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Role playing games have typically been the stomping grounds of a more mature, less bloodthirsty set of gamers than FPS action-style games. That all changed when Mortis Consortium (AKA Mortis and MC) emerged on the scene.
Mortis Consortium quickly established itself as the top PvP guild in Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) on the highly competitive Palomides server, fighting for the realm of Midgard. Following a year of impassioned, intense play in DAoC, the majority of its members took a six-month hiatus from the game. Returning from their break, a squad of seven Mortis returned with a “gank squad” intent on “teaching the dirty Albion zerg a lesson,” and in less than two weeks returned to the top of the realm points list for guild and power rankings. Additionally, all seven of its “gank squad” members became permanent fixtures in the top-ten list of individual realm points earners, including the non-combatant healer-character Xiph!
Mortis Consortium once again set the standard and proved its prowess as one of the most dominate RPG guild’s in gaming history as it methodically dismantled Sony’s highly successful Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (SWG), the recipient of IGN’s “Best MMOG of E3” and CNET’s “Most Anticipated Game for 2002.” In SWG, Mortis Consortium became the first group of players on the Naritus server to construct a guild hall. In fact, the hard working Mortis crew supplied Master Architect Lord Mortis with enough resources to construct two guild hall deeds in the first eight days of the game. This action demonstrated that MC was capable of doing in mere days and with just twenty members what the game’s developers anticipated would take large groups of even the most dedicated players months to achieve.
Seeking to exert its dominance in every aspect of the SWG universe, Mortis Consortium developed a revolutionary battle plan that combined a player vs. player emphasis with a strong role-playing aesthetic. A player-character personae known as Lord Mortis emerged out of the ether to lead them on a spiritual journey. In SWG, Lord Mortis achieved name recognition within the massive player community that rivaled that of the traditional Star Wars luminaries, including the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. Mortis Consortium became reviled by allies and enemies alike with its intense loyalty to the character-player Lord Mortis and refusal to participate in events with its faction allies unless Lord Mortis willed it. Numerous elite PvP guilds formed over in SWG with the sole purpose of defeating MC. All failed, even when boasting far superior numbers.
Mortis Consortium is currently playing Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, World of Warcraft and recently dabbled in other role-playing games, including Lineage II, City of Heroes and Guild Wars.
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