New Tonyville, formerly called Brodville, is the name given to the spawn village in Wellstowne Boogaloo created primarily by Burrowdizzy, Immabed, and SpoiledBIO. The village is primarily meant as a residential area for villagers, as part of the Minecraft 1.14 villager mechanic changes, as well as a location for Burrowdizzy and BWJC's Mega Lodge 2.0.

Lore

Pre-existing structures

Before New Tonyville was founded, and before even the ancestors of New Tonyville's residents discovered the area upon which the village stands, prior beings built ancient structures which have since been incorporated into the village itself.

The Old Tower

The origins of the leaning tower that stands on the East of the village is unknown, but it is clearly a very ancient building. It is built on stable land, at the highest point of all surrounding land, but in the eons since its construction the tower has tilted nearly 30 degrees. The design of the tower indicates it was clearly designed for defence, with machicolations and battlements built around the top of the tower. It may have once defended a castle or other building, though any remnant of an adjoining structure is long gone, being eroded by time. Nothing else is known about the tower or the beings who built it.

The tower has since been incorporated into the Mega Lodge that covers most the Eastern hill, and new floors have been added inside the tower, level with the ground, in place of the long decayed original floors.

The Library Ruins

The only other structure that remains from before the villagers found and settled the land now known as New Tonyville is the base of what is now the library. The origins of this structure is not fully understood, but ancient writings indicate that the old leaning tower was already ancient and leaning when the base of the library was built. The building was mostly eroded and only the outer stone walls remained when it was discovered by explorers many moons ago, but archaeologists discovered several ancient tomes within the ruins. The tomes suggest that an ancient masonic order, possibly of monks or sorcerors once studied in the building, though there are varied opinions on the reliability of translations.

Early Settlement

Discovery

Explorers from the continents first discovered the island of Caseus Nova a few hundred years ago. Several small fishing settlements were established over the next several decades, including one where the current New Tonyville fisheries are located. None of these original settlements still exist, but they were successful exporters of fish for nearly a century. Word of the ruins that were discovered on the island made their way back to the continent, and another wave of colonists arrived at the island. These were not fisherman or explorers, but archaeologists and scholars, and they quickly took an interest in the ruins that form the base for the modern library. In fact, the new colonists set themselves up almost entirely independently from the fishing settlements, and seemed to have brought great wealth with them, for they would periodically buy food from the fishing settlements, but produced no goods with which to trade, purchasing instead with continental emeralds, which the fishermen then used to buy goods from the merchant vessels that would visit to buy fish. The scholars quickly built a roof for the ruins and took residence inside it.

Isolation and Independence

Over time the fishing settlements became more self sufficient, as residents began to specialize in some of the trades that let them produce their own tools, clothes, and other necessities, rather than trade for it. This increasing sufficiency also led to a consolidation of the settlements, and the largest and wealthiest settlement began to see the other colonists moving to it, though it still had no formal name. The increasing self-sufficiency could not have come soon enough, since merchant ships from the continents were arriving less and less often. The power and wealth of the continents was beginning to fail, and they were becoming embroiled in internal disputes, famines, and political upheaval. There was less time and money able to be devoted to sea-faring, and the colonists on Caseus Nova were all but forgotten, though the few ships that still made the journey brought back much needed fish.

During this time period, the scholars, still secluded in the Library, constructed an addition, a second storey above the old ruins, and the occasional outsider caught a glimpse of scribes furiously producing tomes, and shelves filled to overflowing. The scholars continued to buy food and other goods from the colonists, and by this time the continental emeralds had been so widely circulated on the island, that it became the de facto currency, replacing the trade of goods for goods for more and more of the island's residents. In fact, those few ships that still arrived at Caseus Nova no longer had additional goods to sell, and so the emeralds became useful only on the island itself.

It was not through any war or great treaty that Caseus Nova became independent from the continents, but simply through increased isolation. No concrete date could be given for when the island became independent, and no one particularly cares. The degredation of the continents left Caseus Nova to take care of itself.

The Founding of New Tonyville

The First Permanent Structures

With the connection to the outside world vanishing, and the fishing business well established, ambitious residents of the island sought to establish more permanent structures. The wealthiest residents began construction of large houses with solid foundations. Stone was cut and timbers were brought from the small forest, and several large houses were built on the small hills around the valley that fed into the main fishing settlement. For awhile, a new home would be finished every few years.

Incorporation

With the settlement expanding and more permanent structures in place, one of the most wealthy of the residents, Billy, decided it was time to properly establish the small community as a proper village. With the support of several of the other families, the settlement became a village, and was name New Tonyville, after the ancestral home of several of the town's families, Tonyville. It is said that the first child born after the village was incorporated was given the name Tony, and to this day it remains a popular name for young villagers.

To celebrate the newly formed village, and to establish his own position of power within the local social order, Billy had a new home with a bell tower constructed on the easternmost hill at the end of the valley, near the ancient tower. Although the title was not used in his day, Billy is known as the first lord of New Tonyville.

The Establishment of the Lordship

Although no formal leadership had been established for the village, Billy's dominance over municipal activity was an established fact. It was expected that Billy's son would take over that unofficial position, but Billy's son died in an unfortunate boating accident. Supposedly, he got out of his boat after returning from a fishing trip, only to find his boat had vanished and he was suspended in mid air. He yelled for help, but as villagers approached to help him, his boat reappeared, cutting through his legs. The shock and blood loss killed him very quickly. Despaired but strong in character, Billy raised another son, who tragically died after walking off the bell tower several times. From that point on Billy lived in seclusion in his hillside home, and upon his death it was brought up by another member of the village that it was time for a proper leadership of the village.

And so the rest of the village agreed, and the lordship was established. Since Billy died with no living heirs, his home was vacant, and so the new lord moved there, and the tradition of the lord of the village residing in the eastern lodge was established.

The Growth of the Library

With a fledgeling village taking shape around them, the scholars of the library remained an enigma to the villagers. They remained secluded, though they continued to participate in the local economy, and providing a source of additional emeralds. During the third lordship the scholars contracted the villagers to build an additional level to the library, in stark contrast to the original expansion, which the scholars themselves constructed, outsiders were allowed into the library for the first time in over a century. The shelves of tomes amazed the villagers, although they were not allowed to read or even approach the books.

The current lord of the village took advantage of the situation and the good faith between the village and the scholars, and decided to formally accept the scholars and the library into the village of New Tonyville. In rare appearance, the scholars came out into the main village square for the ceremony, before retreating once again to their now expanded library.

Growth and Trouble

The village, now including the library and its scholars, was moving from the small coastal huts further into the valley, but the growth of the permanent structures was not without its setbacks.

Expansion of the Lord's Lodge

Principal among the new constructions in New Tonyville was the expansions of the lord's lodge. Starting with the fourth lord, lord Brode, whose massive expansion overshadowed Billy's original tower, many of the lords added expansions to the lodge to assert their leadership. Over time the lodge became known as the Mega Lodge, and had become a maze of passages, rooms, and hidden doorways.

Pillager Troubles

During the fifth lordship, New Tonyville received its first visitors in many decades. These were not merchants from the continents, but pirates and pillagers taking advantage of the new freedom of the sea allowed by the nigh complete reduction in the navy and commercial ships of the continents. Villagers were killed, homes were looted, and the seaside huts were burned to the ground. Even the library was ransacked, though the scholars had hidden themselves and their emeralds away, and the pillagers found little value in the books. The remainder of the fifth lordship was spent rebuilding and recovering, and saw some of the businesses move further into the village, away from the coastal fishing areas.

The Village Wall

The sixth lordship was dominated entirely by the construction of a village wall, in order to fend off future attacks from roving pillagers. This was a hard time for the villagers, with high taxes and forced labour on the wall leaving them tired and poor, but the action was justified when shortly after completion of the wall a small patrol of pillagers arrived on the island, but after seeing the wall they left and no raiding party came. During the fifth and sixth lordship the Mega Lodge was not expanded.

The Village Hall

The eighth lord, Lord Jay, saw that although his lodge had grown large, the village had no centralized meeting place, and instead of building an expansion to the lodge, he decided to begin construction of a large village hall. The problem Jay faced was where to put the building. The village now had a distinct boundary, and although there was much space available, none of it was large enough for the building Jay wanted to construct. The only location was where the library stood, so Jay approached the scholars about building around the library. The scholars agreed, so long as an additional level be built upon the library as well. And so construction of the village hall continued, adjoining to the library. Construction was not completed until the ninth lordship, although the basement was not finished until the eleventh lordship.

The Tavern

Although the lordship remained the most prominent position in the village, other families were able to gather great wealth. In particular, the family that ran the local tavern and brewery was able to amass great wealth. During the tenth lordship, a new and large tavern was constructed, along with state of the art brewing equipment, in the southwest corner of the village.

New Tonyville

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