Sworn

The guild will be RP first. You won’t be required to join a discord, but you are more than welcome to join ours. The in-game guild chat will always be in character (IC) and can be considered as coming through your character’s guild ring. Any out of character (OOC) communications can be done through whisper or party messages. This is the only thing I am ever going to be a stickler about, and that is why I’m mentioning it first. I know that there are players who want to be able to log in and not see a bunch of OOC chat and nonsense, and I will politely but firmly protect that experience.

There will be a nightly meetup location in the world, the details of which will be sent out via in-game mail. This will be at 9:00pm central. This will rotate weekly. It will usually be a campsite somewhere to kick off some RP and see what emerges from it (e.g., helping a lower-level character with a difficult quest or gathering supplies for the war effort).

Housekeeping mostly out of the way, what is Sworn? The backdrop of the guild is very open-ended and deliberately undefined to facilitate flexibility for your character’s backstory. Fundamentally, everyone in the guild is sworn in some special way to the Alliance. This “swearing in” was administered by a secret cabal that operates within the Alliance and on its behalf. No one knows who this group is, but I imagine it would be a point of regular speculation. Below are some examples. Maybe your rogue had too many run-ins with the law and they were compelled to render their services to avoid a Stormwind execution? Maybe your paladin’s family was killed by the Scourge and was approached by a shadowy figure who promised a path to vengeance if they swore an oath to them outright? Maybe your warrior comes from a long line of aristocracy and was initiated into this secret society at their coming of age? This shared and loosely defined obligation provides RP cover for disparate characters working together, and it will also allow for some fun social events down the road. Members of the guild can be known to each other by a golden lion-crested ring worn on the pinky finger of the non-dominant hand. Everyone in Sworn will have one.

In your application, please tell us your character's backstory. You can be as detailed as you like.