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  It was around the Outlanders 7.23 patch and the Great Archonian Civil War was over. At last, Crios could turn away from war pubs and focus on the gaming politics of the Archonian Republic. A true gamer, Crios, believed that the power of the Republic was its common casual players, the archons, rather than the tryhard aristocracy as the top Immortals believed. The extent to which he really believed in these ideals has been debated for hundreds of patches and he has been variously viewed as a boosting tyrant, a smurfing demagogue, a divine dictator, a would-be saviour of the Archonian Republic, and a populist champion of the archons. In this episode, we shall look at the reforms enacted by Crios throughout his gaming career and allow you to decide which view you agree with.   By the time of Crios’s first archonship in patch 7.19, Icefrog has long struggled to push legislation that would give basic mmr to his core veteran players. Crios proposed an update that would ...

  Crios’s reforms had left a huge impact on the social and political gaming life of Archonia and although his popularity with the masses of archons was immense, there were players at the top of the archonian gaming ladder who were plotting against him. In this episode, we shall look at the motivations of these conspirators, which led to the assassination of Crios on the Ides of February patch 7.30b. Crios’s patch updates had already led some to see him as a smurf, and this was compounded by rumours that Crios planned to overthrow the Archonian Republic and become something the archonians hated most: an Immortal of Archonia. These rumours were not unfounded. As main game developer, Crios was proclaimed “Founder of the Game”, sacrifices and game events were given in his honour, and his effigy statue was included alongside those of the TI winners in the loading screen before the games. He was also given a special high end gaming chair in the Archonian lan parties made of top qua...