First a background story
One day Ruby Reign guild members were hunting on the hills of the Ojaveda road when they found a badly wounded groffel. He was probably attacked by a clacker, but managed to escape. However, his wounds were so bad that he was going to die soon.
Hunters carried the wounded groffel back to the Hydlaa city, cleaned his wounds and gave healing potions. Then they started looking for the owner of the groffel who was probably desperately looking for him.
In the meantime other Ruby Reign guild members kept nursing the groffel, because he was still too weak to be left alone. Time was going and the owner never showed up. The groffel was slowly recovering and showing some great affection to the guild members.
The guild decided to keep the groffel until the real owner is found. As any pet needs a name, they decided to name the groffel by the guild and started calling him \"Ruby Reign\".Now comes the difficult part and the reason why I am posting here. Does the pet name \"Ruby Reign\" violate our naming rules?
I am all for the rules and I have no intentions to break them, but I also know from my personal experiences that sometimes it is possible to go too far when interpreting the rules. The nickname that I am using here could be split into two words, couple of characters in it could be replaced and it has a meaning in a language spoken by some of our community members.
Now let\'s take a look at \"Ruby Reign\".
- It is not offensive or vulgar;
- It doesn\'t use repeated letters;
- It doesn\'t have an adjective, a verb or a title as the first name;
- At least it is not a futuristic or Sci-Fi name :)
- I\'m afraid that every letter in the Latin alphabet is trademarked by somebody, so I fail to confirm that the name is not trademarked;
- It doesn\'t form OOC phrases;
- It doesn\'t use a name of an existing PlaneShift player of NPC.
The only rule that is left is the \"sign\" rule and that\'s where problem is. It is not \"Join Rubyreign\" or \"Rubyreign Rulez\", it is just ... \"Ruby Reign\" :)
You see a member of the Ruby Reign guild or a group of the guild members and a pet called \"Ruby Reign\" standing next to them. Do you see the pet as a sign or just a pet who belongs to the Ruby Reign guild?
I could see it as a sign if you come to the Plaza and see a pet called \"Ruby Reign\" alone without any guild members around. Now it could be seen as a sign that is trying to advertise the guild, but not when there are guild members around who anyway have the same guild name \"Ruby Reign\" right under their character\'s name.
The poor groffel is now hidden deep in the sewers where nobody can see him. Ruby Reign guild members are visiting him as often as they can, but he is very unhappy.
