Tiandi:History

This is a meta page regarding the History of Tiandi.

Pre-founding and background
Joining the site in the fall of 2009, Arumdaum joined his first RP region Lisosia in early 2010. Lisosia at the time was falling apart, and coincidentally Arumdaum stopped going onto NS in the spring of 2010 due to RL. Unlike other regions, Lisosia was unique in that it was headed by East Asian nations. Also, Lisosia was where Arumdaum discovered irc, which Arumdaum's regions would continue using (including Tiandi) up until spring of 2017. After moving to Korea in the summer of 2010, Arumdaum began going on NS again, this time joining an affiliate region of Tarquinia (predecessor to Maredoratica) called Otcina. In 2011, Arumdaum began a series of Alternate World RPs (AWRPs) which enjoyed a significant degree of popularity on F7.

In the summer of 2011, Arumdaum founded a region called Illuscinora; Illuscinora was the first RP region which Arumdaum founded. People were largely drawn from his previous AWRPs. By the end of 2011, the region had largely fallen apart, and Arumdaum joined a new region called Lucerna in the beginning of 2012. The people in Lucerna were initially those who had been in Illuscinora. Inactivity by the founder and other old members led to Arumdaum taking complete control of the region, to the point where Arumdaum organized a refounding of the region in which he would be the new founder.

It was in Lucerna that Arumdaum first insitituted the idea of East Asian industrialization and colonization. Issues arose in Lucerna over the issue of East Asian dominance around spring of 2014, and around the same time, Arumdaum was more occupied by RL affairs. Lucerna gradually crumbled as Arumdaum went inactive and many of its members moved to Maredoratica. After a halfhearted attempt to start an AltHist RP in P2TM during the fall of 2014 and a brief stint in the region A Modern World in early 2015, Arumdaum decided to found his own region again, but this time with the previously controversial East Asian dominance being a core concept of the new region.

Foundation and Spring 2015
The NS account Tiandi and the region Tiandi were first founded on April 17th, 2015. He messaged old members of his region (such as Sabara) and later people who participated in his earlier failed AltHist RP (such as Toishima), and several of them soon came to join the region. At the time of founding, Arumdaum was primarily interested in exploring racial issues and the evolution and development of cultures with East Asian dominance rather than Western, as non-whites and non-Westerners would be dominant in the new region.

Early members included Arumdaum, Sabara, Toishima/Akitsukuni, Victoriala/Raj, Senkaku, Zhouran, Kibland, and Sebtopiaris/Kibetsu. Less active members included the sliver cross, who made a square tank. Early Tiandi was primarily focused on worldbuilding, although RP was also present. Sabara was made an administrator. At this time, a "cabal" of core members formed on irc.

One user, Rephesus, suggested that the names of the continents be changed away from Mandarin Chinese. Arumdaum decided to switch the continent names to Korean and made the langauge the IC lingua franca for reasons of convenience and also the belief that it would be more interesting if neither Mandarin nor Japanese were the global lingua franca.

Summer 2015
Around late-spring/early-summer, Senzu joined. Insaeldor was also present. Chat and development moved from irc to Skype. Skype chat was filled with incessant amounts of spam; Cyllea spammed the attack helicopter copypasta multiple times, and Sebtopiaris constantly spammed goatse, jumpscares, extremely graphic walls of text, and stickers. Both Sabara and Arumdaum eventually left. Rules were eventually introduced banning spam and graphic content.

Fall 2015
Daeseong joined. Yasashii from Lucerna made a puppet called Himmelstadt but quickly went inactive.

Spring 2016
Intermountain States/Haeseon and Dayganistan joined.

Summer 2016
The summer of 2016 saw a large influx of players from a divided NS region called Atlas. The most prominent of these people was Kven. At this time, there were divisions regarding the position of NPCs, Heidi, and the role of Europeans in the region. Heidi left due to Akitsukuni.

Spring 2017
Activity and development moved entirely to discord. Arumdaum made his account on 4/20.

May 2017 - February 2018
Tiandi underwent a significant hiatus as Arumdaum went missing due to IRL. Several long-term members, including Daeseong, Akitsukuni, and Haeseon moved to Ordis. Mingdai/Hokan/Sorgan joined in February 2018.

Spring 2018
Daeseong singlehandedly revived Tiandi as he started a Tiandi-sponsored Alternate History RP in P2TM. Kven made the map, and Mingdai was made an admin. Eventually, more attention was given to Tiandi than to the Alternate History RP.

Summer 2018 - September 2019, Chatroom Period
Dayganistan left in August 2018.

As an NS region, Tiandi underwent a significant hiatus, and the server turned into a casual chatroom. Members of the chatroom period included jeezy/CPC Greg, Arumdaum, Sabara, New Kvenland, Daeseong, Valaran, New Hayabusa, Mingdai, and Kolintha.

Arumdaum spent much of September revamping the map to make it larger. Miju was also completely reworked.

October 2019 - February 2020
Arumdaum spent money on NS for the first time and bought TG stamps. Several new people joined, such as Manaban/Yalen, Jihwa/Woom (who is Korean from Korea), Xencovia/Blue, and Somyrion/Sansiao. Heidi rejoined.

February 2020 - present
Somyrion was made an administrator.