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Ravenholdt

Ravenholdt Manor, home of the realm's namesake "House guild".

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Named after a human community of thieves and assassins in the Alterac Mountains, Ravenholdt has become known over the years as a rare RP-PVP server that is able to maintain the balance between an active role-playing community within dangerous PVP environs marked by the state of ongoing, constant war between Alliance and Horde.

Ravenholdt is the newest, but perhaps the most renowned, North American RP-PVP realm in the World of Warcraft universe. This type of server emphasizes role-playing the interactions between characters within the same faction, and yet also maintains a focus on the ongoing war between the Alliance and the Horde. In its simplest form, this means that players are allowed to kill members of the opposite faction on sight, but are encouraged to do so while staying in character and displaying emotes rather than just kek and bur as they gloat over the bodies of their victims.

While Ravenholdt is the youngest among all RP-PVP realms, it is now over three years old and has a healthy, mature population of players. The realm went live in December 2006. It is the only RP-PVP realm in the entire Whirlwind battlegroup and continues to attract new players, a great deal of whom are active RPers from regular RP realms looking for a more competitive PVP environment. Many others are refugees from other RP-PVP realms that never established the deep RP roots of Ravenholdt. Also seen transferring in is the occasional PVP enthusiast looking to try his or her hand at RP, most likely in an effort to escape the l33tspeak and young kids or immature mentalities of standard PVP servers.

Owing to the nature of its namesake "House guild", many Alliance guilds on the realm tend to be "House guilds" similar to Ravenholdt itself or the Barov family. Similarly, Horde guilds on the realm are often structured as "Clan guilds" of a specific race or interest. Such guilds on Ravenholdt are known far and wide for their RP and PVP prowess. As just one example, a Clan guild composed almost entirely of orcs, the Shadowclan, was recently featured prominently in the 5th anniversary celebration at the official World of Warcraft website.

History

Ravenholdt still reigns as the newest of the semi-controversial RP-PVP servers. Unlike its peers, Ravenholdt launched alongside several regular PVP servers and perhaps because of this, RH avoided much of the LAWLREROLL non-roleplaying populace that previously diluted other servers of this archtype.

Because of this, Ravenholdt has remained relatively RP-based even after three years of existence. It is both a safe and a true statement that no other server of the RP-PVP archetype can claim as much RP per capita. Whereas other RP-PVP realms such as Emerald Dream, Lightninghoof, and The Venture Company have often been seen as having the status of their RP communities be pronounced either "dead" or, at best "on life support," Ravenholdt is a burgeoning, RP haven. Much to the delight of the majority of it populace, RP on Ravenholdt is flourishing, and it has mostly remained off the radar of the "L337 kiddies" who would seek to destroy it.

The realm is a wonderful place for new RPers to settle, with friendly people and an exciting and dangerous environment to immerse a character in.

Community Features

  • Ravenholdt Wiki was created to further the role playing aspect on Ravenholdt. Here you can search for players by class or faction. Learn more about who they really are in the world of Azeroth and beyond.
  • The Stormwind Times ~Ravenholdt~, a Role-Players' newspaper was released officially on July 16, 2008 at midnight by the Eastern Time Zone. The newspaper has already published three editions.
  • The Ravenholdt RP Sanctum Created as a set of forums that are almost exclusively about role playing on Ravenholdt. Lots of ongoing scenes, backstories, and roleplay information.

Guilds

Ravenholdt guild information can be found at Guild Information.

Tradeskills

Ravenholdt rare craftables and enchants can be found at Rare Craftables/Enchants.

Active PvE Raiding Guilds

Taken from http://www.wowprogress.com/pve/us/ravenholdt.

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