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Thank you for taking the time to read this report and catch up on all the juicy goings on. My friendo Zappius has just released his report for Ektrosis so you should give that a read if you’ve not already. Then come right back here, ok?

Alright, let’s get into it. I am proud to be serving as your Proconsul now, and I hope to continue much of what I was doing as RM and a bit more. I will be working alongside Erinyes on all things TAL in regards to competitions, plot, war efforts (when those come around), and membership stuff. There’s a lot to do in 2021 and we have a great group on the summit helping out. And not to mention, each of you Taldryanites will have a hand in shaping our awesome clan, whether you realize that or not.

Speaking of Taldryanites, let me give a shout out to these fine folks:

• Welcome to Novice Theano our newest recruit as well as Warrior Aay'han Agrona Beviin and Warlord Andrelious J. Inahj (Mark S) who both transferred over to our lovely clan
• Congratulations to Savant Appius "Zappius" Wight on being appointed to the SA as Magistrate
• Congratulations to Dasha 'Jala' Talus for being promoted to Major and Appius "Zappius" Wight for being promoted to Savant
• Congrats to Adept Seraine "Erinyes" Taldrya Ténama and Captain Crysenia Orainn for their Scrolls of Foundation from their SA work
• Congratulations to Corsair Zxyl Venzos Taldrya for his awarding of an Amethyst Kukiri

So read on for things like: Aggressive Expansion comp results, member recognition, an AMA, DB Spotlight on Promotheus dossiers, and more. As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments for future reports.

Aggressive Expansion

So our capitan Erinyes released the winners of Phase 1 Results of our ongoing competition series, Aggressive Expansion Fiction. So happy with what people were able to accomplish in all the events. A big shout out to our individual comp winners: Ben (Squadrons), Aylin (Flash), Zen (Graphics), and Zapps (Fiction) - way to go folks!

I wanted to include a couple cool graphics samples here because Xolarin likes artifacts and objects and has drooled over this stuff. Thus without further ado, here are your second (Aylin) and first (Zentru’la) place graphics.

Stay tuned for Phase 2 from our Consul very soon!

PS: I had initially credited the 2nd place one incorrectly, but that is fixed to say Aylin. :)

Glory and Honor

As always, I want to spell out a bunch of the activity everyone has been up to. So please scroll through the list here, which covers most items since my last report (Dec 23). Keep it going, clan!

• Novice Theano: Joined and 1x SA Course
• Captain Crysenia Orainn: 8x Scroll of Foundation, 1x SA Course, 25x SA Courses Graded, 1x Competition
• Major Dasha 'Jala' Talus: PROMOTION to Major!, 1x Sapphire Crescent, 5x Ice Clusters, 2x Competitions, 1x Parent Competition
• Warrior Aay'han Agrona Beviin: MOVED to Taldryan!, 1x Competition, 1x Parent Competition
• Savant Appius "Zappius" Wight: PROMOTED to Savant!, APPOINTED to M:SA!, 1x Amethyst Crescent, 13x Ice Clusters, 2x Graphite Clusters, 6x SA Courses Graded, 2x Competitions Organized, 2x Competitions, 1x News Item, 5x News Comments
• Savant Xolarin: 8x News Comments
• Battlemaster Tracinya Beviin Entar: 2x Emerald Crescents, 2x Ice Clusters, 5x Graphite Clusters, 5x Competitions
• Corsair Aylin Sajark: 1x Amethyst Crescent, 1x Sapphire Crescent, 2x Graphite Clusters, 3x Competitions
• Corsair Zxyl Venzos Taldrya: AMETHYST KUKIRI!, 1x Competition, 2x News Comments
• Warlord Andrelious J. Inahj: MOVED to Taldryan!, 1x Sapphire Crescent, 9x Ice Clusters, 2x Graphite Clusters, 3x Competitions, 1x Parent Competition, 2x News Comments
• Warlord Rakhai: 6x Ice Clusters, 2x Graphite Clusters, 2x Competitions
• Augur Raistline Taldrya Majere: 1x Sapphire Crescent, 2x Competitions
• Adept Rian Taldrya: 1x Sapphire Crescent, 2x Emerald Crescent, 2x Graphite Clusters, 1x Competition, POWERHOUSE in the Herald team!!
• Adept Seraine "Erinyes" Taldrya Ténama: 1x Pendant of Blood, 36x Fire Clusters, 8x Scroll of Foundation, 5x Competitions Organized, 1x Competition, 5x SA Courses Graded, 2x ACC Judged, 1x News Item
• General Zentru’la: 1x Amethyst Crescent, 2x Graphite Clusters, 4x Competitions
• Adept Benevolent Taldrya Whiner: 2x Amethyst Crescents, 3x Competitions

Taldryan Master-Pupil Update

I do not have many updates since my last report in this area, but I want to keep these on your rader. I don’t think we’ve heard too much from Newt or Zack.

• Xolarin and Newt
• Crysenia and Zack
• Crysenia and Theano (new, so we’ll see how things go)

DB Spotlight

As I am starting to do, I want to highlight some things from around the DB. Last month (as RM) I highlighted the DB Wiki Recent Changes and SA courses like Comms 101: Website Navigation. This month let’s look at some key Promotheus features.

Promotheus is the tool in the DB that tracks all our dossiers and activity. Are you due for promotion from JM1 to JM3? Promotheus tells us. What rank are you in the Inquisitorious fiction society? Promotheus tells us. So let’s just take a look at two easy things to check about yourself.

First, your profile, aka your dossier. If you click on your name at the top-right and then go to “Administration”, you will see a link to “Edit Dossier”.

Once in there you can do all kinds of stuff, such as edit your timezone and profile quote. But, more importantly, you can add contact methods. You can include a link to your Telegram username, Discord info, DeviantArt, a Google Drive folder, Battle.net ID, and more. These will all show up on your public dossier so people know how to find you and all your creative works and gaming awesomeness.

So check this out and ensure your profile is updated. It’s one easy way to fill out details about who you are!

Other Goings-on

We had a couple clan reports so check those out, and then go see some of the other key reports from around the DB.

• Quaestor Report #3 by Zappius
• Consul December Report by Erinyes
• SARCLACC Round 1 Live
• Fist Report 13.0 and 13.1 Supplemental
• Headmistress Announcement
• Regent 6.3 Supplemental

ProfX

In lieu of protips and advice at the end here, I did a short “AMA” called #profX.

Zappius asks, “How does Xolarin feel about Appius?”

Xolarin would rather not interact with Appius, although they have to now that they are on the summit together. As you will see in the Sarlacc ACC event, they will be forced to recognize each others’ talents in order to succeed. I have a feeling they will work fairly well together, even if they don’t want to long-term.

Vodo asks about something that makes the UD mods cringe.

Vodo also asks, “What's it like being a funko pop?”

I use my Pop avatar for everything in life pretty much, so it’s normal now. You can create your own and eventually you’ll be able to make a real Pop vinyl of yourself. I can’t wait!

Parting Wisdom

Zappius: “Sometimes a good night’s sleep is all you need.”

Zxyl: “I wish.”