The Arcane Order is the biggest mages guild in yliakum, we currently have a total of 16
active members, and many more are waiting to get accepted. If you want to join our guild, read through this thread and visit our
website, after that we require each member to come to our IRC channel to have a talk with some of the councilmembers(read our pages for more information).
We recently went through a lot of changes, so I think it\'s time for a new thread. Our other phase 3 thread didn\'t have much info, and was full of spam so I asked it to be deleted a while back..
The most important changes we made was the promotion of active members and the putting into probation of inactive members. We now have a fully active council again as Wolfmane(Illyria) and Mati(Longraider) have been put into probation. Morgus will replace Wolfmane at least untill he returns from his inactivity and I replace Mati.
The Arcane Order has 6 councilmembers, one for each school of magic in Yliakum, the current councilmembers are:Morgus Charfault -
Beholder of the TruthGilea the Blue -
Seer of the SeasDruke the Brown -
Master of EarthAxsyrus the Azure -
Ruler of the WindsAve the Red -
Master of FlamesMalentor the Dark -
Master NecromancerWe have also renamed our ranks as there was a bit of discussion about them, the warlock branch has been renamed to the loremaster branch, silver nightblade has been renamed to mystic nightblade and dark loremaster is now high loremaster.
There are three branches in the arcane order, they have been partially renamed and are now like this:- Spellswords - This branch is for fighters who practice magical skills to aid in combat, thus Fighter/Mages. Our spellswords are our protection, the threat of their revenge serves to keep our guild at peace and Spellsword will protect fellow members on quests etc.
- NightBlades - This branch is for rogues who use magic to aid improve their stealth, spying, stealing, backstabbing etc. They are thus Rogue/Mages. Nightblades serve as AO\'s eyes and ears, they provide us the necessary intelligence and subversive capability we need to survive in a dangerous world.
- LoreMasters - This branch is for our pure mages, who will mainly practice their magical abilities. The LoreMaster branch is the mainstay of Mages that make AO the Mage guild that it is, however all three branches have equal status and are equally important to AO.
Just like before, the arcanes are at the top of each rank. Since Morgus was our previous arcane loremaster and I was the arcane nightblade we have now promoted other members to these ranks. Elscouta is now our Arcane LoreMaster and SnowWolf is our Arcane SpellSword. we haven\'t found a Arcane NightBlade yet though, but we\'re sure one of our members will be ready to take this task when the time comes.
Our promotion system also slightly changed. Like before you join the guild as an apprentice and go through a period of getting to know the guild and the members before you will get promoted to the adept rank. However, we now require a bigger role for our arcane members in the promotions from adept to higher. If one wants to be promoted from adept to loremaster for example, he will need one of the councilmembers to propose his promotion. But unlike before, not only the councilmembers have to vote, the most important vote is for the arcane loremaster(Elscouta). If he doesn\'t fully agrees with the promotion, nothing will happen. For the promotions to another rank higher we even require the arcanes to propose the promotion, the member also needs 5 councilmembers to vote for his promotion unlike 4 before. We hope this will increase the interaction between the different ranked members of our guild and make sure the members get to know their leaders well.
As always, check our homepage at
www.arcaneorder.com for more information(or just something for something to read in our arcane library) or drop by at our IRC channel, #arcaneorder @ quakenet.
