Realm XVII

Realm XVII (24 April 2021 - 3 May 2021) also known as Realm Exviah is the 17th Realm of the Realm series, and is thought to be the one which generated the most issues within the Discord server. The meaning of the second name was supposed to represent the Roman numerals for 16, because it was thought to be the 16th Realm, which it was not.

Background
As the previous Realm was basically an inactive graveyard at this point, it was recommended to start a new one, using the same template. Due to the teams not working out properly, due to miscommunication and misunderstandings, it was recommended that it would be better if they all lived in a singular community. The reason for that was because most of the previous community Realms had been the most successful in previous days. The first day it seemed that everything would be normal, but it would change drastically in the next few days.

First Days
Like any other previous Realm, this one had a smooth start, but unlike the previous one, there were some hints of minor roleplay going on. On the first day, Chris began quickly with resource gathering, while the others started doing their thing on a steady pace. Aman, however, started with his own little thing, collecting flowers and giving them to those who he was passionate about. He shared his passion with Timothy and Shaniel, but only one would eventually stick with his passion. As everyone had started getting plenty of resources, they started doing whatever they wanted. Shaniel started with his farms, which would later be destroyed, Tarun and most others started mining. Shiva helped Aman mostly with getting the required materials for the house, such as wood and bricks. This continued on for the remainder of the night. Like many other previous community Realms, Aman made a the house with the necessary items and beneath it the hallway which led to everyone's rooms. It had been decided that they would try to live in peace inside of these walls. Later that night, Tarun, Timothy and Saiyan started doing small PvP somewhere away from the house. After they were done, Tarun with strange intent, came inside of the house and started attacking Aman, who was almost done with construction. Afraid of losing most of his resources which were given by Chris recently and also his building materials, he called in Chris to help eliminate him. Tarun, now on the brink of death, dug down and combat logged, thinking that he would come back and negotiate. Chris, however, had another idea. Before Tarun came back, Chris put fire inside of the hole. When Tarun came back, he died and all of his important items burned with him. Little did they know, this would mark the start of future conflicts.

Community Issues
To have a little more context, Tarun has always been a very paranoid individual in Realms. Even during the first Realm, Realm III, Tarun didn't want to live with the group, but lived by himself, afraid of losing his stuff. The only times where he actually lived together were times where most of the group was trusted and was persuaded a lot. However, with the appearance of notorious thieves in Realm XV, and him being somewhat of a primary victim, he became way more paranoid and conflicted than before, and after dying with all of his important items on the first day, he decided to go with his old nature and play solo once more. This didn't bother the community at first, and everything continued pretty smoothly for the most part. By this point it was the second day and mostly everyone had already settled their rooms. Timothy had started complaining about someone stealing his iron out of his furnace, and their was also someone who had started stealing the beds of people. Tarun had also requested someone to come and help him with something, and Saiyan took on this request, but never came back home, presumably using the excuse of the thief. This would also be the last time that most of the people were in the community house together for an entire day. Somewhere during this time, Chris went to the Nether and found a fortress, being the only one who had blaze rods and nether wart in the Realm and had made an underground network below his room with a enchanting room, storage room and a few empty rooms, as well as a mending villager hidden further below. Aman was shown this by Shaniel, with the former telling him to keep this a secret between them. It did not keep people from finding out about it. Timothy eventually found it and made a 'Woke Lab' down below, and borrowed some nether warts from Chris to make something which would play a major part in the future.

Mass Migration to Tarun
Everything escalated on the third day. It became clear that the thief was starting to act again, with continuously stealing the beds of people and targeting Timothy's furnace. They all became annoyed, but they still stayed back for just a while. A pretty ineffective way of protecting secrecy of Chris's little underground network was by installing the Vow of Silence, which required everyone who read it to keep it a secret, while it did not last. Most of them would eventually leave to Tarun's little area where he needed some of them to help him with his farms, while also promising them a place to stay if they helped him efficiently, thus ruining the concept of the entire community, forming a partial community also in the process of forming an unofficial team. The ones who left the main community house for the island were Saiyan, Timothy, Shiva and later Shawn. During this time it was uncertain as to what the remaining members would be doing. Aman was preoccupied with ordering the house after it was mostly empty, and Shaniel had started to grind more for resources and Chris was exploring. It was clear that Chris had the major lead in items and such, and was providing Aman and Shaniel with the necessities such as books and certain ores. Aman repaid this effort by creating his own little XP-farm in one of the empty rooms in the underground network. Also during this time many farms were built on Tarun's island with the help of the members who lived there. If this was all of the story, it wouldn't be too interesting, so something interesting happened. Tarun started telling Aman while in the same call that everyone who was currently on his island were there due to feeling a sense of security and not being forced to do something they didn't want to, and remarking their efficiency in helping him with his farms, while also criticizing Aman for not gaining his own resources and using the one Chris had for his own gain. At first Aman thought that Tarun was just going on with his usual bragging, but it would turn into something else.

Creating a Rift
The day after this was when Shawn joined, who was having issues with his computer and only joined now after fixing them. He first started inside of the community house, but later moved to Tarun like the rest of them to help with one of their farms. During this time while mining, someone once again stole everyone's beds and left them angry once more, not knowing what the intent of this thief was. Daniel had just joined the Realm, and was high on the suspect list not only because he just joined and the base was relatively close to spawn, and that he ran very far away from the house, about 1800 blocks away from the house. Aman chased him the entire way, also wanting to burn through his food, but Daniel eventually just died from a zombie attack without any items, making Aman wonder if Daniel was really the culprit. Having nothing to do later that day and wanting to see what Tarun's side were doing and to expand his map a little bit, Aman decided to explore south, in the direction of their base with his map. He eventually found it with ease when seeing a massive tower in the sky and found Timothy on the island. He told Aman to keep this island a secret, as it was called the Paradis Island, or called the Paradise. Aman didn't really care much about what he said, but told him that it wasn't as great as they were saying, mentioning that their base was very quiet and wasn't being robbed that much after all of them left. Aman went into the Nether and started connecting the two portals through a tunnel made in the sky. Aman brought Chris with him one time, and they encountered Tarun. While they didn't really want conflict, but the opposing side felt threatened as to how everyone suddenly knew about the island's location, with Tarun making an aggressive approach, which made Chris attack back. Aman eventually convinced Chris to stop fighting and return home to start mining ancient debris. Every day forward, they continued making farms while Aman, Shaniel and Chris were building up their resources and gear.

Conflict Between Sides
Aman and his side were mostly rich in resources and materials, one which was the blaze rod, which was frequently sold to the other side by Chris, sometimes giving them away for free. Creating ender chests and such was now an easy task, and storing items safely wasn't an issue anymore. The other side had been meeting in calls everyday to continue their farms and progress and didn't want any contact with the others as they had found their "trusted" members already, and became aggressive once they encountered the others. Trying to prove Tarun wrong by starting to enchant their own items with max enchantments, they quickly did so with the help of the XP-farm, many enchanted books and extra tools. They had also made a beacon from the nether star that Chris had gotten from slaying the Wither. The next day was a rainy day and many were flying around with the riptide enchantment, one being Aman trying to expand his map into the ocean. He eventually found a desert, with a village and a pillager outpost. Aman had finally gotten what he had wanted, his cactus for his bed. Tarun, thinking that Aman was trying to steal it away, started becoming mad thinking that Aman was trying something out, while Aman didn't think it belonged to anyone because it was so far south of their initial base and the chests weren't looted yet. Aman decided to leave the area because any other move would cause another big issue with Tarun so he decided to leave the area. Tarun would be building his raid farm right there, and Chris happenend to be searching for the End portal in that area as well, being below the desert village. Tarun once again overthinking, thought that we were breaking our own rules and trying to go to the End, while Chris was only searching for the portal. Tired with being judged for the dumbest of reasons, Aman and Chris decided to leave to do their own thing. Shaniel stayed behind, trying to prove himself by helping the others with the raid farm, whilst knowing that they never wanted him there as he wasn't a "trusted" member. While helping, it became clear that Shaniel had much better tools than the rest, and made that very obvious to the point that they didn't like it and executed him. In the process of this he didn't get some of his items back and became mad and left. When he told the rest what had happened, Aman became furious but wanted to rather talk it out then risk all-out warfare, which would've proved Tarun's false points. They decided to wait it out for the next day.

Final Days and Permanent Rift
While Chris didn't come online that day because he had nothing relevant to do, Aman did in order to help Shaniel with his new items because they weren't expecting payment from the other side. Knowing how irresponsible Tarun was, he decided to make a backup set for himself after seeing Shaniel's. After mining some more diamonds, Aman had a new set of tools and put his better tools in his ender chest just in case. Eventually Shaniel did in fact get some things which he needed, but not much. At this point, it became unclear how Shaniel had found their mending villager, him saying that Tarun showed him and Tarun claiming Shaniel had been desperately searching for it. Aman and Shaniel were struggling to get mending on their villager because it was more expensive and they got emeralds with difficulty, because of their main villagers were constantly making their emerald prices more and more expensive. They found out that Tarun's villager was much cheaper, at 12 emeralds each. When Shaniel brought Aman there, Shaniel had accidentally exposed the villager to a zombie, turning it into a zombie villager. Aman knew that if they left it that way, it would cause more issues, so they turned it back, finding out that the price had dropped all the way to a single emerald, with both of them quickly using this to get many mending books. Originally it seemed like this didn't have any issues, but then instead of trying to fix this themselves, Tarun and his side started lashing out because we had used all of the villager's trades, instead of finding the easy solution of resetting them. Aman defended Shaniel, saying that it was something which was inevitable to happen because of their way of interacting with those who weren't from the island. They also brought up points which proved that Tarun's words were very hypocritical, doing the things which he critized Aman about. Aman didn't want to start unnecessary conflicts when he knew that it all started because of Tarun's selfish nature, so he told them that they wouldn't interact with them anymore until the day of the dragon, and so it was. This created a permanent rift between the two sides, as Shaniel had previously been in many issues in the server and the Realms, and because he was the catalyst in this major conflict, he got all the blame. Whatever it was, they didn't interact again.

The last day was sort of uneventful. All of them got with difficulty to the portal, while it shouldn't even have been difficult. Mostly waiting for Timothy because he was taking up way too much time, annoying the others. When they did go into the End, they slayed the Ender Dragon with relative ease, with the towers being gone very quick and the only issue being Chris, who kept using beds to kill the dragon while being very inefficient and setting the rest on fire. The dragon eventually died, and quickly went to the outer islands and started searching for the famed elytra. Chris, like always, had a jump ahead of them and quickly found it somehow, demotivating the rest and prompting them to leave. Before leaving, Aman put his stuff in his ender chest and gave Shawn his most prized tool, which would mean something very important to Tarun, who didn't want to accept it. Thus ending the Realm who split from a community into two unofficial teams, and started showing the more conflicting side of the server.

Aftermath
This Realm had shown several things of importance, such as the fact that such a major rift can start to form two sides because of a simple misconception that had started in Realm XV. While the person in question was not the one we thought was really the culprit of this incident. While the two sides were indirectly fighting because of this, minor issues had started happening in the Discord server, which was both unpleasant and also interesting to a certain point, because it showed multiple POVs of how others also saw the situation. The split in particular would start the small fight on the first day of the next Realm, Realm XVIII. While it wasn't the hardest inconvenience to solve in the community, it was one that was very deep rooted at this point and also created much false information.