Origin

Shadow Legion was formed in 2002, in a game called Asheron’s Call 2. The game had three factions, Order, Dominion, and of course - Shadow. The guild went through rapid development and success early on, dominating our server for over a year. Thus, forming a solid base that has taken us into many games over the years, and keeps us a strong, powerful guild today.

Type of Guild

Shadow Legion is a very insular guild, uninterested in the drama or "forum wars" that seem to lend themselves to others in the MMO community. Though happy to work with allies when needed, we take pride in standing alone and doing things our way. Although our forums are integral to the way we work and have a large amount of activity, our true sense of community stems from the use of the voice communications program ‘Ventrilo’. Despite being a focused and driven guild with high standards of success, we like to enjoy ourselves and talk as much crap as possible on vent!

Though we have played many games, it is incorrect to say that we are a ''multi-gaming'' guild. Our community is very close-knit and tends to migrate from one game to another together, sticking with only one game at a time.

Notable Games

We have dabbled in many games for enjoyment over the years, and several of them could be said to have been games that have shaped Shadow Legion.

The first of these, after Asheron’s Call 2, was PlanetSide. Though only a smaller sized guild, our name was well known, and respected as a dangerous, well co-ordinated force of players. Star Wars Galaxies, though not a long lasting game for us, saw us recruit some great players, and the same goes for some of the more recent games of Age of Conan and Warhammer.

One of our most successful games of recent years, worth special note, has been RF-Online. Through both Codemasters version for the west, and more recently the CCR version of the game, the guild has been involved in this game for several years. During the ''Codemasters'' years, we saw the guild gain much success, and in many ways the game and its players shaped the modern face of Shadow Legion.

Players

Shadow Legion has a large cross section of nationalities, but we are a 100% English speaking guild. Although our array of accents is colourful and diverse, we all hang out on vent, and enjoy the games we play while chatting to one another. This is the reason why, if you read our recruitment policy, that Ventrilo is so heavily enforced. Without vent use, you really wouldn't become part of our community, and end up isolated and un-trusted by the rest of us.

Our player base ranges from extreme hardcore gamers, with no real lives to speak of, to the more casual gamer that don’t really get much time to play. Our casual gamers tend to be older members, that evolved lives between games (how dare they!). Its fair to say though, the majority of our player base, dedicate quite some time to the games we play, spending many hours each day in our active game of choice. As for our hardcore members, in many of the games we play we are among the first to hit level cap.