The Sapphire Blade is awarded to a member who has shown consistent and long-term service to their Unit or Brotherhood position. Such services however cannot be seen until taken on a whole, each individual part seen as one. The Sapphire Blade can also be rewarded for extraordinary amounts of activity in a large-scale competition such as the Great Jedi War, where the very best are rewarded for their efforts.

Howlader’s performance in the Dark Crusades marks him as one of the most talented and dedicated members in the Dark Brotherhood. When it comes to participation, not a single member in the entire Dark Brotherhood participated in more events than he did, a few did as many, but not one did more… because Howlader participated in every. single. event. During the span of the Crusades, 243 members of the Brotherhood participated in at least one event. Howlader participated in 31. Not only that, but his total medal tally marked him as one of the truly elite members in skill measurements as well, finding himself in the 96th percentile of Nova earned, and was only matched or tied by 10 members in the Dark Brotherhood.

Beyond his own personal efforts on behalf of Taldryan, including a once again perfect performance in the final round, Howlader was the engine room of Taldryan. His omnipresence on IRC allowed Howlader to be the single most influential person in Taldryan at driving activity.

Since the Crusades have concluded, Howlader has been instrumental to me by completing a significant number of assignments, helping to collate and combine data sets from around the DB, and being an otherwise invaluable resource to his summit. For all these reasons and more, I heartily endorse Dark Jedi Master Howlader for receipt of a Sapphire Blade.

Dark Jedi Master Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor, Aedile and Loyal Son of Taldryan.