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Lemuria has been accused of being the author behind Katherine Hessen by both [[d9eoead]] and [[PC_KOSA]], though he has repeatedly denied these allegations. | |||
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Revision as of 22:47, 10 July 2025
| Lemuria | |
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| Joined | November 2023 |
| Origin | Spam comments from Polonez on OpenStreetMap |
| Aliases |
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| Chat colors |
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| Notable actions/creations | Our World of News |
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| Webpage | lemuria |
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| Residence | Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Religion | Irreligious |
Lemuria, also known as Nora Elise Proctor, is a user who joined in November 2023. He discovered the website through Polonez, who left spam comments on OpenStreetMap, that he then followed. His visit was brief; he did not start using the website in earnest until February 2024. That month, he started Our World of News, a now-defunct newspaper for the website that ran until February 2025.
Starting around June 2024, Lemuria began to attract controversy for his behavior on, and philosophy towards Twitch, alongside other behaviors perceived as "attention-seeking".
Etymology
His name, Lemuria, comes from Lemuria, a hypothetical continent proposed in 1864 by Philip Sclater theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean.
Nora Elise Proctor
In main chat and on discord, Lemuria has named himself "Nora Elise Proctor". Lemuria intentionally avoids any and all questions about the name changes and/or the character herself. For a brief period of time in March 2024, Lemuria frequently threatened people that "Nora Elise Proctor" would use an M4 fully automatic rifle and shoot them to death. When questioned by d9 about the purpose of the "Nora Elise Proctor" character, Lemuria says that it's due to boredom.
On June 3, 2024, Lemuria added "Gallia" to the name, becoming "Nora Gallia Elise Proctor", in reference to an American violinist, Gallia Kastner, though later removed it after continued backlash against him and his continued mentions of Kastner within the Discord.
"Lemuria er Nalaneriv humas"
On April 1, 2025, Lemuria changed his nickname to "Lemuria er Nalaneriv humas"[a], for April Fools. However, Lemuria later chose to retain the phrase as his nickname, and retire "Nora Elise Proctor', even after April Fools. The phrase means "Lemuria is a fan of Nalani Proctor" in Kenahari, one of his conlangs.
Projects
Lemuria has created a variety of projects for the site; two worlds, a newspaper, and fictional maps featuring extensive references to OWOT users and his other interests. His longest-running project was Our World of News, which ran from February 2024 to 2025. On the site, he created /asciinavy (a world with simple drawings of spaceships made using ASCII), and /galaxymap (a set of star names on a galaxy). The latter world was the WOTD for March 13, 2024. In November and December 2024, he created the Uvias Metro, a fictional metro system with stations named after OWOT proper nouns. In June 2025, he created the OWOT Starmap, the successor to galaxymap, entirely abandoning the OWOT world-based format for a slippy map format similar to OpenStreetMap.
Mental health
According to d9eoead, Lemuria allegedly shows several symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), as he "heavily desires attention, puts his needs above others, lacks empathy, and cannot handle criticism." In fact, he has only been diagnosed with autism and is actively seeking out mental health resources, and has done so since August 2024.
Controversy
Edit wars
An edit war started between d9eoead and Lemuria when Lemuria created an SCP parody article about Ziggy at Trash:AOP-1044 in March 2024.
Fearing a "Yellow Guy 2.0", d9eoead quicky blanked the article. Lemuria reverted this, and this looped over and over until d9eoead spammed the article with 100k bytes of Alejandro mpreg fart porn. Shortly afterwards, FP got involved, warned d9eoead and moved Lemuria's article to the Trash category. Lemuria reverted this a few times before stopping. Later, Lemuria created a copy of the article outside of the Trash category, which d9eoead soon discovered and moved back into the Trash category. Lemuria later deleted the copy article.
On September 9, 2024, Lemuria and d9eoead briefly fought an edit war over a section regarding Lemuria's behavior on Twitch. FP eventually ruled on Discord that the section could be included, while explicitly affirming Lemuria's right to report on d9eoead's controversial actions.
There is currently a third edit war between Lemuria and d9eoead between whether or not the "This section is written by an adversary of the subject" notes should be removed. d9eoead is in favor of their removal, stating that not only is he simply writing facts on the article (agreed upon by users and the mods, as well as having an extensive timeline of such on the OWOT server), he also doesn't outright hate Lemuria at all, simply saying that Lemuria's actions are immoral and thus d9eoead will go against him for such. Lemuria countered d9eoead's points, saying that he still views d9eoead as an adversary and that he believes that his biased viewpoint towards d9eoead is more than enough to make all of the verified pieces of information automatically false, which is an incredibly fallacious viewpoint. d9eoead has stated several times that he does not want an edit war and that he's open to discussing this and talking it out.
Obsessions
Lemuria has been criticized for his continued frequent mentions of indie musicians, especially women. Most of these mentions are of three people, who are Ruth Acuff, Emily Anderson, and Gallia Kastner.
“Attention Extraction”, Twitch Streamers, and Baiting
Lemuria frequently talks about “attention extraction” and often uses baiting tactics on the OWOT discord server to give him more attention. Examples include repeatedly using the number “423” in his messages, and often blabbering about the previously mentioned female indie musicians. He often talks about the twitch streamers he “extracts attention” from, and has shown a hate towards the moderators of the streams, whom he refers to as the “Cooked Fish Group”. His “attention extraction” can be seen as detrimental to his mental health, as he goes into fits of rage or sadness whenever twitch streams are postponed or interrupted, and has even wished death on the twitch moderators. He has been told multiple times to stop talking about the “Cooked Fish Group” and his “attention extraction”, but continues to do so.
Lemuria also views his desire for attention as being above other people’s lives. When the maternal grandmother of a twitch streamer he watches dies, he is only worried about how it will interfere with his “attention extraction”.
After several more confrontations, Lemuria became more distanced from OWOT, only posting cat pictures here in there. His usage on the OWOT discord server slowly rose, and so did his attention extraction, an example of which is his saying "Sodium, Lanthanum, Nickel"; which stands for “Na La Ni”, "Nalani".
When Fern gave Lemuria less and less attention, he became depressive, writing several paragraphs on his personal wiki about how it affected him. When Lemuria pasted these several paragraphs onto the OWOT server, d9eoead confronted him, asking him why he is even writing that much because Fern isn’t giving him enough attention. Lemuria went on to say that “there is no replacement for Fern”, leading many users to become worried, calling it creepy and obsessive. This is an example of how Lemuria treats attention and validation, as when people give him even a slight amount of it, he latches on and depends on it immensely.
Katherine Hessen
Lemuria has been accused of being the author behind Katherine Hessen by both d9eoead and PC_KOSA, though he has repeatedly denied these allegations.
Notes
- ↑ The nickname originally used the word husirs, which is grammatically incorrect, as hu ("to be") uses the first conjugation. The correct suffix to indicate habitual present in the first conjugation would be -mas, whereas the second conjugation, reserved for verbs that end in consonants, would use -irs. husirs was used in an earlier version of the language, and the phrase was in Lemuria's notes regarding sample translations into the language, that had not been updated with the changing Kenahari grammar, hence the error, and subsequent change from husirs to humas.