The mission of The Fallen Legion is to serve its membership and the community and to help all players to succeed at respectful, fair, and cooperative gaming for the benefit and enjoyment of everyone involved.
The vision of The Fallen Legion is a guild that leads by example and encourages responsible and respectful behavior from and towards all players; promotes respect, good sportsmanship, and healthy gameplay for all players; and protects the rights and welfare of all players.
As Sony Online Entertainment reserves the right to sanction the Guild based upon the actions of its members, the Guild as an organization is mandated to uphold the guidelines established by SOE, not only for the good of the guild, but for the good of the game.
EverQuest II is a positive, enjoyable leisure activity for the members of The Fallen Legion, and no part of that experience shall belittle, demean, or abuse a Legionnaire or another Everfrostian, for behind every character is a player, and people are always more important than play. The Legion is a family, and family members protect each other, trust each other, and demand the best of each other. This family cooperates, respects its members, and believes in respect both online and offline. Legionnaires are good people, not just good game players.
All Legionnaires shall strictly adhere to the whole of the EverQuest II Rules of Conduct in action and speech, both visible and audible, at all times. Those Rules include, but are not limited to, the following:
RoC 1: “You may not harass or threaten other players.”
RoC 2: “You may not use any sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language.” This rule is interpreted to include but is not limited to profanity, racism, homophobia, and misogynism.
RoC 8: “You may not organize nor be a member of any guilds or groups within EverQuest II that are based on, or espouse, any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or other hate-mongering philosophy.”
All Legionnaires shall strictly adhere to the EverQuest Play Nice Policies in action and speech, both visible and audible, at all times. Those Policies include, but are not limited to, the following:
PNP 3: “Foul language is not permitted, in any language.”
This policy is interpreted to include profanity in guild chat or voice chat.
PNP 5: “You may not disrupt the normal playability of a zone or area.”
This policy is interpreted to include flooding or "spamming" chat channels.
PNP 7: “You may not abuse other players or Customer Service Representatives.”
Any Legionnaire engaging in the abuse of another individual shall be subject to immediate expulsion from the organization without notice.
PNP 9: “You may not operate a guild that habitually violates these rules.”
GRP 1: The in-game rank system shall be defined as follows:
: Member of The Council of The Five
: Council Reserve
: Guide of The Legion
: Legionnaire
: Legionnaire Reserve
: On Leave of Absence
: Apprentice
: Apprentice Reserve
GRP 2: The Chief Guide, who shall be ranked as Guide of The Legion, is empowered by the guild leadership to make reasonable requests of the membership for the purposes of mentoring, advising, or otherwise assisting any player.
GRP 3: The number of guild leaders must always be exactly five (5), as decided on 20 September 2005. Each of The Five shall have an equal vote on the Council, with ties (in the event of abstinence or absence) broken by the Chief Administrator, provided a quorum is consulted. A quorum shall consist of three (3) members of the Council.
GRP 4: There are three specifically named posts within the Council of The Five:
4A: The Chief Administrator serves as the ad-hoc chairperson of the council, responsible for spending the most time off the field and behind the desk, responsible for intra- and inter-organization communications and community relations, human capital management, policy oversight and execution, and project planning, as well as delegation of projects and the facilitation of all other members of the organization succeeding in their respective capacities. The Chief Administrator is not entitled to accolades, awards, or nominations to special posts or privileges. The Chief Administrator is assisted by the Administrative Assistant.
4B: The Chief of Recruitment is primarily responsible for organizing and managing recruitment events and efforts, screening potential candidates, serving as chief advisor and mentor for Officers, and seeing to the maintaining of the highest standards of guild membership. The Chief of Recruitment's "staff" includes the entirety of the Officers.
4C: The Chief of Commerce is primarily responsible for the material wealth and possession of the guild, including the Guild Hall and its amenities, the treasury, the guild bank, the amassed public and collected properties of the guild as held by its members, and any collective efforts involving the purchase, sale, exchange, or storage of goods or currency in the name of the organization. The Chief of Commerce is assisted by the Bank Manager and the Chamberlain of the Guild Hall.
GRP 5: An active Guild Leader who steps down may name his/her replacement, a practice established by Dead Morbid upon his departure from the organization. That new appointee must be received with majority consent of the remaining members of The Five. If no replacement is specifically named, the remaining Members of The Five must approve by majority any appointee to the Council of The Five.
GCP A: You may not, overtly or implicitly, describe, encourage, or discuss drug use, drug abuse, or related paraphernalia, in any public chat channel including but not limited to Say, Group, Guild, OOC, and Shout.
GCP B: You may not spam the Say, Group, Guild, OOC, or Shout channels. Spam is considered any repeated comment or broadcast.
GCP C: These policies shall include typed text and voice chat.
GBP A: You may not remove items from any Guild Bank with the intent, covert or overt, to sell those items for a profit and/or personal material gain. These actions constitute defrauding the guild and are prohibited, regardless of actual transactions committed. Violations of this clause will result in immediate expulsion from the guild without warning. No portion of any policy shall be construed to circumvent or override this provision.
GBP B: Guild Bank 1, "The Treasury," is reserved for the collected coin of The Fallen Legion, and items of Legendary, Fabled, or Mythical natures of Level 40 or greater, Master spell/skill scrolls/books, and Mastercrafted items.
GBP C: Guild Bank 2 is for tradeskill rares and transmuting reagents / powders.
GBP D: Guild Bank 3 is "The Battle Chest," and is for food, drink, totems, poisons, and other adventuring support equipment and items.
GBP E: Guild Bank 4 is for collectible and Lore and Legend items.
GBP F: All guild banks shall be open for unlimited item withdrawal for all individuals of Legionnaire rank and above with the exception of coin in Guild Bank 1, which shall only be available to Members of The Five, and items in Guild Bank 1, which shall be limited to three (3) items per 24 hour period for all persons and unlimited to Members of The Five.
GBP G: Apprentices are not permitted to withdraw materials from any Guild Bank.
SP 1: Members of the Council of The Five reserve the exclusive right to sanction and/or remove any guild member without warning if it is in the best interests of The Fallen Legion.
SP 2: Guild members who violate the Code of Conduct may be contacted by a the leadership and advised of a better way to handle the situation in the future.
SP 3: Continued disregard for the welfare of the general community and for the welfare of The Fallen Legion will result in removal from the guild.
SP 4: Members of the general public or members of the guild who believe a Legionnaire has violated these terms of agreement should contact a guild leader without delay. Any report from another guild leader or guild officer will be met with the utmost seriousness and investigated to the fullest. You may make this report by tell, by Private Message, or by in-game mail.
IDP 1: A Legionnaire who has not logged in within 60 days; an Apprentice who has not logged in within 30 days; or any guild member who has been reinvited after being deguilded due to inactivity and has not logged in within 15 days shall be considered Inactive and deguilded.
IDP 2: A Legionnaire who has explicitly communicated in advance with the Council of The Five that s/he will be unable to log in to the game for more than 60 days due to extraordinary circumstances shall be considered On Approved Leave of Absence, shall be ranked as "On Leave of Absence," and shall be provided a basic level of assurance that the player will not be deguilded automatically for 365 days.
IDP 3: Any Founding Member of the guild and any former Member of The Five in good standing shall be a Member Emeritus, and can be deguilded only after 365 days of inactivity and by unanimous consent of The Five, unless that person leaves the guild by choice.
IDP 4: A Legionnaire who has been deguilded due to inactivity or who has voluntarily and explicitly discontinued membership in the guild without violating the Code of Conduct shall be considered to be Deguilded in Good Standing.
IDP 5: A Legionnaire who has been deguilded for violating the Code of Conduct shall be considered to be Deguilded in Poor Standing, and shall be permanently ineligible for readmission, on any account, with any character, in The Fallen Legion.
The guild leadership believes that The Fallen Legion has a responsibility to its membership, to the Everfrost Server community, to the EverQuest 2 community, and to the MMORPG and online communities at large to encourage responsible behavior, promote good sportsmanship and healthy gameplay, and to protect the welfare of its members. As Sony Online Entertainment reserves the right to sanction the guild based upon the actions of its members, the guild as an organization is mandated to uphold the guidelines established by SOE, not only for the good of the guild, but for the good of the game.
Everquest 2 is a positive, enjoyable leisure activity for the members of The Fallen Legion, and no part of that experience shall belittle, demean, or abuse a Legionnaire or another Everfrostian, for behind every character is a player, and people are always more important than play.
The Fallen Legion Rank Policy, version 4.0, is a significant revision of the operational structure of the guild. Our previous two revisions of rank policy were designed to respond to the evolution of the organization over the course of the years and better define the roles into which players naturally fall. This revision is no different, and seeks to codify (rather than to impose the definitions of) the work of each Legionnaire.
Our continued desire is to promote respect and understanding, individual achievement, and a high quality of game experience for every player. The outstanding qualities of character essential to the Legionnaire - respect, honesty, and diligence - are implicit in membership, and are expected from everyone in the organization.