Mianite was a Minecraft roleplay series created by iiJERiiCHOii and TheSyndicateProject. The server began as a vanilla Minecraft SMP in June of 2014. While the first season began without intending to have a narrative, a story gradually began to pick up steam as the series went on, and the four major playersnote became "The Four Heroes," starring in a Low Fantasy story centering around their antics as well as the gods who had chosen them as their champions; Mianite, Dianite, and Ianite.
The major players lived amongst each other just doing day-to-day activities for some time before they were eventually given a quest to restore the missing goddess Ianite to her place by retrieving her stolen heart. The players are forced to question their own loyalties, and the loyalties of their gods, as they search for the conclusion in their quest of gods and men...
Season 2 began on January 31, 2015, with one of the major changes from season one being the inclusion of mods, and its setting in an Alternate Timeline. At first the plot consisted of saving the town of Dagrun from the approaching Taint, which threatened to destroy all the surrounding land. However, it quickly became clear that Mianite runs a much tighter ship in this realm than the other, and his followers are less than accepting of those who follow other gods.
On April 5th, 2020, Jordan and Tom began a spinoff series by the name of "Mianitian Isles", which seems to be a prequel to the events of the previous series, joined by newcomer Lrakinidas. It also drops the mods, returning to a vanilla Minecraft series in the same vein as the first season.
This series provides examples of:
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Tropes 0-G
- Aborted Arc:
- During season 1, there was an attempt to introduce the Shadows, an evil even bigger than Dianite. His champion, Cronus, arrived as the voiceovers of the character were revealed, tempting a few streamers. However, the plotline was aborted with the reveal that Dianite was testing his followers' loyalty, with Syndicate refusing to join the Shadows allowing him to pass, while Nadeshot failed by joining the Shadows. Ultimately it's a subversion, as by season 2, the World Historian is shown to be the true identity of the Shadows.
- Mianitian Isles's nature as a prequel spinoff meant the season 1 era versions of the gods were explored, negating the story arcs related to the alternate heroic Dianite going with the heroes to replace his evil self, and Martha succeeding her mother Ianite as the goddess of balance.
- Alternate Self: In season 2, all four of the main heroes, as well as Waglington, have one of these.
- Antagonist Title: In season 2, alternate Mianite serves as the main enemy of the season.
- Ascended Extra: In the first season, Waglington just appeared every once in a while. In season 2, Wag is essentially the fifth hero.
- Bad Moon Rising: Season 2 introduced the Blood Moon, a random night during the cycle wherein more mobs than usual will spawn, making it a rather dreaded occurance amongst the players.
- Battle Couple: Tucker and Sonja often fight together in the series, taking on many mobs side by side.
- Big Brother Instinct: Jordan is very protective of Ianita, Ianite's mini-me who views Sparklez as a big brother, and doesn't want anything to happen to her.
- Big Damn Heroes: Averted. Though the Wizards show up late to the Taint problem, and seem like they are going to use their mighty wizard powers to vanquish it... In actuality, they don't do much besides show Tiem Reester their badass new base.
- Blood Magic: A mod used in season 2 adds this. Tucker has gotten very talented at it.
- Broken Angel: Prince Andor, a Winged Humanoid, had his wings cut off when he was imprisoned at the Inertia. Thanks to Jordan, he eventually gets a new pair.
- Butt-Monkey: (Ex-)Guard Tom. His treatment certainly makes the heroes look... not-so-heroic, really. It comes back to bite the heroes in the final episodes. Most of the players inflict this on each other too, distributing copious amounts of death and destruction amongst Tiem Reester.
- Catchphrase: Whenever Farmer Steve appears, he'll say "I'll give you a right rumble, mate!" at least once.
- Character Blog: Mot
, CountryBat, and Martha all have official ones. - Deadpan Snarker: Tucker has been known to make a lot of snarky remarks throughout the series on various occasions. Sometimes, Tom has been known to revel in them too, here and there.
- Death of a Child:
- Sonja and Jericho accidentally killed Jefry, Tom's "son."
- Jordan allows the Ianitas to be sacrificed in the hopes of reviving Ianite.
- De-power:
- Ianite was being gradually drained of her powers, later revealed to be the result of World Historian sapping at her quintessence, which is why she returned to the End and had to say goodbye to Sparklez.
- This is also why Waglington is no longer a wizard; his magic was drained by a particularly difficult teleportation spell.
- Didn't See That Coming: In response to Jordan's supposedly unrighteous stealing of Dianite's armor, the god teleports Jordan to the combat ring and summons a wither. The wither fires some shots at Jordan and flies away to wreak havoc elsewhere.
- Divine Parentage: Ianite is revealed to be the King and Martha's mother.
- The Dragon: Guardian Furia served as this for Dianite, until deciding to usurp him, which didn't end well for Furia.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Furia rose up in an attempt to usurp Dianite.
- Eldritch Abomination: The Tainted Statue manifestation that shows up near the town. Although it was human-shaped enough to qualify also as a Humanoid Abomination at first, when it was destroyed by explosives it returns even bigger, sprouting Combat Tentacles to assault the town and dropping the "humanoid" part completely.
- It even is titled in the chat (when it speaks) as "Abomination."
- The Exile: Tom was banished from Dagrun after he revealed that he worships Dianite. Subverted in that he isn't all that torn up about it.
- Fakin' MacGuffin: Jordan allows four of the Ianitas to be sacrificed in order to revive Ianite, not knowing that the original is in Martha's care. When Mianite finds out about the original he orders Jordan and Tucker to find it, even after he said that the four Ianitas had been enough. Grown suspicious, Jordan makes a decoy Ianita and has an acted-out "confrontation" with Martha in which he kills her. Jordan than gives the decoy to Tucker, who kills it, sparing the original Ianita. Everyone bought it.
- Gentleman Wizard: Waglington is a wizard, and pretty much the friendliest person in Mianite.
- God of Evil / God of Good: In Season 1, Mianite was the God of Good while Dianite with God of Evil. In season 2, their roles seem to have reversed, with Dianite being on the heroes' side and Mianite being sketchy at best.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: In season 2, Mianite is using questionable means to keep his people in line, and Dianite only shows his true nature to Farmer__Steve and Tom. Though to be fair, it's justified in that its speculated his own brother killed him, although it later turned out he didn't actually kill him.
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- Have You Seen My God?: It isn't unusual for the gods to be absent for a long period of time, leaving the players without much guidance until they return.
- Hellhole Prison: The Inertia, by the way it's discussed, is not the best place to find yourself.
- The Hero: All four of the central players are The Heroes of their own mini-arcs which all tie into the central arc. Wag is promoted to this after the raid on Inertia.
- Jerkass God: Regardless of whether they are supposed to be good or evil, both Mianite and Dianite have a tendency to be dicks to their chosen heroes. Averted with Ianite; in season 2 she openly hangs out and makes friends with the other Mianite characters, and both versions have shown nothing but support for Jordan.
- Katanas Are Just Better: In season 2, the Kikoku, the very sword used to kill Dianite.
- Literal Cliffhanger: Season 1 ended with the heroes jumping of a cliff into the void. This is also used in season 2 when the heroes jump into the void at the end of the season once more.
- Merchant City: Dianite's dwarven city is described as something like this.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jordan accepted Lieutenant Al's offer to clear the town of taint in exchange for a powerful weapon, ignoring Martha's warnings as to what would happen. As a result, the taint returned the next day as an enormous, unstoppable monster.
- The Nicknamer: Farmer__Steve enjoys giving nicknames to people it seems. Syndy for Syndicate, Wagz for Waglington, and Sparklybum for Sparklez.
- No Fourth Wall: Since Mianite is a Let's Play rather than a scripted roleplay, the players casually refer to non-plot related things. There are, however, moments when they are supposed to be in character, but they break it anyway. Averted with it comes to the NPCs. Ianite's final message to Jordan indicated that the Minecraft world is all the inhabitants of Ruxomar know.
- Oh, Crap!: This happens a whole lot throughout the series, often whenever the gods show up, or something really terrible happens in an episode or livestream.
- In season 1, the sterling examples are the Tank of Judgement, when Dianite finds out that Jordan won Tom's extremely powerful armor through the purge, and the end of Season 1 when Dianite has a final showdown with the four heroes.
- In season 2, Jordan's solution to destroying the taint proved to be counter-effective.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted.
- There are currently three Toms running around, these being Tom "Syndicate" Cassell, the Wizard known as Tom "Killertom" Beer, and Guard Tom.
- There were also two Jordans, as Jordan "CaptainSparklez" Maron in the first season would occasionally interact with Jordan "TheTwistedGuy" Miller, one of the Hyperion crewmembers who worked on the series.
- Other Me Annoys Me: When Dianite returns, he asks what he was like in the heroes' realm. When Jordan tells him, he responds that "other me is lame."
- Physical God: All three gods are physical beings who can be talked to, walked with, and killed.
- Pun: Jordan makes a lot of puns, some good, some awful.Jordan: Are you purgeturbed?
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- Rule of Three: There are three gods, one for each of the realms. Mianite for the Overworld, Dianite for the Nether, and Ianite for the End.
- Sdrawkcab Name: Tom's Alternate Self is named Mot.
- Ship Tease: There are many hints at Mot and Dianite possibly being in a relationship. Becomes canon in the final episode.
- Shipper on Deck: Tucker went so far as to build a marriage altar for Captain Capsize and Jordan in season 1. He also shows support for Jordan and Ianite in season 2. Sonja gets in on it too, the two of them even suggesting to Ianite that she move in with Jordan.
- The Tease: Martha the Mystic is Farmer Steve's girlfriend, but that doesn't stop her from flirting with all the guys on the server.
- Token Evil Teammate: Tom worships Dianite, who is basically the devil, and has an attitude to match.
- True Companions: Tucker and Tom mainly, but all four of the main heroes are this.
- Winged Humanoid: Many characters, such as Prince Andor, King Helgrind, and even the heroes due to the presence of Angel Rings.
- The Wise Prince: Prince Andor is shown to be wise and trusting of the heroes, and remains faithful to Ianite, unlike his father King Helgrind.
