RezdonoxJoin Date: 2011-10-12
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Royal Blood has been a dominant force of respect, power, and hope in the sword clan community ever since it's beginnings in 2010, founded by Kangakera. This glorious clan was passed onto me shortly after it was founded, and for over five year, we, as one united force of strength, have persevered and marched on through the good and the bad, the hopeful and hopeless. I have been a proud leader of 13 different clans in the past, and Royal Blood has, undoubtedly, been the best thing I could have ever asked for from this game.
If there was one quality about Royal Blood that was able to shine brighter than any other, it would be this: No matter how bad things got, no matter how hard we were knocked down, no matter how bleak the future looked, we have always kept on fighting. We have always gotten right back up and destroyed all the thoughts of the naysayers and fools who believed that this clan wasn't capable of anything else. We have proved so many people wrong and I believe that's the largest reason for our longevity and incredible, glorious history.
The past year has been unreasonably hard on us, unfortunately. From the very end of 2014 and onward, we have had many more struggles than we have had success. We have always tried to look past it all and strive forward, however this last month and last several weeks have proven to be especially difficult for us. We have lost immense amounts of activity and many members that have made up the core of this clan.
Up until early this morning, I was holding on to the mindset I have had for five years with this clan. The mindset that, time and time again, would prove to myself and to everyone that we would keep on pushing and make a recovery, like we have done so many times before. That lasted up until the moment I logged on this morning.
Upon logging on this morning, I have discovered that we have lost two very important HR's in a matter of 48 hours. While spending almost this entire day trying to figure out how to get back into the swing of it, we lost perhaps our most important puzzle piece; a 2iC figure.
Nothing I have ever done with Royal Blood can be pinned entirely on me. Everything in this clan that was a success, became a success because of the loyal and appreciative members. I have honestly never had the honor to meet such good people in any other clan I have ever been in on this website.
I have leaned on the shoulders of my HiCom more than anyone and anything else, especially in the past two years. With three key pieces of our already very small HiCom gone, and the rest largely inactive, I'm afraid I have nowhere else to turn to.
I wanted to hold off on this as long as I possibly was able to, but without the support and structural HiCom I need in order to get this clan operating properly, I cannot keep the clan running. In doing so, I'd be running the project I have worked years and years on straight into the ground, which is the last thing I want to see happen to this beautiful icon of the sword clan community.
Because of recent events, I have no choice but to revoke Royal Blood's rights and claims as a war clan, and instead memorialize it because I no longer have what it takes in my and in this clan to keep it running as good as I know it could run. I cannot apologize enough to everyone who has played even the slightest part in Royal Blood's success over the years. This decision was not an easy one to make, and it truthfully was the last thing I wanted to do. I just can't do this anymore, and I hope you can all forgive me for that.
Until Royal Blood is able to get back the support it needs to run at a good pace while I work on the projects I have had planned for it for months now, I need to shut the clan down. This is, hopefully, a temporary decision; for I am not ready to leave this clan to rot, however it will, in the end, depend entirely on, as mentioned many times before, the support. I need a reliable, trusted HiCom, and I need a loyal memberbase. While the members have never lost their loyalty and dedication to this clan (and for that I thank you all so much. RB and I would literally be nothing without you guys), I have practically lost my entire High Command. A HiCom that, for the past two years, we've already been working tirelessly to improve, to no avail. To help combat this, the Officer in Training program was created, but there's only so much home grown talent we have that we believe are ready to become High Ranks. It's just no use anymore.
I apologize so much to everyone in Royal Blood and everyone who has been with us over the years, at one point or another. The only regret I have in my years of having the honor to lead this incredible clan, is that I couldn't do enough for it. That will never change and please forgive me for it.
I hope to, in time, get Royal Blood back up and running but for now it's just not able to be done in an effective manner. I'm sorry.
I'll be giving a final speech in-game on Monday night. The speech will be shouted on the Royal Blood shout, and hopefully recorded. If you would like any kind of update from now until then, I suggest attending or tuning in.
I love this clan and I couldn't be any happier to say I've obtained the right to lead this clan through prosperity for many years. I hope you have all enjoyed it like I have, because I can absolutely say that without Royal Blood, I would have left this game years ago. The time I've lost to help you guys, in my mind, was worth it.
We will be leaving the Royal Blood skype chat operating so that members can still communicate with one another in ways faster than the Royal Blood wall.
It's been real, it's been fun. I sincerely hope we can make a comeback like we've done so many times in the past to make us, truly, the longest running superpower this sword clan community has ever come to know.
No army can, or will ever, stop an idea.
The richest blood, is Royal Blood.
[ Dignitary Rezdonox ] |