Finally after a long activity in Planeshift we have decided to go official.
We almost finished our website (there are some sections to be completed) and we hope it fits all the requirements for being accepted.
The history of the guild is strongly related to the life story of Eolius, the founder of the Protectors. Born in the Temple of Yinoritt, the one that is nowdays called \"The Ruins\", he lived by the ways of the warriors starting his training at an early age. His father, a great swordsman taught him how to weild swords and how to hunt while his mother, a wizard apprentice and an explorer taught him the ways of magic and how to use the energy of the glyphs to cast spells.
His family moved there after his father found a job as a guardian of the Temple living in one of the rooms in the Temple. Little did he know that the skills that his father trained him will eventualy save his life.
It all started one day when the Azure Sun was shining bright and nothing was going on in the Temple as usual just the routine travellers and pilgrims coming and going in and out of the courtyard. In the back there was a garden that nowadays holds some trees and that was the place where Eolius trained every day.
It was all quiet... Until that moment when a great roar filled the skies which slowly started to turn dark. Eolius rushed in front of the Temple and saw those two beasts approaching. They were Ulbernauts evil monsters that, sometimes, he heard stories about from travelers. People were speaking rarely about them and when they did you could have seen their faces turn dark in fear.
Nobody ever mentioned seeing two in the same place. The story goes that they were the spawns of an evil wizard who created a spell from pieces of crystals glued together with the blood of a man who was tourtured for years and years, and when he died the last drop of blood that touched the ground beneath him spawned a flower that was bleeding the same blood that gave it life. That blood was so charged with evil that if a person would touch only a drop of it that person would have turned into a monster hungry for blood, hungry for death.
It was midday and already the darkness engulfed everything making it impossible for anybody to see anything. The wizards in the Temple rushed out, and one of them cast a light spell. As his hand was glowing stronger and stronger more and more bodies started to be seen on the bloody ground. The roars of the ulbernauts were filling the skies and cracking the walls of the Temple.
And then a figure appeared on the top of the hill near the Temple. A dark figure absorbing all the light around it... the black wizard... With a loud voice that shook the earth he started an incantation. Eolius recognized one of the most powerful dark incantations in the wizard\'s words. He knew from a book that the spell would imprison everyone\'s soul inside the stone that the black wizard was holding in his hands. He also knew that there was only one way to escape that faith and that was to touch the stone that the wizard was holding because only the bearer of the stone was safe from the spell.
He rushed to the top of the hill dodging an ulbernaut blow but the wizard struck him down with a weakness spell. Gathering all his force and will he stood up and at the last moment touched the stone. But it was too late for all the others... Everybody including his parents were trapped inside. He tried to raise his sword but the spell\'s effects were so great that he couldn\'t make a move. He fell hearing the dark wizard\'s laughs as he was walking away. The spell was drawing life from him like a leech. Cold...Darkness...Sorrow...Death. Images of the bloody courtyards passed trough his mind. And then he heard a voice... The crystal voice of an enkidukai woman saying to him \"Don\'t move, if you move the spell will kill you.\". He saw a bright light all around him and felt the life slowly coming back to him. A healing spell...he thought. Slowly with a barely perceptible voice he said \"Thank you\" and then he felt the world slipping away from him as he passed out.
He woke up at night and saw that the misterious enkidukai lady had disappeared.
\'Who can she be?\' he asked himself. \'I must find her and thank her.\'
He raised and a seccnd thought passed trough his head. \'The wizard! He has my parents!\'.
Rushing through the courtyard, he felt the ground soft under his feet. The earth mixed with blood was forming a sticky mud. All that death... He raised his eyes. The Temple was a ruin now, all that was left of it being some stones, pieces of walls and some columns. He searched trough the rubble there for the Crystal of Yinoritt, the greatest treasure being guarded by the mages, but it was gone! The Crystal had the ability of healing wounded travellers even from a distance and to keep monsters away from the Temple. But the greatest property of the Crystal was to undo Dark Way spells. Finding it and finding a wizard that knew how to use it was really important now.
A sound! Footsteps! Eolius rushed towards the place where the sounds came from, thinking that somebody may still be alive, or that the misterious lady who helped him will be there. But he shook at the wiew he encountered. The ulbernauts! They were still there! Without thinking and without caring about what might happen, lost in his pain Eolius grabbed his longswords and ran towards the two beasts. Being a klyros he had the advantage of flight so he raised and hit one of the ulbernauts in the head, his swords cutting deep in the beast\'s flesh. The ulbernaut roared and lunged at Eolius, hitting him hard on the chest with his claw. The battle continued for 2 hours and finaly when the first rays of the Azure Sun shone on the Temple Valley the 2 ubers were dead. Eolius, almost dead stood between the two beasts and tired and covered in blood. \"I must find that cursed wizard!\" he kept repeating, \"I must free my parents and all the people he trapped!\"
He climbed the hill where he saw the wizard the last time and as he turned back to look at his home for the last time he saw something horrible. The ulbernauts were back! The black wizard had cast a spell that was reviving the beasts a short while after they get killed.
\'A dangerous place this will be from now on.\' he said to himself and he left following the wizard\'s path. It was not difficult since all the vegetation was burnt describing a clear path. But he didn\'t need to travel far. At the end of the day near Ojaveda, behind some hills he found him! The wizard was standing in a muddy valley chanting. He was holding the Crystal he stole from Yinoritt and he was trying to turn it into a dark glyph. Wasting no time Eolius charged him and as the attack was a surprise the black wizard didn\'t have time to cast a spell. Death came to him swift and painful as Eolius\'s swords entered his neck.
But it was all too late, the Crystal was unpurified and broke into pieces as the incantation was interrupted and the soul stone was nowhere to be found. Sad and without any hope of saving his parents Eolius sat down feeling the emptiness growing inside of him. \"The Temple!\" he shouted jumping on his feet. It is there where the stone must be! The wizard must have thrown it in the Temple\'s dungeons as the Temple collapsed. That\'s why he left the ulbernauts there!
But without a Crystal equal in power to the one Yinoritt held they couldn\'t be saved.
\"And I\'ll need to be stronger and find help in order to be able to help the people trapped there.\" He kneeled and crossing his swords he said \"I swear that I won\'t let something like this happen to others! I will do anything in my powers to help others and as the ones in the Temple offered guidance and protection to others so shall I. If anybody will wish to join me in my quest then so shall it be, we will make a guild called Protectors and we shall try to better ourselves in order to be able to fight the evil in this realm!\" The time passed and more and more people hearing his story agreed to join him swearing to defend the weak and fight evil. Nowdays you can see Protectors all over Yliakum fighting monsters that stand on the path of travelers and helping those in need. They are simple people and not all of them are strong but they have a good heart and they will help you as much as they can with an advice or by giving you a hand to defeat a monster standing in your way. As for Eolius, he is still searching for a way to free the souls of those trapped in the stone and you can meet him sometimes in the hills or in the cities.
In consequence our rules are: Help other people, especially newcomers.
Respect the rules of conduct and manners.
Do not spawn duel invites unless in special circumstances.
Fight your enemies with honour.
Do not attack a wounded adversary.
When somebody is rude to others or steals hunt from others the previous rule can be broken.
If you see somebody being rude or stealing hunt, inform a Prime or the First Knight in order for them to take a decision regarding the actions the guild will take against the offender.
Do not steal hunt from others.
Do not lead newcomers into delicate situations you cannot handle.
If you see a traveller in danger, attacked by a monster, group with him in order to help him defeat the monster. If the monster is too strong for you, lead it away so the traveller may escape.
If you die when guiding somebody return to him/her.
Bring honour to you and the guild with your actions.
If somebody requires help and you are able to offer it then do so.
If a guild member requires help or assistance he/she may ask other guildmembers for help, and the other members are obliged to help him/her.
When inviting a member into the guild the one that invites that person must:
Inform the First Knight specifying the reason for that invitation.
Inform the new members about the rules and the Code of Honour.
Be responsible for the training of the invited.
Protectors are obliged to report to superiors when they notice that another member of the guild isn\'t respecting the rules.
Rules for guild and inter-guild meetings: When spontaneous guild meetings are called all members must attend it.
Decisions are taken by vote and the majority decides.
The First Knight and Primes may attend inter-guild meetings.
When these meetings are called the Primes will be notifyed in advance and they will have to attend those meetings.
If the First Knight isn\'t present at such meetings he will be informed by those present at these meetings.
Ranks : First Knight : The leader of Protectors, responsible with managing and keeping order in the guild.
He also attends to inter-guild meetings and is responsible with all the inter-guilds relations.
Prime : Responsible for other members and their actions.
He/she must attend to inter-guilds meetings and can be delegated by the First Knight in his place at such events (when this is accepted by the other guilds).
Knight of the order: He/she will be responsible for members and their actions and will closely supervise every action they do.
Nobleman : Skilled in the art of negotiations, must promote the guild and take care of guild events.
Man at arms : Skilled warrior with the duty of escorting travellers to other towns and help them pass dangerous places.
Foot Soldier : A help for the Man at arms, an apprentice in the art of battle has the same duties.
requirements:
Page : Will be entrusted with such duties as showing the way around to newcomers, offering advice to them.
Apprentice : Has to learn the ways of the Protectors and improve his skills and knowledge of the world in order to help others.
Aspirant : This is the lowest level in the guild, assigned to people who aspire to be protectors. The aspirant will have to prove himself worthy to be a Protector.
Our website adress is
http://www.the-protectors.tk or
http://ugo.sinet.it/protectors/index.php/Main/HomePage, you can find out more about us there.
See you on the other side.
