The 1st Realm

The 1st Realm, also known as 'Kellogg's Realm', was the first Minecraft multiplayer realm the League of Mothers would make. Due to it's success it would start a trend within the group to regularly create multiplayer realms and servers to play on and is remembered mostly and quite fondly as one of, if not the best world out of all of the others that would ensue it. Although the exact date is uncertain, it was most likely created by Kelloggs on the 14th - 16th of March 2019. Doing this would also start a trend where each member would use up their free month of Minecraft Realms, however in doing so would prevent most worlds from existing for over a months time, ending fairly soon (until they started to actually get money). Nonetheless the realm felt as if it actually lasted much longer than it did, becoming iconic within the lore of the LOM itself.

 The History 

Once creating the realm, Kelloggs and Rusty would spawn in a dark oak forest and would create a small little outpost at spawn for people when they'd join. Later on during the same day, Elyag and Shmexi would join the world. The four of them would each craft a boat nearby and set sail to found a place for them all to build. They literally just sailed around the corner of the island and settled upon a plains hill. Overtime, the settlement would take shape, with Kelloggs calling for it to be named. Although both disagree somewhat on who actually gave its official name, it is mostly agreed upon that Kelloggs came up with the idea of it being named ' Ian Town ', named after one of the players who actually settled the land. However, Elyag came up with the idea of its official name being called 'IAN IAN IAN IAN IAN IAN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN ', with a sign over the entrance of the town bearing that as its title, with the town's symbol being two diamond hoes. Some time later, the infamous RoxyVelma and the lord of trolling himself KB would join the realm, though would settle much further away from the island, (now named 'Ian Island') and would move onto the mainland of the world. The late member of the LOM, Weeb (not actually dead btw) would also join the world and settle in Ian Town, making a Japanese inspired build, a wooden pagoda on the ocean next to the island. This build would inspire the other members of the world to create impressive builds. These included: Shmexi's castle, Elyag's Arena/Colosseum, Kellogg's bridge to the mainland and RoxyVelma's viking inspired long house, with Rusty updating the core part of Ian Town. For a while the server felt very much alive and thrived. However like all good Minecraft worlds, they eventually come to an end, quite literally.

Though the exact causes for the realm coming to it's end are jumbled up, their are multiple reasons why it did. One of the most infamous of these being where Rusty would strike out and kill the Ender Dragon on his own. Most of the members where quite annoyed Rusty had done it by himself, themselves hoping they'd all go do it together. Rusty was apologetic about it (even still is to this day) and although some of the members were a bit distrustful of him, most of the realm would forgive him. Another reason was due to the server having the rules of 'keep inventory' and 'TP' on. Whilst at first it was fairly helpful, it made the idea of dying or travelling nothing to be particularly scared about and so there was no feeling of danger for losing your items or levels, losing a big part of what makes survival mode what it is. It also created a problem where players who had a more trollish mindset would constantly attack and fight each other, with an example being RoxyVelma, creating what he called an "assassins guild" to kill unsuspecting players. Whilst at first it was quite funny, over time it did get a bit irritating, with eventually the only person who would actually order for people to die being from Shmexi. In spite of this Elyag created the arena so it would calm down much more, which it did, but still there was never any feeling of great worry about dying, as ironic as it sounds. Another reason was due to there being no space for people to build in Ian Town, although now looking back there probably was room, it made both Kelloggs and RoxyVelma move away to create their own builds. Due to the previously stated problem and wanting to build something epic in secret, Kelloggs would move a few thousands of blocks away to try and work on his project of the Greek inspired Acropolis, however it would never be done and would become a trait where in most realms he'd try to create it but would give up every time. However probably one of the main reasons for its demise would be near the servers ending, after nearly a month of it being active, RoxyVelma would persuade Kelloggs in performing an act of trolling. They would both partake in some tomfoolery in attacking the bases of KB, hidden not far from RoxyVelma's abode. Then they'd blow up and grief the majority of Ian Town, putting the blame onto KB and legitimately fooling the members that it had been him, making Elyag and Shmexi go on a man hunt for KB. Rusty however would side with KB, knowing something wasn't quite right. They would go thousands of blocks out and there would create the first hidden base, an infamous trait which would follow mostly Rusty throughout the following realms and servers to come. Eventually, Kelloggs and RoxyVelma would fess up, seeing that people were getting genuinely annoyed about it all. The realm would end on a bittersweet note. Though it had ended in carnage and tomfoolery, it had also been a great world and one of the only ones that felt like there was a sense of proper community, a trait that would lose itself from the following servers for quite some time. Nonetheless though, the realm is still highly regarded by the League and overall seen as quite a nostalgic time for those who were on it. Later on, other realms and servers would try to emulate the good things about it, as it left such a legacy. It would be followed by The 2nd Realm, created by Elyag.