For ages, SoV has remained an evil guild bent on dominating all realms it finds. Our knights move across the realms destroying any resistance against SoV's spread, while the priests support them with keeping records of our wars, membership, alliances, invesitgations and other types of records. The artisans create pieces of art, music, writing, programming, etc. to be used for the SoV website and as well as other things. Each path possesses a function that enables SoV to work together.

SoV is more than just a guild. It is a religion that believes its mortal members can ascend to godliness with the faith of the other members. The gods, although wielding godly power, must answer to the guild. The gods lead but not at the expense of the members. A god will fall if their believers no long have any faith in his/her abilities.

SoV possesses multiple realms of existence, commonly called branches by the heathens. In these realms, SoV strives to become dominant and respected, as well as being feared. SoV keeps its eyes open for more expansion, with each new member comes more possibility and talent to find and establish a new realm.

Evil cannot be defeated for it resides in all of us...





The Ascended

God

The god of SoV is our elected leader and is responsible for organising and leading all other ascended members during their term. The god is elected every six months, during faith elections. While SoV is a democracy, the god can overrule on a decision, but should do so rarely.

    Current god:
  • SpaceDyeVest

Kai Gods

The kai gods are former gods who earned permanent ascension and immortality. They exist primarily to advise the current gods or act in emergency situations. Kai god is a permanent, invite-only position.

    Current kai gods:
  • F'Nok
  • K.A.I.N
  • Ian

Semi Gods

A semi god is a leader of a specific branch. Each semi god has the full authority within his/her realm. The semi god positions are elected after the god, during the faith elections.

    Current semi gods:
  • Fear (GunZ)
  • Fluffed (Gunbound)

Demi Gods

Demi gods are the elected sub-leaders within our larger branches and serve to assist in the organisation of the branch. Also, a single demi god may be elected to aid a semi god in the running of their branch. Each game may have different roles for their demi gods, but they often have a great deal of freedom to run their field.

    Current demi gods:
  • Drew (Gunz)
  • David (Gunbound)

The Devout

Jotun

The jotun are similar in power to the god, and aid with administration and moderation of the guild. They are a former god whom have been requested to maintain many of their powers by the kais or the new god. If jotun prove worthy, they may attain immortality as a kai.

    Current jotun:
  • n/a

Divine Council

There is a council of elected divine members (members for longer than six months) that review the actions of our gods, and set guidelines for how the gods should run the guild. Though helping define, refine, and amend the policies of our guild, they ensure that the gods do the right thing by the members.

    Current council:
  • Minkor (Chief Councillor)
  • Ununoctium
  • F'Nok
  • Sindragosa
  • Kione

The Priesthood

The Priesthood are individuals who are appointed by the god to fufill extra responsibilities while there is a need for them. These are temporary positions to fill one of five roles, finances, mediation (keeping the peace), record keeping, intel gathering, and public relations with other guilds.


The Knighthood

The Knights are the members of SoV, and to become a knight one must first pass through a trial worshipper period. To become a worshipper, you must first petition to join (see Baptism below).





Petitioning to Join



Petitioning for the Swords of Villanousity is a show of commitment to joining a serious and full-loyalty guild. We don't just accept people who ask to join or try people out. SoV is not an invite-guild, but rather one that requires prospective members to submit a petition for the guild's review.

SoV is a long-standing democracy. In order to gain acceptance into SoV, you need to earn the votes of many SoV members. Every realm (game we play) requires a different number of votes based on the size of the realm, but is not an unreasonable number of votes to earn. Most members will want you to contact them for their vote or play with them in game.

In order to petition, you need to first register an account on our forums. Then you need to find the petitioner's forum for the specific realm you are petitioning for and follow the instructions in the "Petitioning for Membership" topic (they are simple) and post a new thread.

What can you expect from your petition? Well, you're first of all going to need to earn some votes. Different ranks are worth different amounts of points, but the vast majority of members are worth 2 points. So if a realm needs 16 points to be accepted, you need 8 people to vote yes for you. Simple. It's slightly more complicated than that, but the Semi-god will worry about that for you. If you are having trouble gaining points to be accepted, you may want to refer to this thread.



The Process to join:

  • Find the forums
  • Register an account
  • Find the petition center for the game you would like to join in
  • Look for a sticky topic explaining how to join, and follow those instructions from there
  • Find SoV members, and earn votes to join!