Grand Roll of Awards & Honors of the Kingdom of Stormwind

## Origin & Purpose

The Grand Roll of Awards & Honors is a document which is maintained by the Stormwind Awards & Honors Committee to document and set distribution parameters for Stormwind decorations. It standardizes the design of these awards, and lays out the correct order of wear of these medals for presentation. As well as designates which medals grant post nominal honors. If awards or honors are altered in name or purpose, the committee may allow people who earned the older awards to be granted the replacement award. For this reason, this roll also documents awards that were replaced by new ones.

The Grand Roll was implemented by Meng Shufen during her term as 'Commissioner' of the Awards and Honors Committee.

Grand Roll of Awards & Honors of the Kingdom of Stormwind

## The Grand Roll of Awards & Honors

### **Glossary of Terms**

**Medal/Award:** An item of distinction granted by the A&HC to recognize a deed, act of service, or event participated in.

**Precedence:** The order in which the awards are ranked when compared to each other. So that these medals can be worn in a unified fashion, and be quickly identified in order of importance. On some occasions an award will be higher than another for no good reason than because they are similar in importance, but because of the possibility of a soldier being capable of owning both, one must hold precedence over the other.

**Order of Wear:** Medals and awards are worn in order of their precedence to each other. Typically on the soldier’s upper left side chest, above the breast pocket. Ordered from the viewer’s left to right. When not in ceremony, to make it easier to present the awards, Ribbon Bars are permitted to be worn on dress uniforms. However medals are not to be worn on service uniforms or armor.

**Post Nominal:** A grouping of letters (often an abbreviation of the award’s title) that an awarded person is entitled to use in all forms of written reference to themselves. An example would be “John Doe CL” if they were the recipient of the Cross of Llane. Individuals who have earned multiple awards with Post Nominals may use them all, in their order of precedence. “Sir John Doe CL, OL" would be an example, where the individual was awarded the Cross of Llane, and Knighthood in the Order of the Lion.

**Eligibility:** Individuals who are eligible to receive the award.

**Status:** If the award is presently awarded by the Awards and Honors Committee.

### Grand Alliance Service Awards

Although not managed by the Stormwind A&HC, this is the order in which the Grand Alliance Service Medals are worn. Other Grand Alliance decorations are worn above Stormwind awards in their order of precedence.

## How awards & honors are granted

Anyone can submit a letter to the Awards and Honors committee recommending themselves or a colleague for an award. The letter must declare unambiguously the full name of the individual who is being recommended for the award, the branch of service or otherwise they are a part of, a date or approximate group of dates the deeds in which warrant the award occurred, the award that the applicant feels best fits, and the deeds in as much detail as possible. If officers of your guild or of other guilds/projects can corroborate or submit letters themselves about the event to help strengthen the case for the award being granted that can help. Typically awards high in precedence are treated with much more scrutiny than those lower in precedence. The amount of awards one has already does not guarantee that they will get an award higher in precedence.

The Awards & Honors Committee attempts to host ceremonies quarterly for those who qualify for awards to receive them. However if there are influxes of awards following a large campaign special ceremonies may be declared, or if there is a slow season, a ceremony may not take place. The Awards & Honors Committee will meet some weeks before each ceremony to go through the applications, select the ones to approve, deny, or modify the award that was requested to one that better fits. Those who have been approved to receive awards will be contacted to attend.

### If you are making a veteran character...

and wish to grant your character awards based on ones that would fit their backstory, you can! These awards are open source, and we are not looking to take on the responsibility of policing stolen valor. Each award has a page in which you can read the reasonings for earning the award, and you are free to determine which ones you feel your character would make sense to have. HOWEVER, awards are best earned through effort in roleplay, and are much more fulfilling when achieved in a way that other players recognize. If you make a character that has the Cross of Llane, that cross is less impactful than if it was earned in game. Doesn't mean we will tell you not to do it, but we feel you would be cheating yourself out of a interesting experience. Allow us the chance to help you develop your story and bring meaning to your characters achievements.

## Display of awards and honors on your character page

If you would like to display the awards your character was granted on their wikipedia page, you can! Below we present a tutorial on how to do that.

Steps to add your awards and honors to your character page!

1. Click Edit on your character page.
2. Click the 'Visual Editor' drop down menu at the top of the screen, and click 'Source Editing'
3. Copy the following code, and paste it above the section you would like the awards to be ordered over. For precise inserting with no issues find the header of the section of your wiki you wish for the awards to be before. Which is indicated with double equal signs (==) surrounding the header text. Then click the space above it to then select the row to paste your new awards section to.

```
==Awards and Honors==
!
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]

```

This code will create a table on your character page where the titles of the award will appear above the respective awards ribbon. Simply replace the 'Example Award' inside of the bracketed <small></small> with the name of the award. And the 'Filename.png' with the file name of the respective ribbon. In which the list of awards on this page lists each of those filenames.

Note: If you need three more spots for medals than what is provided in this template, simply copy and paste the following and add a row to the bottom between the last medal and the closing |}. If you only need one or two more spots, and you have three or more full rows, you can copy a single line starting at <small> to the end of the line and then paste it after the exclamation points in the top group of three. However, if you are only adding one line paste it below the one we placed in the center for you.

```
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]
!<small>Example Award</small>[[File:Filename.png|center|frameless]]

```

Note that in order to be accurate, the medals should be listed in your table in the order that they appear on this page. So, the Cross of Llane appears higher and to the left of the Cross of Tiffin, and so on. If you have a number of medals that make it so there is a row that doesn't have three medals, then center the medal if there is a solitary one. If there are two, then use the center and right most spot. Below are two visual examples.