Ambassadors

## The Ambassadors

The Ambassador Cape

Ambassador

## Founding and Purpose

The Ambassadors of Adventure Quest Worlds, or AQW Ambassadors. The Program was created in order to help players within the game. Ambassadors would be a guide to new players, assisting players with finding the new releases, older content, and other game systems. They would also answer questions other players would have, no matter how many times they were asked. They would also offer advice to frustrated players. An Ambassador is a experienced player whose duty is to guide and assist players

## Notable events and achievements.

### AQWorlds

The Ambassadors were a guild in AQWorlds which was led by Lothalis and had the map Guide as their primairy Headquarters in every server.

As the location of the Guide map was placed within the tutorial of the game, the new players would inevitably meet the Ambassadors. There they could ask for live guidance on their quests. Plus it was a nice place for players that need help to find live support with their in-game quests.

The NPC of Lothalis sold the guiding blades and weapons as well gave some brief instructions for the game. The Ambassadors from the guild were all distinguishable by the Cape of Guiding which was an Ambassador-only item.

== Fun Facts ==,

\* You could only join the Ambassadors by applying.

* Ambassadors were not a staff position, but players thought it was.
* It was the first guild to break the member-limit.
* The NPC "Bartfast" was confirmed by Lothalis to be a Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy reference to the character "Slartibartfast".

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## Real life story

− The Ambassador program was started in early 2013 by Alina and Lothalis as an incentive to help new players to get around in the game.

At the first call for Ambassadors the project was greeted with an huge enthousiasm from the community. The incoming applications thus exceeded any expectations. Even when Alina and Lothalis announced that it was not about a staff position, a lot of players felt it to be an honor to be part of this.

Quickly the guild filled up with more than 50 Ambassadors and Lothalis appointed several Officers to keep the large guild in check. The Ambassadors happily filled the /join guide rooms in game, helped out new players, and anyone that asked. But also showed off their Ambassador cape with its shop they obtained later on.

Being an Ambassador had the status sign that you were an end-game player, had game knowledge, wanted to help the community and supported the game. Over the course of the project the guide rooms became more and more crowded and the room limit was raised accordingly.

In the final months of 2013, Alina decided to stop the Ambassador program, but this without knowledge of Lothalis. Which resulted in actually him receiving huge community feedback after which he stepped down as staff member. The NPC in the map was renamed to Bartfast and a modified Ambassador cape became a public item.

When Lothalis re-emerged later on as a Moderator people hoped the Ambassador program would continue. But this was not the case. Ever since Lothalis has been associated with the Ambassadors. Even when he eventually left Artix Entertainment, people never forgot.