Esterlen

"And so, the signatories of the Axis coalition will atone for their treason against man, willing or unwilling," states the man only known as 'Coyne' from his office, reading the notice, "All will show contrition, before too long."

On the contrary, I have a very good attitude. In the words of Jeb Bush, 'I know what I know, and I know what I don't know'. You may see me as arrogant and self-assured, but the truth is my attitude is one that's never hubristic and one which puts the community first. Community demand is what should be the driving force of lore, and it's the community who should have an integral role in lore's development. I've lambasted the mindless factotums of the staff team before, hence your claim that I have a poor attitude, but it's unlikely my problem has been with any individuals. Yes, I'm harsh and undiplomatic in my speech and mannerisms, because people respond more to an aggressive style than they do some vacillating, inconstant and 'civil' feedback thread. My philosophy for the way the server should be run is one of as little staff control as possible - this is a server for the players, and it's they who should act as the crux of what the lore team does and the driving force that motivates us, not the bizarre inclinations of various cliqued-up staff bureaucrats. No more mud maidens. No more gender pearls. No more backroom dealings. Speaking of backroom dealings... And there you go again. No, I didn't. My crime was writing thousands of words and formatting countless documents. Nobody got any benefit except people who valued a comprehensive and nice-looking Wiki. You said that same melodramatic line to RedBench a year ago. You should get a new slogan, that one has gotten stale from prolonged use, not to mention being completely wrong. Get out, Colin, this is just sad! You're like the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of the staff team, only she had the sense to resign months ago whereas you've stuck around and forced us to just deal with your inveterate corruption. If harassment is speaking out against your lunacy, then yes, I've harassed you a hundred different times. But if your definition of harassment aligns with, you know, the actual dictionary definition: Then no, I don't have a history of repeatedly harassing other players. I've said plenty of mean things to others, but I've never harassed them. I'm willing to say I'm ten-times as fit for a staff position as you were, in all honesty - I'm strongly against corruption, hard-line staff authority, back-room dealings, and I'm not a member of the sexually-perverted, cybering 'staff elite' clique who come in and out of staff over the years like a revolving door. I'm an outsider and I have strong principles as to how the staff, including the LT, need to be checked and accountable to the community who they are supposed to represent. Whatever my faults, that's much more than can be said for you, the biggest establishment apparatchik since SupremacyOps (I actually liked Connor as a guy, just not as a staff member - I wonder where he's gone, I miss him!). To meet the criteria for libel, the written word in question has to actually be false.

Minecraft Account Name(s): rickynixon63 Skype: Tsuyose has it, but I'll give it to anybody who wants it in private. How long have you played on LotC?: Since September 2011, so upwards of five years now. Time zone and availability: Australian Eastern Standard time. My availability is dodgy at the time of this application but will be vastly and permanently increased as of November the 16th, when my exams will be totally finished and I'll have a fair bit of free time on my hands. What subgenre (refer to LM specifications list) are you versed in most?: Human lore, without a doubt, is my area of overwhelming expertise, as well as the primary focus of my activities. I also had a significant contribution to high elven lore back in early 2012 when it was first being formed, though it has definitely evolved considerably since I left that community. I'm well-informed about general lore as well, and I have a decent knowledge of voidal magic (Though I've never actually RPed a mage, because I find it very boring). Give a summary of any staff positions you have held on LoTC: I've never held a staff position, unless you count my recent stint on the WT. Have you ever written lore for LoTC? (this will not augment your chances at obtaining the position of LM.): Yes. I wrote the striga/vampire lore a few months past, I contributed to a large extent to Aeldin lore (Which is considered canon, apparently) and have written almost innumerable histories and origin stories for various Orenian houses (Carrion, Ashford, Chivay, de Sola, de Sarkozy) as well as lore and flavour for the Church of the Canon. I very much enjoy writing cultural lore in the capacity of a world-builder. If you count it as 'lore', I document as much as I can that occurs in Oren's history on the LotC Wiki. Like I mentioned before, I had an integral role in forming original high elven lore back in early 2012 with Dio_Astore, Arche and others, however the high elves have likely evolved so much since then that my contribution is irrelevant. Have you ever received a blacklist or ban?: I was banned in June 2013 for some antics regarding posting Nazi figures on the forums. I was also banned in June 2015 for tricking a GM to TP me to my old mate Leric Tresery. I've never been blacklisted from anything, to my understanding. Who do you not get along with on the Lore Team?: I don't know if he's even still on the LT, but if he is, Jistuma. I think his lack of basic literacy, seeming incapability of coming up with new and contributory ideas (Mud maidens? Really?) as well as his exhibition of a factor I like to call lore conservatism or lore inertia (Where a LT member is completely close-minded to any new ideas and changes except their own) gives him a greatly diminished credibility as a team member.

"God save our Orenian state!" cries Hermann.

"Perhaps they can flee and evade the judgement that comes," offers Hermann, still sharpening his saber, "And if such damned souls do evade our mortal judgement, we are satisfied in knowing that they shall live the remainder of their pitiful lives in abject fear, hunted like the animals they are. The next best thing is sometimes adequate enough."

Revised as of 15th of the Deep Cold, 1581, accounting for the creation of Prince Philip Frederick to the title of Duke of Corazon.

Hermann von Locklear und Stahl, by now approaching his eighty-fourth year, sharpens his saber along his whetstone. "There is nothing more cathartic than killing insurrectionists," the old man states in his growing senility, having shifted his political position yet again, "I hope they refuse, heh heh. Those high elves have resisted the control due to a vassal province for far too long!"

Ski King should be in prison. Zhulik and Shady are what the server needs to turn around!

Danielle's rickets made it impossible for Captain Gruva to consummate their marriage, so he divorced her. She's on the market again, I think I might try tune? I have her number after all.

"Old d'Ibelin isn't much younger than me, heh heh," gurgles Hermann von Locklear und Stahl at the gathering of men, having defected once more to the Imperials amid the approach to his eighty-second birthday, "Wonder why he doesn't look a day over thirty. Must be blood transfusions from the youthful, heh heh." In his mind, though, Hermann considers the mercantile opportunities of the blood market. If the knight was using it to stay young, why couldn't he? More importantly, why couldn't hundreds of prospective customers? He prepares for a lynching, like the good old days.

You have used my artwork without permission, and now, you will die.

Essentially, this. There isn't one real criticism of having primitive firearms in terms of 'powergaming' that can't be applied to already implemented bows and crossbows. It's a technology that would, to my mind, really add a lot of flavor to the world while changing its dynamics absolutely minimally. As some have mentioned before, a number of fantasy universes where they still use swords and spells co-exist with primitive, flintlock firearms, so this concept of it 'ruining the theme' is total bullsh*t. Nobody here has ever advocated for steampunk 'magiguns', AK-47s, semi-automatic weapons. It's a marginal technological advancement that could provide a great deal of flavor and interest into a progressively dull RP world.

"Tyranny," gurgles the elderly Hermann von Locklear und Stahl, burying his assets in gold beneath the earth in a 'long-term deposit', eager to guard his material wealth from the Imperial incursion. The Johannesburg Capital Police had just shut down his second factory this year and 'liberated' his child workers, accusing him of slavery. The illustrious baron Hermann von Locklear und Stahl, a slaver? The idea was preposterous. He shook a menacing fist at the sky, cursing the tyrannical Imperial state that had deprived him of his right to employ captive orphans on eighteen-hour work days at the rate of 0.0001 of a mina annually, against their will. If he didn't have the right to free enterprise, what rights did he have? He stopped the swinging of his shovel momentarily, stroking a mustachio with a gnarled finger. The idea of a state was primitive and barbaric - this he had remembered the great socioeconomic theorist, James Sweetman, had said originally. Each individual ought to have his own free agency and governance ought to be administered privately and voluntarily, through owned corporations and moneyed interests. The state's monopoly on coercive power was truly the most abhorrent, immoral and tyrannical conception he had ever had the misfortune of encountering in his seventy-five or so years. "The tyranny of the vile Holy Orenian Emperor must end," Hermann concluded in concurrence with his terrorist brethren, "To be truly free, every mogul must have the right to his own private army and child workers. The concept of private property must be sacrosanct above all."

Revised as of 16th of the First Seed, 1574, accounting for the birth of Prince Philip Frederick, the death of Prince Alexander, Duke of Marna, the death of Oscar Lancefeld and the creation of Prince Robert Henry to the title of Duke of Marna.

Revised as of 23rd of the Amber Cold, 1570, accounting for the birth of Prince Robert Henry.

What the hell who has ever spelled it like this????

Revised as of 18th of the Deep Cold, 1568, accounting for the abdication of John II, the succession of John III and creation of Prince John Augustus of Alstion to the title of the Prince of Alstion.

"God save our Orenian state!" cheers the former mercenary, Hermann.

Revised as of 24th of the Sun's Smile, 1568, accounting for the disenfranchisement of House Staunton, the birth of Prince John Augustus of Alstion as well as the death of John of Peremont.

"What a niggardly pontifical name," comments Hermann acridly, "What is it with these upjumped friars knowing so little of history as to take names quite so poorly? Theodosius, Sixtus, bah! What I wouldn't give for another good Lucien. That's a name with some actual history behind it, heh."

The sixty-eight-and-a-half year old mercenary and veteran of the Eighteen Years War (Having fought on both sides at length of that reputed conflict), Hermann von Locklear und Stahl, offers a toast to Vandoria with his goblet, clinking the pewter chalice upon Tom's glistening forehead in jest. "This is terrible! Why are you rejoicing? " asks a page-boy whose name was Johannes, concerned as to why Hermann's comfortable Imperial retirement would lead him to celebrate such an upheaval (Or not an upheaval, [a downheaval] for the Khalestites were known for making declarations of great impotence) to such detriment of his newly-found (For indeed, he held twenty-six citizenships ranging from Urguan to Hrq Remal) fatherland. "Because, dear Franz," mispronounced the eminent Freiherr von Locklear und Stahl, "It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are, for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, how the legs are designed specifically so we might wear trousers, and so accordingly we wear trousers. It is the nature and express purpose of stones to be hewn into bricks and made into castles, and it is the nature of pigs to exist - so that we might eat pork all year round." The page-boy whose name was Andrew listened intently, pondering what this all meant. "But Freiherr von Locklear und Stahl, what does this all mean?" "Well, my boy Gustav," offered the polymath Hermann von Locklear und Stahl, "It means that the existence of somebody like Ashruf Kaneen, is demonstrably for a particular purpose, since things cannot possibly be otherwise than as they are, for things as they are, are the best they could possibly be. The 'dissolution of Vandoria' is in fact the best possible outcome for things, as they are presently of course, because any other outcome would be naturally inferior. God has made Ashruf Kaneen and his tribal Orvar comrades rabid lunatics for a reason, and it has been to make us Imperials look infinitely better by comparison, for with said comparison, the Empire is goodly and benevolent with all their denigration unjustified, but without such comparison, who knows what they would be justified in saying about us?"