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Sorry if this thread is not in the right place... I did not know where else to put it.

Anyway, I have been thinking a lot about you guys after the event. Which I must say was an amazing success. Holy wow was that awesome! Seriously, I have to give a few brief shout outs...

To Brinya, you are amazing. I did not know a lot about you but watching you in action during the event was great. You did a fantastic job of showing your leadership skills, administration skills, and of coarse your man slaying abilities on the field. What a perfect balance for a great leader. I hope you enjoyed your reign as president and understand you will still be looked up to.

Sethrin, I am not sure who you claim as your "recruiter" but i'm going to say it was me! I am not sure if that is true or not but it will be my way of saying I had a hand in your awesome unit's creation! Please keep this power house of unit going. You are amazing...

Toland, Eld, and Fenris I ******* love you guys. I hope that you had a chance to learn from me as during weapons check. Let me say that during that role you will be very comfortable when you know you have people you can trust and will not have to worry about them. It was so great having you guys in charge of green/reds because i did not even worry about that section the entire time... You guys had it on lock down. You are also amazing. Also, I can not thank you enough for those times in which you were heralds or when you were on the field making me swiss cheese with those crazy spears.

To ALL the fury....

Let me give you a quick History lesson. Eryndor was founded like 8 years ago with a certain mentality and ideal. It was simply that we would be the people out there having fun (actually eryndor was ORGINALLY founded as a mobile archery unit, but plan B was better). I was not there for the inital founding but I came in when Eryndor was about 20-30. We were small but there was something different about us. I have often said that "when I started playing dagorhir I met the nicest people i have ever met in my life." Which is a true statement based on the fact that three of my best friends being athron, mithris, and daeris.

Because of the type of people Eryndor had as members we continued to grow and very quickly. Pretty soon we became to big to sustain the leadership model that was currently existing. That was a high counsel of 3 individuals running the show. At this point a decision was made to split into units and go with a leadership model that involved an annually elected leadership body. I will be totally honest, at first, I HATED THIS WITH ALL THAT WAS INSIDE ME... sorry i fixed my caps lock button now. It was not that i hated the model. I hated what Eryndor was becoming. There was a point in which people were confused as to what to do about being "unitless" because they were not sure what Eryndor was at that moment. To be honest, no one did, not even the individuals trying to get the ball rolling. So for about ~8 months Eryndor practices were fairly uncomfortable because recruiting became less about Eryndor growth and more about growth or sustaining a particular unit. No ONE person was really at fault. Unfortunately, this was a bump in the road that led to an uncertain result.

I want to make something clear that I did not hate the units or any particular unit. It was more that i hated that things were different now. This close group of fun people and best friends were becoming something different... and at that point I was very unsure as to what it was. We can all agree that change is scary, especially when we are very unsure of the change's result. Unfortunately, this situation led to personal burn out for me... I ended up taking a little dag break. I never really left but for about a year I only went to practice when I really really felt like it and only went to events when i was dragged there... Dagorhir just stopped being fun for me.

The time came for me to select a unit. I knew all along that Athron, Mithris, myself, and some others were going to create a unit. We knew what we wanted to be about but we did not know the exact details, and we did not know so much as what to call ourselves. I actually remember when we came up with the name because I was visiting Athron in Atlanta and we were driving around discussing this very issue (it is important to point out that at this point we had been brainstorming this very issue for quite some time). I finally had the idea of calling ourselves "The Legacy of the Lifetree"(or just "the legacy" for short).

The reason for this title is important for 2 reasons, these being both real world and fake. The fake being we are the crusaders that live the Legacy of the lifetree before it was burned. We carry on the ideals of those that were Eryndor before the Orcs destroyed it. In the real world, we are the ones who carry on the Legacy of what Eryndor was orginally founded on. We want to carry on the ideals of the guys just wanting to have a good time.
During the time of burn out I did think about not coming back, or getting rag only status, but I think Rag only status is the gateway drug to not playing at all. The good news to this story is that as most things do, the situation calmed down. Things stopped being awkward and we all became ok with what Eryndor as a whole has become. In fact we know now the end result is one that is far more beneficial to the growth of Eryndor as well as the overall well being.

The other good news is that there was something that re-fired my fuel. It is partly that my unit was now in fact coming into what I had hoped it would be… but no, that was not only it. The whole story is that a group of guys and girls found us that share the ideals of the original Eryndor. They just want to have fun. They are always willing to help out. They just want to make things better and care more about making dagorhir more fun than trying to prove something in a pillow fighting game. The best part (for me anyway) is that my unit formed an alliance with them (insert hand shake here). Watching your passion at rag, and at the events, and at our duel hosted event has helped bring me back to full life with this game that I love. It has awakened this obsession and passion in myself that I have not felt since, well since I first started playing. I want every one of you to know that although you are new you are being looked up to by us "vets". You guys are so perfect for Eryndor.

Thank you…

Thank you for being sweet and amazing. You make me want to be better…

and toland, the answer is still no, but i'm working on it..
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Don't worry about it being in the right place, I took care of that.

<3.

I wrote a big response to this, but I felt it belonged elsewhere, I'm sure you'll see it before you get to this.

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Holler.

We're working to keep it about what it's all about. 'Cause that's what it's all about.

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Fairion, you're saying things that I've felt from day one about this group.

Seriously, Fury, y'all are about to experience a lot of change yourselves. You see, a lot of your membership is rooted in the college circle, so of course people are going to come and go. The most important thing to remember is that this is a GAME, and its ok when these changes happen. But even though change is inevitable, y'all still hold onto the core ideals of Eryndor, having fun, fighting hard, and always taking it to the next level, which is exactly what we did at the event.

Thanks to you guys. You're rekindling the spirits of Eryndor's oldest vets. Keep it up, and keep the Eryndor spirit strong.

Love,

-Mithris-

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I heard somewhere that the heavens will align, and the blood of heroes will burn once more...

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ok so my internet sucks and i just read this..... (im Ashamed)... but seriously love you guys. like seriously...

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I just want to say thank you all for being so welcoming and embracing me as soon as I joined. I hope to be a big play in the practice and the larger game. I am a senior and therefore do have other responsibilities but I assure you that this game and the friends I feel I have already made are important to me.
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It was our pleasure man. Its always nice to get new people in to the game.

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