House Silvacce Guild War

After a mysterious botched assassination attempt on a member of the New Horde paramilitary group, The Blood Templars, the Templars' leader, Feinryr, declared war on the noble Blood Elf house Silvacce. Feinryr and his officers prepared an ambush outside the ruins of Lordaeron City and challenged any Silvacce retainers that they saw to an “honor duel" during which the unarmed Silvacceites were murdered.

After word of this bushwhacking spread, soldiers of House Silvacce and the townspeople of Brill surrounded the Blood Templars and demanded they lay down their arms. Feinryr and his Blood Templars fled to the zeppelin tower but were prevented by the crowd from escaping to either Orgrimmar or Stranglethorn.

When challenged to single combat by a Silvacce champion, Feinryr declined and protested his innocence and defied anyone to provide proof that they had murdered anyone. A witness then demanded that the bag of the Blood Templar troll Taklu be searched, and when this was done, out tumbled the stolen heads of several Silvacce retainers.

Feinryr then insisted that the attacks were a legitimate reprisal for the assassination attempt on his officer. He was asked to prove that members of House Silvacce were responsible for this attack that no one had heard of. Feinryr then asked that a witness be summoned — though he would need to speak with the “witness" in private first. The man was brought forward and was obviously a fool and of low character, but after a moment’s private instruction by Feinryr he was allowed to give his evidence.

The witness claimed to have seen everything. He swore that a man with a knife jumped from the shadows and stabbed the Blood Templar most wickedly.

When asked how he knew with what house the assassin was affiliated, the witness said: “He announced it. When he was done stabbing my friend the killer laughed and shouted, ‘I do this for House Silverlace!’"

Feinryr facepalmed. The crowd roared. The Blood Templars were told to pay restitution to House Silvacce and to leave its members in peace. Some wags suggested that the Blood Templars shouldn’t lose any time tracking down the mysterious agents of “Silverlace."

Why it was Notable: OOC
This event occurred within the first month of Moon Guard’s life.  was a controversial guild OOC because its GM, Vladimyr, was using the title “Prince." Some RPers were offended by this.

Why Feinryr decided to begin a guild war with  was never clear. He probably expected to ride the current of ill-will that was percolating on the realm forum.

At the time of this episode, Feinryr was somewhere around level 40. He metagamed that he could recognize members of  even without tabards. Because the server was still very young, most of the people he challenged to /duels were level 20-max and after he defeated them in the duel he told them that they had been “perma-killed" though no such agreement had been made before hand.

A large crowd of Blood elves and Forsaken surrounded the scene and expressed outrage but Feinryr would only challenge anyone who disagreed with him to a duel.

Finally, a level 60 member of  came by and challenged Feinryr who then ran for the zeppelin. The rest of the scene went down as described.

Pretty quickly things reached the realm forum, and Vladimyr posted that his guild was not acknowledging the  RP, it’s metagaming, godmodes, or story. This was the first IC/OOC drama to reach the forum after an in-game blow up. It was also the first public discussion of approriate RP etiquette on MG.

Vladimyr came out looking pretty good and Feinryr came across as a bad RPer and cowardly PVPer. This event probably strengthened the rep of  more than anything else, and it greatly silenced complaints about playing a “Prince" because everyone realized that there were worse things out there.

This event is notable because it reached the forum, sparked discussion of IC/OOC behavior and rules, and was the first example of title-drama.