Margraviate of Solvernia
The Margraviate of Solvernia, colloquially known as Solvernia, is a general art faction centered around video game and history projects. It makes lattices and art. It was established by _Etta on Canvas 59.
Overview
Solvernia succeeded an earlier faction created by Etta, known as Lilac Lattice. The goal of the Margraviate of Solvernia was to more or less be the opposite of the Chromatic Empire, which Etta had briefly clashed with on Canvas 58. Solvernia was dedicated to making elaborate and unique lattices each canvas along with a central art piece. This goal of being the anti-Chromatic Empire (which _Etta viewed as oversized, boring, and overprotective of their solid colour backgrounds) was rather ironic as Solvernia's name was inspired by members of the Empire.
Following Canvas 59, Solvernia began to make art pieces along with their backgrounds, which grew larger and more elaborate with each canvas.
History
Canvas 59
_Etta returned halfway through Canvas 59 and took the original Lilac Lattice faction tag and renamed it to the Margraviate of Solvernia, the Margraviate part of the name inspired by some members of the Chromatic Empire using faction names that make them sound like fully fledged countries. Despite this inspiration, _Etta's goal was to be the polar opposite of ChE, and after initially trying to build in the middle of Idle Slayer's lattice, Solvernia began making an elaborate grayscale background next to Grayscale Pxls, the pattern chosen as a thank you to drake for helping her find a new location that she could fit Solvernia's logo. This canvas was extremely uneventful for Solvernia, with the faction having next to no interaction with anybody and _Etta making the lattice entirely by herself until the last day of the canvas, when a handful of users helped on the lattice until reset.
Canvas 60
Canvas 60 was another uneventful canvas for Solvernia, with Helislothic helping out with making Hivolt and the initial diamond, with _Etta expanding on her own until Shimanas from the Geometry Dash faction helped her out in the later part of the canvas after helping her build a solo art piece depicting part of a Geometry Dash level. He would go on to join Solvernia later that canvas and help out towards the ends of future canvases. While Solvernia wasn't directly involved in the Flandre-Foxhole War, _Etta helped Flandre take over Foxhole's main art toward the end of the initial offensive and helped repulse Foxhole's counterattacks. This led to _Etta being invited into Flandre and the two factions later becoming Allies.
Canvas 60a
Solvernia's start on Canvas 60a was extremely rough, and they were attacked by an unknown griefer that was able to stay anonymous due to the canvas' -snip- gimmick hiding all names, forcing Solvernia to quietly relocate to a different square below Green Lattice and make decent progress on their coat of arms before the griefer attacked them again, this time being successfully repulsed. _Etta's initial suspicions of the griefer being lord, a member of Foxhole, Can, or Ewastaken, two users that _Etta griefed multiple times on Canvas 60, were debunked through tracking the change in their pixel counts while fighting the griefer. After the griefer was repulsed, Solvernia made a very small background around their coat of arms that was designed to mesh with Green Lattice, and planned to take a break for the rest of the canvas as _Etta disliked the -snip- gimmick. This didn't last long as when the Crucible War began, multiple small pieces of art were partially or fully covered by Legion's grief on the Chromatic Empire. Solvernia stepped in to help defend the Shinmy, King's Brand, and Spiny art and to help relocate the Koishi art after ChE took the area that it originally occupied from Legion. Solvernia helped relocate the Spiny when the original creator agreed to move it and relocated the King's Brand a couple hours later after Legion turned their attention to it and completely destroyed it, but successfully helped defend Shinmy from Legion and a brief attempt from ChE to cover part of her with the tip of the tentacle from their jellyfish.
Canvas 61
Solvernia got off to a rough start on Canvas 61, with the small canvas forcing them to relocate twice and preventing Flandre from creating their part of a duo art collab with Solvernia and push their art back a canvas. Solvernia got help from zalgy while building Remilia during the first part of the canvas, and once they moved on to making the lattice Solvernia helped destroy a lightsaber that overlapped with FURU's Cult of the Lamb art when the lightsaber's creators began griefing the lamb. Outside of this short grief Canvas 61 was extremely uneventful, with _Etta once again mostly soloing Solvernia's background until a handful of members of the Geometry Dash faction helped finish the lattice near the end of the canvas.
Canvas 62
Solvernia struggled to find space for their template at the start of their canvas, and while they planned on collabing with PokéPxls and the High Church of Luigi, this ended up not happening as Schizophrenia's Rouge art forced Solvernia to split off from the collab and attempt to find a space not claimed by a larger faction. They were nearly forced to scrap their art on this canvas due to the only large unclaimed areas, most of the leaves, were slightly too small for the canvas, but Lunes' unexpected abandoning of their plans right as the canvas started allowed for Solvernia to take their claim for themselves. Outside of the chaos while seeking a place for their template, Canvas 62 was mostly uneventful for Solvernia, with FrodoFraggins and LoafKingHue helping with the Meloetta art and Shimanas helping with the lattice towards the end. Flandre's main art of Flandre Scarlet was initially meant to go with Solvernia's Remilia Scarlet art on the previous canvas, but had to be delayed a canvas, and Solvernia helped with the building of both Flandre and the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and helped defend Flandre against Schizophrenia. Solvernia's art on Canvas 62 dwarfed anything they had made before, with their total size being 20,000 pixels larger than their Canvas 60 territory, which was their previous largest canvas. Upon finishing their lattice Solvernia officially sided with Idle Slayer and helped them defend the giant from Schizophrenia in the Schizo War.
Canvas 63
Solvernia once again struggled to find space for their template, with attempts to find a location resulting in overlapping with multiple large factions. A final location was eventually found on the purple square in exchange for helping move IWBTG Pxls' small sprite out of the way. While there were initially no plans for a lattice due to _Etta planning on placing much more slowly than on the previous canvas, help from Zombie812 and HentaiLover, who alone placed roughly half of Solvernia's art, led to a lattice being started later during the canvas. The planning for this lattice was extremely rough and haphazard, with the lattice being much too large to be built before reset without a decent amount of outside help and _Etta failing to take account the significant drop in placing speed due to being on vacation during the last week of the canvas. Despite this, the entire lattice was completed with the help of various users, most notably hazard12100 and reissecup, and Solvernia was even able to expand to fill in the last remaining area of the purple square before reset. After being defeated by the Trollge Confederacy Bi Faction attempted to relocate onto the dormant outline of a personal project of _Etta's, but was repulsed and her personal project was added to Solvernia's main template. By the end of the canvas, despite Solvernia's intention to go significantly smaller than their territory on Canvas 62, their territory ended up being more than 5,000 pixels larger than on the previous canvas. This was also the first canvas where _Etta didn't place more than half of Solvernia's template.