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Region: The Order of the Grey Wardens

Bastion Time

It's that time, friendos, where I will once again distribute payments from the legendary Warden coffers. Or perhaps they are the Warden's legendary coffers. Either way! Bastion VI has wrapped up and, even though summer has been hitting NationStates hard, we had a strong uptick in Guardian activity this time over last. I see that the sum of everyone's completed missions is about 30 higher than it was last month. There's nothing I appreciate more than those who turn up to combat the Blight, and the Guardians are a great way of doing exactly that.

Here are the results of the endorsement competition. The top 20 players in bold hit that threshold and each won a copy of the Season 2 legendary card The Grim Reaper:

Ranked Position

Nation

Endorsements Given

1

Thornstorm and the Holy Cross

130

1

Creusal

130

1

Kazern

130

2

Saint Tomas and the Northern Ice Islands

126

3

Dorne Cheenzer

125

4

Utel

123

4

Semper Supra

123

4

Agents safe space

123

5

The carefully concerned cashiers

109

6

The czarist states of russia

108

7

Socra

103

8

Aserlandia

102

9

Nonait

88

10

Nootnootnootnoot

76

11

Turinese Empire

75

12

Marktrah

74

13

The Nowhere King

72

14

FenrirGrayBack

70

15

Reagan

68

16

Narue

66

17

Seou

53

17

Leybgorot

53

18

Vongo Kingdom

45

19

Arwintar

41

20

Azertyuio

34

21

Aparition

32

22

Agritania

31

23

Roberto Garcia

27

23

Benzi reyes

27

In addition to our endorsement-happy friends, here are the results of the Guardian operations over the last two weeks. Every active guardian (Completing at least ten missions during the cycle) will also be picking up a Season 2 The Grim Reaper:

Guardian

Missions Completed Sinde Jul 01

Pangaea-Panthalassa

25

Fortisbellator

20

-Allemeine

19

South Akia

19

Ducky

17

Rusnaiqua

17

The awesomist

16

Fauxia

13

Varax Zwei

11

Eshialand

10

Stemmation

9

Mern

8

Jebrok

8

Demonos

4

Gemworld

4

Grea Kriopia

3

Tim

3

Warden Nakari

3

Sulenia

2

Arwintar

2

Refuge Isle

1

Warden Moon

1

As our influence fortress grows stronger, and out turnout for fighting the blight only improves, we have all of you to thank for your contributions to the Order of the Grey Wardens. Congrats to the winners, and please enjoy your earnings.

Bastion Program VI's Stack Edition is spinning up right now, check out the program dispatch to learn more:


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Expand Our Reach


One additional mystery card will also be awarded which has a Market Value of over 1,000.00, and is guaranteed to generate a gold badge in International Artwork.

Wardens, many militaries of the world extend their power only to the battlefield and neglect to appreciate that there is an opportunity to confront the enemy at every turn. The Darkspawn are relentless and, left unchecked, would slowly consume the World Assembly and all those who depend upon it for swift justice. The Grey Wardens are not of this number, for we remain vigilant, even in times of peace. Our World Assembly delegate is among the top 25 most powerful delegates in the world. This is an incredible testament to the strength that our region has politically, and it's all thanks to the multitude of nations who have come together to make this possible.

It is truly great.

We can do better

There are enough World Assembly nations within the region to raise our voting power to the top 20 in the world, or go even further. All it takes is a single endorsement from each of you, given to The Order's delegate, Saint Tomas and the Northern Ice Islands, it just takes a second, and you only need to do it once. To help push things in the right direction, we're throwing a little bit of incentive behind it by holding a card lottery -- not only for those who have been helping the region out already, but everyone who has yet to do so as well. All it takes is supporting our delegate with an endorsement to qualify.

In addition to all nations endorsing the delegate qualifying, if the Guardian official records reflect that a Guardian completed at least ten missions during the competition, they will also automatically qualify for the Stack Edition lottery drawing. This means members of The Order will never need to choose between Guardian missions and boosting our vote. It also means legendary card awards are even more accessible.

For this lottery, we will be distributing ten valuable legendary cards. Here's the full list:

But that's not all

We live in strange economic times, where there are cards which have values well beyond that which can be explained. Hyper-inflated, expensive cards can be fleeting, or their value can stick around. But all the same, these cards have made their way into The Grey Wardens' coffers, and we are absolutely ready to part with them for your help. So, in addition to the above legendary prizes, a mystery hyper-inflated card will be awarded to an eleventh nation endorsing the delegate, bringing their net worth up by at least 1,000.00, and guaranteeing them a top 1% in the world, gold census badge in International Artwork.

Every nation endorsing the delegate will be qualified for the drawing. So lock in your candidacy today by endorsing Saint Tomas and the Northern Ice Islands. The Lottery takes place Thursday, July 28th.

In Peace, Vigilance

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Nations That Need to Endorse Saint Tomas and the Northern Ice Islands To Qualify

Ghaunadaur

The new communist regime

Dylanana

Advance Laserians

Leesplace

Creeper castle

The fire dragons

6s9s2k3k

Snoopialand

Glogry

Leybgorot

Centrifuge

Lagimus prime

Cha rholics

Moso

Central zepp

Republic of lizarb

The Libertarian Consortium

Lira night

Dimord jorbargordia

Brixx

Clarkainia

Gashik republique

El girasol

De Pesqueira

Sonderopalis

Amelands

Herwela

Purtugaliza

Gira the baristan

Arma nopir

Epri

Laforeia

Ogsa

Esdoland

Ballsland

Conclusion


Hey guys,

I'm here to give you an update. At 2:30 in the morning. It's the conclusion of the Bastion VI round, wrapping up a total of six months for the program. Hooray! I've been pretty swamped with work lately so, many apologies for the delay. But! The lottery has been conducted and I'm pleased to share the results with you. For this round, an impressive fourteen guardians qualified for the drawing. I'd like to thank both them and those of you endorsing the delegate for help keeping our region fully powered during the long summertime lulls.

Here are the winners of the last round:

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And last but certainly not least, this round's extreme and randomly inflated card is Iconi, worth an impressive 1,017 market value at the moment, and it's been given away to none other than Big lizards, who gains a 1% badge in International Artwork immediately. Yay gold!


Adapted from Refugia's Endotarting Program, with permission . . .
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