Calling Atty one of our most prolific members really undersells her body of work. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of words of fiction she's written and the uncounted hours of staff and leadership time she's devoted to this club since her last award, she has also been an invaluable member of the DB Story Group for the last few vendettas. For those who don't know, the Story Group is a small off-roster team typically comprised of the GM, DGM, JST, and Voice, with occasional input from the Regent and (of course) James. The only member of the current group not on the Dark Council, Atty earned her way in with hard work, dedication, talent, and an aptitude for teamwork. Since joining, she's been a constant source of and sounding board for (our many, many terrible) ideas, has acted as the primary proofreader for Idris' drafts, and even developed and wrote the descriptions for the fictional locations used in RoS: Escalation.

I can sincerely say that without her, the overall plot and individual fictions for RoS: Escalation would not have been as good as they were. Thanks for all of your work, Atty!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2021-12-30 19:36:58 UTC

Rian Taldrya stepped into the role of Consul of Taldryan twenty months ago, and has worked to build up the Clan fiction and backstory, provide opportunities for members and build community, and communicate and work to build a network of leaders for the Clan.

On the activity front, he has participated in over 200 different competitions during this time frame, truly leading by example as a mentor and being involved in what’s available in the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. Earning crescents, novae and hundreds of clusters for his effort as a member.

He also provided many opportunities as well, organizing 42 different competitions, many offering members of Clan Taldryan a means to participate and help shape the fictional identity and direction of the Clan and future. Innovatively trying to find ways to drive member engagement and create something fun and unique to build identity. This included the Caelus Chronicles, and many bits of fiction in an incredible amount of communication and reporting to members of the Clan. As well as an event run with Clan Scholae Palatinae.

For all his great work as a leader of the Clan consistently for so long, and effort to build opportunities for its members over this same time frame I want to recommend Rian be awarded an Emerald Dagger. Congratulations.

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2019-09-23 03:41:51 UTC

Selika Roh has served as Herald for the past year and a half, where he stepped into the role to replace Vyr and supported launching the Graphics Society, graphics competition standardization and guidelines, and fostered the graphics community and talent.

The Herald office has continued to release content regularly, with Solo dossier artwork done in a timely release, Clone Wars dossier artwork and a host of additional robes, weapons and accessories for members to customize their profiles on the site. While keeping up with a staff that manages Warbanners and custom weapons requests for members.

Oversaw the Shroud War competition series, following on the one run by Vyr, that ran over six weeks and gave members that created an opportunity for some competition around graphics. While also running the graphics competitions and battle plan events in the latest Great Jedi War and graphics in the Rite of Supremacy before that. Organizing a total of 30 different competitions creating graphics opportunities for members.

Selika has had a great impact on graphics since taking on the role of Herald, in keeping up with regular releases, managing the talent in the club and keeping engaged with the staff, providing opportunities and mentorship. I look forward to seeing more as I see plans for more multimedia content and rubrics and other plans.

Graphics are an important part of the experience members have interacted with the Dark Jedi Brotherhood and give the first impression. Selika has already had an impressive impact and look forward to seeing more. Congratulations on your Emerald Dagger!

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2019-09-23 03:41:48 UTC

Prophet James Lucius Entar remains a flexible and reliable SCL who works on a wide range of projects in support of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. His dedication to creating an engaging and supportive set of technologies to create the right community for our members makes him one of the greatest on the team.

Over the past 20 months, he has provided constant updates to the site in support of various systems for every Dark Council office including major overhaul to the visual layout of the site and competition updates and many what are best called quality of life updates to make life easier for those trying to create the best experience for members in our Star Wars fan community.

We appreciate everything you do and thank you for your great service and time. Congratulation on your Emerald Dagger.

Lord Evio Nezsa, 2019-09-23 03:41:45 UTC

Teylas has been my Praetor for almost two and a half years now, and it has been just about a year and a half since his last recognition for all the fantastic work he does every single day for the Master at Arms office. The MAA Office is a little different from other DC offices, our large projects (or even any projects) come once every few years – and little projects are once or twice a year. The real work of the MAA Office comes in the day to day work of approving and denying medal requests, processing appointments and resignations, managing competitions (and manually editing competitions) – and knowing the nuances of our database to make competitions work (for instance, switching competition archetypes to allow manual addition of participants, and then switching it back). The biggest contribution Teylas’ has made, and truly – every magistrate, praetor and MAA makes – are the discussions that occur among the staff about medals and promotions. That happens with every single sacramental award (and many of the merit), every equite and higher promotion – that is where the bulk of the work occurs. And for Teylas? He does it in spades.

Teylas has offered opinions on medal or promotion recommendations that are sometimes in line with my own to verify my own lack of senility. Sometimes though, he demonstrates that I am off my game – or I have not considered a position or opinion. Or sometimes? Sometimes I am just flat out wrong – and Teylas points it out and corrects me. For all of that? I am forever grateful.

In his time in the MAA Office, Teylas has processed hundreds of promotion, medal, and competition approvals and denials (mostly approvals). He has manually edited many competitions when people made a mistake (or when one of us does), he has helped write reports, policy changes (spoiler alert: new ones are coming soon), and he has attempted to (and he has succeeded) guide a new generation of DBers in how to medal well, how to promote well, and how to host competitions well. In short? Teylas has been a model Praetor – and I look forward to his assistance as we move on towards the next large scale Master of Arms project – and our continuing efforts to make the Brotherhood’s recognition system more effective, more far, and more inclusive for our membership.

For Teylas’ efforts over the past year and a half in making our system work better – it is my pleasure to award him this green stabby thing. Congratulations!

Howlader Taldrya, 2019-06-06 18:28:03 UTC

The position of Fist is an unenviable one as it requires a excellent attention to detail and an ear on the pulse of our gaming community, and the ability to respond to changing in gaming. Over the last year, Drac has achieved more with his office than most Dark Councillors have or ever will. To say that he keeps his eyes and ears open when listening to the community is an understatement as he conducts regular polls and discussion on future supported games, keeps a close eye on game popularity and the very precise job of keeping the whole system balanced. In everything regarding our gaming community Drac endeavors to keep the balance to allow members the fun and recognition they deserve while keeping the system fair and open to all. Drac’s desire to run additional gaming competitions, offering members new opportunities for participation and competition, drove the development of our widely successful Bin system for Vendettas. His latest project, that of the new GMRG rules, has been a long time coming and has, so far, showed a positive trend in breaking up the long-standing gaming stereotypes related to the Leaderboard.

Drac has a very precise and organized manner in which he runs his office. All gaming competitions are planned well in advance (up to several months at least) and they are transparent and clearly voice to the members. He runs a well balanced portfolio of competitions and in the past year he has organize 34 competitions and co-organized 35. His efforts regarding the latest Rite of Supremacy have not gone unnoticed either, as his competitions drew plenty of participants. He is continually relaying information to the club, posting more than 25 news posts over the last year, and he contributes to the SA as well, grading more than 100 courses.

More than that, Drac is an excellent advisor to both of us. As a member of our Dark Council, Drac has been involved in every major decision we’ve made over the year. His patient and balanced approach to gaming is evident in his feedback towards all of our discussions and systems.

Considering his efforts to improve the Club, we congratulate Warlord Dracaryis for his Emerald Dagger.

Grand Master Telaris "Mav" Cantor and Deputy Grand Master Vyr

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2019-03-24 18:39:13 UTC

In the last ten months since his previous Sacramental, Atra has been incredibly active at multiple levels in the Brotherhood. In general activity, Atra has participated in 44 competitions and earned more than 900 gaming Clusters, 19 Clusters of Ice, and 16 Clusters of Graphite. While this activity is certainly noteworthy, Atra's major contributions have come as Combat Master in managing the ACC, in his excellent work in GJW XII last year, and as a constant participant or project lead in endeavors to improve character sheets and related content.

As Combat Master, Atra has helped build the ACC into a platform that can be appreciated by all members. Atra regularly engages with summits to encourage the usage of the ACC, and is always willing to work with the Clans to provide ACC opportunities for members, such as when he assisted in the administration of the CNS event The Harrowing. Atra continually updates and adds to Venues, and even has introduced a new 'mode' for the ACC in the Scenario Hall, where each venue has a unique experience and prompt that sets the stage more explicitly and provides unique experiences based on the venue used, including multiple opponents and specific objectives defined in the prompt. This Hall has been an early success we hope continues. Atra has trained more than a dozen members to be Judges from across the Brotherhood, including the current crop of Judges: Kelly, Areticus, Lucine, Grot, and Turel. Notably, Atra also trained a Dark Councilor, Farrin, in time for us to utilize him in the Great Jedi War. Atra himself has judged 46 battles since his last Sacramental (the majority of which were in the GJW, discussed below). Importantly, Atra has helped ensure that knowledge of how the site functions for the CM is maintained and open to future CMs through the creation of a CM Reference Manual.

Atra's contributions to the Great Jedi War were immense. From designing venues to running competitions, Atra was a major force throughout the two ACC 'phases', as well as the combat fiction. In total, his events garnered 105 unique participants and 129 entries, marking the largest participant total in ACC events in my memory. Atra was wholly responsible for the prompt and preliminary grading for Collective Strike, which garnered 40 participants. Moreover, he had more than 30 battles judged in the first Phase of the ACC in GJWXII, the open ladder, as well as judging the final bracket phase. Without Atra, the ACC would likely have been absent from the GJW.

Atra's Brotherhood-wide contributions are not restricted to the ACC or the GJW alone. Atra is tirelessly involved in the developing the character sheets and related items. From the addition of new species (e.g. Ewoks, Devaronian), to his updating the tiers of Skills, Feats, and Powers, to minor changes regularly to Skills and Powers to keep updated with current Star Wars canon, Atra is an invaluable member of Team Character Sheet. More recently, Atra pushed for and assisted Evant with the implementation of an armor system that will enable members to utilize their armor items in fiction more easily. These contributions have bettered the membership experience and helped address long-standing issues with our character sheets, particularly in the case of armor.

Atra is among our most important leaders. As the Combat Master, he oversees a platform unique to the Brotherhood, but his contributions go so much further than 'just' Combat Master. Moreover, Atra is always willing to step out of his role as CM, or expand on it where it is necessary. Without Atra, the last Great Jedi War likely wouldn't have had any ACC options, and his incredible judging turnaround time and ability to handle multiple battles quickly is what enabled us to really succeed and to have a model for how to utilize in the ACC in future Vendetta events. Atra is an integral member of our development team that creates and refines the membership's experiences with the Brotherhood fictional tools, especially the character sheets. More importantly, Atra is an advisor I trust and rely on beyond just the ACC. In short, Atra's efforts over the last ten months have been immense, and it is without a doubt that he deserves this Emerald Dagger.

I know I speak for the Deputy Grand Master and the Voice as well when I say congratulations, Atra!

Telaris "Mav" Cantor
Grand Master

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2018-04-28 15:41:44 UTC

The membership of the Dark Brotherhood consists of many talented and creative people. Within these numbers are a select few who distinguish themselves as future leaders of our club. In 2015, Abbey was one such member. It was apparent, to anyone with a brain, that Abbey was a superstar and destined to lead a Clan and more. I asked her to be Consul of Arcona because I knew she would succeed and I knew she would build upon Arcona's years of success. I was not mistaken.

Abbey has had a unique and potentially singular impact on our club. She is well respected (even loved) by many of our members, she is a creative force across a multitude of our activities, and she is a steady hand in times of crisis. I am fortunate to have had her as a Consul and our club is fortunate to have her as a member/leader in any capacity.

Abbey, I look forward to seeing you improve our club for years to come. Congratulations on a fantastic three years in charge of Arcona and Congratulations on your new Emerald Dagger.

GM Pravus

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Atty is a unique member and leader in the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. Her infectious charisma has allowed her to form connections and inspire loyalty in anyone she interacts with. Even those that don't agree with her or particularly like her seem to still get caught in her web. I mention this not for her work as Consul, but as Praetor to the Voice.

Character Sheet remands have been a point of contention for members both new and returning members. Atty's personality has really shone in how she has patiently and warmly worked with members on their remanded sheets. She engages with them on the side, in a pm, or a follow up email or google doc. She doesn't just remand someone and then shrug her shoulders- she helps them work towards getting it approved. Since her last merit in October of 2017, Atty has approved a staff-leading 77 out of 244 non-auto approved character sheets (~35%) for the Brotherhood. This does not account for all the time she has spent working with members on making sure they are able to get their sheets up to spec with the most recent guidelines, all while doing it with a smile. This has generated better feedback from members about the entire Character Sheet creation process, and I'm extremely grateful for the work she has put in. She is active in Voice chat when I need to review a policy and even if she disagrees with me on something, she will always follow through and do what is required of her as Praetor. On top of that, she has been instrumental in proof-reading all of my reports, announcements, and fiction updates (sans the ones during GJWXII). When I was writing the finale, however, she stepped up in a big way to help me deliver a massive 14-page fiction update that I wouldn't have been able to finish without her to bounce ideas off of, check my thought process, and quite honestly to believe in me that I could get it done.

That's not something that is tangible. I can't quantify it with metrics or statistics. But it's the kind of thing that makes Atty special. She genuinely cares and wants to help.

As a Dark Councilor, it's been an honor working with her as the emissary to the Dark Council for Arcona. While we've argued on at least 75 different fronts- But when all is said and all is done:Atty has her beliefs, and sticks to them while understanding the importance of comprise and resolution to progress forward.

As a member, I think that the DJB is a better place with her as a part of it, I'm grateful to have her sticking around on Voice staff, and I look forward to all she will continue to do with whatever she sets her mind to next.

-W

Voice of the Brotherhood

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Three years, three years of corralling one of the most active, insane group of people you're likely to come across. You did it with the utmost patience and, usually, grace. You encouraged, you lead by example, and you kept the kids informed. You slapped me down when I got out of line and taught me (tried, boy did you try) tact. My time in leadership thus far has been reliant on your guiding hand and assistance. I can't say enough about the things we've gone through the past three years, keeping Arcona from devolving into a madhouse of egos and chaos. You're god damn brilliant, and you deserve both this award and a break. Congrats, Blinky.

Kordath Bleu Arcona, Consul

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That's mine, Terran has expressed interest in saying some words (I had fallen asleep by this point last night, else I'd have something tangible here) and the Arconae put something together if you want to use it.

I never thought I'd celebrate such a drastic change in Arcona so much, but truly, Abbey has left her mark on the Clan and changed it for the better. She has an effortless grace in inspiring her membership, encouraging them, nurturing them and turning them into a formidably close collection of kin that warms the dead little-shriveled thing I used to call a heart. I also crunched some numbers. 1088 days continuously as Consul. I did half that in two separate terms and found it hard to deal with the day-to-day SNAFUs the DB routinely throws your way. That she managed over a thousand days without having a conniption is a feat of endurance that makes taking the cloth and becoming a nun very small beer indeed. She will truly be missed as Consul, and on behalf of the clan, the Arconae and myself, I'd love her to be thanked in a manner befitting the finest Consul this Clan has ever seen. Well done Abbey, now get some rest. You've more than earned it.

Jon (Sashar Arconae)

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2018-02-22 23:19:18 UTC

Augur Sanguinius Tsucyra has created, participated, and led in the Dark Brotherhood for a period of 19 months without an award. Throughout this period he has served in leadership positions including Proconsul, Consul, Quaestor, and Shadow Academy Professor. He has led Houses and Clans with the creation of content through competitions/fiction and supported the entire Dark Brotherhood with countless graded exams.

He has done all of this without an expectation of an award or a single complaint about the lack of wards he deserved. Truly impressive patience and dedication to our club.

Sang, keep up the tireless efforts as a creator and participator. My apologies it took us so long to recognize your great efforts.

Congrats.

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2017-12-10 18:37:07 UTC

Adept Evant Taelyan has performed remarkably in his duties as Regent. One only needs to look at the position of Regent to realize that we created it for Evant due to his incredible performance in creating the DJB's possession system. This fact alone makes him unique among club leaders and members.

Evant creates new possessions, balances credits, creates fictional enemies, and works tirelessly ensuring the DJB's integrated systems make sense. Evant needs to keep up with award trends, balancing of gaming, fiction, canon issues, Star Wars movies, membership needs, statistics on ownership of possessions, and a list of things that are too long to count or list here.

Evant, we appreciate your dedication to our club, your efforts as the Regent, and your amazing work on the GJW.

Congratulations on your ED.

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2017-12-04 01:59:06 UTC