Heretics

Jorgur era: 3rd February 2020 - 27th June 2020, Members: 37+ (At peak)

Psycho era: 16th July 2020 - present day, Members: 27 (last updated on 26/10/2020)

Formation
The Heretics were founded on the 3rd of February in 2020 on the 1.15 map by Jorgur. The faction collapsed at the 27th of June due to the leave of it's main leader, Jorgur. BalkanWarrior16 and THE_psycho announced to revive it on 16th of July 2020.

The Heretics are a neutral group who prefer building over fighting. Additionally they made themselves a goal to never grief anyone as a group, even in retaliation. Griefing by members is barely tolerated.

Founded by Jorgur, the group grew very quickly in a very short amount of time, starting with MiauMischen, then MrDFL, then two brothers, GraveTheGhoul and NinjaTimberFox, joined at the same time. Everyone began recruiting others, which increased the member count exponentially. Later, EdgyCommunist69 joined and was included in the gouvernment.

Foreign Relations
During the Jorgur era, the Heretics preferred to keep to themselves and were very picky with their allies, which also led to the Heretics-Lumen cold war. They were, however, allied with The Secret Society, but after the group fell apart, TSS no longer sees the alliance as existent, and following the grief of Heretics End, the new Heretics leadership did not try to reforge the alliance.

Sub-groups

 * Phoenix
 * Quackistan
 * Renlay
 * Skeleton Crusade

Allies

 * The Red Rose House

Enemies

 * The Heretics do not have enemies, only those they avoid contact with.

Towns
TempTown: The first Heretics base, it is well known as it was the site of the Battle of Temptown and griefed by The Dongos.

TempTown 2 (Electric Boogaloo :D): A minor recruitment town that was griefed by an unknown griefer who tried to pin it off on The Dongos.

Phantom Bay (Temp Town 3): A recruitment town following a pirate theme, and the location of the First Heretics Tourney. Abandoned once a hacker discovered it and coords were leaked.

Heretics End: A big-scale base with lots of farms and a big wall around it. The base was supposed to be the capital of the Heretics, but it was griefed by TooAtomic on 22nd of July 2020 in the aftermath of The Summer Wars.

Athens (Temp Town 4): Ancient Greek-themed recruitment base founded by Jorgur close to TT3, with Al-Addin, an oriental arabic themed base, as a villager trading hall nearby. It also used to have a double-spawner as xp-farm. Everythign was griefed with TNT by an unkown party in July 2020.

Al Addin: This base was a well-decorated villager trading hall. All buildings were oriental-inspired. It also featured a double-spawner XP-farm and an attached cactus-bamboo farm for selling of lime dye. An unknown griefer destroyed it in July 2020.

Mephes (Temp Town 5): Ancient Mesopotamia-themed base founded by Jorgur close to the same area. It featured two big ziggurats. This was the last base of the pre-dead phase, where many Order members joined Heretics and also helped out here a lot. This is also the reason The Order bought this base from Heretics after the Revival. A few weeks after that purchase and some progress in that base, it got griefed, likely by Fallen014.

Pearl Bay (Temp Town 6): Medieval-Fantasy themed base with a huge tree, founded by THE_psycho right after the Revival as a new start for the new recruits. It featured a huge iron farm by Jorgur. The whole base was griefed by D4R0N after it was leaked by Genelogy. A lot of friends came after the leak to prevent the grief, but logged off after some time and that was the time he griefed it.

Ocelot Resort (Temp Town 7): Jungle-themed base featuring another big tree, founded by THE_psycho, griefed more or less by many people after it was leaked by an uncareful recruit. Gucchi came over and was defeated by multiple defenders, mainly SergeDuHazard, and had to log. A trap was set up but it failed due to it being a few blocks off.

There are of course other bases, which won't will be listed here for security reasons.

History

 * Battle of Temptown: On the 20 of February a new member of the Heretics accidentally leaked the coords of TempTown through misuse of private chat. Yeet Gang immediately sprang into action, and the Heretics prepared for war.
 * The Dongos War: after The Dongos griefed Temptown, the Heretics, surprisingly remained neutral, and were ignored for the rest of the war as The Dongos focused primarily on the Provinces Of Lumen.
 * The Lumen-Heretics Cold War: The Provinces of Lumen for a large duration of the Heretics existence attempted to ally with the clan, being constantly refused by all leaders of the group. This has become somewhat of a meme, but its important to remember that just because Lumen and the Heretics weren't friends, didn't make them enemies; they simply wished to keep to themselves. A clarification talk was held and after that no alliance requests were recieved and a non-aggression pact was established.
 * The Heretics Schism: GraveTheGhoul and aria_minecraft were not happy with the form of leadership Jorgur and EdgyCommunist69 were performing, so they left and made an open statement to the whole group. This led to turmoil. Many people of different groups were invited after this event, against the earlier pratice of only inviting new players. Since then actual activity died down, because no one really could identify with the Heretics anymore. Hisashi peacefully seceded from the Heretics at the request of Saimir321, and a few days later EdgyCommunist69 would step down as overlord. Jorgur declared the group dead on 27th June 2020, after he could not find a willing successor of his post as group leader. He would not continue playing that much anymore and so he disbanded the group until anyone was willing to lead again. The discord was used, but the group was practically dead for a few weeks.


 * Revival: On 16th July 2020 THE_Psycho and BalkanWarrior16 announced to revive the group as new leaders of the Heretics. New rules and aims were agreed upon and new members were invited. Of those changes, they purged those who were inactive and others unwilling to be part of the Heretics and introduced a one-group policy, meaning that their members were members of the Heretics and only the Heretics. These reforms helped to solve the issue of people not taking their memberships seriously, and got the group back on its feet.
 * Grief of Heretics End: On 22nd of July 2020 Heretics End, the biggest Heretics base was griefed by TooAtomic in the aftermath of the Battle of Isbukt. He griefed it because of EdgyCommunist69's contribution to it, because he believed he was affiliated with The Dongos and the griefers of Isbukt. TSS in the form of RebeckaWard approved this grief, since they believed this base to be EdgyCommunist69's base as well. When Edgy told him that it is a Heretics' base, TooAtomic stopped griefing. As a result, the base was griefed and compromised. This event led to the Heretics' leadership not renewing the alliance with TSS. The coordinates were leaked.
 * Heretic-Phoenix Reunion: On October 20th, the group led by Saimir321, Phoenix, would become a sub-group of the Heretics.
 * Grief of TempTown 7: On 6th February 2021, TempTown 7 was leaked by another new member of the Heretics whilst Abvolt was online. He immediately began to make his way there, and began fighting its inhabitants. Eventually he logged out and a huge trap was made for him - but it was a few blocks off so was rendered ineffective. A lot of random players also went to the town to help with the defense and watch the chaos unfold.