Archduke Murphy

Murphy is an active player on VanillaCraft, and is one of the 5 leaders of the Provinces of Lumen. He is one of the prominent leaders of the faction. Murphy was part of The People's Legion as the Duke of Den Lumen until he left, not wanting to follow EdgyCommunist69's rules. Murphy is a decently popular player on the server with multiple allies.

Murphy is also the sole leader of Armed Nations Of The Netherlands, and is main organizer of Patron Port II.

Affiliations:
Past: People's Legion

Present: Provinces of Lumen, Armed Nations of The Netherlands

Allies:

 * Team Supreme
 * The Order
 * Ramen Bowl
 * Pink Puffy Rams
 * Moon Clan
 * Mons Dominion
 * Kraken Brotherhood
 * Banana Republic
 * The Homage Society
 * Circle of Freedom
 * Society of Stuck
 * The Secret Society

Enemies:

 * priestlover
 * AerialSn1per
 * Bluiy

The First Days
Murphy joined under the name Mr_Murphy7 on the 28th December, 2018. during the 1.13 section of the 1.13/1.14 map and traveled out 10k blocks from spawn, staying there for a week. He learned it was unsafe to be so close to spawn, and so extended to 50k out where he founded Leusden: the capital of his 'faction', the Armed Nations of the Netherlands. During Leusden's history, it would never be griefed, and only Eashandai visited the town.

Conflict with Abyss
For 4 months, Murphy had played mostly on his own. He decided to ally himself with the Greatest Nation of Armenia, led by AlikatHD and the People's Republic of People. Murphy worked to maintain the stairs to The Ice Road at spawn, which the at the time unknown player "Abyss" constantly tried to grief. Once Fallen014 and Murphy had discovered that Alikat had a connection to Abyss, the alliance with Armenia broke down, and Murphy would never trust Alikat again (but he isn't considered an enemy by Murphy).

Joining the PRoP
Murphy was still allied to the People's Republic of People, and EdgyCommunist69 requested his help during the Battle of Rhansenville. Murphy provided everyone with potions for battle, but the outcome of the battle was not changed much. Murphy was invited to New Diamond Bay, and after a week got invited to join the PRoP outright by Vyasuka (now Amar).

Time in the PRoP
Murphy still considers the days of post-erik PRoP to be great, nothing against Erikblue. The town of Three Islands resulted in an alliance with OwOctome, and him. Murphy Edgy and Fallen all worked on the capital of Highturf. Murphy suggested the name of Highturf because its a translation of a Nederlandse town and it reminded Edgy of a Team Fortress 2 map. Murphy also founded Den Lumen, which he and Tathal were co-mayors of: This position would become official once Edgy became the Emperor, and renamed the ranks to Duke and Duchess.

The War of The Dog
Murphy took a neutral outlook to The War of The Dog. Murphy did things with The Order regardless of the war, helping one Order member travel to Lazarus_Frost's merchant capital, and made peace with Clyme. Murphy never gave Order any information though, because even if he found the war wrong he was loyal to the faction. It can be argued that Murphy’s relationships helped ease the losses of PRoP because the grief of Highturf was just bamboo spam instead of TNT explosions. Murphy still has a gripe against Clyme because he keeps naming Highturf some polish name which Murphy doesn't appropriate. But Murphy mostly doesn’t care anymore, because Clyme is banned. Murphy still considers Clyme a friend though, especially when they both in survival made 2 maparts about Megumin.

Aftermath of The War of Dog
After the war ended with the Bamboozlement of Highturf, Murphy spent most his time in Den Lumen. After that there still was a cold war against Order which made Murphy’s trading relations decently hard, but because he still had the "Armed Nations of the Netherlands" he still technically kept good relations which Moonclan and good-ish relations with The Order. Murphy rarely worked in Edgestantinople but sometimes did visit. One instance of his visit resulted in his death due to some mishaps with the Gold Farm. This time of the faction it was very inactive but the Growth of Den Lumen was great. Secretly Murphy did try to find the person who leaked Highturf because the town was dear to Murphy. During this time, Murphy and AerialSN1PER began their 'rivalry', due to arguing in The Legion's discord server and Aerial raiding bases.

The leadership Of PRoP was also that Murphy was one of the councils but after Fallen had to leave under one of the peace conditions of the war. Edgy made himself Emperor. This was in Murphy’s opinion a bad plan, but most of the time Murphy could stay stubborn enough his rank of Duke could still influence decisions.

Murphy's Fall of The Legion
Even before The War of The Dog, PRoP did not have the best reputation but that was worsened afterwards because of AerialSn1per's antics and Edgy failing to maintain a positive image and isolating The Legion. At the time, the towns were sorted out into categories in The Legion's discord server. Murphy wanted Den Lumen to have its own seperate discord server, thinking that Edgy's way was too strict. Murphy reluctantly complied at first, thinking it was violating one of the conditions he joined under that he still had some freedoms, though Edgy was unaware of this since the agreement was made between Murphy and Vyasuka and not an official PRoP councillor. Murphy blatantly refused to adhere to the Rules of PL (renamed from PRoP to People’s Legion), but eventually got an ultimatum which Murphy didn’t like.

Murphy would like to say it was a perfectly orchestrated plan with how he got Neo Lumen its own discord server (Neo Lumen was a backup town in case Den Lumen got griefed), but eventually after inviting Tooatomic to Den Lumen some stuff were getting stolen. It turned out it was misplacing of Tathal who didn’t announce she moved the beacon. But Murphy really wanted to move away from Den Lumen, because it was relatively very close to spawn (35k). So he went to Neo Lumen with Tathal, Vyasuka and LukeT33. Tchap also was invited to the town, but mostly stayed in his own island. At this time, AerialSn1per leaked the coordinates of Den Lumen which solidified him and Murphy as enemies.

Murphy also did some diplomatic missions and by passing remarks and detective work figured out that Amberhallow leaked Highturf, because Moon Clan base and Highturf were too close to each other.

Getting Kicked from People’s Legion
Edgy, who was displeased with Murphy getting around his ultimatum with the discord server of Neo Lumen, forced Murphy to delete the server, and have it like every other town which Murphy saw as ironic because Chapman Island also had its own server; Edgy, however, was unaware of this. Murphy refused because he saw it as his right. Edgy kicked him for not abiding to his rules.

Provinces of Lumen
Murphy and Tathal founded The Provinces of Lumen shortly after their departure from The Legion, and since the reset was right around the corner, Murphy thought it was perfectly timed since all ties would be cut from Edgy when that happened. Murphy convinced many members of The Legion to switch sides, though some remained part of The Legion as dual citizens.

After the reset, Edgy was fairly inactive so Murphy used this opportunity to recruit nearly all ex-Legion members and have them found towns in the name of Lumen, starting with Lazarus’ merchant capital. After that the Legion collapsed due to inactivity, and every shared faction member became fully in the Provinces of Lumen.

The Dongos War
After hearing about the griefing of Havenport, Murphy got the Provinces of Lumen involved in The Dongos War. He commanded an attempt to use his friend gfrekt to inside The Dongos, but it was thwarted after Edgy leaked it out of anger for the events that happened at Temptown. Afterwards, he helped in an operation led by TooAtomic to infiltrate The Dongos again.

During the griefing of Chronos, Murphy came to its defense and managed to pop raggepoik's totem, but he was forced to retreat after realizing he was outnumbered.

Murphy had multiple of his towns griefed during the war, including New Turf Bay, Lazarus Outpost, and Levant Metropolis. These losses were quickly made up for.

Once the war had ended, business returned to normal.

Tension with The Heretics
Murphy wanted an alliance with The Heretics, and so asked both Jorgur and Edgy for one. Both responded with no, but Murphy persisted, occasionally asking them again and again, but stopped after it seemed it was for no use. Eventually, after having a discussion involving all of the Heretics guvmn't, multiple members and leaders of Lumen, stopping the allied requests was set in stone, that it would have to come from the Heretics side.