The Ancient Watcher

Introduction

When Minecraft was first created by Notch, he watched over it and protected it. He fixed any glitches and constantly updated it to make it better. However, these updates also made it bigger, until it was too big for him to watch and there were too many glitches for him to fix them all. To solve this issue he took two players and gave them great Power. One, Dan, was entrusted with fixing the glitches and, when Notch eventually disappeared, with updating the game. He trained many, and as a collective they became known as Admins.

The Admins were allowed to interact with players, and all large servers had an admin as a leader. Dan would eventually retire and appoint an Admin Prime to guide the rest, but they were never as strong as he ever was.

The other player taken by Notch though was named Xelqua. He was tasked with watching over all the worlds, but never interacting with them. At first he took great joy in this, watching the goings ons of hundreds of players at once. He could watch over far more worlds than an admin could maintain, and such the ranks of the Watchers was never as great as that of the Admins. However, Xelqua eventually grew lonely, as the other watchers merely saw him as the 'Primordial Watcher' and wouldn't interact with him for fear of him. Tasked to never interact with players he lived a lonely, sad life until one day. 

Xelqua felt it as Notch disappeared. Everyone did. A being of such power can't simply disappear without creating a wave of magic felt by even the least attuned players. No one knew why or where Notch had disappeared to, and after a conference the Watchers and Admin realized they were going to be squarely in charge of Minecraft, no one to oversee them or correct their mistakes. Many on both sides were wary of this, but Xelqua was ecstatic. Without Notch overseeing him, he could finally relinquish his position and go on to live among the mortals.

Hastily Xelqua called together a meeting of all the Watchers, and announced that he would be leaving, before appointing a successor. Too hastily though, did he leave, as his successor would turn out to be power hungry, and slowly the divide between Admin and Watcher would deepen, until the Watchers were the enemies of the Admins.

Xelqua though was oblivious, living among the humans. To conceal himself he locked away his magic and took a new name. The very same day that the Primordial Watcher disappeared, the player Grian appeared.
-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-
Written 8/13/24

I intend for this to be a longer story, and while it will have a story, a lot of the chapters won't have anything to do with that story and will just be about random interactions with the Hermits or world building. I want to take my time with this story and create a good story and world.