Alara has been exceptional at the helm of Excidium, having spent the last 7 months as its Quaestor (and the 4 months before that at AED in her 11 months since last promotion). In that time, Alara has earned 2 grand crosses, a dark cross, a seal of loyalty, a silver nova, 39 crescents, 215 clusters of fire, 49 of ice, 12 of earth, and 75 of graphite. Alara has entered 151 competitions since her last promotion, earning 18 seals of wrath in the last GJW. She's also been active in the shadow academy, finishing 18 courses and earning 7 degrees.

Alara is as active as a leader as she is as a member, having hosted 70 competitions in the last 11 months, and co-hosted a further 4. She's made 17 news posts and continually follows up dialogue on her reports and others across the clan in her 38 news report comments. Alara has been making sure her house wiki page is up to date, having basically rewrote it from scratch to get the page as it is now: https://wiki.darkjedibrotherhood.com/view/Excidium. Alara always keeps a strong community engagement as one of our most active members of the clan Telegram channel, and is ever-present in the clan summit channel.

Alara's greatest display of leadership skill came within the GJW, leading a team of 8 Excidium members to a silver nova in the voice recording multimedia event. Alara's work in this competition was phenomenal as she led the production of a professionally produced audio drama containing members of her house. She held auditions, casting, wrote the script, managed the sound effects, the composition, timing, always making sure to incorporate the team members' ideas. The end result was a work of exceptional quality that earned 8 silver novae for the clan.

For her exceptional work in terms of her personal activity, her contributions to her house, and to her clan, I'm very happy to recommend Alara for promotion to Equite 3. Congratulations!

Elincia

General Zentru'la, 2018-03-22 15:11:09 UTC

It is a great pleasure to be able to add my support to this recommendation to recognize Alara Deathbane for her activity since her last promotion. Alara is by far one of CSP’s most indispensable members and we are lucky to have her in a positioned role as well. Over the past eleven months she's done amazing work as a leader, project coordinator, and content generator for our Clan - especially for Excidium. Beyond that, she's been an amazing member from the perspective of personal activity and it is my strong belief she is ready for elevation to the rank of Equite 3.

As explanation of my belief, I see Alara’s activity as having two separate categories; personal activity & leadership activity. When it comes to personal activity, Eli has already covered the activity metrics in the primary recommendation (see above). However, in addition to the statistics he uses, I’d like to further draw attention to some notable achievements Alara has made. Not only has she competed in 151 competitions since her last promotion, she has also had eighteen 1st-place finishes, fifteen 2nd-place finishes, and seven 3rd-place finishes from these entries. This isn’t surprising as she often throws her all into a submission to make sure it is of great and competitive quality. Additionally, while Alara is mostly focused on fiction and misc-related activities; she is a well rounded member who competes in gaming and ACC activities whenever possible - having four completed ACC battles since her last promotion. Often I find myself having to encourage junior leaders to not forget about their own personal activity once they come positioned - yet, even before I was Proconsul and was a counterpart to Alara, I’ve never once had to concern myself if Alara was being active and setting a good example - as she has always been at the front of Scholae Palatinae’s activity for as long as I can remember. Truly, CSP is blessed by her presence on this front.

In addition to the personal activity, Alara has a notable amount of leadership activities to focus upon since her last promotion. For over eleven months she has served in a positioned role for the Excidium summit, first as Aedile and then later taking the helm as Quaestor for the last 7 months. From these positions she has driven the war machine that is Excidium and kept it’s momentum going. As her main resource, regular communication, Alara has kept her unit informed through regular monthly reports, daily use of telegram, and daily promotion of the Battleteam channels. In addition, since she became Quaestor she has scheduled regular monthly meetings with her house summit, each lasting a several hours per session, managing their focuses and aligning the goals of the whole unit with it’s two battleteam units. In terms of a Quaestor’s communication responsibilities; Alara set a high bar for anyone to follow and I appreciate the great example this sets.

Additionally, in terms of setting a great example, Alara has been instrumental at training and developing her summit team, giving rise to an incredibly talented group of individuals who are well supported and led by this great example. Furthermore, she has been a great coach for her team - taking the responsibility for the development of her Battleteam leaders seriously, and sharing in the success each of them have had. This training doesn’t stop at just the summit level though, as she is constantly working with members to develop their competitions, proofreading their work, and auditing their activity. Stepping up to audit the House activity on a regular basis. She combs through each dossier to capture their activity, so we can make determinations on who should be awarded and promoted - requiring several hours of detail work each month.

Yet, Alara’s work as a project coordinator has also been incredible. It was her efforts that lead to the creation of a House Excidium Leadership Calendar, which contains all the major events, reporting days, competitions, project deadlines, etc. for the house and its subunits outlines her organised approach to leadership. As was described in her last Dark Cross, Alara also gone on to help develop the new House Excidium sub-floatilla, a section of our fleet specifically designed around Excidium's expanding lore and role in the clan. When members submitted proposals for the fleet, she reviewed each of them meticulously and asked followed-up questions to understand the design & intent of the composition. Once the ship types were nailed down, Alara was vital in getting members involved in a follow-up project to name all of the Ships, Flights, and Squadrons for House Excidium. She helped us get 5 entries in the final 72 hours that definitively shaped the final results. Once that was done, she worked side-by-side with veteran members of the House to ratify the selection of the names.

It has been very awesome to see just how well Alara has jumped into the leadership life within the Brotherhood, and I look at her of a shining example of someone taking the roles and opportunities seriously to develop a positive community that others want to be a part of. This has been further strengthen by her approachability as anytime any member has voiced anything resembling an issue or complaint, Alara has been the first to reach out to them, often settling issues before the rest of us step in. One could easily be forgiven for seeing Alara as the mother of Excidium, in the sense that she is ever focused on the needs and wants of her crew and looking at what provides the best experiences for them. She genuinely cares for the people under her charge and actively looks to take care of them - whether it be through the communication methods used above or in conversations with the clan summit and our planning; she always is trying to best represent those under her charge. I’m glad to add my support to this recommendation to recognize the efforts of a great member, leader, and friend.

Raiju Kang Proconsul of Clan Scholae Palatinae

Warden Lontra Boglach, 2018-03-22 15:06:01 UTC

Alara has been hard at work leading Excidium and taking part in planning for Clan events as well as projects. Though she has had plenty of things going on for her in real life she has strived to take on whatever task is thrown at her for the betterment of the House. She has also taken part in various competitions while encouraging others to do so. Though I’ve just barely been her Aedile, I’m very happy to see Alara move up in the Equite ranks! Congratulations, Alara! Well earned!

Blade Mistress Shadow Nighthunter, 2018-03-18 11:56:14 UTC