Guilds: The Blood Aegis #2

Fuse: Hello Blood Aegis. I'll start by asking for you to tell me in as simple words as you can, a little bit about your guild?

Shelarish: The Blood Aegis is a Military Order, focused on the relief of other units within the Horde.

Amerane: The Blood Aegis is a heavy Roleplaying guild that is part of the umbrella concept of the 'Thalassian Army', meaning we are Sin'dorei only. But what we work towards in that concept is to providing relief and military aid to all orders of the Horde and individuals that otherwise would be in need of our help. We have no limits and many possibilities on what we are trained in and thus - I like to think, a great way to inviting other guilds into RP.

Fuse: So you're essentially back up for other military units or orders, if I'm correct?

Amerane: That's correct, but it does not always have to be military units. We are able to aid citizens, alternate orders and organisations.

Senneria: In a fashion, just broader. We can bring relief to almost anyone, organization or individuals, as long as the situation fits with what the guild is about.

Fuse: Interesting concept you have, could you possibly tell me how does your guild qualify if the person or group in question is fit to receive help from The Blood Aegis?

Amerane: We do not aid nefarious means or in situations that may go against the betterment of the Sin'dorei's interests. As we are ultimately still part of the Thalassian Army, there has been situations for example, where if we aid in a fight, we may come across in a bad light to the rest of the horde. We have to take into consideration the politics of the situation as well as if our help is truly needed and if we can get to the location in time.

However, generally speaking, we have very rarely had to turn down our help. We do not charge for our aid and our help is far more reliable than that of say mercenaries.

Shelarish: We do our best to be able to deal with most situations within and without of fields of conflict. In the time I have been with the Aegis, we have almost all of the time, gotten results that the group or individual who has asked for our help, has been grateful in the end for our help.

Fuse: Let's say in the unlikely case a group with mal intent approaches your The Blood Aegis requesting for the help with false words. Is there any method of them detecting this or how would they deal with it on the road?

Blood Aegis:  If someone approached us, they generically do so in person. There has been situations where, we'll allow the individual to remain nameless, someone tried to use one of our most recent recruits to persuade us to head out to a location to help a group in a military operation. However, their hope was to actually harm the order and wipe us out essentially.

Our officers at the time, did not feel comfortable with the proposition in the first place and decided when it came down to it, that it wasn't appropriate for us to head out there. I think the short answer is, we're ran with such a diverse team of officers, each one being so different from the other, we always catch on early on! Which is lucky for us. But I'd imagine they'd have to be a large bunch to catch us with our trousers down and for it to work out badly for us.

Fuse: When not on duty, what else does the guild do?

Senneria: Usually the Aegis spots around for social RP, either between eachother or with other guilds or just random RP. It's a very diverse set of characters, so they naturally look for a diverse set of RP experiences.

Amerane: I recall, we've had pillow fights in the halls, met with random people we know and played truth and dare, thrown a few people in fountains, headed down to the beaches for general chats and training together, helping each other fit in. This also spreads to our out of character activities.

Shelarish: I normally get my arse handed to me in spars by the Aspirants. Ohh! Also, someone who shall remain nameless dumped a sack full of glitter over my head.

Amerane: We also have the project of the Silvermoon Medicae that sometimes can provide interesting random Roleplay.

Fuse: The Silvermoon Medicae, tell me more about it?

Shelaris: Right, I am the Chief Medicae of the Silvermoon Medicae, we treat -all- comers, no matter what, no questions asked, I do not charge for my time, only matiels used and operations, if needed, that I, or Miss Dearheart, the Medicae before me, does to the person. We also train the Aegis in these skills, to better them selves on the field, anyone can wrap a bandage around someones arm, but the training we do on live subjects and the injured insures that the order as a whole can man the Medicae in  the event of an emergency.

Amerane: The Medicae is basically what a student based clinic is in real life. You pay for the materials used in exchange for being treated there and then, with no quibbles. If you can't afford the materials used, you can work community service in the Medicae! (This helps us get random RP).

Fuse: That's a great initiative you've got going on there. I heard it's your birthday for the guild? How long have you been running for and what made you go with the concept in the first place?

Amerane: On the 10th of October 2015, Blood Aegis turns two! We're celebrating as a guild by having a massive Skype conversation and getting innately inebriated together and having fun runs of raids and maybe even silly roleplay.

I originally created the guild with Aurothir where we planned to have a split guild with two concepts, but due to IRL issues he couldn't keep with the guild and it became one under myself. I was inspired by wanting to create something that would help break down the barriers I had come familiar with since being on the Argent Dawn. Primarily being back then that other races didn't mix together in RP settings, especially blood elf wise. So we wanted to explore other guilds RP and be in a position to help people find RP by having as many contacts as possible.

Fuse: The text is beginning to pile up, so I'll ask one last question before we bring to this to an end. We always see there's a big tension between the Horde and Alliance. How does Blood Aegis perceive the opposing faction?

Amerane: The Blood Aegis is hostile to the opposing faction of the Alliance, but we do not seek fights with them, as we're not warmongers

Senneria: The Blood Aegis overall strive to keep their distance from the Alliance and the Horde, but some members are known to hold grudges towards factions within the Alliance, mainly the Kirin Tor due to Jaina Proudmoore and her actions towards the Sunreavers. If a mission sends us to deal with Alliance, the Aegis doesn't hesitate to undertake it to the fullest.

Shelarish: I work on a don't stick your nose in my business, I won't stick mine in yours.

Amerane: Saying that, we've also accepted the lore of having a truce with the alliance, leading us to working with guilds such as the Eye of Dalaran during the Whispers of War Campaign.

Fuse: Excellent with that being said, is there any last things you would like to add before we close off the interview? Perhaps send out a thanks to any specific players or such!

Shelarish: Emmeric Grey, from the Hand of Agony, for sharing my love of siege engines. And for some of the best and stupidest RP I have had outside the guild.

Amerane: Thank you to the recent Orcs of the Red Blades, Eye of Dalaran, Gearfist IBS and their beautiful officers and the Hand of Agony for engaging in constant RP with us.

Fuse: Happy 2nd birthday to Blood Aegis, I hope you have many more years ahead of you. It's been a pleasure interviewing you. All the best wishes, take care!

Sheladris: Have a lovely evening!

Amerane: Thank you Fuse and stay awesome.

Extras

A few players own words about the Blood Aegis and their experience of the guild!

Velnavir Dawnstriker: Blood Aegis is a guild that in my view favours campaigns and long-running plots over shorter event to event stories. To give occasional respite from the seriousness and, sometimes complex, storylines there tend to be humoristic events, training and social gatherings in between. Overall the Blood Aegis gives a very authentic military experience within the realms of fantasy, there are strict rules and stricter consequences for breaking said rules or otherwise failing to adjust to them. But it all serves to bring immersion that I have so far yet to see any other military guild replicate. Blood Aegis gives a fun and fulfilling experience that demands something in return from the members, it is that give and take mentality that creates the guilds overall success.

Elehn Sunseeker: The events in BA are absolutely brilliant. They're well thought out, they allow space for your character to be itself and really develop in a positive and fun manner. Outside the events the guild is populated with fun, open and nice people, and there is a great atmosphere, where people respect each other and talk to each other in a nice manner.

Lienyn Twinsun: The Guild is more than just a guild. We have come together to enjoy the game and everything around it. Our Events are not just the Events and Plots everybody makes. We even add some Fun-Events, Social-Events and have some fun together. The Main Aspect of the BA is Fun. I enjoy this crazy bunch.

Claire Silversong: I think what BA has become for me is something more than your average guild. I've grown, a loyalty to this guild over a long time, and I've found myself to really fit in with the people in it, it's become more than people I rp with and  have fun with, it's like a family. I can joke, laugh, make fun of, get made fun of, play and enjoy, and all of that without fearing that they are going to see me any different because we've been through times, had our ups and downs, where others who you didn't expect, came to support you more than sometimes your real life friends. I'm not afraid to be myself here, where before in other guilds, I've not been able to do so. I think that's what makes me the most happy.

Petranien Flarecrest: "Crazy bunch of lovely people. Ever since I joined, there has not been a single day, not a single moment that I’d have not felt welcomed. Even with myself being busy with acting as an officer in another guild, it is always really nice to log over to my elf, and listen to what had been going on, how the events had been, and what were the ‘spotlights’ of recent happenings. What can I say? With strong leadership and members that play well together, you can’t go wrong. If only we had more hours in a day, I’d love to spend more time with this bunch. "

Iltharin Flarecrest: "The Blood Aegis has personally been quite the experience. I had enjoyed much of its aspects as a member ranging from events and stories made with genius and creativity to

the encouragement and support through social interaction between its members and outside the guild, forming unique bonds both IC and OOC which i still hold dear from Day One of joining the guild.

Sure, like other projects, it has had its ups and downs and stresses here and there, but the fact that the guild community always mends and progresses onwards after has always been something that keeps me interested in the guild next to its open encouragement for everyone to take part in events and stories that is open to be contributed towards."

Guilds: Crimson Shadow Order #1

Fuse: Hello Erebus. I'll start by asking in as simple words as possible to give us a little information on what your guild is about?

Erebus: Our guild is basically the reborn Scarlet Crusade raised as Forsaken and now dedicated to the Forgotten Shadow, their mission is still to retake Lordaeron but not it's retaking Lordaeron for the Forsaken rather than the living.

Fuse: So you're essentially Scarlets that work for the Dark Lady (Sylvanas)?

Erebus: Pretty much, though our order never admits to people they are the Scarlets they've taken a new name now and while they do serve Sylvanas they see themselves having a higher purpose of being the army of the Forgotten Shadow of fighting a holy war. The order see the Dark Lady as a saint, an agent of the Shadow's will.

Fuse: Sounds interesting, could you tell me a bit about how you go around doing this through events with your members or possibly other guilds? How does the Crimson Shadow Order begin to go about it's mission.

Erebus: The first is through sermons and converting fellow Forsaken to what the order believes is the "True path to Ascension" and the "true virtues." There's many different schools of thought on the Forgotten Shadow and no two priests agree on what's right, so.

The Crimson are trying to bring the Forsaken onto what they consider the right path, we're often seen in Brill preaching and arguing with other faithful.

We have a lot of private rituals for the guild, religious ceremonies conducted in secret to venerate the shadow.

We've also been going off into the world, taking the fight to agents of the Light either in DM'd events such as our attack on the cathedral in Gilneas. Or in RP-PvP like our event with the Rotgarde fighting Undaunted Unity in Durnholde.

Fuse: Let's go back to those Sermons could you possibly give me an example of a section of what you might say during it?

Erebus: "Borthers and sisters of the Shadow, remember always the lessons and the gifts the shadow has bestowed upon us, abandon the notions of Compassion, let there be no mercy in your Shadow Essence, for to do so is to fly in virtue of Power and Death. Remember always that the living would see us undone, they hate us, scorn us for we are strong they are weak, we shall Ascend when they can not, they cower, they hide, they suckle upon the festering milk of the Light and the shackles it bestows."

Fuse: Nice. Could you tell me a bit now how the Crimson Shadow Order interact with other religious Forgotten Shadow representatives as you stated there's sometimes disagreements if I'm correct?

Erebus: That's correct, that's partly why I wanted to get involved in Shadow RP I loved the lore surrounding the differing cult. For the most path we get on with other faithful. A lot of our disagreements come down to the wording of our faith rather than the actual spirit of the faith if that makes sense?

For instance there are three core virtues, Respect, Tenacity and Power there are then two lesser virtues Compassion and Death and it differs from cult to cult about what are virtures are not beyond the core three. Most Shadow RPers just RP that all five virtues are valid, which is fine that's one way to interpret the teachings icly. But our Order forsakes the virtue of Compassion, they say it's a corrupting and damaging influence.

For the most part when we argue with other faith, when it comes down to it what other orders see as Compassion our order sees as Respect. Our orders are able to agree to disagree upon the wording and go our merry way.

There is another guild however The Ravensun that practice Compassion to such a degree they allow others races into their cult, our order can't stand that so there's always tension between our orders. There's been at least one trial of combat between our two orders thus far, people speculate there may be more in the future. Who knows? it's exciting to see it play out.

Fuse: I see you've acquired rivalry and partnership with differentiating guilds. Let's speak about the partnership, you spoke about doing RP-PvP with the Rotgarde? how does work there.

Erebus: Between us and the Rotgade or between us and the Alliance?

Fuse: Between yourselves and the Rotgarde.

Erebus: ICly there's a pretty good relationship between ourselves and the Rotgarde, they've brought us along on missions to lend support in the past so when it came down to us tracking down the undaunted unity in Hillsbrad and we realised we were outmanned. We turned to the Rotgarde for help, who it turns out had been hunting the unity as well. While we're not the best of friends there's a level of respect between our orders icly, that may not be completely comfortable with the fact we look like Scarlets but they know we're loyal to the Forsaken people and will do what needs to be done. And of course our order respects them for their military might. Also the Rotgarde have always been really good to us OOCly, they're a great lot and I can't say enough good things about them.

Fuse: Excellent. Let's go to your guilds thoughts on the Alliance and light users.

Erebus: We love them, especially in white mushroom sauce with a glass of red wine.

Fuse: Sounds delicious.

Erebus: The alliance are bad enough for our order, those were scarlets before raised as Forsaken feel abandoned by the Alliance and in death they remember that resentment. They hate them because the Dark Lady is at war with them, and they hate them because they're living.

As for users of the Light, they represent everything the shadow stands against. They see it as a corrupting force, one that enslaves people that makes everyone weaker as a whole. Our order wants nothing more then to wipe the Light from the face of Azeroth, this is also our order's ultimate goal to usher in an age that Erebus saw in a "vision" called the age of shadow.

Fuse: This all great insight into your interaction and views with certain areas, how about we go onto the next question what inspired you to create this guild or who?

Erebus: The Scarlet Cursade actually back in MoP I was running another guild ally side and we ran through the new Crusadae dungeons together, it sort of work up this dormant love I had for Scarlet RP, it brought me back to a guild I used to RP with on my old server. The Scarlet missionary and I wanted to find a way to bring back Scarlet RP. I mean at the time there were lots of Scarlet Guilds allaince side but I always felt the whole "We survived the Forsaken and Voss and are now seeking redemption." line was a bit.... tired and weak?

It's about that time I happened to stumble upon the cult of the Forgotten shadows lore and the entire thing just seemed to click, to me the real core of the Crusade wasn't the Light persay. It was about the corruption, the power and the zealotry, the Forgotten Shadow seemed to work best in that favour, it looked to me like something that would work with the Crusade. So I can up with the idea of Forsaken who were cursaders trying to rebuild the order in that direction.

Fuse: You found an excellent way to do so, is there any last things you wish to add about your guild?

Erebus: Only that we're always looking for more poeple to join us and we're looking for more guilds to interact with horde side and alliance.

Fuse: Would you like to finish off with thanking any players or guilds that have assisted you so far?

Erebus: Yeah I really want to thank Perroy and the Rotgarde when we started working on this guild we didn't know anything about the landscape horde side (We're all originally ally players) and they approached us through a mutual friend and were super friendly along with being helpful.

I want to thank the Hand of Agony for inviting us to their larger events like the harvest it was a good way to meet old and new forsaken roleplayers. I want to thank the Ravensun for being such great heretics, also they invited us to a sermon which introducted us to all the forsaken roleplayers in Brill. The Undaunted Unity and the Gilnean Royal Guild for the RP-PvP.

Fuse: Thank you for allowing me to interview you, I wish you luck in your guild and hope this gives a little more insight towards other players that are still unsure about it!

Erebus: Thank you for the interview, I really enjoyed it, I look forward to reading your future ones with other guilds.

Guild: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/15161253285#1