General Introduction

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The Red Blades of Manderian
An introduction

credits go to Jonkar for writing most of it

Hello everyone,

We are the Red Blades of Manderian. A roleplaying guild which, at the moment, plans on focusing on Mortal Online. We’re very open to opening chapters in other MMO’s such as Star Wars: The Old Republic however currently there are no definite plans. We’ve existed as a guild for almost three years now, founded in July 2007 from the core of the wow-europe RP-pvp guild on Defias Brotherhood The Shining Strand. We started out as a roleplaying mercenary clan for Darkfall however ultimately decided not to play Darkfall and wait for Mortal Online. During all that time, we’ve ranged from 50+ members to 20+ members and everything inbetween. At this moment, we have a member base of 20+ members which are all active and very loyal. We can safely say that we have a stable, friendly, mature and easygoing community. Over the years, we’ve enjoyed ourselves in games such as Darkfall, Team Fortress 2, Age of Chivalry and various random games. Yes, we also play non-MMO’s, while we do not recruit in those games. Additionally, we hold regular other events, like writing competitions, forum RPs, and other things if there's enough interest.

Our overall goal, as a community, is to remain a stable and friendly community where everyone can get involved, clan member or not, and to become a respected (roleplaying) clan in every game we play. Of course, we always welcome new members and do intend to grow. For this reason, we’re putting up this recruitment post. While we have no specific member cap in mind, we do always make sure we only accept people who are able to fit in our community. That being said, everyone interested in roleplaying can always apply for a trial membership.

Our sole focus is Fun. That's what we play it for. And playing with the guild is what we consider fun. Hence The only real obligation we ask of members is when you're online playing, Play with the guild and its members. be active in the forums to some degree(though trial members do need to show more activity) but for the rest Real life always Goes first. This is one of our core features and nobody will ever be criticised for putting their real life priorities ahead of the game we play. Though if you're not active enough you won't be able to hold a position of leadership, which nothing less then reasonable.


Our presence in MO

Our theme used to be that of a roleplaying mercenary guild. Perhaps you’re an old Darkfall player who remembers us as such. However, in Mortal Online we’ve decided to adapt our goals. In Mortal Online, we plan to be a guild which main goal is to build a roleplaying city, where everything happens In Character and where roleplaying is enforced. Next to that, another big and unique aim is to allow various groups to get directly involved in our politics. More on that specifically can be found here:

http://www.manderian.net/forum/
http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/14254...aking.html

What will we do to ensure the quality of our city and roleplaying environment? Of course, as we said, we will encourage and enforce roleplay. We will have people roleplaying guards which, next to keeping the peace, will actively encourage people to roleplay or else give them an ultimatum to leave or face the consequences.

We plan to hold many events in the future, which can range from events completely open to improvisation to events with more of a guiding hand (But never through providing OOC information and "just doing things"). To make it all more interesting, we’re aiming to write up the results and actions of each event into short stories, ultimately up keeping a chronicle throughout the years of our actions and adventures. This is a chance for all of our members to become part of our history and to become part of the server’s history.
Next to that, another important facet of our guild is that we make sure there are plenty of missions and work orders to keep all of our members busy. This may range from patrol/guard duty, to crafting work orders for crafters and so on. In Mortal Online, guidance is something that may be important for (new) players and we are willing to provide it. We’ll obviously do everything we can to help people started and answer questions while playing the game with Ventrilo.

For MO and the city Lore is being worked on with a focus on shedding the old Tindremic culture, but for that read the Lore section at the bottom of this forum.