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The Bloodhounds Was an unfortunate victim of the times. Despite having many committed and mature members, there were some flaws in the way we built the clan that ultimately led to its falling apart.

The first and foremost flaw we made, was assuming that just the three of us (Tal, Zee and myself) would be sufficient crew. Initially, this was fine, however, as time stretched on, it became more obvious that we did not have sufficient time between the three of us to give the clan the maintenance it needed.

Tal's absence during the later stages of the clans life was also a big problem. Due to the constitution set in place, decisions could only be made final with the Blood Hound Lord Alpha's consent.

I did appeal for select members to be made into mods, but this was too little too late... especially when moths passed and I still had no reply from Tal.

Anyway, I could ramble for hours about the flaws with the clan, but I would rather tell of the great things of the Legendary Bloodhound Clan.

The Bloodhounds was a truly beautiful thing. Not so much because of what we, the Lords did, but because of our truly magnificent members.

Mature, but not afraid to joke around,That's what I loved about those guys.

In the year or so that the clan was alive, I can only remember one truly controversial event that caused real Drama in the clan ( and sadly I played my own part in that mess). This event cost us several members, but did not shake the clan in any way. There was one other instance in which I recall having a member blacklisted, but that wasn't exactly drama as the entire clan was unanimous on the action.

Fun fun times in the Hounds.

As I said though... Vitim of the times... The Bloodhounds started to die out due to our, the lords, negligence just before zOMG! began to actually become widely playable and not just a laggy clusterf***.

Regardless, many good times were had, and I wouldn't mind having those times back...

In fact.... I even tried to revive the clan by myself once... It was during this time that I first heard the name of a little underdog clan... known as Shift.

I first visited gaia in September of 2006. I made an account and found the site to be interesting, but nothing really got me hooked at that time. I spent about a month on the site and got preoccupied with life.

The account I created in 06, I have long forgotten the name and password of. The account you see today is actually my second account. I made this account in 2008, Not long before closed beta of zOMG! got under way.

After spending a month or two on Gaia I Took on the "Blue Wulf" Avatar, that I still use quite often. (The head piece anyway.) I kept the original concept of this avitar for some time, as you can see in my profile, most of my avi art was based on that original concept.

Not long after adapting my classic avi, I began to grow interested in the "Gaia Battle System" that people were talking about. So much so, that I decided to Join a "Clan" dedicated to the "GBS"

In those days, I had loads of free time, so I decided that I wanted to enter a clan with few members and hopefully help to build and lead it.

I searched through a few clans, but they were all either too full, or small and obviously going no where fast. That is until, I found my way to "The Bloodhounds" Recruitment. This little thread... I don't remember exactly, but I think it was 9 maybe 10 pages when I first found it, but something was different about this one.

Between just two people, there was already a plethora of beautiful banners and rules. Literate Posts abounded.

The two people who had put so much work into this underdog clan would become good friends and two of the most pivotal people in my experience on Gaia:

Talarian Steiner Davion and Xessos.

I was quickly accepted by the two and together, we began building something wonderful.