Essik Lyccane has reached the required 85000 XP to reach the rank of Elder 1.

Have you ever heard the tale of Essik, the machine? It’s not a story the Sith would have told you. All joking aside, one of the pillars of Clan Odan-Urr is Essik Lyccane. From his seemingly endless work on wiki articles, to his spectacular fiction writing, my friend here is probably one of the best friends I have made in the Brotherhood. He selflessly does so much for this Clan and genuinely wants what’s best for it. In fact, I can say with honesty, this Clan wouldn’t be the same without him in it.

I’ve known him for quite some time and I’ve always looked up to him as a role model in that, while he may rarely, if ever, stray from his Clan’s chat. He has been one of the most active members I think I have ever seen. Just to name a few of his accomplishments. Since his last promotion. Essik has earned the following.

• Organized 25 competitions and co-organized 2
• Participated in a whopping 427 competitions
• Written over 69,000 words of fiction
• Written 9 reports
• Served as and Aedile for 5 months and Quaestor for 11 months

He has also earned the following awards for his hard work and dedication. 1 Ruby Scepter, 1 Amethyst Kukri, 2 Sapphire Blades, 1 Grand Cross, 1 Steel Cross, 1 Dark Cross, 1 Anteian Cross, 1 Bronze Nova, 15 Crescent with Diamond Stars, 121 Crescent with Ruby Stars, 69 Crescent with Amethyst Stars, 33 Crescent with Sapphire Stars, 16 Crescent with Emerald Stars, 4 Crescent with Topaz Stars, 3 Crescent with Quartz Stars, 7 Clusters of Fire, 157 Clusters of Ice, 117 Clusters of Earth, 177 Clusters of Graphite, 9 Dark Side Scrolls, 1 Scroll of Foundation for mentoring Elyon de Neverse, 1 Seal of Loyalty, 23 Seals of Ascension, and 14 Seals of Transcendence.

Essik is the epitome of hard work pays off. He has diligently worked for his Clan, most of the time, behind the curtain. This alone speaks for his personality as he doesn’t seek praise or personal reward. With a true servant mentality, his true desire is Odan-Urr. For always being their to talk to, to vent to, and to get advice. Thank you Essik. Not just as your Consul. But as your friend. I know that I can always count on you and I’m grateful to have you as a member. We appreciate you and hope that you have many more years left in you.

Governor Hugo Siphaar, 2024-05-21 21:41:08 UTC

A storied name with a knack for shooting straight and getting to the point, Essik or Tarvitz, has been a fixture around The Brotherhood for years. A year my senior and sounding board during my first year in the DB (bet ya didn't remember, did you? Took me a while too.) about the woes of Time Served in position, despite having done all of the required metrics aside from sitting on our hands. In my time returned to Odan-Urr Tarvitz has been a collaborator and compass, helping me navigate some of the trickier aspects of projects and just fitting the pieces back into COU.

With so many moving pieces, creations, historical details, and Wiki Articles of Odan-Urr's tied to your name, it feels only just for you to have earned this, if a bit overdue.

High Councillor Wolfe, 2024-05-21 01:23:51 UTC

The point of a wiki is for people to use it, obviously. Not just for reference but to improve it and erase the distinction between user and administrator. However, in practice, that's not usually how it plays out. Most members, if they're making edits at all, limit their work to their own characters and units.

Essik's promotions and awards have often mentioned his wiki contributions over the years, perhaps to the point where they've settled into background noise. That does him a disservice. While wiki work isn't literally thankless, as his pile of Dark Side Scrolls will attest, it does come close at times. Most unit pages are out of date. Many if not most Council-maintained pages are as well. Auditing and improving that content is the sort of task that's on every leader's to-do list, but always under a dozen other items that are more urgent, more impactful, or frankly just more enjoyable or rewarding. Thus it's not surprising that we can count the number of members who've consistently attempted to improve pages they're not personally responsible for on one or two hands, at least for the last several years. Essik is one of them. I may, by doing hundreds of identical mass edits, surpassed his edit count this year. May, as in I would have to check, because I can't assume marking 200 unused images for deletion would be enough.

Some of Essik's work occurred on the wiki staff or as a summit member. Much of it did not, because his contributions were never reliant on tasking from a boss. They represent true volunteerism and a long-running effort to make a club resource better for everybody. We owe him our thanks.

Alethia Archenksova
Headmistress

Headmistress Alethia Archenksova, 2024-05-21 21:35:10 UTC