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Here's a picture of my main, Aeriyn Ashley.

I'll do this for Aeriyn.

Yay potential alliances! Please keep me on speed-dial; I would like to possibly work out an overflow agreement or something.

Unity in A Realm Reborn ~ An LGBT Safe-Space Free Company Hi there! My name is Aeriyn Ashley, a black mage (who moonlights as a summoner, a scholar, a white mage, a warrior and a bard) that many of you know. I'm here to tell you that Unity in A Realm Reborn is looking for new members to join our little family, and maybe engage in a bit of dragon murder along the way! Unity in A Realm Reborn is one of Balmung's oldest Free Companies; we formed the FC during Beta 4, way back in August of last year! Unity has consistently been a medium-size company with a good number of people playing at almost any time of the day. We have members from all different North American timezones as well as a few folks who hail from Europe as well. Unity is, at the heart, intended to be a "safe space" for people who fall into the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* population. As a free company, we have specific rules designed to make sure LGBT members feel safe and can enjoy themselves without having to worry about running into uncomfortable or unpleasant situations with other members. We enforce good behavior, ensure that members avoid triggering topics, promote inclusiveness and gender identity awareness (including requiring members to use appropriate pronouns with their fellow members). Unity is not strictly a roleplaying company, though many of our members are avid roleplayers and other members have expressed organizing official FC roleplay events. Roleplayers are very welcome in Unity and I'm sure that any RPers would find plenty of other RPers inside the FC who'd be interested in hatching some plots! Unity's FC chat, however, is OOC. We also have PvE endgame designs, though our focus on raiding as a company has decreased from previous tiers of content. We currently have one official "progression" raid running, known as Meteor Shard, with the intent to create a second "relaxed" raid called Ultima Shard. We also have a system in which people who may be interested in raiding, but cannot commit to a regular schedule, can act as Reserve members waiting in the wings! Unity is an active company during downtime and usually members can find others willing to run roulettes, farm for glamour pieces or fight for their Grand Company's honor on the Frontlines. If Unity in A Realm Reborn seems like a good fit for you, please let us know, and comment below. Website: http://unity-arr.enjin.com

The Unity FC is not an RP Free Company. RPers can join, so can non-RPers, and RP isn't part of the scheduled or planned guild events that will be happening. Unity is dedicated toward clearing PvE content, so you can have your Linkshells for roleplaying stuff. If that sounds like something you might be interested in, let me know.

So, being an RPer myself and all, I'm headed to Balmung. I've got a bunch of friends who want to run an IC Linkshell for roleplaying and I'm pretty excited about the idea, but they aren't wanting to involve PvE content with the RP LS. As an aside, I've been wanting to form an endgame-focused Free Company once the game launches as a sort of safe-space for LGBT people who want to be able to run endgame content and use voice chat (mumble et al) without having to worry about being made fun of or having people disrespectfully use improper pronouns. Anyway I'd like to list the FC here since a great deal of the people running the thing are RPers, and one of the major issues I've encountered when playing MMOs and RPing is the inevitable "do I choose an RP guild, or do I choose an endgame guild?" It's a hard thing to decide, but fortunately ARR gives us the option to have a Free Company in addition to up to 8 linkshells. So I figured that people here might be interested in joining a PvE-focused Free Company that won't make any roleplaying demands upon them, leaving them free to join whichever IC Linkshell they want. The FC's called Unity (or Unity in A Realm Reborn) and we've been working on getting our website ready to go, it's nearly there, and I'd like to have it listed here for those roleplayers who want an endgame FC that's sympathetic to the needs of roleplayers.