RIF closes down

Today, with a heavy heart, I announce something I wished I would never have to. I am closing the RIF. This is due to the fact that I need to spend more time on my college work and the RIF takes up quite a bit of my time.
The RIF has never made a net loss in the 9 1/2 months it has been going and that is a record I am proud of. I would like to thank IKnights and Captain John for their help with the running of the RIF and my investors who trusted me with their gold.
The final value of the aurum is 358.59.
Gold will be returned to investors tonight around 9-10 pm server time.
In general, the reaction to an investment bank was awesome and it was a great experience. The support from both the community and the devs was amazing. I hope that others can see what is possible and make their own banks and financial systems.

When I leave college, I may open another investment bank, in which case investors in the RIF will be given first refusal on shares up to their current level of investment.

Author: Eowan The Short

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Harmless? and Toothless? merge

On the 1st of October, Starry announced that T? was going to merge into it's sister alliance H? on the forums. He posted the following:

Announcing the Merger of Toothless? into Harmless? effective October 1, 2016

It is with mixed emotions the leaders of Harmless and Toothless announce the merger of Toothless into Harmless effective today.    Kodabear and all Chancellors before him have successfully provided new players to Illyriad, with a safe and productive alliance in which to learn the game.  Toothless was the very first training alliance in Illyriad. Due to the decrease in new players and Koda's growing real life demands, Kodabear requested the merger.   Harmless, which is no longer a military focused alliance, has embraced the challenge and will provide the same services for new players within the Harmless alliance.    Harmless plans to integrate the existing Toothless new player program into our alliance.    We will be accepting new players.   

In May of 2010 the idea was presented to the Harmless Directors that we should do something to protect new players, the idea of Toothless became a reality on May 8, 2010.  As Toothless' founder,  I thank the Directors of Harmless and Harmless members who had the vision and defended the right for new players to grow and learn the game in peace.    I also wish to thank Lord Belargyle of Dlords for his courage and vision, he was one of the first outside of Harmless to support Toothless, on the forums and with his valiant troops.  Many other alliances have supported the right for Toothless to exist in peace over the history of this alliance, thank you so much for your support.   I am very proud of Toothless and the tireless work of all its current and past Chancellors.   Toothless Chancellors and Staff have provided an alliance in which new players can learn the game, grow and then pursue their own interests. 

List of Toothless Chancellors:

Starry
Erebus
LadyLuvs
razbhaat
Aziza Habibte
KodaBear the Great 

The current and past staff are too numerous to list, but my heartfelt gratitude does out to all those that have contributed to the success of Toothless.   I can't begin to estimate the number of players in this game that started out in Toothless, graduates of Toothless are spread throughout many alliances in this game.   It's been a long and rewarding road to watch Toothless evolve into the great alliance they are today.  Harmless hopes to provide the same services to new players.      New players will have the option of continuing on in Harmless once they meet our requirements or move to another alliance that better suits their game play.     The focus of military action (conflicts and wars) will not be offered in Harmless as we are no longer interested in that aspect of the game and pursue peace by all means.  Harmless will offer basic military training, as well as crafting, city expansion and other aspects of the game as has always been provided in T?. 

The name of Toothless will be retained with one alternate account but will be closed to any members.    I'm sure I speak for many when I state the thought of Toothless disappearing from the list of alliances in this game, is just too much to bear at this point.   

This is a new direction for Harmless, our members have always been protective and supportive of Toothless and this merger is a natural fit for both alliances.   

Personally, I want to thank all of the players and alliances in Illy who supported the idea of a safe haven for new players and embraced the philosophy that new players should be allowed to join and play in the game in peace.     It was a great campaign, encouraged and supported by many throughout the early days of this game.     Thank you for supporting the idea and merits of training alliances.

To Kodabear and existing Staff of Toothless....you guys are the best.   Thank you for taking Toothless well beyond our initial dream.    

We ask for patience while we begin this transition.   Thanks everyone in Illy!



This is the third major alliance to begin to merge/dissolve recently. TUF have announced that they are going to begin to dissolve soon after Agalloch and ThorOdin got banned and AianNick abandoned. HUGcr is also in the process of dismantling itself citing a lack of 'leaders or willing leaders to keep it up'. 

End of The Tinker's Tournament

The Tinker's Tournament is now over. vCrow have come in first place with 198 days, 4hrs and 41 minutes spent on a tournament square. Queen Bikini had the following to say:
 I can only say that this tournament was just awesome. In particular was the battle for the Perri square. 7 million troops fought and died. Dlords and Vcrow had so much fun and nail biting for a square that was not decided until a little over an hour left in the tourney. Vcrow members both big and small participated in what was a huge alliance turnout. Hats off to all the alliances that participated and thanks to Dlords for making it do down to the end in one very hard fought square that will become the legend of Perri.

VTX were a close second with 196 days and 49 mins. Mahaut gave this statement to the Telegraph about the tournament:
Congratulations to Vcrow for winning
Great fun, good fights, very enjoyable tourney. I do believe that overall a 3 week one would be better though, by the 4th week it tends to turn into a bit of a slog and we've all got real lives (shock horror!!).
Kudos to nCrow, eCrow and SkB for some excellent battle tactics.
I have no idea where most of our troops have ended up we'll be rummaging around to get that sorted out for weeks lol
Thanks to the devs for organising it.

nCrow managed to take third from SkB in the last couple of days of the tournament with 193 days, 5 hours and 37 mins. Rill had this to say about it:
I am, as always, proud to be a part of the Nest.

The Telegraph would like to congratulate all involved, this was a fun tournament and hopefully there will be more like it in the future, both player and dev run.

Tournament Rankings at the end of the tournament:

Yesterday	Now	Midnight	Alliance	Occupation Time
	1		Valiant Crows [vCrow]	198 days 4 hrs 41 mins
	2		VicToRix [VTX]	196 days 49 mins
	3		Crow's Nest [nCrow]	193 days 5 hrs 37 mins
	4		Skeleton Boar [SkB]	171 days 19 hrs 25 mins
	5		Order of the Orc [HORDE]	137 days 17 hrs 15 mins
	6		Eight Hand Crow [eCrow]	94 days 6 hrs 12 mins
	7		Slaves to Armok [StA]	85 days 7 hrs
	8		The Gateway [GATE]	68 days 4 hrs 47 mins
	9		Holy Storm Company [Storm]	64 days 12 hrs 41 mins
	10		EAGLES EYRIE [EE]	63 days 17 hrs 38 mins
+1	11		Murder of Crows [mCrow]	61 days 8 hrs 54 mins
-1	12		The Pirate Kings [YARR!]	60 days 8 hrs 29 mins
	13		Æsir [Æsir]	54 days 10 hrs 40 mins
	14		The Colonist Empire [TCol]	52 days 7 hrs 39 mins
	15		Absaroke [Absa]	46 days 4 hrs 1 min
	16		Shrapnel's FDU [FDU-S]	46 days 1 hr 7 mins
	17		Southland Sentinels [SOUTH]	41 days 17 hrs 56 mins
	18		Hogwarts at Illyriad [Hog]	35 days 1 hr 31 mins
	19		Fairy Road Authority [Roads]	29 days 19 hrs 52 mins
	20		Roman Empire [RE]	27 days 11 hrs 47 mins
	21		Calaquendi Crow [Calcr]	23 days 12 hrs 3 mins
	22		The Unfettered [TUF]	21 days 20 hrs 32 mins
	23		SnugglersCrowalition [HUGcr]	18 days 22 hrs 30 mins
	24		The Fellowship [TFotR]	15 days 23 hrs 56 mins
+1	25		Achaean's League [ACHE]	13 days 21 hrs 56 mins
-1	26		Dwarven Lords [Dlord]	13 days 10 hrs 45 mins
+1	27		Hellfire [Hell]	13 days 10 hrs 4 mins
+1	28		Marauders by default [M.d]	13 days 7 hrs 4 mins
-2	29		PRAEVALEO [PRVAL]	12 days 20 hrs 19 mins
	30		Love And Freedom [Laugh]	11 days 3 hrs 40 mins
	31		Harmless? [H?]	11 days 1 hr 23 mins
	32		Ouroborosian [Riot]	7 days 21 hrs 11 mins
	33		Orc Boyz Crew [OBC]	6 days 14 hrs 36 mins
	34		Illyria Fairy Nation [Fairy]	5 days 20 hrs 53 mins
	35		Southern Kingdoms [SKs]	5 days 18 hrs 25 mins
	36		The Grey Company [G!]	5 days 14 hrs 13 mins
	37		Alizés [AZ]	5 days 7 hrs 23 mins
	38		Dark Blight [DB]	3 days 11 hrs 34 mins
	39		Republic ofC-Andlan [RoFCA]	3 days 3 hrs 1 min
	40		Terraformers [TFM]	2 days 15 hrs 41 mins
	41		Infamy [Fam]	2 days 14 hrs 49 mins
	42		Strendur's Army [~SA~]	2 days 7 hrs 13 mins
	43		Republic of F.Cities [RoFC]	2 days 4 hrs 42 mins
	44		The Moving Company [TMC]	2 days 3 hrs 32 mins
	45		INDOMITI [IND]	2 days 10 mins
	46		The Willd Bunch [WILD]	1 day 10 hrs 28 mins
	47		VicToRix Mercator [VTXM]	1 day 5 hrs 30 mins
	48		Colony Silbeaur [HAVEN]	1 day 58 mins
	49		Wheel of Time [WoT]	22 hrs 48 mins
	50		Asatru [Loki]	17 hrs 41 mins
	51		Semper ad Meliora [{S M}]	16 hrs 34 mins
	52		Illy Training Ground [ITG]	16 hrs 19 mins
	53		The Hashashin [SIN]	15 hrs
	54		Lost Again [LOST]	11 hrs 45 mins
	55		The Cave [CAVE]	9 hrs 51 mins
	56		Heroes of the Horn [HOTH]	6 hrs 18 mins
	57		Blood Moon [MOON]	5 hrs 47 mins
	58		Invictus [VIC]	5 hrs 17 mins
	59		TROUT [TROUT]	4 hrs 5 mins
	60		Divine Wind [DW]	4 hrs 2 mins
	61		Clan Revlag [Crevl]	3 hrs 2 mins
	62		Dark Shade [SHARK]	2 hrs 39 mins
	63		Order of Red Knights [Order]	1 hr 30 mins
	64		Toothless? [T?]	1 hr 23 mins
	65		Skittish and Bashful [S&B]	1 hr 19 mins
	66		Behemoth Empire [B.E]	56 mins
	67		Dark Star Armory [DSA]	28 mins
	68		Invictus' Den [DEN]	26 mins
	69		The Company [TheCo]	1 min

Author: Eowan The Short