User:Dismounted Feudal Knight

Dismounted Feudal Knight
Citizen of TWC
Patron:	King Athelstan
House:	The Imperial House of Hader
Patronized on:	03/15/2020
Patron of:	Maltacus
Forum Profile:	Here

Hello there. I am Dismounted Feudal Knight, a retiree of the elusive Hexagon Council turned lurker and occasional commenter.

An abridged history

2015-2021

I've been aware of the site existing since 2013-2014 or so. I registered in 2015, but did nothing and forgot the account. In 2017 I registered again, sucked in by Jadli from an obscure multiplayer/hotseating community on Steam. I wasn't very good at hotseating and have retired from efforts to play it competitively, but I'm still known by some in the community.

I expanded from hotseating into Tale of the Week in the Writers' Study, reading site history and participating in the Curial Commentary Thread. I did not participate for long in the Writer's Study or with hotseating, but my interest in the Curia and the overall site grew. I also took an interest in editing the wiki.

Eventually I gained citizenship by King Athelstan's patronage in 2020. Between 2018 and 2021 I was in and out of Content and roles in the Curia. Each of these roles were fairly short lived. In 2021 I wavered from my roman theme and tried a different branding. It didn't work well and I went back to the roman theme, when people talk about Commodus they generally refer to me.

2022-2023

In 2022 I took a different approach and settled on a rebrand to what you see now. In February I joined the Moderation Staff (with a focus on TW sections) and Content Staff (Wiki Team, for a third time). This arrangement lasted until December, when new life events turned up and I expected to be gone for a long time. I resigned my roles anticipating a long departure, but was able to return in February 2023.

Shortly after returning I took on the role of Magistrate. It went better than the first round, though it was absent of cases and the actual work I put in was quality of life updates to TWC threads using permissions I retained from before as Moderator. The existence of these permissions was publicly noticed only near the end of the term.

Following the expiration of my term in late June I re-entered the Moderation Staff, where I continue similar work as before cleaning up stickies, whacking spam and taking care of loose ends. Shortly after came a renewed interest in wiki editing. This lasted for several months.

In October following PikeStance becoming Consul, I took an interest in the Living History forum and entered a capacity as Censor to assist in that forum and to be a backup for Curial business if needed. Shortly following that I was given the opportunity to become the Wiki Director, a role that had been vacant since Mak's retirement a few years prior.

Shortly after, the administration decided I was a pretty good cleanup guy and dipped me in red paint, making me the newest Hex to date. My primary area is Modding, a fitting extension of the sort of work I did as a moderator. In December I gained full admincp access and started to make little-used areas disappear and begin a broader scale cleanup.

2024

Right out of the gate I had the... honor... of announcing the end of Gaming Staff, which by the time of announcement just officiated the status quo. In February I had the more pleasant role of announcing the revival of the public TWC Cemetery and launching a recruitment drive.

In March going into April I took up the hatchet again to assist in an intervention of the Curia when its Consul was being too zealous with moderation tools. I don't think anyone from the late 2010s quite expected me to (chiefly) be the one to implement the Curia's mass simplification. On the other hand I presided over the first April 1st event in years and bribed a few of my critics with easter eggs.

In December 2024 I succeeded Alwyn as Content Hex. At this point it was more of a curation role of older stuff, as there was very little in the way of Content left.

2025

In the first month or so there was not much to note. However, the return of GED changed things. After a few months of prep, the site converted to Xenforo just before May. Besides keeping touch I don't have much to say, I was there. I did participate in some of the cleanup and early setup.

Late May other developments in life and on TWC lead to rethinking my role, and on June 4th I officially resigned from staff.

Profile Bits

Current Roles

Badge	Description
(?)	Anointed March 15th, 2020

Awards

Award	Type	Reason
	Silver Wiki Editor Award	The mark of my wiki history, mostly outside of staff. Achieved Bronze on June 3rd, 2019 and Silver on April 28th, 2020. Achieved Gold on June 3rd, 2023. First of a kind!
	Moderator's Mace (Amethyst)	I've gobsmacked enough bots that I must have caught some aliens, because in early November 2024 the mace went from Emerald to Amethyst...

Previous Roles

A long, colorful history of volunteering on TWC;

Badge	Description
(?)	Modding Hex as of October 24th, 2023; Content Hex as of December 1st 2024. Retired June 4th 2025. The 'new age' of TWC began roughly in this period.
(?)	Wiki Director as of October 21st, 2023. Shedded around the Xenforo transition, since the specific badge didn't seem needed then.
(?)	Appointed October 14th, 2023; nullified by the Consul's resignation December 29th, but still kept it going until January 5th when the new consul election completed.
(?)	Site Moderator with a specialty towards the TW sections as of June 27th, 2023. This position was superseded by entry into Hex on October 24th, 2023.
(?)	Elected February 18th, 2023. Ostensibly I reviewed appeals of moderator actions. There were no cases and this was immediately followed by the second Moderator term.
(?)	First stint from February 5th, 2022 to early December 2022; also moderator in later 2023 followed immediately by Hex membership.
(?)	Third run in Wiki Team from February 24th, 2022 to early December 2022.
(?)	Elected on May 11th, 2021, a fairly unremarkable one term.
(?)	Elected June 6th, 2020 as a local moderator of the Curia; I recall cutting it short for some reason, and it was abolished shortly after.
(?)	Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020 until some time later in 2020 when I dipped for a while. Returned later on, was then superseded by administrator access.
(?)	A very short term to evaluate cases that were brought to the Tribunal. Very short...
(?)	A brief stint in the twilight days of Scriptorium activity, 2018.
(?)	Wiki Team twice around the 2018 period, short rounds interspersed with freelance editing.

Old Projects

Old stuff I was nibbling on. If you want to pick it up, feel free.

• TWC Mods Audit - A living project for the assessment and review of TWC mods. Needs to be refigured I think
• Archiving of Total War Center - obsolete, removal or refigure likely soon
• Assorted thoughts - A bit of rambling about site direction, mostly obsolete
• TWPortalPics trying to whip up something to use on tw game articles
• Template:TWC Wiki -> Template is most likely going to be deprecated
• TWC Wiki:Help
• TWC Wiki:Projects
• TWC Wiki:Projects
• TWC Wiki:Guidelines
• Staff

Non site business:

• Hotseat RPG - thoughts for using Medieval II to create a true roleplay campaign. Might make this into a forum blog?
• Multiplayer Campaign (ETW)