For a member so inexperienced, Rathus is something that is quite simply an anomaly to my experience of the Dark Brotherhood. He's a throwback to the days of members joining and then being on the Dark Council a year later. Rathus Marr, quite simply, is amazing. This is a man who only joined the Dark Brotherhood after the Prologue to the Dark Crusades had begun. He wasn't even a member during the last Vendetta, and yet he still has managed to put together one of the most impressive arrays of participation and placement that I have ever seen out of a new member.
Rathus has managed over the Dark Crusades to take part in over a two thirds of the events he was around for, while rising up through the ranks and his trials during the Crusades to be raised up as a Dark Jedi Knight. I mention this because so few of the old promotion requirements dealt with actual competitions, and instead required members to go above and beyond. Rathus has done that, with a razor sharp wit that is all his own, and established himself as one of the most reliable members in Taldryan. For all of the events he participated in, Rathus managed to place in a quarter of them. More than that though, he was truly dominant when he did place. Of the 5 Nova that Rathus has earned during the Dark Crusades, 4 of them have been Gold.
Most recently, Rathus proved once again his dedication, by submitting a perfect participation record on Dromund Kaas. Despite the fact that he had an insane amount of course work to complete during the same span of time as the Dark Crusades occupied, Rathus fought through, and made sure to dedicate some time for Taldryan. His efforts, go far above and beyond what we would have expected from a newer member, and truly classify him as a member of an elite group of people, who will sacrifice their few spare moments of free time in order to help Taldryan. As a member of our Special Forces team, Rathus stood up, and ensure that Taldryan would continue to dominate by being one of the largest contributors to the eventual Gold Medal winning entry in the Advertising Campaign event.
Quite simply, Rathus is a machine of excellence, and for that reason I am proud to award him this Grand Cross of the Dark Side.
Aedile of Taldryan,
Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor, 2013-12-02 16:23:03 UTC