Kingdom of Ashdale

**The Kingdom of Ashdale**, or KASH, is a clan. It is led by King Mutta..

## Structure

**King - Leader**

Head of the clan, final say on issues, leader of the Consulate. Oversees and directs the departments.

**Consuls - Deputy Leaders**

Advisors to the King with the same responsibilities. Provides democracy within the Consulate.

**Praetor - Department Leader**

Leader of one of the clan's departments, currently either Events, Internal Affairs, PvP and PvM, or Recruitment. Directs the department and carries out the tasks needed to satisfy the general populace of the clan.

**Tribune - Department Deputy**

Provides reinforcement for the department so that the workload is distributed between players.

*-Consul previously Magister. Praetor previously Lord. Tribune previously Duke.*

## Line of Leadership Succession

*All time periods are approximate*

February 28th, 2014

**-Mytikas** (28th Feb 2014 - 30th April 2014)

**-Paco\***

**-Vaaris Ignis** (1st May 2014 - 14th Nov 2014)

**-Wise** (14th Nov 2014 - 28th Jun 2015)

2015

**-Zaire** (28th Jun 2015 - 27th Aug 2015)

**-Kaitlin** (27th Aug 2015 - 1st Sep 2015)

**-Michi** (1st Sep 2015 - 8th Oct 2015)

**-Wobble\***

**-Bowie** (10th Oct 2015 - 5th Dec 2015)

**-Vaaris** (5th Dec 2015 - 18th Dec 2015 )

-**Wise** (18th Dec 2015 - 11th Jan 2016)

2016

**-Stewardman** (11th Jan 2016 - 21st Mar 2016)

**-**Board of Directors (21st Mar 2016 - 29th Mar 2016)

**-Ztoring** (29th Mar 2016 - 26th May 2016)

**-Vaaris** (26th May 2016 - 1st Oct 2016 )

**-Bowie** (1st Oct 2016 - 17th Jan 2017)

2017

**-Megawhale** (17th Jan 2017 - 8th Aug 2017)

**-Samsaurus** (8th Aug 2017 - 30th Nov 2019)

2019

**-Mutta** (1st Dec 2019 - 6th Aug 2021)

2021

**-Levirous** (Unilaterally appointed by the previous King on the 6th Aug 2021)

\*Starred are regarded as very short transitional periods in which ruling was not the aim and little or no change took place.

#### **Foundation and Early Days**

KASH was officially founded on the 28th of February 2014 under the name Obscure Legion. It was led by Mytikas and followed a Zarosian-Roman theme. The original leadership structure was composed of a leader, three advisory Sages and four departments; Events, Citadel, War and Diplomacy. Within the first few days, Obscure Legion had built a decent base of leadership, including figures such as Vaaris Ignis, Leopold, Xantora, Paco and Wobble. Lucien Ravendwel also joined in the early stages of the clan. Despite a promising start, Mytikas resigned as clan leader and handed over to Paco, who considered disbanding the clan. Vaaris Ignis then stepped in and took over as leader, a position that he would hold for around a year.

#### **Vaaris**

The ascendancy of Vaaris Ignis marked the start of what is generally regarded as one of the best periods of KASH's early history. In terms of leadership structure, he kept with the original format and the number of clan members steadily increased. Amongst notable figures who joined in the early stages of Vaaris' reign are Er and Wise.

It is worth noting that there aren't a lot of specific records for this period of KASH history, but various changes were put in place by the leadership team regarding different aspects of the clan. For example, the Sage positions were removed and would later be replaced by two advisory (Magister) positions. A constitution draft was also written up and foundations of a ranking system were put in place. Further to this, many felt that the name Obscure Legion was not POC-style enough, so the clan joined the World 31 POC Community and their name was changed to the Empire of Freneskae, making sure to keep to the Zarosian theme. This name was short-lived, however, with the indecisive membership opting to transition to a more democratic sounding theme. The original idea was to change into the Republic of Freneskae, but this would not fit within the clan character limit so the clan settled with the Republic of Ghorrock in order to keep with the Zarosian theme once again.

Unsurprisingly, members were still unhappy with the clan name and this indecisiveness was picked up by other POC clan leaders such as Burgoyne and Ryanc. The reason this time seemed to be that people just did not like the sound of the clan name, and in particular the acronym of RoG. In a clan meeting taking place in the downstairs of Paco's RuneScape house, the leadership team decided to move away from the Zarosian theme and call themselves the Kingdom of Ashdale, changing their colours to blue and gold. They swore that this name would never be changed again after the farcical period of alterations.

#### **Diplomatic Relations and War with Kingdom of Zaros**

Elsewhere in the POC world, the aforementioned Burgoyne had returned to RuneScape and had been part of a leadership coup against the owner of a Fremennik clan. The influence he gained from this gave him the leverage needed to reform the Kingdom of Zaros (KoZ) with a solid base of players to begin with.

At around the same time as Burgoyne's actions, Vaaris and Paco began a conflict with each other over an event which happened ages before in their old clan, Empire of Swords. As a result of this, Paco, the then-deputy owner, left KASH to create his own clan: The Empire of Prifddinas (EoP). A generally accepted theory at the time was that Paco created the clan with the intention of warring KASH for revenge over Vaaris, however this is unconfirmed.

Both the Kingdom of Zaros and Empire of Prifddinas made recruitment gains and also both joined the World 31 Community alongside KASH and a few other clans. Burgoyne's strategy as KoZ leader was to war smaller clans for their land, which was noticed by the Kingdom of Ashdale. Eventually, Burgoyne made the decision to war a very small clan called the White Knights for their most precious piece of land, Falador. They were left with no option but to concede the land or risk humiliation via war. KASH responded to this action by declaring war on KoZ for Falador with the intention of returning it to the White Knights if won.

Whilst war times and terms were undergoing agreement, KASH gained three clans as allies including a clan run by Michi and the White Knights themselves. Paco aligned the Empire of Prifddinas to the Kingdom of Zaros while they also gained another small clan as an ally.

It was around this time that KASH started a huge recruitment drive in response to the war agreement. It was estimated that they gained nearly 100 members between the time the war was agreed and the time the war was actually fought.

On the day of the war, after a lot of rallying from both sides, KASH ended up with an approximate pull of just less than 20 people and arrived at clan wars at around the same time as KoZ, whose pull was a fair bit less. Burgoyne was also absent from the war. However, a few minutes before the fight was about to start, EoP showed up in a line all at once to equal the number of people on both sides, with KASH having 2 or 3 people from their allied clans. The war was to be fought in a best of 3 format.

In what was supposed to be the first round of the war, KASH's side took the more offensive approach and attacked the very mage-heavy base of the opposite side. Their effort was very uncoordinated, however, and many stragglers were piled and taken down by ice barrage, leaving too few people to recover the round. KoZ's side were declared winners, but due to most of their team using legacy combat the round was nulled as EoC combat was agreed upon in the war terms.

Despite the result being overturned, KASH had lost a lot of confidence from the fight that had just occurred. Lucien Ravendwel, their war leader at the time, decided to hand over the position of war-caller to his deputy, Brama. This is hailed as Lucien's most significant and yet completely insignificant point in his entire KASH stint, and was seen as a very unfavourable move.

In the official first round of the war, Brama led KASH forces into the arena. They were far more coordinated this time and also had the advantage of an even EoC combat field. They put the previous 'loss' behind them and managed to take a relatively comfortable victory in the first round. In the aftermath of this, at least one member of the KoZ side defected to the KASH side and another member also logged off, meaning that the second round became an even more comfortable victory for KASH and their allies. Falador was won as a land claim and returned to the White Knights as promised. Burgoyne's presence then slowly declined in the POC community and KoZ also followed this path.

#### **Wise**

What followed the war was a long period of positive consistency under Vaaris Ignis. Despite a phenomenon known as the "Events curse," by which the events position was filled for no longer than 5 weeks at a time for an unusually long period, KASH's general membership seemed to view the clan quite favourably. During this time the Recruitment department was added and the Citadel department was removed. Notable figures such as Megawhale, Tevin, Venussaur, Varahi, Zaire, Kaitlin, Laughrob, StarDrifter and Desert Spear also joined the clan at some point during this period.

Eventually, after a long stint as leader of KASH, Vaaris stepped down in late 2014 according to the official forums. He was replaced by one of his deputy leaders, Wise, who was coronated at Ashdale church in what was KASH's first community coronation.

The Kingdom of Ashdale, now a clan of World 42, endured drama - roleplay and real. However, under Wise there was a period of consistency as there was under Vaaris. He focused more on roleplay aspects in the clan, implementing a Knights and Dames system for citizen members. He also built on the concept of Houses and, at one point, KASH had 3 or 4 active House factions in the clan. Despite these changes, later records of POC history have revealed that many of the big names in Wise's leadership team viewed him unfavourably as he 'allowed them to get lazy' and made very little change in terms of actual governance of the clan. The ranking system that he implemented also did not gain much traction and was largely discarded. During Wise's reign as leader, Vaaris left KASH to form his own clan.

#### **Zaire**

Wise eventually decided to quit RuneScape to focus on real life, handing leadership of the clan to Zaire in the middle of 2015 according to the forums. Overall, his reign was shorter than Wise's, which in turn was shorter than Vaaris'. He made significant changes, however. In regards to recruitment, new members were made to fill out an official application on the KASH forum before being able to join. Furthermore, similar to the subclan system at Kingdom of Varrock, Zaire changed the leadership structure of KASH to include leaders of skilling events, PvM events, PvP events and minigames/fun events. Citizen ranks in the clan were able to join these factions based on their preferences, with roleplay aspects tied into the positions as well. However, seen as a rushed decision in hindsight, Zaire and his council made it a requirement for a member to join one of these subclans before they could rank up. This, along with the change in recruitment policy, led to a negative reception and is arguably one of the reasons, if not the reason, why Zaire eventually stepped down as leader of the clan.

#### **Kaitlin and the Michi Controversy**

Zaire handed the crown over to his real-life girlfriend Kaitlin after stepping down. Her reign was very short and she was reportedly reluctant to be in leadership. Having the desire to step down, she at first consulted StarDrifter and Desert Spear about taking over. Having said weeks earlier that he would be unable to take over the clan, Wobble was overlooked on the day of the transition. As both StarDrifter and Desert Spear both also rejected the position, Kaitlin handed the crown over to Michi, who had been in the clan for around one week. Unsurprisingly, this was met with negative reception from KASH's leadership team, placing her on unstable footing from the beginning of her reign. During this period, individuals such as Bowie and Taxov joined the clan.

Michi's first arguable mistake was to carry out an inactivity sweep without notifying any of the KASH leaders. However, due to her method, a few active players and clan veterans were also kicked from the clan along with the inactives. Due to her immediate reputation and actions, private discussions started between members of the leadership team about her ability to rule. Long-standing member Lucien Ravendwel was also demoted from his position of War leader, although this decision was generally regarded as fair. He left the clan not long after.

Using the community's main communication app, Kik, Michi met another significant POC member by the name of Jor Ulfrsson, the Konungr of the Fremennik, another clan. Shortly after meeting, the two of them began to develop a political partnership. Normally this would not be a problem, but due to Jor's reputation and questionable actions a large portion of KASH were now extremely wary about the way the clan was being governed. Michi's seemingly passive nature allowed Jor to effectively make most of the decisions on KASH via manipulation of her. This was when the campaign to instate Bowie as clan leader started, backed by nearly all of the leadership team. While Michi still attempted to make changes to the clan and improve it, Bowie publicly questioned Michi's leadership and was subsequently demoted without consultation of other leaders. This became the breaking point for many of KASH's members, who threatened a mass exodus unless Michi stepped down within the next day. Said exodus would arguably have destroyed KASH had it happened.

With a few more members, including leaders, leaving that day, Wobble attempted to persuade Michi to step down from leadership due to the threat of the exodus. After an hour-long conversation which apparently occurred while Jor was asleep, Michi gave the crown to Wobble and left the clan immediately.

#### **Bowie, Stewardman and the most infamous period in KASH history**

After two days as leader, Wobble gave leadership to Bowie as originally planned. *Unfortunately the source of this piece was not around for much of the subsequent events so information is probably lacking here. KASH joined the World 103 Community at some point around this period.*

Due to problems in real life, Bowie was forced to step down as King and handed the crown to Vaaris, who had returned to the clan not long before. After a very short stay, Vaaris himself was forced to give leadership to Wise, who in turn had to hand it over to another after a short stint. He decided on Stewardman, a long-time member who had been in the council for a while. At the time of this decision there was no opposition as options were limited and Stewardman was regarded as a neutral character in KASH. Notable figures who joined around this period include Ztoring and Propertyof.

The reign of Stewardman started off relatively calmly. Although little change was made initially, it was unlikely that anyone anticipated the scale of controversy that would follow. If sources are correct, an argument involving two parties on Teamspeak began, with claims that one person was 'moaning sexually' in the direction of another. It was from here that recurring problems began with Stewardman's policy towards conflict in the clan. After an argument with Vaaris Ignis, rather than finding a peaceful solution, Stew opted to kick him completely from the clan. As expected, this brought about uproar from individuals within KASH and outside of it. The chain reaction of conflict led to a 'closed circle' of him and his leadership team versus a group of people rebelling against him.

Using Kik as a base of communication, the rebels found themselves in their own chat after others left. This included individuals from The Arcane Kingdom and the Imperium of Sorcery, as well as notable members of KASH. In response to Vaaris' dismissal from the clan, the #freevaaris movement was started in his name. Anyone who said this phrase in the Kingdom of Ashdale clan chat would be immediately kicked by Stewardman and banned from the clan. This led to the biggest exodus KASH had seen, with historically influential figures dropping like flies as they declared their support for Vaaris.

Eventually, after nearly all of the rebel group had been banned, a long term plan to instate Wobble as KASH leader began in one of the Kik chats. However, Venussaur, one of the rebels, leaked this plan in a chat with Ztoring in it. It is unknown as to whether Stew then learned of the rebel plan from Ztoring, his deputy leader at the time.

Not long after that, however, Wobble attempted to use KASH's citadel for an external, weekly player-run game called NRC. Before the game was due to begin, members of NRC realised that Stew had locked the citadel to guests and so they were unable to play the game. They attempted to reason with him as they all joined the KASH clan chat as guests, protests which Stew seemingly ignored for a while. After a while, he began to argue with the members of NRC and ended up in a heated debate with Wobble. Refusing to open the citadel to guests, Wobble was then kicked from KASH by Stewardman. Another long-standing member, Kaya, was also banned from KASH not long after.

The rebels were left without any members in KASH and could only watch from the sidelines as the clan appeared to stagnate, activity and the citadel both declining. The general membership of the clan also seemed to be mostly unaware of the controversy as the key individuals were now banned.

Soon after, most of the rebel group decided to create their own new clan called the Republic of Ashdale, with ex-KASH leaders such as Vaaris, Bowie, Wobble, Taxov, Venussaur, Kaya and Fuchsy. However, after the renaming of this clan to the Black Concordat, half of its membership left. Vaaris, Bowie and Wobble ended up in the Kingdom of Varrock for a short period.

Meanwhile, Stew decided to leave KASH for the Elves of Arandar. However, rather than leaving another person in charge of the clan, he kept his alternate account as the gold key and appointed a board of directors to watch over affairs. The World 103 Community government then ruled that Stewardman would not be allowed to be in the leadership teams of two clans at once and he decided to stay on in Elves of Arandar, removing his alt from KASH. After receiving votes from KASH leadership, Ztoring was appointed the official leader of the clan. It continued to stagnate, however, and after not long in charge Ztoring made the decision to disband the clan within a few days. He was then spoken to by Vaaris Ignis and agreed to pass the gold key onto him, starting a new era of KASH history.

### **Kingdom of Ashdale 2.0**

#### **The Recovery**

Starting on the 26th of May 2016, the new-look Kingdom of Ashdale was similar to the Republic of Ashdale before it in terms of leadership structure. Vaaris became the new King with Wobble and Bowie as advisors. Taxov became head of the citadel and ranking (Internal Affairs). Fuchsy and Venussaur also became events leaders, while the position of foreign affairs and diplomacy was removed. Although KASH had 100 members at the time, the leaders still inherited a clan which was almost dead in terms of activity. The citadel had also dropped to tier 3 when it had been close to tier 7 in the recent past.

Despite being dealt a difficult hand, the shared motivation from all and the use of the program Discord allowed KASH to become more efficient and organised than it has ever been. The ranking system was up-kept consistently and leaders were all performing their required tasks. During the early stages of this period, members such as Sacae, Lynu and Lindz joined KASH.

Lynu became head of Recruitment and the clan identified this as their main priority in order to increase activity and provide a bigger pool for leadership. However, Lynu struggled with the task and left soon after. His replacement, Lindz, and the mass recruitment of Wobble were able to take KASH to over 100 monthly actives in a short period of time. The situation within the Kingdom of Varrock (KOV) led to members such as Campo and Aimee migrating over to KASH, who shortly became head of War and deputy of Events respectively. Venussaur left the clan around this point.

Campo's first act as war general was to declare a land war on the Kharyrllian Wolfpack for Ape Atoll, a challenge that was forfeited by the defending clan. A month later, KASH declared war on the Kingdom of Varrock. During the preparations, Lindz and her partner Koss, deputy of War at the time, aimed criticism at the government of the clan. Stating also that they simply did not fit in, they both left KASH at some point during this period. Because of this, Cryptic Gold immediately became the head of Recruitment, having previously been the deputy. Artreyu became the head of Events and Fuchsy moved to deputy, while Sacae became the deputy of War under Campo, marking a period of big transition for the leadership team.

The KOV war was to be fought on the 23rd of July. An approximate pull of 15 people came from the KASH side with 12 from the KOV side. Artreyu left the clan a few minutes before the war, however. In round one, KASH were the attacking team and managed to win with around 3 or 4 people left. With morale high, they entered into the second round as the defending team. Unfortunately, the forces were instructed to attack one of KOV's best tanks, and in the time it took to recover from this too many of KASH's members had already been killed, leading to a defeat in the second fight. Becoming the attacking team once again for the third round, with the war now tied at 1-1, KASH were able to edge out a victory after a more sound tactical approach, ending the war with a 2-1 win. Shortly after, Sacae became the new head of Events to fill the place left by Artreyu.

Taking a seemingly aggressive approach towards land wars, Campo declared on The Arcane Kingdom (TAK) not long after. The build up to this event was a controversial one. As the time accepted did not work for many of KASH's members, they requested that it be changed to a more suitable one. This request was legally rejected by leader of TAK, Chris, which was harshly received by KASH's War department. While this feud was ongoing, the membership numbers of the Kingdom of Ashdale continued to rise sharply through the work of Recruitment head Cryptic Gold and other members. Eventually, after days of conflict, TAK decided to forfeit the war and diplomatic relations between them and KASH declined for a while. Artreyu rejoined the clan at some point during this period, while people such as Waller and Kyle Loxley migrated from the Kingdom of Varrock. Waller became deputy of War under Campo.

The string of wars continued despite this, and Campo declared on the Last Kingdom (LK) for Daemonheim in August. The build up to this war was not controversial, although after the recent proposed merger of the Last Kingdom and the Arcane Kingdom, LK opted to only use members of their clan who had been present before the merger was proposed. Unfortunately, they pulled less than 10 people to the war, faced against a KASH pull of around 22. The outcome was a 2-0 victory for the Kingdom of Ashdale. Around this period, Chorus (Later Samsaurus) became deputy of Recruitment with an already good track record of recruiting. It was around this time that the leadership titles changed - King stayed the same, Magisters became Consuls, Lords became Praetors and Dukes became Tribunes.

Expectedly, KASH then declared on the Kingdom of Isadarin (KOI) right after the war with LK. The format was to be a matched-numbers war in the middle of September. During the preceding period of this war, KASH entered a conflict with the Last Arcane Kingdom in which Campo was heavily involved. The events which followed, a controversy between Chris (LAK leader), Vaaris and Campo, led to Campo's demotion from the position of War leader.

Megawhale took the vacated position and became the organiser for KASH's war with the Kingdom of Isadarin. On the day of the war, with attendees actually inside the Clan Wars lobby, KOI forfeited the war after problems within their own leadership team.

#### **Lord Bowie's second stint**

The Kingdom of Ashdale continued to grow in membership numbers thanks to the unprecedented recruitment record of Samsaurus and the efforts of other members. Levirous became the deputy of Internal Affairs, while Artreyu and Optic God became events deputies. Due to an apathy towards RuneScape in general, King Vaaris and Internal Affairs leader Taxov made the decision to step down from their positions. Bowie was to become the new King when this occurred. It was around this period that long-time members such as Mujo and DJT left KASH to create their own clans.

While the coronation was upcoming, the Kingdom of Ashdale began working on a new ranking system for citizens. The original idea was proposed by Levirous while Vaaris Ignis inputted the spreadsheet formulas required for the system. The concept meant that to rank up as a clan member, you must contribute at at least an average level during a set time cycle.

Unfortunately, due to real life issues an official community coronation never occurred for Bowie, but in the beginning of October Vaaris and Taxov both stepped down from their positions and the new ranking system was officially put in place. Bowie became the new King of Ashdale and Sacae became one of the deputy leaders of the kingdom. Warriorjk also joined the events team while Levirous took over as head of Internal Affairs. At the time of writing, the Kingdom of Ashdale had around 350 total members at the end of October. The decision was made that KASH would leave the W103 Community and become an independent clan, as roleplay elements were not familiar to a majority of the new-breed membership.

Although the clan was active, events were few and Bowie made the snap decision to demote 3 of the events team, including Optic and Artreyu. This was not discussed in Consul chat beforehand, making it controversial. Another controversy was the appointment of Vaaris to the Tempus position, newly created as a purely advisory post with no specific responsibilities. Exitium Deus became deputy of War and PvM under Megawhale, while Dylan (Lee) became head of Events. Samsaurus continued to perform in the Recruitment department after Cryptic Gold left the clan.

Due to the controversy of his position and apathy towards the game, Vaaris stepped down from Tempus. Not long after this, Wobble decided he could no longer consistently keep RuneScape membership, severely limiting his impact ingame. He resigned from the Consul position at the end of December 2016, ending over two and a half years of leadership in KASH.

Megawhale was promoted to the vacant deputy leader position and Exitium became head of War/PvM. The appointments of Kyouchou and Saiyan to Internal Affairs and Recruitment, respectively, were made around this time. In addition, Campo rejoined the clan after some time with the Noxious Gladiators.

#### **Megawhale and the fall of the veterans**

Consulate activity became quite low during this time and there were criticisms about the lack of communication between them and the rest of leadership. Unannounced, Bowie gave the position of King to Vaaris and changed numerous council positions which shocked most of the council. This was shortly revealed to be trolling and Bowie decided to make Megawhale the leader of KASH, undoing the reshuffles made during the joke. Although normal function was restored, many of the council began to distrust the Consulate due to their part in the trolling. Activity continued along the same path, however, and although the council were ensuring happiness within the clan there was still a divide between them and the Consulate triad of Mega, Bowie and Sacae. It was proposed that Bowie, and potentially Sacae, were to step down from their positions, the reasoning being their lack of activity. A meeting was called to discuss these terms.

During the meeting, it was agreed after lengthy debate that Bowie was to become the advisor role of Tempus that Vaaris had held before. This came with the added responsibility of updating a clan Discord bot, recently added to provide easy and frequent reminders about KASH events. The discussion then came to who would replace Bowie as deputy leader, with Samsaurus and Exitium being proposed. A majority of council voted for Samsaurus, with the three Consulate members voting for Exitium. Despite this, Sacae declared that their 'opinions did not matter in this particular matter' and that Exitium was to become the next Consul.

The changes were put on hold for a few days. Meanwhile, talks began between council members Samsaurus, Levirous, Kevin, Kyouchou, and Saiyan, along with members Campo and Wobble. While arguments against democracy were made by Bowie and Sacae, the group planned to propose more democratic decision-making making going forward. Eventually discourse was created between them and Consulate, as well as Vaaris. Hearing that such discussions had been going on, Bowie and Sacae kicked Levirous and Samsaurus from the clan upon their next login. As members questioned why leaders were being kicked, it was quoted as 'liquidations of no concern' by Sacae. The reasoning was later stated as shutting down a rebellion, but it is known that they opposed Levirous' influence over the clan and did not want to increase it.

Amongst the chaos, Vaaris had been appointed back into leadership along with Kyle Loxley, while the remaining council members were promised promotions. Wobble attempted to log in and explain the situation to clan members, but was muted and subsequently kicked from the clan.

Wobble began speaking with clan leader Megawhale about the events that had transpired. It became apparent that none of the dismissals had been authorised by Megawhale or even discussed with him. In a move few predicted of him, Mega demoted then banned Bowie, Sacae, Vaaris and Kyle from the clan. All four members had been part of the revival of KASH since the reign of Stewardman and, as seen by some, they had enacted the same kind of tyranny that he had around a year ago.

Levirous, Samsaurus and Wobble rejoined the clan, with the former two resuming their positions from before the purge. Having two now-vacant Consul positions, it was required that councillors put their names forward for them. Levirous, Samsaurus, Kevin and Exitium all volunteered. With more names than positions, a democratic vote was to be held. After a discussion period, in which Kevin and Exit withdrew then went back on their withdrawal multiple times, Levirous and Samsaurus were voted in as the next Consuls. Campo joined council, becoming War and PvM deputy.

Through Kevin and other council members, KASH formed an alliance with the Asgarnian Empire. Their events would be broadcast both ways and members were encouraged to mix. As alliances were forbidden in the World 103 Community this was the first that Ashdale would have in a while. During this period, Exitium left the clan and Kevin resigned as head of Events. Campo and Dylan became heads of War/PvM and Events respectively. ItzLit joined Kyouchou in Internal Affairs, while Jordan and Chazza both became Events deputies.

#### **A period of stability**

*The source of this piece had retired from council before the events of the previous section, and was no longer heavily involved in clan affairs from after it. As a result the following information is likely to be lacking and incomplete.*

With recruitment reaching a plateau and a huge player base achieved, the clan put focus into providing frequent and relevant events for members. The position of Primus was established for members who wished to be regular event hosts without the responsibility of council. The new alliance and drive for regular activity meant that there were often at least one event per day. A tier 7 citadel was reached during this period. To the dismay of some, veteran clan member Kaya was removed from the clan list via an inactivity sweep.

Dylan left leadership and the clan, while long-time member Shockman was brought in to replace him in Events, Jordan moving to Praetor. Also, after a long hiatus away from the clan, King Megawhale returned at the start of August, giving the crown to Samsaurus as Mega would be unable to balance real life and RuneScape. Shortly after this, Levirous resigned from the council due to work commitments, leaving both Consul positions vacant. It was around this time period that Manon became a member of Internal Affairs.

In large parts thanks to Levirous and Kyouchou, ranking and citadel tracking had become much more efficient through the use of spreadsheets. Helpful bots were also added to the clan Discord server, which underwent other overhauls over time in terms of the information provided to clanmembers. There was a large focus on organisation and events, often at least fifteen occurring per week. Among new entries to the council were Shockman - a longtime clanmember, Nurf Hearder and Muttadile. They all became parts of the Events departments.

Once Samsaurus had suitably settled in to the position of King, he requested volunteers for the two Consul positions. All four Praetors (Jordan, Campo, Kyouchou and Saiyan) put their names forward, leading to another election process amongst the council. The votes put Jordan and Campo into the Consul positions while their vacancies left behind, Events and PvM, were filled by Chazza and Nurf Hearder respectively. A few months later, Kyouchou left the council citing boredom with Runescape in general.

Soon after, Campo left RuneScape as well. Chazza was voted into the vacant Consul position and Mutta took over as head of Events. Among new entries to the council were Tahllia, Wand and Peanut Dip. A theme of this particular period was PvM and the clan's stance on elitism, which led to a few disagreements regarding the path forward. Having grown significantly as a clan and as an organised bossing unit, issues arose about balancing learner involvement with PvM alongside the ambition to tackle stronger bosses and complete current bosses more efficiently. Other areas of the clan continued to thrive.