To all Knights of the Silver Hand. A meeting of the Order has been called on evening of Sunday the 2nd of May in the Hall of Arms at Northshire Abbey. We ask you bring information of your activities to further our orders knowledge and understanding of worldly matters.
Event Details
Where — Hall of Arms at Northshire Abbey
When — 20.00 Sunday the 2nd of May. 19.00 gathering time.
IC Agenda
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19.00 - Drinks and conversation
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20.00 - Opening Speech and Prayer
A quick summary from Morvuk Anvilfist about the topics to be discussed at the meeting, a recap of the days agenda as well as information regarding the charitable gathering. -
20.05 – Reports from the units.
Report from Sir Thalory Arkensheild; Lord Paladin of the Swords of Retribution
Report from Sir Archable Jenkins; Lord Paladin of the Hand of Reckoning
Reports from the assembly. -
20.30 - Short break
A time to just grab a cuppa tea and have a quick piddle. -
20.35 – A continuation of reports.
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21.00 - Prayers and Recess
The formalities of the meeting come a close. You may retire to the outside to discuss the reports, engage in training with your fellow knights, or perhaps slink off to Lion’s Pride Inn for a bender or… other… activities? -
Post gathering discussions.
An opportunity for you to corner the evening’s speakers and have a few words with them about what they have said, or simply mingle and discuss with your fellow attendees.
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Format
The Silver Hand is presented as a very ceremonial faction in the early litterature and even as we progress into legion and beyond we see that ceremony and process is important to the faction. I would like to see this represented in these call meetings.
The meeting takes place on the top floor of the hall of arms in Northshire Abbey. The speakers will - as usual - stand on the turn in the stairs to adress the chamber from below.
To represent this ceremonial order and hierarchy I would like for;
squires and recruits to stand against the banister closest to the top of the stairs,
unit leaders (such as Lord Paladins) to stand against the banister farthest from the top of the stairs,
Inducted Silver Hand Paladins to stand on the side of the room to the right of the leaders.
Non-Silver Hand clergy, civilians or other groups (E.g. Argent Crusade) to stand to the left side of the room.
There will be markers to help with this on the day. My hope is that this segregation will create an atmosphere of reverence and encourage characters to strive to achieve higher ranks and have that be recognised as they move across the room.
(Ofcourse it could be a disaster but hey, lets give it a go.)
6 years of Call of the Silver Hand, here’s to another six.
Most importantly for me, this meeting marks the start of the 7th year of these call of the silver hand meetings that I started on Galdrick back in April of 2015. It has been amazing to see this community grow and develop.
There has been greatness, and there has been set backs. There has been drama, and there has been great shows of friendship.
When we look back on this time, it seems only right that I should recognise some of the great guilds and people who have put their time and effort into keeping this community thriving for more than half a decade.
My thanks goes out to all the members, current and former, of the “Call of the Silver Hand” now the “Hand of Reckoning”. This guild was spawned out of the amazing success of the first meeting and has driven me consitently to provide more and more to the community.
It would be wrong of me to not mention some of the old guilds from when these meetings began. The “Silver Aegis” run by Lorthentus Theodor was instrumental in helping feel out the exact position of these meetings in the community and how much they should prescribe roleplay verses how much they should facilitate role play. Thank you to everyone involved there.
More recently the “Sons of Silver” led by Dervial Oakley have stepped up to help direct the community and continue to feel out and evolve the structure of these meetings. Despite disagreements that have occured, the influence of Dervial on the current state of the community cannot be understated. Thank you for your support, especially in the time of my haiatus.
Two guilds that are not dedicated to the Silver Hand specifically, but have always delivered a good number of paladins to our meetings include the “Order of Eastwald” and the “Crowsgarde” whose paladins were led by Berethen Greatmaw and Jessica Williams. These groups have really spread the influence of the Silver Hand and really represented what it means for the Silver Hand to exist in groups around the Alliance. More than once I have had help from these guilds because of the bonds of fellowship forged by these meetings. Thank you for the support you have shown this community, I hope that we can return in kind.
Though my interactions with these guilds have been far fewer, they both have provided RP for the Silver Hand paladins and the other players on the Server that cannot be ignored. I’d like to extend my thanks to the “Knights of the Hand” and the “Swords of Retribution” for exploring what it means to be a Knight of the Silver Hand, both in the grand heroic fantasys of the Sword of Retribution, and the lower fantasy training of paladins in the Knights of the Hand. Thank you both.
Doubtless, there are some that I will have forgotten here. My time away from the community in the last three years has been great, yet never the less is has persisted in my absence which I find greatly gratifying.
Thank you to all of you.
