Congratulations, Noble Phantasm. After nearly a year and a half of waiting for Aion, we're less than three months away from seeing it's release! I encourage everyone to join us for the beta weekends all the way up until release. We've created an Elyos legion under the name of "NP" on the Siel server, and an Asmodian legion under the name of "Phantasm" on the Israphel server. We'll be rolling Elyos for the release, but during the betas we think it's fun and fine to try out both sides.

 

In addition, with Aion's official release on the horizon, we're going to be starting up an emblem contest. We'll really need all of the artists of the legion to come together and help out with that, so please keep an ear out for when we more officially announce more information.

 

Noble Phantasm has seen increasing popularity in respect to the number of applicants we've received, and it's unfortunate that we're running out of space and have been forced to turn away the majority of these people due to our spatial limitations. We're wrapping up the roster pruning we'd put into effect over the past several weeks, and it's looking like we have roughly 70-75 members as things stand now. With such a large number, we've decided to officially close recruitment. Of course, we'll still allow applications to be made, and will still accept new members if we feel their applications are exceptional, but in general, we're going to try not to take in too many more members before the official release of Aion.

 

With all that's going on in preparation for Aion, we've decided to take a step back from World of Warcraft. Noble Phantasm ran strong in WoW from the early summer of 2008 to the summer of 2009, and we've had a lot of good moments and memories. Several members have already begun to feel the pull of Aion's beta pulling them away from World of Warcraft, and the officers especially were feeling the burden of trying to set the stage for Aion while still maintaining World of Warcraft. But, all in all, Noble Phantasm is an Aion legion, so we're letting WoW go. We've offered all of the WoW-Only members from NP-WoW a free pass to join us in Aion, however, if they want to come with us. They've all already more than proven their worth in both character and skill, and would be an excellent addition to the legion if it's what they want.

 

All in all, it's been an excellent year and half. We started as a small legion of eight people who decided to stick to a legion with morals and values and a strong attempt on end-game content, even if we could only get 8 members to join. Now, we're looking at almost 80 members boasting one of the friendliest and tightest large communities amongst the pre-Aion legions. I look forward to what we'll be able to do in the Abyss.