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"We are not a guild of thieves; we are not knights; we are the Cartel. We live the life: the life of the survivor and the outlaw..."​

We are the Ashenfold Cartel. We do not align ourselves with any nation or guild - we seek to survive the onslaught of the Dragons while bettering ourselves in turn. All may join the Ashenfold, and many do so, from the noble seeking power to Charr Soldier seeking a better blade. The Ashenfold is a place for villains, heroes, and everyone in between...

Contacts: Shadowedsin, Shockhammer3, Ekuman, Hyenaskate.

Who are we?

The Ashenfold Cartel is a guild founded to perpetuate and create enjoyable roleplay in a communal atmosphere. We seek to excel in PvP and PvE while creating unique and ever changing storylines that are created and driven by our membership.

How do we accomplish this?

We us a combination of story events and random Roleplay to create an organic basis of storytelling. Every action has a consequence and by mixing in different forms of Roleplay from politics to simple adventure the story is never the same.

Are you heavy or light roleplay guild?

The Cartel may have themes and content which would be at home in a Heavy RP guild, but we do not ostracize those more comfortable with Light or Medium RP preferences from joining. What stories and content a player and their character take part of is left to the player's discretion. As such, we embrace the full spectrum of RP, from Light to Heavy.

General Information​

The Ashenfold was founded as a neutral organization that would hold no alignment except for that created by the membership through their actions alone. For the past two years we have continued to not only iterate our own ideas, but create a guild where members have a full say and can truly shape the In Character destiny of the Cartel itself! We are a community of roleplayers who seek to create and perpetuate dynamic Rp in the Guild Wars Universe in the spirit of Guild Wars 2.

Our Stance on Rp Styles

We welcome all styles and forms of character in the RP spectrum. Instead of lashing people to a singular guild storyline we encourage an organic evolution of story through action and reaction. Magically inclined roleplayers, Game of Thrones fans, adventurers, mercs and all the like find a home in the Cartel.

General Requirements:

• Applicants must be 17 years or older. Exemptions are granted upon request and thorough consideration (our about page covers this).
• We are an ESL friendly guild, we just ask that people have grasp of the basics of English Grammar and Spelling.

 

Late May Update!

We held a few meetings this past week and a few changes have occurred:

• This thread highlights our discussion from the guild and officer meetings.
• We have added a Banker / Moneylender occupation to the Crafter's Union operation. This can also include industrialists looking to fund larger ventures.
• Signet Rings have been simplified.
• We are working on creating Sect Domains, or places where people can Rp within their sect alone.
• The second part of our epic story event, Night of the Falling Ax continues with Part 2: Night Wanders

 

UPCOMING Podcast!

Join us on 06/22/12 at 10PM GMT to listen in and participate with the Ashenfold Cartel's pilot podcast! We will be on Mumble at the following address:
ashenfold.gameopen.org
port 25400

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TQs3yp1wqo for more info!
We hope to see you all at our podcast debut!

 

Mid-June Content Update: Night Shall End

Hey guys, this is our official MID JUNE update, and one that was a bit unexpected. We added this update after a thorough review of the guild. After speaking with many members and consulting with the Officer team I have implemented a few changes.

Accesibility and Removing Intimidation
Many of you guys love our lore, plain and simple, the issue here is snot everyone wants to read that much lore at once. For this reason we have wrangled and discussed in the Officer Team and I have come up with the follow solutions.

Rules Update
The Guild Policy or the Ruleset has been updated with clear defintiions and new rules dealing with communication in public channels.

We highly suggest you read it and re-familiarize yourselves with it, the new ruleset can be found here.

The Wiki We Go!
Everything in the Expanded Lore forum has been moved to the Ashenfold Wiki, this has been done to remove the large stack of lore that once dwelt on our forum. This also means we have a much cleaner organized set of categories to find everything. What this has let us do is then move a few more things around so that it is clearer what needs to be read and what is therefor for fluff.

We also cleaned up the front page a bit so that things are clearer and links are there. Finally we have added a nice Quick Guide to Join so people aren't confused any longer about the application process

Legality, Sect Animosity and Rituals
A while back we had a thread about Sect Identification which was a huge eye opener! After that and the following Possible Content changes thread a lot was learned. From this we began a slew of changes sthat we hope will shake things up bit.

First, the Five Sects are and Secrets of the Cartel are gone. Yup, gone! Secrets of the Cartel is now a expanded read that details a bit more about the level of discovery one can find as they rank up in the Cartel itself!

Our new Sects of the Cartel has been buffed up with a few new features. Please note that Ashic did receive an update.

Krews and Troupes
These are what some might call Squads and Brigades (all Sects have their own Ashic term for them. These are basically groupings of Cartelites witha Krew being a regional population and a Troupe being a group of 2-5. These we hope will create internal competition and the ability for people to form power blocs that require constant diplomacy to maintain (as it should be).

A thread dedicated to noting your troupes as they form will be posted in the future, so stay alert for the future email with links to said thread!

Legality and Public Face
The Cartel is now called the Ashenfold Cartel publicly and please note this is a "pet name" used by some eccentric noble. Why did we do this? Well we wanted to make it so that people who may leave the guild can still Rp with us and this way now we can say that the big evil Cartel is nothing more than some myth dreamed up by someone.

The new Legality system creates two different viewpoints for the Cartel on the public and Low Tier 3 / Initiate level. One side is the legal point of view and the other is the illegal. With the new Secrets article these areas blend as one ranks up or seeks to discover more. We hope this will provide a much more immersive and enhanced Rp experience as we get into game.

Sect Entry Updates
The Sect Entires have all moved onto the wiki, and they include new information. Each entry now includes a more extensive set of links at the top to all worthy sect info (including the origins) and a comprehensive look at the sects business, standings (indepth with more awesome stuff). The idea here is that the information such as holdings, the current dynamics and alignment with other sects will change over time to reflect how the Sects feel towards each other.

Allegiances and Rituals
As per request there is now a article on Sect Rites and Rituals which includes information on the Initiation Rites for each sect, a Title gainng Challenge and a honor game of sorts. The new Allegiances article on the other hand has all that good internal information many of you like. This includes the History of each Allegiance, their Culture and their Business.

We have also updated the Initiation Guide to include information about the final step in joining the Cartel including the new position known as the Contact.

Podcast!
A while back we began a poll asking if people wished to revive the idea of having a guild podcast. After the poll showed interest in the idea our local IA Officer, Alexandus, began recruiting people for th idea and teamed up with GentlemenOfLeisure. The two are now hosting a new podcast which will be hosted on our Youtube Channel

If you want to discuss topics check out this thread and to help out check out the podcast recruitment thread.

The agenda for this weeks podcast held today @ 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10 GMT can be found here. Recording for the event will be happening on our guild mumble server.

 

The Late June Update

So we've been working a bit on our forums a bit. Our aim has been to reduce the at a glance amount of forums while providing intuitive organization. As we near launch Ashenfold has begun to buckle down and start discussing our launch plans. We are looking at setting up weekly general events that everyone can attend (this will be like tavern events). Our infamous, Night of the Fallen Ax ends at the end of next month and so for July we'll be running a series of open mini-events for fun on our new Shades of Gray Forum.

Other than that we have a new Lore Article, this one was created as a means to describe the ritualistic basis of conflict in the Cartel. It also provides a basis of intervention and basically is the "Law" of the Cartel itself. You can find out more about the it in the Code of Entente wiki page.

Finally our podcast, Ashencast, will be recording it's second episode this next weekend. We'll be doing a segment on our friends the White Aegis and we are already looking into inviting other guilds onto the cast for the future.

Have any questions just send us a tweet @ashenfoldcartel on twitter or pop on our forums ans ask a question.

Thanks!

 

Podcast!

Want to participate in the Ashenfold Podcast or as its called, the "AshenCast"? Ask questions to our hosts Alexandus and Gentleman of Leisure as they speak with officers of the guild White Aegis while they talk about the upcoming Guild Wars 2 release date as well as the upcoming IC rivalry between the two guilds, Ashenfold Cartel and White Aegis!

Tune in at 8PM EST on the Ashenfold Cartel's Mumble server, info is below!

Address: ashenfold.gameopen.org

Port: 25400

 

Hey!

Yep I hope there will be a lot RP in GW2 too Thanks for the Reply!@

 

Update

Our newest issue of the Ashen Word is out! The issue itself can be found here.

Welcome to all of our new members for the past few weeks and can't wait to game with you guys in game!

On that note we're currently doing some site renovations to add a few features while also streamlining things. This is a great time to join the guild as we will be launching the final part of our dynamic summer plotline, Night of the Falling Ax. So if you want to start off by carving your name in Cartel history this is the time to get in on the action!