User:Lord Kismet

Lord Kismet is the leader of the online group called Kismet, Ring of Destiny. His full online name, Guru Kismet, has been used since the early years of computer games, spaning more then 28 years.

Progression to Lord Kismet and a brief history of the Kismet Team
The progression from the name Guru Kismet to Lord Kismet began with a Massive Multiplayer game called Lineage in 1999-2000. While games such as Diablo and other online games pionnered online game play, Lineage provided the ablity to play with hundreds online, at the same time, instead of the limited 8-32 players.

Guru Kismet met an individual named "Hesari", while first testing & learning the game-play of Lineage. Hesrai sense of honor was evident right away and the two struck up a friendship. They would often meet in what was known as "North TI" aka North Talking Island to hunt and chat.

Soon Prince Hesrai, as he was known in game for his choice of character, would request friends to join his new pledge called Griffonclaw. Guru Kismet's current pledge was dissolving due to the leader needing to take care of his RL (real life) things. Guru Kismet who was honor bound by his owth of loyalty to his previous pledge, asked to be released of his bond to join Griffonclaw. The leader of the guild gave his ok and Guru Kismet moved to Griffonclaw.

Griffonclaw, Ring of Water was part of a larger alliance on the US Lineage Ken Rahuel sever called the "Ring Alliance" filled with many Lord of the Rings fans. The Main leader & founder of the Ring Alliance was Destion, an very honorable person with great leadership skills. Other Ring Alliance leaders Manwie, Viviane where also great examples of pledge leaders. Guru Kismet took up the position of Royal Advisor to Hesrai for Griffonclaw and often gave suggestions on running the pledge. Listening and learning from anyone and everyone who ran a pledge or directly from members what they would like to see. Some other founding members of Griffonclaw, Chummer, Sar, Rathi plus many others would spend many hours doing a teamwork drill called "baiting the Lizzies" aka Killing Lizard Men to earn money in game.

After some time, Griffonclaw grew full and Guru Kismet started up a brother pledge to Griffonclaw called Kismet, Ring of Destiny. At an official ceremony Kismet, Ring of Destiny was approved as part of the Ring Alliance. Kismet, Ring of Destiny is based upon three very simple virtues: Honor, Loyalty & Respect. All members are expected to follow these virtues and encourage others to do so also. Guru Kismet shifted his name to Prince Kismet.

Soon the Kismet Pledge grew very large becoming one of the largest Ring Pledges split into three princes run by Prince Kismet. Soon there was a shift to a new US server for Lineage called "LOA" aka Lands of Aden created by Capt Sturm. The Kismet Pledge was lucky to secure one of the greatest pledge houses on LOA for just 128k in game cash through the hard work of Prince Kismet. Years later the house would sell for over 68 million and the money given to members.

The pledge moved to LOA and was built anew with its first member to join, Chummer. Soon followed by founding members ElvenFyre & Heavensblade. Some more members where added who would become Kismet Ledgends including Dew, Rathi, Scroggins, Tigonoh, Herokles, TigerTail, FSBulldog, DamePegasus, Bloomers, MairamRose, MojoZen, Callidriel, Mystical, Ceathiar, TheMagican, Elwe, Sar, Shaved, Celloman, Malaena, Pi and hundreds of others.

During the Kismet Pledges time on LOA we where renowned worldwide for our Teamwork, Training's, Website which was featured on Lineage.com for many years. Most especially for our Members, due to their ability to always treat people with respect & kindness. The pledge would grow to over 200+ members over the many years on LOA. Many hundreds of posts & emails where received on the rareness & uniqueness of the team.

While there was many other milestones from members hitting high levels and achieving amazing goals, Prince Kismet was among the very few to Hit lev 50 on his Prince Character. Considered the hardest character to play to 50. After hitting 50 the Kismet Pledge bestowed a special honor upon him by giving him the title Lord Kismet for his accomplishment. The creator of LOA Server and leader of the NCSoft Lineage team Capt Sturm came online in a super rare appearance to wish Kismet and his team congrats during the Kismet Grand Lev 50 Party which gave away millions in prizes to the public.

Soon several new games would be calling on the horizon after many years of being part of Lineage. These games included Lineage 2 and also World of Warcraft.

Lord Kismet moved on from Lineage due to game play changes and also a sense of seeing whats out there. Lord Kismet created a whole new site for World of Warcraft and the call to unite was given and was answered by many members. Now known as the Kismet Guild, it would grow very large topping out at over a hundred members. Sadly during this time the amount of time and effort to keep the guild running, would force Lord Kismet to turn over the Guild to his trusted member Lord Calladriel and the website to Sir Chummer.

After a good break Lord Kismet has returned to retake over the Kismet Sites including http://www.kismetbp.com, our main site now in a Lord of the Rings Online Theme. http://wow.kismetbp.com our Warcraft site and http://lin.kismetbp.com our lineage site. Both of our old sites are for seeing the history and reliving fond memories of days gone past.

Lord Kismet is looking forward to what the future holds with his famous saying; Destiny Awaits.