Dracnoian

Dracnoian is a staff member of the HexxCraft server, who leans heavily into the roleplay and automation aspects of it. He was one of the first players to join HexxCraft, and helped in some minor areas with server development, such as giving suggestions and making a higher quality version of logo. He is the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Valedux. Since the server is still new, he, nor many others, have done much yet.

Before joining the HexxCraft server, Dracnoian had long already moderated or owned some kind of server. Dracnoian entered Minecraft around July 2012 on Pocket Edition and came into Java Edition in June 2013. By the same time next year, he would own a server which he would run until August 2018, but continues to maintain it as a private server to this day.

In March 2017, Dracnoian frequented Roblox and became a prominent member of the War Universalis 2 (a Europa Universalis 4 inspired game) community, eventually becoming its owner until he stepped down. Through this community and due to others on Roblox, he transitioned to playing almost entirely on Discord in roleplay groups based around NationStates, and this would last for almost a whole year until December 2018 when he decided to stop playing on them. In January 2019, a friend of his from these groups would invite him to a Minecraft server, and on January 30th, 2019 in the final week of the Fifth Era, Dracnoian joined Minecraft Planet Earth.

Starting with small beginnings on the Falklands Islands, Dracnoian would come to be very active on this server. He was promoted to Helper on the first day of the 6th Era, February 17th 2019, and would become Admin in May. He would moderate and administrate the server until very early January 2020 when he ceased being active on the internet altogether, until April, by which time, the Minecraft Planet Earth server had shutdown. He would be Moderator on the spiritual successor server of Fantasy, until he resign in mid-June.

Dracnoian would found his first iteration of the Roman Empire on Minecraft Planet Earth in April 2019. Based on the old Roman Republic, the nation would be the first functioning democracy on the server, and he would continue to run the nation in various forms for an entire year, until early-June 2020 when he transformed the nation into a community focused discord, which he still runs.

Family
Dracnoian has shared no information on his family in real life, and does not intend to.

Roleplay-wise, however, Dracnoian has a family known as the house of Gvntarvs-Davisi. The house was founded in 4411 AVC in the Reborne Calendar (April 8th, 2020), and was the largest on Minecraft Planet Earth throughout its history. Dracnoian had two spouces throughout the course of the server, them being Gummaius Ultimus (GummyGuy) in 3781 (May 16th, 2019) through to 3859 (May 26th), and Justice Becuas (JustBecuase) in 4614 (May 27th) through 6951 (June 4th, 2020). The dates listed for Gummaius and Justice are almost certainly incorrect, and show dates from an old version of the calendar.

Religion
On the server, Dracnoian is devoutly religious, ascribing to multiple faiths, he is polytheistic. He is highly devout to the Mother Cat, an extremely staunch Administ, and has expressed belief in Athena as a deity.

During his time as Princeps Senatvs of the Res Pvblica Romana, Dranoian appointed Jvstice Becvas as the Pontifex Maximvs, who was a proud Catist. Dracnoian served in the role himself briefly. During his time as Administrator of MCPE, Dracnoian used his Admin powers to create "Holy" animals, which were immortal and glowing animals, which he used to spawn and foster existing religions. He would also use commands to create special books, and create floating text and entities to act as deities talking to their believers. This caused an explosion of religious activity on MCPE, and made it a large feature of regular life on the server.

Early Activities on Minecraft
Dracnoian first began playing Minecraft in July 2012 on Pocket Edition, shortly before the release of Alpha 0.5.0. In June 2013 Dracnoian entered Minecraft Java Edition, where he would largely simply play modded survivals and one SkyBlock Server, where he was gifted as a present the top donator rank for his birthday. He would run a free repair and enchant business on the server, and in doing so, met a player name GavBro who would show him his private server. On this server, Dracnoian met two players named Sor2003 (future BanterousSor), and Blackpanda (whose full name is forgotten, she had three numbers affixed to it). And through Blackpanda, Dracnoian would yet again be introduced into another server– this time a survival one– where he would meet several other players. Dracnoian would play this server for several months and become a staff member on it (though this was more of a kind gesture rather than an actual position), and in June of 2014, Dracnoian decided to open up his own Minecraft server.

Dracnoian opened his Minecraft server, naming it Dragonminer. Early on, the seeds of what would become the Draco Empire were planted, and the first dynasty was founded after Dracnoian and ShootingStar3682 married. Officially, their children were BanterousSor, who was disinherited; Soldinho, who quit; Miamilkshake, who was Dracnoian's second wife; and BethLovesPugs, who was Dracnoian's third wife. In March 2015 while looking for new plugins to add to his server, Dracnoian found a plugin known as Bending and added it, but did not have much clue how to use it, and so went looking for servers who also had the plugin and soon discovered NovaRealms. He would end up coming back to the server many times and playing on it, becoming it's most active from between 2015 to late 2016. But Dracnoian also gained many bans on this server, having been banned seven times, five for duplicating items.

After the seventh (temporary) ban Dracnoian had received on NovaRealms, Dracnoian joined a server called AncientDreams, which was an Earth server. He had already tried running an Earth server in the past, three times Earth was brought onto Dragonminer, but this was an entirely different type of server. He became highly active on this server, soon its most active and later staff and eventually co-owner of the server, though it was shutdown in early 2017.

Activities on Roblox
By March 2017, Dracnoian was beginning to play Roblox more than he played Minecraft, and this was due largely to the inactivity of Dragonminer and shut down of Nova Realms that had happened only a few months prior. He at first frequented one game on Roblox, which was Apocolypse Rising but branched out in early April to The Conquerors 3. In the same month he met a group of people known as the 63rd Regiment on Apocolypse Rising (who he later found out were all exploiters and cheaters) and joined them their group, he and the 63rd would dominate the games they were in until May of the same year when Dracnoian branched off and created his own group, reviving the Draco Empire which he had first established in Dragonminer. Being as competitive as he is, Dracnoian sought to expand the group and dominate leaderboards, and so specifically invited and created a populous of skilled and hard-working people in the group, allowing the Draco Empire to make appearances on leaderboards. On the Conquerors 3, Dracnoian met a player named Rizki– who dominated in the game and was in the top ten players– and they quickly became friends. Through Rizki, Dracnoian learned of two games, Obby Squads and War Universalis 2 (a game heavily inspired by Europa Universalis 4), and though he didn't really at first enjoy Obby Squads, he heavily favored War Universalis 2, and would become a highly active member in its community, after a few months even becoming its owner for a brief period. The War Universalis 2 community ultimately fell apart in May 2018 after its former leader resigned and Dracnoian stepped down, and many of the former members of that community migrated over to Dracnoian's discord. During the same month, Dragonminer shut down for the final time and would only be used from then on as a private server.

In June 2018, with War Universalis 2 gone Dracnoian began playing Obby Squads and quickly (primarily through no-lifing) became an extremely high leveled person on the game. He would almost entirely devote the Draco Empire to climbing the ranks of this game and came into rivalry with the already established frontrunners of the game, Team Royals, and their leader Lelantos. A fight broke out between the two leaders when Lelantos accused Dracnoian's sister for yelling his members out of a server (it is likely this happened, but he mistook the identity of who did it), and the rivalry became very bitter. But it was resolved about a week after when both sides finally were able to have a peaceful discussion, Dracnoian and Lelantos even consequentially became friends.

By November of 2018, Obby Squads had completely died and the game became unsustainable for groups who played it, and the Draco Empire moved on. The next game Dracnoian moved to was Flee the Facility, which– after much practice– he became very good at. At the suggestion of Lelantos, Dracnoian joined the largest group on this game, the Expert Escapists, and as he had done with all other communities he favored, became highly active and a moderator on the group, which he still is to this day.

Activities on Discord
Around December 2017, Takko (a friend Dracnoian had met through Apocolypse Rising) invited Dracnoian to a roleplay discord centered a website called NationStates. After this, he would continue to frequent these discords for nearly a year, until December 2018. The first group he would enter was called Norrland, and it was fairly large. Dracnoian had not yet developed his well-known love of Rome yet, and so chose to be the Draco Empire on this Earth-based server. He would later invite his sister and several friends to get an extreme edge on everyone on the server, and so be dubbed the leader of the "Dracosphere". He would not become a staff member of Norrland (they were not accepting new staff members) but would become one of its most prominent members.

Norrland perished only two months after Dracnoian arrived, and the next group named Adinia arose, this time run by Manches (Bromhead, one of the people Dracnoian had met in Norrland, and closest friend of Dracnoian on these discords) and moderated by Dracnoian. Adinia in time would fail to. But it's failure would set a pattern, it would remain a cyclical cycle of failure and recreation for this entire year.

After Adinia, Dracnoian and Manches (and several others who would follow or invite them) came to Nova Norrlandia, and after that, came to the Draco Empire, the first one of these servers run entirely by Dracnoian. He would run three of these discords before the year had ended, including the only one that lasted three months total, the longest-lasting (though, that was almost entirely because Dracnoian refused to let it die).

After one last attempt at these discords failed in December 2018, Dracnoian decided to cease joining them. Manches did the same in early January 2019 and started looking for prospects back on Minecraft, while Dracnoian began frequenting the Sims 4 and videos, books, and information on the Roman Empire. Wombit, a friend of Manches would find an Earth server and invite him to it, and knowing Dracnoian would also enjoyed it, Manches invited him. On January 30th, Dracnoian would join Minecraft Planet Earth for the first time.

Activities on Minecraft Planet Earth
Dracnoian's time on MCPE is very extensive, as he was very influential, impactful, and impacted by the server over the year he was on it. During his existence on the server, he was a leader of one of its superpower, a staff member, and very active in the community.

Fifth Era
Dracnoian first joined Minecraft Planet Earth on January 30th, 2019. He found out about the server from friends, and joined the town of the Falklands where he was their Slimefun engineer. Only two weeks after he joined, the 5th Era came to end, largely due to World War Toto, in which the nation of Toto decimated the powers of Laurentia and the Atlantic Reich. Helper applications opened soon after, and Dracnoian applied.

On Feburary 17th, 2019 the server reopened for the 6th Era, and Dracnoian was accepted as staff, along with GummyGuy (leader of Toto), and 4 others.

Sixth Era
When the Sixth Era began, Dracnoian and his friends from the Falklands rushed to North Island, New Zealand and claimed it. Initially, Wombit was going to be leader, and desired a policy of extreme-isolation, limiting the town to simply one chunk, whilst Dracnoian argued for working to become a superpower. The argument was settled for them when Wombit's computer broke down, and he was taken out of commission for two weeks.

Dracnoian and Garrett would be the first to reach End after both discovered Strongholds and teamed up, with Dracnoian being given the Dragon Egg, this would be the beginning of Dracnoian's personal tradition of getting the Dragon Egg first, on Day 1. Soon after, he would build his End Grinder known as Enderium, and unlock all of Slimefun with the aid of the Totoeans within only a few days. On the 22nd of Feburary, Dracnoian added the town of Portugal to his newly founded nation, as well as Toto earlier. Portugal had claim-blocked the town of Valencia, which was an ally of the nation of NATO run by Garrett, who threatened war over the ordeal. Portugal withdrew from the nation to prevent war, but soon joined NATO after making amends. Shortly thereafter, the Totoeans released the Totoean Agenda.

Valencia (now Aragon) briefly joined the nation, but left when the Mediterranean League was founded. A town called Los Maricones joined soon after that on March 31st, with the town proving to be the most well built town on the entire server. Not long after the town's joining, the entire town of Toto was banned for a month after it was discovered they were duplicating items.

After a brief controversy about Dust Prices, Dracnoian discovered the planet of Hielo, and its vast resource wealth. He initially kept it a secret, however he later let in the nations of Eldia and the Grand Venic Imperium into the secret for mutual gain. A pact was formed between Portugal, Draco, Eldia, and Toto to keep the planet secret and protected, and it was partitioned. The planets of Aemia and Abysuss were similarly exploited, though never to the extent Hielo was.

The Roman Empire
On April 6th, Garrett stepped down as leader of NATO, and the town of Portugal under Zinguin left it. They would rejoin the Draco Empire, along with Niner's Egypt. Dracnoian decided that regionalism would be preferable to the space empire he had initially desired, so on April 14th, he declared the creation of the Roman Empire, and quickly bought out or assimilated every single town, territory, or person in the Mediterranean, except only Crete and Israel, though they would end up being annexed in May when they feel due to lack of funds. On May 16th, Dracnoian was promoted from Moderator to Administrator, due to his suggestions and custom items he had created and wanted to import to the server.

On June 8th, the Senate of Rome passed Consilium V, and Consilium IV, which condemned the Eldian Empire for over-expansionism and demanded they abandon vast swaths of territory, or face war. Dracnoian coveted the Rhineland, which was the last section of the old Roman Empire which was not yet taken back. The war would ultimately never happen though, as Eldia paid to be "Neutral", which in MCPE rules made them absolutely unwarrable.

On July 27th, Dracnoian stepped down as Princeps Senatvs, giving the position to Zinguin. The Roman Empire's population had turned against the Grand Venic Imperium, which had been expanding larger and faster than Eldia, and become hostile to allies of Rome and some of its citizens. Dracnoian had promised peace to the GVI, however, in stepping down and appointing Zinguin, he hoped to justify Roman involvement in growing coalition. The war occurred on August 3rd, and the Grand Venic Imperium suffered a crippling defeat at the hands of literally every single nation existing at the time.

That marked the last big event of the 6th Era, and Dracnoian focused almost exclusively on helping create the 7th Era afterwords.

Seventh Era
Dracnoian had known the 7th Era was coming since July when development began. After the GVI-War in August, most of the population of MCPE became inactive when it was announced the next day that the 7th Era was coming, and the people moved swiftly to start fantasizing about it and pre-claiming land. Vi_von would create the first pre-claim discord, followed shortly by Garrett's. Dracnoian was active in both, but stated he had no intent to even make a nation next era, so he could focus solely on staff. However, in the staff-room, he asked Garrett to set aside an island for him to make a staff-only town on. Servilia, an entirely new continent, would be created for him, Reborne, and the other staff. After some initial set backs, the server was reopened on September 17th, and Dracnoian rushed to Servilia. He and Garrett would team up again, and get to the stronghold together, defeating the Ender Dragon, and remaking their grinders. Dracnoian would spend 11 entire hours that night grinding to unlock all of Slimefun, on the 1st Day. He proliferated the knowledge to several towns, notably former Romans.

On Servilia, Dracnoian created a small orchard, and began mass-producing Apple Pie, and Pear Cheesecake and selling it. The seeds for Pater Draco's Cheesecake Emporium were sown here. Life on Servilia proved very boring and uneventful, so ReborneLogik, the Owner, allowed the staff to leave the town, and form or join their own.

The Res Publica Romana
On November 11th, Servilia was officially opened up, and Dracnoian left and founded Rome again, in Italy. Naming it this time the Res Publica Romana, the nation would devote itself to expanding only if it could develop its current land (as over-claiming was obviously a major issue in the Sixth Era).

The Senate of the Res Publica proved to be much more successful than that of the Empire, and the nation became the premiere democracy, passing and enacting legislation, and growing. The Kingdom of Valedux was the only other democracy, and the two nations interacted commonly, usually friendly, though secretly the citizens of the two nations were uneasy or despised each other.

On December 28th, the nation of Valedux officially joined the Res Publica, and Rome saw a golden age, wherein most of the top players on the server had joined and were building in the nation.

in very early January, 2020 Dracnoian went entirely inactive, and stayed inactive for three months, which through the nation into chaos. After two weeks of semi-stability, a civil war nearly occured in the Res Publica, and Valedux left the nation to become their own again. Rome effectively went inactive or disbursed. Dracnoian returned on March 13th, however by then, the MCPE server was preparing to shutdown due inactivity, and none of the Admins having enough time for the server anymore. It shutdown on March 15th.

Activities on FantasyCraft
After MCPE shutdown, Dracnoian initially decided not to look for a new server, but after he had heard Zinguin was starting a server called FantasyCraft, he decided to join it to. FantasyCraft launched on April 13th, and as per usual, Dracnoian attempted to team up with Garrett to get to the End. He did not accept, but did give Dracnoian the eyes of ender after the server proved too laggy to allow him to get them on his own, and Rome reached the End and got Slimefun on Days 1 and 2 respectively. The Res Publica and Dracnoian would do very little during this time, outside of build and plan, and engage in drama, as the server was still very much in development, and no nation had intent on war or conflict. The Roman Senate was highly active however, and it would each Bill 80 before its time on Fantasy had ended. Dracnoian also become staff around this time, a Moderator. On April 26th, Moosebobby, Breezified, and others joined the server and formed their own town, initially looking to destroy the Grand Venic Imperium. Dracnoian worried they would be here to stay and take over the server, not realizing at this point they were only here for the GVI. A coalition was formed on May 3rd when FTen and others approached Rome about taking out Moose immediately, and this coalition ballooned to include everyone on the server, except for only KagamineCyn. The war would occur on May 5th, and Dracnoian would fight in it. Despite not being killed, and technically winning the conflict, the war was by far the most devastating Pyrrhic victory the server had ever seen, with the coalition being killed over 200 times, whilst only killing them less than 10.

Exactly 10 days later on May 15th, under HexxFerret, the Northwest Republic launched a retaliatory attack on Rome, and obliterated the nation. Only two Romans, Dracnoian and ClearDaze, showed up to fight, and both left when it was clear that even trolling them in the conflict would not be any fun.

After the defeat, any Romans who were left simply quit out of frustration, hate for the server, hate for the staff, or all three. Dracnoian would remain staff on the server and briefly join the Grand Venic Imperium, but that was effectively the end of his time on the server.

Post-Fantasy
After the war on Rome, Dracnoian was invited by SlimDude to a small group of mostly Valeduxians looking for a new server, at the time simply called the "Committee". However, seeing how much the Romans and Valeduxians sought to be on the same server together, Slim and Dracnoian decided to merge the two nations again, into an equal union, known as Concordia. It became official on May 18th.

Concordia would join the Polearth server, which was discovered by Gavin. The server, he found, to be quite bland as it lacked Towny and Slimefun. The rules of the staff and custom technologies also proved to be extremely overpowered if used right, and would be disasterous for any grinder he wished to build. Though Concordia was by far the largest nation (26 members compared to the 11 the next largest had), the citizen of the nation grew bored, and it wouldn't be long before the nation was disbanded.

After the dispersion of Concordia, Dracnoian began to reform the Roman discord into a community-oriented place, rather than a nation on a server. On June 4th, Bill XCIII was passed, which officially transformed Rome. On June 13th, it was discovered by another Moderator and Dev on FantasyCraft that FTen had been duplicating items and hiding them in backpacks. Shushino, who was in the same town as him, and a Helper, adamantly refused that, and said the Grand Venic Imperium simply looted it or made it. When Dracnoian pointed out there were stacks of energized solar panels, Shushino said the Imperium looted those from Moose, attempting to paint him as a potential duper. It was discovered meres hours later that Shushino had discovered a dupe stash and kept it secret, and took material from it.

On the next day, he was demoted and banned, and the remains of the Grand Venic Imperium were invaded by HexxFerret, Tilted, and others, and transformed into a Moose-themed parking lot.

Activities on HexxCraft
Two days after, on June 18th, Dracnoian stepped down as staff, and began waiting for the release of HexxCraft. When it was launched on the 26th, Dracnoian and the GSC (Gank Skin Club; Tilted and friends) immediately set out on a speed-run to the End, believing that Nexus would be doing the same. Within only an hour and a half, the fasted so far, Dracnoian and the GSC reached the End, followed closely by Nexus who had followed them to the portal location. Ultimately the GSC beat the Dragon and got the Egg, which was promptly given to Dracnoian.

Dracnoian joined the Kingdom of Valedux directly after, under the prospects of running to become the Prime Minister of Valedux in July. He shortly thereafter built a small Slimefun lab before HexxCraft was taken back down, after Beta had ended.

July 1st prime ministerial campaign
Main article: July 1st Valeduxian Prime Ministerial Election On June 29th when elections opened in the kingdom, Dracnoian founded the Valeduxian Nationalist Party, and ran for Prime Minister. Former Princeps and fellow Valeduxian Hammer entered the race shortly thereafter on behalf of the Gotonic Royal Front party and the Twingoist religion. The first poll on the popularity of both candidates occurred on the 30th, and showed Dracnoian with a significant lead. Not long after the results were revealed, popular former Princeps Ahea entered the race; Hammer dropped out and endorsed Ahea. Dracnoian was interviewed by former Prime Minister and current Secretary of Foreign Affairs ChrisTheKnight for his news letter the following day, and was endorsed by the newly founded Centralist Party.

Election day was scheduled for July 3rd, however, due to the proximity to the 4th of July, the election was moved back by executive order to July 1st; neither campaign was entirely prepared for such an early vote. The vote officially ended only three hours later, when Dracnoian passed the threshold for total victory with 10 total votes, to Ahea's 2.