Sanguinius Tsucyra Entar, Sang for short, is one of our most recognizable members. Since his last award in December of last year, Sang spent five months as Consul and another seven as an active, participating member of Clan Naga Sadow. As Consul, Sang consistently distinguished himself with his even perspective and his quick responses to communication. Sang was a welcome presence in any discussion, and worked alongside the Dark Council to provide his members with the best experience possible. This involved daily discussions with DC members and the other Consuls, as well as communicating directly with different DC offices to address specific membership concerns or problems, ranging from disruptive members to clarifications on larger Brotherhood policy. Prior to his retirement, Sang oversaw a period following the Great Jedi War in which Naga Sadow had more than 60% of its members active in competitions, generating almost 250 competition entries. Sang provided his members with regular activities, such as when he oversaw the internal Inferno event. At the same time, Sang was serving as the Shadow Academy Professor of the Department of Lore, a position he holds to this day. Since his last award, he has graded more than 430 exams, demonstrating a continued commitment to the Brotherhood as a whole.

And, over the last seven months, Sang has continued to demonstrate devotion and commitment to his Clan. It is in his role as a normal member that Sang has continued to stand out and demonstrated he truly deserves this Amethyst Kukri. As detailed below, Sang is an active member of the unit, an instrumental mentor for the current Consul and several other leaders. He is now an Aedile, where he has helped guide the Quaestor, DarkHawk. He's taken on a role of constant encouragement for his Clan and is always helping his Clan members, either through proofing fiction or encouraging words. Sang's personal activity is also strong, as he has competed in more than 50 competitions, most of which occurred after he stepped down as Consul. He's earned almost 1500 gaming clusters, as well as 12 Clusters of Graphite and 4 Clusters of Ice. He's earned a Gold Nova, and 21 Crescents, demonstrating that not only is he active, but also highly skilled.

In total, Sang has been instrumental to Naga Sadow and a contributor to the Brotherhood as a whole. For his efforts as Consul, and his subsequent time as one of Naga Sadow's most inpsiring and encouraging Equites, I award Sang this Amethyst Kurki. Congratulations, Sang!

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2018-12-30 03:31:57 UTC

Kordath has been a stabilizing and consistent leadership presence in Arcona over the last year and a half, with more than half of that time spent as Consul. Over the two quarters he has been Consul, Arcona has generated more than a thousand competition entries and maintained an active core group of members that is among the strongest in the Brotherhood, with more than 60% of his members regularly participating in activities. Kord has organized more than 50 competitions, including The Consul Bride co-op event with Clan Odan Urr earlier in 2018 and the Sins of the Past event currently running in Arcona. Kordath has been extremely active on a personal level as well, with a total of 142 competitions participated in. His gaming activities account for 80 PvE and PvP matches and more than 1600 total gaming Clusters. Kordath is active in every aspect of our Brotherhood, evidenced by his 30+ Clusters of Graphite and his numerous Clusters of Ice. He has gained 3 degrees, graded 10 exams in the Shadow Academy and posted 9 News posts on the website, all with very detailed and clear information members can engage with. Kordath’s major activity includes fiction and ACC matches. Almost every Consul report included a major fiction update, including 13 non-ACC activities. He has completed 18 ACC matches, graded 14 and wrote a total of 19339 words in fiction. Among the myriad awards he has earned, a Gold Nova, a Silver nova and 18 Seals of Wrath mark Kordath as more than a participant, but an exceptional competitor that has helped carry his unit in placing in the last Great Jedi War. Kordath’s contributions to our club exceed just his activity for his Clan. Kordath is a constant contributor to Brotherhood-wide discussions that help guide decisions we make at the top level of the club. Kordath gets involved where he can, as well - he recently helped write an additional 6 Scenario Hall venues - outside of any competition - for usage in the ACC. More than that, Kordath works closely with the Dark Council to provide the best experience for his members and the members of the club as a whole through his constant communication with various Dark Council offices.

It is our pleasure to recommend Kordath for this Amethyst Kukri. Congratulations, Kord!

• Vyr (Morgan)
• Deputy Grand Master
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• Telaris “Mav” Cantor
• Grand Master

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2018-10-10 22:28:31 UTC

Over the last four months, Maximus (Landon to many of us) has come to define what we will expect for Social Media Tribunes well into the future. Since May, he has done an exceptional job at upgrading our social media draw and bringing in new members to the club. Landon posts regular updates and promotes the excellent work of our members on Facebook, helping to drive an explosion in interest in the Brotherhood. Previous to his time as Social Media Tribune, our Facebook page rarely had posts exceeding a reach of a few hundred individuals and the page had a total of 800 likes. Landon immediately went to work, overhauling the page's imagery, promoting the page and interacting with people that like or comment on its posts. After his efforts to revamp the page and perform targeted promotion of our organization, our likes on Facebook increased by more than 2500, with some of our posts reaching more than twenty thousand people. The results of his efforts were plain in our join numbers: we had the single largest joins in a single quarter in recent memory, eclipsing any single quarter of random joins due to recent movie releases with 160 new members reaching clans last quarter. Perhaps most importantly for his office's work in the future, his experimentation with targeted ads have identified groups that we can reach in the future.

Landon's efforts as Social Media Tribune over the last four months, along with his work for the Herald's office described below, make him more than worthy of an Amethyst Kukri. Congratulations, Landon!

Telaris "Mav" Cantor
Grand Master

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2018-08-08 01:53:41 UTC

The Shroud Syndicate, or Graphics Society as it is otherwise known, has been a massive project that took two and a half years to complete, ever since I became Herald. From the very start I had support from some incredible people, but none as much as Arcia (Esca). Esca had been my Praetor through the whole project, through thick and thin, except the last several months when real life took over. In this recommendation I will cover his many contribution to a project as massive as this.

We started off with a basic idea of wanting to create a way of giving members a good reason to create competitions and art for the Brotherhood and it all started with the Cluster of Graphite. While others covered the design of the award, Esca helped me in doing the main legwork and math behind it. Through everyday communication we worked out which activities would be awarded and by how much. He helped me greatly in calculating actual scales of awarding for each tier of competition as well as developing the, then very basic, system of competition difficulty classes which we have in effect today.

As we moved towards the inception of the Society, Esca was instrumental in setting up the very basics of the Society, drafting initial point values both for Rank requirements, progression through said Ranks as well as developing policies that would later be the rock we based our whole system on. His suggestions on which activities should award points towards Ranks was a pointer for me on where we want the Society to go. His help and criticism of all steps from the very basics to the Society fiction and later on finalization of the math, made my job much easier as it evenly distributed the workload, cutting the work-time considerably. To say that he influenced Society fiction is an understatement, as he helped not only write the fictions included in the Society's origin but proofreading, criticizing and helping with making a high quality product.

During the latter stages of development, Esca helped in many of the areas he had always worked on, including final points calculations, last-minute changes to policy and solidifying the Shroud's identity through communication with the wider membership and competition organizing. As I mentioned earlier, the last several months saw him step away from the project and the staff due to real life, however it did not stop him from helping out when he was needed. Despite creating just two skins for the Society, totaling 20 images members could use freely, his timely intervention prevented unnecessary delays in the Society's release.

For his many years of work on this project; for his many hours of arguing points, fiction and awards with me; for his unyielding nature and a firm, critical approach to a major Society project; for sticking with me down this path that many said would lead nowhere, I am honored to recommend Arcia Cortel with his second ever Sacramental award. If only I could do more.

Thank you for your long service, your dedication and your determination to see our dream fulfilled.

• Vyr
• Deputy Grand Master

Boss Morgan Sorenn, 2018-05-20 00:23:38 UTC

Since his last Clan recognition in July of 2016, Arden Karn has been a steady source of both activity and leadership for Clan Plagueis. He has been a highly active participant in Clan activities, helmed both of our Houses at one time or another, and served ably as Clan Rollmater while carrying more than his fair share of the leadership weight. It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that Clan Plagueis would not be where it is today without his tireless efforts.

On the level of personal activity, he has maintained a level of activity that continues to astound. Competitively he has entered 102 competitions and placed in 17 of them. Of those competitions, most of them came during major Clan events or Vendettas: 17 during A Call to Arms, 17 during the Aftermath event with COU and ARC, 10 in the Plagueis Winter Trials, 21 during our Plagueis Pro Bowl with Clan Taldryan, 14 during the Twelth Great Jedi War, and 18 during our recent Vacation on Dagobah event. Suffice it to say, if it's a major competition, Arden brings it. His competition placements have earned him 1 Gold Nova, 1 Ruby Crescent, 4 Amethyst Crescents, 9 Sapphire Crescents, and 2 Emerald Crescents.. In the realm of fiction, he completed 4 ACC matches, 17 fiction activities totaling 7,093 words, 5 run on posts of 4,167 total words while earning 39 Clusters of Ice. Rounding out his activity, he has claimed 16 Clusters of Fire, 8 Clusters of Graphite, and completed 4 Shadow Academy.

Beyond simply being an active contributor in the realm of activity, Arden has been an indispensable leader for Clan Plagueis. He has done a great job as Quaestor of both Ajunta Pall and Karness Muur, serving in both posts for a combined seven months. He then took over as Rollmaster at the end of January of 2017 and kept it going. As Rollmaster, he faced the unenviable task of being the sole active Clan summit member during the recently completed Great Jedi War given our PCON's absence and my availability being impacted by the Northern California wildfires. He did a great job helping guide both our House summit members as well as general membership through the harrowing realities of participating in a Brotherhood Vendetta, many of them having never experienced one before. He has recently instituted an overhaul to our Master/Student program which features a new member survey system as well as master surveys designed to engage new arrivals quickly and pair them with the best fit of all the available masters, putting those that share interests. He is also a constant presence in our Clan Telegram channel, a must for the Summit member charged with focusing on new members. Additionally, he has posted 17 monthly reports over the intervening time (having not missed one save for times when another summit member has claimed his report date for another announcement), making sure that entire Clan beyond simply his designated Journeyman charges remain informed about news from around the Clan and Brotherhood. His steady presence on our Clan Summit has helped us to maintain a steady level of activity and engagement across the Clan, spanning from new neophytes to the longest tenured equites. He has also been a major contributor to nearly every major Plagueis event since taking on the position of Rollmaster. He helped craft events, graded competitions, or composed fiction updates (sometimes all three!) for every Clan wide event held under my tenure. He directly organized or co-organized 20 competitions for either Clan or Brotherhood-wide consumption. In short, he "does work, son".

Without both the leadership and activity Arden brings, Plagueis would be a far, far weaker place than it is today. As such, it is my honor to submit Arden's name for recognition in the form of this Amethyst Kukri, his second Sacramental award. Congratulations!

Master Selika Roh di Plagia, 2018-02-21 01:44:44 UTC

Since his last merit awards for services as Magistrate to the Voice, Braecen Kaeth has served dutifully for the last 4 months, approving 46 character sheets. While all magistrates had a temporary break during GJWXII, Braecen was still always mindful and on top of the queue, and went above and beyond by reaching out to members that needed extra help on their Aspects. He jumped into Google Docs, Telegram PMs, and spent unmarked hours working with members to craft their characters. In his remands, he was responsible for creating a Customer Service-like friendly tone and voice that I believe has reduced the stress of Character Sheet remands. His patience and maturity in processing these remands ties into how he worked with the rest of the staff (myself included) on making sure our wording was consistent and constructive, and never aggressive. For the Brotherhood’s CS system, this has yielded positive results that I do not believe should be overlooked. I’m grateful for everything that Braecen has done for the Character Sheet approval/remand process, and for how he engaged with members to create a better overall experience. The result of his work has lead to less complaints about Character Sheet remands, and better member responses to suggested edits and changes to their sheets.

Braecen Kaeth is a special kind of leader in the Brotherhood. He not only puts in the time and work to help encourage and enable others, but leads the charge by example as a competitor and participating member of our organization. This was on display fully in his efforts in Great Jedi War XII, where he lead his Clan with the highest points scored to earn the title of Hero. This included efforts across the spectrum of brotherhood activity, including an impressive second place finish in the ACC Tournament. This helped him earn the honor of Avatar of Strife, thanks in part to his similarly stalwart performance in the ACC during Phase I of GJWXII. Bracen was one of those rare individuals who stuck around and made sure he finished what he started. To that end, he earned 3 Silver and 1 Gold nova.

I will allow his Clan Summit to talk more about his accomplishments as a leader in Scholae Palatinae, but as a member of the Dark Council, I can’t thank Braecen enough for being the model of what I believe leaders and members should strive for.

Congratulations, brother. I will miss having you at my side as an admin and look forward to your return to the brotherhood in whatever capacity you set your mind to.

-W

Voice of the Brotherhood

Legend Wally, 2018-02-12 01:00:50 UTC

Augur Elincia Rei has served in leadership positions consecutively for the past 11 months at various levels of responsibility to include the past four months as Consul. Elincia had the difficult task of replacing one of the longest tenured Consuls in DJB history, but has done so with elan and poise. Elincia's recent efforts in leading CSP to their fourth consecutive finish as the 3rd Clan of the DJB showed that not only is CSP in good hands right now, but they will continue to be into the future.

Elincia's additional work over the past year has consisted of exceptional content creation in the form of competitions, working with the DC on fictional direction, and an exceptional amount of work on CSP's future fictional direction.

Elincia, congrats on the AK. I look forward to seeing your continued efforts as Consul.

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I am honored to lend my voice, and support, to the recommendation for Elincia Rei today for exceptional leadership of Clan Scholae Palatinae. Eli has been paramount in the Clan’s efforts to establish itself as one of the top tier units in the Brotherhood. Third Overall in the 12th Great Jedi War is a punctuation mark on a year of hard work and diligent effort.

This time last year, Eli became a vital component of change and forward momentum in the Clan with plans to move Scholae Palatinae from it’s old dominion to a new dominion. The invention and execution of the Caperion System marked the first fresh, new direction that the Clan had seen in nearly a decade. The project involved a lot of people, but you can easily identify our Consul’s fingerprints on the design and outcome of a brand new system meant to engage our new members, not cater to an old, departed crowd.

You’ve done some amazing things in 2017, Eli. I am honored to be by your side as we continue into a new year with a full agenda. Congratulations on this award. Drinks are on you!

Braecen Kaeth
Proconsul of Scholae Palatinae

I cannot even begin to express how much of an honour it is to add my voice to those others, in support of an amazing individual leader, friend, and force like Elincia Rei. Here is someone who works with his members held paramount to his own ambitions. He leads by example, and what an example he truly is to the rest of us. He has been absolutely key to the development of the Clan and has paid off in a fantastic placement in the only just finished 12th Great Jedi War.

One of the biggest things I see when I look at how Eli leads is a drive to make the Clan for the members. He involves everyone through numerous polls, questionnaires and just listening to what his members has to say (not just his summits.) This is so often a rare thing in a leader. It is refreshing to work with a leader who cares, understands, and strives to include everyone in the effort of creating something bigger and better for the Clan in its entirety. Not just that, but, even when the going gets tough, he handles the negative just as passionately as he handles the positive. He is consistent in his efforts.

He never fails to be honest. He never fails to be kind. Always thinking, always planning, he has been stellar in taking up the position of Consul and pulling together a team that could help make the clan truly shine.

Thank you Elincia, for an outstanding 2017. What you’ve done is truly amazing. I hope to see just as much passion, if not more, into 2018. Congratulations on a well-deserved award.

Mune Cinteroph Rollmaster of Scholae Palatinae

It is a pleasure to add my support to this recommendation to recognize Elincia Rei for the dedicated service he has been providing to Scholae Palatinae. The year has been a long, hard fought journey for CSP; and we wouldn’t have arrived at this level of success without Eli’s leadership as well as activity. Being our clan’s only completist in the GJW, Elincia has shown that he isn’t just a leader by word but also through action; so I am excited to see him being awarded for his efforts.

The past year has seen a lot of change over for Scholae Palatinae. From losing our previous dominion, to rebuilding the new system, to the more recent leadership change-overs and navigating the GJW. Eli has been the constant the clan had needed throughout all this change. He was project leader over creation of our new dominion and as such has been involved in every aspect from initial design, lore and wiki creation, to overseeing the delivery of this new system through our latest clan event. Throughout this, he’s pushed the initial concepts of his predecessor, Xen, to further the project with the new team’s ideas and desires to deliver the greatest opportunity for the clan is years. Furthermore, he’s assembled a fresh team of summit members and been the guiding hand the team needed to prepare for the Great Jedi War and handle the delayed launched that came with it. Without his leadership and, most definitely, activity; Scholae Palatinae would not have been able to hold on to it’s steak as Third Clan of the Brotherhood.

I can’t stress this enough, Eli has been a pillar for the clan to pivot upon throughout this. Thank you for this, Eli. You are easily one of CSP’s greatest servants.

Raiju Kang
Quaestor of House Imperium

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2017-12-10 18:37:06 UTC

During my tenure as Consul, Alaris Jinn has been one of the members I have always been able to rely on. His work for Taldryan as Proconsul has been a welcome help to me and his presence on the Summit has been both inspiring and helpful. Alaris has taught me much about leadership and I would have not been able to successfully lead Taldryan without him and his support.

During his time as Proconsul Alaris has led by example through his activity. He has organized, and co-organized, 63 competitions and participated in 92, 15 of which were during the recent GJW. Of those 92 competitions Alaris has placed in 16 of them earning 15 crescents and a Gold Nova! He has also competed in 57 pvp matches, 16 pve matches, and 5 ACC fights. Through his various activities Alaris has earned 5 Pendants of Blood, 276 Clusters of Fire, 25 Clusters of Ice, and 60 Clusters of Earth.

Alaris has been instrumental in the development of Taldryan’s new Naval and Military Forces. He proposed a number of budgets to ensure that the Navy was as well rounded as possible. He also took the lead on the organization and naming aspects of the fleet and military force. To keep activity in Taldryan up, Alaris has ran several different competition series, including Fiction, Poetry, and Trivia. Alaris was instrumental in the creation of not only the Taldryan-Odan Urr event earlier this year, but also in setting up the Plaguies-Taldryan pro bowl event that took place this past summer.

While he was working as a Proconsul for Tal, Alaris has remained active in other areas of the club, earning him two Antien Crosses. He was a member of the Appeals Panel and an ACC judge. Alaris has used the skills he learned from these two positions to help teach and lead the Clan during stressful times and competitions.

Because of all of these reasons and more I believe that Alaris has more than earned an Amethyst Kukri. Congratulations Alaris!

Dr. Ben, 2017-12-07 01:30:22 UTC

The Lord of Salt, Commander of Tears, and Battlelord of Checkers, has performed with exceptional grace in one of the most difficult positions within the Dark Brotherhood. The Fist, as per Fist history, receives more hate mail and flack from our members than any other position in the Club. Awards are too hard to gain, awards are too easy to gain, we should have more games, we should have less games, we should have participation heavy competitions, we should have skill heavy competitions, we should add Pokemon Go, we should add WoW, and on and on.

The Lord of Salt handles these issues with skill and has improved our club's gaming through consistent dedication to factual, numbers based analysis on what games to add to our club, what medals to balance, and what games to phase out.

Drac is a modern Fist for the modern changes in our club and he has done an exception job removing old bureaucratic policies, updating existing policies, and bringing in new and common sense rules for our games. He has modernized the way we set up matches with the help of the SCL through the Telegram chat program, and he has remained adaptive to both members and club leadership.

Drac's work on the recent GJW was exceptional and his efforts over the past several months have been outstanding.

Congrats buddy. Mav and I appreciate your efforts.

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2017-12-04 01:59:15 UTC

For exceptional support of the newly formed Regent office in both the day to day and improvement projects, as well as all his great activity as a member of the DJB for the past 9 months, I would like to recommend the award of an Amethyst Kurki to Halcyon Taldrya. As a member of the Regent staff, he has provided a steady and level-headed presence as members submit custom Aspects that modify the functionality and cosmetic appearance of their items, processing the bulk of individual requests and driving discussions to appropriately adjust where necessary and helping to establish a precedence in a new system. He helped with description review and balance of 68 new items after the Rogue One film release for a Q1'17 launch for membership, helped to address dozens of individual typo and discrepancies that flow in, helped to review and bring quick resolution on items for the Celebration Store to celebrate May the Fourth, as well as creating a format for review of all 115 space vehicles in possessions and helping compare them and updating their descriptions in a comparable manner with markdown for improved readability. In addition to all this great work as a member of my staff, he has been active as a member in competitions without a Clan, and has participated in 92 different competitions over the same time span, earning 8 crescents and 244 clusters. I hope this medal goes at least part way to show my appreciation for all the support Halc has given the past 9 months, and thank you for everything. I am looking forward to seeing some of the larger in-process projects I can't even mention in his request come to life.

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2017-09-21 05:49:14 UTC