The Vagabond Guild - Who We Are

The Vagabond Guild - Who we are

Our guild started in 2008, back at Acclaim - As an idea between 'Legend' and 'Vagrant'.

To play this game as a vagabond was still an unknown idea which almost nobody would want to do. Admittedly, it was kind of an insane thing to do, since getting proper gear for clanless characters was nearly impossible. Not only did vagabonds not have clothes to choose from with 4 pockets (the place you put your relics on - max. was 3 pockets per jacket and pants, making the max. possible relics to wear 6 instead of 8 for vagabonds) with bad or no attributes and/or buffs at all, but also the relics and pretty much every other kind of item were just bad, like the top relics back then would be the "def trinket" (from The Cave of the Conqueror, giving +200 defence), the "hp trinket" (from The Cave of the Conqueror, giving 2/1000 HP leech) or the "Blood Orbs" (from General Wei, giving +10% weapon damage). Nowadays, our standard items in-game, regardless of what server, are way above those attributes and make the old stuff look ridiculous.
Still, there were some "crazies" who did exactly that - walk the path in-game as a clanless vagabond.

The highest level Vagabond back then was 'Vagrant', who was largely known in the server as such.

Another Vagabond in the community was 'Legend', who, after knowing about the game, joining 9Dragons, and reading the official game story, became very fond of 'The Vagabond', a character who was clanless, participated in the war of the Nine Dragons and survived it as one of only a few, if any. 'Legend' then was created as a character, with the purpose of remaining clanless, and a True Vagabond. This character fast became the player's main character, remaining higher (in the character level) than any other character of his. Later, this character should become well known in the community as well.

As 'Legend' progressed on this journey and level, as well as his own fan-fiction story about "Legend, The Son of The Vagabond", he eventually met 'Vagrant', and they became well acquainted.
In one of their conversations, 'Legend' told 'Vagrant' about his idea of creating a vagabond guild - even though there were only few vagabond players, and even though creating or joining an in-game band ("guild") was impossible for a vagabond.
'Vagrant' told 'Legend' about an idea of his too, about a big vagabond army entering Bloody Plains during the "Black vs White War" event and wiping out every clan character. That's what set the title for 'Legend's guild - Vagabond Army.

The vagabond guild 'Vagabond Army', created in 2008, was mostly small, but managed to get enough attention in time to be known among the community and even grow to 30 members when it was the largest. 'Vagrant' became the Sub-Master, as he did not to become the guild Master himself, seen as it was created by 'Legend'.

The 'Vagabond Army' was around during Acclaim and GamersFirst with 'Legend' as guild Master. During that time, 'Legend' became well known in the community, due to fighting against the money-hungry behaviour of Acclaim, becoming Official Forum Moderator on GamersFirst and always assisting and writing guides for Vagabonds, and even was called 'The Godfather of Vagabonds' here and there.
During GamesCampus - the third publisher - the leadership was changed to 'Gaiden', who one day abruptly disappeared. Seeing as no active members besides 'Soul' remained, 'Legend' took over the "rights" of the guild again and remained in good contact with 'Soul', who remains part of the guild to date.
The 'Cane Castle' in Nanchang was established as guild headquarters at some point, approx. during GamersFirst, by 'Legend' and 'Soul'.

In the meantime, a few private servers also appeared - Amonst the most known, like Play9D, Elysium9D and 9D-Eclipse. 'Legend' had and has some characters there too (with the vagabond 'Legend' always being one of them).

Since RedFox took over 9Dragons as publisher, the official server received plenty of updates as well as upgrades, offering better in-game items and systems, making the game overall more enjoyable - these new updates started already with GamesCampus, though.

In 2019, the vagabond guild idea was re-established by 'Legend' and 'Soul' as a crew with a ship instead of clanless warriors with a building, keeping the vagabond's spirit of "traveling through the land" even in a group.

Shortly after, 'Legend' and 'Soul' created the first ever ingame vagabond hero band, with the help of a GM, on private server Eclipse. This was the moment when the guild's name was changed - after 'Legend' and 'Soul' first discussed it - to Vagabond Guild.

Although being an amazing and long overdue event, the joy did not last long. Eclipse soon turned out to be filled with greedy people in their team, as the fate of 9Dragons seems to be time and again, and both 'Legend' and 'Soul' quit the server.

They soon after found their way to private server Era, which promissed to be as caring as they could be. Soon, 'Legend' became a part of the 9D Era Team, and soon after took the lead in creating a Vagabond Role for 9Dragons, creating two main PDFs, with the main Vagabond Content file consisting of 50 pages, and the Vagabond Dungeon file consisting of 16 pages. However, 9D Era's and Legend's collaboration soon ended too, due to the team favoring toxic people over decent ones. 'Legend' retracted all rights from Era, and did not allow them to work on any of his ideas. 'Legend' and 'Soul' both quit 9Dragons for good after this.

All details, ideas, and released files can be found in or throught this post: https://vagabond.forumotion.com/t210-good-bye-9dragons

Now with both 'Legend' and 'Soul' out of any version of 9Dragons for good, we're hoping The Swordsmen X: Survival will be a good, new home for our vagabond characters, and are waiting for its release.