Zuza has been, and I can’t write this enough, one of the most invigorating, pleasant additions to Clan Arcona since she first arrived. Aside from stealing everyone in Arcona’s hearts with her warm personality and endeavors to include everyone around her in engagement and competition, she has also been one of the most active contributors in Arcona and the Club at large in the 9 months since her last promotion.

During this time, Zuza has continued to be the star of Arcona, earning 544,090 credits for the Clan. She accomplished this by organizing 13 competitions herself DB-Wide, while participating in a whopping 94 competitions. The 12 fictional activities she dove into netted her 50,936 words of fiction (including Role Play efforts before they were formally counted on their own) and an additional 10,288 words from 4 recent Role Play activities themselves. This has netted her a Grand Cross, as well as an impressive 1 crescent with Diamond Star, 12 Crescent with Ruby Star, 25 Crescent with Amethyst Star, 15 Crescent with Sapphire Star, 9 Crescent with Emerald Star, 5 Crescent with Topaz Star. She has amassed 122 Clusters of Ice, 166 Clusters of Earth, and 7 Clusters of Graphite.

Beyond these impressive metrics, Zuza has also been hard at work learning the ins and outs of Leadership as Arcona’s (sadly) last Rollmaster. Over the past 4 months, this has not, in anyway, dampened her efforts or initiatives- she’s already made her presence known by having helped our two latest JM4s (Mex and Druzk) reach that milestone by making sure they were paired with the right person, and also offered her guidance and experience with navigating the site and handling the back-end administration.

Lastly, Zuza has managed to turn some impressive heads, including two members of the Dark Council. This is evident and seen in her Grand Cross (where her activity was initially recognized by the Regent) and the famous moment of getting the Master at Arms to call her “evil” for her vicious puzzle competition series.

I am continually honored and delighted to write more positive things in support of Zuza’s achievements in the Brotherhood and Clan Arcona. So a continued congratulations on reaching the rank of Equite 2. Well deserved and I know you will only continue to strive forward marching to the beat of your own heart and ambition.

-W

Aedile Tali Sroka, 2022-04-24 21:50:55 UTC

Zuza has been, is, and (I hope with my Farsight +4) will continue to be one of Arcona's most Arcona-y members. Ever since joining the club, she's been a joy to behold as few members come close to her level of enthusiasm and positivity. Of course, the Clan of rainbows is perhaps stereotypically upbeat, but coming from a salty curmudgeon like myself, I can say Zuza easily lives and breathes the Arconan spirit of inclusivity and participation.

It is for that very reason that she's taken to fill some big shoes in the Rollmaster position, to which she's taken with aplomb. In Summit meetings her input has been well-measured and shows her excellent focus on that most crucial of club aspects: membership enjoyment.

I could wax lyrical, but after all the kind words Wally said, I feel like I'd just be repeating stuff, repeating stuff. As such, I shall for once keep it brief and only say I heartily support Zuza's promotion to the next rung of Equiteship.

Well earned, you majestic pickle!

Tali Sroka
Quaestor, House Qel-Droma

Aedile Tali Sroka, 2022-04-24 21:49:54 UTC

Archian, while quiet, has continued to plug away at competitions and always manages to surprise us with the quality of those entries, and his contributions as a member of Voidbreaker Battleteam.

Since making Journeyman 4 2 years ago, Archian has slowly but steadily accumulated a nice sample size of activity. He has participated in 59 competitions, earned 191,000 credits for Clan Arcona, while excelling with 13,037 words of fiction (mostly from RP activity prior to the current new system being implemented). This has earned Archi 28 Clusters of Ice to go with 9 Clusters of Fire, 3 Clusters of Earth, 18 Clusters of Graphite, 1 Crescent with a Diamond Star, 4 Crescent with Amethyst Star, and 3 Crescent with Sapphire Star. He also was able to get a full 12 Seal of Enmity in the previous Vendetta run by the DC.

This slow stream of activity since JM4 shows that Archian is ready to cross over into the ranks of the Equites. I am very proud, and look forward to his continued growth and activity in the club and Clan Arcona.

-W

Aedile Tali Sroka, 2022-04-24 21:50:56 UTC

My trusty former Padawan has been a dependable and enthusiastic pillar of activity through the good and the bad. Many a person can shine in the one or two things they excel at, showing up once a year when Novae are up for grabs, only to vanish into the woodwork once more. But Archian has remained as dependable in war-time as in normal time, chipping away at a comp here and an RP there. Whether it's House competitions, Clan-wide ones, or just Club-wide endeavors (not to mention his 12 Seals of Enmity), he's always been a delight to have around and more than anything, a dependable and enthusiastic participant in Arcona's dealings.

It has thus been my continued honor and joy to watch him carry on upon the path that led to his Knighting, and it is with pride I support his promotion to Equite.

Tali Sroka
Quaestor, House Qel-Droma

Aedile Tali Sroka, 2022-04-24 21:42:31 UTC

Haro Zylrun, you continue to impress. You're growing more competent each day and you will surely rival the Dark Council when the time is right. You have met the requirements for promotion, and a recommendation has been filed. Your accomplishments include:

• Join the Dark Brotherhood Discord and link your dossier
• Participate in 5 competitions

I will continue to watch your progress, Haro Zylrun, but my direct intervention in your promotions must come to an end.

You will go far within this Brotherhood.

May the Force guide you, Journeyman,

Adept Ciara Tearnan Rothwell Tarentae
Headmaster

Ciara Tearnan Rothwell Tarentae, 2022-04-20 20:14:18 UTC

Waden Skylanders, you continue to impress. You're growing more competent each day and you will surely rival the Dark Council when the time is right. You have met the requirements for promotion, and a recommendation has been filed. Your accomplishments include:

• Have been awarded 1 Cluster of Ice
• Join the Dark Brotherhood Discord and link your dossier
• Participate in 3 competitions

I will continue to watch your progress, Waden Skylanders, but my direct intervention in your promotions must come to an end.

You will go far within this Brotherhood.

May the Force guide you, Journeyman,

Adept Ciara Tearnan Rothwell Tarentae
Headmaster

Ciara Tearnan Rothwell Tarentae, 2022-04-20 00:09:53 UTC

It seems that not a day goes past where I do not hear about you, Haro Zylrun. Your superiors have sent glowing records regarding your accomplishments, which include:

• Join the Dark Brotherhood Discord and link your dossier
• Participate in 2 competitions

An expedited recommendation for your promotion has been transmitted to the Master-at-Arms.

May the Force guide you, Proselyte,

Adept Ciara Tearnan Rothwell Tarentae
Headmaster

Ciara Tearnan Rothwell Tarentae, 2022-04-19 17:14:43 UTC

Hunter Nora Olen has wasted no time integrating herself into Clan Plagueis and the Brotherhood as a whole. She has consistently earned awards and promotions that quickly paved her way forward, proving herself as a valuable asset and key member in so short a time. It has only been 28 days since her promotion to Hunter, but already, Nora has earned the necessary accolades to ascend to Knighthood. Since her last promotion, she has earned a Steel Cross, bringing her total merit award count to 3. She has also earned 16 different Crescents (1 Diamond, 6 Ruby, 3 Amethyst, 4 Sapphire, and 2 Emerald) from participation in 51 distinct competitions. She has also earned 58 Clusters of Earth and 51 Clusters of Graphite, pushing herself to Rank 6 in the Shroud Syndicate.

Nora has also proven, however, that she intends to push herself further than a mere participant. With an eagerness to enter the leadership and service side of the Brotherhood, Nora has passed the Leadership Management, Leadership Competitions, Leadership Reports, and Leadership Rewards Shadow Academy Exams. With an eagerness to be an active, influential member of the Brotherhood and the attitude to never quit, Nora has proven without a doubt that she has what it takes to become a Knight. I am confident in putting forward this Recommendation because, despite her currently brief tenure, I know she has what it takes to leave a positive impact on the club as a whole. Continue shooting for the stars, and congratulations on your promotion, Knight Nora Olen.

Warlord Khryso Mallus, 2022-04-17 15:28:20 UTC

For meeting the requirements in time and item completion including having a character sheet, passing Shadow Academy courses and reaching SA Society rank of 2 including chatting in our discord channels. We are requesting a promotion for Magnus Vakarian.

Tribune Kanal O'neill, 2022-04-17 00:09:32 UTC

Neophyte Centam Javik,

Since you joined Clan Taldryan, you have been nothing short of impressive, especially the last two weeks since your previous promotion.

Your dedication to the educational institutions of the Shadow Academy has been very evident and we have enjoyed seeing your successes as you strive to further your knowledge and expertise.

In addition, your activity on the Discord has been very visible as and enjoyable to read as well and I greatly commend the amount of effort you have been putting forth in getting to know everyone and truly become part of the Clan Taldryan family.

As such, it is my esteemed honor to bestow upon you the rank of Acolyte.

Congratulations, Acolyte Javik. We will continue to watch your career with great interest.

~Signed, Grand Admiral Teebu Nyrrire Taldrya's Brotherhood Naval Fleet Commanding Officer Clan Taldryan Proconsul

Sage Cassandra Oriana Taldrya, 2022-04-16 19:52:07 UTC

Since his last promotion some two years ago, the artist colloquially known as Kris has been a steady source of activity and helpful assistant to the various chambers of the DC. For three months, he’s served as Magistrate to the Fist, for nine months the same for the Herald’s office, and currently have a running three-month tenure as Praetor to the Herald, showing his continued commitment to the club as a whole!

On a unit level, Kris has (co-)organized five competitions and participated in a whopping 109! For these efforts, he’s earned a grand total of 17 Crescents of various denominations and a literal mountain of 712 Clusters! During Vendettas, he’s not sat idly by either, as his combined 30 Seals and three Novae can attest to.

Kris has also passed seven Shadow Academy courses and earned a pair of shiny new degrees, which must go pretty nicely with the Grand Cross in the award cabinet.

As part of House Qel-Droma and Arcona, Kris has remained an enthusiastic participant in our daily activities and channels, chipping in with topics both light-hearted, memeriffic, and sober. As someone who also speaks their mind on matters dear to me, I appreciate Kris’ candor and genuine desire to improve Arcona and the club as a whole—a task I remain confident he will continue to strive toward in the future as well!

Upon reaching a ‘comfortable’ level within the Brotherhood, especially the high-Equites, there is a real danger of getting a bit too comfortable as activity plateaus and interest may shift. As such, it is with great delight that I can say Kris has not fallen into the trap of mere existence, but continues to give back to the Club and Clan with copious amounts of spare time—that most precious of resources.

Taken together, I am proud to recommend Kris to be promoted to the final Equite rank, a rung on the ladder he has well and duly earned the right to climb.

Tali Sroka
Quaestor, House Qel-Droma

Qyreia Arronen, 2022-04-15 21:26:45 UTC

Since his last recognition nine months ago Kris, or as he goes by his dossier Jael has served the Herald Office with pure diligence. He has been responsible for the creation of seven (7) Custom dossier weapon skins and three (3) Selector dossier skins (compiled of ninety (90) individual images)). Kris/Jael further assisted in the creation of a custom Warbanner image summing it up all together to almost one hundred unique images he created for the Herald office.

His dedication further led me to appoint him to the position of Praetor within the Herald Office where he keeps up with taking care of the day-to-day affairs of the Office such as reviewing and handling Avatar and Competition requests.

He's also a steady voice on the Brotherhood's art channel on Discord, providing feedback on various topics or posting personal artwork to further the growth of the community.

For all the above, I am honored to recommend Jael Valsi Chi'ra for a promotion to the rank of Augur. Congrats and well done Kris!

Rian Taldrya
Herald of the Brotherhood

Rian Taldrya, 2022-04-15 21:22:08 UTC

I'll leave it to others to discuss Drac's work in other roles (P:GM, RHoJ and LHoJ, PCON, M:MAA); suffice it to say that he's been busy since his last promotion. His work as Fist has been impeccable and truly unrivaled.

"Unprecedented" is the best word to describe Drac's third term as Fist. He is the longest serving Fist by a wide margin and also the only person to ever hold the same Dark Council position three times. More importantly, he used his third term to implement the largest changes to DB gaming since the introduction of mobile games and CEs last decade.

First, he introduced "casual gaming," a hugely successful innovation, which permits members to earn clusters for any games they play together as long as those games have scoring screens to permit match verification. Next, he effectively put the maimed corpse of PvP out of its misery by eliminating it as we'd known it for years: no longer bound by strict matchmaking rules, the "new" PvP is easy to arrange and awards clusters evenly regardless of win or loss. He also he decoupled the GMRG leaderboard from the GMRG society, making it easier for dedicated gamers to reach the top ranks of the society without having to win the leaderboard.

He accomplished all of that in under six months.

Elder promotions can seem mysterious and unattainable; they can seem to take literally years of work at high levels. Drac's achievements in his third term show that you can have a major impact in a relatively short time, and that reaching our highest ranks is as much, if not more, about the quality of a member's contributions as the quantity or duration of those contributions.

Drac, you've earned this. Congratulations!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2022-04-14 20:24:05 UTC

There is so much that can be said about Drac as both a member and a person. I have been graced with the opportunity to serve with Dracaryis for many years and lucky enough to call him a friend. Being afforded a front row seat, I've watched as he has weathered much in his time and always manages to rise above it. His time as a Hand of Justice under me was short, but he was adamant about his role and steadfast in his commitment to the club.

And that is who he is. Drac is committed to bettering any position he steps into. He also learns. This can be seen through his willingness to take on the position of Fist multiple times, even temporarily, and always able to step up when called upon. He looks at the numbers as they truly are and makes the hard calls, no matter what perception it might bring. Not many can make the call knowing the vitriol that might come their way. It makes people hesitate. But not Drac.

I've seen him continue to push forward and participate in critical discussions with the rest of the DC, going so far as to champion the "Casual Gaming" queue upon his most recent return to Fist. It has adapted gaming to meet the eclectic and often short-lived gaming that members participate in. I include myself in that. Quite often a game will only have a shelf-life of a few weeks before the various groups move on to another platform. And that's okay...because we have the Casual Queue for that. Anything with a longer life-span gets the dedicated treatment that our Star Wars games receive.

I could waste many a paragraph more just talking about the kind of person Drac is, but I'd be preaching to the choir. Anyone who knows him can attest to his stature. His quality. I'm just glad to be able to speak to it.

Congratulations Dracaryis, you more than earn your accolades.

Darth Renatus, 2022-04-06 14:37:23 UTC

Number 1 of 15 Dark Council Members I Senior rated as the Grand Master and in the top 1% of members I have ever served with in my 20 year career. Unlimited potential. Must promote now, must be selected for positions of increased responsibility, must send to Shadow Academy’s War College immediately!

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2022-04-09 15:47:02 UTC

Drac, you basically took gaming and met the community where it already was. Your leadership in your current time as Fist came from a selfless vision to improve our community and increase the positive interactions members have with one another on a daily basis. I have not gone so many months in all my time as a leader at any level of the DJB without hearing some complaint about the way gaming is operating.

I wish you the best of luck in the future and look forward to whatever awaits us in the future. I'm sure it'll be fun.

Congratulations on this promotion to Master, it truly describes you already.

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2022-04-14 20:20:03 UTC