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The Illyriad Telegraph is looking for authors and articles with the offer of a Prestige Scrap if one is published.

Stories must follow these guidelines:

1. Content must be safe for work
2. No making up facts (though you may anonymise sources where appropriate)
3. Must be in coherent English
4. If you are involved in a story such as being involved in a war you write about, you must clearly state as such
5. You must attempt to contact all sides of a story for comment, giving them at least 24 hours to respond.

I reserve the right to edit and alter your stories after submission, though I will alert you to any changes before publishing. You may withdraw the article if you do not agree to the changes.

IGM me or send me a forum message if you're interested

Author: Eowan The Short

Where's Eowan?

After a recent forum post revealing my presence in FFS, the hunt is now on for my identity.

Speaking in alliance chat, Kimmyeo, leader of FFS, said the following:
'find him. NOW. I will tear this alliance apart to find him'

My motivations for doing this are unknown, and will likely remain that way, however I would like to wish my hunters the best of luck.

It has also been revealed that I was my own source for the pieces on ~NS~ that had evidence from an anonymous source, as well as the article I did involving an anonymous mass mail from PSA. The account I was using at the time was called Thunderchild. My reasons for this anonymity were two-fold. First, if I had revealed I was in ~NS~, my alliances at the time would almost certainly have come under attack. Second, it reduced the probability of the source being found.
If interest is shown in further details about my time in ~NS~, I would be happy to write a separate article.

Author: Eowan

Elements of Artifice Scoring

The final scores in the Elements of Artifice tournament



Overall:

Hucbold	888195	358
Danger Russ	508169	134
Fanuidhol	202062	48
thereefa	200218	223
Brocoli	179993	363
Dingo	108357	514
Wraith	54534	251
Bonemash	32397	30
Altassi	23740	107
Emperor of Diplomacy	4734	8
bg_HateR	60	5
Bivin	9	1

 Large League

 

Hucbold	888195	358	1
Danger Russ	508169	134	1
Bonemash	32397	30	1

Medium League

Fanuidhol	202062	48	2
thereefa	200218	223	2
Brocoli	179993	363	2
Dingo	108357	514	2
Wraith	54534	251	2
Altassi	23740	107	2

Small League

Emperor of Diplomacy	4734	8	3
bg_HateR	60	5	3
Bivin	9	1	3

Elements of Artifice Tournament Announcement.

The DEVs have released the first part of a 'multi tier' content release; Elements of Artifice.

The update has brought 125 new pieces of equipment into the game, as well as showing items for the anticipated release of a fourth school of magic.

Many of the new items require components created using this fourth school of magic however, the ones that do not need the components are currently craftable.

To celebrate this update, I would like to announce my second server-wide tournament. The Elements of Artifice Hunting tournament will run from the 11th of November to the 11th of December.

Its a hunting tournament with the aim being to kill as many NPCs as possible.

It will be run using a google form that uses the same method that Tensmoor's Individual Hunting Tournament Tool will use. Only the XML links to combat reports will be used so you do not have to send me your API key.

During the tournament, updates will be posted here regularly.

There will be 3 leagues; Small, Medium and Large.

The small league will be for players with 4 towns or fewer.

The medium league will be for players with between 5 and 9 towns.

The large league will be for players with 10 or more towns.

As with the 1st Small Alliance Tournament, these entrance fees will be used entirely to fund the prize pot for each tournament league. Additionally, donations would be greatly appreciated.

Prizes will be awarded to the 3 players with the highest number of NPC kills in each league.

Players should IGM me to let me know they are going to compete

Best of luck to everyone,

UPDATE:
Due to a large anonymous donation, all entrance fees have been waived.

-Eowan

CDS Alliances Prepare For War, A Second TCol Planned?

I've recently had the following mass mail sent to me from PTC (formerly DSA). It discusses plans for the CDS with regards to its war with Iron.

From: Pink Camo [PTC]
Subject: RE: NEW PLANS
Received: 21 Sep 2018 15:49
Original Message:

Greetings DSA!

I have some exciting news to share! DSA will be going through some  major changes. I am changing the name of DSA to PTC, Peaceful Traders Coalition. PTC will recruit peaceful players who want to trade, craft, hunt NPCs, and support TCol. Everyone will be REQUIRED to contribute and support. PTC's cities and members will also be in direct danger of being sieged/attacked. The reason for this is that as soon as the enemies of TCol find out that we are a support alliance, they will try to stop it. Because of the horribly placed cities due to sitting next to rare items that we harvest, TCol will NOT defend us. They cannot waste troops attacking on mountains and/or in forests. The only cities they are obliged to defend will be cities that are surrounded by plains, and inside of the CDS. 

The other part of my exciting news is that Zenorra will be leaving TCol to create a new alliance called TCol2. This new alliance will be filled with defensible cities (surrounded by plains), and instead of troops, they will have diplo forces like thieves, scouts, spies, saboteurs, etc. TCol2 will be the first of its kind in Illyriad. We believe that a well timed force of thieves has the possibility to wipe out huge amounts of armies.  All cities will be required to stay inside of the CDS land claim for defenses.

Please let me know your thoughts on this, and if you want to participate in the above alliances. Unfortunately, anyone who does not want to participate fully will have to leave. The days of a free ride is over.

Pinky

When asked to comment, Grombrindal said this:
On content, it is largely a brainstorm session that got send out too soon. We are trying to find a use for DSA, have been for years. DSA city placement has always been a liability. I can only assume this was meant to persuade some of them to fix it.

He also sent me an exchange between Agalloch and Pink Camo in which Agalloch referred to PTC as 'new targets' after one of them was found harvesting gear from the siege of Death INC.

UPDATE:
Further IGMs  between Agalloch and Pink Camo have been sent to me showing that they resolved the issue non-violently.

Author: Eowan

Responses to ~NS~ Follow Up Article

I got in touch with Grombrindal, Pink Camo and Myr about the follow up article on ~NS~ leaving CDS.
Pink Camo has not yet given comment but Myr did respond in the comments of the article:
'NS was without my leadership for awhile, this lead to misunderstandings and issues. No need to drag it out. While I personally have no beef with Ubi I would not have invited him to NS had I been there knowing the history he had with many former ptory players and then this whole latest explosion wouldn't have happened. When I have had time to work things out with Grom I will comment on the future of NS but until then I have no further comments. ~ Myr'

Grombrindal also responded to my request for comment, saying the following:
I am not entirely sure what to comment on since it contains a flood of little facts interwoven with lies and..erm...alternative interpretation. I am particularly confounded by the line about Gijak being loyal to Yuki. Had I known that, I would have cracked down on it much, much earlier (big bully as I apparently am). Gijak was in no way singled out after the war, and received the same grace period IGM all pTory members did (he did indeed respond in a hotheaded fashion, but I have no intent of dragging this up to play the man). I approved NS as an acceptable alliance for pTory members to members to join after the war, but it was pitched to me by Myr´s alt (then a loyal member of Tcol) as an alliance loyal to, and working toward, Tcol´s and the CDSs goals. The argument that pursuaded me was her insistence that these members were disgruntled not with Tcol, but with pTory leadership. If they had pitched NS as a refugee camp for pTory loyalists, anyone with a minimal knowledge of Illy politics can grasp that I would never have gone along with their revival as part of the CDS. 
Regards, 
Grom


Grombrindal's alt, Niccolò Minionvelli, has been invited to ~NS~ by Myr to help with discussing the options for ~NS~ players.

Author: Eowan

Blue Team Wins the Small Alliance Tournament

Despite a last minute siege by *AA* and MoV, the Blue Team have won the small alliance tournament 2-1. The siege was by PhoenixFire of MoV and cuzdeath of *AA* with cuzdeath's siege causing most of the damage. Dingo of *AA* also tenariled a town close to the flag in the final hours of the tournament.

There was 138 population left to go before Red Team could capture Blue Team Two when the tournament ended at noon today.

Blue Team have won the following prize pot, which will be split up and distributed shortly:

510,000 Cows

34 Scraps

2596231650 Gold

10 Tentacles

2,000 Arctic Wolf Fur

5,000 Arctic Wolf Teeth

200 Black Bear Fur

2,000 Salamander Fang

1500 Snow Leopard Fur

247 Black Panther Fur

1750 Polar Bear Fur

100 Hillman's Bow

100 Mountain Bow

100 Three-Wood Bow

100 Forester's Spear

100 Hill-Tribe Spear

100 Cloth-Backed Leather

100 Forester's Armour

100 Hardened Leather

100 Highland Armour

100 Vanguard's Armour

100 Cloth-Backed Chainmail

100 Reinforced Chainmail

10 Wine

10,000 Leather Armour

10,000 Bows

Author: Eowan