Day 4 
https://imgur.com/a/zz1tQoD
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Thank you Calarell, thesw are very nice.
Hello everyone!
Iām looking forward to giving my final lecture tonight: What is it like to die?
I wonāt give anything away, but it will be very profound and worth coming along for! I will share a link via /s OOCly to a tinyurl that directs to youtube just as a heads up!
I think I can say safely itāll be an event that will stick with you ICly for years to come.
See you there!
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I canāt believe I came 48th ā¦ 
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Grand World Tournament Final Day Information!
We will have activities on from 20:00 server time tonight!
Today we are bringing you:
20:00: A musical opening with the artists of the Everbloom Association, and some of Silvermoonās finest in the Coliseum!
20:30: What is it like to Die? A lecture in the Argent Pavilion!
20:30: A workshop on revering the Loa behind the Argent Pavilion!
21:00: Illidanās Sacrifice - A play by the Everbloom Group in the Coliseum!
21:15: The Bardsā League will be performing in the Coliseum!!
22:30: The AWGP World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship will be decided in the Coliseum!
23:30: The tournament comes to an end with musical support, thanks and more in the Coliseum!
All evening: The market!
All evening: Tizz Shockvalueās playlist will be on the go!
All evening: Enchanted Rose Faireās games!
All evening: Enough bars to kill a dwarf!
Tonightās summary
On the final day of the event, the skills of battle will give way to the traders, educators, performers and artisans of the world, to celebrate in their craft and skills. This is also a chance for weary competitors to rest, make friends and merry before returning to their usual lives.
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Realised only now I have regularly forgotten to share this: The final scores for the magic competition! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRfCA29xBlTQ2Y9Zh0EDY9Th1uXAFE3dld1dNj5k103wpZ7epynOhf-6aysu0pFMrlA3bZR9vXogcf0/pubhtml
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Tournament, day 5
https://imgur.com/a/rVwwukr
Loved the entire tournament! From the games organised, to the stalls, merchants and atmosphere.
If you ever need a photographer on your events and/or guild meetings simply send a letter IC! I would happily see if iām able!
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Iām in a picture again! \o/
Big thanks to the organizers for all of this. It kinda felt like a rl convention at times, including the āwhy canāt I be in two places at once?ā feeling, hehe!
Also kudos to the theatre crew for their clever use of spells and items for their play! And shoutout to āThe Stag Derriereā! That amused me to no end 
And cheers to all the vendors, contestants and ofc the winners! Was fun watching you all compete, while sipping on my drinks 
Hope weāll see another event like this in the future. Certainly brought the server together! 
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The following is an offical transcription of the lecture given by Reverand Corvenus Winteroak titled āWhat is it like to die?ā which was given at the Grand World Tournament.
Good evening, my friends, and thank you for joining me here tonight for this: my final lecture: What is it like to die?
This will be account of my death, whole, and complete.
I share this because I think, at one point or another in our lives, weāve wondered what death is like. I share this because I believe a lack of understanding holds us back sometimes from building bridges, or being kind.
I share this because our lives had meaning, and purpose, and value. I share this because history doesnāt remember us: the countless thousands of servants, cooks, farmers, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters who died when our Kingdom fell.
You remember our Kingdom, and more than a few of you are its children and -our- descendents. We piled the streets of our cities and villages, with no one to bury us, or stand over us as we passed away. We died alone, we died afraid.
What I speak of his deeply personal, and not something many of us would speak openly of, and plenty are so fortunate not to remember their death, the moment life left them. I ask only you to listen, and hear me. Iāll gladly answer questions at the end.
So, for those of you who do not know me: I am Reverend Corvenus Winteroak, Iām a Priest of The Conclave and First Minister of an organisation known as The Tirisfallen. I have the honour of being a disciple of his most holy, The Archbishop Alonsus Faol.
In life I trained at Alonsus Chapel in Stratholme from the age of nine and there I worked training aspiring Paladins, specifically in the more religious aspects of their work and using the Light to heal and protect.
Since my liberation from the Scourge Iāve worked to help my people and homeland, first as a Cleric of the Argent Dawn and later as part of The Argent Crusade. I actually served here for many months helping ready the champions of Azeroth.
I wish to take you back in time through to the hour before his Majesty, Terenas Menethil the Second, was killed by his son, Arthas Menethil.
The Undead Scourge was thought defeated, their presence across Lordaeron seemingly gone, and we took this as an omen that our Price had been victorious in the frozen lands of Northrend. From across the Kingdom people came to welcome our Prince home.
Peasantry, gentry, nobility, knights, the clergyā¦ all came from far and wide to throng the streets and shower your beloved Prince, our saviour, with rose petals and cheers of gratitude, admiration and love.
I busied myself inside the Church, Iād been in Capital City as the first reports of Undeath had reached our ears months earlier, travelling there from Alonsus Chapel with a retinue of young aspiring Paladins and Priests from Stratholmās Alonsus Chapel for continue their training and education for a time in the Capital.
I suppose I saved them from -that- fate, at leastā¦
Inside the church I helped organise the Choir, we could hear the bells toll from the keep to signal the return of our Prince. We gathered together to practice and sangā¦
Comilito Equinus
Orbitas Lacuna
Gāodhun Aāl Korokh
Boda Uhām
Boda Uhām RonāKashal
Detrmentum A Do Sola Diatas.
At this point during Reverend Winteroakās lecture a strange atmosphere fell over the Argent Pavillion as three motes of light coalesed behind the gathered attendees. From these motes of light did three ghostly undead appear. Floating between the pews the spirits took places to the side of, and behind, Reverend Winteroak and in chorus formed again the choir they had been in life. Their ghostly voices, clear as bells, joined the Reverand in his recieting the song they sang in life in the hours before their death.
An Karanir Thanagor
Mor Ok Angalor
Mor Ok Gorum
Pala Ahām Ravali Ahām
Comilito Equinus
Orbitas Lacuna
Gāodhun Aāl Korokh
Boda Uhām
Boda Uhām RonāKashal
Detrmentum A Do Sola Diatas
An Karanir Thanagor
Mor Ok Angalor
Mor Ok Gorum
Pala Ahām Ravali Ahām
The ghostly echo of Ian Helmrichās ghost spoke first:
Tell our story, Reverend
The ghostly spirit of Gwynefred Davies then followed:
Tell our story so we are not forgotten
Lastly the spirit of Martin Hammersmith said:
Tell them how we held the door to the endā¦
The Reverand Winteroak bows his head to the three, assuring them:
Always, my friends. Always.
As the spirit moved to depart this world and return to the peace of the next life they spoke:
Remember usā¦
Remember our sacrificeā¦
Everything we gave was for Lordaeron, for The Lightā¦ for our familiesā¦
With that the spirits were gone and the Reverand Winteroak continued the lecture after composing himself and giving the attendees time to settle.
We heard the screams first, beyond our churchā¦ We went to the doors, to the windows and saw chaos. Hundreds, thousand of people running for their lives. āThe King is dead!ā they screamed āRun!ā, āThe Undead have come!ā.
We threw the doors open, the senior priests directing us to get as many people inside as we could. I took to the steps, urging people up, striking down those handful of Scourge that had made it this far into the city as they ran at us.
Their eyes deathly blue, rotted bodies, clawing and throwing themselves at anyone they saw. I donāt know how many people we got insideā¦ you could see down the streets more undead, a hoard of them, lead by Knights that struck terror into your heart.
We beseech the light, summoned what meager power we had against such a force but it didnāt matter, there was a hundred more for everyone you smited or cut down. Endlessā¦ unrelenting.
The head priest shouted āSeal the doors!ā we grabbed the people around us, ran up the steps into the church. Iāll never Forget the Paladinsā¦they didnāt move. They made a bulwark of their shields and stood firm, buying us the time we needed to close the large doors and seal them with barracedes and magic.
Iāll never forget them, their sacrificeā¦. nor their screamsā¦
Our Head Priest ordered most of the clergy to get the people into the catacombs beneath the church, for there was dug a passage in years past incase of Orcish invasion that might let the clergy escape into the countryside should they have ever besieged the city.
I remained with the Head Priest, myself and three of my friends staying by the door: Martin Hammersmith, Ian Helmrich, Gwynefred Davies
My brothers and sisters, my friendsā¦
We held the door chanting our prayers and enchantments of The Light to shield the door, but against such dark power on such a scale our power would never last long. We bought time for others, hope they might make it out.
Hundreds of people, herded through the catacombs to safety. The entrance collapsed behind them so as to stop the Scourge from following. I think perhaps twenty of us remained, all adultsā¦ our students and apprentices sent with the civilians to keep them safe, to get them to Southshore and Stormwind.
The doors were blasted apart, great splinters of wood hurling through the church, shattering our stained glass windows and breaking statues. The Death Knight was the first through, his blade pulsing with evil.
From behind him came arrows, loosed by Scourge archers. My barrier took one hit, twoā¦ Threeā¦ the fourth shattered it and plunging deep into my chest and through my heartā¦
My memories here are as clear to me as those of you sat before me nowā¦
The world dropped away, I donāt remember hearing anything, or really seeing the rest of the Scourge storm the churchā¦ I remember my warm blood staining my robesā¦ I remember struggling to catch my breathā¦
ā¦I felt like I was drowning inside my chest, though tossed into a great ocean with an anvil chained to my feetā¦the world slipped awayā¦
I remembered my childhood, in Tirisfal, on the farm which my family worked on. I remembered out home smelling of fresh bread each day, my motherās smileā¦ my brothers, and sistersā¦
I remembered dancing at barn dances and assembly socialies, I remembered the young lad to whom Iād given my first kiss, and all the joy and warmth Iād felt in my heartā¦
I remembered my students, the paladins Iād helped train and the gratitude theyād shown. My last thought though was definitely of my mumā¦ I called out her name, cried it with the last air in my lungsā¦ then settled over my sight, and the world was mute.
Thenā¦ there was something, briefly thereā¦ it was warm, bright. There wasā¦ a sky, yes! A sky so blue it put spring to shame, and clouds white as snowā¦ Iā¦ I rememberā¦
There were trees, and waterā¦ I rememberā¦ wings, resplendent with bluey-white feathersā¦then painā¦agony, my soulā¦
I was ripped away fromā¦fromā¦thereā¦ a chain about my soul, suffocating me, dragging me backā¦backā¦backā¦I opened my eyesā¦ saw the stone floor of the Churchā¦ and then I was goneā¦
I donāt remember anything of my life as part of the Scourge after thatā¦ and by the light, for that I am eternity grateful. I need only live with appearing a monster, other are not so fortunate and remember much of their lives as slaves to the Scourge.
Remember this: we are not born, we do not live, nor did we die for ourselves alone.
Remember us.
That, for me, is what it was like to die
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Thanks to all organizers! There was much fun!
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Thank you so much for this! The final day was one of the most entertaining nights of RP Iāve had in a long while from start to finish! And considering the state of the the outside world, I really needed it. <3 The theatre, the wrestling, the music, everything was top notch!
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Thank you for this week, I had a lot of fun, and like others fell into the complication āWhy canāt I be at two places at once?ā ! Thanks to Zyretha, to everyone who helped organise, the judges, the educators, the many many traders, the musicians (and now I really need to learn how to use that add-on), the bars, and the many other people public and contestants who came too !
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An amazing series of events and gatherings, thank you all organisers and participants!
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A wonderful series of events that was just really relaxing and a ton of fun! I did not enter many contestants myself, but the market was fun every night.
Shoutout to an absolutely staggering array of well-organized and thought out stalls, with wonderful items that will be kept close icly for a long time. The menus and store lists were nicely compiled and the vendors fun and interactive!
The light blessing from Corvenus, though I only saw it once, was really well done as well and I think the Tirisfallen impressed a lot of folks with wonderful forsaken rp. Really made me wanna dust off my poor warlock. x3
The only downside for me was that some of the contests took a very long time. That itself isnāt the end of the world, but personally, I happened to be on holiday, so I could stay up as long as I wanted. Had it been a working week, I would not have managed to watch any of the contest to the end, since they often took to midnight and even 1am on some occasions. Several friends and guild mates also ended up leaving early on several occasions and last night, most of them missed the fireworks.
I definitely understand the wish to show gratitude for all the helpers, and to get as many people involved in the competitions as possible, but I definitely think itās worth thinking about keeping those things a bit more concise. 80 duelists, while a wonderful opportunity for everyone competing, is a LOT of fights even for more than five or six judges. Calling the people on stage in groups, rather than individuals (so like, organizers, entertainers, lecturers etc.) might have subtracted from the attention, but could have shaved half an hour to an hour off the final ceremony.
But that really is my only gripe and I want to sing the praises of everyone again who made this an excellent event! Easily the best community event I have gone to in a long time. The fireworks were also definitely worth staying up for. 
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Very big thanks to everyone who has gone out of their way to thank us, when the participants clearly make the event what it is just as much.
Itās been wonderful seeing so many people around and enjoying themselves, and all of the fellow referees and organisers were incredibly friendly and absolutely lovely.
10/10 would help any and all of the other organisers again and there better be another one of these or I will personally riot. 
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I just want to say a huge thank you to absolutely everyone. I wasnāt sure about coming along with Corvenus and my Guild as weāre so new and still settling in but the reception we received blew us away. My utterly lovely guildies have been talking about the Tournament all week and about how much fun its been for all of us, and how important its been for us to introduce our characters and our guild to the server.
I special thanks to everyone who came to a blessing or survived any of my lectures! I had such a great time spending my days writing them, thinking about Corvenus and his views and experiences and it reminded me of why I got into Undead rp: to show the person behind the body, and I think weāve done well giving life to that side of Forsaken RP.
Everyoneās comments and support have been amazing, and I hope you all enjoyed the final lecture and our Choir. I canāt wait to see you all again at more events like this and other events across our server. I was chatting last night to a new friend how much this reminded me of when I joined the server 13 years ago, and how you could walk to Sunrock, or Astranaar or Mulgore and find lots of guilds in a community with their own events and how rich and vast the world felt. This spoke very much to that time, and I hope so very much we get more of this and more community initiatives to bring life to the corners of Azeroth.
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I wanted to say a massive thank you to Zyretha and all the other hosts, judges, everyone that came together to create this amazing event. This must have been organiser hell, but it really, really paid off. I didnāt hear a single, not one negative critique or criticism from my Guild or any of the people I know, friends etc, everyone loved it and weāre really, really hoping for another event like this in the future. This was truly something else.
Iāve met some amazing Alliance RPers I wouldnāt have were it not for this event, had some great character development and RP, and been a part of some amazing times. Hell, Iāve met some new Hordies I wouldnāt usually get to interact with, like Simetra Shadowshot or the Orcs of the Red Blade.
We hope you all enjoyed our stall, even if we were just a shabby cocktail bar, I hope both myself and my guildies were able to provide you and your characters with some great moments and interesting RP.
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Absolutely massive credit to Zyretha for organising this tournament, itās not often we get to experience huge cross faction events like this but this time it really felt special. I cannot think of a single thing Iād change about the wonderful weekend of RP I had in Icecrown; from having the opportunity for quality RP with people Iād never usually encounter, like the Tirisfallen for the first time; to trading soul gems for snacks with the sweetest vulpera trader. I absolutely adored interacting with the server community this weekend and I really hope everyone else had as positive an experience as I did.
Iāll be looking through the screenshot albums to feel happy inside for the next few days <3
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It has been a very peculiar adventure for Vyāluun to converse with all sorts of races and witness most unusual discussions take place. She has met quite a few people whose names she will remember for all eternity. Thank you for this opportunity, and I hope those of us who simply took part will be able to return the favor some day.
This event has proven that unity is certainly one of the noblest of all roleplaying aspirations and worth fighting for.
Dioniss aca,
Vyāluun
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