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Guild Manifesto - The Devout - 06-02-2015
Guild Manifesto
The Devout is a friendly, multi-national guild who's core members speak primarily English. We do a little bit of everything from Farming to PvP and have high ambitions for our position on the server.
Our endgame goals currently consist of controlling a castle and being a foremost authority on the politics of the entire server, be it through benevolent or tyrannical means. Eventually we intend to decide who is "Red" to us and who is "Green", regardless of the colour displayed on screen.
We welcome anyone to join, however the core plans of the guild will never change for any one individual specifically. Internally we are not a cold hard dictatorship but certain elements are central to the guilds identity and will not change.
Currently we do not PK our allied faction members or steal packs from them (with the exception of a select few or when defending ourselves) but this is not a set in stone position the guild takes moving forward and anyone joining needs to consider that there are often repercussions to a guild going "rogue", and that those repercussions may one day affect The Devout and its members.
The guild has a roleplay element that should be respected even by members who choose not to participate in it to an excessive degree.
We are something of an evangelistic cult that puts faith, devotion and resources into the plan of our guild leader; His Eminence, Lord Zirconi.
The divine plan is only completely understood by Zirconi himself, but his immense displays of competence and genius - as well as the success of earlier stages - have not gone unnoticed by those who have shared even a fleeting glimpse of what will come to pass with his continued success.
Zirconi is not a God however, and his ties to the incorporeal are not without their price. His physical body cannot sustain a constant link to the ethereal and the result of this is a sharp duality between his higher state of being and that which remains when that link is severed.
When Zirconi is lucid he is a force to be reckoned with; his logic is absolute, his understanding of things is incomparable. He is humble, benevolent and reflects his position of authority with absolute competence. None should be able to find fault in his instruction and those that would try are simply without the capacity to understand the scope of his vision.
This is the state of Zirconi that leaves behind the directions that his followers implement until such a time that each objective has been completed.
When Zirconi is not lucid however it is left up to his enforcement to carry his word until the ethereal link has been restored.
In this state Zirconi is utterly absurd; he has developed a bizarre preference for cows and sometimes his demands can be as ridiculous as they are childlike.
He is often sarcastic and abrupt when engaged and otherwise typically ignorant of others in favour of his latest nonsensical obsession.
But even in this state Zirconi is not completely without focus; in the strangest of ways his far off sanity is making connections that can be seen to influence his decisions even through the slew of tantrums and bovine escapades. While not his most productive self he is still a being of great intellect, but perhaps lacking in the capacity to convey that intellect to outside sources.
It is generally unknown to his followers why Zirconi is this way but it is not thought that there is any manner of fate or destiny involved in the great design that Zirconi's mind presents, it is simply believed to be a loftier cause with greater priority than any other.
Those who have been compelled by the prowess Zirconi exudes - as his instruction unceasingly pulls innumerable paths into tangent with these ideals - are known as "The Devout".