Consone

Dear All,

It seems that a lot of discussion and view point has been provoked recently and I thought it only right that I respond. Please refer to Ander and Hora in the recent responses to concerns raised in regard to the accuracy of the alliance’s approach within the confederacy of Consone – these are representative of our stance. Scaramouche and Nokigon also make fair and balanced posts on the subject.

I would like to apologise for Invictusa’s post Sunstorm. I think it is fair to say he was upset by comments in GC about Consone that he felt were unfounded and then this post came which just made things worse from his point of view. His views were those of an individual and did not represent our collective alliance viewpoint. Indeed I would like to make it clear that the confederacy stance may be different to individual member’s views from time to time and that would be fair enough for any reasonable and balanced collection of people. So, apologies.

To be clear - our aims have never included war mongering, excluding people, anti-H? propaganda, forcing people to our will or any of the other conspiracies mentioned in previous posts that I may have missed out. Our actions have not been aggressive and at no point has the collective used negative propaganda about other alliances nor directed our attention to them. We have not carried out any aggressive or coercive action under the banner of Consone.

We are friends. We have been friends for a while. We wanted to formalise it and as with any other gathering, give people an idea of where we stand in order to be open and transparent. As you rightly said Sunstorm – it makes sense to have guiding principles in which we believe. We enjoy the game, we would like others to do the same. Your premise for discussion in regard to organisation could apply to any alliance and confederacy in Illy, not only our own, although I think the concern may come from the numbers of alliances involved.

It is a shame that some folk perceive the setting up of the confederacy to be based around themselves or other alliance’s actions, but the truth of it, and I have stated this many times in many different forums is that we are friends who share common values. I respect your line of questioning, Sunstorm, in relation to our standards and if we will be imposing them onto others. We have no intention of this – healthy debate and discussion has been the order of the day so far and I would like to keep it that way. There are plenty of alliances in the game imposing a standard in regard to settling towns, harvesting and claims and as this thread and others have shown, we have a far more flexible and inclusive approach to this.

As an update – the leaders of Victrix decided to keep links with Consone but withdraw their membership a while ago. They remain a close friend of Invictus naturally. Frost and World’s End Sieger’s have also joined us recently.

I am more than happy to answer questions here or in game and this is something I have explained to those who are concerned about us. Our actions so far have not betrayed us to be some warmongering dominatrix.... (more’s the pity for some!).... and long may that continue. If people have facts on which they can found their deep seated worries about this gathering, then please let me know about them so we can discuss them. But either way, I am happy to continue with an adult conversation here or in game.

Kind Regards,

Jasche (Consul - Invictus)