Cethgus has been my right hand man since the day I took office as Consul, and in that time he has been an excellent asset. After his most recent recognition for this - a Sapphire Blade on April 15th of last year - he continued to fulfill his role outstandingly. He is a solid complement to me: we have different skills that allow us to see situations differently and work well together.

As Proconsul, Cethgus has been a major player in continuing to develop our plans for the clan. He took my initial goals and expanded on them. For example, it had always been my mission to capitalize on WhatsApp and Google Hangouts, and use these more often. When Telegram looked like it would replace WhatsApp, Cethgus was a key player in helping the clan move over and get used to the new messenger. He also has increased our usage of Google Hangouts, which has helped bring the clan together even more. In addition, another goal I had was to expand our presence in the Antei Combat Centre. While I was not able to do this a lot myself, Cethgus was highly involved in this area. He's fought several battles of his own and built up a healthy rivalry among our members in the ACC. This started momentum that continues to move to this day, where many of our newer members regularly compete in the ACC.

Since that Sapphire Blade in April, Cethgus has assisted me and other clan leaders in running two major events for the clan: Red Fury and Awakenings. Red Fury was a joint event with Scholae Palatinae. Cethgus helped plan the competitions and assisted in planning and developing fiction, as well as helping to establish cordial relations with CSP leadership so the event would run smoothly. Red Fury was a great success. It's competitions - each co-organized by Cethgus - had a total of 35 participants, who made 161 individual competition entries over 12 competitions.

Awakenings was the clan's next major event, and saw three factions battling for control of the clan. Cethgus was a big player in the discussion of this plot-like and development of the event's structure. He also helped design and run the competitions. Also of note here is that, due to me being personally busy during the end of this event, Cethgus led in judging the majority of the competitions, including the 76,528 word runon event. This event saw 77 individual competition entries, from 22 total participants over 10 competitions.

Finally, last year, CNS was able to obtain a 70% participation rate for much of the year, and to this day clan members comment about how they love the atmosphere of the clan and how we get along well. Cethgus is one major reason behind this. He presents alternative ways to handle conflicts which I may otherwise not handle in the best way. He frequently assures members that he and the Summit are open to any questions they may have and without going into details I know for a fact he has mediated multiple disputes where members were comfortable coming to him and otherwise unsure of what to do.

For the above reasons, I would like to show my gratitude to Cethgus with this Grand Cross.

Congratulations, Cethgus!

Consul of Naga Sadow

P.S. Thank you for not trying to kill me for nearly a year. Be my Valentine, please!

Epis Locke Sonjie, 2016-02-16 15:02:35 UTC