Sweetfires first came up with the idea of a Twine Wars while the early members were active on the SciFi Vine. At the time, it was suggested as a war on a single world - the crossworlding aspect came much later - and it was intended to take place on a storyboard, or linked storyboards, in the 'Castle' group at SFV.
The earliest Pro-ponents were Sweetfires (then Sweetfires Elf), Mutt (then Basaltine Phoenix), and a few others, most of whom did not become long-term members.
After a lull in the conversation, the Great War idea was proposed as a completely new group at the SciFi Vine. Conversation and plans continued.
[Tserisa] (then Tserisa Evenstar) was the one who came up with the name Proelium, intended to mean 'battle'.
The SFV was showing signs of decrepitude and after one mammoth chat it was decided to create the group with a different provider.
Pro continued happily as an Excite Group until they changed their services and no longer offered free message board hosting.
It was in the latter days of Excite that the crossworlding aspect was introduced. Since the group started, several of the members had got interested in amateur worldbuilding and wanted their creations to be part of the Great War.
Proelium set up shop at [avedov.org] using the [Discus] message board system, still in use at Profusion today.
The webhosts were never brilliant, and after one screw-up too many (this time involving several months' worth of posts being lost), a hasty relocation was in order.
And so the group reached HHnet, where it currently resides. The name was changed to Profusion. The management has changed, but much of the original membership remains (or still drops by to say hi).
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