Part of me started to think of the song "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" when I decided to begin writing this award for Shadow. Here's the bottom line with this insane maven of DBness that is Shadow. He's been in seclusion from the main body of the Dark Brotherhood for well over half a year. Even before that, he wasn't the most social of people. But everyone knows who he is. Everyone knows that he's basically the finest writer that we currently have in the Dark Brotherhood, because he is. He's quite simply a force in the Dark Brotherhood.

Despite having to withdraw from the DB for a period during the Crusades, Shadow Taldrya still managed to participate in over two thirds of the events he was around for, and managed to earn a basically unheard of amount of nova for his efforts, earning medals in over half of all the events he submitted to, and winning exactly half of them. For being simply the best, I am happy to award Shadow Taldrya this Steel Cross.

Aedile of Taldryan,

Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor, 2013-12-01 13:02:45 UTC