Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro was one of the many guilds from YGGDRASIL. It was comprised of only two members, Goren Aggoth and Asriel Zabkiel, as it was a guild formed by the two best friends solely for the fun of having one. It was a nobody guild, known by very few people.

## Background

### Voidstar

Before forming the guild of Chiaroscuro, Goren and Asriel were members of the casual-roleplay guild known as Voidstar. It was headquartered in Alfhiem, and allowed all to join so long as they did not cause problems. There were no restrictions as to what you could be, whether Humanoid, Demi-Human, or Heteromorph. All that mattered was if you would be interested in casually roleplaying with the others in the guild.

At one point, members of Voidstar stumbled upon the World Item known as Skin of Gaia on complete accident one day. They were passing through an area, when the World Item dropped from the sky. They heard somebody curse, and looked up to see another Player looking down at them. He had apparently dropped the World Item, and was asking them to hand it back to him. They refused, and instead took the World Item back to their guild base, much to the chagrin of the Player.

Several months later, Goren and Asriel joined Voidstar, as they were new to the game and were looking for a guild with few rules to join. They spent the next couple of months grinding until they both reached level 100. It was after they had maxed out their levels that the guild went out to conquer the Palace of Demeter, in hopes of making it into their new guild base. However, upon conquering the dungeon, they realized that it was a very low-level guild base, suitable only for newbies. It would only grant the guild 300 levels to make NPCs with. The majority of the guild refused to claim it, which gave Goren and Asriel an idea. They had always wanted to form their own guild, just to see what it would be like. So, they went to the guildmaster of Voidstar and asked him if they could claim the dungeon for themselves. After some convincing, he agreed, but told them that they had to leave Voidstar to start their own guild. Goren and Asriel agreed, and after saying their goodbyes to the friends they had made in the guild, they left to form Chiaroscuro.

### Forming Chiaroscuro

After they had claimed the Palace of Demeter for themselves, Goren and Asriel went wild with their imaginations. They invested a huge amount of their time and hard-earned money into the guild, customizing their NPCs and the guild base itself. They put their hearts and souls into every creation they made, such was their devotion to their new-established guild.

By the time the announcement of the game's shutdown by the end of the year came, Chiaroscuro wasn't on the leaderboards or even known by most people, as Goren and Asriel didn't want to be involved in guild wars or inter-guild drama. They kept to themselves, locking the doors to their guild base by paying the expensive Isolation fee. This allowed their guild base to be impenetrable to enemy Players, but also locked their own guild out from participating in events, get loot, or do much else. But they felt it was worth the heavy cost, as they did not want to lose all that they had created.

A month before the game's servers shutdown, Goren and Asriel were approached by the guildmaster of Voidstar. After some time was spent reminiscing about the good old days, the guildmaster broke the news to them: Voidstar was now defunct, as all the other members had quit one-by-one. He said they lost interest in the game, and so they logged out and never came back. He told them that, he too, would soon stop playing, but he first had to figure out what to do with his guild's World Item. He showed Skin of Gaia to the two of them, and told them that they could take it for themselves if they wanted to, as he had nobody else to hand such an item to. They were shocked, and asked him if he was serious. He said he was, and said he didn't want to hand it over to some stranger, which is why he came to them. They agreed, and after saying their final goodbyes, he gave them the World Item and logged out forever.