Guild:The Fallen Legion

               ==Overview==

Comprised primarily of players from the United States and the United Kingdom, the guild is comprised of approximately forty individual accounts and some one hundred and eighty characters, spanning nearly every level and [[class]] in the game. The majority of players range in age from approximately 20 to 40, many with friends and family in the guild. The organization includes adventurers and both primary and secondary [[tradeskill]]ers.

The organization is colloquially referred to internally as "TFL" or "The Legion." Members of the guild are usually referred to as "Legionnaires," regardless of rank. Its symbol is a white crested, open-faced Macedonian helm in profile. The guild colors are Green and Black.

On the continuum of guild styles, The Fallen Legion refers to itself as a "family-style" organization.<ref>www.thefallenlegion.org, "Our Philosophy"</ref> The organization has consistently remained a non-raid organization, a conviction grounded in the idea that the MMORPG community has a need for high-quality, high-capability guilds that consistently engage in non-endgame content. This is not to say that TFL is not integrally and regularly involved in endgame content, but rather that its activities consistently include a full range of content. Consequently, the group has enjoyed significant longevity as compared to some other groups of similar style.

There are no restrictions on city of residence or alignment, nor is there a cap on the number of alts a player may have in the group. TFL is one of the few successful organizations that permits and supports "boxing," or playing more than one character simultaneously, along side single-account players. The leadership has stated that The Fallen Legion wants "every player to get the gaming experience he or she wants," provided that experience includes fair and respectful play.

===Mission and Motto===

According to the guild's website, its mission 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 Fallen Legion has maintained that website, [http://www.TheFallenLegion.org www.TheFallenLegion.org], since 2006. From the day of its inception, the website has always borne a quote from "Of Personal Merit" written in 1688 by French essayist Jean De La Bruyère:

::''"From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men and women of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such people have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race."''

===Heraldry===

[[Image:tfl_heraldry.jpg|thumb|right|The guild's heraldry, as worn by a guard NPC]]
[[Image:tfl_heraldry_flag.jpg|thumb|right|The official original rendering of The Fallen Legion's heraldry]]
The formal definition of the guild's heraldry is ''Quarterly vert and sable, a crested Macedonian helm argent, all within a bordure argent of braid.'' To the layperson, it is a four-way checker pattern of green and black with a silver helmet in the center, outlined by a braid of silver.

===The White Helm===

[[Image:Freeport Legionnaire's Helmet (Visible).jpg|thumb|right|The guild's unofficial uniform headpiece, as modeled by Sesketh, along with the Ironforge Parade Armor]]Taken from the introductory passage "All Hail The Fallen Legion," written by the player of [[User:Sesketh|Sesketh Ekalibis]], the unofficial motto of The Fallen Legion is "Where Goes the White Helm, The Fate of [[Norrath]] Follows." The White Helm insignia of the guild was also designed by [[User:Sesketh|Sesketh]], and was recently embodied in-game in the form of the [[Freeport Legionnaire's Helmet]], a [[EQ2_Marketplace|Sony Cash Marketplace]]-purchasable cloth armor item. Legionnaire Klerg Krushbone identified the item as a "must-have" for members of the TFL leadership, and it was consequently discovered on the Everfrost server by The Fallen Legion.