A number of the roleplay gods keep an eye on the clans that we regard as fertile ground for roleplaying, such as the Anointed, the Revs, the Sefyric Mariner's Guild, and other things of that nature. However, sometimes some of these clans slip us by. If you are in a clan that you feel warrants some attention, I would like you to post the name here, so that I or the others can look out for it.

Cheers,

The Sable Guild: Just starting out, but we're basically a thieves guild designed to encourage RP in theft & to prevent "unlicensed" thieves from running rampant.

Oboe is the best roleplaying clan.


(jk)

I love this idea. I'll be watching!

I <3 Neraeos, if he was clone-able, man... Achaea would be addictive on entirely new levels.

It's too bad that none of the racial clans are RP clans. Elecia had a good idea that was brainstormed and then promptly forgotten (probably because he wandered off to WoW I think) dealing with doing something with Rajamala RP to get away from the cuddly housecat image. It's not just the rajamala racial clan that as no RP, though - it's every racial clan I've ever been a part of.
When Aithne and Soulfyriani were planning their wedding they went to whoever was head of the Tsol'aa clan, who had absolutely no interest in even playing along to develop any kind of possible tradition for a racial sort of wedding/or marriage ceremony. The extent of the clan really was saying "Hello" and "Goodbye" in the bits of racial language that someone that actually cared about furthering racial roleplay had made up RL years before.


I belong to, and know of no clans which promote or actually further roleplay of any sort, to answer the original question.

We grooks try.

Nerry, give us some times, and we grooks may be worth taking a look at. If nothing else, we want to find some way to get a canon origin for the race.

The Ebenos Lowe is a RP Clan, for Metzger's hird.
All about the progression as a knight, and where we have Chivalry and Honor in our life.

you'll sell out for xoran, dwarf, or troll within a month.

Never

The Xoran clan used to be very RP intensive, but alas only a few of us remain who try at all anymore. I blame myself, when I was clan head and forced into a bout of dormancy due to illness a while back. It just hasn't gotten on track since then. I'm highly considering taking up the slack and getting newer younger Xorans involved.

We were extremely active and even roleplayed out trying to pinpoint possible locations of our home planet through an observatory.. I think in Caer Witrin. Is that where it is? It's been a while. I also led an "archaelogical dig" in a few places that I thought might be possible points of entry for the Xoran. Blackharp and I got Kastalia and another divine to agree to assist us in our mini events. So promising, and still quite possible if there were only a nice pool of committed Xorans to help.


Also a mini-rant: I recently invited a lowbie Xoran to join the clan and he refused, stating that he had more important things to do than be in a happy-go-lucky, rally 'round the lizards clan. Beings that a large part of our (player created) history revolved around tribe vs. tribe competition for survival, a long history of brutal warring, and the fact of our current unity being an allegiance of convenience in order for scholarly pursuits on the nature of our race cultures and history... coupled with the fact that there has never once been a *snuggle* problem on clan or any other blatant idiocy... I blame the other racial clans for this false assumption about my own. I'm looking at you, Rajamalas. ( Wow, even my attempts at humour make me sound like a tight ass.)

Oh and delete any NPC Xoran descriptions that include hair.

Edit: Yig started this clan, by the way. I've just owned it for longer. Where did that guy go? I was supposed to satisfactorily impress him and obtain some sort of validation worth far less sentimental value than I'd esteem it to be. I better fix up this clan in case he ever magically appears again. *covets a gold star*

The Ordine Vashnar Lumeni is the Cyrenian Devotion users' clan. I've always tried to breathe some life into the community and develop an identity for Cyrenian Faithful, but unfortunately most of them can't or won't spare time from their houses, or want to cling to 'neutrality' instead of acting like Priests and Paladins should.

I think Neraeos has been aware of us for a while, though. We just go through alternate periods of progress and stagnancy.

The Lumeni is a great example. I know a few deities who would love to sink their claws into that clan.

Even if I know about the clan, still post about it. This resource is for all the gods to use, not just me.

Love the Lumeni, hate that their name is so close to the Luminai. There's another one.

With Cyrene government shooting down the Lumeni proposal for a building in Cyrene.. the clan got really quiet lately.

I like simple interactions with denizens or Gods that simply go along with living a life. I recently helped Shura (the Mistress of Games) with a small interaction that went no further. I got no e-glory, won no great e-battle (and my e-peen remained the same, though large, size )
I tried to keep it small, not act like anything out of the ordinary and just continue consistently acting like Goryllin. Things came and went and were done to a conclusion and I went about my life. That simply made the immersion so much better, instead of going OMG OMG GOD TALKING THROUGH DENIZEN<O> SQUEE I R CUL. And thus breaking rp for "roleplay" Ironic, eh.

The only regret is that ooc I never know if I dissapoint the person in charge by doing things that way. However, I guess they would not come to a charactor with a certain roleplay, eh.


By the way, who ever was involved, thanks. It was a fun lite event.

I'm pretty excited about this clan, actually. It opens up some options for Myste that are more appealing than going the traditional devotion-user route.

The Belles are a RP clan, so I've heard. That's how Dalu makes it sound, anyways. They're very anti-whore.

I played a siren in the Belles once. Nice group of gals. From what I've heard, they were trying to go places, since they have the same problem as grooks and satyrs (no backstory).

I've heard it's kinda tapered off lately, though, due to... lack of being ablet o get anything done.

I was VERY happy when Aerek jumped right on and started talking to me over tells, I hadn't even left the portals. There are TONS of clans but over all the characters I've played NO ONE has ever tried to recruit me. I know there are the Houses, and they are pretty active I suppose, but I really think the Clans are under-estimated/manipulated...

Yeah, the Lumeni is a good thing, and Aerek has done good things with it. Far better than any of his predecessors.

@Mayapple: Smack me with a message or letter sometime. I'd love to help. Especially since I've cooled down from my fit of rage (see inferno thread), I don't foresee myself changing race.

Ack wish you had contacted me instead, I did some work on just that actually, there is even an old post or two about it on the Tsol'aa clan, however never really did much beyond the intial work since I got almost no feedback.

But yeah there really isn't as much racial RP as I wish there was, from what I gather about the clan, there was more activity really when the founder of it was still around, as well as when Scarlatti was still an active Divine, as he seemed to encourage this sort of RP. Is from then we got the Tsol'aa racial emote.

I can't even remember who it was at this point. it was after Cypra and Heartsong though. Male, Ashtani. We had a bunch of ideas and wanted to do something really fun with it and the "I don't care, do whatever you want" kind of deflated the wind in our sails.

What do you mean "no backstory"? The origin of satyrs and sirens is well known in Achaea. (see: Varian, Aetolian Saga)

he went to another IRE game and became extremely popular, powerful and well-known there as well.

one of the paragons of consistent RP in any context, to be sure.

Yeah. :plop: ur a siren now.

That's violently unsatisfying.

It may be more than grooks got, but not by much.

And people said I contributed nothing to the game! See, proof!

Does it count as contributing when it didn't actually happen IG (or at all)?

Not that I'm naysaying, I like you.

We are not retconning a well-known history, such as the sirens or the satyrs. It may seem unsatisfying, but anything else is utterly false!

It happened, we had like 30 members or so, I dunno what happened to the clan though. Think I changed races on the char I made it with.

Oh, my bad then.

Do Cyrenian clans even count?






jk

It isn't the complete history, though, as Satyrs and Sirens existed prior to the Aetolian Saga. Faun and Antion come to mind. I'd cite the Siren example, but I know it's ostensibly a different kind of siren and you'd probably thrash me for suggesting any ties.

I think I know what it is!

There's Alp and the Riparium sirens, both of which are pretty different from normal sirens.

Just to say it, I'd welcome any participation or interaction from Divine interested in the Lumeni. I know Neraeos has had his hand in them before, but I've never seen an opportunity to ask a God "Hey, wanna be in the Lumeni?".

I'd have my reservations with letting Babel in, but we could use the stature of having a Divine's endorsement.

I got stuck with an exceptionally bad schedule this semester (both on the teaching end and my classes). I'm trying to get back fulltime as soon as I can, but I do hope the Revs are keeping up good RP without me. Good folks in there, so I trust they are.

I want you to come back.

Hai flair!

Having the Church's endorsement isn't enough?

Come back, Flair!

He's mine, damnit. >:/

At the original post: I'm going to be starting one if I get the funds!

This double-post protector is cool.

how's your Tribe/hunting clan coming along?
If i ever have a slot to spare, I'll try and come back. It was fun.

Trust me, I'll be back fulltime as soon as I can. This semester is an anomoly, so I shouldn't have another one like it. Or if I win the lottery and can forget the PHD. That would work too.

Getting Cyrene's is the next big step.

I am looking into getting more support for these roleplaying clans that are not already tied to cities and houses, in ways that mean you will not have to sell its soul to a God in order to get help. One of the things that comes to mind is a sort of new admin-shell that is made just for these situations. Afterall, Neraeos isn't likely to support a thieves' guild in-role, but out of role I am a definite fan of the idea of the guild.

That being said, if you do convince a god to "patron" the organization, you are more likely to get consistent and constant assistance. Just keep in mind that all of the gods have their own agendas. This can be fun in and of itself, so do not let that idea detract from contacting likely patrons.

Edit: All gods have their own agendas except for Neraeos and his allies. You can always trust them.

Excuse the pun, but this smells fishy.

lmao. I actually snorted.

Isn't it worse for you, saying that? Call me cynical, but it makes me think that you don't do anything xD. Obviously you do, otherwise you'd be out of a job, but it's just funny to me, I guess.

Anyway, isn't this thread kinda off-topic?
Anyway, is it possible to start a bit of a religion based clan, starting a new religion of sorts? Completely roleplay, of course, but... it's just something that interests me.

It is possible, but exceedingly difficult. In a land where deities walk the world, send armies against one another and seek to ruthlessly expand their own religion, beginning your own religion could have many of the existing religions united against you for heresy of sorts.

That being said, it is not impossible. Flair started his clan to Babel with little more than a scrap of a name from the Mythos, and led it to become one of the most interesting facets of modern Achaea roleplay. I think you could start such a clan, once you've become used to the intricacies of Achaean life. Just don't be disappointed if it seems very difficult to pull off.