1. What is Unity? Isn't it just a group that wants complete peace on Paxia, defeating the purpose of the clans.
   
   Unity recognizes that the traditional elemental rivalries are weaker than far more palpable threats. Unity does not oppose clans in competition, nor individuals fighting amongst each other, but it does oppose the rampant unchecked corruption and decay that threatens to devour Paxia at a moments notice. So, no Unity does not seek complete peace on Paxia, far from it. Unity is aware that complete peace can never be achieved. Rather it seeks to be a force to defend Paxia from the forces that would destroy it.
   
   
2. What does Unity stand for?
   
   Some members of unity are strong individualists who favor interclan conflict (by nature such people may actually favor chaos over unity on a personal level) but who will not tolerate outside interference, some members of Unity are strong individualists who nevertheless favor clan cooperation , some members of Unity are militants who seek to free Paxia from the forces that enslave it, some are nonconformists who seek to raise a Unifed Paxia as an army that none can stand in the way of, and some are Paxians who recognize that Paxia will always have conflict but that the ultimately the best condition for all is cooperation (a lot like a family).
   
   No two members of unity view it entirely the same, and those who choose to follow the path of Unity do it for their own reasons, which can be quite varied.
   
   
3. In game, I know that the clan leaders rule the clans but from an In Game perspective who rules Unity? Is it Falerin?
   
   Falerin has advised Unity in the past but he is not its leader, nor is he, given his nature and restrictions on his actions, a member.
   It is somewhat against the nature of Unity to be lead by a single being. Unity is lead by a council composed of the 8 clan heads, Paxus, Negatus, and their closest advisors.
   
   
4. What about forum-wise, in character who directs unity here.
   
   Presently Unity functions as a direct democracy. There are no elected representatives, decisions are made by the plurality. It is possible that over time Unity may shift its governance to be more similar to the clans with elected councils.
   
   
5. Why a Unity forum now?
   
   Numerous people have asked about a Unity forum before. It has been decided that now is the time for such for several key reasons:
   
   
   
   
   • Unity has become a discrete faction with membership from all of the official clans and among the clanless.
     
   • Unity seeks to protect and strengthen paxia against all who would do it harm, both from without and from within.
     
   • As the new paxian additions move forward the differing factions within each clan and within Paxia will become more significant.
     
   
   
   
6. You have a Unity forum why no Chaos forum?
   
   First of all the Unity forum is a Quasi-IC forum. It is not a Role-playing forum exactly; detailed story driven RP should be restricted to the RP forums. It does however allow a degree of leniency, much like the other paxia forums, when it comes to developing and imagining your character.
   
   That said, there are actually two different concepts of Unity. Unity as an alignment concept and unity as a group are quite different. As mentioned above Unity as a group contains members of any number of possible alignments, but who agree on a central goal of serving Paxia. This forum is for Unity the group not the Unity alignment.
   
   While there are those who undoubtedly would seek to disrupt this goal and who seek to work against it, an organized forum for them hardly makes sense from a game perspective. Joining together to form a large group to disrupt unity would be in essence becoming unity but with a different goal. Since the goals of Unity are varied among the membership this makes little sense.
   
   Further, most who would seek to disrupt unity in this manner would do so through their existing clans. Clanless individuals have relatively little profit in disrupting unity. Hence those who would seek to disrupt unity can be assumed to be relatively rare.
   
   
7. So what belongs here.
   
   More or less anything that might go in a clan forum, that is unity specific, may go here. Organization threads, war threads, discussions about unity, calls for unity votes and the like. (In order to prevent a mess of badly formed polls if you want to set up a unity vote or poll you need to go through the forum head moderator or a Paxian AK.)
   
   
8. OOC Who mediates activity here.
   
   Falerin is the Head Moderator of Unity, he works closely with Scakk who is the the head of the Paxian area in general. The Paxian AK's also handle the regular administrative tasks of unity.
   

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ORIGINAL: kandymine

In the Paxia defense whom are we defending Unity and our clans against? Is it just each other or are the Network forces also attacking?

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As the introduction to the Paxian defense text says Paxia is under attack both by members of other clans, the network, stirred up local monsters who are disgruntled by the combat there, and finally by opportunists who will take any opportunity to advance their own agendas.