Welcome to the Burning Tusk Tribe! We're a guild founded during November 2006 on Blackwater Raiders (US) that moved to the Moon Guard (US) server in May 2008. We are dedicated to infusing the entirety of the game with roleplay. We enjoy in-character raids, instances, quests, world PVP, battlegrounds, arenas and relaxing in an inn with a nice jug of ale at the end of the day. The members of the Burning Tusk Tribe are fiercely loyal to one another with many members having been with us for years. We love each other as family and treat each other with the respect and kindness that you would expect from close friends. Disagreements can be easily resolved by reminding each other that we're friends and to not take things, like our egos, so seriously! Through out the past four years, we've made long lasting impacts on dozens of lives.

Guild chat is in-character, with the officer channel serving as our out-of-character channel. We use both as a means to orchestrate in-game role play while questing, PVPing, etc. as well as a way to get to know the wonderful people we're playing with - we firmly believe that most RP is enhanced by good OOC relations, and that friends made in game can be true, long lasting friendships.

We are of the collective mindset that we are out-of-character friends first who just happen to enjoy roleplaying with one another and making that our priority in our play time.

Most important to us in recruiting new members is how we all mesh together as a group of friends out-of-character, so we look for other laid back, fun loving individuals who enjoy all aspects of the game as we do, and know how to joke around and not take everything so seriously. Not only are we able to provide a great place to relax, but our leadership is steady and long lasting, our membership devoted, our friendships enduring, which means you won't be left without a guild in weeks or months from now. Having lasted through two servers and over four years, we can boldly stand by these claims.

Our goal is to encourage roleplay on the server by RPing throughout every aspect of the game; by arranging events, hosting in-character raids, and working hard to foster a positive overall environment here, both in and out-of-character. We encourage RP to be introduced into all facets of the game including PVE and PVP, as well as random world RP. We believe in approaching RP with creativity and enthusiasm, working to create an immersive and intricate, living world. We are one of the few RP guilds that states that protected roleplay channels (/say, /guild and /yell) are to never be used for OOC conversation, even with the brackets as it harms RP and makes the world less immersive for those around us and encourages more OOC discussion than IC.

The Burning Tusk Tribe is founded on, and has succeeded because of, our great levels of respect. Respect for our members and friends, respect for the server, respect for the opposing faction, and respect for Role Playing. New members are expected to respect the leadership and the long term members, as well as to other new members and the general server population.

Our banner has been done by Dunerok, a long standing member of the Tribe!

Please note that in-character, we range on the spectrum from good to evil, chaotic to lawful, and all shades in between. We are moving towards a more ‘community’ mindset, and because of this respect is of the highest necessity. Your character will be expected to be polite and courteous to other members, especially in the first few weeks and months as we get to know you.

If you are flexible and play a flexible character, you will likely fit in much better.

What I mean by a ‘community mindset’ is that we have recently done away with a heavy hierarchal structure to the point that we no longer have officers and all those that are Tribesmate and up are encouraged to participate in interviews, applications, and conflict resolution (when required), and the Tribe is run in a more ‘democratic’ fashion. We are allowing more free will to our members to pursue their own personal interests and no longer disallow applicants based upon previous loyalties (such as loyalty to the Horde or the Dark Lady.)