I sense a real friendship dynamic between you two Rakham! RAKHAM AND VULPERA, THE DYNAMIC DUO
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Anything WrA has that is skirting server canon can be widely ignored by everyone. We don’t reference it or make anyone else reference it. We just slam it on the forums occasionally in a “never forget” way so it doesn’t happen again.
There are still server or faction events occasionally, but no one is required to acknowledge their existence, either.
With as many people from WrA Alliance as moved to MG, I don’t see their server canon standing up very well. A large influx of people almost always changes a dynamic.
*Theme music plays. *
“Rakham and the Vulp, Rakham and the Vulp! Havin’ wacky adventures and meeting lots of chicks! Killing all the Alliance, but mostly getting chicks!”
*Rakham and the Vulp driving the siege engine towards the Alliance base. *
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As they crash into the wall, you hear a jingle in the background, and the bricks begin to move “PUT THE PEDAL ON IT VULP!” hits it into sports demolition mode and begins to enter the base through the wall
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the chicks are all westfall chickens.
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*Rakham and the Vulp make a hasty exit from the base, both carrying fat hens over their heads. Rakham looks at the Vulp as they make their escape. *
“What do you mean, ‘What do we do with them now?’ This was your idea, Vulp!”
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Vulp: “Yip yip yip yip” Tosses a Subways wrapper at Rakham as they run off, finding their get away vehicle right at the edge of the forest. Their siege machine had been a junky, badly constructed vehicle, but luckily their nice siege machine was nearby!
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“Rakham and the Vulp is brought to you by V.I.R.a.L: The von’Morgrim Institute of Research and Learning. Remember, it’s only forbidden knowledge if you get caught using it!”
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Sprays the gnomecorder he was using to listen to the show with a mouthful of coffee and falls backwards in his chair laughing hysterically!
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I think WrA’s aversion to server lore stems from how daunting and ridiculous it is to even try to keep up and catalogue something congruent for a bunch of players when it can be edited or dismissed at a whim.
I remember during the height of the Belf RP, with groups like the Crimson Circle, House guilds, BK orgs etc, and I was involved in a group that tried documenting stuff just for the sake of cool, interesting timeline things. Linking sources from tumblr, whatever out of game RP profile sites, etc. And after a week everything would be out of date, forgotten, ignored, or some OOC dispute with players would have people writing past and major events completely out of their histories.
Aint nobody got time for that. 
I and the guild I was in entirely gave up and similar attempts ran into the same problem. There was just simply no point.
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Yeah, I’ve seen guilds and groups try to document or have a running history, but the issue with that means interacting can be problematic.
Suppose guild A runs a specific dungeon ICly to clear out some old god influence, but then a month later, guild B is running a similar plot with the same dungeon. When the two guilds interact, how do they discuss this without stepping on each others’ toes?
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Its kinda like talking to a Veteran of 'Nam. It happened, fer sure. But holds absolutely no influence over anything im doing
i think our biggest issue with it is other people trying to give themselves authority over other people
by being nondescript and vague. i thought it was generally ill-advised to use in lore locations or characters as an integral part of stories
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I thought we were all averse to server lore for the same reason we were averse to guard guilds.
Because when people talk about server lore, they’re only rarely ever talking about exciting community events that happened or the time Billy Blood Elf won the hot dog eating contest against Timmy Tauren.
When people talk about server lore, they’re always talking about some bonkers self-appointed hierarchy in which a bunch of sociopaths collectively bully the rest of the server into accepting that they’re King Applesauce and Queen Porkpie of the Kingdom of Lordaeron and you can’t RP here because we RP here and you can’t call yourself a knight because you didn’t get permission from their weird friend, Lord Footguy.
Mind you, we’ve had multiple occasions of people trying to bully people into accepting server lore. The same catty mean girl energy we had that kept people out of the server also kept dictators from establishing a foothold. Once there was such a backlash against the Kor’kron, almost all guard guilds got wiped out.
WrA has had tons of excellent personalities and events like Story Circle or Caotl’s fashion shows, but those feel less like “lore” and more like neat stuff we did.
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I love things like story circle, because they don’t set limits and boundaries on what people can say happened in RP. Markets, taverns, etc. are all pretty chill in that regard. Even things like fighting events connected to the expac storyline are cool because we (for the most part) don’t ignore the expac canon.
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Legit canon.
It’s been several months now that I’ve roamed the vast wilds of WrA. The one thing that always gets me asking “Huh, I wonder what that means in the grand scheme of server/game lore?”- are all the creative, custom “titles” I see in player’s TRP.
*takes a swig of coffee and smiles”
absolutely nothing
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Thank you. Sometimes I ponder on them for hours wondering, should I head back and introduce myself or just keep on keeping “on through the night”?
Cheers.
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I always cringe internally when I see Kor’kron MoP RP brought up because for me, in the circle I was in, it was some of the most engaging, best RP I had and constantly think back upon. But also I also was rarely on the recieving end of negligent behavior.
Orphanmaker that Topsail mention was my only real sour point and I personally blame him for promoting such distasteful behavior with Kor’kron RP. He tried to highjack the Bloodfury Legion, he was the reason I made my own guild with Steelpaw, and encouraged a bunch of players that rolling orcs and being dicks, regardless of the circumstances was justified.
There was some other people to blame but that one sits in my head as the guy who took things to the extreme and then had the nerve to say he’s the most important rper on the server for everything he stirred up and finally got WrA active again or some nonsense.
Yeah 
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Thats how I feel about the elven house guilds. MY rp was great, but youd hear about the strangest behaviour that was apparently just super common
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