Taranae Rhode has been an invaluable asset to both House Karness Muur and Clan Plagueis over the years while serving in leadership positions almost the entire time. In the time since her last recognition in February, she has been no different as she continued to provide indispensable leadership and activity to her House and her Clan. She has put up activity numbers and provided leadership that show she is one of the best and brightest of the Clan.

As a leader, she spent five months between her last recognition and July serving as Aedile of House Karness Muur. Even with Clan Plagueis focusing on single, House level reports, Taranae made sure to provide meaty sections to Callus’s House reports every month while she was in the position, including all the activity tracking across Karness Muur in the way of medals, promos, Shadow Academy activity, and ACC matches. These contributions were often nearly report sized on their own, even including her own graphics header to make sure that she was providing highly visible leadership as opposed to fading into the background. She was integral in driving activity for Karness Muur during the first two phases of Restoration, helping them set a pace of activity that served them well once the final, house vs. house phase of Restoration arrived. Without the work she did in the months leading up to that competition, it is doubtful that Karness Muur could have seen participation from a full sixty-five percent of its roster in the final Restoration phase. During phase three, she was in charge of assembling the Karness Muur battleplan team and she managed sign ups and put together the members for that event. In addition, Taranae has hosted three competitions for Clan Plagueis, and is currently finishing up administering (all on her own) the second annual DB-wide single elimination Pazaak tournament. Additionally, she and Callus teamed to run the HKM Hailstorm Run On, with Taranae also co-authoring the opening set-up post for the event.

Evaluating leadership alone, however, would be highly unfair to Taranae because she has been an absolute beast in the area of personal activity as well. Her activity during our recent three phase clan feud was excellent. Across the three rounds, Taranae participated in thirteen of the nineteen possible events, broken down as three for five in each of the first two phases and seven for eleven in phase three. She also placed in two events, taking first place in in the phase 1 puzzle and second place in the phase 3 battleplan, and earned a total of 115 competition points across the event.

Overall since her last recognition, Taranae has participated in forty-nine competitions while earning eleven competition crescents (five ruby, four amethyst, and two topaz). She has also earned thirty-three clusters of fire, thirteen clusters of ice, 14 clusters of earth, and one legion of the scholar. She has also completed four ACC matches (one during the recent Rivalries competition). Finally, she has also directly recruited two members and mentored a third to the rank of Knight. In short, Taranae has had an incredibly active seven months months when taking into account activity, placements, and leadership. Her continued presence, mentoring activity, zealous nature to succeed, and remarkable overall activity level show her to be very deserving of this award.

Master Selika Roh di Plagia, 2015-09-23 17:25:40 UTC