In the beginning…

The Titan Eonar bestowed a piece of her soul upon Alexstrasza, the queen of the Red Dragonflight, charging her and her Flight with the duty of protecting Azeroth and its people. Throughout history, the Red Dragonflight have disguised themselves among mortals to watch over important beings and events and uphold Eonar’s charge. They ensured peace for 64,000 years.

During the War of the Ancients, the Red Dragonflight fought to protect Azeroth from the Burning Legion but were betrayed by Neltharion and the Black Dragonflight. They took considerable losses but were eventually able push back the demon horde with the help of Elven defenders and their mortal allies.

10,000 years later, during the Second War, an Orc clan used Nelfarion’s ancient weapon of betrayal to enslave Alexstrasza, forcing her to aid the Horde in their bloody war. After 8 years of enslavement, Alliance forces rescued her and she swore an oath of allegiance to them. The Order of Alexstrasza was then formed by mortal allies who took up the charge of the Red Dragonflight to help the mighty queen forever protect Azeroth.

A shadow over Azeroth…

The Burning Legion once more threatens to destroy Azeroth and Alexstrasza has gathered her mortal allies to help in the protection of the world. The Order of Alexstrasza, now lost in antiquity, still has hope of rekindling the ancient pact formed between Dragon and mortal to protect Azeroth. Seven loyal followers were chosen, and together they formed the guild of Vox Draconis. They gather allies and fight to make the VOICE OF THE DRAGONS heard throughout Azeroth: Wars may rage. All creatures may battle. But this world will not be torn asunder. Peace will reign at last. Red Dragonflight Wiki

Falling Out

by Rashalduran, 51 days ago

It's a pretty sad day.

Vox Draconis has always been a low-profile family guild with no tolerance for guild drama. It's what kept us together for so long. Our foremost focus was on gaming with our friends and having fun. Over time Vox moved into new raid progression and soon that focus was driven away by the need for perfect gear, spec, and raid composition. Players joined, players left. Our raid group changed quite a bit as we progressed through Naxx, Ulduar and ToC...but that all changed with Ice Crown Citadel.

I have always made decisions for the success of this guild. I've been leading Vox for 3 years and it's come this far. I've never thought of myself as an unjust dictator. The problem with being the person in charge, however, is that you're the first person to be blamed. When we went to ICC we had more raiders interested in going than we had raid slots. While we were able to progress through the first wing on our first night with no issues, the raiders who were involved felt it was their right to keep their raid slots. The second week came and it was the same group of raiders. Everyone got the idea in their mind that a 2-week roll of the same raid composition meant that we were now the "core group" and by having anyone else join us would be infringing upon someone's solid raid slot. This was never addressed as being set in stone.

Many of you know that Nimowyn and I put this guild together and have worked hard over the years to bring people in and make them feel welcome. She's been guild mom to many of you and I've been daddy raid leader. Nimowyn has progressed with us through Naxx and Ulduar, having been there for Vox's server first Alliance kill of Yogg-Saron. Don't believe me? Check the pic in the gallary. She's standing next to Terp on the left-hand side.

This didn't seem to matter to many of the raiders, however. Nimowyn wasn't good enough, in their opinion, to be raiding ICC with us. Claims such as, "She can't keep tanks alive in heroics" and "she doesn't know how to move during boss fights" came up. Well, I'm sorry guys but I'm not sure who you're comparing her to and where you get the idea that she's a terrible player. Let's think about this for a moment:

"She can't keep tanks alive in heroics."
Nimowyn healed my first run of Heroic Halls of Reflection on patch day. We went in not knowing what to expect. We had no idea that we were about to get hit by phase after phase of adds. We didn't use CC and we tanked the adds in the middle of the room. We survived it too. We beat both bosses. Today, there are still plenty of groups that can't pull off those first two fights or still have difficulty with it. She kept me alive just fine.

"She doesn't know how to move during boss fights."
I never saw Nimowyn cause the spawn of an extra add during the first phase of Yogg Saron. Never. I've also healed that fight and I know how difficult it is to dodge the clouds, watch health bars, and keep your tanks in range. I also know how hard it is to move during the second phase while the party is moving from tentacle to tentacle. She knows how to move.

The raid members didn't even give Nimowyn a chance to come into ICC. They never gave her the opportunity to prove them wrong. Why? Because having her join us for the raid would be giving into the rotation idea and that was the most important thing they wanted to avoid. Why should they give up their raid slot to players who, in their opinion, were far less valuable than themselves. This is why they decided to put up a defense and tell me that Nimowyn and Choggo weren't good enough to deserve a raid slot in ICC.

What happened to the family my guild once was?

You make accusations like this towards my wife, you've made a poor decision if you think I'll stand by idle. My wife is my joy and happiness. I was lucky enough to marry a beautiful woman who has the same interests as me and World of Warcraft is something we do together. We created this guild together and now you think you can tell me that she isn't allowed to raid with us? Fine. You lose me as well. I won't raid with a bunch of selfish, elitist assholes who would disrespect their Guild Master on a drop of dime.

I was trying to make it fair for everyone and I got shit on for doing so. Some people don't like change and when they're forced into it they tend to have a violent reaction. I saw that pretty clear as day this last weekend. I also have come to learn that you really can't trust anyone. I thought I had some close friends in my guild. I was sadly mistaken.

I'll miss the days I lived in bliss with my buddies from Vox Draconis.