Since his last medal, Teebu has organized 12 comps, including the Talydrithmas and Fortress Cloudhaven events, participated in 51, and DMed seven RP sessions for a total of over 20k words. Teebu has built a strong summit with the additions of Appius and Alaisy, and their hard work shows: for the first quarter of 2024, Taldryan saw an impressive 96% of its members participate in competitions.

Teebu is a constant and encouraging presence on Discord and has made a strong effort to build Tal's community while constantly looking for ways to improve the club as a whole. Congratulations, Teebu!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-04-16 18:34:47 UTC

Erin hit the ground running as M:EMS and then, unexpectedly, as EMS. She has spearheaded some quick quality of life changes to the site, worked to improve the data reporting available to our leaders, and created a new member feedback form. Behind the scenes, she has developed concepts for a larger redesign of the news page and has been working with James to determine the best path forward. She also led the charge to assign XP values to a vast majority of DC staff processing work, which, once implemented, will result in DCers and their staffs receiving a constant, reliable stream of XP for their work on the site rather than having to wait for periodic awarding and hope for the best. In addition to all of that, she has been an extremely active participant in DC discussions since becoming EMS. Thanks for all of your work, Erin!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-04-13 12:26:04 UTC

CNS has a long history of reliable, hardworking consuls and DarkHawk fits that mold as well as any of his predecessors. In the last six months, he has organized 22 competitions, participated in 94, and earned dozens of clusters of all four kinds. He's a constant presence on Discord and is always eager to help. Most recently, he has helped to organize and promote CNS's involvement in the multi-clan "Gods, We Dine In Brimstone" event and overseen a House leadership shuffle and BT reorganization.

Since his last medal, CNS has thrived: the clan has gained eight new members, and 29 out of 37 of them (78%) participated in at least one competition (in fact, all 29 of them participated in more than one comp) and a solid 15 (40%) participated in at least a dozen comps. In that same period, 20 members of CNS earned CIs, CFs, CEs, or CGs, for a total of over 1800 clusters. DH led the way by being the only member of his clan to earn each cluster since October.

For all of that, I'm very happy to award him his first AK!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-04-12 13:56:22 UTC

Since his last recognition in October, Zoron has amassed the XP necessary for this AK by participating in 110 competitions, 9 gaming activities, 5 courses, and a whole lot of crescents: 14 diamonds, 33 ruby, 19 amethyst, 11 sapphire, 4 emerald, 1 topaz and 1 quartz. Along with that is 72 clusters of fire and 51 clusters of earth. The 12 Seals of Transcendence helped "seal" the deal. Congratulations!

General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos, 2024-04-01 20:44:24 UTC

Malfearak has only been Herald for a few months, but in that time he has made a significant impact in the functioning of the office. Since his last medal, he has a total of seven months of work as M:Herald and three as Herald. In that time, he created seven solo robes, 5 solo weapons, and seven warbanners. As Magistrate he also spearheaded a new team-based model for the office, in which multiple staffers work on different stages of a single graphic. This new system has worked to help clear the existing backlog, and Mal has been involved in five team robes and one team weapon as part of it.

He also created a new set of DC news header images, revised Herald Office policies including the Avatar, Custom Graphic Requisition, and Competition Guidelines policies--and introduced double clusters for Herald competitions and revised the graphics comp difficulty modifiers. Finally, he also created the artwork for the newest DB medal, the Dantes Spear.

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-04-01 18:30:04 UTC

HQD's least sneaky Aedile has been poking holes in all of our hearts, comps and knees ever since she joined, however Sofila perhaps needs an upgrade to that tool now.

The numbers will speak for themselves but I do want to emphasise that this activity is all done while actively encouraging others to do the same. Every activity has been with the crutch of discussion with others if not direct activity with others. I know that myself and her have been infamous for the amount of rp sessions we get through.

But still, onto the numbers. Sofila was last given an award for her efforts back in October. Since then she has organised and co-organised 7 competitions and participated in a staggering 214, 34 of which containers. This has led to a shiny awards cabinet even before this purple pinprick, having earned 8 Crescents with Diamond stars, 6 Crescents with Ruby stars, 3 Crescents with Amethyst stars, 8 Crescents with Sapphire stars, 3 Crescents with Emerald stars, 6 Crescents with Topaz stars and 3 Crescents with Quartz stars.

That's just competitions cause while Sofila has completed 7 regular fiction activities, writing 10851 words, she has also been a major player in the roleplay community. She has participated in 19 rps and created 6. Between them both she cracks 100k words (225 CoIs) in a quarter of a year. But we can't stop there, there has been 229 gaming activties that have seen 2071 Clusters of Fire and 166 Clusters of Ice join the pantry. 5 clusters of graphite top off the mass with her 16 Seals of Transcendence and a scroll of foundation just for fun too.

She also recently cracked open the shadow academy, passing 11 courses for 2 extra degrees. Sof has earned 721310 credits for Arcona. And all of this while acting as an amazing leader underneath Tali. He will cover her Aedile-ship better than I but all of this was while acting actively in her position. This included being an active aid during the transition between Consuls in Arcona last month. She worked with the summit, ensuring that the members had what answers we could grant as we ourselves recieved information. Proofing reports, reviewing spreadsheets and being a major contributer to writing and getting through the award backlog we had. She was there for me personally, as well as to others. This effort isn't written into the site but this combined with her efforts as an Aedile have not gone unseen. She has been a boon to Arcona and everything she touches in the club, actively working to be the best version of herself, as well as encouraging others to do the same, Sofila is an amazing individual to have on the team and if this Kukri can act as some symbol of our appreciation, then hell yeah.

Stab ahead, Sof.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-02-19 23:21:05 UTC

Luka Zarkot has not allowed themselves to be slowed. Since their last award they have been a banner of activity, participating in 51 comps, 11 of which containers. Through their efforts, they earned 3 Amethyst Crescents, 2 Sapphire, 3 Emerald and 2 Topaz for that #consistency.

Anyway, moving past the cringe. It's not just crescents we have to celebrate here. 7 Clusters of Ice, 17 of Earth and 3 clusters of graphite from a mix of fiction comps, roleplays, bagging themself a new rank in the inquisitorious, and 5 gaming activities. Not only that but Luka completed 3 Shadow Academy exams.

This is nothing to say to their lovely presence in Arcona. Though quiet, they're a steady bastion of memes and good vibes that bring cheer into our channels. I'm more than happy to recommend this Kukri to you Luka, and I thoroughly doubt it'll be long before I'm here again.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-02-15 01:50:39 UTC

Appyson, my treasured Pecan.

As ever has been the case, you are a powerhouse that deserves no introduction; as you make it known you are wherever you are. Even to the detriment of missions when we are trying to be undercover and blend in, you burst into the room with the loud cacophony of "HAVE NO FEAR! ANDERS IS HERE!". At which point, it turns from an undercover op into a survival and extraction op.

And yet, there isn't a single quarter where you haven't yet again proven that despite the above, you are still a valuable part of Clan Taldryan. Constantly active and driven in discord, earning unparalleled amounts of XP, insisting to help me with awards, even going above and beyond and taking the reigns on administrative duties, campaign organization with my two Magistrates, and much more in the several weeks where I was recovering from surgery. You are the epitome of what it means to be a Pecan, and I'm honored to have you on my right.

Because of your efforts, and always making sure your presence is both felt and seen within Discord and everywhere you go, I am proud to award you this Amethyst Kukri. Again. And, most likely by next quarter, yet again if trends continue. Just please don't even think about going after an RS-level of XP again. Writing that one up would be difficult, and Howie would give me a death stare. But, knowing you? You could do it.

Though when it comes to Amethyst Kukri's, I swear you want to collect these things. You wanting to make an Amethyst Throne version of the Iron Throne or something? Just don't try and overthrow Bubba if you do. I like our home in Caelus and prefer to keep it for a while at least.

Congrats Pecan!

~Signed,
Lady Second Cassandra Oriana Tyris
Supreme Chancellor of the Taldryan Republic
Clan Taldryan

Supreme Chancellor Cassandra Oriana Tyris, 2024-02-01 15:24:55 UTC

Jorm is a crazy fellow, but behind the glint of eager madness in his eyes is a man who is incredibly passionate. I've lost count of how many times we've gone through possessions together. When Jorm cares, he really cares, and that is despite not being a member of the summit and expecting nothing in return for his well over 100+ hours of work. Well, it's time that changed.

Let's take the development of Chyron, firstly. Together with my Pecan, Appyson, he spent just over a month developing the Arcology initiative for the lore of the moon, the details for which are now on the wiki. And while we were busy working on our next events and designing stuff for Elysia and Kasiya, he went as far as to implement plans to make our other moon Chyron self-sustainable with its own military, civilian and city-based infrastructure, and physical locales for use with specific narratives (even The Playground on Kasiya acting as their 'Embassy') allowing it to begin fictionally standing as a world that can more easily be involved in stories and events, taking it as far as getting it directly involved through his fictional role as Chyron's Chancellor.

Whenever we go through Clan possessions, however, that is when Jorm shines. The last time we went through them, Jorm was adamant about picking apart what he perceived to be glaring holes and gaps that could be exploited, thus narrowing down our spending. In the three months leading up to the war, he spent dozens and dozens of hours working his spreadsheet magic as he deconstructed and reconstructed our entire possessions system except for the Armed Forces at the time. He also assisted in the reformation of our Armed Forces after this last GJW, spending just as many hours as expected alongside Erin and fully reconstructing the composition, siege weaponry, and build design of the entire armed forces with the entire winnings as his playground (Since we did full naval the year prior; this year was exclusively for the army).

Jorm was also one of the chief architects of our newest capital ship reward, having dug in the moment he heard we were getting a capital ship. His concept and design, ironically, was what we ended up going with albiet minus a few things he really wanted. The same, ironically, can be said for our newest artifact which replaced the Blood Bond Cauldron; the Elite Taldryanite Battle Armor. When the idea came up to replace the cauldron with a new item, in typical Jorm fashion, he was the first to raise his hand and immediately go to work over several weeks tossing ideas and concepts; being a critical and intregal part of its creation.

How much of his work was to benefit us, or to benefit the people of his own little kingdom on Chyron as Chancellor down the line to eventually usurp me and Taldryan; we do not know. Because of that, we are ever watchful and analytical of his every move. Like they say, keep your friends close....but frenemies closer.

That's in addition to the 60 competitions he has participated in since his last award, of which 8 resulted in crescents, his contributions within the ACC, the months he has spent helping move us forward fictionally as part of our story development group, and even the last several Taldryan-based Roleplaying sessions as the Chancellor himself to push Chyron's appearance and visibility forward!

He's a madman, absolutely, but we adore him for it. Congratulations, Jorm, on your AK!

Supreme Chancellor Cassandra Oriana Tyris, 2024-02-01 15:24:57 UTC

Sven Rawioni has been hard at work within Arcona through his time as QUA and beyond. Through this effort he has reached the goal of Amethyst Kukri.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-01-15 23:26:45 UTC