The temp forums are looking less temp and more critical to our ongoing gaming. With no news about when the old forums will be returned, we now have internal-access forums for our Darkfall Chapter and our Allods unofficial chapter. A lot is going on in the forums – among other things, we’re discussing potential future games, and taking a good look at The Old Republic MMO as a potential future chapter game.

Members – if you’re not hooked in to the forums yet, please do so ASAP. It’s really important that we have all our members here with access. To get member access, first register then PM me (Owyn) on our forums with the password written in the sidebar of our main TS channel. If you can’t get into TS, PM me to let me know that and we’ll work out another way to obtain a positive ID.

Right now, I think only about a third of the active guild is on the new forums. We need the rest of you in there as well – come join us!

Our Darkfall Online chapter officially opened a bit over a month ago; we’ve been remiss with our updates here! Our clan is progressing nicely.  The world of Agon is a dark and turbulent world full of violence and chaos.  A perfect setting for the Defenders of Order and our Code of Honor, Courage, and Loyalty.  A Code that some citizens of Agon say is desperately needed and yearned for by many new to Darkfall.

We have allied ourselves with our old friends from Shadowbane – Knights of Glory and Beer (KGB) – and hope to assist them in their battles. We are making good friends as well as enemies who are so filled with Evil there is no redemption.

If you would like to find out more about the Defenders of Order in Darkfall please contact us in game or on the forums: Hondel OfHill (Lorax), Saul Asgard or Preston FateForger.

(Penned by Preston FateForger, June 17th 2010.)

Check the sidebar out! Click the “Forums” link (not the “Defender Forums(inactive)” link) to get to them. You’ll need to register an account with the website to get access there; these forums are linked directly to the website database, so accounts are shared. Read the General forum there – I’ve posted more information on how to get access to the private forums.

The forums are currently down.  We’re working to try to figure out what the trouble is.  If they remain down for much longer, I’ll get a temporary forum set up for our use.  Sorry about the inconvenience!  Look here for more updates.

Owyn

So it’s been about twenty days since we first had access to Aion. We’ve (long since) reached Rank 3 as a guild, and are in fact ranking an alt guild for alt characters. We’ve got a number of people above level 30, and most of the guild is in the Abyss regularly at this point.

We’re still striving to continue our push into higher ranks as a guild. It’s going to be a hard struggle – there are some larger and faster leveling guilds out there who are pushing hard themselves! But we’ve begun doing guild-level pvp runs, and should get better after each one.

We’re sitting at about 42 members right now, so we are still open to recruiting a few good people. As I’ve said elsewhere – we’re about recruiting the person, not the character. So any class is OK (we have a good balance right now). Any level is OK. We’re looking for good people who will be good team-mates next week, next month, and next year, not a quick fix bandaid for a raid group.

Interested? Come have a chat with us, or fill out an application.

So that folks know – I swapped out the L16 chanter I had started for a templar (variety of reasons, largest that in pvp a live guildleader is a good guildleader). His name is Owynn – note the extra N – so folks trying to contact me should look for that name. Got him up to 19 and guilded today.

Well, we’re three days in now. The guild was formed – the 34-character bug still exists (supposed to allow 36, only allows 34) so we reformed as DefendersOfOrder, no spaces. We made Rank 2 yesterday, so we have plenty of room for all our members now. Top leveler at present is Syrus, an officer playing an assassin – who has reached 22. A good chunk of the rest of us are in the 19-21 range, which is pretty successful for a start.

Next step is to continue driving on toward the Abyss – where things will get a lot more interesting!

Yes, we are doing some limited recruiting in Aion. Really, we’re always on the lookout for good people who are seeking something a little different in a guild.

It’s important to remember that we were founded in a full pvp environment, where player actions – and player choices – really had lasting impact on the game. When one chose to fight mattered more than whether you won or lost, most of the time. And we gained a reputation for fighting for good cause, defending those in need against those thought they could prey on others because they were strong.

From there sprang our Code. Check it out – it’s linked from the homepage. Four simple tenets exemplify the spirit of the guild. Civility. Family. Honesty. Righteousness. And nine years later that code still acts as our compass, unchanged by even a word over those years.

We value maturity in the player. Not age – maturity. We value family, and you’ll never hear guildmates upset because your real world family needed you. We treat each other as family, in the game and on our forums, and work closely with each other on every venture. Success of the guild is paramount. Success of each individual is part of the success of the guild. We strive to be as drama free as possible. We have a strong pvp focus, and tend to all enjoy pvp, but we also enjoy exploring the pve content of each game we play.

We play to have fun together. If it isn’t fun, why play?

We have a saying that my second in command coined a number of years ago: “It’s the people, not the game.” And so as we move from game to game, we try to gather a few of the very best people we run across into our ranks. Then we blend them into our family of gamers. So we really don’t care what level you are (we have powergamers and casual players). We really don’t care what class you play. We are looking to guild YOU – the player – not that particular avatar. We’re investing time looking for good players, who will help us keep the guild strong and fun.

To apply, click the “Apply to Join!” link in the righthand bar. This takes you to our in-house forums, and both sets up your forum account and creates an application to join for you to fill out. The username and password you set up can be used to log back in and check on your application. You’ll have replies right away – we’re pretty fast about writing back.

Or you can contact me ingame. I’ll be there as Owyn or Owyne. See you in Aion!

Well, the page has a new look, and just in time. Aion’s launch is about 27 hours away as I write this, and the Defenders will be there. We’ll be playing the Elyos faction, on the Vaizel server. Sounds like it’s going to be a pretty solid server – Asmodian faction has been “locked” (which means there were too many players in that faction so the devs have stopped more characters being made there) during a good chunk of the early character creation day.

In good new, I snagged both of my main character names – Owyn, and Owyne. Come Sunday, if you need to reach me, I’ll be in the game with one of those names. See you then!