Augur Farrin Xies Tarentae has served the Dark Brotherhood in a multitude of positions over his career ranging from the Battleteam Sergeant of Ravana Squadron to Headmaster of the Dark Brotherhood. Throughout this time he has distinguished himself as one of our finest members and his activity to this day remains an example for our club.

Since DEC of 2017 (last recognition) Farrin served six months as our Headmaster and an additional one year as the Right Hand of Justice (See the Justicar's Recommendation below mine). In these roles, Farrin provided nuanced guidance and advice. This included the maturity required to discuss the removals of Letters of Reprimand on our members dossiers, sorely needed updates to the way the Shadow Academy was run, and cogent (yet painful) discussion points on the closing of Clan Tarentum. Farrin's leadership across these facets of the Dark Brotherhood was invaluable to our Club.

As a participant, Farrin remains a consistent and dedicated member. He has participated in 47 competitions since his last award. This includes 166 separate gaming events, 1800 words of fiction, 3 Shadow Academy Courses, 3 Degrees earned, 42 courses graded, and earned a Bronze Nova, 3 x various Crescents, 1500 Clusters of Fire, 242 Clusters of Earth, 4 x Scrolls of Foundation, 1 x Scroll of the Master (Training the Superstar Appius Wight), and earning 22 various War Seals.

Farrin, thanks for all you do for our club. Your leadership and counsel has been invaluable.

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2020-04-03 16:31:45 UTC

Warlord Rulvak Qurroc (Warp) is one of the most active members in the history of the Dark Brotherhood. His activity is so high that it actually becomes easy to overlook the sheer volume he puts forward. He currently sits #1 all time in the club in Diamond Crescents, Pendants of Blood, Clusters of Fire, and Clusters of Earth (2 x more than #2). Since his last recognition of any type in our club (DEC 2018), he has participated in 63 competitions, played in 291 gaming events, written over 2600 words of fiction, passed an SA exam, earned 6 Gold/2 Silver/1 Bronze Novas, earned 33 various Crescents, earned 1454 Clusters of Fire (this alone puts him in the top 75 all time in the club), earned 1738 Clusters of Earth, earned 5 Clusters of Ice, and earned 22 Seals of Discord.

In addition to Rulvak's otherworldly personal activity, he has also served as a key leader in the creation and success of Clan Vizsla. Warp is a plank holder in Clan Vizsla and contributed to our foundational documents (https://drive.google.com/open?id=14r2-2yDPE5ZJgOHteZlf5-aHyjVrTiuL) and was a big part of why so many members came to Clan Vizsla (they like to game with him!). His direct involvement in our initial standby is a large part of why our Clan was approved.

Beyond his support to our creation, Warp has served in official leadership positions with Vizsla since its creation. This includes Battle Team Leader of Wren (4 months), the planned and successful precursor to House Wren. Warp's work to build a cohesive team, creation of House foundation documents (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDwe2vT2SK4jOxpUF__ZAktmshzDe1W-A8-lzs4EgBg/edit?usp=sharing), and ability to generate interest in members directly resulted in the creation of House Wren. He has served as Wren's QUA for the past four months and has done an outstanding job bringing along new members and creating an environment that is generating activity. At present, the house has 4 new members under the rank of EQ1 who are active in Telegram, actively participating across a multitude of club activities, and generating buzz within Vizsla. A large part of this core young group's activity is Warp's dedicated support and involvement in their membership.

Warp has contributed to our club through his sheer volume of activity, through his leadership in getting a new House and Clan approved in the Club, and through ways that many of us often do not think about. A prime vignette of leadership through example is Warp's recent support to every Clan in the Dark Brotherhood during the Great Jedi War. During the GJW Warp offered his extensive gaming abilities to help power level members in Diablo, run members through TOR dungeons, guide players through random maps and character creation on Warframe, level members to play Dauntless, and teach old people like me how to load into Hearthstone and Overwatch. This sort of leadership through example should not be overlooked. In many instances Warp aided other Clans during the GJW because their members would have never been able to compete or complete gaming events in the manner they did without his support. He did this without being asked and did it in order to generate more club wide activity. This is a true example of "leadership" in our club because it was both selfless and directed at the Club vs his circle of friends or just our Clan.

Warp, you deserve this. Congrats!

Grand Master Declan Roark,

Ronovi Tavisaen took on the role of Consul of Plagueis just ahead of the latest Great Jedi War, and before that spent fifteen months as Proconsul. During this time she has done an incredible job as a leader in her dedication to her Clan.

She organized or helped manage 41 different competitions, including part of the Naga Sadow / Plagueis event Antiquities and a series of competitions for the Clan to vacation on Mustafar. Creating opportunity and a great experience for members within the Clan. As well as participating herself in 181 different competitions, leading by example and serving as a role model for other members on activity.

As Proconsul, she has been a great communicator in her reporting out to the Clan via reports and other communications, and constantly inspires those in Plagueis to be more involved. In reviewing the 34 different reports since her last award, it’s clear that after five years away, she filled a much-needed role in the Clan as a mentor and leader. Working alongside Arden to develop the clan direction and story and make sure members are having fun.

As Consul, Ronovi rallied the Clan and pushed hard for activity. Working to inspire members of the Clan to stay active and keep them informed on what they could do. Helping members in any way possible participate to their best extent.

For all the great work building up the great community of Plagueis the past 17 months, I recommend Ronovi is awarded an Amethyst Kukuri. Congratulations!

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2019-09-23 03:41:49 UTC

Daniel “Seraphol” Stephen has been the Headmaster for the past 16 months, immediately managing the large staff of professors and docents that keep things rolling, and taking on a range of projects.

As the Shadow Academy society was one of the first launched years ago, he took on the task to update the fictional identity to align it with the other societies. Driving it more in the direction of archaeology and giving fictional life to it with an identity that saw mention in the latest Great Jedi War.

As a member of the Dark Council, Seraphol is involved in major decisions across DC offices and in the planning and executing of major events and competitions. He is consistently involved in discussions on the Council and provides a valuable perspective on our decisions given his background in Odan-Urr. He has organized 30 different competitions as well, that date back to his time in Clan Odan-Urr. Creating competition series for members of his battle team and Festivus for the Clan, as well as quiz and knowledge Headmaster themed competitions in both the latest Rite of Supremacy and Great Jedi War, as well as May the 4th Celebration and a Shadow Academy themed competition series called SASsy that celebrated the new fictional identity.

He has managed to keep the staff running, and provide opportunities with members during his time as the Headmaster and left a lasting impact on how the Shadow Academy is seen within the Dark Jedi Brotherhood in stories. Congratulations on your Amethyst Kukri.

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2019-09-23 03:41:47 UTC

Since his last recognition almost four years ago, Gavriel, or Arion, has continued to improve and extend the Dark Brotherhood's Website by contributing to its codebase. Along with several minor fixes and tweaks, Gavriel has implemented numerous bigger features, each of which increases the performance of the site, or makes it easier to operate. He is always eager to look for areas to improve the site, which are becoming increasingly difficult to find as the website is becoming more and more mature.

Gavriel has single-handedly refactored the way the news page code works, such that rendering of the page now takes place at the client, which ensures a more responsive page or users, all while causing less strain on the server. He has implemented a feature that will weekly traverse all saved Shadow Academy exam attempts, and expires those that have not been touched for over six months. This prevents problems that would previously occur when SA staff would change the questions on the exams for older courses, rendering saved exams that depended on these questions in an inconsistent state. Gavriel has also completely overhauled the selectors used to select dossier items (weapons, robes, accessories) by turning them from a drop-down based system into more of a gallery-like page, which allows people to see all options available to them at one glance, rather than having to select each option individually, and has also contributed some smaller, yet very welcome, improvements, such as the ability to automatically pull participants into a parent competition based on activities in child competitions, and the ability to toggle visibility on personal NPCs, allowing people to hide characters they no longer use.

For these reasons, combined with the contributions to his Clan, Odan-Urr, which I'm sure his Consul will be happy to describe, I am pleased to recommend Gavriel Kadesh an Amethyst Kukri.

James Lucius Entar
Seneschal of the Brotherhood

Ascendant James Lucius Entar, 2019-09-17 04:00:12 UTC

Over the past year, Junazee has proven her worth time and time again as my Praetor. Juna is one of the friendliest, calmest, and most organized people I have ever worked with in this club, and it shows in her day to day work in the Fist office.

Since her last award, I made the decision to elevate her to the position of Praetor and tasked her with managing the monthly competition stream that the Fist office is so famous for. Her efforts speak for themselves. She has managed four competitions per month (48 in total), personally running five events when Magistrates were unable to meet their requirement. Additionally, Juna is a competitor herself, having participated in 87 competitions total.

Juna manages my competition planning through the Trello task management system, tasking individual magistrates with a specific competition type each month. She takes this responsibility seriously, rotating the competition types amongst the magistrates to ensure they get exposure to everything that falls within the purview of the Fist office. She pairs incoming magistrates up with the outgoing magistrates, limiting or eliminating the experience gap that happens when we rotate staff members.

Juna serves as my eyes and ears for gaming sales and updates, posting regular mid-month reports on any major news for the gaming community. She also monitors the Pendants of Blood awarding for our weekly and saturday PvP Winners, processes gaming activity, and acts as a positive presence in DB Gaming and in some unofficial clan chats.

I could not have asked for a better Praetor and right hand woman than Juna. She is one of the DB's rising stars, and I have no doubt that she is destined for greatness in this club.

I am honored to award her with this Amethyst Kukri as a small token of my appreciation for her efforts.

Thank you Juna, and keep up the outstanding work!

Darth Dracaryis, 2019-04-13 23:31:22 UTC

DJM Darth Aeternus, aka Korras, served on the Star Chamber for 2 years. During this time he provided invaluable counsel to the acting Grand Master on topics ranging from the administration of GJWs, to Clan Closure ,to the nomination and approval of a new GM, to the expulsion of a long time member. In total, Korras' contributions to discussions on decisions about the club likely totaled over a hundred hours over those two years. Korras was the epitome of what a Star Chamber member is supposed to be by providing guidance and advice that was against his own personal desires, but was a positive for the club overall. For two years Korras was a part of nearly every major decision in the DJB and helped shape the direction of our club. For this reason, the Star Chamber is pleased to award Korras an Amethyst Kukri.

The Star Chamber

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2019-03-24 18:40:09 UTC

As Magistrate to the Grand Master for 11 months, Aurora Ta'var, aka Blade, served as an important advisor for me on the health of Clans and in special projects related to the Rollmaster position. Blade assisted with quarterly reports, which took up several days of her time on a quarterly basis, but her primary role was my Magistrate related to evaluating RM.

Blade showed initiative by reaching out to me regarding the Rollmaster position. Given how her own experience with the position often disagreed with others, Blade wanted to query the membership regarding the position and how it was being used. Blade planned and conducted an extensive survey of the position across the Brotherhood through a leadership survey and a general membership survey. Both surveys underwent significant review and revision and Blade spent multiple hours working to make each as clear as possible, and to focus very clearly on the perceived problems and strengths of the position such that we could use these survey results in the future to decide how best to handle and/or define the Rollmaster position.

Blade's contributions as my Magistrate, along with her extensive efforts as Proconsul, described below, make her more than deserving for this Amethyst Kukri. Congratulations, Blade!

Telaris "Mav" Cantor
Grand Master

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2019-03-24 18:45:47 UTC