User:LadyKatarina

Greetings! My name is LadyKatarina & I am coleader (R5) of [SbN] Shadowborne. We are a family oriented guild unlike any you've ever seen. We are a strong, well-established, active & dedicated group of players. Shadowborne chose it's name with the guild's history in mind. I'll explain.

Several players who met & formed a strong bond & friendship in K7, decided they wanted to try their hand & skill in forming a guild with the hopes of reaching the top! With determination, perserverance & hope, we restarted our accounts from the beginning. We began on the K20 server, the day it opened & appeared on the world map.

Originally known as [HmG] The Drunken Knights, we grew very quickly adding additional family guilds such as  [LmG], [NmG], [SmG] & finally [Mp9]...all a growing force representing The Drunken Family. We became a force to be reckoned with!

We took on fighting a high might Chinese guild [CN.]. Even though they grew even quicker than we could, we still pushed back, standing our ground & never losing heart. We were having the time of our lives. In an attempt to create peace between our family of guilds & [CN.], diplomacy tried to step in. After weeks of repeated failed diplomacy & then [CN.] leader, Yoyoki, continuing to deny every attempt at either an alliance or NAP agreement with a "foreign" guild; war was inevitable. The war continued.

A few weeks later, IGG announced the addition & arrival of migration! We decided it was time to get out of the nationality war with the Chinese. After looking at various options; we chose our target kingdom for migration.

K16 was a very peaceful kingdom than we had previously known in our originating kingdom. K16 offered opportunity for growth & regained spirit. We watched K16 go through many changes. Guilds coming & growing with the new option of migration now available. Our diplomacy flourished, making strong allies & friends along the way.

IGG announced their new addition to the game, KvK (Kingdom vs Kingdom). Many were excited with this new addition but there were alot of questions and uncertainty surrounding this new feature. For us, our only concern was what would it mean for those of us who had migrated. We definitely didn't want to be hurled back into K20 again. After the inability to get straight answers from IGG & deciding we wanted to represent our new home, we made the difficult decision to create a new guild to be ranked in K16. So with heavy heart yet remaining vigilant in our efforts, we dropped our high gift level & name & [SbN] Shadowborne was born! A very fitting name as we were born out of the many shadows of our history. A new start began. The first KvK was a success & we had a blast!

After quite a bit of time went by, a new guild, [GzT] Godzilla's Tail, migrated to K16 & having more might than any other guild in the kingdom, quickly became the new Overlord. They too, had visions & dreams of their own. [GzT] placed their rules of conduct & expectations in the kingdom. Many resisted, while others followed, the kingdom still was not unmanageable to us. We remained vigilant & determined to remain a strong force in our new home kingdom.

In the middle of the night, without warning, a guild bigger than our Overlord migrated in & war immediately broke out. The fight between [H.D] began with their continuous attacks on [GzT]. We helped with the efforts of fighting off this bully invader into our home. We aided with return attacks & resource supplies to higher might players to hopefully push these invaders out. Many lost hope & heart very quickly. In the blink of an eye, our home had become a 24/7 war zone again, hindering the growth of players all around. Our family had known these conditions before & while we are a fighting guild, we decided to look at all our options.

After weeks of planning & preparing, we chose to leave our home again. Not because we weren't willing to fight, as we were willing & doing just that. But we wanted a little more equality to be on the winning side for a change. So we once again migrated.

Our new home now is K11. We opted for this kingdom with strong allies & friends by our side. Our new home so far has been an experience unlike any other. Strong friendships remain & we still do plenty of fighting. K11 for now, is a diverse make up of guilds varying in might & varying dreams. We continue to see guilds come & go. Diplomacy within K11 can be very trying without specific knowledge of the intricacies the past has placed between guilds. But for now, and hopefully for good, K11 is where we continue to call home!