The Society

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The History
For centuries The Society of Secrets and Antiquities -- to its members, simply "The Society" -- has been if not a force then at least an interesting footnote in Thalassian magical research. It's agenda has been simple: to discover lost magics, hidden relics, and forgotten secrets, wherever the search takes them. The bulk of it's membership has always been adventurous historians, linguists and other experts from the Magisterial colleges, but a few notable Farstriders and civilians with academic leanings have also seen merit in its agenda. In Silvermoon research circles, the Society has been called everything from an adventuring gentlemen's club to academic eccentrics to outright gloryhounding tomb robbers.

The Society's adventurous bent was its downfall: roughly a century ago, its most dedicated members perished in an expedition led by the daredevil magistrix Sephrenia Sunbolt, an expert in troll magics and lore. The remaining members slowly drifted off over the years, until finally the Society faded to memory alone. It's records, however, remained with the Magisterial College, forgotten and gathering dust in the care of Sunbolt's surviving trustees.

The Mission
With Quel'thalas desperate for new sources of magic, what was once an eccentric treasure hunt may turn out to have practical value to the survival of the Sin'dorei. At least, this is why rumor says the warlock Valdreas Thundereye has acquired and reopened the old records and archives of the Society: to pick up the hunt again with the ambitious young magistrix-in-training Adona Starfall, and ranger-captain Querathiel Skyfire of the Farstriders. The gathering is unlikely to say the least: while Querathiel is reputed to be an honourable soldier, Valdreas is more of a dilettante who openly trafficks with demons, and Adona has at least a few fingers in Horde politics, as well as being a good two centuries younger than either of the men.

So far, there has been little practical action. However, Adona's recently being accepted as the Horde War Council's advisor on matters of ancient artefacts and magics, and the time Valdreas has spent digging through old research notes and expedition plans (often after first retrieving them from residences in the ruined areas of Silvermoon), hint this will soon change.

The OOC
For now, the Society exists as a guildless community. Membership is open to any who fit the bill below, and can roleplay their way into getting their name put on the roster by one of the core trio. This will generally mean IC trial membership first, to be confirmed after IC participation in the Society's efforts. Trial members can pur a "Society" tag in their FlagSRP or MyRP descriptions, full members have access to the Society's IC archives (on the forum, or by OOC chat with the archivist).

Members must be at least lvl 10 but higher is preferable for adventuring purposes. We discourage rarely played alts, especially if your main is Alliance (this makes reaching you hard). This isn't a no-Ally-alts rule, just a reminder to make sure you really have time to play this character, too.

We hope to offer the following: longterm storylines, actiony and adventury roleplay as well as the usual sitting-down-talking -variant, the company of mature roleplayers (we won't ask, but we're mostly 30-ish) with a cast iron grip on what is IC reasonable and what isn't, and all the usual jazz about help, humour and other stuff that should be standard

We will decline members who are any of the following: dramajunkies (we're here for adventure, not to angst over your dark past/dire fate), are mainly looking for romantic roleplay (we're not a dating service, simulated or otherwise), can't keep IC and OOC separate (because this makes the previous two creepy as well as annoying), or who think turning into a demon and flying away is a reasonable solution to a conflict situation.

For now, our PvE aspirations are limited to IC instancing. Though the idea is perfect for a raid guild, we're focusing on more rp-centric activities.

Contacts
Contacting he Society is easiest by sending IG mail to one of the core three. You can also /tell us OOC and ask if our chars can be IC found in some particular place at a particular time.