Lanborg
| State | Unified Commonwealth 
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| Lanborg empire (before 0Ð) | |
| Region | Høvemark/Hófasviði 
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| Architectural Density | Overheterogen |
| Area | >60000m² |
| Date of creation | 04 January 2024 (initation) |
| 07 January 2025 (construction start) | |
| Creators | Fyndrix & Cat |
| Date of creation by lore | -670Ð |
| Creator by lore | Adriel the Great of Lanborg |
| Coordinates | X400; Y64; Z2600. |
| Distance to 0;0 | 2630m |
| Appointed Chancellor | Cat XIV of Lanborg |
Lanborg (also Lankhöfuðborg) is the biggest city by planned size of the Thorildsby Project. Lanborgians nowadays usually speak New Lanborgian (Tungmal, Icelandic), but you will occasionally still come across books written in Old Lanborgian (Altsprech, German). Due to most Lanborgians wanting to clean up their very grim past, Old Lanborgian is only used by criminal organisations such as the Lanborgian Nationalist Movement. Before Altsprech, there were also Tribal languages, similar to Occitan. The name of Lanborg comes from «Lançar» in Tribal, meaning «to throw», as the settlers on the main island often fought with bows. Borg comes from castle, as there is a castle planned there.
History
Initial planning
At the end of December 2023, Thorildsby was already a big and prosperous city. Hoping to replicate and expand on Thorildsby's unique building style, Fyndrix and Cat set out to find places where new cities may be constructed. They eventually found an island surrounded by a river about 2km south of Thorildsby. A couple of days later, the Lanborg central station was constructed on a creative world and was later pasted into the map of the Thorildsby project. Fyndrix also built the initial buildings, which would become a template for the Colour district over a year later.
Railway to Thorildsby
On the 7th of January 2024, Fyndrix and Cat wanted to build a railway from Lanborg to Thorildsby. Just a few minutes earlier they updated the Oculus mod. To their horror, when they arrived in Thorildsby a lot of building blocks from the create mod have disappeared from Thorildsby. They did manage to recover the damage with help of a back-up world, but this taught them a lesson to always test all mods and updates before using them. This event is now known as the 7th January Corruption.
District of Colour (Litasveit)
The new district of colour (Litasveit), which is situated right next to the central station, has been built in a series of Livestreams on Fyndrix's and Cat's youtube channels. Its new and unique historic architectural style makes it a very unique and cozy place for inspiration and hanging out.
Future
For the future, Fyndrix and Cat have planned three metro lines, a university north of the island, multiple historic districts on the island and areas of contemporary architecture outside of the island.
Lore
Early days
In -670Ð Adriel the Great of Lanborg has gained full administrative control over the Hófasviði region. In order to more thoroughly supervise his territory, Adriel the Great erected a castle on an island surrounded by a river. "The river would be an excellent barrier against attacking enemies", so Adriel the Great thought. Lankhöfuðborg i.e. „The castle from where gets thrown“ grew due to its safety compared to other settlements in the Hófasviði region. Over time, it became one of the most important trading hotspots in the region. Just before his passing, Adriel the Great declared that his daughter shall take the throne in Lankhöfuðborg, thus establishing Lanborg's dynasty.
Port city
For a long time Lanborg existed peacefully, eventually passing down the throne to Ari I. In -412Ð he realised that just by building a few canals, Lankhöfuðborg could become an important pit-stop on the route from Kalkdui to western Åranian setllements. Many sailors liked being able to buy supplies in Lankhöfuðborg which freed up a lot of space for more cargo. With more and more sailors arriving in Lankhöfuðborg, more people started moving to the town causing an explosion in population and a massive expansion outside of the castle walls until Lankhöfuðborg filled the entire island. What was once just a small administrative castle has turned into one of the most important port cities.
Lost years
From -372Ð up until -98Ð there are barely any surviving records. This is due to big parts of the city going up in flames on -98Ð, destroying massive portions of the city and its archive and essentially erasing a huge chunk of Lanborgian history. However, experts assume that trade continued peacefully during these years, besides potentially a small war in the north against Årania, which would explain some small land gains on Hófasviði's side. We do not know, if this war is in any way related to later wars between Hófasviði and Årania.
Ari II
In -96Ð, after his predecessor passed whilst trying to protect Lankhöfuðborg from the fire, Ari II was coronated.
Ari II is nowdays known as an irresponsable dictator as he declared minimum sizes for boats, caused three megainflations and he threatened to bump up taxes, if someone said something not to his liking.
Unexpectedly, Ari II got fatally ill in -81Ð. His last decree was for Einar to start a war against Årania, as Ari II always suspected the Åranians to be responsible for the city and archive burning down.
War against Årania
Following his fathers orders, Einar declared war against Årania in -67Ð. After just a few days, Åranvik surrendered.
Over the next 18.5Ð, thousands of Åranians were forced to work or killed. Most traces of this time only exist as artifacts or in some very faint memories.
However, the Åranvik resistance was planning out an attempt to overthrow the Lanborgian supervisor with support of Thorildhøj and Kalkdui. Nearly all stationed Lanborgian military personnel were killed and Åranvik's supervisor was publicly executed at -48.46Ð. This moment marks the independance of Åranvik.
Årania then took back massive amounts of territory from Hófasviði leading to the borders that we still have between the two regions today.
Aftermath of the occupation
Back in Lanborg, many Lanborgians were completely oblivious to the horrors that happened in Årania. When the Åranian government forced the king to tell the Lanborgians about the occupation, many people were very unhappy with their emperor, as they have been repeatedly lied to for a long time now. Inner resistance movements were established more often, but those were quickly dissolved. It took until the Northern Coalition, (Årania, Thorildhøj, Kalkdui and Pantokyst) made a peace proposal about creating a Commonwealth of Nations at around -9Ð. Peace for the rest of the Lanborgians' lives was promised to all Lanborgians that went to the Melon Square and praised Fyn, an overmighty figure in the entire world. However, Einar was still against this and punished everyone who worshipped Fyn.
Unified Commonwealth
Shortly before 0Ð, hundreds of Lanborgians assembled at Melon Square, went on their knees and started speaking repeatedly „We hail the Fyn's Commonwealth, the saving republic.“ Einar started slaughtering the people who kneeled, but they did not resist as they believed peace would come. And indeed, Fyn stepped in and killed Einar. Following this, the plan of the Commonwealth, which combined all regions into one single government, was brought to life. The creation of the Commonwealth is defined to be exactly at 0Ð. Following this, Fyndrix appointed Kat as chancellor.
Culture
Cuisine
Lanborg is known for many sweets and fruity dishes. Most popular are melons, Melon Square almost serves as a hotspot of all melon-related foods around the world. Another popular dish is Heitare (peppers with meat). However, beer is also very popular. Ranging from very light beer over beer with lemonade or caramel all the way up to the ultra-high alcohol content beers which Lanborg is especially popular for.
Folk music
Lanborg is often known for its many pubs and bars. For many Lanborgians, these are places to get together and sing songs about war heroes or entirely made up stories. This is suspected to be the reason why most Lanborgians are such kind and friendly people and how they sat through their own folk being slaughtered.
Transport
At the moment, not a lot of transport exist in Lanborg, however there are lots of plans for the future.
Mainly, Lanborg will have at least three metro lines. The first station's design should be mimicking the metro stations in Stockholm, especially T-Centralen.
Lanborg also has a central station from where you can take trains to Thorildsby, Åranvik and Røde Myr.
Notable People
Lanborg has produced some important people in history and modern media except for politicians.
Erich Reimer
Erich Reimer is considered to be one of the most influencial inventors of his time, with his peak of carriere being in -52Ð. He is famous for inventing the harvesting of thermal energy from the planet's core, which is now used as energy generation everywhere. This invention was kept a secret, as during the unsuccsesful testing a massive earthquake was caused. As an inventor, he had close ties to the government, which during the War of Dignity he lived in, had a bad reputation and conspiracy theories about starting the war (which turned out to be correct). He knew his invention would be used for the destruction of thousands of lives, so Reimer commited suicide and painted a new image of the government, as he published top secret military documents on the day of the suicide. This lead to massive protests, which were then quickly solved using violence - therefore spreading awareness of a totalitarian regime.
We know this valuable information through his diary and documents buried near Straskur - the location of them was revealed by his brother after the downfall of Einar, around -9Ð.
After the documents' publication, inventors from around the then new Commonwealth improved Reimer's design and made it much safer.