Fictonia (project)

Fictonia is a collaborative, fictional world and role-playing project somewhat based on the United States. The main purpose of the project is severe weather and storms. The project was founded on August 25, 2023.

Established	August 25, 2023
Creator	Diamondlifeyt
Contributors	>20
Status	Active
Predecessor	Terralockla, Agapetos

History (In real time)

August 2023

On August 25, 2023, Diamond created a new map in Scribble Maps. He then drew some rivers, a lake, and then created a county. Green County was the first county created. He then drafted up a few more counties before saving the map. Diamond originally wanted to call the map “Fictional”, but misspelled it and instead called it “Fictonia”. He saved it anyway, thinking it was actually a good name for a hypothetical world. Fictonia then began to rapidly expand. More and more counties would be added over the next few days at the request of members of a discord server. This is also the time where the National Weather Service office in Greenville-Spartanburg became a thing, and served the northern part of the state of Fictonia.

September 2023

On September 1, 2023, official daily tracking of hurricanes began. The first daily outlook was made on this day, and the first storm of the 2023 Fictonia hurricane season, Andrea, had formed. He then continued tracking these storms daily. More storms then formed, including the strongest storm of the season, Chiri, peaking at 190mph winds and a pressure of 896mbar. Beginning roughly around September 16, 2023, he then began creating more states in Fictonia. This was so Diamond could expand the area that people could inhabit in the world of Fictonia.

Rest of 2023

Most of the year in October, November, and December was relatively quiet. A moderate risk was in place on December 9th, however it did not perform as expected. Fictonia became relatively quiet for the rest of December.

January 2024

In January 2024, Diamond started a tradition where he would add at least one state in the map every month. For January, he added the state of Florence. Originally when it was first introduced, only a few counties in eastern Florence were visible. However an update to the map on January 13th filled the rest of Florence. This same day, the state saw a large severe weather event, the largest in its history.

Near Death of Fictonia

Overall, in late January, Diamond had begun to feel that the Fictonia project was becoming unstable. This later became true as on February 2nd, he released a statement that a 6 month anniversary event of Fictonia would be canceled. The following day, he announced that Fictonia would be suspended indefinitely, and Diamond was preparing to kill off the project. This was for a few reasons, mainly due to the project being extremely unstable. However it was at this time that he was timed out from a Discord server for a whole week, which had a lot of Fictonia supporters in it. This really annoyed him, so he kind of reacted out of anger canceling the anniversary and eventually almost killing off Fictonia. Diamond received an overwhelming amount of support on February 3rd and February 4th regarding the project. He even had a few people reach out asking if they could take over the project. He however declined all of these. On February 5th, Diamond stated that the project was revived. This was towards the end of his timeout in that server, and plus I felt that with some changes in Fictonia, the project could become stable again.

February 2024

Many more states were added to the map in February, such as the rest of Valencia, most of Deltaland, some of Epsilon del Norte, most of Fictonia, and more. There were a few significant severe weather events during this period, one of which being the largest outbreak of tornadoes in Valencia history, on February 25th.

March 2024

The first four days of March were dedicated to paying extremely close attention to what appeared to be a very strong storm system moving through Fictonia sometime around March 5th. This prompted eventually a Day 3 MDT and later on a Day 2 HIGH risk to be issued by the Fictonia Storm Prediction Center. On March 5, 2024, a day 1 high risk was issued for much of the region. This high risk would produce many tornadoes, including some significant ones such as the Fictonia-Valencia EF4, the James City EF4, the Northumberland EF5, and many others. This would become the largest outbreak in Fictonia at the time. Comparing the rest of March to the March 5th event, it was mostly quiet. This was also a time where he got extremely sick which caused Fictonia to be slightly less active than normal in mid-March.