Clan:Wilderness Guardians/Members

This article is a sub-section of The Wilderness Guardians.

=Members= Over the years there have been many ranks in WG, and of the hundreds of members that WildGuard has had over the years, a select few stand out as being Cornerstone members. The clan's ranks and the most influential members are as follows.

Current Ranks

 * Primary Leader
 * Second-in-Command
 * Forum Technician
 * Council
 * Warlord
 * Raid Leader
 * Event leader
 * Historian
 * Emeritus (For Elite Guardian+ who have retired from RuneScape but wish to remain in the clan)
 * Elite Guardian
 * Higher Guardian
 * Guardian
 * Trial Guardian

Ranks also exist for allies, friends, ex-members and banned members, as well as trial ranks.

Former Ranks
Ranks no longer used are:
 * Pre-Council system (Including Directors and Referees)
 * Application Manager
 * Epic Graphics Designer
 * Moderator
 * Sector Leaders (Wilderness, Skills and Community)

His Lordship
His Lordship, also known informally as Lordy, is the Primary Leader and Founder of the Wilderness Guardians.

In WildGuard
His Lordship was the founder of the Wilderness Guardians on December 6th 2003, and has held the rank of Primary Leader (As well as serving as the Clan Herbalist in the early days) to the present day. He still holds full control over the clan, and in recent times has organised major wars, actively leads raids, and occasionally manages applications and other clan events and functions. His noteable actions have been production and management of the clan's Flash website, as well as production of war preparation videos. He is the manufacturer of the t-shirt, has attended all of the clan's Real Life meetings, is the composer of The Guardian Power, and much more.

On a few occasions, His Lordship has temporarily resigned from leadership status for various reasons, generally due to real-life extremeties. It has been confirmed that he did join former WildGuard allies The British Elites after he departed from WG on June 25th 2008, following an issue with trial member Crucio01. TBE officials state that he did not complete the trial stage, and returned to WildGuard shortly after applying. Despite several of these discrepancies, has has remained the heart and driving force of the clan for 6 years and counting.

His Lordship is recognised as the longest serving leader of any RuneScape clan alive today.

In-Game
His Lordship was introduced to RuneScape by his brother Lord Xin around July of 2003. When creating a username, he wanted "My Lord", so that people would address him as such. The name was taken, and Lord Xin suggested "His Lordship" as an alternative. Lordy has expressed regret for this choice, although he was not expecting to lead a clan at the time. His early days consisted of several ventures into the wilderness which ended in inevitable death, and he had soon experienced the bullying, backstabbing and threatening way of life for PKers. To this day, His Lordship is still a strong advocate of honour and Anti-Random Player Killing.

In 7 years, His Lordship has had four permenant bans (Noteably for advertising the WG website in-game), all of which have been revoked. He has also been hacked twice. All of the bans were before the last chance appeal system was implicated, and His Lordship is the only known account to have survived four permenant bans during this era. He actively trains his account, and has two level 99 stats: Attack (ganed September 29th 2008 ) and Defence (gained September 18th 2010 ). He also owns a Flagstaff of Festivities.

In Real Life
In real life, His Lordship is Eugene Marshall, or "Gene" for short. He was born on January 14th, 1988 (Age 22) in Malaysia, and has been residing in Perth, Australia for over 20 years. On October 16th 2008, he officially changed his name to Elias Sinclair Marshall for several months, but has since reverted to Eugene.

He is a teacher by profession, as well as a student at the University of Western Australia. He has travelled worldwide to several different countries for WG's Real Life meetings. As well as being skilled with Flash animation, he enjoys classical music and musical composition, film and weights training. He has composed music for TV and classical concerts, as well as WG-related compositions such as The Guardian Power.

In Jaunary 2009, Jagex released a position for an Audio Developer, which Gene applied for on February 6th (Meaning he was willing to move from Australia to Cambridge for the job). Unfortunately, the application was declined, but he was shortlisted for a role as a composer to collaborate with the audio engineers. Even so, he ultimately turned down the offer due to success in Perth. When Gene graduates, he has stated that he plans to move to Victoria, to launch his musical career.

Wildflame110
Wildflame was one of five members (including His Lordship) who made up the first Council of WG. He was elected on February 28th 2005 (the s4 era) alongside Palidore, Oaktownrules and Anincent. However, the Council rank had not been created at this point, so the four members were given the rank of Secondary Leader (His Lordship kept Primary Leader, despite being a member of the Council).

During his term, he attended WG's legendary first war against the Rune Outlaws on November 27th 2004. He was one of only three known people to film the legendary war, but is noted for backspace-logging out a few minutes into the fight. What little footage there is remaining was edited by WG Keanu and uploaded to YouTube five years after the war.

On December 20th 2004, Wildflame reported the death of renowned member Write2Brandy (Brendan) following receiving the news from Sainath and Srivatsa. Brendan's funeral was held, after which the Rune Outlaws insulted the grave site which led to WG declaring war upon RO for the second time. Wildflame was also known for temporarily suspending His Lordship for one day on April 12th 2005 to ensure his vacation.

Following WG's war with The Unbreakables in the early s10 era, Wildflame stepped down from leadership due to the pressures and demands of Council. He was replaced by Jesusislord6 and Jezzamon. There are no further mentions of him in the clan's history.

It is also noteable that Wildflame came up with WG's motto, "We are the Shield of the Weak. "Weak" was later changed to "Innocent" by His Lordship. He also contributed to the creation of the clan's third Flash movie.

Rick Hamm
Rick Hamm was the second Secondary Leader of WildGuard. He was elected following Sum41xx's resignation during the AvidGamers era on March 15th 2004. He is noted to have shared leadership of WG with His Lordship on April 27th, and on May 17th, his and Lord Xin's Co-Leaders Ceremony was held.

One of Rick's most noteable actions was the removal of Axe Man Jack (reffered to as AMJ) from the clan. It is unknown when this took place, but AMJ was called out by Rick after charging WG members a fee for him to get them Abyssal Whips. AMJ did not like this, and was allegedly banned. He apparently had a history of attending raids in welfare gear, and the WG history cites him departing after his hostility to the leadership when they did not take action against another member who inherited a game account from a friend.

Rick was always against WG's involvement in the Federation, as he saw it as a way to deal with the bombardment from the more powerful clans. He claims that the Federation was created with very little thought, and it was his decision to remove WG from the syndicate on September 30th 2005.

Rick is also renowned for his affiliations with The Synergy and The Revolution. The Synergy was a clan founded by Eragon Cd of WG and Maddmurdok on August 2nd 2004. The WG history cites that Rick left WG entirely for the new clan, but returned after a few weeks. Rick says that this was done with the understanding that Synergy and WG would be allied. However, much of Synergy's strength was taken from WG, and the two clans became hostile for several months, although conflict was later resolved by Eragon Cd and His Lordship, and an alliance began. The Synergy is believed to have lasted four years, until their closure in 2008 following the removal of the Wilderness.

Rick's departure followed a comment made publicly by His Lordship concerning the USA during the s4 era. Rick, along with Noricle, formed The Revolution - a clan created for the sole purpose of killing WG. TR pulled over 40 members from WG within two weeks, and Rick cites that they had some of the highest ranking players in the game. TR became a strong and established clan, and reconciliation was attempted on March 16th 2005 - although negotiations failed, and WG and TR remained hostile. On March 22nd, The Revolution disbanded.

Rick rejoined WG and was banned twice following TR. When the Hall of Shame was cleared in early 2010, he intro'ed for WG on November 15th 2010 upon his return to the game, and applied for membership the same day. He was accepted into the clan on November 16th. He has stated concerning his return:

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