Death Jesters

Death Jesters
Leaders	The Vicount
Founders	The Vicount
Founded	October/November 2004
Status	Closed
Members	N/A
Focuses	PvP multi
Ideologies	Honour ARPK
Colours	Purple
Heraldry	unknown
Motto	Laughing in the face of Death

The Death Jesters (DJ) was a clan founded by The Vicount in late 2004. DJ was an exodus of The Synergy, and the first second-generation relative of the Wilderness Guardians.

History

Plans for DJ began as early as October or November 2004, when Synergy council member The Vicount began planning to open a new clan. Given that Syn was mainly American-based, The Vicount wanted a clan with events more suitable for European members. The clan's forums were created and the name "Death Jesters" was chosen. The Vicount informed Syn leader Eragon Cd of his plans, but chose to remain in Syn for a few more months. Eragon Cd is believed to have been accepting of the proposal.

In January or February 2005, Eragon Cd registered on DJ's forums to help The Vicount and Shadower2000 - another founding DJ member - with administration problems. Shortly after this, Syn co-leader Kanchellsis discovered the DJ forums, and subsequently banned Eragon Cd, The Vicount, and Shadower2000 from Syn - despite DJ not yet being an active clan. As a result, The Vicount opened DJ in early 2005, much sooner than anticipated. Largely due to the Syn founder's ban, several Syn members subsequently left to join DJ. Names of the founding members include Dragoneye 79, Chetty0504, Lemur Master, DaEvilBlitz, and Mithril Lady. Lemur Master would become the clan recruiter. Eragon Cd eventually regained his access to Syn forums and initially argued a case in support of DJ, though he later apologised for the incident. He later resumed leadership of Syn.

DJ were an honourable clan, and adopted their ancestors' ARPK policies. By 1 March 2005 they had approximately 30 members with an average combat level in the 80s, and hosted several raids and other events per week. DJ was also known to have been one of the six clans which helped reform The Federation in May 2005.

Not much else is known about DJ's history as no other surviving records have been found, and their fate remains unknown.

Trivia

• DJ's ranking system was significantly more creative than the standards at the time - instead of "Leader", The Vicount's rank was "Chapter Master", and the rank for banned members was "Joke".
• DJ also required an interview with potential new members as part of their application process - a concept which WG themselves adopted several years later.