Aurea
Aurea is a prominent military guild that has existed in both Classic and Ol' West, originally as Communist Aurea in 2016. It was founded by Kevlar R. Vaughn, a former State General and leader of the New Frontier Republic. Officially, there have been four different leaders of Aurea. Kevlar Vaughn, Lance Rhodes, Nylius Avidius and Azrael Kusan. However, the guild has also been taken care of by multiple people over the years such as Chiang, Regius, and others.
Kevlar established Aurea with a clear and solid foundation instead of letting things develop as the guild progressed. Documents and handbooks are important to Aurea, and it always has them to set a standard for the guild. Kevlar also provides official formats for state and intelligence documents. Aurea is well-known for its' state-of-the-art, high quality uniforms which changed the perception of the community on how a uniform should look. Many guilds have used bodies that are inspired by the first Communist Aurea uniforms.
Communist Aurea, 2016
Despite being officially the second Aurea, it was the first communist phase of the guild that placed Aurea among the most fearsome and ruthless military guilds of Classic. Communist Aurea started with a strong and well-prepared officer corps. The guild started with a main tag, "Communist Aurea," held by Grand Marshal Kevlar and "1st Rifles Division," led by Colonel Mevarus; however, the latter guild was mass kicked, reflecting the state of affairs back in 2016. Unlike other guilds, however, Aurea did not stop despite losing the only regiment it had. The officers of the division were fast to rebuild and soon enough new divisions were commissioned. Aurea's success were partnered with some changes, which would prove to be either vital and fatal later on, including the promotion of Colonel Mevarus to Colonel-General and Paw Vivre to Colonel.
Aurea's success did not go unnoticed. It was involved in several conflicts and rebellions, but there was one that has always been overlooked. Colonel Paw was meant to be publicly humiliated and demoted for various reasons (which I can no longer recollect). He, for some reason, heard of it and rebelled against the regime, calling his new guild as the Red Rebellion meant to overthrow Kevlar. Though crushed easily, this made Mevarus remember an old glitch he discovered back in 2014, the Guild Permission Glitch. Kevlar then prohibited the Colonel-General from using it in any way or form, but he continued to perfect it and made it almost instantaneous to work. It was utilized only once when Sarovia was not accepting any defeat despite losing horrendously in multiple battles. It was stored away ever since, only to resurface and bite Aurea back when a group of people tried to get the attention of the admins to fix the glitch.
"It was also during this time, Kevlar went against his long standing no-hacking stance, authorizing use of a glitch to utterly destroy Sherlock's Sarovia." - Kevlar's biography, on the topic of Aurea
The 1st Communist Era ended when the guild transitioned to a Napoleonic French theme and the whole guild was overhauled.
Aurean Empires (1st-3rd)
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Communist Aurea, 2019
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Aurean Empire (4th)
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Auro Roma
Auro Roma or Roman Aurea began September 1st, 2020, or at least that was when the guild officially launched. With two prior Imperial Aurean Emperors active the guild was lead by Kevlar and Nylius Vaughn, both taking up the position of consul. Prior to launch initial hype allowed for Aurea to launch two guilds although to varying degrees of success. The first guild Legio I Aurum was initially lead by Kevlar Vaughn and Legio II Ferrata being lead by Nylius Vaughn. With the two consul’s activity at the beginning, the Legions were successful however a lack of schedule planning would soon lead to some issues. Sometime after launch, Legio I would be given to Richard Lux/Vaughn to serve as Legate due to Kevlar’s inactivity. Meanwhile, Legio II would soon face problems as Nylius would become inactive as well. First Legio II was transferred to Ajax Avidius and then later transferred to Artix Henri/Vaughn. The guilds would continue to struggle for a while due to a plethora of reasons.
As time passed and the new legates settled into their positions the activity of the legions improved some but not great and would not see a return to its prelaunch numbers for the time being. Around this time Arcadia came to Aurea with a proposal that offered their territory of York town in exchange for a 3-month alliance. Aurea accepted and officially allied Arcadia. Despite the rhetoric of destroying Maveria an official war against them with Aurea never came as soon after Maveria would declare war on Saroxeria or the Nafets Confederation as a final hurrah before disbanding their guild. With Nafets being considered far worse than Maveria, Aurea and Arcadia would join in on the attack although not all at once. Aurea would not officially join the war against Nafets until later when Aurean forces attacked Snow town on their own. Since Arcadia and Maveria already attacked snow previously that day, Oxerian leadership thought Aurea was just violating the 24-hour rule. Unbeknownst to them, Aurea wasn’t apart of the initial fighting. After a couple of hours of discussion socialist shemale dictator Emily conceded defeat to Auro Roma placing Snow town firmly under Aurean control. The remaining battles against Nafets ended about the same with Maveria and Arcadia winning decisive victories over the confederation. After Nafets effectively had all their lands stripped from them, Maveria disbanded, content with their final victory.
With Maveria’s disbandment, there came an almost Aurean high period. Despite contractors like Brandon trying to claim Choco did not want Maverians to join Aurea, Maverians joined Aurea regardless. They filled the fairly depleted ranks of the two legions and gave Aurea an activity boom for a while. Enjoying their place in the sun, Auro Roma would continue for some time more, facing some decline in activity once again. After some time Kevlar and Richard Vaughn were receiving communications from Sherlock/Constantine of the New Sarovian Empire or what was left of it. Aurea and Sarovia had been at war for most of their existences, with Sarovia launching expeditions to Aurea’s home server of Ol’ West just for Aurea to show up on Classic and throw it back at them. So when Sherlock made his intention to formally surrender NSE to Aurea and the Vaughn family, there was a great deal of change coming to Aurea. At the ceremony where Sherlock officially surrender Sarovia (as well as Oxeria) to Aurea he granted out Sarovia’s titles to Aurean nobility and royalty. To end the ceremony, Kevlar declared the formal dissolution of the New Sarovian Empire and announced the creation of the 5th Aurean Empire, ending Auro Roma.