Reminder Guildwide Meeting Tomorrow: Our monthly guildwide meeting is indeed this Thursday, tomorrow, at 9pm CDT/ 7pm pacific. It will be held in our IRC chatroom, uo.netc.com #HCD, and everyone is highly encouraged to attend.-Guild Herald
Squiring Resounding Success! Last Friday we stood witness to the oath taking of Knight and Squire. Congrats to Squire Kittenpaws on her recent elevation to squire and bonding to Sir Wei. It was a joyous occasion indeed with a great number of Teutonic Knights in attendance at the Temple of Marr. Much partying was had after the event at the local tavern. I have many fine pictures of the event and celebration afterwords that will be posted once this Herald's finals are over.
Secondary List for EQ: A list has been started compiling all the multitude of secondaries in the land of Norrath. I would like to make this list as comprehensive as possible before I post it on the roster page, so if everyone could please e-mail the Herald your list of guilded secondaries, this would be of great assistance. Thank you.-Sir Kyna, Herald of the Cross
Squiring to be held at Temple of Marr: It is my great honor and pleasure to officially announce that Sir Wei and Adept Kittenpaws will exchange the oaths of knight and squire this Friday night at 9pm CDT/ 7pm pacific in front of the Temple of Marr in north Freeport. This is a memorable event in an adept's training, come out and show your support. Drinks and celebration sure to commence afterwords. Make sure to open your camping schedule for this one! See you there.
EQ in Review: Sir Wei posted a good recap of the week in review on the message board. Once again the Ancient Cyclops is being elusive and the epic continues. Sumakin and Aanamaria represented our ranks in Vek's Lab at the Alliance Hunt on Saturday. Tiexen made mastersmith in record time. Many younger leveled defenders gathered to thwart evil last Saturday afternoon and evening. Much thwarting was to be had and several individuals leveled. Thanks to Kittenpaws and Saegan for supervising that! Looking ahead, this Friday is Kittenpaws's squiring to Sir Wei, and Saturday is the Alliance Vox hunt. Lord Athelstan posted a good link on a guide to raid hunting on the board. Check it out if you can. We are also making plans to have a mid-level hunt sometime in the next week. Be sure to post your suggestions.
Knight's Council Meeting Sunday: Time for another council meeting this Sunday at 10pm CDT/ 8 pm Pacific. If you have any items you wish brought up (goes for knights or anyone else) please email the Herald and she will put it on the agenda. See you Sunday!
Gallery Updated: Updated the EQ gallery with some recent hunts and some not so recent pics that were unearthed such as Sumakin's finishing of the Soulfire quest. The Ceremonies page was also updated with a picture of Kittenpaws receiving the Order of Sir Eshmiel. Enjoy!-Sir Kyna, Herald and Bard of the 30th song
News from Guildwide We had a good attendance of Defenders last Thursday night. Nice to see some new faces. Sir Saegan reported that activity in EQ has been up for the past month. There have been many returning faces to the Norrath frontier such as Sir Ponn, Sir Shadespawn and Sir Ikyna. More hunts have been plan for the next week. Last night many Defenders turned out to cleanse the land of the Wurms. Today starting at 1pm CST we will rid the Estate of Unrest of all its foul undead. All those lvl 14+ are welcome to attend. April 28th there is an alliance raid of Vox planned. See the board for details. Things have been fairly quiet in UO. Long time Norrath residents, Whisperr and Janettii (Dustyrose), have taken the migration into Britannia and are getting settled in there. Show them the same Defender spirit exists in UO as well!
Squiring Announcement: Sir Weii and Adept Kittenpaws will be taking the oath of squire and knight Friday April 27th at 9pm CDT. Place TBA. Squiring is a monumental point in an adept's training, come out and show your support!-Sir Kyna, Herald of the Cross
Reminder Guildwide Meeting: Our monthly guildwide meeting is indeed this Thursday, tomorrow, at 9pm CDT/ 7pm pacific. It will be held in our IRC chatroom and everyone is highly encouraged to attend. Hear about whats going on in both Norrath and Britannia and what you can do to become involved. See you there!
Web Update: I have put up pics from Tiexin's initiation as well as a couple more EQ roster pics. Initiation pics can be found in the Gallery and the Roster pics can be found on the main roster page. I also have some pics from last weeks hunt in MM that I will get up shortly.-Sir Kyna, Defender of the Cross and Guild Herald
News from Knight's Council: The new Initiation Contact Form has been approved and posted on the "For New Members" pages under "How Do I Join?" From now on it will be a requirement that all interested parties submit this form before taking the Oath of Initiation. It is the request of the Council that all current initiates also fill out this form so we have your contact information on file. Your cooperation is much appreciated!New EQ Preceptors Announced:
Sir Weii and Sir Saegan have been announced as the new Everquest Co-preceptors. Please give them all the courtesy and respect as due their position as you did with Sir Mordoss and Sir Gamanin. That and look forward to more raids and hunts in the near future!Squiring Announced! Sir Weii and Adept Kittenpaws will be taking the oath of bonding between squire and knight sometime this week. Time to be announced later. Congrats both of you.
New Initiate in EQ: Please give a warm Defender welcome to Tiexin, our newest initiate. Welcome aboard and feel free to post any questions you may have.
In other news:
There have been recent reappearances of the old guard. Recently seen in EQ have been Sir Ponn and Sir Shadespawn. Nice to see your faces again. Your Herald has officially taken the guild name Osherl. You may find this incarnation of Sir Kyna in the form of a barbarian shaman on Veeshan. There has been quite a bit of questing that went on this week in EQ. Successful hunts were had in MM and with the Wurms. Sir Marco got his purple hat (which he is very proud of), Kyna, a MM drum, and many acquired Sebelis keys. There will be another attempt to hunt the AC Monday night. Get in touch with Sir Weii about that. Also Whisperr would like to arrange a hunt for more of his cleric epic. There may be a Shard Wyrms hunt this next Friday as well as an Efritti hunt this Thursday. If so, it will probably commence after Guildwide since that is also this Thursday! Make sure to attend, 9pm CDT / 7pm pacific.In service to the Cross,
-Sir Kyna, Knight Defender and Guild Herald
News from Norrath: Sir Wei reports: Squire Sumakin completed his Divine Might spell quest with two full teams of members. I am also saddened, but do respect the wishes, that this might have been the last time we grouped with Squire Baken for a time, as he is taking a journey beyond Norrath. Half a dozen members assisted in a impromtu raid to Lord Nagy's (giant red dragon) doorstep. We did not end up staying for tea, but the fire giant door guardians were slain. His Grace, Athelstan, came away with a Mithril mask. Vivat! Epic quests were of mixed success, as Adept Ralrona succeeded in obtaining an item for the Mage epic, but the needed support to take down Ixi did not materialize for Adept Whisperr on the Cleric epic. A number of levels were gained over the week, with Sir Saegan reaching the ripe age of 50!Also we have good news that the ISP gods have returned Sir Gamanin to us. Looking forward to seeing you in EQ again.
Knight's Council this Sunday: A quick reminder that this Sunday the Order of the Chivalry will meet for its normally scheduled meeting at 10pm CDT/8pm PDT in the guild chat room.-Sir Kyna, Knight and Herald of the Cross
More Portraits Posted: More character shots have been linked off the EQ roster page. I'd especially like to point out Sir Wei's pic done by Adept Gradeki. Make sure to take a look, especially those with Britannian backgrounds.-Sir Kyna, HCD Herald and GIMP convert
Collecting Mug shots: Gradeki and myself are collecting self portraits for the EQ roster again. Feel free to send me some pics (bmp format this time only, if you can trim the size to make a smaller file, great!). Make sure to get your best side and in good lighting and we'll have some fun with them and post links from the roster page under your name. I posted a few new ones today and hope to get more up this week.-Sir Kyna, Guild Herald and Web Mistress
New Screenshots Posted! Thank you to Squire Sumakin for sending us screenshots of the recent raids on the Plane of Hate and The Hole. They are now up in the Gallery.I also posted in the ceremony section, albeit a bit late, some pics from Sir Wei's Knighting. I know there are some more pictures out there of the ceremonies of Sir Saegan and Squire Puppypaws, so if you find some on your hard drive please send them on in jpg format. That goes for any and all pics out there.
A year wiser... Happy Birthday to one of our oldest Knights, Sir Elbryan. May you continue to serve the Cross for many years to come.
Archive Updated: Older news has now been moved to the Archive. I've also made some organizational changes to the file system on the site so let me know if I created any broken links. Yes your Herald has been busy today.
Late Night Update: Some new screenshots have been unearthed and have been added to the Ceremonies page. Included are pictures of Jomayla's Initiation, Puppypaw's Squiring and Saegan's Knighting. I also have more pics of Sir Wei's knighting and will get them up in the morrow. Good night my fellow Defenders!-Sir Kyna Ravenlock, Webchick with a Cause