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About the Ancient Order
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The Ancient Order is a Multi-game guild and community for mature gamers who share a similair vision and philosophy.
The Order was founded on 5 december 2003 in Horizons:Empire of istaria as the guild "The Ancient Order of Istarian Knights".
The guild went though Horizons turbulent history, surviving server merges and atrittion caused by the poor hosting of the game, eventually rising up to become one of the better known guilds in the game.
Two of the three mods that were considered "must have" for Horizons were made by the Ancient Order.
During this time members of Order decided the simple guild should become a multi-game community for mature, like-minded gamers.
Almost a year later our simple 5 page html site was replaced with the first version of this portal
The Ancient Order of Istarian Knights is still fighting for Istaria on the Unitas server.
The Order was active in World of Warcraft for a while but has since abandoned the game and no longer has an active Guild Branch there.
Many AO members continue to play WOW in the various guilds the Ancient Order befriended on Azeroth.
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Guild philosophy
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The Ancient Order aims to provide a haven for those who want to get away from the obnoxious "l33t" ROFLMAOLOLBBQ!!11! type players that are unfortunatly present in every online game.
The ancient order believes in casual play at your own pace, assisting each other in various goals and figthing side by side for whatever cause we may be fighting for.
The Ancient Order is not a raiding guild but raiding can be a part of the guild.
We see ourselves as a roleplay lite guild, full roleplay or non-rp are both welcome though.
the ancient order is ragtag collection of induviduals.
we have members from all walks off life, ranging from hardworking business folk, parents, shopkeepers, standard game nerds, managers, IT personel, everything.
To all of us the most important thing in our pilisophy is to just have fun.
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Structure
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The guild is run by the Guild Leader who is advised (and if needed held in check) by the Guild Council.
The Council is a group of veteran members who make sure the guild leader does not make ill decisions and advise the Guild Leader when making some decisions.
The Guild Leader has right of veto.
The council members and the Guild Leader safeguard the guilds spirit and culture.
There is a limited number of council members because to much advise works counter productive.
Council members are volunteers, should one member step down the Guild Leader will ask another volunteer from the veterans. The Guild Leader will approach vets in private when doing so.
The list of current council members can be found in this thread:
http://www.ancientorder.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3206
In each game that the Order plays a new Guild Branch will be founded.
For each new Guild Branch a new Guildmaster and officers will be chosen as leaders of that Guild Branch.
Each Guild Branch will be formed to according to the same base template, using the ranking tiers as explained on the Ranks and Rules page.
The Order has a tiered ranking system, in game ranks correspond to rank tiers on the forum.
Guildmasters decide what each tier will be called and how many sub ranks each tier will have for the game they are Guildmaster in.
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