The Refuge

==Description==
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." --Robert Frost
===Officers===
:Caretaker: Rayen
:Council: Chrysalis, Onatar, 
:Other Important Leaders: Fineas, Miranya, Sankareth, Amria, Sigel, 
:Guild Status: Active
For more information about The Refuge, please visit our website
===Recruitment Notice===
"Come in, my child," the old woman speaks. She is a tauren, elderly and bent with age, her eyes crinkled at the edges from years of smiles such as the one she sends your way. She beckons with her cane, walking into a hallway.
"Come in my child, and welcome. You are safe here." She smiles at you again, kindly. "I know what you're thinking: How can an old woman like me still fight? You'd be surprised at what I can do, but that's neither here nor there. My home has seemed too empty of late, so I'm glad to see you here. Always nice to have someone else to take care of, and taking care of people is what I'm good at."
"There be food and drink, there, for any who come in need of them," she gestures to the sideboard, which is laden with food. "And applications for safe harbour lie there, should you have need of a room here," she indicates a stack of parchment and a quill. "Even if you're just visiting, it's nice to have you, why don't you sit and stay a while?"
===About Us ((OOC))===
The Refuge is a medium/heavy roleplaying guild on the Thorium Brotherhood Server. The primary emphasis of the guild is mature roleplay, and our members are expected to remain in-character except in circumstances where out-of-character input is necessary. We are a friendly, light-hearted bunch of mostly older gamers who wish to provide a casual-gamer friendly, companionable atmosphere. We do seek PvE advancement, but place that in secondary importance to good RP, and we seek alliances and friendships with other roleplayers and other guilds as well as members to join our own guild, to form a network with which to pursue higher PvE goals. Anyone is welcome, and any type of character is welcome, provided they do not break established WoW lore. For the most part, we tend toward benevolent characters, though we have several who tend to skirt the grey areas.
==History==
Widowed, and with her children out of the house and living on their own, Rayen Cúailnge decided to open her home to the soldiers of the horde, many of whom either had no homes to return to, or were far from home and tired of living out of inns. First a few came, seeking the warm meal and bed promised each night. Then others, learning of the old woman and her kindness, followed them.
Eventually a council was formed to help take care of the business of running such a group of people, and the young blood knight, Chrysalis, and the old druid, Onatar, became Rayen's chief advisors.
In his defense of the Refuge and its members, the blood knight, Fineas, became the guild's first Protector, and so certain roles began to be found and filled by those who came to live there and fight under the Refuge's banner. The guild slowly began to grow into a true family, though of varied and sundry sorts, and Rayen again had a house full of people to take care of.
Though loosely allied with the Horde, and though many of its members fight amongst the Horde's ranks, the Refuge has no great purpose beyond providing a Home, a Community, and a Family. Its members are welcome to pursue their own goals, though they may occasionally be called upon to unite for a common purpose, and are always expected to protect one another and the Refuge itself.
===OOC History===
The Refuge was begun in about October of 2007 by a group of refugees from the RP-PvP realms who had found a wonderful group of friends there, and a guild that they loved, but found that the RP-PvP ruleset did not leave much room for roleplay. Beset by roleplay griefers and tired of having to look over their shoulders for gankers everywhere they went, they escaped to the best roleplay environment they could find - Horde on the Thorium Brotherhood. Setting the Refuge up initially as a horde sister guild to their old guild on Emerald Dream, they quickly found the home they had been looking for, and the guild began to grow slowly on its own, and is gradually working on establishing a presence on the server. The guild recently celebrated its first anniversary in a party held at Sun Rock Retreat.
==Guild Events==
The Refuge currently sponsors a public bi-weekly campfire in Sun Rock Retreat, Stonetalon Mountains. We also hold lore circles once a month at the great fire outside Cairne's tent in Thunder Bluff. For dates and times, please see the guild calendar.
==Other Info==
:Guild Library
:Guild Charter
:Rules
:Guild FAQ
Category:Guilds
Category:Horde Guilds
Category:RP Guilds