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Gameplay => Guilds Forum => Topic started by: Hadfael on June 21, 2004, 07:36:52 pm
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(http://doypics.rr.nu/smwhshield.jpg) [size=16]The Defenders of Yliakum[/size]
In the age of Molecular Blue (also called MB) Yliakum lived in peace. People used to live peacefuly and spent theyr days in speaking, exploring and collecting the crystals for fun.
This days are told in the Rangers history by Monketh like this :
... a ynnwn by the name of Enraged arrived in the town of hydlaa. He had aspirations of greater glory, and gathered all those who would come to him as the guild of The Legendary Warriors. Those who stayed over time would, in fact achieve that goal, to become legendary. However, many who came did not stay, and the roster was filled with hollow names, no longer important to anyone.
Some of the ones destined to that greater glory were Monketh, Grakrim, Seperot, Draklar, Ravna, Arbraz, Tranor, and Druke. Shadowx still lingers on occassion. Several guilds have formed from it\'s ruins. Well, anyway, for a time \'twas good. The Legendary Warriors prospered, \'twas said \"The Sun never sets on the Legendary Warriors\". They were common, and they were generally respected throughout these parts. Their post-forum thrived, their ruby packs were full, and they were happy.
Their leader was more rude than his members, however. He caused disputes between himself and other guilds. One member in particular, Draklar, got so annoyed that he left with a good complement of the guild and founded The Defenders Brotherhood.
Among the guilds of Yliakum, only a few were devoted to be Lawful and Good. So the Defenders accepted among them most of the people ready to risk theyr lives to protect the citizens of Yliakum.
After a long period of peace, some warriors where tempted to become more Neutral or even Evil. So was Draklar. He became a warlord of the Dark empire and the guild was left for a short time without leader. Many members of this days, maybe feeling orphans, decided to join other guilds or armies .
Showing a great devotion to the guild and a strong sense of honor, Silenthero was nominated as a new leader.
With the help of the members, the Guild organised as a real brotherhood. Each Member having a rank to describe his vocation and not any particular authority. To ensure the recruiting and listen to the will of the brothers and sisters, Aineko the Mindcrafter helped Silenthero to evaluate new members and recruit them.
But then, Aineko had to leave Yliakum for an important mission. Until the day she will come back, some believed that the brotherhood was lost without leaders. But from the spirit of honor and courage of the brothers, alives or deads, emerged a powerful being. Named from the brotherhood name, \"defenders\" is the leading spirit. Some brothers and sisters are able to summon him in the form of an Ylian.
If you are not looking for fights but are ready to protect the others and face Evil, try to contact one of us.
Possible vocations
The brotherhood does not use ranks to define a hierarchical structure. All brothers are equal with various vocations.
Hero: Powerful adventurer that dedicated his life to help those that are in need. He\'s not looking for fame nor wealth and money have low value for him. Spreading good is his way of life and he won\'t ever dishonor himself by making any evil deed.
Mindcrafter: Mage that is following Azure Way. Mindcrafter has ablity to influence his surroundings. He not only can move various objects with his will, but also hack into minds of his foes.
Guardian: Warrior among Defenders. Guardians will be hired to do various protection jobs.
Cleric: Mage that is concantrating on Crystal and Blue Way. Cleric has power to heal wounds and cure from poison. He will use them to help those that are suffering from pain. The most powerful Clerics are able to bring others back to life.
Knight: Most honorary of all warriors. Knights use their strenght to destroy evil and protect people in distress. Their skills in using armour and weapons make them great soldiers that won\'t ever retreat from battlefield. Mainly Knights will be sent as military aid for our allies.
Battle Mage: He\'s concentrating on destructive power of fire. By folowing the Red Way, he can cast various spells that will inflict massive damage to his foes. He\'s very valuable on battlefield and can bring fear into minds of enemy warriors. Battle Mages will be sent as military aid for our allies.
Paladin: The holy warrior. Besides fighting with weapons, Paladin can also cast various spells, mostly based on Crystal and Blue Way. Usually Paladins have blessed armour and weapons. They use their might and wisdom to hunt and destroy evil.
Invoker: Mage of the Brown Way. His spells are concantrating mostly on protection. He not only can cast defensive spells, but also summon various creatures. His powers make invoker great guard and defender.
Champion: Powerful warrior with great skill in weapon fighting. This adventurer is travelling across the land, helping those that are in distress. His brave deeds made him famous and nothing will move him from his way of champion.
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If after your visit at the tavern (http://www.theBBB.tk/) you heard about a lot of evil guilds already dreaming to overcome Yliakum. If you heard about the foretold age of Crystal Blue and its lurking monsters. And if you believe the peace and light of Yliakum derserves fighting for. Then be ready to follow your beliefs and fight with your brothers. Have a talk with Golmir in the city of the Azure sun, or contact TheDefenders on the Brotherhoods Bulletin Board.
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Visit our website : http://defenders.rr.nu/
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Most excellent! Guilds of good and righteous arise!! Time of unity is at hand!!
Maybe a good alliance should be made sometime between all of us out there!
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I am glad to see that the Defenders are alive and active! With the arrival of Xperto, and the increased activity of Mirth and Defenders, the monopoly of evil over the world of Planeshift is ending!
(And it\'s summer, so what could possibly go wrong?! :D )
I look forward to rekindling relations with the Defenders, and restoring the ties that we shared so long ago.
Let Yliakum rejoice with the joy of Good\'s return! :)
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Great, this way rulling the world won\'t be boring for the Dark Empire ;)
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Ho defenders! Glad to see you\'re still alive. :)
With the rising of three good guilds, the balance will be partly restored.
That is good news indeed...
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We were not inactive, but maybe too silent.
It\'s a fact that beside when Draklar was our leader, we are not a \"forum posters\" guild.
But we kept a candle in the Citadel of Light. And we had a lot of work to do in Hydlaa.
But it\'s time to raise our standards again.
If it\'s good news for Yliakum, let me say that it will be a sad news for many evil plans
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No one says you must be active on forums its just nice when you are! Yes Yes 3 so is there anymore that wish to speak up and let themselves be known?
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I\'m in, its cool!
(P.S. Hi Golmir, Its me Tilin!)
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Originally posted by DepthBlade
Most excellent! Guilds of good and righteous arise!! Time of unity is at hand!!
Maybe a good alliance should be made sometime between all of us out there!
It\'s called the Citadel of Light, an alliance between Mirth and Defenders. Talk to them about joining.
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You understand there can very well be more then one alliance between the good allignment? That can be their own private alliance and we can make a new one for all good allignment it really doesn\'t matter to me if anyone should choose its the one whos been around longer of the two:P
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Originally posted by DepthBlade
You understand there can very well be more then one alliance between the good allignment? That can be their own private alliance and we can make a new one for all good allignment it really doesn\'t matter to me if anyone should choose its the one whos been around longer of the two:P
It was originally supposed to be an alliance between more than two guilds, but there were only two guilds to be in it. Citadel of Light should be the global \"good guild\" alliance.
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yes have all the good fools and there happy unicorns in one place so evil can drive its hammer down and smash the light into darkness.
ooc: rangers where originally the 3rd group in the light thing...untill draklar convinced pint that with an evil madman (me) leading it wasent a good idea :P
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And Drak was right, too. Just look what you\'ve become, Sep! That sentence had less than five spelling errors! OMG! 8)
Not that Draklar had much more luck after our Triple Alliance ended.... X(
I think Rangers is a really great guild, and I certainly respect Monketh and would ally with him again in a second, but Rangers also accepts more questionable members. So I can\'t just jump at an alliance with Rangers... :rolleyes:
Anyway, to get back to the topic of this thread:
If you want to preserve the way of the Light by standing as a knight of good, by all means join Defenders! They are staunch warriors who uphold the strictest morals of behaviour.
(And if you\'re wondering about the difference between Defenders and Mirth, Mirth isn\'t near as quick to jump into a fight. We are slightly pacifistic. Where Defenders would immediately leap into the fray, Mirth would only take violent action if doing so was neccessary for the continued spread of Mirth.)
If you want to be truly good, and you want to fight, join the Defenders today! :)
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Originally posted by Half_Pint
And if you\'re wondering about the difference between Defenders and Mirth, Mirth isn\'t near as quick to jump into a fight. We are slightly pacifistic. Where Defenders would immediately leap into the fray, Mirth would only take violent action if doing so was neccessary for the continued spread of Mirth.)
Ahh, I was wondering what out difference was! Now where did that fray wander off to? Evil doers must be faught and all that!
If you want to be truly good, and you want to fight, join the Defenders today! :)
Couldn\'t have said it better myself!
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Nicely told Golmir.
There are few guilds out there with such an interesting, convoluted and yet honourable history. Keep up the \'good\' work :)
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Hmm, sounds interesting. More like a storyline that has nothing to do with Planeshift bu it still good.
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Originally posted by Zaknafein
More like a storyline that has nothing to do with Planeshift.
It has everything to do with the heart of Planeshift - the community.
Besides, it\'s totally based on the principle of protecting the citizens of Yliakum, how is that not PS?
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lol, that does bring up a point. Lots of guilds have good histories, but arn\'t intergrated with the ps history that much. (Not that there\'s much history to be intergrated with atm.) I\'m planning to rewrite The Cabal\'s history when cb is released, as I can merge it as much as possible with the updated history. :) Will be interesting to see how many guilds do the same.
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If you think that our history has not much to do with the PS history, it\'s because you believe too much that PS is limited to a legend.
We were not born from the legendary times, but from the birth of the community itself. Our story begins with the coming of all the races of Yliakum and the gathering of good people from all over Hydlaa.
From what the gods gave us, we took the peace. And we are following our destiny in the present Molecular Blue age. In the next era of Yliakum (the long awaited Crystal Blue age), we will remain there and use our present strenght, the friendship that keeps us united and the power of light, to ensure that the legend will not become a nightmare.
The Citadel of Light Alliance will grow and provide shelter to good people. Even those who won\'t enjoy finding mirth in it, will have to admit that it\'s part of what the community has to offer.
It won\'t become a legend.
It will remain part of the reality of the PS world.
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Well, the Defenders are rising up again! Best of luck to you, may you never run out of dedicated members!
Long live the alliance between the Blitzers and the Defenders!
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Hey the \"good\" guilds are rising up again *takes out his calender and moves the Cabal victory Date back a couple weeks* best of luck....kinda
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The Champions of Yliakum is now officially a part of the CoLA alliance.
I too like Half-Pint have faith that they will do their very best to defend the good citizens of Yliakum as it is the very spirit of the Citadel of Light Alliance
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Um have you guys ever thought of merging with the Champions of Yliakum? Then you can be called like The Forces of Yliakum or something :P
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Originally posted by DepthBlade
Um have you guys ever thought of merging with the Champions of Yliakum? Then you can be called like The Forces of Yliakum or something :P
Bleh.. That\'s a bit like asking why the evil guilds don\'t merge since they all have evil as their common goal
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no it isn\'t :|
Evil guilds:
DE - the empire-like organisation
cabal - people who pretend to be true evil
IT - guild that is true evil
MM - guild that is about following some god-like thing or something
Good guilds:
Defenders - passive guild fighting evil
Champions - passive guild fighting evil
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Draklar... What a surprise :D
Because Theron\'s laws states that:
Allways try to come to a peacefull solution to problems.
You call it passive, I call it common sense - It is somewhat quistionable if you claim to be lawful good and sort to violence without trying to solve the problem peacefully first.. Maybe that was why you ultimately chose to leave?
Common sense is something that the Defenders have in common with the Champions of Yliakum
And again Draklar, you are quite true - this is the exact same thing that most evil guilds lacks since they don\'t see the folly of evil
We have something in common that evil guilds do not - but I cannot see why we should merge the two guilds just for that.. We have our differences and we like them the way they are
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I never said you should... just pointing out what DeathBlade meant...
uhh... paladins are lawful-good and they don\'t really negotiate with evil :|
they just go around and slay evil whenever they see it
lawful - code of honor, law
good - intentions to help people
get over it -.-
and leave what? Defenders? No, I was the only one who actually did something in guild so I got convinced to join DE...
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*grabs some popcorn*
Let\'s see who is more stubborn. I won\'t repeat myself like you do though.
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Originally posted by DepthBlade
Um have you guys ever thought of merging with the Champions of Yliakum? Then you can be called like The Forces of Yliakum or something :P
Some of the Champions were former members of Moorlocke\'s Flaming shield. When he broke that guild up, we offered out our hand to any others, but Demarthl and Van wanted to go their own way.
edit: noticed spelling mistake thanks to Draageos\'s post :P
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Originally posted by lynx_lupo
*grabs some popcorn*
Let\'s see who is more stubborn. I won\'t repeat myself like you do though.
Heh.. Guess your right about that
I can conclude that I have another definition of what lawful good is... - and keep it at that
Some of the Champions were former members fo Moorlocke\'s Flaming shield. When he broke that guild up, we offered out our hand to any others, but Demarthl and Van wanted to go their own way.
Like Zabeal said... I\'m just headed for more trouble if I keep yappin :rolleyes:
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Since its creation, the brotherhood (a long time ago by someone who went went away to accuse the ones who stayed to be inactive) we used ranks as vocations instead of hierachy. This will remain our goal.
We decided to open recruiting to less experienced fighters, offering to share our knowledge before they chose the way they will fight evil, according to their history and the skills they decide to train.
Here are the new vocations avaliable:
Legend: The legendary Defenders are most respected members of the brotherhood. Their work and devotion to the brotherhood and Yliakum made them earn the respect of everyone. They fear no evil and are the keepers of the spirit of the Defenders brotherhood. A legend can talk in the name of the brothers and sisters who have trust in their wisdom.
Knight: Always ready to use strenght when needed, Knights are strong warriors. Weapons crafting has no secret for them. They won\'t be affraid to face evil at any cost to protect the people of Yliakum. If they have to cross the death realm to achieve their duties, it will be fearless.
Archer: Mastering the crafting and use of ranged weapons, archers are ready to give support to anyone facing evil forces.
Paladin: The holy warriors. Besides fighting with weapons, Paladins can also cast various spells, mostly based on Crystal and Blue Way. Usually Paladins have blessed armour and weapons. They use their might and wisdom to hunt and destroy evil.
Battle Mage: Using magic to attack and slay evil, Battle Mages can cast various spells that will inflict massive damage to our foes. They are very valuable on battlefield and can bring fear into minds of enemy warriors.
Healer: Using magic and potions, Healers are concentrating on Crystal and Blue Way. They have the power to heal wounds and cure from poison. Using their knwoledge, they will help those that are suffering from pain.
Arcane seeker: Exploring and venturing in Yliakum to gather knowledge, The Arcane seekers are experts in using glyphs. They will share their discoveries with the brotherhood and use them when needed.
Mentor: Helping newcomers in need for guidance, Mentors are sharing their wisdom with anyone ready to learn how to become a better person. They will use peaceful times to train with apprentices. And in times of troubles they will join the fights. Mentors are able to detect the potential of newcomers and evaluate the skills of apprentices.
Apprentice: Still unaware of all the dangers and traps of Yliakum, apprentices are taking advantage of the knowledge of mentors and other members. They won\'t fear evil and learn the ways to fight it before chosing a vocation.
So, if your choice is to live in a peaceful Yliakum and ready to fight to protect this peace against all the faces of evil, we will help you to become a skilled apprentice until the day you will be able to defend good people.
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With a few changes needed with the coming of CB. I have to let you know that the brotherhood did not end with the fall of Molecular Blue.
The new guild structure makes it impossible to have more than one legend. Therefore the leader is the only one.
Even if the leader is not online the other brothers and sisters (except Apprentice) are allowed to recruit new members. If you want to join, just look in the online list with \"/who Defenders\" to look for one of us. This can be used by anyone who need some helping hand.
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Very nice! Im very happy to see that you are still alive and well...I wish you the best of luck in this new age brother.
EDIT: Kinda off on the grammer...me talents been rubbin off on you :D