The Council of Warriors nominations occurred simultaneously with leadership elections (Feb 28-Mar 6), while the election itself was held March 13-March 23 (extension from the original week because of the downtime of RoD over the weekend).

The newly formed Council of Warriors decided that Jarhielt would move up to the Guild Second position, after Crovius stepped down during the CoW election.

Congratulations Jarhielt!  May your blade forever protect the virginities of maidens!

The new Council of Warriors representatives are:
Nurodma (1 year seat - has previously served in the CoW and even leadership.  Has also served as IT-Leader for a while now)
Tywynn (1 year seat - the only new blood and female in the CoW, represent! Also has been involved in MC.)
Bern (6 month seat - former Guildmaster [first one after the re-opening], has been involved in too many councils to mention and been in the guild for over 5 years.)
Morcerf (6 month seat - another previous CoWer re-elected, has also been in leadership before)

Congratulations to the new fully formed Council of Warriors (3 leaders + 4 at-large members)!  Honour above everything, brotherhood always.

-Posted by Meldrew on March 26, 2008

After a week of Nominations (Feb 28-March 6) and another week of elections (March 6-March 13), the elections results were posted!  It was a close race and voter turn out was huge.  Despite leadership losing the confidence vote earlier, guildies seemed to favour experience above all.

The results were
Ryals: 36
Lathir: 29
Crovius: 27
Jarhielt: 24

So, Ryals becomes GM after all! So, the confidence vote did not really change anything, but could be interpreted as if voters were sending a message that they wanted change (so new leadership does not repeat previous mistakes).  Lathir, a former leader and current initiator of most of the bigger runs we currently do becomes our First.  Lastly Crovius, someone new to GoW leadership (and I think organization leadership itself) and another big runner (also writer of our last Inter-Guild Quest) becomes our new Second.

Speculation aside, congratulations to our new leaders:

Ryals (Guildmaster, Guild of Warriors)
Lathir (First, Guild of Warriors)
Crovius (Second, Guild of Warriors)


- Posted by Meldrew on March 26, 2008.

Many big events have occurred this last week including:



    Our First (Bulgroth) becoming an immortal! Congratulations Bulgroth, we wish you   the best as an imm.  We'd like to thank you for your contributions as a leader of GoW, as well as being on CoW, QC-L, MC, IT, RC Co-L, GIA as well as countless other duties of dealing with guildees and essentially acting as a Guildmaster, while Syniad was going through some rough patches in real life.  We honour you by adding you to the wall in the leader chambers.  May your immortal blade be ever sharp!

    Syniad, our Guildmaster stepping down for real life reasons after leading our guild though the rough patches as well as times of prosperity.  Thank you for your time and contributions to GoW, including to the positions and councils of: Guildmaster, CoW, WPC-L, QC-L, IT, MC as well as dealing with all the issues and concerns of guildees fairly and patiently.  You will be missed and honoured on the wall in the leader chambers.  Honour above everything, brotherhood always!

    A guild meeting (on short notice) was called after some members voiced their concerns about leadership.  Details of the meeting are on forums.

    After a vote of non-confidence, a full re-election of Leaders and the Council of Warriors is set to occur over the next month.  Dare I say, it looks to be the beginning of a new chapter for the Guild of Warriors.  Let us learn from our previous mistakes re-energize our resolve in this new era.

-Posted by Meldrew on March 16, 2008