Hello friends,
I’d like to put my name in the ring for the leader position. I’ve served as leader several times before, though I can’t remember exactly how many. In the last term, I served as a member of the Eagles Council and worked heavily on growing the kinship and finding members that would make great Eagles. My history in this kinship is quite long, having been a part of the first Coursera class when Founder Ivrig formed the Eagles of Thorondor in September of 2013. While I am by no means a perfect human being, I believe that my overall impact on this kinship has been positive. There were a couple of downs, but I’ve always remained committed to the Eagles, even when I was away. This is home. This has always been home. This will always be my home.
What can I offer? Many already know me, but for those of you who are newer or who joined during my absence I’d like let you know what my priorities would be should I be elected leader.
Recruiting: I will continue to recruit all types of players so that we can remain a vibrant and active kinship and so that no matter a members play style, they will find at least a few others who share their priorities and time zone within the kinship. To that end, I plan to focus on recruiting more a) in the Euro/African/Asian time zones since some of our members from those areas have become inactive, and b) kinless players looking for more group content, possibly challenging.
Events: I myself am not a hardcore end-gamer; however, I do like a challenge and work to make Guivien a toon that can run some of the harder content. As a kinship that supports all play types, I believe I’m well placed to support and create events for both casual, social players (I’m very social!) and those who prefer to focus on challenging content. I do not level or reach cap as fast as some of my very good friends, but I’ll help Eagles out to whatever extent I can while I slowly make my way to the hardest content. So, I’m a good mixture of both types of play types and my goal is to make our events calendar reflective of all of our members’ interests and have events more often than we have been.
Admittedly, I am not an RP player, but will do whatever I can to support our RP-playing members, including currently facilitating the creation and training of our very first Eagles band!
Kin Chest System: I recently re-organized the entire kin chest system and upgraded our main kin chest numerous times so we can fit more in. While the kin chest system we had before (which I helped create and maintain) was fabulous, the current Council felt that ten homes was too large of a system to keep track of. So, I’ve decreased the number of chests in our kin neighborhood down to five. Hopefully that is helpful. I’ve also been taking all of the donations and sorting them into their appropriate locations over this last six month term. To see the updated kin chest map, please visit https://www.eaglesofthorondor.com/kinship-chests/. I will keep up on this, should I be elected leader.
Alliance: Though our alliance chat channel and some of our allied kinships have quieted some, in order to support the remaining members of TEB allied kinships, I propose an alliance-wide event held by the Eagles at least once every other month. I will work with the leaders of Tenacity, Rangers, and Dwellers to get the information out to their members for these events. I’m the last “surviving” leader of the original alliance between the Tenacity Folk of Middle Earth, the Eagles of Thorondor, and the Bringers of Light. The Rangers of the Black Watch and the Dwellers of the Old Forest joined at a later date. For newer Eagles who aren’t familiar with the alliance or the teb-talk chat channel, feel free to send me a message for further information.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Guivien “Gui” Doomslayer
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – Gandalf
