A new dawn greets thee

The sundering has happened. Deathwing has returned.

What are you going to do?

Lets hunt some dragons!

Levelling Gifts

Just a reminder to all our members out there that as a guild we have leveling gifts available as you reach each 10th level.

Lvl 10 - 10 gold
Lvl 20 - 20 gold
Lvl 30 - 30 gold

and so on as you level. These gifts are only available in full if you have been a member of the guild for the entire 10 levels. If you have joined our guild mid level then you will receive a percentage of the leveling gift you would have been entitled to.

Once you reach each 10th level you will need to notify Aryeeth/Aryeth through a pm so that your gift can be issued to you.

Any questions, please feel free to ask.

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Guild Ranks

For those of you like myself who did not know the Guild ranks correctly may benefit from the following:

Footman
Jr Squire
Squire
Jr Knight of Ni
Knight of Ni
Knight Treasure - Guild Bank Treasurer
Knight of Ni Of - Guild Officers
Knight Commander - Deputy Guild Master
Knight of No - Guild Master

Oscarmayer is our GM
Aryeth is our Dept. GM

If you are asked by someone to join our guild and you do not have the rank to invite, please advise the requester that you will ask an officer if they are online. If none are online advise the requester that an officer will action the request once they return and then send a pm to an officer with the name of the requester.

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Guild Rules of Conduct

Knights of Ni is a supportive Guild for newbies and experienced players. We offer mentorships and events. Because of dealing with real people in our Guild interaction we have made the following Rules of Conduct:

* Be polite and kind to everyone in the game. If we catch you screaming and shouting in a general chat channel, you will be removed from the Guild.

* When being helped, dont get greedy. We're here for awhile. You can always get help. When a non-member asks you for help, you are to support this person to the best of your situation, knowledge and/or possibilities.

* Bank access will granted after a few days of becoming a Member.

* Promotions consist of time you are with the guild and the accomplishments you achieve. Included here are also your efforts to help your fellow Members reach a higher level.

* As we interact with both adults and teenagers, we have inplemented special ranks for these groups. Make sure you know who is online before you entertain your fellow Members with flowery text or sexual descriptions of your favourite games.

* Our Junior Members will be Guided by a Mentor/ix, an Officer who will exclusively guide and support Junior Members. Be careful about how you behave, because the Mentor/ix will also decide whether you can stay with the Guild or when you get your promotion.

* Members who use the Guild Bank as a means of enlarging their personal income will be removed from our gaming community.

* As a Member of the Guild you are supposed to wear a Guild Tabard. You can find them in the Guild Bank. If you cant access the Guild Bank yet, please ask an Officer to send you one. Be reminded that while wearing the tabard, you are in fact representing the Guild. When You need to wear a tabard of a faction to get the XP or the gold this is ofcourse okay.

* The Knights of Ni declare themselves against any form of racism, sexism or discrimination based on religion or sexual appetite. If you can not live along this Guideline, you have no place in the Guild.

* Conflicts between Members will basically be solved by the Members involved. If, however, the problems seem to be too overwhelming, an Officer can be asked to mediate between the two parties. Be reminded that the Officer at all times is able to remove anyone from the Guild.

* As Officers of the Guild are only human, they too can make mistakes. If you find you have been treated injustly, you have the right to petition to the Guild Master. His decisions however are binding and immediate.

* Due to spamming our Guild Chat we ask of our Members not to use any Bots or GuildGreet when speaking.

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My Absence

Hi everyone

Just so you all know Kirette and I have been absent from WoW due to our house move and internet connection issues along with some finance problems. We both should be back online soon though and look forward to adventuring alongside you all once again! Until then, stay safe out there.

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Officers Meeting Results and other Guild News

Greetings all Knights,

First things first, the officers meeting was held as planed and a very big thank you goes out to the officers who were able to attend this first and most important meeting of the return of the Knights of Ni.

At the meeting, the first steps have been taken for us as a guild to become a self contained guild. This is the hopes of being able to offer and supply what a player would like to have or do while being a member of the KoN.

What this means very simply put, We will continue to offer to be a social guild and will offer any and all help within our power to all members in their quests. They but have to ask for any help and it will be given, gladly so they can obtain level 80 in the best and fastest way. We will be able to offer support for whatever their preferences may require. This would include normal questing, Battle fields, or if they just want to socialize in a relaxed area and chat.

YES, this also means we will start to offer group raids. I have had a number of members and others ask if we do raids or if we are ever going to do raids, you now have your answer. I would appreciate it very much if you would give a warm welcome to our new Raiding Leader (Dathias).
We will start with a 10 man group and a sign up sheet will be prepared within the next few days for those who want to make the first group. Their will also be a list of requirements for the members who do sign up.

Also what will start again is presents for leveling. Ary will be the person who will handle all the presents and their presentations or distributions. The presents will start at level 10 and every 10 levels thereafter. This does not mean that a new member who signs up at level 45 will receive the full present at reaching level 50.

All in all, I believe we as a guild will be able to offer what no other guild does offer, a totally self contained and self sufficient guild being able to offer anything a player might want.

To make these offers, it is going to take new members and it is going to take all of us to recruit new members. This can not all be set at the feet of the officers to make it all happen by themselves, it will take us all. So start recruiting!!!

Well I think this has been long winded enough for now, their will be lots more to follow in the coming days.

I look forward to seeing you all on the game fields,

Oscar

Officers Meeting is called

Greetings All KoN,

First up, I want to welcome you all back home to the KoN. As you are aware by now the Merge
with the KoG has ended in failure. At this time I would ask that all loyal to the KoN please ask to be returned to our Guild and join our family. Please pass the word along to all other players so they can be returned to the fold.

Notice is hereby given: An officers meeting is called this Sunday coming at 8:00pm, It is important to try and attend their are a great many issues to address.

Also for the new members and old, I would ask you all to police the guild bank. It appears that some members think the items in the bank are for they benefit to be removed anytime and sold at the Auction House. The items in the Guild Bank/vault are put in for members to upgrade their own person, not their own Bank accounts.

I look forward to our continued progress as a Guild.

Until then,

Oscar Mayer/Oscars fury

Merger with Knights of Galbala

After our meeting with the KoG guild leader and members we have nutted out our transition into the ranks of our fellow KoG guild. Throughout the coming weeks as you come online may I ask that you begin moving your characters across to KoG whenever you see one of their officers online:

Phoenixstar
Rothaya
Crigizelia
Murderguy
Barittimet

There are more but they are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Please leave an alt in our KoN guild so that if our merge fails for some reason then we can easily return to KoN without to much hassle.

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The Decision was made: we merge!

After long and ripe consideration and discussions with many of our active members, I decided to merge with Knights of Galbala. This coming week we will perform the merger at a date later to be announced.

As to the ranking system of our beloved guild, I have the promise of the KoG that all our members will be taken into the same rank, i.e. equivalent.

All our officers will remain officer in KoG and I myself will take the function of dept. guild master of KoG.

The Knights of Ni will remain existant for 4 more weeks as a guild to give people time to move their alts to the new guild. After that time, i will start removing the remaining people.

I would ask all members to keep 1 alt in this guild, so that all can come back should the merger fail in the first 4 weeks.

Untill then,

Ary.

Fate of the Knights of Ni

To my fellow guild folk, the time has come for some serious discussion on the direction and membership of our guild. Our leader Sanlen, aka Aryeeth, has asked me to initiate discussions with you, our members, to find out your opinion and view in regards to the continuation of our guild as it stands.

Currently we have over 170 members and I know that a lot of these are alts for our core roster of members. We have not been recruiting many new players to our ranks and as such we have found the attendance level has been slowly dropping for events etc. We have also lost guild members in waves along the way as they move on to guilds more suited to raiding or higher level events.

We have an opportunity to fully align ourselves with our sister guild the 'Knights of Galbala' by showing our support and joining their ranks as fully fledged members. This would entail a slowdown on our guild 'Knights of Ni' and a merge over time into our sister guild. Please let me know how you feel in regards to this opportunity as these are only thoughts at this stage.

We are currently not a very active, social and supportive guild. I recall a time when there would be more than 20 players online over the course of a weekend and up to 20 throughout the week. We have a chance to change this if you, our members, wish to help us and bring the guild back from the dangerous path we now tread. The more active we are in the guild, the more we get out of it.

I know real life takes precedence over WoW, I have 3 children who can consume my time at the drop of a hat. I don't like people placing WoW before family so there will be times when things don't go according to plan and we have to decline an event, that's life. Yet there are plenty of guilds out there who continue on through those rocky waters and break through into the light again. We should consider ourselves a family to rely on and be supportive. If we can't be there for each other then who will!

If we all choose to continue as the Knights of Ni then we will need to bring in new blood and get our ranks filling with new members. This will hopefully in turn bolster our event roster and hopefully lead to better instance and raiding events.

To the Knight of Ni Officers, I pose the same questions. What do you think and where would you like to see us go?

Can we all please take the time to think about, reflect and give any opinions on these matters. It is important for our future together.

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