were just doing their own things and not really caring about the state of the community. The thief part had slightly stopped, so Tarun started building farms together with a group, mostly with Shiva, Saiyan, Timothy and Shawn. They first built the massive gold XP-farm, which started a little bit of an issue. Tarun had told Aman to keep anyone who wasn't that trusted out of the area, because they could potentially steal the trident. This worked slightly, but also didn't because the trident was stolen two times. After this while Aman was't online, Tarun started building a villager breeder together with the previously named and also had to transport the villagers first, which took awhile. This was all to start working on their iron golem farm. After Aman started working on the layout for the farm, Shaniel started acting up and Aman's internet wasn't being much better so they ended while being almost 90% done with it. Tarun had built a railway connecting the layout with his villager breeder. The next day Aman and Tarun intended finishing the project, but it failed due to certain things being out of place and fixing them would take too much time and it didn't work effectively. Even after all of this work, the entire project was abandoned, also due to the Realm being close to finishing.

Final Realm Moments
Because much time was spent being focused on catching the culprits of many crimes and also being focused on getting better resources and fast, much of the endgame events that were planned couldn't be played out, such as the fight for the Ender Dragon. The final days were spent preparing for the fight and because there was an error with calculating the date of the Realm's end, this Realm became one which didn't fight the dragon, while being one of the most eventful Realms to date. One of the final moments for Aman was finishing enchanting and brewing potions, also running around the place. Sometime before the Realm ended, Shawn also went exploring trying to find the runaway Derrel, whom he found but was a very long distance away.

Aftermath
This Realm showed major things in the Realm series, that was the introduction of several notorious thieves and grievers in the Realm. While there had always been one or two, but these were always minor incidents, this Realm had shown major ones which are unrivaled until date. After the events of this Realm, many including Aman have been trying to uncover the identity of these people. There have been several systems implemented in case they get caught. In the cases of minor incidents like Shaniel's and Fardeen's, they were excused because they had told Aman prior to any other major issue. The hunt for the one who committed the other crimes though, is still ongoing. There have been several suspects along the way, and many theories of how things could have happened have also been made. It is something which must be solved in time and not instantaneously.