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Twenty Years Later - A Quiet Anniversary


Hello everyone, it's been a long time.

Today marks the guild's twentieth anniversary!

We may no longer ride together as a guild, but I wanted to step back in for a moment - if only to honour what we built, and what still lingers. After all, twenty years is no small thing. It's twenty years of stories, adventures, laughter, heartbreak, friendships, and the kind of late-night conversations that stay with you long after the screen has gone dark.

These days, the guild may have quieted down over time beyond the Discord we use to chat and stay in touch, but it felt wrong not to pause for a moment and look back on everything that has happened over all that time.

Time is a wonderful yet frightening thing; it catches up to you with a sudden realisation. One moment you're logging into WoW between schoolwork and meeting strangers who will somehow become lifelong friends. Then before you know it, you're paying a mortgage, raising kids, or simply dealing with the consequences of a WoW-induced gaming posture.

I too may have (mostly) moved on from the game, but we all know WoW never truly lets go. Both the guild and the friends I made through it are things I still think back on with a lot of fondness. Even if the guild's pen has stopped writing new stories, there's a whole archive of twenty years' worth of history preserved on the website and Discord. I've sometimes wondered whether it's still worth paying for the website hosting, but then I think of all those stories and the people connected to them, and I know it is. It's the legacy we've left behind, after all.

Beyond that though, there's something far more lasting; the bonds we forged. Whether we choose to keep them alive or let them rest as treasured memories, they'll always be a part of who we are.

Either way, I'm grateful. For the stories, the friendships, the moments of joy and madness, and yes, even the drama that gave it all texture.

I don't know if I'll ever post here again. But then again, twenty years ago, none of us knew what we were starting. Either way, here's to the past - and perhaps, to another twenty years somewhere down the road.

Aka'magosh.