[Alliance] "Clan Dawnmaw" - Restoration plan. (Still in charter stage)

-OOC Basis-

Hello everyone! I’m an Argent Dawn player who solely uses a character I have based on one of my partially written books/novels, or at least a prominent aspect of my novels/books and any ideas relevant to my novel universe. This character is Tarrion Dawnmaw. I have however adapted all novel content that I am basing my character around, to fit respectively into the lore of World of Warcraft, to avoid any roleplaying issues, based on my own extensive literacy on WoW.

Getting to the point; my character have a substantial background. Not only personally, but his family too. So far the family literacy written in my novels, stretches back a few generations. - I can provide shortened, digitalized versions of these stories. - This current generation of Dawnmaws is nearly non-existent, as Tarrion has no child, no Brother in which he witnessed the death of; no Mother nor Father, the Mother whom died of old age, and his Father who was killed by himself and his Brother. So here comes to plan, the reason I wish to make this guild:

-IC PREMISE-

When the Dawnmaws thrived, they were known only in the North as the Dawnmaw Clan. They weren’t necessary rich - until the most recent generation - but they were hardy, defiant against the boreal cold in the treacherous mountains, unyielding and most of all driven by purity and intent. But now their name has been smitten down and turned to ash, as but a single Dawnmaw now lives. Tarrion. Who but a decade or so ago lost his Brother to the burning embers of their faithful tavern. (Story link provided)

So, time undoubtedly becomes unbearable knowing that the Dawnmaw Clan is to soon die out; all that history and knowledge gone to nothing but the pages in a ledger. So an idea unfolds, and unfolds again almost becoming the delusion of faith, in that their might be hope to restore the former “glory” of the Dawnmaw Clan, and perhaps gain followers and even family.

The Dawnmaw Clan were patriarchal, and each birth always promised two brothers. So the Clan road mostly on the backs of men, who born as fearsome, giant warriors; the women were, on the rare off chance, born, or interrogated as the men fall in love. The women however weren’t to be meager house-wives, though they’re trained to look after the House. But they were taught also to take up arms and face battle with fervency. This mainly applied to the family however, whereas any affiliates, servants or village Citizens were simply taken in as workers for the Dawnmaw Clan estate. So ultimately the genre of guild would come to be something like this:

-IC BASIS-

The premise asserts that The Dawnmaw Clan is to be a “House” guild with a high-end militaristic component, as well as a commonwealth or military-Citizen component, offering labor and militia work. It’ll likely re-work it’s way from a lower-echelon of royalty, like a Duke or Baron, someone who owns an estate. Soon spreading through sovereignty as the guild progresses.

The ultimate goal of the Dawnmaw is to restore its infrastructure; including but not limited to: The Dawnmaw Family, so Tarrion may continue his bloodline. The Dawnmaw Knighthood, which was once a major aspect in the Clan. The military and militia compound, with it’s commanding and managing Officers. It’s standard Citizenship and labor line, along with family servants. In turn and time, it’ll bring the Clan back to it’s former state of grandeur, with room for further expansion and progression. This will likely take a turn towards more a more corporate goal, in the entertainment business as Tarrion and his Brother previously did, which gained them most of their riches.

-END-

I know this is all probably very poorly strung together - and I am working on a better advertisement rather than an info-dump which is what I’ve done here - but I hope the general gist of this guild has been put across.

I wish to point out that the guild has not been formed, I am seeing first if anyone would be interested in helping me start it, as well as if anyone would be willing to take on a higher-echelon position, to help manage and fertilize the guild.

I am open to criticism, points or suggestions you’d like to put across. Though please try to keep it clean and leave any belligerence out, thank you.

If you want to read any digitalized content of my novels, I shall try to provide as much as I can!

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No problem.

Good feed back. 10/10 would thank again.

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Any specific reason why you chose Clan above Tribe?

It seems like the early civilization of humans were tribes, not clans so it might be better to use that term instead?

The Vrykul use the term Clan but I haven’t really since it used among the humans?

A fair point. But generally “Clan” refers to a group of people of common interest or a large family. A good example, though not WoW related but can be related too quite nicely, is “The Bartok Clan” from the film “Last Knights”. So it’s sort of why I went with it; I really didn’t want to use “House” in the title either.

Though thinking about it “tribe” does refer to a “people”.

Looks like a concept that’s been given a lot of thought!

One thing though… The name sounds very orcish (Dragonmaw clan) and plenty of orcs are not good at reading, so you might end up with more orc applicants than human!

Well, through seven years of novel writing. It’s mainly adapted to the universe I created, but respectively for the sake of WoW lore! So yeah, quite a lot of thought, hah!

I did actually notice that a while back, but it’s unfortunately the name that has been given and has stuck with. Guess I’ll just have to make sure that it’s obviously an Alliance clan!

Thanks for the FB!

Yeah, and in places like Scotland etc. the idea of a ‘clan’ still exists in some parts, though these days often just referred to as a matter of heritage. On the other hand, I don’t think there’s mention of clans being applied to humans in WoW? As I think someone above me mentioned, there were ‘tribes’ many many years ago (the most notable of course being the Arathi tribe).

The last clause in the bit I’ve quote caught my attention though. I personally don’t think anyone should be dissuaded from using ‘House’ just because of the sort that mill around Cathedral Square, but that’s just me :man_shrugging:

I suppose an obvious question to ask is how you intend to ensure your guild isn’t solely focused around your character and his ambition? Down to its very namesake, this is a guild about your character’s clan, giving him a clear spot as a guild ‘protagonist’ so to speak. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing if handled well, but do are you going to make sure the roleplay you create benefits every member of the guild individually, as opposed to having the players feel like side characters/pawns?

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That’s actually a very good case about the whole human tribes thing… “Clan” as you said is more Horde orientated. Whereas, as you said, Humans were tribal. Though I’m trying to avoid that title, or at least have it as a last-resort. I’ll see!

As for the “House” situation, I agree. It’s a shame it’s a shame it’s belittled as a title, as I’d happily have that title but unfortunately it’s the case as I mentioned.

You have dwarven clans, don’t forget.

Ultimately though nomenclature doesn’t mean as much as execution of concept :slight_smile:

Ortellus, what about our father’s great clan?

Clan Felian.

Yeah I mean if you’re going for the highlander theme it’s fitting to go with a tribe/clan.

Mind explaining this? As in, how do you lorewise explain them being giants? And how’d you explain that it was warranted two males would be born, if I understood that right?

Heck, sorry should of clarified. They aren’t necessary “Giants”, it was just a term to describe their human stature. They’re just rather big people. Not like your Vrykul and such at all.

I see. And the twins thing?

The twins thing is down to their genetics; so far there has only be three recorded female births in the many generations. All on separate occasions. Whereas it has always been that if a Dawnmaw male impregnates a woman out of their family, it results in twin boys. Rarely it can be a boy and a girl, or even two boys and one girl. The girl then is raised like the Mother is taught in the family; to provide and protect. Daughters of Dawnmaw go on to find mates of their own, and funnily enough, still have the same outcome of twin boys if they are to give birth with another males DNA.

It is really just a family history development feature really, not something that would effect the guild. It was just to explain the prominence of male dominance in the family.

How much of this novel have you written so far?

I’m up to my 217th page of the novel “Onyxadora” which is a story in the universe called “The Mao Universe”, along with another novel which is almost done, a shorter story, at 185 pages.

I also written a 20-30page info dump on the background of the universe.

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