Tasha....where can I begin?

Tasha has been part of Marka Ragnos now for the better part of nine months. In that time, Tasha has proven to be a boon to the House and Clan. Her easy going nature, her willingness to get involved. Her drive to have fun and give others the chance to have fun also have meant that she is more well-known across the Clan than some of our Elders.

Joining the ranks of the Equites has always been something to celebrate, the point that marked the difference between those who wanted to do the bare minimum and those who strove to be the best. With Tasha, I have someone who strives to be the best. Not because that's a conscious decision, but because she wants to do everything to her best ability. She wants to contribute, she wants to learn. She wants to be part of everything. I respect that, I love that. It means that I, as a leader, have people to award!

Since her last elevation, Tasha has built an impression collection of trophies due to her victories and participation. Since becoming a Knight, she has earned one Steel Cross for her unique way of bringing light-heartedness and camaraderie to the Clan while working her arse off. She has also earned three Crescents with Ruby Stars, one Crescent with Amethyst Star, four Crescents with Sapphire Stars, three Crescents with Emerald Stars, TEN!!! Pendants of Blood, four hundred and fifty eight Clusters of Fire, sixteen Clusters of Ice and sixty one Clusters of Earth.

Her time as Battleteam Sergeant for six months out of the nine months she has been in the Brotherhood, has been to support Armad in his role as Battleteam Leader. Tasha has excelled at this, enabling Armad to perform his role. She has encouraged her members, kept in constant contact with them during events. She has recruited members to a team that was about to be shut down due to lack of numbers, going from three members to eight members, meaning the team was secure and active. Tasha then took the reins of the Night Raptors as Battleteam Leader for a month, running a couple of competitions and trying to shore up her team. However, sadly I was unable to find a replacement for Tasha when I recently took her on as my Aedile and merged our two Battleteams together.

Her time as Knight has also been one of extending her contact with the club at large, with twenty six news post comments, ninety three PVP activities, eleven PVE activities, two ACC battles, seven fiction events with 6,056 words written and three RO posts with 1,320 words written.

She also completed 16 in character interviews with members of CNS, writing a total of 5,861 words for them. Add those together with her other fiction entries and she has written almost 12,000 words of fiction. Finally, Tasha has completed three Shadow Academy exams.

Tasha is one of our most competitive members and my inbox gets spammed with competition result emails due to her. Since her Knighting, Tasha has run one competition, co-organised another two competitions and participated in forty five competitions in the past six months.

Tasha has also helped me finished our House's wiki project in creating wiki pages for the Majestic Class Heavy Cruiser and its accompanying squadrons, even creating a full roster of NPC pilots to be fleshed out in the future. She did this quickly and took on extra work when one of our involved members left us.

Tasha has been one of my most active members during my time in Naga Sadow. I can rely on her to give me her honest opinion and even though she has only been my Aedile for just under two weeks, I've given her many tasks to do, some of them she even came up with herself, such as improving communication between Naga Sadow and Odan Urr via gaming. She has given me much work to do and I'm so glad that she is part of my House and my Summit. I know that Tasha will go far during her journey through the Brotherhood and I hope that she remembers her beginnings when she gets to the top.

Congratulations on joining the Equites, Blue. You've been a godsend to the Clan, the House and to me. Keep up the fantastic work and well done on getting the rank of Mystic!

Professor Sanguinius Tsucyra Entar, 2015-12-27 18:43:45 UTC

Many members that join the Dark Brotherhood never reach the rank of Knight. They flake out, they decide it is not for them or they simply had the wrong expectation in the first place. None of this applies to Tasha, as she took to the Brotherhood and the Clan with an enthusiasm few can match in either their journeymen months, or the ranks afterwards. From the competitions she hosts, to her unique twist of interviewing members of the Clan, Tasha puts her name on all of it.

Starting as a slightly insecure student, she quickly grew into a mainstay of Naga Sadow and made friends on all sides. She started hosting competitions, was increasingly active in both IRC and later on Telegram, and ran for leadership with the Night Raptors as their Sergeant. Now, as an Aedile to House Marka Ragnos, she is at the cusp of becoming a true member of the Brotherhood. She hasn’t needed a mentor, or a Master, for a very long time, as she has truly surpassed her Master in every way I can think of. I am both proud and honored to help promote her into the Equites. Congratulations on your new rank Tasha!

Marcus Kiriyu, 2015-12-27 18:29:17 UTC

From the moment she joined Clan Naga Sadow she has been brilliant. Not once have I seen her shy away from anything. She came into House Marka Ragnos as if she was a direct descent of the House's namesake, a whirlwind that has not stopped. She quickly got to know her clanmates and created her own unofficial/satirical "news show" which highlighted different members of the Clan, both Summit and non-Summit. This has helped to improve morale and kept members even more engaged. These shows also put her in the spotlight where many try to hide in the background, yet even when she was in full view she never disappointed. She has encouraged others to get involved and have fun. She has been a great leader and has really made an impression as a Battleteam Sergeant.

She also is always a presence within the chat rooms that the Clan utilizes, always quick with a joke or insight of some kind. It has been great to have person to bounce ideas off of and get honest feedback and possible alternatives from, because of this she has become invaluable to me as an Aedile. Her enthusiasm is what this club needs to thrive and we could use more members like her. I am immensely glad to have her as a Clan and Housemate. Congratulations Tasha, this is well deserved.

Lak Nafri, 2015-12-27 16:25:43 UTC