Ember

Ember is a long-time Realms of Ninjago member and current owner of the server. Before becoming owner, they were the longest-serving admin. 
== History ==
=== Early r/Ninjago Discord Period ===
Ember joined r/Ninjago Discord on the 13th of July 2019, on the day of the Dawf-Didi-JD meme raid on the Ninjago subreddit. Ember's first message in r/Ninjago Discord was "what's up, losers". They subsequently missed the Crayfish drama, only coming back to the community when they received a link to NCDS.
=== NCDS ===
Ember joined NCDS shortly after its conception. They quickly became a fairly active member, being the first person to speak in the new "Suggestions" chat. They quickly made a name for themself by suggesting new ways to grow the server, and was soon given admin status by SweetStrawberry. They spent most of his time moderating fights and arguments and updating the rules and procedures, something they would continue to do for his entire period as a staff member. Unfortunately, they did not only make friends: they and Val started a short but bitter rivalry, with Ember accusing Val of deleting messages and abusing his mod powers. However, they and Val later became good friends during their time as NCDS admins. Val later joined Ember's other friend group, where the two raided and took down a paedophilic ERP Discord using a nuke bot. 
=== Merge ===
Ember originally opposed JD, his fellow NCDS admin and owner of r/Ninjago Discord, and his plans for the two servers to merge again. Ember was adamant that any merge with r/Ninjago would mean that all admins in the new merged server would continue to be equal, and that JD would not maintain his position as "Emperor". This was eventually agreed to by all parties, and the servers were merged. However, JD continued to use his Emperor role, despite assuring the other admins that they were all equal. Following several issues, such as Val not receiving his admin rank in the new server, Ember and Val hatched a plan to use their nuke bot to threaten JD into implementing to the clauses agreed to before the merge. With SweetStrawberry increasingly supporting JD's decisions, even if the other staff members opposed them, Ember came close to deciding to use the nuke bot. However, Val intervened before this could happen and came clear to JD, which resulted in Ember being banned. 
=== Ember's Return ===
One month after his ban, SweetStrawberry approached Ember and offered for them to return. She felt as if JD and the other staff members were not treating her as an equal, and felt that this decision should be hers to make. Upon his return, Ember was greeted both with surprise and distrust, but he quickly reintegrated himself in the server. After a few weeks, they were given a limited staff position. 
During the Azure Administration period, which saw JD replaced as owner first by SweetStrawberry and shortly thereafter by Dawf, Ember regained his position as a full admin. After The Hitraptor and Val volunteered to step down, they became one of three admins alongside Dawf and Hidden, ushering in the longest period of stability in the server. 
=== Admin of Realms of Ninjago ===
During his time as an admin of the newly-renamed Realms of Ninjago server, Ember was responsible for many features and events in the server, including the Channel Raffle and Advents Calendar. They also took an active role in the server redesign, creating the Season Chats and being the one who removed the Shipping Chats during the Azure Reconstruction. His adamance to follow rules and procedures whenever possible caused some friction with the rest of the staff, but ultimately there has been little to no drama since the Azure Period. 
Ember was responsible for the "after the blackout" April Fools prank, which saw all of the server channels "deleted" in an apparent nuke attack. 
=== Owner ===
Ember was made owner of Realms of Ninjago on the 7th of September 2020, when the former owner Dawf stepped down. Ember's ownership has seen the implementation of many new Realms of Ninjago features, such as the new Moderator Application system. The 2021 RoNcast project was another creation that Ember took a premier role in launching, and they have served as the host for the first two episodes. 
On April 1st 2021, Ember and Weedus created much confusion with their impersonation prank. 
On the 2nd of September 2021, Ember spent 10 USD on a Roblox tycoon game (playing North Korea) in order to buy a tank, to help Val and Eugene in their efforts to bully Trip (playing America) out of the game. Val threatened to end his friendship with Ember over this, and Trip called Ember a tankie. 
== Creative Ventures ==
Contrary to a once-popular belief, Ember does in fact produce drawings and "art", including media such as paintings and sculpture. This was only really revealed when Ember joined NCI, as most of his drawings were not suitable for Realms of Ninjago. 
Ember's drawing style is greatly influenced by his childhood obsession with manga and anime (an obsession that abruptly and completely ended when Ember stumbled upon Episode 2 of Shinmai Maou no Testament). Ember usually does not add eyes to his drawings, both because they think drawings look better without eyes and because they can't draw eyes very well. Ember also usually does not finish their drawings, because they lose the motivation to do so quite often. 
Ember's main hobby is miniature wargaming, which is classified as a severe addiction under international law. While they originally were a fan of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40k tabletop games, they have now shifted his focus to mostly historical games. According to their best estimates, Ember owns nearly 1000s miniatures, with over half of them painted, and has spent several times that number in British Pounds. 
== Personal Life ==
Ember is currently a university student, studying Near Eastern archaeology and Islamic Studies in Bern, Switzerland, where they live. Their brother, Samwisegenji, is also a member of Realms of Ninjago. Their irl female acquaintance of questionable relationship, Fember, is a regular contributor to Ember's VC sessions. 
Since early 2020, Ember is a practicing Muslim.
== Political Views ==
Ember is very politically active, both in real life and in RoN's #mature-and-serious-discussion channel, which they helped to create. They describes themself varyingly as an "Anti-Imperialist" "Islamic Socialist" or "African Socialist" and often is very vocal on their support for non-Western governments, including the People's Republic of China. 
According to Ember, the writers that have influenced their views the most are Kwame Nkrumah, Muammar al Qaddafi, Vladimir Lenin, Deng Xiaoping and W.E.B DuBois. They have also actually read Marx (suck it, Gram :darethtroll:). 
== Quotes ==
* "Where do you live?"
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== Trivia ==
* Ember's favourite condiment is plain yoghurt.
* Ember speaks several languages: English, German, Swiss German, French and Arabic. 
* Ember once accidentally deleted the entire #announcements channel while trying to clear a VC popup.
* Ember's hobbies include miniature wargaming, scuba diving and drawing art of questionable quality which is usually only fit for NCI.
* Ember is one of two server owners to have been banned from the server at one time, the other being JD.
**They are the only server owner to have been promoted to the position after having been banned.
*Ember was the third staff member to post a face reveal.
*They and Grammaticul goes by their in-server nicknames instead of their discord username, Ember's username being Octavian#0804.
*They love Allah.
*Ember hold the record for the longest single contribution to the #mature-and-serious-discussion channel, with his essay on Israel. They also potentially has the second-longest contribution (his essay on Xinjiang with 13k characters excluding sources), although this is still unconfirmed and possibly beaten by one of Hidden's contributions. 
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