Welcome to our first News post on our Freshly launched Website!
With the website's launch, we are now one step closer to the group's first opening, which we honestly can't wait for. As our work on preparing the group continues, our moderators would like to use this opportunity to share some information about who we are, what we do here, the group's progress and what are our plans for the future. As an introductory post this one might be a bit longer than others. Nothing a brave, young roleplayer such as yourself shouldn't be able to handle though ;)
"Short" history of the group/why is it called "The Second Saga"
"Halcyon: The Second Saga" is a continuation of the story, setting and plot of a group which's conclusion is about to take place in the incoming months. The group was originally founded back in 2018 under the name Dragons-and-Princes by a small group of mods who back then were new to the deviantART RP scene (but not RP itself). With the sole intent of creating a community who shared the same interests, we’ve invested hundreds of hours in developing it. And in the few years that it has been running, it had gone through various changes with the intent of better reflecting the overall theme of the group.
Around the beginning of 2020 we’d decided to move forward with the group and move away from the previous, more casual setting as it didn’t really fall in line with the core foundation of the group’s story. We needed to start fresh and create a generally more structured environment to help capture what we really wanted to portray. Though rather than just restarting the group, we decided to continue it, hence the inclusion in the title of "Second Saga."
Our members along with their characters who've been with us since the start of its run will continue their story in Halcyon with this new and fully realized second saga of the story. With this in mind, it has also been restructured in a way that allows new members to join without getting lost in the 3 years' worth of history and story the group has created thus far.
who's responsible for this mess?
The new group's moderator team consist of two moderators: Heroine and Eroro. We are friends from two opposite sides of the world (US and Europe) who share a love for the fantasy genre, fiction, roleplay and art.
Heroine is the original creator of the group, the founding father and the driving force keeping us all afloat. IScribble veteran, she also has two impossibly funny cats. Eroro has been here from day one and somewhere along the way decided to sell her soul for the cause. She works as an artist under a different pseudonym and her life is a bit chaotic.
We are inspired, very busy, but also very excited to get things done. We want to create a group that will last for years to come and will serve as a place for creativity, fun and adventure that us and other like-minded individuals can build together.
So how things Are going?
Right now our focus is on revisiting all the information we've updated and created thus far for reformatting to make it consistent and easily accessible. It's a time consuming process, but we're stubbornly pushing forward.
With the website's launch and its foundation mostly ready, we are planning to start filling up its pages piece by piece with sections of information that will ultimately form a complete encyclopedia of the group's Lore and the multiple features it has to offer. So far we have completed information pages for our two main races - Dragons and Blue Bloods which you can read about after clicking the links here or in the menu.
In the meantime we are also finalizing all other aspects of the group that need finishing and polishing, such as the visual assets, opening preparation, and the final event of the old group. The final event will lead directly to the opening which we plan for this year's Summer - Fall season.
We are extremely excited for everything new to come and very grateful for our existing members and all the new people who have shown their interest in the group so far. We are working really hard on making it happen and we hope that once ready, you will love the group, its world and residents as much as we do.
Any new updates to the site will be announced through our twitter page, so make sure to follow us there!
If you have any pressing questions, would like to report an error on the websites, or are looking to contact us for any other reason feel free to messages us via e-mail at halcyon.submissions@gmail.com , or via DM to our twitter or deviantART page.
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