People of Yew
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The People of Yew (abbr. PoY) was more a project than a real guild, allowing players to roleplay a simple peasant / citizen of Yew with little complication.
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About
The People of Yew concept caused some controversy throughout it's extensive planning stages. Firstly and most notably, for the amount of time it took to implement. Spawned long before the final three Elders came to station, the "People of Yew" proposal had drawn many eyes from it's position sat nestled in the Crossroads of Yew's "In Development" page. Speculation eventually turned to cynicism and it seemed like the project would be dismissed as just another lost concept from procrastinating leaders. However, with the forming of the "Development Council" (a group designed to take some creative weight from Nicholas and the absent elders) the People of Yew was given life again and a committed team, dedicated to it's construction.
Eventually the concept would bare fruition and was launched into a dying community. With CoY known for it's strict rule set, notably a ban on players joining multiple guilds, the People of Yew was made as an exception to this law and offered players the chance to play a simple civilian and travel the length and breadth of Yew where their other characters may not be welcome and just to relax with simple roleplay.
The village of the people of Yew, was to be built within the old Amazon Village of Themiskyra just south of Yew Moongate.
Goals
The PoY concept was relatively simple, the idea was to fill the community with neutral citizens to interact with CoY's other guilds and pad out a war-like community with simple townsfolk. The People of Yew also offered players the chance to play in a secondary guild, something that was banned in the Crossroads of Yew
Critisism
The PoY never really took off, and there were many that criticised the time it had taken to implement the scheme for this. Introduced a year earlier, the scheme may have had a notable impact on the community, as it was - it received few members and went under gargling with other large chunks of CoY when the community officially disbanded.
Other individuals and guilds had also raised concerns about the PoY project. Members of the The Kotodama Clan were cautious of the project, labelling it Grd-biased and even talked of boycotting the concept. Others in the Shirefolk of Yew (a civilian guild) were concerned that the project would leech from their member base. Another common concern (that, perhaps, caused one angry player to go on to found the Borough of Yew) was the strict and limiting rule set of PoY that aimed to keep the character's within as tight and simple as possible.
