I'm an officer in the Pax Gaming Community's guild Wars 2 Division, and I'm traveling the web trying to get to know some of the other guilds out there, I saw that you guys have a special status for allies and whatnot (a lot of places don't >.<). Some of you may have seen me on GW2 forum already, unsure, at any rate I look forward to getting to know you guys! Relevant Information: General GW2 Discussion: http://www.paxgaming.com/index.php?board=219.0 RP: http://www.paxgaming.com/index.php?board=246.0
Welcome Naxek to our stomping grounds. It seems a lot of the guild is active during the EST mornings and through mid-day, though there are a handful of us still around at this time (I'm from the Pacific coast). I'm one of the guildies here, so again welcome. Hang around a bit and I'm sure more will drop in - enjoy your visit!
Welcome to the Silver Gates! I'm Xanz, the head officer of the Guild Wars 2 division. We would love to hear more from you about your division and what the possibilities of our guilds having an alliance. Tell me how we can get together and discuss our guilds getting together. Thank you for jumping on here and introducing yourself. Respect.
Yes this is a great thing. Looking forward to hearing more from you Naxek, and a possible future as allies. Welcome to the forums, OSD welcomes you!
Well I'm the most outgoing of our Guild Leadership, always looking for friends and whatnot, and while we don't know what Alliances will look like ingame yet I figured we're likely approaching a release date (I'm optimistic, sue me) and it'd be nice to know who's going to be doing what and where that what is going to get done. So to speak. I'm available to talk through either TS3 or Skype, just send me a message and we can talk on whichever medium you prefer.
Heya Naxek! Your guild philosophy looks like it would mesh very well with ours. I look forward to getting to know you!
Thanks Kace, I as well. I edited in some relevant links to our boards in the first post. Thanks everyone for the warm welcome by the way!
Woot RP! I'm on our GW2 RP council thing. We'd be happy to coordinate RP stuff with you guys. I think it's clear that we're going to have a strong WvWvW presence, as well. Apparently my caffeine hasn't kicked in yet. I'm generally more articulate than this. XD
I pretty much am the RP go to guy in our guild, I detail the guild's RP foundations in one of those stickies and I currently have two character stories I'm in the process of writing.
Nice! I've got one short little RP story up for my Sylvari on our GW2 RP forums, you should be able to take a look at it I think. If not, let me know and I can PM it to you. I want to get to know the world a little better before I write up anything detailed; I never played GW so I'm still learning about the lore and the setting.
Hah! Hopefully that won't be necessary. I think that once you've applied for and been approved with citizen access per the "step by step: how to join" directions, you should be able to see all the open GW2 forum and subforums, if you can't already.
I can not, but I did already put in to be a citizen, hopefully it happens soon. And yeah, it'd be tough to PM you what I've written. There's a lot.
The Praesidium Chronicles This Record is kept and Maintained by Naxek Lucis of The Durmand Priory Pax Praesidium; a guild of Mercenaries and Stalwart Defenders. This record stands for those that weren't there in the beginning, to be made aware of the challenges we faced and the bonds that were forged. This is our history. Before our guild was a Guild, before it was even an idea, there were two individuals. This story begins with them. Kythas Wraithborne, an impoverished human Engineer of Orrian descent from Divinity's Reach who used his talents to eek out a living for his wife and son; and Naxek Lucis, a proud Asuran Guardian, fed up with the complacency of his own kind and out to prove himself to them. Strangers to each other, at the time, but both on a mission to defeat a host of Destroyers marching on Rata Sum, home of the Asura. Kythas Wraithborne and Naxek Lucis, with no knowledge of each other and completely seperate motivations set out, never expecting that everything in their lives would soon be changed. Naxek came to the Destroyers first. With Krewe in tow and inflated ego he took to battle and for a short time fared well, a short time was all he had though, for within minutes the few destroyers he was contesting with multiplied as Scouting parties zeroed in on the battle. In haste Naxek called for the retreat of his Krewe, but it was too late; The Destroyers vanquished his fellows with relative ease. If not for the timely intervention of the alchemist Kythas Wraithborne he'd have suffered the same fate. Together the two held off the Destroyers en masse but it seemed as if their numbers were never ending. It didn't take long for them to give up the fight and they put all their effort into the retreat: warding spells, freeze traps, anything to give them an edge. But the two were injured and the Destroyers were closing. Herein entered the third founder of what we call Pax Praesidium today, the wandering Norn Bjorn, newly freed from the Dragonspawn, who came upon the two in their time of need. He was able to beat the Destroyers back, enough to get Kythas and Naxek to safety. He bore Kythas on his back and Naxek on his bear companion, Lilla, to the free city of Lion's Arch, to his close friends and the final two founding members of Pax Praesidium; Ariadnia and Gralkyn Bloodwolf, a married Norn couple that owned a fairly popular tavern in Lion's Arch. Over the next few months these five would become close. Ariadnia and Gralkyn opened their home to Kythas and Naxek while they regrouped. Kythas eventually left to check on his family, but found that his wife and son, supposedly in the safety of his sister-in-law's home, had never made it. They perished at the hand of a group of Centaurs with diseased weapons during the journey. Naxek and Kythas, both reeling from their recent personal losses and failures and outcasts in their own lands took up residence with Ariadnia and Gralkyn. Initially they take jobs together, to earn their keep with the couple. Naxek is enriched from the experience; work he can be proud of and a place to call home. Kythas, however, has a difficult recovery. Lion's Arch offers as many vices as it does anything else and Kythas takes to most of them. Soon the duo were offered bigger jobs, and they recruited their newfound friends, Bjorn, Ariadnia, and Gralkyn to begin adventuring with them. The five of them grew close over this time and came to call themselves The Praesidium; The Defenders. As their fortunes and clientele grew, so too did their name. Eventually adventurers came from far and wide to join them. Bengil Durran, a Charr mercenary with a death sentence whose Billet was bought by The Praesidium in exchange for his service. Galvin, a young Asura with a desire to help people joined with them to help on a larger scale. Eurybia "Fish", an accomplished soldier initially contracted from the Seraph to reign over the influx of new members who at the end of his contract with the Seraphs left their order to join The Praesidium full time. Namfoodle, an Asuran Mesmer with a penchant for tricking people who owed his life to the reformed Bengil Durran joined up to repay his debt. The Human Mesmer Kythis Vael hired The Praesidium to help track down her brother, due to the success of the group and limited prospects she joined up with The Praesidium. These names represent but a few of the many Mercenaries and Heroes to grace the ranks of Pax Praesidium since its' formation. With the increase in jobs and numbers came an increase in responsibility. Those factors, along with his friends, were enough to pull Kythas away from the vices he'd grown so fond of, and just in time. With the fame and talent they'd accrued the Lionsguard itself approached them, and offered an ongoing contract to supplement the City's defenses in its' times of need, on the condition that they take the contract as a Guild. Kythas, having reformed himself and bolstered by dreams for the future, agreed. The Mercenary company reforged its' identity and came to call itself Pax Praesidium, "Defenders of Peace". Though there are many motivations behind this goal - money, fame, and some unsavory - everyone in the Guild fights for this in their own way.
Thank you very much Xanz, and I hope you don't mind terribly that I took up some of your real estate in the RP boards.
All the names mentioned refer to actual members of Pax as well, while the GL and I drew up most of the main story, we definitely wanted to allow for a lot of community participation, anybody who at least had a story up got their name mentioned in the formation of the guild, certain people contributed more than others, specifically the three Norn that are mentioned, but just wanted to share that nugget of info. ^_^
Hey folks! My name is Björn and I am one of the three Norn mentioned above. Just got done talking with Xanz and Ric0 at our Meet and Greet and thought I would stop by and say Hi! How is everyone doing?
It was nice seeing some of you at our meet and greet tonight in the Pax TS. I think we can have a great time together with RP, PvE and PvP. We love all aspects of the game, and you seem like a like-minded bunch. Like Nax said, he's the go-to guy, so please feel free to abuse him with any means of communication you can. I'm Gralkyn from the above posted lore, thought I should throw that out there.
