Welcome Friends! Light and Flame is a balanced and diversity tolerant Kin. People say that MMORPGs have 4 elements. Strategy (PvP), Narrative (quests and lore), Socialization and Achievement (leveling and items).  We try to maintain a relatively balanced blend of all of these activities. Light and Flame is a Kinship on Windfola. Welcome to Light and Flame!

-Welyne, Co-Founder

In the darkness and depths of Moria, an epic battle was fought between Gandalf (Light) and the Balrog (Flame). Neither was victorious that day.

Our kin has heard the call of that day, to go forth with bravery in places where Light has darkened and to bring justice upon those who would try to stop us.

May the Light guide us and the Flame burn forever more...

-Tajee, Senior Officer

Light and Flame Code of Conduct

Our kinship is committed to our members in helping them achieve their goals. We do so by focusing our attention to their broad range of needs, delivering the best knowledge and help we can offer to our members. We believe that by delivering the knowledge and help to our members, they in turn will extend that knowledge and help to the next member or player in need. We are a laid-back, diverse, fun-loving group who have withstood the test of time and have developed a strong sense of friendship that we are happy to share with others.


General Rules/Guidelines:
All members must sign-up on our website at http://lightandflame.guildlaunch.com. After signing up on our website, please post your character(s) on the kinship roster found on the Kinship Roster page. Only post those characters you have in the kinship. If you were in a kinship previously, you will need to remove your membership from the prior kinship and transfer characters to the new kinship. This site is for your benefit since news, events, and activities are posted on the website, so please check often.

We are all representatives of this kinship by membership and name, please show respect for that name and take pride in your membership. When around other players your behavior reflects on our kinship. Please act in ways that reflect well on our kinship and not negatively.

When possible, please take some time to help other members. The more you give, the greater the rewards. Feel free to also help those not of our kinship. This will reflect well of our kinship, showing that we are willing to sacrifice our own time to help others with an extended hand of friendship to those in need.

Due to the possibility that some of our members may be younger, use appropriate language and behavior during kinship chat. Profane, abusive, and/or threatening language, any extreme language or behavior that would show negatively on our kinship, sexual harassment, making malicious, false, and/or derogatory statements, and spreading rumors that may damage the integrity and/or reputation of other members or the kinship will result in warning up to and including dismissal. If you have concerns about the actions or behavior of another member, please contact an officer immediately so the appropriate action can be taken.


Recruits:
After accepting the recruitment invitation, you will be given a temporary membership to our kinship and will be put on a 2 week trial period. This 2 week trial period is to help determine your progress within the kinship and with our other members. Below is a list of requirements to be completed during the 2 week trial period:

Must sign-up at our website http://lightandflame.guildlaunch.com
Must post your character(s) on the kinship roster. Only post those characters you want in the kinship

Also, you are required to read over the articles posted in the Recruit Forum.  We require this only so that you have a good understanding of the kinship and our values.  It will help you decide during your recruitment period whether or not this kin truly supplies what you are looking for in a kinship, and that you will fit well within our group.

Also during this 2 week trial period, you may be asked by an officer to join a fellowship with other members, gather mats for the kinship, or craft items from your profession. After you have reached the end of your 2 week trial period, your final progress will be reviewed by Officers. If no major issues have been found in your final progress, you will be given a permanent membership being promoted to member status.

Officers:
Must show a willingness to help others, participate in kinship events and activities and on the site. 

Must exibit desire to donate time and resources for the success of our members and kinship.

Must be a member of Light and Flame for a minimum of 2 months

Must be of level 50 or higher (with some exceptions)

Must own your own mount

Must be mastered in crafting up to tier 3 or higher, exceptions may vary

As an officer you are expected to be a leader. Be someone our members can look up to for guidance, support, and help. Lending a helping hand, answering our members questions, or just listening to them will go a long way. If you are interested in being considered for officer, please submit your  written request for review to the kin leader.  The decision will be made in round table discussions by the leader and officers.

Fellowship/Raid Looting Rules:
Before proceeding into an instance, if you are the fellowship/raid leader please set the loot rule to round robin roll/pass for normal fights. Please do not loot corpses, chests, etc. during combat. Only after all current combat is finished should you loot. While looting, please only roll on dropped items you are able to use for your class unless that item is not needed by any other members class. At the end of the fellowship/raid you may ask to trade for an item that another member won.

Before proceeding into a boss fight, if you are the fellowship/raid leader please set the loot rule to round robin master looter. After the boss fight, the fellowship/raid leader can assign items dropped from the boss, chest, etc. accordingly or have members roll for the items, the members with the highest roll winning that item. This process will be repeated until the end of the fellowship/raid run. The group may agree to bypass this rule for roll/pass in specific situations.

Disciplinary Action:
Upon receiving your first offense, a warning of consequences will be issued. Upon receiving your second offense, you will promptly be demoted. If your status is Recruit, you will then be dismissed from the kinship. Upon your review, you will be given a period of probation of four weeks. During this period of time, you will be monitored closely. If within the time given you do not correct your conduct, a third mark will be added to your record and you will then be dismissed from the kinship and banned. If within the time given you do correct your conduct as deemed acceptable, you will be given your previous status within the kinship.

Alliances:
We are a part of the United Windfola Alliance (UWA) which was founded by The Kindred and Light and Flame in 2010.  Since then, the following kinships have joined us as allies:  HeartSeekers, Brotherhood of Middle Earth, Heoroes of Helm's Deep, Quel Fara, The Ironhand, and Ringbearers.  We ask our members use the alliance chat channel first when looking for others to join a group. Please feel free to use the vent server to initiate scheduling of runs as well. Always show the same mutual respect you would to fellow kinsmen and Kinleaders to those we are aligned with. If issues of concern arise, please contact an officer of either kin to assist.

We are always open to the possibility of alliances with other Kinships. If you would like to know more about our alliance building process, please contact an Officer or Leader of Light and Flame and/or The Kindred.


Here at Light and Flame, we welcome one and all!