The Thirteenth Order

[Phinehas]

Don't worry. We were all new at some point. You have a great deal of creativity, and that's good. All you need is to apply it in the right way. Also, as a note, creating a guild really isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[dayeh]

I know ive been leader for a while now
Its hard and i still dont have a website

on another note after learning about the legion of chaos and their purpose we belive that the beast they wish to summon is the one we speak of.  So we may have to war them or defeat them in some way to stop their plans.

[dayeh]

wow been a while...well after thinking for a long time and after a long while Ive revived the Thirteenth Order but took your advice Phinehas and decided to revise the guild....You were right the rp was way to huge for the game but i still think it was creative .  The guilds keeping the same name but the story is different.

The Hierarchy: (all levels from Follower-Adept require the earning of 10 guild points)

Novice- Where you start.. its a level where you are observed to see what kind of character you are [stats and rp]. 

Follower- To be promoted to a follower you must have earned respect and trust from some of your fellow guild members.

Soldier- At this point you are a low level fighter of the guild.  This means you have skill in some type of weapon or arcane skill.

Knight/Mage- Knights and Mages have the same permissions only Mage a level higher.  At this point if you are a Knight you are a decent fighter and are a more trusted guild member.  The same applies for the Mage only in addition they have to be at some higher level of arcane skill [or alchemy and herbalism when implemented]

Adept- This is the level where most normal guild members will get to after a while.  This means that you are trusted in the guild and you have responsiblites helping new players in the guild.  Mainly to become an adept you must be a strong warrior or mage.

Advisor- To get to be an Advisor the guild master must have a lot of trust in you.  Advisor's have the responsiblity of Advising the Guild Master and Leaders as well as helping keep the guilds secrets and know everything about the guild.  [To get here rp is not required but having decent rp skills as well as being strong helps]

Leader- Leaders are closest to the guild master in power.  Their main duty is to help keep control and balance in the guild.  They like the advisors know all the guilds secrets but they can also over rule the guild master in important desicions[like war].  If all the Leaders are to vote agaisnt the Guild Master than they win as a wat to help balance power in the guild. [Strength and Rp is needed to become a Leader.  There might be exceptions if ones leadership skills do fit the role]

The Thirteenth Order is still a nuetral guild and our purposes are many. 

We live to survive, and survive to show that we live.  We want to unite good and evil in our guild to truly represent "balance."  We search to unlock the secrets of the world and to learn of all its powers.  Whether a deed thats done, as a guild whole or as a individual, is good or evil is not of our concern but what was the reason for doing so.  Some in our guild may walk the path of peace, some lust for power, and some even confused or lay somewhere inbetween but we all work together for the good of the guild and its survival. 

 
 

[Garile]

We live to survive

Kinda basic if you don't mind me saying so. Hope there is more to come.

[Parallo]

Balence? There are just way way way too many guilds with that as a goal.

[dayeh]

[sorry was away for a while. There is much more to it than what I just said, sorry for a lack of details.  Im going to just explain every goal we have because its a lot more than that.  Also our goals our more like "guidelines" and "rules", beliefs of the guild.]

Goal of Survival:  Survival is one of the goals of this guild.  We do not necessarily strive to survive as the indivudial but as a whole.  We all know death is inevitable but byt keeping the guild alive, by preserving our way of life and our views of the world we can survive all and any hardship created by the world.  Because of the goal of balance we believe that deeds, good or evil, that are felt necessary to preserve the guild can be executed without fear or care.[remember the word "can" not necessarily "will"]       

Goal of Balance:  Inorder for anything to exist it must have balance.  Nothing can be completely one thing but a mixture of all.  Our guild is nuetral allowing good, evil, and the confused in.  We believe this balance must hold true in the guild and we will strive to show balance in reality.   

Goal of Order:  One goal that we will strive to achieve is order.  It is not a question of who rules but whether the ruler can command obedience from those under him/her.  As leader it is my job to create order, an order that we hope oneday may be the rule of our existence. 

Goal of Power:  Power is something everyone usually wants at sometime of their life for some reason.  It is whether you have the drive to get this power that makes us all different.  While each searches for their individual power we as a guild also wish to bring power to the guild itself.  The form of the power we search for, whether its rule or an actual "power", is left to the guilds trusted members to know and them to guard. 

Goal of Peace:  Our idea of peace does not mean "a haven from evil."  We believe in 2 types of peace and wish all do the same.  The 1st is "peace of mind."  Inorder to ever reach true peace you 1st must be peaceful within.  It must not be your 1st goal to bring peace to the world if you still ur fighting within yourself.  The second focuses on the balance.  No true peace can come from just good or evil alone.  Only an even distribution of both opposites will lead to peace.   

[hope this explains everything, if not or you have another question do not hesitate to ask]

[Phinehas]

Those are all goals of how you're going to exist. Do you have any goals of why you're going to exist?

[Garile]

Have to agree with phinny on this. Also a serious lack of that creativity that made the first post worth reading eventhough it went way outside the settings.

[dayeh]

Here is the background story for the guild.  Its still based off of another guild that we say existed before and that was revived by myself.  The story itself I hope this time stays within the settings

A long time ago, after the world was created and the gods had left us, there existed a group, an organization that hid and worked in the shadows.  This organization was secret and discrete, always rumors whispered about its existence but proof or a show of actual belief was never found.  Some said this "organization" was full of cruel people wishing to create chaos and bring destruction to the world.  Others believed that this organization wanted to heal the world and save it from corruption.  Many just believed that "if" such an organization existed it was just a bunch of crazed people who felt they were gods or prophets.  However only those in this organization knew about its existence, and the truth of its purpose.  The organization was known As Organization 13, but to those in it they referred to it as The Thirteenth Order.  The Thirteenth Order was a collection of people, those who felt that they did not know the reason for their existence.  Those who looked for the "answer" and those who did not know which path to pick, or good or evil.  Those who joined the Order were people who spent years, maybe even their lives searching for it.  Only when the Order felt that your intentions were true and that you were lost in this world did they let you join their ranks.  The Thirteenth Order had a saying from which all their beliefs came from.  This saying was that "In-order to heal something you must cause it pain."  From this came their belief of balance.  The pain representing the evil and the healing representing the good.  They believed that good and evil were two opposites depended on each other just like pain and healing.  The point of Order was not just to help others to realize these things.  The Order had a goal, a vision to make the world perfect.  They believed that inorder for this vision of "good" they would have to commit an "evil" of equal standing.  They felt that to create an eternal haven they would have to burn the world itself down bringing all that exist on it into hell.  "The fires of destruction and the flames of creation would be one in the same as we create a new world by destroying the old one."  In the end this final goal brought down the Order.  They attempted to achieve this goal of perfection but were stopped and the order was destroyed.   

note: I did not include how they were stopped purposely

*edit*

As for why we exist, pretty much to preserve the way of the order that once was, to carry on their legacy, and to achieve their goals.  We are not as extreme as the Order before and I did not go into complete depth with their beliefs but I gave the basic overview.   

[ Please avoid making one post right after the other in the same thread. Just "Modify" your first post to add more information. --Karyuu ]

[Garile]

A long time ago, after the world was created and the gods had left us

Uhm the gods never left "us".

Talad and Laanx asked other gods to send us to Yliakum and neither has left us further then that Laanx went to the stone labyrinths and Kadaikos.

[Phinehas]

I'm guessing he's meaning after the gods stopped taking quite such an active role in the daily lives of the mortals. After all the new races arrived, etc. etc. etc.

Your story is decent, but needs to be re-written to sound better.There're too many small things for me to list them, but I could re-write it if you want. It just needs re-wording in areas.

Don't double post.

So any more information on the guild? Any chance of putting it all in one comprehensive post so that people know what you're about when they open the thread?

[dayeh]

Yes I do mean what Phinehas said.

Thanks, and only if you have the time or want to should you rewrite it for me.  It would be helpful but I dont want you to do something you dont have the time to do.

Sorry for the double post

As for more information, its mostly secrets for guild members, and yes I will try and just make a new thread or modify the 1st post or something inorder to have all the information in one place