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Overview
The Risen is an Alliance guild on the Duskwood server of the game World of Warcraft.

History
The Risen was formed when The Fallen Crew (another World of Warcraft guild) fell apart after lengthy inner conflict. "Rising up from the ashes" was the inspiration behind the title. A few of the founding members were Clubberlang, Emptyknight , Elgordo, Calliban, and a few others.

After the Fallen Crew(FC for short)disbanded The Risen quickly began to acquire new members. At its peak the guild had over 170 characters, or 110 unique accounts. The guild quickly progressed through instances and RAIDS, initially, with limited difficultly. As time went on, the situation became more grim. "Progression slowed, and the guilds members became agitated."

After a few months, members became unreliable and unpunctual; not showing up for events, dungeons, and RAIDS. Many guild members from The Risen, were unhappy with the rate of progression and began a somewhat covert movement. A new guild, entitled The Fallen Gods, was formed quietly in the background while The Risen's other members and Guild Master(GM) had little or no knowledge of the events. Some of the members of the movement were under the impression that The Fallen Gods was the RAIDING(sister guild) to the Risen. The characters would increase in level in the Risen and then transfer to The Fallen Gods.

One evening in late 2007 the switch happened. " has left the guild", " has left the guild" appeared on the screen to more than 35 active members. Before long more than 20 members had left the guild leaving the Risen; RAID crippled.

Stock was taken, and it didn't take long to realize that there was going to be no alliance with the newly formed guild.

After the split and acquiring new members, The Risen manages to begin RAIDING again. Before long full Karazan(the first of the RAID dungeons) clears were attained. The Risen was back in business... for a time.

Needless to say, there was another split a few months later which again left The Risen unable to progress.

After several more splits The Risen began some fundamental changes. A new co-gm was chosen. Not only out of necessity but because of skill. [Braisen] became the new co-gm of The Risen. This new change ushered in a whole new era for The Risen.

2007-2009
The Risen has over 90 characters and more than 46 unique accounts. Although the numbers are lower than the original cast, they are valued.

In order to help facilitate the new Risen mantra a new website was designed and implemented; the focus of which--functionality and content. Pressed for time, many of the members of The Risen ask for an easier method then just standard forums to get new content and guild news. With that in mind, The Risen designs a podcast entitled Risencast™ to help deliver content, fun and stories.

Falling of the Risen
In 2009 the Risen was disbanded because of differences in opinions about guild structure, functions, online times, etc.

Ranks
Currently there are multiple ranks (Listed in Descending order):
 * Knight(Officer)
 * Squire
 * Man at Arms
 * Freeman
 * Serf
 * You suck

Ranks serve to protect the guild bank as you get different access with higher ranks as well as a show of honor/trust for the bearer.

Recruitment
In order to grow, The Risen has begun recruitment (as of November 2008). The guild master(GM and Co-Guild Master (CO-GM) implement a new position--The Recruitment Officer. It is the job of the Recruitment Officer to recruit new members that are best suited for the guild.

Currently the guild has an application process that is simple and painless. A few short questions designed to give the guild an idea of what type of player the applicant is, and a submit button are usually all that separate the applicant from an in-game message and potentially an invitation.

Future goals
With so many trials in the past, The Risen is no stranger to hardship. In fact, it is one of the things that strengthened the guild. Looking forward but not forgetting about the past, The Risen plans to reach the new level cap (80) through questing and sometimes instances in anticipation of starting the new RAID content while still doing the old content for fun and to complete older quests.

Features and Assets

 * A guild bank with 5 tabs designed to work in co-operation with the in-game ranking system. As the members progress in ranks, they are able to withdraw from the increasing tabs which contain higher, more valuable, and useful items.


 * Ventrilo. A voice chat application that allows the entire guild to communicate over vast distances in real time using a headsetor desktop microphone and speakers.


 * A functional, frequently updated, official website

References and External Sites
 * Risencast™ (podcast). Every week The Risen podcasts important information, facts, events, politics, and current events.  The podcast was designed to help those users who have limited time to read important in-game material.