A Question of Culture...

[Mr_Ed7]

My guild is a themed guild.

In fact we say our guild is "The Most Flavoured Theme Guild of All the DDO Guilds!"

Big shoes to fill.


So what exactly does that mean? It means that we are close to being a role-playing guild but we are not a role-playing guild.

Our theme is that of an evil organization. Think SPECTRE from James Bond or DC's League of Super-Villains.

This theme was chosen by myself, mostly in protest to the fact that the full range of D&D alignments are not offered.

For this theme, I had to come up with a culture of sorts.

First off the guild's official color is Dark Orchid a shade of purple. It is reminiscent of the original Drow and their Underdark I thought.


Our official guild symbol is a Purple Dragon.


We ask that our members display chaos and/or anarchic blades while in Stormreach.

A /salute goes a long way too for adding some culture to our guild.


The Emperor (as we call our guild leader) asks that one writes a biography for their character as well. This all adds to our theme and overall experience of being a guild member or Guard as we call them.

This culture of ours has other names for ranks within the guild. For example a senior officer is known as a Lord or Lady and sits on the Council of 12 with our Emperor.


Part of our theme guild is having a slogan.

Our's is in the language of Tolkein's Black Speech.

It is "Kulizgu Burzhai~Kulizgu Ash!" or "We are Darkside~We are One!".


We are not race or class specific, but Drow, Warforged & Half-Orcs are considered to be "favored" races with the Emperor.


Other interesting aspects of us. We are one of the founding guilds of the Alliance, and we have monthly Full Moon Parties with them where we play Hide & Seek, PvP and other "training exercises".


So if you are a role-player and you are considering creating a theme guild or looking to one to join. Check-out Darkside of Argonessen for some dark inspirations.

[Mr_Ed7]

Darkside Commandments

1. Have Fun. (There is no point in being in a guild or even playing the game if you are not doing so.)

2. Play with your guildies. (A guild works best when all players make a point to play with all players.)

3.Write a Character Biography. (Darkside is a theme-based guild. The guild has its background as should your character.)

4. Equip Chaos & Anarchic weapons while traveling through-out Stormreach.

5. Join the Alliance! (Joining this chat-channel increases your chances of filling parties with quality people.)

6. /SALUTE when you see both Darkside & Alliance members.

7. Rename your chat windows from Guild to Darkside and Userchat to Alliance. Also change Darkside chat to purple & Alliance chat to blue.

8. Say "Hello" & "Goodbye" when you can on both Darkside and Alliance channels.

9. Ask guildies & allies first if they are interested in doing a quest or if they need your help before you LFM.

[dranreb]

EEK!!!

I didn't know we were evil.

I guess I should do more killing and pillaging. Here I've just been helping people out and giving stuff away, when all along I should have been stealing and causing pain.

Thanks for letting me know!

Dran (The One True Wizard-Wizard).

[Mr_Ed7]

HA-HA!

The One True Wizard-Wizard!!!

Great...

yeah stop being so nice...