End War III

End War III was fought on the server's 1 month anniversary. It was much more intense and chaotic than the previous two, the first one more or less being Zera and a player who's name has been lost to history racing to kill the dragon, and the 2nd one seeing low attendance due to few players having the spare gear to fight.

Parties
Riser: The victorious faction of the previous end war. Following various base griefs and traitors they were in a weakened state, though Zeragaud still had a decent arsenal of gear. The only three members who were able to fight in this battle were Zera, jabler1, and ijent. Riser made the mistake of underestimating how geared most players would be and as a result took a more backstage approach to the fight.

Inpurus: They spent the last day preparing for the fight and planned to lock down the end spawn while also fighting out in the main island. However due to low manpower and a lack of PvP training they were put at a disadvantage.

Sanctum: Originally they did not plan to fight in the war, but felt they may have had a chance due to Riser's weakened state. They were a close group but due to the last minute decision to enter the war they did not have much of a plan.

The Crusaders: The Crusaders had decent PvP skills and plently of materials, but they were only a duo and as such had low manpower, which they compensated for with a creative strategy you will see later in the story. (Someone who knows more about the crusaders involvement please add on to this)

420conlos840: Though not a faction conlos is a feared and relentless PvPer on the server, with most people likely unable to beat him in a 1v1.

_BadCraft_: As far as I know he was not tied to any faction, though he would continuously disrupt Historio's control over the end spawn.

Pre-Battle
Many groups were stationed at strongholds throughout the map. This was a highly tense period in around the 30 minutes preceding the battle. Last minute organization and preparing was being done throughout the server.

Early Fight
Right after the end was reset The Crusaders began to throw TNT into the portal they were at. This made it next to impossible to enter the end for the first few minutes for the battle without risking being blown up, a few geared players died to this, though most went in naked first to scout anyways. Eventually the Crusaders ran out of TNT and geared players were free to enter the end, though they had another trick up their sleeve, which was to spawn in withers to cause chaos during the fight.

Main Fight
Once the coast was clear players began pouring in. Many escapes on their elytra and began a dogfight in the sky while some stayed on the ground. Historio quickly set up a hole for him to place crystals on the end spawn in. This resulted in a decreased amount of bed bombers as he would blow them up, and a few fully geared players such as PurpleMyName being killed.

Zeragaud, who had expected most players to be either bed bombers, or only have partially maxed out gear was caught off guard when most players were in netherite gsets. This resulted in him staying further back in the battle, only getting close to death once when fighting a 4v1 against Inpurus. His teammates jabler1 and ijent were killed very early in the fight and as a result he was the only person representing riser in any real capacity during the battle.

(Because I was on the end spawn for most of this I don't really know what happened on the main island much, feel free to add more info)

Eventually the Ender dragon got killed by GoldenMatee and most players began rushing to the middle to try and get the Dragon egg. Ultimately the egg would be taken once more by Zeragaud after it almost got destroyed by a wither.

Late Fight
In the late fight the only parties left fighting were Inpurus, The Crusaders, and conlos, who had a truce with The Crusaders for the earlier fight but would start attacking them towards the end. The late fight was mostly being fought to try and take gear from others and for fun, as the trophy was already safely in Zera's echest. Historio was the only Inpurus member left in a gset, and was accompanied by other members who were bed bombing. He fought a mostly defensive battle agains the Crusaders and conlos, having to go back to the overworld to restock occasionally. The fighting was mostly done through crystals, though no clear winner ever emerged due to players slowly leaving the end after the dragon was killed.

Ramifications of the Battle
After the battle jabler1 formally dissolved Invicta, though it had basically died days earlier with the fall of Fort Jackson. Inpurus became a much more transparent faction making the names of its members public. Riser felt that the end battles were too messy and expensive to be worth fighting in and has stated that they will not be fighting in the future ones. After the battle Inpurus and The Crusaders realized they had Riser as a common enemy and entered into an alliance.

A shift in the way the battle was fought also happened. In the previous battle most fighting was done through bed bombing while geared players were on the defensive. This time however there was significantly less bed bombers due to geared players having better items and the occupation of the end spawn. End crystals also saw a spike in usage during this battle, and their nature of instakilling ungeared players made it even more difficult to bed bomb.

The long term ramifications of the third end war are yet to be determined.