APP - Zikmund the Librarian

Character name: Zikmund the Librarian (Zikmund)
Class: Priest - new character low level character.

Why do you want to join the Cult?:
RPing a forsaken would be quite a challenge and a chance to explore something different.

How did you come to learn about the Cult:
I read the advertisement on defiasRP forum and found It interesting and I also noticed few of the cult's member few times in the past while RPing my old alliance character.

Anything else you'd like us to know?
How's the Cult related to existing game factions? I'd assume the within the forsaken faction they may be quite respected and open, but what about the other factions of the horde?....and what's cult's attitude towards them?

How much does adventuring makes ICly sense within the ranks of the cult? For example going on a prolongued journeys far away from ex-Lordaeron?


IC application:

Entry 143. - 21. March - 612 K.C.
Dear diary,
today we crossed the Thondoril river. My entourage, father sent with me, says It’s gonna take us perhaps even a week before we reach the monastery. Monastery! Why did they have to send me there? “It’s for your own good. You’d like it there.” that’s what mother said so many times. If she believed it she wouldn’t have to repeat so often. But I know It! It’s because I’m just a third son The family estate will become brother’s property. I know that my body is just so frail to serve in the army and my face too ugly to live a life of clerk at a court.
Tossed away! That’s what they did to me.......

Entry 148. - 29. March - 612 K.C.
Today the gates of monastery closed behind me. I’m officially a novice....a workforce I’d rather say. Some ceremony will be held in a week or two to officially invite us into ranks monks here. I already heard other novices whispering behind my back about my face. As if I don’t know what they are laughing at....

Entry 174. - 18. May - 612 K.C.
I’m just so tired morning meditations, chores...chores again...afternoon meditations and chores. Evening reading and then meditation . I’m one of the novices that can in fact read old chronicler who lives in the the cellars under the library started requesting my help with maintaining the archive.....good at least nobody sees me down there.

Entry 321. - 3. August - 614 K.C.
I felt it! At today’s morning meditation I thought I felt something. May it be the light? Or was I just too drowsy from reading through most of the night? …..

Entry 339. - 15. November - 614 K.C.
The light comes when I focus more and more frequently. Brother Dominic said that I may soon help the pilgrims who make their way to the monastery’s doors to seek healing.......

Entry 358. - 19. March - 615 K.C.
I can help them, but they don’t want to. Prejuddictive rednecks! They avert their faces and and rather turn to one of the other brothers. Only the most suffering ones don’t care about my face and let me to ease their suffering.
Brother Dominic mentioned that I shall be relieved of the duty to heal the pilgrims and rather spend more time in the archives in the cellar. For the better of all! Why have I studied the teachings of the Light is I should be hidden in the dark?

Entry 361. - 25. May - 615 K.C.
I’ve been neglecting the diary lately.
Today they again the brother that had to bring me food forget about it, or just pretended to. I had to go to the kitchen to ask for one....to the clear displeasure of everyone there, regardless how much they tried to hide it.
But I can go on. I have my duties. Cataloging the scriptures in the archives and making transcriptions..... a work for several lifetimes I’d say......

Entry 371. - 6. July - 615 K.C.
A villager arrived today claiming that on one remote farm a all the inhabitants are laying down in some feverish illness. It took me the whole morning to persuade brother Dominic to allow go there. I have to go outside. Afterall with a facecloth none will be abhored by my face. I must gather few things.....I’ll finish the rest of the entry later I must hurry there....

….........

That day the young man haven’t arrived at the farm to help the suffering people. Later his body was found amongst bushes on the bottom of a chasm on a side of the road. The horse’s dead body was wedged between stones few meters nearby. A group of pilgrims heading to the monastery notice a flock of ravens gathering on the chasm’s bottom...........

Epilogue:
A crude unmaintained tombstone crouches in the farthest corner of a small graveyard. Hastily chiseled letters say:
Here lays Zikmund Schneider.
Beloved son and a brilliant acolyte.
May the light illuminate his path as it illuminated his steps in his life.

…...a cold breeze blows amongst the naked branches of the trees. It’s quiet wailling as if almost saying ”What an irony.”

Hey there!

Lovely application - it was great to read and I would love to pass you! Any officer to second me?

- Arivas

Certainly, seconded, made me laugh!

Edit: Naturally, contact any officer for IC interview and guild invite, we have an extended list now so, feel free to ask anyone from the cult and he will direct you to one that is online.

Well, good you liked that.

I shall poke of the responsible ones.


Z.

To answer your questions:
The Cult's respected as a force among the rest of the Horde (talking about guilds, of course). They don't trust us or particularly like us, but have a grudging respect towards our skills, which is why we're invited to take part in various campaigns. The Cult returns the attitude: We despise all of the living equally though we preach that the Horde is an ally in need and such should be treated with respect. Nevertheless, it usually shows we don't think much of them, much to the chargrin of our more politically minded brethren.
To put it short, we tolerate eachother and respect eachothers skills, even if grudgingly.
Of course, it is not that simple - we have somewhat more friendly relations with the Blood elves because of our close borders and various pacts, also we've found some similar souls (even when we don't admit it) among the Sunfury Elite. We've also gained ties to the Second Gurubashi Empire that keeps itself away from the Horde, even though it at times works closely with it.

This is the IC version of how things stand. OOCly we, naturally, try to keep close relations to other RP guilds and are good pals with everyone!