Zezimus

He's a chill guy, never letting the heat of the moment get to his head. I believe he'd make an excellent GM. + 1

Having known Devvy for some years now, I can personally vouch that her commitment and positive attitude would make her a great addition to the FM team. + 1

Yer name: Wulfgar Blackaxe What are yer professions: Breeding Race: Mountain Dwarf In which cohort do you wish to be placed in: In whichever I am most needed. (( OOC Format )) MC Name: Zezimus Discord: Zezimus Skype: zezimus-uk

Wulfgar of Clan Blackaxe leans over the head of his great axe, as he hears word of the High King's letter. "From t'e Legion, to t'e clergy, perhaps even to t'e throne ov Urguan itself, corruption festers at t'e very 'eart ov what was once our nation. A sad day it is when t'e sons ov Urguan would shed t'e blood ov their fellow dwedmar. If t'e call to war is made, Clan Blackaxe shall answer, as honour demands. When that toime comes, t'e Urguanites would do well to remember 'o their real kinsmen are."

Name: Magni Farhammer Age: 200 Race: Cave Dwarf Allegiance (Current nation of residence): None Past Military Experience: Beast hunting and occasional sellsword work. None-Military Experience/Skills: Mining and merchanting OOC Information: MC Name: Zezimus Skype Name (Used for updates, news and information): zezimus-uk Teamspeak is a required tool for battles and major events, it is recommended that you at least download it upon joining the Order. Have you been in the Order before?: Yes. Do you plan to make this character one of your primary?: Yes.

MC name: Zezimus Forum name: Zezimus Skype Name: zezimus-uk What is your timezone?: GMT How do you wish to work on the wiki? (Writing, updating lore, etc): Updating existing lore, as well as writing up new wiki pages. Have you worked on the, or any wiki before?: Yes, I used to have wiki access and worked on a number of dwarven articles. Which lore are you most familiar with?: Dwarven lore, general server history from Aegis onward. Please provide an example of a wiki page you are not satisfied with and list aspects that could be improved: https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Kal%27Urguan Minimal description and lacking details of important defining features and events in the city’s history. Some information is incomplete, inaccurate or has clearly not been updated since Aegis. Lacking use of any images. Inappropriate use of a copy/pasted font and format from another document. No wider framing of the city’s importance in the context of dwarven role play. Please provide an example of a wiki page you see as a model example and list your reasoning: https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=John_I,_Holy_Orenian_Emperor Clear layout, use of paragraphs and introduction, containing important details of the character at the top right. Contains appropriate use of images to illustrate the content being discussed in the text. Displays well written and extensive knowledge of the subject. Proper use of in-text signposting and quotations. Please showcase your abilities with either: A. A short writing on the subject of your choosing. B. An example of an 'other' (Already completed wiki pages are a plus!). Linked below is a piece of writing I did to further explore dwarven lore and create the basis for future event lines. https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=History_of_the_Ironborn

I have to agree with Fimlin, as well as Joey, deregulation of RP + responsible leaders who don't get wound up in OOC grudges is what the server needs, and has done for some years now. If the current generation of leaders can do that, LotC would be much better for it. Let conflicts happen in RP, end this culture of people sniveling and plotting in skype and teamspeak chats.

As an outsider to the elves, this is a very impressive and from what I can tell, accurate summary. Nice work! As in real life, history tends to shape current events. I wish we had more of this on LotC. Two slight things I noticed, however: - I believe the Wardens had already been officially disbanded by the time Kal'Urguan fell to the undead. - From what I recall, this took place during the world war between Urguan & Oren vs Krugmar & Malinor, which occurred some months prior to the end of the map. - Secondly, the Treaty of Zion didn't break down, to lead to war between the humans and dwarves. Zion was actually the capital of the Conclave in the Fringe, and Darius as the treaty's proposer, chose to name it after his city. It acted as a defensive pact between Urguan, the War Uzg, the Conclave and Alras. Here are the sources if you need them: https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Great_War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYvHtMNPykM

In some ways, I actually feel that'd be an even bigger case of retconning, as it'd mess with the other race's dating systems as well. On the other hand, just scaling the dwarves' age back a bit seems a lot less consequential.

Sorry for the misunderstanding - when I say Aegis, I mean when the server started out in Aegis, which I assume was around the year 1300. I wouldn't even say this is really retconning as most of the dwarves who decided on the 800 maximum age around Asulon time are still here on LotC, some of which seem to agree we raised it too high. Not to mention, I don't recall it ever actually being role played that anybody had knowledge prior to the server beginning, beyond the small bits of lore we've released over the years.

As I said in the original post, I created this thread more to generate discussion on the topic than to suggest a straight up solution. For the dwarves at least, it makes very little sense from a lore perspective as to how a dwarf could have lived that long and still not remember what went on before Aegis. Not to mention, due to the Ironborn and Great Collapse lore, we intended knowledge to slowly stream through at a steady rate, as opposed to one individual simply appearing and saying they were alive throughout everything. This is certainly one solution and one that we've used in the past to explain why most dwarves don't live until they're 800. I'm a little lost on the timeline myself but if that's correct, 400 or maybe even 500 would be more suitable. (I believe 500 is the current maximum that in game personas allow.)

Perhaps an LM will have to clarify this but my understanding was that although the humans were cursed with extremely short lives, this didn't make the other races completely immortal.