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by The Free State of Topid. . 1,325 reads.

St Abbaddon, that's a weird name. Where'd it come from?


The Founding of St Abby

The St. Abbaddon Linkstory arc was a Linkseries of at least Linkfour threads spanning from 2001 (or earlier) through 2003 at IGN. They were character based role-plays. We only have access to a little over 17,000 posts of this story arc, but based on a reference I found to page 448 of the first thread (which has been lost) I estimate there were at least 40,000 posts in the stories combined. (If the posts from these threads were combined on the NationStates forums into one topic, it'd be 1600 pages.) I also see a reference to a couple related threads like a character bio thread, they are all lost as well.

Within these long threads, as I'm sure anyone familiar with NS RP will not be surprised, an incredibly tight-knit community was formed. At some point, not very long after Max brought the site online, the members of this community decided to join NationStates. It is possible this group agreed to try NationStates together as a whim, but I suspect that they were seeking a new site to locate their RPs in. IGN's Sci-Fi Community Board was collapsing by this time because of internal feuds over the combining of two boards and a new paid membership requirement to post.

Regardless of their motives in coming to NS, they founded this region in the name of the fictional world they created, and it has existed ever since.

The Free State of Topid

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