114 *NOR/Newsletter 2026 Jan 23rd
Hail*NOR/
We have many firsts ahead of us as we enter our 33rd year as a guild! We are always striving to preserve our traditions, yet continue to adapt to the modern gaming world and bring in a new generation of members. So to start the new year, we will be having our first gathering of our highest-ranked officers in voice chat coming February 1st to discuss the goals of 2026 and ways to keep our legacy going for many more years to come.
Another new thing on our website is reminiscent of how we used to track dungeons and raids on our forums back when Neverwinter and Old Republic were first building their weekly event teams. This new endgame and event tool has been created to track a realm’s endgame progression and celebrate the attendance of members who come to events. (End Game)
The last new change to mention involves the newsletter. Our officers work hard to bring their articles to me, and I want to be sure it is read and seen by the most amount of people. So instead of just sending out the one compiled collection of articles in a single issue this year, I will be posting each article separately, ideally once a day as I receive them throughout the week and then do the final combined newsletter at the end with the HC intro like we do now. This will give us more headlines that focus on each realm. Hopefully, this bite-sized information will be easier to consume and will help boost our presence.
Thank You all for a great 2025, and Hail*NOR/2026!
Lord Tundrra
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- 114 *NOR/News Dungeons and Dragons Online
Hail *NOR/!
We have less than a month to complete our Symphony of the Fey lute items! For the characters that you have rolled for the event, they can only equip items labeled “Symphony of the Fey,” otherwise the character will receive a major speed nerf. When in a quest and you see a magical sphere with music playing from it, activate one of five lutes of your choice to trigger a mini battle, and after you defeat the enemies, activate the lute again to receive durability for that lute. Once your lute’s durability is full, you can turn it in to receive a reward unique to this event. Act now, as the Symphony of the Fey event ends on February 3rd! Symphony details are here: /guides/ddo-symphony-of-the-fey-guideAdditionally, please feel free to discuss strategies and build ideas in our DDO Discord channel, “The Wayward Lobster.”
See you in-game!
Yavool Ramnoth
Lord and Branch Leader, *NOR/DDO – Thrane Server - 114 *NOR/News Elder Scrolls Online
Hail *NOR/!
I hope that everyone had a great holiday season! Now that we are in the New Year, we have a lot coming up to look forward to.First off, I would like to congratulate Recruit Gulbrant on being our first new recruit in 2026. Everyone make sure to say hello and offer a hand, or at least a spare soul gem!
February brings us a brand-new event in ESO: Hearts Week. This event revolves around our Companions, so between the event tickets and rewards, it’ll be a great time to level those up. Here is the rundown:
Key Features
- Companion Bonuses: During Hearts Week, players will enjoy the following benefits:
- +100% Companion XP Gain: Level up your companions faster.
- +50% Companion Rapport Gain: Increase your bond with companions more quickly.
- -50% Companion Rapport Loss: Reduce the negative impact of actions on your companion’s rapport.
Quests: Players can participate in a series of four non-repeatable quests, starting with “Heartsick Follies,” given by Kuzam-jo, a priest of Mara in Belkarth. Completing these quests will reward players with the Amulet of the Heart Memento.
Event Tickets and Rewards: Players can earn up to 2 event tickets per day during Hearts Week. Rewards include:
Sanguine’s Delectable Parcels: These can contain various items, including new outfit styles, companion gifts, recipes, and crafting materials.
Sanguine’s Extravagant Parcel: The first box earned each day will have a higher chance of containing rare items.
How to Participate:
To join the Hearts Week festivities, players can either:
- Travel to Belkarth: Head to the festival grounds and find Kuzam-jo to start the event quests.
or - Crown Store: Acquire the introductory quest directly from the Crown Store under the “Events” category.
This event is a great opportunity for players to engage with their companions, earn unique rewards, and enjoy the spirit of love in Tamriel. Be sure to mark your calendars for February 2026 to participate in this exciting event!
Looking Ahead even further, we have some major changes coming to the game starting April 2. The Tamriel Tome, a battle-pass style progression, lots of quality life improvements, some guild improvements, etc. I will go into more detail next month on these.
Make sure to keep an eye on our Discord event announcment channels as well. We will continue doing our trial/larger group events on Saturdays and our general hangouts on Sundays, perhaps adding a weeknight event back into the mix now and again as wanted. I hope to see you all in game and let’s rock 2026!
Aim for the Stars and hit the Sky!
Lord Garadian,
*NOR/LD-HC-ESO-AQ3D - 114 *NOR/News Guild Wars 2
Hail*NOR/
Welcome from Tyria. We’ve just been here working on getting that perfect tan on the beaches of Castora as we prepare for the next story expansion coming February 3rd. With the new expansion comes a host of new things coming. We’ll be getting a new Raid encounter along with unifying Raids and Strikes with the new Quickplay which has been in beta for several months for Fractals. Strikes are designed to be a gateway to raids offering the same level of skill and coordination but limited to just the boss fight. No mobs to get through or multiple bosses to deal with. With the unification of Strikes and Raids along with the Quickplay option, it’ll make it easier to find groups to tackle this challenging end-game content. We hope to see some fellow NOR come and show bear your strength in taking on these challenges.
In addition, Fashion Templates are coming allowing you to easily switch your look depending on your mood, season, or to simply look your best at all times. Then there’s the new Legendary Ring allowing anyone to craft this accessory without having to venture into PvP or WvW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3qoX1-55EM
Till then, we’ve just finished the Fractal Rush bonus event and from January 20th to the 27th will be the WvW Rush bonus event. The perfect time to get those Gift of Battles for those Gen 1 legendaries. We will be organizing some WvW runs so visit us on the DIS-CORD golem, sign up for our Guild events we hold every Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.Before the holiday break, ArenaNet shared a ton of great news. Visions of Eternity has outperformed Janthir Wilds seeing more people join than at any point since GW2’s Steam release in 2022. This can be seen in player activity higher now than its been in years. And this last year marked the 25th anniversary of ArenaNet. To mark the occasion, not only did they release Guild Wars Reforged, but also a documentary about the founding of ArenaNet, development of the first Guild Wars, and up to the present day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpm2fBvrAbw Please join us on our DIS-CORD golem, not just for our guild events, but also to share the latest Tyrian news, share those Fashion War wins, and more. Till we meet again, may your mugs be full and your hunts honorable.
Count Sofija
*NOR/CT-GW2 - 114 *NOR/News Lord of the Rings Online
Hail*NOR/ Greetings from Middle Earth.
We are a month into our newest expansion and increased level cap from 150 to 160. Several of us have already hit that new tier and have been working on its upgrades to gear. 3 new instances should be out soon with the upcoming Update 46.1. Also the announcement of a new Raid in Update 47 in Q1 is coming, followed by a new quest pack zone in Q2’s Update 48. https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-letter-to-players-jan-26-en
But my excitement continues to be in our Wednesday Endgame event. Last night we cleared our first series of level 160 6-player instances. You can read, comment, and discuss all the events on our Discord “event discussion” section. Also, you can track our realm’s progression through its many, many, many dungeons with the guild’s new endgame tool. https://newoutriders.org/endgame/index.php?urlRealmID=17
I will close with a Happy 18th anniversary to LotRO’s Branch Leader, Count Riveni!
Lord Tundrra
*NOR/LD HC-TT-LotRO - EndGame & Events
Welcome to End Game & Events
Over the years many of our Realms have embraced their game’s End Game. Each game has had different names for its content like the Raids of EverQuest 2 or the Operations of the Old Republic and the Dungeons of Neverwinter.
During those times we had to track different things, in EQ2 there was the DKP (Dragon Kill Point) system used to track attendance for points used to bid on rare loot. In Dark Age of Camelot awards were assigned to experts in their class and achievements on the battlefield. In the early days of the Old Republic and Neverwinter we would track our progress through the difficulty tiers of Story Mode and Nightmare Mode as Operation raids were conquered.
Whatever the game or type of end game content you run through at your weekly events, I want to provide an easy way to track it. Whether it is your realm’s progress as it achieves its glory defeating the toughest bosses, or to just being able track attendance to meetings and weekly events.
Each event has a spot for the officers and DMG to record the historical moments and achievements the realm made as it conquered or was defeated by the hardest content in game.
The tool will also help acknowledge the commitment of your members as they attend event after event your officers schedule.
Features:
- Track the progression of cleared content and ribbons that signify a guild first or progression milestone.
- Assign different difficulty tiers for the unique variations of the same area.
- View how many events members attend with player XP.
- Players can see their event history and how many events they have attended at the bottom of their member profile page.
- Award DMG ribbons, celebrating a member’s achievements and goals for attending the events.
https://newoutriders.org/endgame
Lord Tundrra
*NOR/HCThe Event Summary
Here is an example of an event summary. To the far left an icon will display of what type of event this was, in this case it was an Operation. The title of the event contains 3 pieces of Information:
[Event Type]: [Base Content Name] ([Difficulty Tier])
Operations: Eternity Vault (Story Mode)
To the far right of the summary displays the progression of the nights event. The star represents this was a guild milestone, which will contain more detail on the “View” button. The Old Republic has 2 factions where the guild runs content, Empire and Republic. This event reflects a full clear of the bosses and a victory for our Republic raid team. Custom Progression and Type icons can be chosen for each realm.Event Details
Selecting the details button on the event summary, takes you to the event page with additional details. The page is broken up into three sections. First is the sumamry of the event with a blog about the event, secondly will list who attended and at the bottom will list information about the event location.
Summary Section:
If the event was a Milestone it will be defined at the very top and a Star will appear, followed by a summary of date, type and name of the event. To the far right will display an icon with short description of the night’s progression. The event journal gives the DMG an opportunity to recap the nights events for the rest of their realm.
Attendees:
The next section on the Event Details page is who attended and a summary of the event. If an icon appears to the left of a player name it represents the role they played in the event. So in this Example Riveni was one of 2 tanks, a note was entered that he played his Guardian class character and to the far right it shows he has attended 46 operations. Further down the list you will see we had some non-NOR guests, the notes will say the player’s name, the role they filled and “guild name” they affiliate with and any other information you would want. I will also note if you go to the bottom of a player’s member profile page it will list all the events they have attended.
Base Content:
The Base Content Information will list the bosses of the event and any other notes or links that may be important to all the many versions of “Eternity Vault”.
Realm Details
Event Types:
After selecting a Realms icon, a summary page display counting how many events have been recorded for each type of event and selecting the icon will do a filtered search of them.
The Old Republic 
Neverwinter Event Location Summary:
The next section itemizes every event location grouped by their event type. Also it lists the different tier versions of the location with a color-coded display of the 3 stages of progression (completed, in-progress, new). A completed state will display Green, an in-progress state will display as Yellow and everything else will show as White. This color coding will help you display the zones you have cleared or are working towards progressing through or haven’t tried yet. These can be manually reset back to yellow whenever a major game update happens, such as a new level cap or a major revamp has happened and you want to start your progression path over.
Event Log and Milestones:
After the Event location summary will show you the last three logs from the recent events so you can see the recaps of the latest events. The “Milestones” shows a new DMG timeline that has been added to the previous Guild and Realm Timeline
Event Summaries:
The Realm splash page will only show the most recent 20 or so events at the bottom of the page. However, whenever you select any of the different types of the events it will display all events of that relates to that type. If you select the base content name of a location it will show all events along with all of its tiers, and selecting just the tier will narrow it down to just that version of the location.Customizations
Event Type:
Each Realm of the Guild can be customized to fit its flavor; content type can be renamed when creating the different kinds of events. For example, the Old Republic calls Raids = Operations and Dungeon Crawls = Flashpoints. A variety of icons are ready to choose from, or new ones can be uploaded to the site.
Progression Icons:
By default, represented by the guild’s sword, are 3 icons representing the progression of the content in your realm. New, In-progress, and Complete. However, you can add as many in-progress states as your realm needs. For example, lets say the raid has 5 bosses, and you have defeated 3 of them, then a custom progression title could be created to say “3 of 5 Defeated”.
-Recent Anniversaries-
Tundrra
December 12th 2003
Lord Tundrra of TableTop, congratulations on 22 yrs!! Joining the guild in Star Wars: Galaxies 2003
Maliris
December 18th 2022
Knight Maliris of NOMAD, congratulations on 3 yrs!! Joining the guild in Neverwinter 2022
Nemgard
December 21st 2014
Knight Nemgard of Neverwinter, congratulations on 11 yrs!! Joining the guild in Neverwinter 2014
Jdwilson11
December 25th 2020
Dungeon Master Jdwilson11 of Neverwinter, congratulations on 5 yrs!! Joining the guild in Neverwinter 2020
Davkair
December 25th 2012
Grandee Davkair of Star Wars: The Old Republic, congratulations on 13 yrs!! Joining the guild in Star Wars: The Old Republic 2012
Drostiara
December 30th 2019
Squire Drostiara of Neverwinter, congratulations on 6 yrs!! Joining the guild in Neverwinter 2019
AbinSur
December 30th 1996
Lord Emeritus AbinSur of Elder Scrolls Online, congratulations on 29 yrs!! Joining the guild in Neverwinter Nights 1996
Roselaine
January 1st 2012
Squire Roselaine of Dungeons & Dragons Online, congratulations on 14 yrs!! Joining the guild in Dungeons & Dragons Online 2012
Norfyre
January 1st 2012
Knight Norfyre of Dungeons & Dragons Online, congratulations on 14 yrs!! Joining the guild in Dungeons & Dragons Online 2012
Sarocus
January 2nd 2013
Knight Sarocus of NOMAD, congratulations on 13 yrs!! Joining the guild in Star Wars: The Old Republic 2013
Rye
January 7th 2021
Champion Rye of Star Wars: The Old Republic, congratulations on 5 yrs!! Joining the guild in Star Wars: The Old Republic 2021
Pooja
January 12th 2012
Knight Pooja of Star Wars: The Old Republic, congratulations on 14 yrs!! Joining the guild in Star Wars: The Old Republic 2012
Riveni
January 22nd 2008
Count Riveni of Lord of the Rings Online, congratulations on 18 yrs!! Joining the guild in Vanguard 2008
Bard
January 22nd 1997
Lord Emeritus Bard of NOMAD, congratulations on 29 yrs!! Joining the guild in Neverwinter Nights 1997
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