Lyon

A Brief History of Me by Lyon

A long time ago, there was a fellow by the name of ithilienranger732. He stumbled across the Wars of Arda mod site while surfing the BFME map community, and immediately joined up. He had a lot to say... and, within a few months, had surpassed everyone on the site as far as postcount went.

Of course, he wasn't content with just one site for too long. He was an adventurous lad. So, one day, he joined one of the other BFME modding communities out there: Revora's The 3rd Age. For several months, he was content with just that. He and another couple people founded the BoN modding forums on an informe server. As General Glozelle, he was one of the reigning admins.

Of course, he realized that hanging around BFME modding forums wasn't doing much for his eternal soul writing skills, so he branched out into the wider Revora, eventually stumbling upon the division currently known as the Ziggurat of Doom... but formerly known as RPG Frontier, administrated by Nowe.

It wasn't his first RP ever... in fact, it was his second, the first being a thread known as "Elrond's Message" on the Council of Elrond board. The single thread gave him hunger for more, so the RPG Frontier division was perfect for him.

For another few months, he participated in various RPs on and off-site, even founding one of his own. Then, in that summer, when Nowe stuck it to the system and left Revora, Ranger (now known as Athos) went with him, although he didn't leave The 3rd Age or the Ziggurat entirely behind.

At the new RPG Frontier, Ranger decided that being outgoing was the best policy, so he passive- aggressively marketed RPG Frontier on all the sites he was on. Eventually, his zeal for expansion caught the notice of the site admins, and he was offered the position of Lieutenant-Ambassador. He accepted, of course.

In the meantime, there were troubling things going on for him on other sites. First of all, his grades weren't quite up to snuff, so he spent a couple of weeks away from the site working to get them back up. Meanwhile, at Wars of Arda, his first site, a... minor dispute was underway.

Eventually, this minor dispute came to a head in a massive flamewar. Ranger and the other fellow were both warned, although this was more of a formality than an actual end to the fighting. Some secret sniping went on, was stopped, and then the other fellow wrote A Tragic History of Ranger's Treachery.

Ranger laughed. Hard. Especially at allegations that he ran an inter-forum crime ring.

Of course, those were absolutely true.

So, once more, he found himself at RPGF. And there he has stayed, occasionally revisiting his old haunts. After all, he was a nostalgic man.