Once in a while you come across an individual who emanates a thirst for knowledge and a hunger for intelligence like no other.
Taranae Rhode is such a person.
Since I met her in pazaak online, she has achieved that knowledge she craved. She didn't take her time....she came with guns blazing.
While I may have joked about her going up in ranks faster than our Quaestor, Montresor, she took it as a challenge and her personal goal to beat his time to Knight.
She earned multiple merit and competition awards, passed numerous shadow academy exams, created and ran her own competitions, recruiting multiple new members, and turned in a excellent 3000+ worded fiction. The last while under the effects of a stomach virus.
She also, at Jedi Hunter, became the first Battleteam Sargent of our newest BT, Sorzus Syn -- honor she will always claim.
My apprentice surpassed everything I have laid before her and asked for more. She didn't just do the minimum required tasks, she did double her tasks.
I feel she is ready for that next level. I hereby request and recommend Taranae Rhode promotion to the highest journeyman level, Dark Jedi Knight.
You did it Taranae. You beat Montresor's success. You will be a force in the Brotherhood to reckon with.
Warlord Brimstone aka Seabr'imsto'nedansr, 2014-01-28 23:33:44 UTC
In the months I have known Taranae since she joined the Brotherhood and House Plagueis, she has been a shining star of activity, dedication, and a prime example of what I want to see from our Journeymen.
From her amazing and crescent-placing entries in my competitions and Brotherhood-wide competitions, to her ever vigilant Cluster of Fire farming in The Old Republic and Diablo III, she has done nothing short of both my and her Master's expectations.
In record time she has shot through the ranks of the Journeymen, always striving to better herself and push beyond the limitations before her by continuing even now as I write this to not just complete additional promotion requirements even though she does not need to, but completely shatter and obliterate them with her push towards the Grand Master's Royal Guard Rank IV promotion, completing her 3000 word fiction for use in Battleteam Sorzus Syn’s starting storyline, and still going after more and more competitions.
It is for these reasons that I brought her on as my Sergeant in Sorzus Syn, and even there she has done nothing but impress me with her input to ideas, and working with me to begin our first large scale campaign to inaugurate the Team's opening.
Regardless, I feel this next thing is something long overdue with her efforts. In fact, I doubt it will be too much longer before we see a record breaking ascension through the Equite ranks surpassing even me. (if she stays ahead of Monty and beats him to the Elder ranks, I will be greatly impressed. hint hint)
It is with her accomplishments these past months, her constant activity and dedication, that I am pleased to announce this next part.
On behalf of House Plagueis, and Battleteam Sorzus Syn, welcome to your new life. It is to you this day that I salute you.
Taranae Rhode, Dark Jedi Knight of the House Plagueis.
Congratulations.
~Signed,
Archpriest Arturis Schulen
Chief Inquisitor of Sorzus Syn
The Heart of Dread, Guardian of Plagueis
Supreme Chancellor Cassandra Oriana Taldrya, 2014-01-28 23:34:11 UTC