Þunan Qumreá
| Þunan Qumreá | ||||
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| Capital city | Þunan ŋáce | |||
| Rijyc | Hilja | |||
| Official languages | Śácamþaśá | |||
Þunan Qumreá (IPA: /θunɐn qumrɪɑː/) is a country south of Myžariky, southwest of Marcyland, northeast of Xarslaja and northwest of Nariŋpar. It consists of a wide range of channels and lakes south of spawn, and the land around these channels. Its center is the lighthouse Þunan ŋáce.
Þunan Qumreá is composed of 7 provinces: Ájásiq, the channel to the ocean; Fáwupinu, the jewel bay; Muweweśáj, the burnt house island; Þunan ŋáce, the tower of the stars; Śyjeń, the grainshed; Þunan Þár, the shield of the stars; Saqár, the land of the Saxons; and Ájáár, the flat lands.
Name
The first element of the name Þunan Qumreá is derived from Þunan Ŋáce, being ‘of the star(s)’. Ŋáce means tower, so the whole means ‘tower of the stars’ or lighthouse, in Śácamþaśá. Qumreá literally means river basin, but it is also a pun. Reá can refer to an alliance, union, or group of related things, while qum means confluence. In other words, it could also be considered the Union of the Stars.
History
Founding
On the 27th of december, 2023, Hilja mentioned in the minecraft channel „Maybe I will join the server for all of 2 days before getting bored again”. She did not get bored after 2 days. The next day, she noted a spot on the map that seemed interesting, and joined the server. She walked through the heavily forested Byrtsanšaland towards the river basin that would later be known as Þunan Qumreá. She had initially set her sights on Miŋeń Náf, internationally known as (Nariŋpar name), the lake west of what is now Nāroňpār. As she reached a small island on Þunan Náf however, the sun began to set and she was attacked by several drowned. After defeating them, she marked her victory with two signs. Thus Þunan Ŋáce was founded, on the 28th of december 2023, at 20:12 CET.
The first landmark she noticed near the lake was a dirt hill with very square sides on coastal Śyjeń. It now houses the temple to the Earth.
By the 30th of December, the foundation for Þunan Ŋáce had been created, as well as a small auxiliary island where Hilja grew her crops. During this time, effectively all of Hilja‘s time on the server went into building the lighthouse and gathering the resources to do so. The pattern of artificial islands connected to Þunan Ŋáce with bridges that allowed for boat passage underneath would become the foundation of Þunan Qumreá. By the 1st of january, Hilja had built a small tree farm island west of Þunan Ŋáce. As she explored the island further west. As she did so, she stumbled upon the oldest building in Þunan Qumreá, and the only remaining evidence of pre-raid construction within its territory: the burnt house.
To this day, it is unclear who built the burnt house, but it consists of 4 birch doors, a floating deepslate roof, a tuff floor, and a handful of glass and supplies. Next to the burnt house is a deep one-wide tunnel, designated a dwarven site by Þunan Qumreá‘s archaeologists. Beyond the house is a functional ruined portal, presumably restored by the builder(s).
Initial developments
On the 2nd of January, 2024, Þunan Qumreá (then Þunan Ŋáce) became a founding member of the United Ŋations. On the 5th, Þunan Ŋáce was connected to Marcyland via the new Cenrail® Subway™ (Sen-Náþnatiw in Śácamþaśá). By the 15th, the main structure of Þunan Ŋáce had been finished, and the immense effort of gathering all the redstone, quartz and glowstone to build the rotating light began. On the 25th of January, Hilja announced that ÞUNAN ŊÁCE SHINES, as the rotating light was fully functional. It was only after this that other construction projects in Þunan Qumreá could begin in earnest.
On the 27th, an xp farm was built in the basement of the lighthouse, around a zombie spawner. The basement has extensive cave networks, which Hilja found while mining out large amounts of deepslate and stone for the construction of the lighthouse. On the 29th, the Cenrail® Subway™ was extended south towards Yuɱa, featuring the Scenic Lake Rail™, a glass tunnel which Hilja built underneath Þunan Náf. On the 5th of February, the name Þunan Qumreá was officially adopted, replacing ‘Þunan Ŋáce’ and ‘Hilja‘s realm’ as official names.
Diplomacy
Þunan Qumreá Heist
On the 7th of April 2024, John Stamos was discovered to have been stealing priceless gold and valuable items from multiple statues and shrines in Þunan Qumreá, with assistance of Astridodorito in creating a cache of the stolen treasures, both members of Pais Transanguino Ranitino alongside La Ranita, the head of the group. As of writing, it is unknown if La Ranita knew of this theft being coordinated by their two subjects.
Both the heads of Þunan Qumreá and Enkavak noticed a few missing items (notably 20 diamonds from Śiłja and a music disc of Otherside from Xhesas) on the 1st of April 2024, but the scraped gold (totalling 45 blocks) from the Earth Shrine was not noticed until the 7th, and was discovered to have been turned into 250 golden carrots. All of the thefts were reverted and the shrines and wealths were restored and placed in Þunan Ŋáce for safekeeping until owners could be found.
