Stormborn Saturday Songs

A bit of music to lighten up the weekend. This is our first Stormborn Saturday Song, and of course "A Storm is Coming" seemed like the most appropriate choice. Enjoy!

The 16th Hall Smoking

Fandolia's (Alf's) words exactly: "Pipeweed is bad for you, no I will not join your screenshots"

Stormborn Scheduled Raids

We will be running level 20 Rohan raids that will allow us to practice for later levels. The raids will be Battle for Erebor, The Fires of Smaug and Flight to the Lonely Mountain. All characters at L20+ with the Rohan instance pack are welcome to join. These will be held on the following days:

• Battle for Erebor - Friday level 20 run at 6pm (+1 GMT)
• The Fires of Smaug - Saturday level 20 run 6pm (+1 GMT)
• Flight to the Lonely Mountain - Sunday level 20 run 6pm (+1 GMT)

Numbers permitting, we will attempt level 85* runs after each raid.

*Note: if you bring an L85 character, they must have second age LIs. If you do not have yours yet, please ask a crafter in the kin to supply you with one after you have provided the appropriate materials.

Our RaidCall Channel

We now have a RaidCall channel! Thank you Ila for creating the channel for us. Now we can fight in raids more efficiently. You can download the program here which will open in a new window. For the channel username just ask in kin. We look forward to hearing from you!

Welcome Packages for New Members

On joining the kin, you are required to edit your kinship player note in the social panel. Please change it to a nickname you would like to be called among the kinship.

To do this, you must open the social panel (press O) and select kinship. The red arrow in the below picture shows information about your fellow kinsmen. Eg: location, player note and join date.

Go to note. From here you can update your nickname.

Now your nickname can be seen by going to "player note". From here you can address other kinnies by their nicknames. Please make sure all of your characters in the kinship have the same nickname.

After editing your player note to something appropriate, you will be a recruit for a two week period. After regular activity within the kinship, you shall be promoted to kinsman and receive a welcome package* to your post. These will include:

100 travelling rations.
5 dyes (these are random)
Players under L65 will get a level 60 second age legendary item**
3 tier five relics for your legendary item

* Please note: the welcome package applies to one package per player. Alts will not receive the package. Joining the kin on a new account pretending to be someone for the sake of receiving a new package will result in a permanent ban.

** All attempts will be made to ensure an appropriate legendary item is given to your character. If you have a character over L65, you will not receive the L60 second age item. However, you will be encouraged to join regular Moria instances so you may barter tokens for a first age L60 item.

Rules of the Kin

Kinship Chat

The chat between kin members should be good humoured and considerate. Please do not spam the kin or cause a ruckus. Feel free to discuss matters that are considered "out of character".
For engaging in roleplay with the kinship, type /joinchannel StormbornRP

Kinship Chests

The kin has a "give and take" policy when it comes to the chests. You may use them as you wish, but please replace any items taken with something of use to another person. You can use the chests as a means of transferring items from one character on your account to another, but please announce so within kinship before doing so, so your items are not accidentally stolen. In turn, please do not take items left by someone in the middle of transferring.

Kinship Instances/Raids

We try to hold regular and varied instances for the entire kinship. If you would like to lead a run, inform an officer so they can edit the message of the day. When in an instance, follow the instructions of the leader and contribute as much as you can. If you are having any issues, report them to an officer via tells or mail.

Fighting in the Ettenmoors

We have a kinship tribe in the Moors called "Stormborn Spawn". Newly created, any member from our kin can join the tribe and will immediately become an officer of the tribe. You are representing the kinship at all times, so please be on best behaviour. Fightclubbing is not tolerated by the kinship on either the free peoples of monster play sides, and you will be banned immediately for doing so.

Miscellaneous

Direct quote from our esteemed co-leader, Aliramiel:

"You know some places have casual Fridays? Well I think we should have shirtless Sundays. If you're gaming it is strongly suggested that you do not wear a shirt. At all."

This is not mandatory. I just asked Alira what her views on kinship rules, and this was her contribution.

Welcome to Stormborn! A brief guide to new members.

Thank you for joining Stormborn. We are a rank 10 kinship led by Hannihr (Hannah) and Aliramiel (Gabrielle). We have a kin house in the Falathlorn homesteads, complete with a windmill (called Moulin Rouge, for our naughtier members) and huge Draigoch statue that keeps the goblins away.

Our officers keep the kin house tidy (clean windows, polish the statue) and generally keep everything in order. If you have any questions, it is probably best not to ask the officers when they are on cleaning duty, but at any other time feel free to put all inquiries to kinship chat. In other words, we are happy to help out/answer questions if we're not too preoccupied.

We hold regular instances for our members, social events (such as spar tournaments, lotteries, horse races...) and encourage a casual, relaxed atmosphere within the kin. Due to most of our members being 18+, we ask all members to have a mature attitude to being part of a kinship (aka please don't ask us to power level you - instead, we will throw you to Jaggahl in the Ettenmoors).

Our kinship house's chests are for everyone to use. We encourage everyone to use them - please only leave items in there if you expect them to be used by someone else. We have a policy of "give and take". If you take something, please replace it with something useful.

For more details on the kinship, ask a member or look out for future blog posts!

~Hannah