Welcome to the first House Lok-ri newsletter! Each issue will contain lots of good information such as guild news, current events, gaming news, and future goals. Hopfully future issues wont be as big as this one, *points at Aramina’s 1 ½ page article*. This being the first issue and all I’m sure there will be errors and formatting problems so please send in your feedback. I hope you enjoy the newsletter.
Korathin - Editor in Chief |
About Lok-ri |
House Lok-ri began in July of 2000 as merely a vision. Since then it has become a gaming guild to outsiders and a virtual family to the insiders. We began with one person, Vorgen Lok-ri. He was looking at a game called Shadowbane and decided to take on the challenge of forming a guild built around the incredible lore the game brought about.
Slowly House Lok-ri grew. Only a handful at first, then quickly we became 20 strong, then 30 strong. Before we entered Shadowbane 3 years later we were about 100 strong with three Banner Guilds as support. Since then we have downsized and absorbed our Banner guilds, but quantity never equals quality.
Before entering Shadowbane, we played a year in Dark Ages of Camelot where we challenge the Midgard and Albions, lead alliances, and learned about each other. We were very successful in Dark Ages of Camelot especially surprising for never really having more than 30 members active and we knew very little stood in our way for Shadowbane.
In March 2003, after 3 long years, Shadowbane's release finally happened. On the server of Death, we and our allied guilds built the first City on the map, and called it Alu'Dar-Gallinon, under the Lok-ri flag. We helped build our allied cities, and create a massive alliance in the northern part of the world. We were the first to tear down the tree and walls of an unruly neighboring village, and the first to Challenge the Lords of Chaos. We fought to control our lands, and preserve our resources. Our trade helped build the economy and our name was either hated...well probably mostly hated...or honored. One thing that did stand true and no one can deny us the honor, we stuck to our roleplay roots, and never wavered...no matter what the odds were.
As time passed by, the land of Aerynth did not hold to its promises...and slowly the Elven population grew tired of not only fighting its enemies, but fighting against the uncontrollable issues of the world. The Elven people can influence Gods, it can demolish enemies, persuade the lesser’s, and it can hold back Terror. What they could not defeat was the never-ending weakness the realm provided.
So in August 2003 without defeat, but much sadness, the Lok-ri people packed their bags and left the world of Aerynth and Shadowbane. They still hold great hopes that Shadowbane will mend the weaknesses for the guild that loved their lands and built a dream. Until then, House Lok-ri has moved on.
In November 2004, House Lok-ri joined the realm of World of Warcraft on the Stormreaver server. We had all types of players, hard core hunters for experience, casual story tellers, and some out for blood of our enemies... the Horde. We were feared and taunted in the public arenas (forums), and made ourselves quite a nuisance to the treacherous opposition.
We were very successful in World of Warcraft for close to a year until the World went against us and made it less enticing to hunt and capture our opposition (PVP), and more important to hunt the same lands over and over until most of our eyes bled (PVE).
The once peaceful house turned against one another due to the stress of differing desires. The majority of the World of Warcraft gained clan and the elder members of House Lok-ri split. This is where House Lok-ri decided to never again waiver from their core beliefs and values. Never to compromise its founding intentions to cater to those who don't value the history and traditions of what made Lok-ri special. We will miss some of those people, but alas, House Lok-ri has encountered many obstacles and naysayer’s...and as always House Lok-ri will endure.
Since then and in between, House Lok-ri has been beta testing future games, playing existing games searching for that dream again. We have made a small presence in the worlds of Final Fantasy XI, Lineage II, Guild Wars, and even a group successfully created a non-official faction in another realm of Shadowbane, where some still exist to this day.
What lands are we to conquer next? Only time will tell.
Aramina Lok-ri
Voice of the Gods
Elder of House Lok-ri |
Member List |
Acheus, Addricyn, Alexei, Alvorek, Aman, Aramina, Balthis, Bellanamum, Cairbre, Chaeni, Cisabian, Drayke, Dynereir, Dynne, Ebentariel, EdgeCrusher, Elear, Elesisdril, Elurius, Eshe, Ethiric, Fihn, Gaventeriel, Gwantuur, Helena, Hoth, Izalude, Jagori, Javeldar, Jozu, Kaden, Kenric, Korathin, Kuille, Laeral, Liahn, Malys, Mourne, Mythrilian, Menelmacar, Nadya, Nakorbr, Navar, Nym, Raiya, Shechem, Silvadeus, Siryn, Slae, Talendar, Talendil, Tanon, Telquin, Tinaral, Tok, Toren, Tyvar, Tleroth, Tretar, Vadrien, Valis, Valcu, Vangal, Vorgen, Yizashi, Yricyn |
Current Plans |
Website Redesign Project:
The website project has gone through some management changes, so what does this mean? Aramina brought out her whip of smiting and proceeded to give Vorgen some much needed punishment…
Ok you can breath now, on to the good news. ^_^
The website is currently going through a much needed transformation that has been in the works for months now. What does this mean to you? Besides the new look obviously, here is what you can look forward to.
Graphics overhaul, new menu system, a full fledge news system, regularly updated news, polls, private member section, new roster and member profile, and much more. Oh and lets not forget a more stable host! The current forum will be archived and accessible by guild members.
www.houselokri.org
The design team includes:
Lead Designer and Organization – Korathin
Co-Designer and Graphics – Talendar
Lead Graphics Designer – Navar
IMPORTANT: There is a discussion about the forum whether or not to stay with phpbb forum or go with invision board. Everyone needs to participate in this discussion.Click Here
Korathin - Editor in Chief
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Planning for TCoS:
By popular vote, we are working towards entering The Chronicles of Spellborn (www.tcos.com).
House Lok-ri will pack up their weapons, kiss their children and loved ones they intend to leave behind goodbye and travel to the hollow rock-realms known as Shards, floating in the confines of the magical Deadspell Storm, a civilization consisting of humans and daevi. This civilization is called the "Enclave of the Five Sacrifices".
The Four known Shardrealms are called the Quarterstone, Parliament, Ringfell and Mount of Heroes. Of the four realms, only Quarterstone and Parliament can be considered truly controlled, and even these Shardrealms hold dangers within them. We will seak to discover, or rather "rediscover" the other pieces of a completely shattered ancient world within the Deadspell Storm.
The Competition with other families to claim these lands will be a significant struggle, but as Lok-ri has done over the last several millenia we will conquer and prevail!
(ooc): The final determination of whether or not we will go to TCOS depends on several aspects. 1. If it is released on time. 2. Beta proves to be a viable game for Lok-ri (guild compatibiltiy, stability, etc) 3. PVP must be entertaining rather than repetitive and draining.
So far, everything looks to be a green light! Please see "The Chronicles of Spellborn" forums for more information.
Aramina Lok-ri
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Things You Missed |
Forum Downsizing:
The forum has recently been downsized and yes it’s still big. The following sections have been archived, Shadowbane and World of Warcraft. You can still access these in the archived forums.
Current and Future Game Polls:
Poll #1: (Initial Poll)
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes: 15%
Warhammer Online: 20%
The Chronicles of SpellBorn: 30%
Pirates of the Burning Sea: 0%
Darkfall: 10%
Age of Conan: 25%
Total Votes: 20
Poll #2: (Final Poll)
The Chronicles of SpellBorn: 76%
Age of Conan: 19%
Warhammer Online: 4%
Total Votes: 21
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Upcoming Events |
Open Beta and TCoS:
The Chronicles of Spellborn, Release Now or Later?
The Chronicles of Spellborn was due for Open Beta September 2006 and Gold Release was due for October 2006. However, the producers just released a news update.
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Quote:
"Producer's update WEDNESDAY, 20TH OF SEPTEMBER 2006 :: POSTED BY THEE NAILROS
The last few months a lot of great things happened surrounding the project that had a big impact on the development planning of the game. Bottom line: this results in the Open Beta not starting in September.
At the recent Games Convention in Leipzig we received a lot of positive feedback and attention from gamers, press and business partners. The main message in all this feedback is the enormous amount of potential that this game offers. We decided to take some extra time to ensure that we will live up to this potential. The extra time will be used for extensive in-house testing, additional polishing and further balancing. We want to introduce The Chronicles of Spellborn with a strong Open Beta and a solid release of the game. We know we can do this and we ask for your patience in this.
I promise you to be back with concrete information and a date for Open Beta.
Erik 'Nann-E' 't Sas"
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Guild Roster Update and Roll Call:
The guild roster is going through some update phases, what you see listed above is phase 1. If you have questions about it or see an error please let one of the council members know. There will be a mandatory roll call soon so keep an eye out for it. Phase 2 of the roster updates will be done after the roll call is complete.
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Dates of Future Game Releases:
The Chronicles of SpellBorn – Q4 of 2006
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes – Q1 of 2007
Age of Conan – Q2 of 2007
Warhammer Online – Q2- Q4 of 2007
Darkfall – Who the heck knows?
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Goals |
Newsletter:
The goal for the newsletter is to make it a monthly or bi-monthly publication but that will require writers and contributors. That’s where you come in. Sign up today!
Send all applications to Aramina or Korathin.
Newshounds:
We are in the need of three people who can be news writers for the front page of the site. The topics will include guild related stuff, the current game we are playing, and general gaming news.
Send all applications to Korathin.
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Closing Thoughts |
Quote:
"House Lok-ri. We don't cooperate with Cheerios box shitters."
-Vorgen Lok-ri |
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