Settlement:BoS Island
Description
Think big or your not a BoS Member
BoS Island is the third incarnation of a team effort of several IRL swedish friends. The village was founded by Aske, Daash, Madboy, Minimad, Rmt, Solver and Tottman during the first hours in the initial wave of settlers that arrived to the land of Independence.
Buildings
- 7 large private villas with adjacent patch of land that the owner is free to use as he/she see fit.
- 1 well equipped large kitchen that can also serve as the village community center.
- 1 Guest house of considerable size.
- A fully functional wishing well, both water and enchanted.
- Two merchant houses with high ql merchandise
- A Harbour with piers for bigger ships and a marina for smaller crafts
Politics
Government
The combined group effort that today is known as BoS Island is not ruled by a single individual, such as a mayor, but instead is held together by a sense of friendship and comraderie. The inhabitants regulary comes together to work on larger projects. From time to time the group has been known to temporarly invite friends and travelers to live as citizens in the village, or to invite honorary citizens. People invited in this way do not have a vote when deciding issues that concern the citizenry, but they will of course listen to their input.
Language use
People of many ages inhabit the island, and the languages spoken most frequently are swedish and english. Regular chat regulations are naturally being followed, however the inhabitants wish to apologize beforehand to the non-swedish speakers that happen to pass by if they feel left out of the loop when swedish is being spoken.
History
As remembered by the inhabitants.
The story of BoS actually starts without any of its current members, with a fellow by the name Amader who had been playing on and off for a long time on the Jenn-kellon Home server. He, in turn, attracted Solver to the game and Einnel, Daash, Theacke, Madboy, Rmt and Tottman were soon to follow. The site where we all settled down was dubbed Wolf Hill, due to the frequence of said lupine at the site, even though it was too close to Serenity Port for an actual deed to be planted without permission. We asked for that from the Serenity Port mayor, but were rudely denied and so eventually we packed up and left for other lands.
Amader, together with his RL friend Madonna, went seperate ways from the rest of us and settled in the far north while the rest of us finally found ourselves at a tranquil bay in the south, approximately SSW of Mesa Verde, where we settled down and founded the Bay of Swedes.
Bay of Swedes was the name of our community, as most of us wanted their own homestead deed and founded them seperately. With time, our reputation on the Home server grew and our gathering became widely known. During this time some of our members stopped playing, but most remained. Several ambitious projects were attempted, and some even completed ;), and by the end of its time the bay had been transformed into a lush park of walkways, flower fields and oak tree groves.
With the advent of the Freedom server, and imminent closure of Home, the people of BoS packed up their bags and moved once more. Since we now had ships, the process was a bit easier this time. Arriving in freedom (09-06-17), we came upon a suitable island to the northeast of the main continent and swiftly claimed it as our own. This time we established a deed right away to cement our hold over the island. Since it wasn't an actual bay, we named it "BoS island" in honor of our past and the reputation it held.
Time went by and we started to settle in, taming the area and mining caves in search of the treasured ores. This arrangement worked for a couple of weeks until opinions clashed and some of us decided to move and settle down near our old friend Riverboy(alt Lilbear). We started to make room for us and putting down our own deeds. Right about this time the concept of breeding was introduced in the game. As a result the numbers of wild animals decreased rapidly, and as such hunting became a dreary prospect indeed.
So when the portals between freedom and wild opened up 09-10-22, some of us took the chance and used it. Almost completely empty of all gear when we arrived on the other side, we were met up by a couple of players that took us in. See BoS as HOTS.
Nearly all of our members left for wild that day, leaving only Aske and Daash left on Freedom. Even though we've branched on different servers, we are still one community and linked together.
