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      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || You probably  all know a few  of the Nightfallian Guilds.  The famous Archmages, || | | |.o.| |.| |
      | Web Client    || the powerful Sorcerers, the glorious Paladins and others.  In this document, the || '-' '---' '-' |
      | Clients       || history of those  shall be written down  to be saved for our  descendants. It is ||              \|
      | Quickstart    || said  that  there  are  several  documents  describing  the  foundation  of  the ||               |o
      | Wait, What?   || Necromancers, Vampires,  Warriors and Paladins, thus, I'll  only shortly mention ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || them when necessary.                                                             ||               |
      | Races         ||                                                                                  ||               |
      | Guilds        || I  want  to  start  with  the  oldest  guild in  the  realm  of  Nightfall,  the ||               |o
      | Map           || Archmages. If they were ever founded or  just existed from the very first day is ||               |
      | Lore          || unknown, but it is known that they supported the realm of Myth Drannor since its ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || founding in 1337  BL and their members were mostly mages,  although a few oglons ||               |o
      | Who's online? || are  reported to  have  been Archmage,  too.   After the  Dragonlance War,  they ||              o|
      | Finger        || teached the humans willing  to learn magic how to use its  powers and accepted a ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || few of them in their ranks.  That moment might be the birth of the Vampires, you ||              o|
      | The Guide     || can read a  tale about them somewhere else.  Additionally, the Necromancers were ||              o|
      | Player Help   || founded in 1003 BL.  Due to the  First Great War and the following siege of Myth ||               |
      | The Sky       || Drannor,  they moved  their headquarter  to a  newly founded  human  city called ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || Caroba on the northern continent "Ellil".                                        ||               |
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      |               || Shortly after  the Humans  settled on  the southern shore  of the  Clondike, the ||               |
      |               || third magic guild was founded in 995  BL - the "Searchers of Magic".  This guild ||               |
      |               || was totally dominated by humans, and, as usual for those groups, collapsed a few ||               |
      |               || years later - the era of specialized magic guilds had begun!                     ||               |/
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      |               || In 945 BL, the Conjurers were founded in El Essaman, a human camp in the desert, ||              \|
      |               || in  944 BL,  the  Sorcerers started  to  grow. The  Enchanters and  Illusionists ||               |
      |               || followed in 910 BL and 879 BL, both were afterwards not mentioned anymore, maybe ||               |
      |               || you  might  find  more information  in  their  guildrooms.  But the  two  guilds ||               |o
      |               || mentioned before, the Conjurers and the Sorcerers, were meant to become the most ||              o|
      |               || powerful guilds all over Nightfall,  they supported the Human kings in Nightfall ||               |
      |               || City and still secure the Great Desert and the western forests.                  ||               |
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      |               || Another guild  I want to talk  about are the Bards,  as they are  the only guild ||               |
      |               || found in  the original Human realm,  Avalon.  They were  probably founded around ||               | o
      |               || 1100 BL, when  the human tribes on those islands united  and always supplied the ||               |/
      |               || main force in the Human army fighting in front of Myth Drannor. As King Arthur's ||         o    s|
      |               || reign started  in 157 AL, they  quickly showed him their  respect, although they ||     o  /    /x|
      |               || always tried  to stay  independent from  the Avalonian court  and thus  moved to ||      \/ __o/xs|
      |               || York, a newly founded city in Ireland, in 178 AL.                                ||       \/   \xx|
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      |               || Of course, thou all  know this, there are other ways of  living, like the rogues ||         \   /x|
      |               || or  strange thinkers,  but unfortunately,  little  is known  about those  hidden ||        nmsxxsx|    
      |               || guilds making it impossible to write down anything about them.                   ||       xsxxxmxs|      .
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