World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 13 | Page 68

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68 // World of Warcraft Community Magazine

THE BASTION:
AN INSTITUTION

A

By Ashleigh Ayn Sult

nyone who opens up a

later, looks a little different and has

and on July 9th of the same year, the

forum can find people

some different faces and voices.

Bastion was formed. They did away

saying that they feel

However, for my guild, the reasons

with anything that was outside of the

alone in the game, or that their

why it changed and stuck together

game entirely, never once speaking

guild is empty. So it’s impressive to

has me thinking about the state of

of anything out of character. At

find a guild that’s active, social, and

guilds in Warcraft, and why people

first the idea sounds strange, but

raiding. It’s even more impressive

join a guild in the first place.

much like we come to the game

when that guild crosses it’s 10 year
Anniversary and is busy making
plans for the next expansion.

to enjoy RPG entertainment, the

BUILDING A BASTION
The Bastion was first The Bastion

guild itself became an extension
of the world we were enjoying.

of Sanity, a full time roleplaying
This expansion I went “home”

guild, on Scarlet Crusade-US. The

As the now guild leader

to my Burning Crusade guild. The

Scarlet Crusade-US server first

Mograthana explained, “-I had a

guild, like any guild many years

came online on February 23rd, 2005

friend [...] from a previous guild who

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