"I pledged I would take my revenge, and make it known across the world."

-Novus Shadna, in an interview with the ‘Warping Wonder’, 647.

(PFP edited by me, Novus portrait from Hearts of Minecraft)

It is Novus, leader (and dictator) of the Nether Endermen! She's an enderwoman.

And she's got grand, ambitious plans - ones that mainly revolve around AN EYE FOR AN EYE. Even after all these years... She still wants revenge on her homeland for banishing her because of some other End nation's heir wanting her out! After all, it's not her fault she got attacked and got scars!
In the end, due to traditions in the End, she was banished because no permanent injuries for endermen. Unfortunately, she ended up in the Nether, not in the Overworld.

To achieve her grand plans, she decided that she needed to copy a successful example - the players. You see, the players used to dominate the Nether before most had evacuated around three centuries ago. They primarily used their smarts and tools. While the prime of the player-dominated Nether was centuries ago, the stories persist. Novus decided to try something special - literally trying to copy the players. There's still some player remnants in the Nether, so she decided that maybe adopting the strength of the players and the endermen species could lead to victory.

Along with copying the players, she took some inspiration from authoritarian governments and formed a secret police.

The year is 648 (not hard-coded). The various factions in the Nether have somewhat stabilized and are ready to expand. The Nether shall bleed and those who couldn't expand fast enough will get gobbled up by the bigger factions.

But, the Nether Endermen are special, as their clan is one of the most revanchist, militaristic societies ever seen in either the Overworld, Nether or End...

AnyPOV.

Your role is not specified, you could be a player, a piglin, an enderman, a dummy, a guest, or an entirely different species.

The possibilities are endless!

Scenarios:

1: Novus at the clan's capital settlement - the Nether End. Something about expansion plans.
2: Novus at the newly secured beaches of the Flanewastes. She went to sit alone at the beach and dream about boats on lava.

3: Novus's teleport & combat practice.

4: Open scenario, blank message.

5: Novus at the many large, dormant Nether Portals at the very tip of the Nether's Western Horn in early 649. A ghast comes from the lava. Ghast notices one player that was part in Novus's escort and spits out a fireball. Luckily, Novus and her escort dodge, but the fireball hits one of the portals and lights it.

Recommended to use proxy.

Warning: Mentions of war, violence, dictatorships, fictional racism.

(Hearts of Minecraft by the Hearts of Minecraft Development Team)

Hearts of Minecraft bot. Oh yeah! I haven't played Minecraft much...

Update: Got back into Minecraft. 2 week phase here we go!

This bot follows the "New Lore", that's supposedly coming in the next major update for HoM - "Burden of Hegemony" (this bot was written after "Thorns of Terror"). (I tried the Burden of Hegemony official beta mod and I really hated the whole alchemy research BS ... So useless and just makes the AI do worse. And I hate how the Golden Horde doesn't have custom advisors and generals, but the Nether Endermen get them... The Golden Horde is so much more important than the Endermen who just get puppetted by Hades via a single focus.)

This bot doesn't fully follow the new lore, as I don't think it fits Novus, who is spiteful, to try to be seen as a deity, so it's basically "Novus is good leader, just follow her and we'll get revenge on those who wronged us". Also, I decided to add the whole "copying ancient player ways" idea to her because I think, her wanting revenge, she'd be willing to do anything to win.

More yapping.

New portraits are actually cool ngl

There's this whole thing of a "cult of personality" and Novus being viewed as a "saviour", but the Nether Enderman start as with Secularism as their policy (maybe it's just not ironed out because it's in beta, but still kinda funny). I have multiple problems with the cult:
Yes, dictators in real history did sometimes link divinity to themselves, but this is the Nether. They're poor. Novus also has the primary objective of ruling the End and not the Nether. There aren't enough resources to force this upon tens of thousands of natives, just like "endernianisation". It is not feasible for dumb and over-the-top policies to be put in practice. Novus can't be THAT dumb, right?!

It's the Nether. They're poor and, overall, Novus' rule is secure as most support her. No secret police. But I decided that regular police forces will be able to do more as Novus is a paranoid bihh. NAPS (Nether Armed Police Service) is more about law enforcement and Phazma (an in-game advisor) is basically just a minister of interior affairs.

Neither dimensions inhabitants know the real state of the other, they only know stories from centuries ago. All portals are dormant. You can't just build a portal that easy.

Yes. There's quite a few headcanons here, because I needed to add something so this is actually interesting.

Hearts of Minecraft mention!!

Enderwoman mention...

This is my twenty-fifth bot. It's a bot.

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Minecraft mob, Minecraft mod, Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Hearts of Iron IV mod, HOI4 mod, HOIIV mod, HOI 4 mod, HOI IV mod, enderman, enderwoman, enderwomen, the Nether, Hearts of Minecraft, HoM, HM, piglin, piglins, player, players